What are your character(s) Gender?

waterfairy

BlackSparrow wrote: »

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 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 )

I understand what you're saying and why you would feel that way but the thing that was odd to me about her post was that she really wanted to play a game but avoided it because she couldn't play as a female.

Aisle9

ALL

Zerok

5 males, 1 Argonian female (that I use a a mule)

Next female I create is going to be a Khajiit.

Tryxus

Male, since they're all the same person

Although...

Nah, not going there

Ilsabet

All female. That's how I roll.

theher0not

1 male khajiit NB vampire (crafter)
1 female khajiit NB WW (main) though I will probably cure the WW since I never use it anymore

BlackSparrow

Vigarr wrote: »

I understand what you're saying and why you would feel that way but the thing that was odd to me about her post was that she really wanted to play a game but avoided it because she couldn't play as a female.

I see your point, but I still have to protest against you calling it "odd." Hate to say it, but it's not. I know plenty of women who feel this way, especially regarding games like AC: Unity, which specifically has four characters to choose from, yet someone in development made the conscious decision not to make any of them female. "For animation reasons" iirc. Because being male is the default state of personhood and all that.

Not saying I don't agree with you--some of my favorite games have a male protagonist--just that it's inaccurate to call it "odd." XD

Ravinsild

I have all males. I'm not very good at females names.

Avalon

Anhedonie wrote: »

I've seen Vivec in the most uncomfortable positions...

What, like the back of a Volkswagen?

Seratopia

Vigarr wrote: »

BlackSparrow wrote: »

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 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 )

I understand what you're saying and why you would feel that way but the thing that was odd to me about her post was that she really wanted to play a game but avoided it because she couldn't play as a female.

BlackSparrow you pretty much summed up what I wanted to say. Thank you for understanding.

My post is odd because I avoid purchasing (supporting) games that I feel doesn't try to appeal to female gamers? We do exist. Take Assassins Creed Unity for an example. They were going to add in female models to play as in multiplayer but took it out. Read this guy's quote from the production team: (I can link an article reference if needed)

“It was on our feature list until not too long ago, but it’s a question of focus and production. So we wanted to make sure we had the best experience for the character. A female character means that you have to redo a lot of animation, a lot of costumes. It would have doubled the work on those things… And I mean it’s something the team really wanted, but we had to make a decision. It’s unfortunate, but it’s a reality of game development.”

That really speaks to me as a buyer and player of the franchise. I don't think I need to elaborate on why here.

I don't hate on games that just have male characters but that's something I had enough of. I can stick with watching my boyfriend play those, I don't mind. I enjoy watching him play them. Games like Resident Evil do it right (or the ones I've played), and even The Last of Us, sure the main lead is the dude but there are times where the game switches to the girl's point of view. (Boyfriend let me play those parts while he played the guys)

It's just buyer's preference. Nothing "odd" here.

Lucious90

dwtdwtdwt wrote: »

I have a Khajiit Nighblade, assigned male. A total Cisgender misogynist a-hole.
I have a Redguard Dragonknight, assigned male. Now gender fluid, non-binary, Androgyne.
I have a Breton Sorcerer, assigned female. Now is Female-to-Male, Transmale.
I have a Breton Templar, assigned male. Now is gender questioning, Pangender, Neutrois, Two-Spirit, Gender-nonconforming, demisexual.
I have a Nord Templar, assigned female. Cis female prom queen.
I have an Orc Templar, assigned male. Now is intersex, gender fluid.
I have a Bosmer Sorceress, assigned male. Now is Transwoman, Male-to-Female, Polygender.
I have a Breton Nightblade, hermaphrodite.

And if you don't let them use the bathroom they want, or don't respect and use the pronouns they identify with, then you will be reported and banned for life.

This game me cancer and joy at the same time

Asmael

• More females than males

Hnnng... I'm so bad at making good-looking males.

Except for khajiits. I luff cats

Arato

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.

as a male I had 0 issues playing Samus or Lara Croft. I mean they're all characters used in a narrative (or relative lack of Narrative in Samus' case, just a setting), not a self insert.

Now on the other hand, I struggle to read books written by female authors. There's a lot in their voice and writing style that I can't relate to in the characters. I'd find it more weird that females can read Tolkien and George RR Martin and Robert Jordan, than play Mario or Link.

When I tried to read Anne McCaffrey or Mary Stewart, I just couldn't get into them.

Ryuuhime

I have all females right now... Deleted all my failed males.

I play males a lot in other games but can't for the life of me make a decent looking one in ESO. They always turn out looking weird or somehow "wrong".

Ravinsild

Ryuuhime wrote: »

I have all females right now... Deleted all my failed males.

I play males a lot in other games but can't for the life of me make a decent looking one in ESO. They always turn out looking weird or somehow "wrong".

Now I'm self conscious that all of my male characters look like crazy people.

Nestor

The Gender of my character means nothing to me personally. However it means something to the character I play. I don't set out to play one gender or another, but in developing the character, I will make a decision one way or the other to fit the role I have for them.

Arato

I just find it natural to me in an RPG to enjoy playing both male and female characters, of many different races and backgrounds and archetypes. That's what makes RPG's interesting to me, exploration and variety

I'm thrust into a magical world with a rich history and diverse population of many distinctly different races. To limit myself to only being Imperial Male because I'm a human male IRL? Seems like I'm eliminating a huge portion of the fun of being in this non real fantasy world. Here I'm given a chance to be someone else other than myself, I get to be myself in a mundane world for 16+ hours a day, why not be someone else for a little bit every once in awhile?.

captainwolfos

Eight lads, eight ladies.

At least until I can afford to get some crowns for the extra slots, then it'll be twelve lads, twelve ladies.

Lumenn

I have all male characters. Several psychology college courses and raising two daughters I'm perfectly comfortable in my sexuality, I can read books from a females point of view(even went through Judy blume and the twighlight series to make sure they're appropriate for my daughter at that age) but those stories are already made and you kinda follow along. A character I'VE created and leveling I'm creating his story from my point of view. As I'm putting myself in the story I just can't get "into" the character from a females point of view.

Recremen

A lot of guys and a few No Thank You's, though that does not seem to be an option on the poll.

ShedsHisTail

Okay... are we talking gender or sex here?

The question is gender... The poll options are biological sex.
They're not the same thing.

Methariorn

All male; I canìt bring myself to play a female toon

Travestynox

@phaneub17_ESO Where's the option for Gents since you have one for Ladies?

sentientomega

I'm female (don't let the name fool you, a legacy from when I first joined a male-dominated internet world, blending in was a must), and gay, and like quite a few others, playing male characters has never done it for me. I always played Peach in Mario Kart, for one. Wherever possible, I always made someone to resemble me IRL, they were always my main, and ESO is definitely no exception.

Of my 24 characters, all are female in gender, 22 are muscular hunks no younger than 29, and the two who are not so powerfully built are my main, a Breton of age 20 who resembles the IRL me, and my sneaky little Bosmeri thief of the same age, who is basically the dark side of me.

If we ever get even more character slots, I've pretty much got those characters that'll occupy them formed in my mind.

karmamule

All (non-betmer) males because I can't go without that max-posterior-slider eye candy.

BlackguardBob

lol I misread "50/50" as being gender benders. Wtf! My bad.

Moonscythe

7 sisters and a grandfather

JamieAubrey

From top to bottom of sig

Female/Male/Female/Female/Male/Male/Female/Male

So 50/50

LeDave

I'm a male playing a male toon.

waterfairy

ShedsHisTail wrote: »

Okay... are we talking gender or sex here?

The question is gender... The poll options are biological sex.
They're not the same thing.

Gender=sex as defined by a proper dictionary, it's the modern interpretation of gender that has added new meaning to the word just as "gay" used to mean happy years ago but now implies homosexuality.