What are your character(s) Gender?

Seratopia

All female because well... I got sick of having to be mario and link all my life growing up. There wasn't many female lead character games around during that time (that I knew of).

I like to stick with my own gender in games nowadays, if I cannot be female I simply don't purchase the game. This is why I passed on Assassins Creed Unity. Couldn't be female playing multiplayer, I was looking forward playing that mode too unfortunately.

Lysette

Seratopia wrote: »

All female because well... I got sick of having to be mario and link all my life growing up. There wasn't many female lead character games around during that time (that I knew of).

I like to stick with my own gender in games nowadays, if I cannot be female I simply don't purchase the game. This is why I passed on Assassins Creed Unity. Couldn't be female playing multiplayer, I was looking forward playing that mode too unfortunately.

I can understand this - I have as well a hard time to indentify with a male lead character - but some games do not offer a choice. Like the Witcher. And I haven't played it yet, not sure, if gender played a role in it, maybe not, I don't know, I am reluctant. Maybe yes, hard to say.

Cazzy

Lysette wrote: »

Cazzy wrote: »

Vigarr wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

Vigarr wrote: »

Cazzy wrote: »

Gurls. Specifically one girl. Me. I like to role play as my fantasy counterpart.

ha I always put some of myself in 1 of my characters in games like this...nice to know I'm not alone with making "high fantasy me"

Now when I think about it, one of mine is as well pretty similar to me. And just one.

Yea I can't make more then 1 "me", even if it's only loosely based on me. I could probably make 7 different characters that would all represent parts of me but I'm already questing as myself in the real world.

Yeah that's close to what I do. I have 7 females who are all identical as I wanted them to look like me (to fully immerse myself). They all have their own back story but each have my morals and general spirit. I always have the surname "Dragonheart", which is more of a title tbh

Now this is extreme - 7 versions of you in different roles.

Mine do not have my morals, they develop their own with the flow of their virtual lives.

It is a little, isn't it? I should clarify I only use 2. The rest are mules.

I tend to read a lot of comics and do a lot of fantasy/sci-fi writing, so I always enjoy putting myself in another realm. Other than my morals and how they look, they are quite different. They have their own story and path. It often spurs me to write and draw!

Edit: Apart from a small doodle of torchbug I haven't done much art recently. My last one was The Joker when I was in hospital and dopey on morphine, haha. Think I may pick it up again tomorrow! Maybe a High Elf...

Abeille

Cazzy wrote: »

Gurls. Specifically one girl. Me. I like to role play as my fantasy counterpart.

I try to avoid putting myself in the story, but all of my characters have "a bit of me", be it a certain hobby or personality trait, or a physical feature. None of them have too much of me, though, and I don't consider any of them "myself". I actually asked to change my username because of that. At first, my @name was the same as the name of my main character, but that started bothering me after a while because people on guild chat would call me by my main character's name even if I was playing another character. And she isn't me, and I am not her, so I asked support and they changed my @name.

Lysette

Cazzy wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

Cazzy wrote: »

Vigarr wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

Vigarr wrote: »

Cazzy wrote: »

Gurls. Specifically one girl. Me. I like to role play as my fantasy counterpart.

ha I always put some of myself in 1 of my characters in games like this...nice to know I'm not alone with making "high fantasy me"

Now when I think about it, one of mine is as well pretty similar to me. And just one.

Yea I can't make more then 1 "me", even if it's only loosely based on me. I could probably make 7 different characters that would all represent parts of me but I'm already questing as myself in the real world.

Yeah that's close to what I do. I have 7 females who are all identical as I wanted them to look like me (to fully immerse myself). They all have their own back story but each have my morals and general spirit. I always have the surname "Dragonheart", which is more of a title tbh

Now this is extreme - 7 versions of you in different roles.

Mine do not have my morals, they develop their own with the flow of their virtual lives.

It is a little, isn't it? I should clarify I only use 2. The rest are mules.

I tend to read a lot of comics and do a lot of fantasy/sci-fi writing, so I always enjoy putting myself in another realm. Other than my morals and how they look, they are quite different. They have their own story and path. It often spurs me to write and draw!

Edit: Apart from a small doodle of torchbug I haven't done much art recently. My last one was The Joker when I was in hospital and dopey on morphine, haha. Think I may pick it up again tomorrow! Maybe a High Elf...

I try to see mine more as my children - they start out with a moral set, which is a lot like mine, but they are independent and develop their own over time, dependent on what they experience. I made the experience, that a lot of my characters in other games did not turn out, like I expected - after a while they really develop their own life - a lot is related to the friends they make on their path - that is why I find it weird, that in ESO they cannot have friends independently from each other.

Edit: and now when I think about it, I do as well defend them like a mother, if someone tries to hurt their feelings.

Totalitarian

I think my distribution is 5 male, 4 female. But my main is female.

Van_0S

SadieJoan wrote: »

9 females, 1 male

This and you known what I am based on my signature.

Lysette

Totalitarian wrote: »

I think my distribution is 5 male, 4 female. But my main is female.

Well, that is really an awesome way to balance it among 9 characters - i like it.

disintegr8

Mine are 50/50, 4 males and 4 females. I use my 4 main characters every day - a female tank, a female healer, a male tank and a male DPS - and they are all max level. The others are 3 mules and a max leveled crafter.

I think I went male, female, male, female, etc., just do be doing something different, otherwise if I did all males they would probably all look and be the same.

CokeVoAYCE

non-binary gender fluid

Lylith

female. 10 each. (plus 2 on mule account)

Anhedonie

I have a confession.
I'm Molag Bal and I've seen Vivec in the most uncomfortable positions...oh wait, different era.

thisisScoMan

I have a main male imperial who looks exactly like me (the me I see in my head, not the me I see in my mirror). He has my morals.

I have a female khajiit who I play most days. She has my cats morals.

I've then got 2 males & 2 females I'm mostly levelling up horses for at this stage. I'll probably want to play them someday, and when I do, I don't want to go back to a slow horse.

ArchMikem

Females. Cause I'm a Misogynistic Male who just wants to stare at the Female figure when he plays, cause, you know...gurlz are pretty.

ConeOfSilence

Female for the same reason you call your car "she"

DaveMoeDee

5 male, 3 female

Aimora

Seratopia wrote: »

All female because well... I got sick of having to be mario and link all my life growing up. There wasn't many female lead character games around during that time (that I knew of).

I like to stick with my own gender in games nowadays, if I cannot be female I simply don't purchase the game. This is why I passed on Assassins Creed Unity. Couldn't be female playing multiplayer, I was looking forward playing that mode too unfortunately.

Yep totally get this - couldn't play Witcher for the same reason - my 1st character is usually a digital version of me, after that I play around a bit, but have never played a male char, it just feels odd!

lookstwice

All male. I tried having a female bank alt, but it was just too weird.

Duiwel

Uhm...

Let's see

8chars on NA
11 chars on EU
8 chars on 2nd acc EU
Deleted about 15 chars minimum by now.

All but 1 were male and I only made the female to see how "hot" I can make her. She got deleted at level 5 when I realised other players wanted to give me free things for having a hot female char...

SantieClaws

Khajiit she has herself.

Then she has a cook (Wenxue - female Redguard), an enchanter (Azizom - female Breton), a sister (Rosiebelle - female Orc), a cousin (Skybright - female khajiit), a nemesis (Luckee - female Khajiit), an idiot (Hodorf - male Nord), a clothes horse (Sherlock Gro Bones - male Orc) and an apprentice (Spiny Tim - male Argonian).

The seating plan for Fishmas dinner - it is always so difficult!

Yours with busy paws
Santie Claws

AzraelKrieg

2 female, one is khajiit, the other is an orc. The other 7 are male

Wrecking_Blow_Spam

50/50
The one who gets the most attention/msgs etc?
My tall, fat, old, scarred, bald, vampire nord male.

He gets hate mail just for his looks, people thinks it's real or something.

Khenarthi

7 females, 5 males... all Khajiit ☺

The first one, and my most played character is female and she's the most like me (as much as a cat-like fictional character can be).

Molec

phaneub17_ESO wrote: »

Does not include characters below level 10.

There wasn't an option for non binary......

cinnabubbles

AFAB [assigned female at birth] agender [I HAVE NO GENDER, ONLY RAGE.] Khajiit Nightblade.

bloodenragedb14_ESO

when i play a video game, i get IMMERSED into the character, and no offence to those that do, but i just cant play females, its just like how i cant crossdress, it just feels far to off and wrong for me to do.

waterfairy

Seratopia wrote: »

All female because well... I got sick of having to be mario and link all my life growing up. There wasn't many female lead character games around during that time (that I knew of).

I like to stick with my own gender in games nowadays, if I cannot be female I simply don't purchase the game. This is why I passed on Assassins Creed Unity. Couldn't be female playing multiplayer, I was looking forward playing that mode too unfortunately.

You're missing out on some good games because of this odd hangup. I understand preferring to play a role that you can best relate to, which is why I prefer games with character creation, but I wouldn't pass up on good games if I could only play the opposite gender. Horizon New Dawn is a good looking upcoming RPG that stars a redhead warrior woman (love redheads alright, alright, alright) and I'm interested in getting a PS4 and picking this up someday.

@Lysette
The Witcher 3 lives up to the hype of a story filled, rich RPG. I would love it if you could create your own Witcher instead of playing as Geralt but it seems like they may make a future game starring Ciri who's a female Witcher that you get to play as during various stages of the main quest. I recommend going into it like you're going into a book.

Barbet

All girls cuz I am a girl.

Lysette

Vigarr wrote: »

Seratopia wrote: »

All female because well... I got sick of having to be mario and link all my life growing up. There wasn't many female lead character games around during that time (that I knew of).

I like to stick with my own gender in games nowadays, if I cannot be female I simply don't purchase the game. This is why I passed on Assassins Creed Unity. Couldn't be female playing multiplayer, I was looking forward playing that mode too unfortunately.

You're missing out on some good games because of this odd hangup. I understand preferring to play a role that you can best relate to, which is why I prefer games with character creation, but I wouldn't pass up on good games if I could only play the opposite gender. Horizon New Dawn is a good looking upcoming RPG that stars a redhead warrior woman (love redheads alright, alright, alright) and I'm interested in getting a PS4 and picking this up someday.

@Lysette
The Witcher 3 lives up to the hype of a story filled, rich RPG. I would love it if you could create your own Witcher instead of playing as Geralt but it seems like they may make a future game starring Ciri who's a female Witcher that you get to play as during various stages of the main quest. I recommend going into it like you're going into a book.

Thanks, I intended to buy the witcher 3 anyway, but you are right, maybe I should just see it like reading a book and immerse myself by empathy instead to try to identify with the character.

BlackSparrow

Chick who's got all chicks, here. It's cool to see how evenly the poll is spread!

Vigarr wrote: »

You're missing out on some good games because of this odd hangup. I understand preferring to play a role that you can best relate to, which is why I prefer games with character creation, but I wouldn't pass up on good games if I could only play the opposite gender. Horizon New Dawn is a good looking upcoming RPG that stars a redhead warrior woman (love redheads alright, alright, alright) and I'm interested in getting a PS4 and picking this up someday.

While I generally agree with you (there are plenty of games with male protags I love, like the early Assassin's Creed games, or Thief, or Infamous, or, yeah, Legend of Zelda and FFVII)... I'm sorry, but you don't really get how frustrating it is to see your gender be relegated to romantic interest or eye candy again and again and again. Don't call it an "odd hangup," because it is an entirely understandable hangup to get fed up with 90% of gaming media not representing you. The majority of gaming companies not only not cater to us... they don't even recognize us as a legitimate subset of gamers. So it's not odd at all to favor the games that do.

(Though it does seem to be getting better lately, so yay for that )