Poll: Guys playing girl characters

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Usually female because, depending on the game, they either:

A) look hotter (most of them)

B) attack faster and weaker (Hunter: The Reckoning, Xianghua in Soul Calibur)

C) have a better voice actress (Mass Effect)

D) different options (most WRPGs)

The sole exception for me is Oblivion. Ladies look like men so meh. Also Guilty Gear, but I still refuse to accept that Bridget is a male.

 

[GloatingSwine]

You know what why the heck would you show up to work dressed like someone your not.

Assuming you don't work in porn, you do this every day. It's very much the point of clothes.

 

[vesavius]

Why do some guys choose to play as girl characters? I always choose my same gender yet everyone assumes I'm a guy playing a girl which makes me think that is more common that girls actually playing a MMORPG. What are your thoughts on this and are there any girls who play male characters?

I will play female characters sometimes, sure, whats wrong with that? Anyone who even thinks it's 'wierd' these days must have a really really fragile sexual identity to even worry about it imo.

I simply prefer the female models a lot of the time... and yeah I would rather look at a girl then a guy for hours on end. I never make versions of myself in these games anyhow, guy or girl toon. I DO make it clear that I am a guy from day one tho to avoid awkard moments later

After playing Tomb Raider, Perfect Dark, whatever, I would have thought this question would have become kind of rendundent in a mmorpg.

I would assume most girls have played guy characters in a lot of games? Whats the difference? Why does noone ever ask 'hrm.. do girls play games that feature male characters?' and then insinuate they are lesbians if they say yes... Dosent happen right? Never seen a poll for that one.

I personally think most girls will not play a male character in a mmorpg (I have only ever known 1) because they WANT to be known as a RL girl, who we all know get treated like royalty in these male dominated environments. Why give theat up?

 

[Colodomoko]

I love to mix myself up by being a diffrent sex and/or race, but I don't try to hook up with people when Im the opposite sex.

 

[vesavius]

You know what why the heck would you show up to work dressed like someone your not.

Assuming you don't work in porn, you do this every day. It's very much the point of clothes.

Sorry, not to derail this thread, but this is wrong... The point of clothes isnt to hide anything... quite the opposite.

Clothes are communication of who you are, they are a language. A code you express to everyone around you what your motivations, interests, sexuality, whatever, and what social tribe you want to seen to belong to. Even your office suit is you telling everyone else who you are and what you are prepared to do. Clothes don't happen by accident. Even the guy who dosent care and throws any old crap on is telling everyone around him about who he is. He has made a choice about what to wear.

RPG games are not this though, hence the Role Playing part.

 

[runtheplacered]

Clothes are communication of who you are, they are a language.

You sound like a Gap commercial. The truth is here in the west, we have so much money that we can throw money around for clothes with name tags on them. But in much of the world clothes really are simply for protection from the elements.

I'm good enough with just wearing clothes that are comfortable. I have honestly never before thought of my clothes as a communication device since I communicate in plenty of other ways.

So as you see, there's plenty of reasons to wear clothes (comfortability, protection, fashion, hiding our "dirty" bits, etc). The reason you listed off is only one and not everybody falls under that reasoning.

 

[Nazulu]

Sometimes I find the male character choices in some games look like fags or idiots, so then I consider making a female character. In a game like WOW when you can make up to 10 characters, I like to have abit of variety, make my team more interesting.

Look like fags as compared to roleplaying as a woman? Jesus, if you are going to be homophobic, at least do it right.

Sorry I don't understand what you mean.

 

[vesavius]

Clothes are communication of who you are, they are a language.

You sound like a Gap commercial. The truth is here in the west, we have so much money that we can throw money around for clothes with name tags on them. But in much of the world clothes really are simply for protection from the elements.

I'm good enough with just wearing clothes that are comfortable. I have honestly never before thought of my clothes as a communication device since I communicate in plenty of other ways.

So as you see, there's plenty of reasons to wear clothes (comfortability, protection, fashion, hiding our "dirty" bits, etc). The reason you listed off is only one and not everybody falls under that reasoning.

No no, you misunderstand me, and so of couse you misunderstand my truth (which is no more real or not then your truth right?).

I am not saying that the labels on your clothes are the communication, I am saying ALL clothes are communication, from that old jumper to the D&B suit. It has nothing to do with geography at all. Even the most 'basic' of cultures have different clothes that define their stations, genders, and roles. This is communication.

Sure, ALL clothes do the same basic jobs, more or less, but I am talking about something else here.

Just because you personally havent thought about what clothes as communication, dosent mean they arnt. It just hasnt occured to you is all. It happens on a sub-concious level for most people anyhow, dictated by their socialisation, but it still IS a choice (albeit a programmed one for a lot of people). Every item of clothing you buy and choose to wear is a message you are putting out there about who you are, where you stand on things, and what tribe you see yourself part of, even if that message is 'I'm a no nonsense practical kinda guy who hates trendy fashion'.

We are not talking about fashion alone here, but clothes.

But, we have derailed the thread enough I think. I will bow out now and leave the last word on this to whoever wants it

 

[Ace of Spades]

Not with online games. I did play Mass Effect with a girl character my second time through.

 

[meece]

It gets dull being one person in a sea of similiar persons.

I enjoy being different from the norm and since the norm generally = male ......

So yes I sometimes do depening on how I'm feeling when I make the character.

 

[byteme711]

"Cause Females get +20 Cooking" Jokes lol

 

[hypercube]

I play both male and female characters, and I'm a guy. It depends very much on the avatars and the style of the game. F'r instance, in WAR I've got a female Zealot - they look a lot more sinister and malevolent than the male version. I've never had anyone treat me differently as a female char - maybe everyone does assume that there are no girls on the internets.

 

[coldfrog]

If there is no applicable difference between the genders other than eyecandy then I'll go with the one that isn't going to creep me out.

This was basically my motivation when picking the female Blood Elf in WoW. If there's one thing they get credit for with the Blood Elves it's that they somehow managed to give the male characters ridiculously buff physiques while still managing to make them eerily effeminate. I just didn't feel comfortable picking a male character like that.

 

[Haberley]

I've always played as a female in games, mainly due to the aesthetic reason a few people have said before me. Personally, if I'm going to be playing a game for hours on end I'd prefer to look at a girl than some sweating hulk of a man that the designers thought would appeal as most people's idea of a man's man.

 

[ertxz18]

I don't see why some guys do play as female characters in online games. I could understand it in say an offline game, but in an online game where people meet you and stuff, that is just wrong.