Which gender do you choose to play in-game and why?

smilingmaybe

Female

ZeroZero77 wrote: »

smilingmaybe wrote: »

One day shooters like Battlefield will finally realize there are lots of gamers who would like to play female toons....20+ years after MMOs figured that basic fact out.

They know, but Female Models dont grow on Trees

With the amount of art assets EA has for that engine spread out over a zillion games, they might not grow on trees, but they're hardly the titanic labor some seem to think it would be.

But, putting that aside, I'm pretty sure Battlefield's devs are on record saying the reason was because they didn't think players wanted to play as women.

Still, we're getting a bit off topic, so we'll just agree to disagree.

dovakiin5574

Both

I was actually impressed by the even split of boob plate versus woman armor. I really don't like boob plate which is why I normally don't play females in MMOs, but I think its important for those who do to be able to express that. Now for costumes, I would love to see sluttier men costumes and more conservative women's to make it more even I have 2 female characters and 8 males, soon to be 4/10. I am female IRL. I like some of my men slutty and some more masculine, same goes with the females. I know a lot of my guild mates feel the same, in particular, my favorite is my friend's slight bodied argonian male who enjoys dresses and skirts but still struts some nice manly horns.

HereKittehKitteh

Female

cos I am one and also I just don't like playing as males. Sometimes I try but that usually ends in me deleting the character and starting again XD

ElornaR

Female

I usually played female in other games because armors are better looking for them, but in ESO most armors are just plain ugly regardless who's wearing them. I just continued playing females out of habit.

Tsute

Both

In beta I had my male orc, Biggrin and my fem sorc, Tarja (yes from Nightwish). Surprisingly, modelling her face in ESO was fairly easy. Currently I have 3 male chars I regularly play and 2 fem. Didn't remake any chars I had from beta but pulled from other media. Some movie characters, one mother of dragons, and an image pulled out of a Luis Royo painting. So it's just whatever image is stuck in my head that I want to use in game.

Barbara73

Female

I play female because I am one, that being said we all know everyone thinks we are all 50 yo guys in mothers basement living on unemployment as it's a stereotypical labeling sort of world.

Karmanorway

Female

Females usually. Better to look at when u are playing for hours, and theres just something about powerful women ..

cyberjanet

Both

Games are not about making a mini-me. There are a lot of factors I take into consideration when creating a character, including race, class, armour choices, what they look like, how I want to play that character.

Bislobo

Male

Wise_Will wrote: »

Male, because i am a Male.

manustecta

Female

All my characters are female.Why? Beacuse females rules!

Minyassa

Male

Male so far just because all my toons are role-playing expies and I don't have very many major female rp characters and I only get a small number of character slots so the guys get priority.

Deedleqwerty

Female

Nine characters, all female. Five mains - a Stam Sorc, two Nightblades, and two Tanks.

Yeah, I'm a guy. And at 62, one of the older folks playing the game. I play female because I like the characters. I tell my guild mates that they're kind of women I like in real life - strong, smart and deadly.

I'll be playing my AD tank in Cyrodiil this weekend - PS4/NA. If you're a red or blue in Scourge, feel free to look me up; her name is Glory Violence, a tank that kills.

Balamoor

Male

Tranquil_Fairy wrote: »

I like to immerse myself in-game by trying to place my IRL self into the game.

You know it's crazy, my wife made a orc version of herself....it's amazing what you can do with the Character creator if you take your time and a have a bit of talent....me I look like a much sleazier version of Aaron Stanford in 12 Monkeys, definitely wasn't what I was going for.

Tomg999

Both

Both. I look at it as a writer would. Creating and living through a character is a way to experience this strange world of the game differently.
I know it's not me.

Bravesteel

Male

Tranquil_Fairy wrote: »

I like to immerse myself in-game by trying to place my IRL self into the game.

Same here, but in my case playing males.

Lavennin

Female

Keep_Door wrote: »

I play a female because if im going to look at a butt for hours on end it better be a girls butt.... i seriously hate when guys use that reasoning its so stupid as if they are trying to justify their characters gender choice and keep their masculinity intact, i didnt look but i bet there are some guys on here that gave that response lol.

But really who cares ...

I don't see what's wrong with that reasoning? You understand it's a very valid reason and usually the reason why a man plays a female character, if he does not RP?

Unless you think that implies you, by playing a male character and inevitably looking at a male's butt are less masculine? I don't see that implication personally.

I'm more annoyed by the whole "I'm a guy so I play a male character because I don't secretly want to be a girl." Like WTH.

MasterSpatula

Both

My main is female. She just sort of turned out to be the one I enjoy playing the most.

I've never understood people who have no problem playing a humanoid cat or a tall golden-skinned racist who shoots fireballs from his fingers and calls down lightning by waving a stick but balk at the idea of playing someone who has a hoo-ha instead of a peepee.

Raven69

Female

Ive always played the same thing female, elf of some variety and mage. For me, it feels more immersive for me to be the same gender as I am in real life.

Appleblade

Female

Male playing female because I want to. In every game possible.

I fully fess up to a "warrior female" fetish, and regret nothing.

Anyone not liking that can press lips to my glorious high elf max slider posterior dimension.

Danikat

Both

Something I'm always curious about when these topics come up: All the people who say you only play your own gender, because you don't want to pretend to be someone else or you find it hard to immerse yourself in the character if they're different to you or whatever - does that mean you also only make human characters? Never turn them into a werewolf or vampire? And you don't use any magic or supernatural abilities?

Because I'm guessing you're human in real life and you're not able to perform any type of magic (except the sleight of hand type maybe).

It seems strange to me, coming at it from the 'opposite' perspective, that none of that seems to bother anyone. No one finds it weird that I play a humanoid cat who can shoot fireballs from their hands. But if I'm female and that magic-cat is male? Woah! That's so weird and crazy!

Kiralyn2000

Female

Chrysa1is wrote: »

Male, because i'm a male, and I don't love anime.

?What does anime have to do with anything here? /confused

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re: the various "because I don't pretend/fantasize/whatever being a girl" answers...

So do you not read books with female character perspectives because you don't want to be a girl? Or don't move the queen in chess? Or watch movies with female protagonists?

Eh, I suppose it's just the age-old split between players who picture themselves as the character they're playing, and those who see themselves as an observer of the character they're playing. (Like I mentioned earlier, I am not my character - it is a character in a story/movie/etc that I'm sending it through. A game piece on a board. As you might imagine, I'm not much of an "RPer" I don't really believe in that "immersion" thing, either.)

macheezie

Male

I play a male character (as I am male) in RPG's about 99.9% of the time because I like to portray myself in each of these fantastical universes.

There was this one time when I played as a female character in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic because I was able to get her to look EXACTLY like Lara Croft and I was pretty proud of myself.

To each their own though! As long as you're having fun.

Talrol

Female

Because I like to be able to dress my characters pretty. Not saying that you can't dress a man handsomely, but there's just something about dressing my female characters and getting compliments on the colors I use on the outfits.

beetleklee

Both

I'm female, but I play both male and female characters. I like creating characters, giving them personalities n' stuff.

Alchemical

Both

I play Argonians, which don't have a lot of sexual dimorphism to begin with, unless you really crank that chest slider. But pretty much what most said. Create a concept for a character, make it based on that. It doesn't need to be an RP thing, it can just be an aesthetic thing.

People who can't get 'immersed' in a character if they don't have the same reproductive organs are silly. The human (or lizardman) condition is something that can be universally understood.

PlagueSD

Both

I don't discriminate...

Onefrkncrzypope

Both

I have two males the rest are females. I play girls in most games because guy sounds are just inappropriate

ThePrinceOfBargains

Isn't there already a new version of this topic?

Theosis

Male

been hit on by to many dudes actually thinking I'm some hot chick..

I may or may not look like the guy from the south park episode..

SilverPaws

Female

Because i am one and i like to put myself in the game.