Playing the Opposite Sex in RPGs

[Fuzzykittensmith]

I play as a female through most games at least once, but it could be any playthrough. I usually do it to see if there are any dialogue or references to my character that are incorrect. I also play through as a girl if the visual female character design is better than the male design.

 

[numidium]

I almost always play with the opposite sex.

 

[Yegargeburble]

I play a male character every time I play an RPG. In D&D, I usually play a morally gray male (Class/race doesn't matter, unless I play a paladin). In games like Fallout 3 and Fable 2, I set out to be the most psychotic, evil, baby-eating person I can be. Don't really care to change my gender in games.


However, I may make a female character in another playthrough of Fallout 3, just to see if being a psychotic, cannibalistic woman is that much different than being a male with the same qualities.

 

[Sayvara]

I noticed a trend in my characters: I tend to make them in any which way they are not supposed to be according to any which standard I prefer mocking at the moment. Gnder naturally plays a part there.


Hence my namesake Sayvara started out as a physically strong and morally ambivalent bard... who carried a stonkin' huge greatsword. Ok, so it worked for low levels in DDO because of the various modifications they made to the D20 system in order to fit the hyperexpress pace of a computer game as opposed to manual dice rolling, but the gimmic wore off after a while and she became more of a Red Sonja type of fighter/warrior... but she still refuses to wear chailmail bikinis because those things are bloody stupid.

Next up Senine... someone who made pleasure and having a good time her religion. Surprising as it was this did not result in bunches of erotic roleplaying but rather huge amounts of fun theological debates as other characters tried to wrap their head around the concept of sex being equivalent of doing moral good. And by golly one can actually argue the point!

After that, as a supporting character but I simply have to evolve him some time: Frin Dribble. A male gnome... weasly, cowardly, weak and generally dislikable. His tagline "This is not dignified!" became especially hillarious because there was never anything dignified about him. He was just a rat. Every other character completely disrespected him or did their best to abuse him in some kind of way... and the players loved him. Most roleplaying I ever got out of anyone in such a short time.

Standards are made to be broken... and I love breaking that standard as well.

/S

 

[AnotherFineMess]

I don't really have a problem with playing female most of the times. Usually in MMORPGS my main is female because I tend to treat her as the virtual embodiment of a character I created for a story. But I usually end up creating a male somewhere along the road for the sake of trying new builds etc.

On the subject of evil female vs evil male. I'm the knight in shiny armour type. You know, defending the kingdom, saving maidens, rescuing kitties out of trees. And actually the only evil char that I made (coincidently in city of villains) was a female. Well evil suits the ladies

 

[Rhayn]

After getting bored of playing a ugly ass australian in Saints Row 2 I went to a plastic surgeon and changed my character to a sexy little redhead. Then proceeded to buy her the skimpiest clothing around. But yeah, it just felt more right being utterly evil as a female.

I completely understand. Especially that last part.

Somehow, I'd agree; my second character on Fallout 3 is female, and is evil to the extent of slowly mrdering, enslaving and robbing her way through rivet city, after blowing up megaton, killing several tenpenny tower residents, turning in the escaped slaves and killing all the inhabitants of arefu and bigtown....
I'm getting slightly worried by my more psychotic side here....

My psychotic side wants to meet yours. We can go to a small town and kill teenagers in some sort of warped competition.
Almost like...a movie...

I'm pretty much the reverse. My first playtrough with a male character I was more or less evil to the max, but on the second with a female character, I've the highest karma level and only did a few minor "bad" actions, like pickpocketing Vance for his key, and I accidentally shot Dave.

And it's not like I think trough every decision I make, I pick what first comes to mind, like I would in real life to some extent.

And before anyone thinks I'm stereotyping women to be good, I'm not. It just happened. *cry*

 

[Archemetis]

I played a female Shepherd in Mass Effect, just so I could violently reject that emo guy, order him off to his death, then have lesbian sex with the alien chick.

Good man!

I did the same thing, although i lead them both on for a bit and THEN ordered him to his death.

I tend to play female characters whenever possible, no idea, preference maybe?
I'm a WoW player, and about 80% of my characters are women...
60% are gnomes...

But yeah, i always play Female characters, i don't see why but i just enjoy playing the game more if i play as a woman.

Playing a woman on a MMORPG is sometimes kickass for lack of a a better word. I hear some players give women free items in an attempt to be chivalrous or something.

I've honestly never had it happen to me, must a be a typically Night Elf Female thing...

 

[Taunto]

In world of warcraft i play a chick character i hate it when guys hit on me and i go im a dude....

 

[The_Prophet]

As RaRaLoco said, i don't enjoy playing as female characters becouse it just doesn't feel right.

Exept Fallout 3 ofcourse

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

Dissacoiating myself from my character is easier if I play a girl, I wont project my beliefs and morals onto a character to a different sex and feel more free to be extrodinarily sick and twisted. It must say fascinating about the human psyche when we are given the choice to openly decide our sexuality and what we choose for what reasons; me? Usually because Games developers are jaded socially dissolute loners who crave female companionship and therefore female characters have fantastic arses Seriously if youve played Fallout 3, damn... I never said I was any better. Also the self projection thing. Heh.

My dude followed my morals and beliefs and was Jesus with a sniper and Trilby

 

[ellie91]

i tend to play as female simply because i kinda like having the chance to play as my own gender and i tend to try to make them look like me although they never really do and sometimes i can't really be bothered to try.

 

[wgreer25]

I played a female Shepherd in Mass Effect, just so I could violently reject that emo guy, order him off to his death, then have lesbian sex with the alien chick.

What he said.

I did the same thing.