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

Voxicity

Male

Because I'm a guy and don't fantasize about being a girl

GabiAlex

Both

I like to play both genders and create a back story for every character and a personality of his/her own during the game play. Sometimes I'm doing it on single player games also because in some RPGs the NPCs will react differently regarding your character gender.

Usually my first character is male, this game is one of the few exceptions, or maybe not because during CBT I played like a male nord that is lost now, I think, and got replaced by a bosmer female (last character played in Skyrim).

I'm a straight male. My female characters will always have very feminine names (Zoey, Bella, Delora, Reba, Daisy etc). Sometimes when I'm playing a female character a horny dude will try to hit on me and depending on my mood I'll use that to troll him a bit or I'll just tell him that I have lots of hair on my chest.

Bonus: in other MMO a dude asked if I want to be his girlfriend, I've told him that's I'm a dude, but he still insisted to pretend to be his girlfriend....

Bonus2: in another MMO, another dude thought that I was a woman even that I was playing a male character. Anyway, I've meet some girls that were playing both genders so yeah, the person that control that bunch of pixels in front of you can be anyone.

Robo_Hobo

Both

Both. Whenever I think of a new character to make I try to think of their personality and a bit of their backstory first. In the process I decide their gender, sometimes subconciously.

JamieAubrey

Both

I have 4/4 my main is female because I'm never good at naming and wanted to create a younger Vex from TG

Skayaq

Both

I have characters of both genders, I choose the gender based on what I think is the best fit for the character I have in mind.

tplink3r1

Male

No attack helicopter option? Reported for hate speech!

mb10

Male

Male because i am one lol and easier to RP a male's personality for me too

Keep_Door

Male

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 ...

bottleofsyrup

Both

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 ...

Totally agree. Who sits and stares at their character's ass anyway? Most armor you couldn't see it anyway because of butt/crotch flaps...

Enslaved

Male

I make my chars to somewhat identify with them, hence I play only as male.

Inerar

Both

I'm playing both. 5 male and 3 female from different classes and races. The first charater i created is a dunmer male and i feel like it's me. But it's not a problem playing other genders. It shouldn't be i think. I feel like they're a family all together. When i'm playing with any alt character i feel like, i'm playing for him/her. Not for myself. So, when you think like that, your characters becomes more real. Because you respect their ownselves, you can feel like they've their own worlds. Yes they're still part of you but it's a friend of you too now

Reverb

Both

At launch I started with 2 characters that were replicas of my fave toons from beta, a male Templar and a female DK. I've continued to split them, and now have 5 of each.

code65536

Both

I have 12 playable characters (i.e., not dedicated mules) across two accounts.

• 5 females (all vet-level, including my main)
• 7 males (3 vet-level, 4 non-vets that are slated for future leveling)

DoccEff

Both

Humans, Khajit and Argonian > male
Elves -> female
Simply because I like the looks better. That's also the reason why I don't play an orc.

DocFrost72

Both

I RP a fair bit, so I have tons of toons across two accounts. The male or female model doesn't really matter much to me in terms of preference, and it matters even less when I'm wearing plate

Rawst

Both

Out of my eight characters only two are female, and one of them is an old, fat, ugly vampire lizard. The age slider and the fatness slider were both maxed out on her. (She's my fav tho, and the one I'm the proudest of, real fun to play, even made an elaborate little backround story for her.) The other female is an Imperial hottie.

Ulfberht

Male

Male, because I am a male.

OlafdieWaldfee

Male

I like to watch sexy male characters doing feats of heroism.

JKorr

Female

Female, because I can. From the early days shortly after Pong, you really had no choice about your character's gender. If you wanted to play games, you were the default character, usually always male [until Samus changed things up].

Abeille

Female

I play as female characters in every game I can, if it makes no difference.

But I don't make characters who look like me, I just want them to be of my gender because female video game characters were few and far apart when I was growing up.

Nemeliom

Male

Because I'm a man. No other reason. But I'm not against people playing with other gender.

TruthSeeker

FoolishHuman wrote: »

BlanketFort wrote: »

Because I am one and never felt comfortable playing a male character. Except when I can't help it, like in many single-player games.

Pretty much the same for me, I just can't put myself into a male character, feels weird.

∆This

Rosveen

Both

Both. Because I can.

It's not some personal rule, though. If I play a game just once, I usually play as female. If I replay it, it can go either way: Commander Shepard is always female (male Shep is just... wrong), the Courier always male, in previous TES games I had dozens of starkly different characters. I create whatever character I feel like playing at the moment.

EldritchPenguin

Female

While it is true that you can't spell "sexy" without "XY," badass women are just characters that have always really spoken to me.

BlackSparrow

Female

All female, mostly because I am female and it's always felt a bit odd to run around a multiplayer environment as a guy. In single-player games, I play guys all the time, but for some reason, MMOs are different. *shrug*

KimberlyannKitsuragi

Female

Tranquil_Fairy wrote: »

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

I'm the same way

Anti_Virus

Male

I identify as a male attack helicopter.

lygerseye

Female

Male playing female characters. I don't play "as" female, I'm still a guy playing a game, but I care more about a character if they are female. Seems strange when I put it into words, but I think I feel more protective of them, more invested in them, and therefore fight better. I also like that females can be just as badass as the male characters; everyone's on a level field.

AuldWolf

Male

I'm of very androgynous gender myself -- to the point where occasionally I'll identify as male but more often I'll just shrug -- so I don't tend to limit myself to one gender in most games. In Guild Wars 2, I played as a lot of charr women. I find myself playing men in ESO though because the women can't be buffed up to the amount that men can, this is especially worse when heavy armour shrinks the musculature of limbs (no, really, it does, look at the Old Orcish Sentry outfit which is the worst of the lot).

And it's a shame, really. ESO allows for a lot of great things -- small breasts, a large bottom, being fat, and other factors which most MMOs overlook. This I celebrate, and I'll cheer them on for that. The gender dimorphism though is shameful, since you can't really make a buff woman, most of the time. The only race that really has reduced gender dimorphism is the khajiit, but if you look at, say, the orcs? It's really bad. I'd considered playing women, but... I can't buff them up enough.

It's bothering my partner a lot, too, as she wants to play a buff woman. She's losing her investment in ESO and, well, if she goes? I go. We've both lost a lot of interest in the game, though, so I can't imagine we'll be around for long. Not a dramatic notice of "I'm leaving the game!" but more a statement of fact that it'll happen eventually. Does with everyone, right? We've been pretty loyal up until this point, though, and we've spent a lot of money on this game. We've probably 'given back' more than we've taken with ESO. A lot more.

So, yes... I would play women more, but they're just egregiously lanky and unable to be buff. They really should fix that. They won't, but they should. It'd be nice.

SublimeSparo

Female

Boobs and bums. The end.