Playing an RPG, And Making a girl character.

[Explosm]

What is with it, Like ive never made a girl character for anything (WoW, Fallout, Guitar Hero, City of Heroes, Champions Online etc.)
I dont see what the point is, Like fair enough you want to roleplay as a girl but i hate when they pretend to be girls.

Scenario #1.

*Girl wearing a bikini walks up to uber high level guy*
Girl (guy): Hey can i hav som money pls im poor
Guy: Holy shit are you a real girl. Like in real life
Girl guy): yeh
*The uber high level hands over every last penny he has*
Girl (guy) thnkx
*Uber high level adds the Girl [guy] to his friends list)


Tell me have you ever made a girl character, NOT to bludge money just to play as.
If yes, Why?

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

People are suckers?
Plus, some people will get what they want any way they can.
and it works on the people who are suckers.

 

[Torque669]

They make them because as you said, Its easy to get money.

Ive made a girl character for roleplay on WoW as a fashion designer and was a funny experience. Guys can Roleplay as Girls and its fine.

Atleast I think thats what you want us to discuss ...

 

[Kage Me]

If an "uber high level guy" gives somebody money purely on the basis of what they have between their legs, then frankly he deserves getting scammed that way.

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Or you know, there might just be a girl that plays a girl like a guy plays a guy. I know that is the case for me anyway...

A friend of mine (a guy) once made a pretty good argument for playing a girl in 3rd person RPGs: "If I a going to be staring at someones ass for 40 hours, it might aswell be a nice ass." and all sexism and sexual frustration aside, there isn't that big a diffrence in roleplaying a male of a female character in most games. I know at least a few men who play female characters regularly just because they want variation in the skins they use or because it has become tradition to make the 1st/2nd/3rd character female.

I like to think of it as play pretend. If I am going to pretend I am a dwarf warrior in Azeroth when I play the game, why not pretend I am a man too? Besides, the most basic concept that any roleplayer should know about is the dogma of "Keeping In Character and Out Of Character apart". Playing a character of the opposite sex is just that, playing. Anyone who uses it to scam others out of equipment/money/whatever in mmos is an entirely diffrent matter as they are using is as a percieved advantage.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Female Shephard has a nice bum.

Not bad for a bunch of angular polygons.

OT:

That's why it's called 'role playing'.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Tell me have you ever made a girl character, NOT to bludge money just to play as.

I'm a Net-Tranny through and through. It's a paternal instinct I think.

 

[Blackadder51]

I would use the search bar for my characters

OT: I usually play as a guy for my 1st run through

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Eh...chicks always seem to get better stuff. Spells, armor, weapons, dialogue...But the male characters always have the powerful melee attacks, while the women usually get the powerful ranged/magic attacks.

 

[Chipperz]

I make female characters when I come up with a background that makes sense. I've lived my entire life around strong women with a lack of any major male role models, so it's just easier for me. All my guys end up being me, which is really, really boring to play.

Also, in World of Warcraft especially, the male characters look fucking stupid as spellcasters, with muscles that would put some pro-wrestlers to shame and all...

(also, on that note, my first City of Heroes character was an Invulnerability tank who also happened to be a five foot tall, painfully thin girl. Not only was she an awesome character, but you can't beat the mental image of a tiny girl beating the crap out of entire rooms of aliens/monsters/demons/thugs, armed only with a baseball bat)

 

[Explosm]

I make female characters when I come up with a background that makes sense. I've lived my entire life around strong women with a lack of any major male role models, so it's just easier for me. All my guys end up being me, which is really, really boring to play.

Also, in World of Warcraft especially, the male characters look fucking stupid as spellcasters, with muscles that would put some pro-wrestlers to shame and all...

(also, on that note, my first City of Heroes character was an Invulnerability tank who also happened to be a five foot tall, painfully thin girl. Not only was she an awesome character, but you can't beat the mental image of a tiny girl beating the crap out of entire rooms of aliens/monsters/demons/thugs, armed only with a baseball bat)

I agree, you would think that all the buldging muscelle resembles a warrior.

Im not saying that everybody who makes a girl and is a guy irl is a sadist, i just wanted to know what pursuaded you to do it.

 

[AcacianLeaves]

A few actually legit reasons to make a female character:

1. They are better to look at than the male characters. Not in a sexually gratifying way, just the player models look better as females. This is especially true for Aion, and mostly applies to MMO titles.

2. Essentially you spend the entire game staring at your character's backside. It might as well be a female backside.

3. You want to experience the full game. This is especially true for BioWare/Bethesda titles. If you change your gender, you change a lot of the way the game's story and character interactions play out.

4. It makes sense for the character. This isn't just in the sense of RP, if you make a character on any kind of theme sometimes it makes sense to make it a female. For instance I generally make my 'ranged' type characters females and my 'melee' type characters male. I understand gender equality usually requires all genders play all classes, but its just not physically viable. This is especially true in gaming when all the females are ultra thin super models and all the males are muscleheads. It just makes more sense with the way the developers are designing the visual differences in the sexes.

5. Who cares? It shouldn't affect you at all unless you try to hit on them in which case you're creepy anyway and deserve whatever you get.

 

[irishdelinquent]

I have made female characters before, when I feel that they represent the role that I am trying to portray.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

The gameplay dosen't change between the two sexes.So it doesen't matter which one you pick. Especially in RPGs like Oblivion and Fallout.

My first character is usally based heavily around myself and I usally play a female after I make a second character for...pretty much any RPG.