Poll: Playing Characters of the Opposite Sex
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In Bioware games I usually roll a male character because of the relationships. Sure, you can make hot lesbian sex with Leliana if you like, but it's just not the same. All characters wear a car factory full of metal on them anyway so visually it hardly makes any difference.
In other RPGs like Fallout 3 you can make your character wear something like Sexy Sleepwear and still successfully complete the game so I usually tend to play as a female...in third person...
If you're going to be watching someone's bum for 60 to 80 hours then it might as well be something nice to look at.
In other RPGs like Fallout 3 you can make your character wear something like Sexy Sleepwear and still successfully complete the game so I usually tend to play as a female...in third person...
If you're going to be watching someone's bum for 60 to 80 hours then it might as well be something nice to look at.
I never really liked playing as a female character when I was younger, but I've gradually grown out of it.
If given the choice though, I still pick to play as a boy in Harvest Moon and Pokemon.
If given the choice though, I still pick to play as a boy in Harvest Moon and Pokemon.
As a female, it's pretty hard to play as a female in most games (as most have a male protagonist), though in RPGs I do prefer to play as a female.
My boyfriend always likes to play as a female, he says the armor looks cooler (though I reckon its because he wants to look at boobs).
My boyfriend always likes to play as a female, he says the armor looks cooler (though I reckon its because he wants to look at boobs).
Nope like for some games , you get perks that become much more effective such as the black widow perk in fallout 3.
For me it's simple:
In case i play a silent protagonist/a protagonist where I always give the answers like in Bioware RPGs i prefer to play as a male character (my gender) since i just go with it like: "I'm the protagonist in this game then" so that's my reason why I play male characters in those games. In all kind of other games where I can choose I just go by the looks of the character model.
So all in all i don't mind it.
I guess it just depends on what the player sees in his gaming avatar.
In case i play a silent protagonist/a protagonist where I always give the answers like in Bioware RPGs i prefer to play as a male character (my gender) since i just go with it like: "I'm the protagonist in this game then" so that's my reason why I play male characters in those games. In all kind of other games where I can choose I just go by the looks of the character model.
So all in all i don't mind it.
I guess it just depends on what the player sees in his gaming avatar.
Well, in my circumstances, It's technically weird either way, depending on who you believe.
But I do find it strange that it should bother someone so much.
Personally, it doesn't bother me all that much, but I do prefer female characters if given the chance.
as for this...
There aren't that many female characters around, so if you feel weird about it, you have a hard time playing most games.
I sincerely hope such attitudes as your friend's aren't that common though, because it would mean the rumours of game developers changing games that have female leads to have male leads because they'd sell more would actually be justified.
And that's a little worrying.
But I do find it strange that it should bother someone so much.
Personally, it doesn't bother me all that much, but I do prefer female characters if given the chance.
as for this...
Spare a thought for the girls that might have the problem your friend does...Kulingile said:
There aren't that many female characters around, so if you feel weird about it, you have a hard time playing most games.
I sincerely hope such attitudes as your friend's aren't that common though, because it would mean the rumours of game developers changing games that have female leads to have male leads because they'd sell more would actually be justified.
And that's a little worrying.
To be honest, when I was a pre-adolescent, I preferred to play male characters, be it in Diablo, Quake 2 or pretty much anything else aside from Street Fighter.
It may or may not be related that sometime after growing up and getting laid this didn't bother me any more, but I should state for the record that games that never gave you the choice, like Tomb Raider, didn't feel unnatural either.
My pen-and-paper D&D characters are, to memory, mostly male, but my most recent one was female.
It may or may not be related that sometime after growing up and getting laid this didn't bother me any more, but I should state for the record that games that never gave you the choice, like Tomb Raider, didn't feel unnatural either.
My pen-and-paper D&D characters are, to memory, mostly male, but my most recent one was female.
I usually play as male characters as I find it easier to connect with them. In MMORPGs, the character I'm playing is technically a version of "me" being shown to the world and I find it easier to associate a male avatar with myself in the online world. I have tried playing a girl and I will admit that they can be far prettier to look at, but I had a very hard time associating her with me, so she's now sitting, unplayed at level 20, poor thing. It's probably similar to the reason that I generally play very humanoid characters and don't like playing Orcs, Goblins, Tauren etc...
In halo reach for the purpose of sprinting it can be an advantage to hear if someones trying to assassinate you because as a girl you breathe differently. For RPGs I never play as a female because any strength stat is usually higher with men and thats normally what I go for