Playing an RPG, And Making a girl character.

[Greenshoes]

Though I never make female characters myself, there is one argument I do get:
If I have to watch the rear end of a person for 50 hours as they run through a fantasy world, I would rather it be a well formed female one.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I play as a male character usually.

Meh, whatever floats your boat

 

[Lambi]

Sometimes I make a female character (being male myself), just for fun

 

[jebus4you]

MMOs are role playing games. If a guy wants to role play as a girl then they should be able to. Just like you are allowed to play a mage. im notreally a mage in real life but id like to role play as one.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

*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)

No, you've got it all wrong. Anytime I play an online game, I have to be a girl. I honestly don't know why, it's just a habit. Final Fantasy XI, Left 4 Dead, Phantasy Star... whatever.
Not once have I or has any guys I know gone "hi I'm a girl, money please." People jump to assumptions and give you shit. They're also WAY nicer to you, it's funny actually. I mean, I assume people know I'm a guy, because I act like one. But people instead tend to think I'm a perfect girl who they can talk and relate to. They're more likely to help you with quests and such and sometimes they throw things at you, it's bizaare.
Someone on FFXI once gave me a piece of gear I talked about needing desperately in linkshell chat. It cost 400k and was 10% drop in a BCNM which I failed 5 times in one night. He was just like "yeah, don't need it"... I played the game with my ex ffs. He knew both of us. I still took it though. If he didn't need it, why not? Never saw him use it. Fairly sure he bought it for me actually.

MMOs are role playing games. If a guy wants to role play as a girl then they should be able to. Just like you are allowed to play a mage. im notreally a mage in real life but id like to role play as one.

Anyone who actually roleplays on an MMO deserves to be castrated... not that they'd get any sex anyway. "I'm an elf". No you're fucking not.

 

[Vimbert]

I tend to play female characters (while being male IRL) in RPGs because usually there's magic lipstick or some bullshit that ONLY females can wear that is a massively powerful piece of equipment. Chantage in Final Fantasy Tactics, for example, or the Magic/Sacred Bikini in Dragon Warrior games (although the DW games sometimes had male-only equipment too).

I don't play MMOs, though I hear World of Warcraft averts this nicely.

 

[Explosm]

Im sensing alot of flame from people.

 

[geddydisciple]

In most third person games i do. What? you don't expect me to stare at a dude's ass for 32 hours do you?

 

[NeutralDrow]

Im sensing alot of flame from people.

The Fires of Youth? The Flame of Passion? The Burning Spirit of Desire?

Which flames would you be speaking of?

 

[Hondor64]

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.

I've made female characters for basically these exact reasons. I never attempt to imply that I am female. I actually go out of my way to say that I am in fact male.

The character I spent the most time on was my character on FFXI, who was a Female Hume. I just did not like the way the male characters looked and went with the female. When playing Aion, my Warrior is a male and my Cleric is a female, for the same reasons stated above.

 

[NeutralDrow]

MMOs are role playing games. If a guy wants to role play as a girl then they should be able to. Just like you are allowed to play a mage. im notreally a mage in real life but id like to role play as one.

Anyone who actually roleplays on an MMO deserves to be castrated... not that they'd get any sex anyway. "I'm an elf". No you're fucking not.

A bit harsh, ne? My roleplaying is more along the lines of "impulsive gadgeteer, crafty battle strategist, and talks to animal companion."

There are limits, of course. I know from embarrassing experience that I can't pull off the pseudo-Jamaican troll accent.

 

[sms_117b]

I once played a girl on fallout and once, no twice on Dragon age. It's not really any different.

On MMO's and saying you are a girl IRL, that's just a little bit wrong.

 

[magnuslion]

I dont, no. I dont see a problem with it, if idiots are going to be parted from their money by pixel boobies, then it really doesnt matter whether the con artist is a girl or a guy.

play as guys because that is how I relate myself to an rpg environment. most guys who play women in rpg's tend to quickly stereotype themselves as money grubbing whores or man hating, rabid lesbians. I wont insult the females at the escapist by assuming in any way I would be able to rp a women to any real ability.

as far as table top...what bothers me is that as a game master, I have had a few male players who played women so well, it got bloody creepy, especially when they were hitting on npc's I was running. 0.0

but I am not one to take a strong stance on gender switching in roleplaying in any direction.

 

[Archemetis]

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?

I've only ever seen your example happen ONCE in my whole four years on WoW...
And it was just a prank played between friends, one of the more well-known enchanters on my server basically paid a solid 5k gold for cyber he then found out it was one his friends an alt character, I THINK he got his gold back.

OT: I play as female characters, I get treated better in groups for being a female night elf, but I never tell people I'm a girl, in fact I constantly make reference to the fact that I'm a guy, but silly people in game will carry on believing I'm a woman and give me first dibs on loot rolls, I can't say I don't mind that, like I said I give them enough prompts that I'm actually a full-grown man.

(My reason for playing female characters in WoW: I play alliance side and besides Dwarves, all male characters on alliance side look fucking stupid and of course I wasn't given a choice of faction because my friends played Alliance too, given the choice I'd be male undead.)

 

[Harry Hasselhoff]

Well im going to be completely honest i make a female charicter in 80% of the RPGs i play cause ide rather look at female behind all day instead of male. WoW is an exception though because its to long term.

 

[rampantcreature]

I make female characters, and not just because I am female. A lot of games I'll have seen my brother play through some portion of it, and since he plays males almost exclusively, I roll a female just to see other options in the game. In MMOs, I play both and have never felt to need to reveal my actual gender, and have had low-level toons of both genders randomly given gifts by people I'd never spoken to. In tabletop games...it depends on the concept I'm going for, but I play both. It was never awkward to have female characters in my tabletop group, then again I played with the gaming club at a women's college.

 

[BonsaiK]

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?

Yes, I'm a guy and I have. If there is a female option in any game (not just RPG) I always pick it. Why?

1. If I'm going to be staring at my avatar for hours on end I prefer to look at something attractive.

2. I like to roleplay, and roleplaying a female in RPGs is more interesting and challenging to do convincingly. It's also very rarely done well (with most attempts being stereotypical "mary-sues" or "hard-ass bitches") and I like to lead by example.

3. Games are fantasy, not reality. Why play myself? People who "put themselves" into computer games have mental issues. I like to experience something different in a computer game, and then return to the real world after I'm finished the game. It's not healthy to blur the lines between gaming and real life.

4. As for what annoys the OP specifically, pretending to be a girl IRL when playing a game and hoodwinking gullible, led-around-by-their-dicks guys is the funniest thing ever and those guys absolutely deserve what they get. You also get way more attention if that's your thing. Guys tend to get ignored because there are so many of them, girls (or people suspected to be girls) are never ignored. Which means that your action matter more to the commmunity. That can be nice. But then there's the guys who will abuse you straight up because (they think that) you're a girl and say dumb sexual stuff so it's a double-edged sword. Playing a "IRL girl" when you're actually not one is a really good way to learn about some of the different types of things that women have to put up in life with on a daily basis. I'd recommend it to anyone, and in fact it's a great educational exercise in human behaviour. Girls who play RPGs should try and pretend to be guys IRL too, that's equally fascinating and you can learn a lot.

 

[saejox]

i liek 2 see nekkid girlz.
dressing them up in rpgs is so much fun.

that's my motivation of playing as a girl. but i dont play mmos, they seem too grindy, so my thoughts dont count i guess.

 

[Jirlond]

What's wrong with playing as a character of the opposite sex? I do it all the time. My characters on RPGs are usually split 50/50 (or close to) between male and female. And my only complete playthrough of Mass Effect was done with a female Sheperd (Jennifer Hale is a much better voice actor than whoever does the male Sheperd) I don't see why playing a character that is something I'm not in real life is weird. I mean, isn't that the point of a role-playing game? Besides, I'm not a mage or an orc in real life either, but I can play as those in RPGs without anyone batting an eye.

I'd never pretend that I was female in real life though, to get free stuff or otherwise. Though honestly, people who do give people free stuff just because they think that they're girls deserve to be scammed in my opinion.

Pretty much this without the mass effect completion! I play as women just to have something different to look @. Also if you give money to female characters for that sole reason you are an idiot!