Poll: Do you ever play as your opposite gender in RPG's?

[Canadamus Prime]

Sure, why not? It's fun to mix things up now and then. Esp. since the idea of RPG's is to Role Play after all. Before I ever tried I MMORPG I always said I would never do it in one of those, but now I've actually played a few I've thought, what the hell, it's not like I'm in this to make friends anyway.

 

[Alfredo Jones]

It depends on the game and whether I think the male or female choice is more interesting. Which one has the better story or dialogue? Which one has better outfits and attack animations? If there are different skills or mechanics between the two which one is better? I don't care much about relating to my character since I know deep down I'll never be like them but so long as what the say and do are interesting then I could care less about their gender.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

Depends what kind of character I want to play. All depends on whose story I want to imagine at that time.

I like to imagine backstories and shit for my characters just so I'm not always playing a self-insert character. I'm me all the time

 

[Mordwyl]

I play male characters all the time. Even when they're designed to look female. What I meant by that? A lot of game developers have absolutely no idea about how to make a proper playable female character.

 

[Mid Boss]

I normally play as females because females are attractive to me. I'd rather be looking at one of them than a guy for 20 to 40 hours.

On the other hand, my girlfriend normally plays men because she can't stand the bikini armor they always put the females in.

 

[verdant monkai]

Yes but I am a man most of the time so I can romance girl characters. I will replay a game to see different female dialogue, or in the rare case that none of the females are ideal relationship material. I will be a woman and go for the men I befriended on my male play through.

Often though you may be limited to pre made characters and one of the girl ones may just be more likeable/better. Like the siren I played in borderlands.

 

[PrincessAshley]

Well it is an RPG after all. I'm supposed to be something I'm not, sort of lol Yeah, I do.

If I'm playing something online or only once, I'm usually going to pick my gender first and be a girl, but if I'm replaying it often and there are different story options for a male, then yeah I'll make a male character.

 

[identifier]

Stop with the excuses. Why the fvck wouldn't you play with a woman if given the choice? Unless you like males, of course.

 

[Ham Blitz]

Yes, but pretty much always on a play through that is after my first time through. I first started doing it in KOTOR since I was told there was different dialogue depending on your gender. While it wasn't that substantial, I just kind of kept doing it, even in games that don't have dialogue options like the Fable series.

 

[Psycomantis777]

I usually play as a male Character first, then a female character after to see what differs. Same with games with a good or Evil end, just do whichever I didn't first...

 

[Yuuki]

Male here, I pretty much always play a female in RPG's/MMO's if I can. Because I get enough of playing as a male due to being...y'know...male IRL not to mention if I'm going to be forced to play a characters for hours and hours, I'd rather be staring at a female ass/figure than a male one.

If the game has a romance element then I'll probably play as male, wouldn't want to end up in an awkward situation of playing as a female and being forced to romance a male (unless lesbian relationships are offered, in which case it's a win/win hahaha).

For me immersion comes primarily from gameplay, story, aesthetics, overall feel, etc. My character's gender is largely irrelevant. For example I played all Mass Effect games as fem-shep through and through, enjoyed every second of it. Good thing too, I felt fem-shep's voice acting was better (i.e. less boring to listen to) than the male one. All of my time in WoW and GW2 has also been on female characters.

 

[Xisin]

I'm about 50/50 on which gender I'll play as. For me, it's like choosing a class the first time I play a game: a whim.

 

[Denamic]

Yes. Not all the time, but more often that not. Not really sure why though. It's not just to look as a woman's ass rather than a man's. Well, not always. I imagine it's similar to why I usually don't play humans when there are other races available. I like to put myself outside of my element when I roleplay. Different species, so why not a different gender while I'm at it?

 

[-Dragmire-]

If the main character has a set personality like in Mass Effect, I'll choose male at least for the first playthrough. If the main character doesn't really have much of a personality like in Skyrim, I'll choose female at least for the first playthrough.

Not really sure why, I just noticed this about myself recently.

 

[BaronUberstein]

I do either, don't really care. My goal with RPG's is to make a character.

 

[Bluestorm83]

I'm a Role Player in my RPGs. It's 99% about the story and basically playing Grown Up Pretend. As such, I don't play females more often, since I can't really get into the AVERAGE female mindset, but if the material lets me play variations on female characters, I have fun with that. Half of my The Old Republic characters were female, since there's lots of material (in the expanded universe, at least) I could use as reference for my character's thought process. In Fallout and Elder Scrolls games, I play almost exclusively as males, since there aren't all that many post-nuclear-apoc females, or Fantasy Females worth a damn outside of their cup sizes. In those situations, I can't really get into a character that I can't understand, and thus fall back on my MaleMind.

 

[thePyro_13]

Every now and then. Sometimes I play different races and such too, ya know?

When playing with friends(like baldurs gate) it can be fun to just skip through character creator as fast as you can, clicking on random stuff(but not for stats and classes; kinda important to think about those) and then just roll with what you got. It can make things more interesting and/or hilarious. Especially if you make a little effort to stay in character some of the time.

 

[CaptainThom]

I choose male when given a choice as i like to role play as myself and as im male it helps with the immersion. I have played as female characters but normally always on replays of the game to see the other dialogue options.

 

[VodkaKnight]

Only in games like Skyrim, where the women don't wear revealing armour much.
In MMOs, no.

 

[Werewolfkid]

Almost always pick to play as a girl if I am given the option. The reason being that games almost exclusively have male protagonists so I always jump at the chance to play as a woman just for something different.