Poll: Cross-Gender Gaming

[manimani]

Just for a change of pace really. People react to you differently when you play a dude. Slightly less harassment and willingness to actually play the game rather than "go easy on the girl."

Keeps away the creepy old men too...

 

[Zykon TheLich]

Guild Wars is my MMO of choice and the female characters are more well-crafted than the males, hands down. And they aren't overly boobulous either, which was impressive. They look like realistic females. The men just look like steroid abominations.

Seriously...realistic...have we been playing the same game? True, they aren't stick figures with a couple of basketballs grafted to the chest but the women are airbrushed glamour models just as much as the men are steroid abominations.

 

[Firia]

Often times, I don't have a choice. I have to play the Prince in the "Prince of Persia (2008)." Or Drake from "Uncharted." Or whatever static male lead in a game. If given the choice, it often depends.

 

[soren7550]

Online game, no. Regular games, yes. In Fable 2 I played as a dude because I've seen (and heard) that the women in Fable 2 as you progress in the game, start to resemble shaved bears.

I played as a boy in Pokemon Silver, but you really didn't have much choice in the matter really.

Mass Effect I played as a woman (naturally) but when I get the game again, I might create Hanz Von Shepard, the stereotypical blond-haired, blue eyed evil ass Nazi - I mean Specter.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

It can be quite fun, but there are sometimes less options for female characters and it makes stuff confusing online...