Poll: do you ever play as the opposite gender

[The_Echo]

I play as a female in fighting games and occasionally in games where there's a character select. Though for the most part I'm a guy.

 

[Ubilaz]

No. I try to make the character resemble myself or at least try to.

 

[crudus]

I am male 97.4% of the time. I want to be female every once in a while. Don't judge me!!

 

[Rhade]

I don't mind having female secondary characters at all but if the option exists to have a male lead character that's equal-to or better than the female one (for whatever purpose/story/stats/etc I want) then it's always, always male.

 

[Mr Scott]

Past the 2nd generation of Pokemon games I'd always play as a girl, 'cos the guy looked too fruity. C'mon, only two people can pull off a beret: Samuel Jackson and M. Bison.

 

[Soxafloppin]

If you choose the your genders character than never, why would i?

But with games with pre set characters and such, yea i often do!

Sonya Blade FTW!

 

[TelHybrid]

In games where you view the character from behind, female usually. If you're going to spend hours staring at an ass, do you really want it to be a dude's ass?

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Yes, my main character in Mass Effect 2 is female, as a matter of fact.

 

[RatRace123]

Alot of the times, yes.
Saints Row 2
Mass Effect
and Dragon Age to name a few.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Mostly no. I normally do a playthrough as a female character to see what's new, but really I play as male character most of the time. I find it easier to identify with a male character and on a more basic level, I find guys are just more pleasing to look at.

 

[e2density]

Yeah I do sometimes because generally, an MMORPG's gameplay and storyline can be judged solely on it's cup size.

 

[Snotnarok]

Yes, especially if it's 3rd person, I don't feel like staring at some dood while I play. Plus how many games have female heroes?

 

[leviathanmisha]

I differ on what I'm making....

 

[silver wolf009]

once i had to to complete a quest in runescape when i played it (I was 7 at the time)
but other than that no.

 

[Chris Sharka]

I like to play things that aren't me. Part of the challenge of roleplaying, for me, is the mindset. "Can I be this character? Can I act believably?" I'm a firm believer that I'm not the character, and therefore I shouldn't make the choices I would make.

For this reason I also like to play as pre-generated characters.

This mindset changes for games that are purely about your choices, like Fable or Fallout 3, where the character is what you make of them.

 

[MortisLegio]

Whenever games let me make my own characters I usually play as the girl first run through just cause they look better than the guys

 

[LeonLethality]

so I often do both genders eventually.

HA HA! bi curious.

[sub]I couldn't resist[/sub]

I often play as female character when I have the choice for a change of pace since so many games have a male protagonist.

 

[Code Monkey]

I usually play through the game for the first time as a male character, then I play through again with a female character. I remember a LPer on youtube put it a good way:

"If I'm going to be staring at the same person for 30 hours, it might as well be someone I find attractive."

 

[remorsless]

I play as a chick mostly. Since they're always in 3rd person I'm gonna be spending a lot of time looking at that ass so I want it to be a hot chick.