Voice Chat & Gender

Tomg999

Dumb question - I've never done voice chat (I'm on PC), but many of my characters are female & I'm male.
Should I only play my male chars in groups?
Will it be stupid if I'm playing a female character? What do people do?

RABIDxWOLVERINE

I think a ton of players have opposite sex characters. I'm sure some ppl will throw hate your way but just ignore them and play how you want. Most ppl wont care and definitely wouldn't say anything. A ton of the youtubers and podcasters have both gender characters. Even some of my friends in game do its really not a big deal.

Rohamad_Ali

Just be yourself in voice chat . Talk normal . Play whatever character you want .

Turelus

No one will mind nor care.

It's very common to have people play different gender characters from their own real life genders. As long as you haven't been pretending to be of the other gender previously on text chat then as said, no one will care.

Tomg999

Thanks for the advice.
I had made and leveled an old man character that would fit my voice..

Waffennacht

You only come into problems when you pretend to be a different gender and then get, "involved" with someone whom doesn't know your true identity. There was a really funny thread about that. Oh boy was he surprised when he found out whom exactly he had been chatting with...

But other than that, no one really cares, they might follow your toon around a bit more closely though...

Raventh

Waffennacht please tell me you have a link to that thread

Integral1900

Most of my characters are female nords, they remind me of my wife

No one really cares what gender you are, the tiny minority who do can simply be ignored

DaveMoeDee

Do you talk like an Orc when you are an Orc to not confuse people? TBH, I regularly finish grouping in dungeons without ever noticing the sex of the other 3 characters.

Waffennacht

Omg I can't believe I found it!

And I bet @Alucardo wish I hadn't lmfao! (Totally forgot it was @Alucardo!)
Lmao

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/231074/my-life-a-series-of-unfortunate-events/p1

@raventh there ya go

apostate9

Tomg999 wrote: »

Dumb question - I've never done voice chat (I'm on PC), but many of my characters are female & I'm male.
Should I only play my male chars in groups?
Will it be stupid if I'm playing a female character? What do people do?

Nope. Nobody bats an eyelid. Not in my guild, anyway.

KingKush

Never understood why, but it is very common for male players to create female characters in MMO's.

Danikat

The only time I could see it being a problem is if you're role-playing. I imagine it'd be harder to stay in character if your voice doesn't match your character at all, but for that reason I think a lot of people don't role-play over voice chat. Because it's not just different sex characters - significantly older or younger characters or ones who typically have a different accent would be difficult too - can you imagine a khajiit with a British accent, or an Australian nord for example?

But most of the time I don't think anyone really cares. Most people obviously aren't their character - none of us are orcs or elves or argonians or khajiit and even the ones playing the humans almost certainly don't look like their character. So I can't see it being a problem.

Runschei

You do you boii!

Sigtric

Everyone knows on the Internet girl=guy in real life.

Silliness aside, play whatever is fun. Most of my characters are male but my favorite is a female.

Vonovosi

Don't sweat it. We all know what MMORPG really stands for Many Men Online Role Playing Girls.

WhiteCoatSyndrome

Don't worry about it OP. I've had people be surprised when I was playing a SAME gender character and spoke in voice chat.

Waffennacht

Sometimes, because I do a really good Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation, I'll do that voice over chat. It seems to make people laugh

"Come on! We've got to get out of here! Argghhhh!"

zaria

Waffennacht wrote: »

You only come into problems when you pretend to be a different gender and then get, "involved" with someone whom doesn't know your true identity. There was a really funny thread about that. Oh boy was he surprised when he found out whom exactly he had been chatting with...

But other than that, no one really cares, they might follow your toon around a bit more closely though...

Had an episode with an teen in a f2p mmo, he thought I was female and tried to check me up.
I was in an small guild with him and gave him some tips who became an romance, he was shocked learning that lots of the ladies in the game had male players

lordhakai

KingKush wrote: »

Never understood why, but it is very common for male players to create female characters in MMO's.

My thought is if your a guy you dont want to be staring at a guys behind for hours while playing

Nordic_Pirate

lordhakai wrote: »

KingKush wrote: »

Never understood why, but it is very common for male players to create female characters in MMO's.

My thought is if your a guy you dont want to be staring at a guys behind for hours while playing

I've never understood this mentality in MMO's. 1) Does that mean you won't play a game with a male character if the game is in third person? 2) How insecure do you have to be in yourself to A) Question your sexuality based on a character played stare at any video game characters ass the entire time you play instead of focusing on...you know...the content.

Also, OP no one gives a F**k if you play a girl and you're a dude.

jlboozer

Just play what you want...character gender is a non-issue imo

Violynne

Tomg999 wrote: »

Dumb question - I've never done voice chat (I'm on PC), but many of my characters are female & I'm male.
Should I only play my male chars in groups?

Of course not.

Will it be stupid if I'm playing a female character?

Nope.

What do people do?

Nothing, because it's more common than you think.

Those who still believe a person's in game character is reflective of their actual life are those under the age of 16. And three adults.

Times have changed. I can't stress enough how much I do not miss the idiotic "A/S/L" messages I got for playing female characters online.

Though, I have to admit I do miss the shock when people hear a guy's voice boom into the game.

Idiots.

Dottzgaming

it's not stupid at all. a huge portion of the players that i play iwth are male irl but playing female characters.

if people do actually care, they arent the type of people you want to group with anyway