Poll: Why do you play as opposite gender characters?

[Wither]

in an rpg, i roll for it, so that my rpg experience can be different, like with classes and specializations. in videogames, i tend to make characters that are as close to me as possible. i dunno, i just find delibirately picking the female character for option one is a new level of being a sad loser i haven't sunk to. why bother, when with a few conversation options and a gold mirror, you get a sex scene anyway! ahem

 

[Tim_Buoy]

i only play opposite gender when the character models look better for the opposite gender

 

[Android2137]

I am a female, but typically play a guy because I don't like how the game designers dress us. I don't like the impractical bikini armor or the mage robes that cover only 25% of the body, especially when my character's headed for snowy territory. In the games I have played so far, the men were dressed much more sensibly. You may call it a stupid thing to fuss over, but if the option is available, I'd go with the character that allows greater immersion. Wondering why I'm not freezing to death or why my enemy doesn't just stab me in the stomach is not immersion.

That said, playing the opposite gender does have it's flaws. I've partied with guys before, never telling them I was a girl, and I heard them complain about certain health problems they'd never talk about in a real life public setting.

 

[minus_273c]

The games I play a female character in are usually 3rd person perspective RPG's. If I have to look at some arse bouncing around for 20+ hours then I much prefer it to be a cute female arse.

 

[Callate]

Because it's interesting to see how female characters are treated differently. Especially in MMORPGs.

 

[NoblePhilistineFox]

well,
in games like fighters(soul caliber blazblue etc.)
I generally play as female characters because Im more accostomed to a faster moveset that flows easily in the right hands(taki and noel for example) and its because im just better with them(I play around with every character though to see which one is my best)
in RPG's I always pick male as my gender,
im not a girl, so why should I play as one unless theres aome kind of benefiet?

 

[warprincenataku]

If I'm going to stare at the ass of a character for an extended period of time, it's going to be a nice ass.

Incidently I usually play as both male and female in games, especially RPG's because sometimes it changes the story.


EDIT: Also, on a side note for all the men who have a complex playing a female character because they're afraid it'll make them gay, make their balls shrink or make them come off as a sissy, it's apparently clear you're not comfortable in your own masculinity to play as another gender.

My hats off to you, you small-minded sexist hollow shell of a man.

 

[Tourette]

I generally play soldier type classes as a male and caster type classes as a female as I feel they look better that way.

 

[Kurt Horsting]

For fighting games, I'll choose opposite gender if the character fits my style. I don't really don't think too much about it, just if the style is something i like. I play Storm in xvsf and mvc2 just cause she is too godlike (she controls the weather, wtf are you going to do about it?). In bb, I just like how Noel plays. Aggressive rushdown, can do weird footies with d moves cause of the huge invincibility windows, 3c under stuff to big damage is cash, an overhead that punishes back dashes on wake-up, Thor, etc. But she isn't safe (a lot of it is getting good at guessing), she has no range, no good reversals, and she got worse in cs... but w/e still sticking with my main.

Though i dont main these gals, i do play chun-li from ST, Makoto in 3rd strike, May from GG, and Morrigan from vampire savior.

 

[The Lunatic]

Sometimes, they just look more bad ass.

 

[TiefBlau]

I tend to avoid it, considering I like to project myself onto my characters.

I'd only do it if the male character is an intolerable ****.

 

[linwolf]

For me the gender of the characters I make, are split 50/50 between males and females. For me there are no reason to play as one over the other.

 

[Branches]

I've only ever played as a female character in FO3 and Mass Effect.

Fallout 3 because of the Black Widow perk which pretty much voided difficulty in the game when facing the majority of opponents.

And Mass Effect's 1+2 because the voice acting for the female Shepard is a lot more solid than that of the male Shepard.

 

[pearcinator]

I alternate male/female in games.

For example, im on my 4th playthrough of ME2.
1st playthrough - Male Vanguard
2nd playthrough - Female Infiltrator
3rd playthrough - Male Sentinel
4th playthrough - Female Adept

If I start a new one itll be Male Soldier and eventually I might even go Female Engineer after that.

I would play female all the time but I'm one of few people who dont like femsheps voice...it sounds too butch and manly...Id rather she use her normal voice or maybe something similar to Bastilas voice minus the bitchyness

 

[Tucker154]

I do play as females in most rpgs. Its not because they are attractive( I cant "hit that" if they are made out of 1s and 0s), but because I find the suddle changes to the story more ajoyable. But on my first playthrough I always play as male first in order to get the story and feel more inmersed into the story.

 

[kombatman]

im a video game sexist. ill admit it

 

[Socius]

easy!
I don't

 

[DarkinWilder]

I guess I'm weird because I play both; different genders go hand in hand with different personalities, quirks, motivations, way of thinking, and all the other stuff that makes a character more than just a bunch of ones-and-zeros (or numbers and letters on a page for my fellow tabletop gamers...), so I guess... variety?

Also, other peoples reactions; Yes you did just get beaten by a character with no Y-chromosome.

 

[Fozza]

I acctually don't know why, by almost all my characters in RPG's are female, at least the first playthrough. I think it gives the game a different experience. It's just a little more exciting. =)

 

[Sacman]

Because I'm a sick pervert... It usually wields more interesting results when I play as a girl...