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

vamp_emily

Female

I was in another thread and someone said I should create a character named, "Emily has balls".

Then I started thinking, maybe I should create a man character named, "Emily has balls" for all those guys that whisper me and say things like, "I've never met a man named Emily before".

I think that would be funny

Shardan4968

Male

I have very original reason, why I choose male. Because I'm male.

OrphanHelgen

Both

My stamina chars are males, and magicka chars are females

Cheveyo

Female

Females look better.

Son-of-the-Desert

Male

Because I am one blyat

MythicEmperor

Both

FLuFFyxMuFFiN wrote: »

My characters have transcended beyond your silly little gender classifications. They are both male and female but also neither male nor female.

Yes, silly biology. When has science ever proven to be true?

MarXmaN1776

Male

Whats a gender?

GiuEliN0

Female

ArchMikem wrote: »

Being a Male, Females are more interesting to me as i stand outside the window looking in. I get to experience visual scenarios of girls in various situations and scenery that in real life are otherwise restricted to my gender and manly perspective. In the game i get to immerse in the perspective of a female.

....also girls are nice to look at.

i agree and i'm a male obv

starkerealm

Both

MarXmaN1776 wrote: »

Whats a gender?

A kind of goose that will chase you, honking loudly, then try to rip your face off. You know, like every other kind of goose.

Xariz

Male

Male because I'm a male.

ZeroZero77

Both

Both, because my Team is a Group of friends.

And some women, someone need to do all that work

Elsonso

Both

starkerealm wrote: »

MarXmaN1776 wrote: »

Whats a gender?

A kind of goose that will chase you, honking loudly, then try to rip your face off. You know, like every other kind of goose.

Psst. That's a "gander".

Slyjinxy

Female

Female because I'm female.

Victoria_Marquis

Female

Female, they get better and more clothing options, can make most of the races good looking, more sparkly accessories.

It's very hard to make a cute bishi boy in the character creation. I like my boys to look Emo-Goth rocker boys. Most of the male races are as ugly as sin. Though I have had some success with imperial, wood elf, and Nords. Oh and Kajiits.
Raz is hot, you know Queen Aaryne is getting some of that =^,.,^=

Calsifer

Female

As a male IRL, I would rather spend my time watching a female tooshie all day long as I run from place to place. And to be honest, the animators did a WONDERFUL job.

XxBradeyxX

Male

I always try to make a funny looking character,which is so much easier on a male than a female

TheBonesXXX

Both

Some races look cooler male, others female.

Avalon

Female

I'm sure it has been said already, in some form, but, I don't find men attractive (being one myself), and if I am going to spend countless hours over time staring at a figure dead center (or just off to the side of center) of my screen, I want it to be aesthetically pleasing. Plus, generally, one or two things (or both) happen: developers decide to make guys look oafish, exaggerated, and horrible (Like original WoW human men looked, not sure about now), or, because I am not attracted to men, I don't know how to make them look good, so, I don't play them usually.

Otoh, I know how to make female characters that look awesome, and know how to make non-humans look cool (but I don't count playing a male argonian as actually 'male', it's a lizard to me, well, actually, an Iksar, but W/E lol)

Cyn_v84

Female

Female. Male doesn't sit well for some reason...

Night_Watch

When we create a character and start it in game we could equate that to the birth of the character. In real life, the gender of a person is not necessarily equal to whether they are born male or female. This could be said to be true (to a virtual measure) of our in game characters.

The word 'character' in itself should not be used as an indication of our offline personality! We may choose to play as a male or a female character just as we may choose to play some 'race' that looks more human such as an imperial or a feline or lizard like 'race'. Either way the in game character is, by no measure, who we are out of the game. As much as we may like to put ourselves 'in the shoes of' our in game character, the character is virtual not real and playing the game is just that - playing (we could say play acting).

Back to the question. I could say that I play Mx as I cannot see the gender of any virtual rendering of a character, no matter how realistic or male or female it looks, as anything other than neutral*.


EDIT: *Of course that would be virtually neutral as any in game character is only real in a virtual way!

Kiralyn2000

Female

Night_Watch wrote: »

Back to the question. I could say that I play Mx as I cannot see the gender of any virtual rendering of a character, no matter how realistic or male or female it looks, as anything other than neutral.

Which visual form/rendering do you prefer for your neutral characters, then?

Night_Watch

Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

Night_Watch wrote: »

Back to the question. I could say that I play Mx as I cannot see the gender of any virtual rendering of a character, no matter how realistic or male or female it looks, as anything other than neutral.

Which visual form/rendering do you prefer for your neutral characters, then?

I would have thought that obvious from the previous post I made - neither. Each is equally (and virtually) neutral.

When I start a new character it can be male looking or female looking depending on whatever comes to mind during creation of the character. This is still only a choice of how the character looks and has absolutely no bearing on gender.

Edit: tidy up and correction of accidentally posted other edit!

Valor

Both

I'm 4/4 myself but my main is a male magblade named Jacob who likes wearing that miniskirt outfit. Personally I think it shows off his back muscles well which is why I wear it. Still, like many people here have likely said, the gender of my characters doesn't matter to me as long as I feel invested in them. That said, one of my low level ladies is about to be deleted to make room for her Warden clone. Cause bear.

subtlezeroub17_ESO

Male

Male . For some reason I never last long with female goons before I reroll. Plus, the guys can be made super attractive.

stabbykitteh

Both

Both - but I play more female (like me) than male generally.

Triumviri

Female

As a male I play a female... Just don't want to stare at a dude avatars butt while I am running around.

Fuz

Did you just assume my character's gender?

Kali_Despoine

Both

Being a man who like females I have to say looking a a chicks butt is far better than looking at a dudes butt.

Sosderosii

Male

Male but he identifies as a hist tree. Crazy Khajiit...

Chrysa1is

Male

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