Poll: Guys playing girl characters

[kommando367]

a good amount of MMOs i've played before, don't have choices between genders. if given the choice i make half my characters male and half of my characters female, if not given a choice
i always go with the long range expert

 

[jebussaves88]

For some reason this topic give me the image of "Shakespearean Era Plays: The Game"

Ah, DwarfOverkill 69, if music be the food of love, play on.

Oh wait, you're a dude? HAAAAX!!

 

[Geamo]

Topic done to death, rezzed and killed again.

I'll say what I always say: You can take any gender to play as and someone will still find a way to insult you for it.

As a guy:
-You play a girl. Get a lot of stick (hence this thread)
-You play a guy. ("LOL UR GHEY YOU STARE AT A MAN WHILE U PLAY LOL")

The possiblities are endless.?

Be honest. Has anybody actually done that to you?

Once, when I was trialling WoW. I lost most faith in humanity that day and became a cynic.

 

[I3uster]

I always paly female versions when the male versions are ugly(draenei WOW)
or if there are benefits in the game for being female( black widow perk, fallout 3)

 

[Spooky_101]

I'd rather kill things as a huge badass paragon of testosterone than a skimpy girl. Plus I feel sort of awkward, like if I played a girl character, I could give some desparate guy the wrong idea. And then I could get hit on and make him feel bad when he found out I was really a guy....

 

[Zephirius]

Online games I exclusively play male characters. I prefer awesome full plate and heavy battle-axe over dual daggers and leather half-armor exposing most of the stereotypically (to the point of boredom) sexy female characters anyway.

Offline I tend to switch depending what I'm in the mood for. My male character in fallout 3 is a sneaky bastard while my female is a melee/big guns/asskicking specialist.

 

[MorganL4]

I've noticed that if there are guys playing as girl characters, it is usually for one of three reasons.
1) They want to mooch off of the guy populace that want to supply the "girl" with stuff to make "her" life easier and to steal the one "girl" off the internet from the other female-starved men of the gaming nation.
2) They don't want to stare at a man's derriere for the entire duration of their play-time.
3) Sometimes playing a girl character is more fun (i.e games where the class the player wants is strictly female).

that is about the size of it

 

[Senor Smoke21]

Nope.
The only time i can think of doing this was on Guild Wars, as male Nightfall Monks looked crap, so made a female one.
=]

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I've noticed that if there are guys playing as girl characters, it is usually for one of three reasons.
1) They want to mooch off of the guy populace that want to supply the "girl" with stuff to make "her" life easier and to steal the one "girl" off the internet from the other female-starved men of the gaming nation.
2) They don't want to stare at a man's derriere for the entire duration of their play-time.
3) Sometimes playing a girl character is more fun (i.e games where the class the player wants is strictly female).

that is about the size of it

I'd add in 4) Because the character really deserves to be female.

Chun Li wouldn't have worked as a bloke.

 

[Mariena]

Nope.
The only time i can think of doing this was on Guild Wars, as male Nightfall Monks looked crap, so made a female one.
=]

I can understand that though. Even if I was a guy, I would not play as a Night Elf male. Those guys just look retarded.. with biceps bigger than their torso.

 

[Almgandi]

Personally, I always play as male character except when I have to play as a woman. Another reason why I dont play female characters at all is "the change" women made in video games over the past years(not only in games ;movies for example). Close to every charming female character was replaced with a lunatic or a hardcore kong-fu b. who as far as we know normally has no back story which can discribe her fighting skills or is simply done by saying "she is strong". The best example for a hardcore woman in movies in probably "Ultra violett". If you haven't watched it you are lucky.

Another aspect is probably the customization of female characters or to put it simple : giant tits. For the best example check out Lara Crofts figure from Tomb Raider 1 for ps1 and the game nowadays (something like ( ) ( ) to ( ) ( ) ). Do those proportions magically compensate for the lack of muscle or why do they normally look that way?(maybe if they used some kind of tits-tackle....) World of Warcraft ,thankfully, didn't go that way but there are too many online games that did

 

[Woe Is You]

I personally don't get the idea that you have to pick a character of your own gender ot play a game. For example, I don't really want stick to an ideal version of myself when I can use my imagination and play something else entirely.

 

[Lt_Bromhead]

I have a total of 14 World of Warcraft characters, all of whom are the same gender as myself.

 

[darthzew]

Online I never play as a girl. Ever. But in games like KOTOR or Mass Effect I have been known to play as a girl just to get the whole experience. Especially in Mass Effect because the female voice does a better job, imo. (but not THAT much better)

 

[SmoothGlover]

Whenever I play I generally like my character to be an idealized version of myself.

Oh yeah, its always an upsetting time when you are trying to create an actual likeness of yourself in a game. "Your not that tall", "Yeah i am", "no your not... your not that thin either", "fine". etc.

 

[hoskie]

I'm generally more comfortable playing a male character. I have played female characters in games on occasion - like the original Diablo where you had to be a female to be a rogue, for example - but I have never played a female character in an MMO. The different in treatment between male characters and female characters (regardless of who is sitting at the keyboard) can be pretty awkward.

 

[TMAN10112]

I always play as a guy because I just find it a little creepy when someone is playing as the opposite gender in an MMO.

 

[Talorat]

Two words:

Free money

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Free money from socially inept nerds

31 words

Free money from socially inept nerds who seem to think that girls are not only shallow and materialistic but also will really be interested in your pasty white acne covered ass if you give them enough gold.

 

[searanox]

I don't play online, but in games that let me select my sex, I typically start with male (my own) and if possible try to model the character after myself. Subsequent play-throughs, I'll choose female for a sense of variety. In the case of Fallout 3, now, my first character was male, second was female, third male, and my fourth is going to be female once again (each of them have different alignments/skill sets/play styles, too).