Male or Female?

emilyhyoyeon

I think female bodies look way better than male bodies, so I only play female characters in every game I can

BlueViolet

I think that the armour and clothing in the game usually looks better on a male character - especially considering they fashion their armour on male torso's and just chuck a pair of boobs on it when making for females.

Being female, I have nearly all female characters with 2 exceptions - a male Khajiit and a male Orc. It took me a while to get used to the male running animations, they kind of seemed ungainly to me, but I especially love my Khajiit, he's awesome.

Kesstryl

I mainly play female characters because I'm female, but I do have a male alt in this game. In other games, if the females are given armor and costumes that are too slutty, I will roll male alts instead. Honestly they are characters to me, not really so much extensions of myself. It's like I'm looking over the shoulder of a character I'm following, like in a book. I have no issues with playing opposite alt genders or people that do so.

Egonieser

Astrid_V wrote: »

I prefer to play as female cause I'm female in real life. Also female characters usually looks better in games than males, and have better armors/costumes.

Opinions, opinions... You haven't seen my Imperial yet.. It's a eye opener no mistake.

SirAndy

Floki_Vilgerdarson wrote: »

Do you prefer to play as a male or female character?

Yes ...

Kildayen

I play a male because if I played a female I'd be too busy cleaning the kitchen, washing the dirty laundry, and cooking dinner for my man.

/hide /snicker /lol

AhPook_Is_Here

All of my characters are gender-non-conforming. Who wants to be oppressed by gender roles these days anyway?

Kay1

Astrid_V wrote: »

I prefer to play as female cause I'm female in real life. Also female characters usually looks better in games than males, and have better armors/costumes.

But not in this game.

In this game the males looks badass, have nice postures, they carry weapons like alpha males and run and use skills like they are Greek gods.

I swear the male animations are so good in this game compared to others games where they are horrible *cough*gw2*cough*.

EvilCroc

I'm a male and prefer to play female characters. I do not know how to make handsome male character. They are all ugly for me. I do not like males, really.
I still have 4 male toons. 1 ugly male orc tank, 1 imperial, 1 redguard :tanks and 1 Dunmer dd. Do not like their visuals.
But I have pretty female main and 7 alts of different races. They are nice.

Robisok74

Male because I'm male

Lynx7386

Typically my casters are female and my fighters are male.

LadyDestiny

I an female but play both.

SydneyGrey

I've been playing all female toons in ESO. I'm female, and just feel closer to the characters when they're female, too.
In a previous Elder Scrolls game (Oblivion, I think), once I did play a male character, and had fun making him the opposite of myself. He was a giant bearded Nord with tattoos. I liked him for a while, but I identify more with the female characters.

Catulo

I'm male and all of my characters are male, probably because I'm gay.

randomkeyhits

Both,

occasionally I may do all male in a game or all female, mood dictates.

First time I did the latter sort of did it as a charles (censored correct word???) angels thing with me as charlie, safe at home sending my employees into all sorts of dangerous situations. Equality is a great thing.

Sometimes I really identify with a toon and to this day have absolutely no idea why. Some of my favourites started life as pack mules but for whatever reason ended up with the majority of play time.

Duiwel

All 12 my characters are male, one looks identical to me ( Augustus Septim ), the others have all been given a lot of time for customization to be as perfect as I wanted them to be. I often deleted characters into the level 10''s-20's if I found that I made an imperfection.

The worst part was if you spent 10-20mins on character customization and after making it you realised you didn't change the alliance by accident and after you enter the prison you knew you had to delete that char again.

On my second account I made a female once to see how attractive I could make her, was impressed by the game. Then deleted her and I made most characters on that account beast races just to push my creativity.

Darkstorne

Avran_Sylt wrote: »

If I'm Tanking, male. Bulkier, and a bias that bigger is better in Tanking.
If I'm an Assassin, female. Slender frame, and a bias that women are more flexible (acrobatic).
If I'm a Fighter, I don't care.

That's interesting, because it's EXACTLY the reason I do the opposite. Female tanks in heavy armour kicking ass, and male mages in light robes being all frail on the back lines. Anything that breaks tradition looks way more interesting to me, and that's something ESO offers in spades with all the different character builds. My main is a female StamSorc in medium armour swinging around a greatsword, but I have a mix of male and female characters.

Betheny

This thread again.

I'm female, so I play female characters. If I want manly I'll roll a female Orc.

teladoy

I have 50 and 50% male and female. We live in a world where woman's and men's are equals.

Arundo

Male, because i'm a dude.

Molydeus

Male. I can't find any joy from playing as a female character. I tried but I just can't get into the idea. I'm a man, so that's what I play as.

Mayanpup

I play female because I would rather look at Female T&A than Male T&A

Seriously I just enjoy the idea of strong females that "Kick ass and take names"

Axoinus

In real life, I'm an androgynous lizard that was raised by a small group of wild cats. So for a change of pace, I only play male humans.

HatchetHaro

I'm a male, I play a male Argonian, and I put him in skimpy outfits and oogle at him all day.

onemoredragon

Playing both genders being a female, I don't really associate myself with my characters but just treat them as my buddies, I'd say. Travel companions, fellow adventurers Sometimes even having ''mom's feelings'' towards them xD

But I enjoy my girls wearing heavy armor and being tanks, and my boys mostly as mages/thieves. Made a DK male tank recently though, for a change. For a Warden I'd probably go both genders too.

altemriel

Floki_Vilgerdarson wrote: »

Do you prefer to play as a male or female character? Why?

female, because she is hot .

failkiwib16_ESO

Most of the games I like don't give me the option to play female characters, or the classes/types of characters in the game I wish to play are not females... so whenever I can, I enjoy creating female characters. I do own male chars in ESO btw. it's not that I only play one gender xD

Saints Row 3 and 4, Skyrim and ESO have been pretty much the only games I have played, where I could freely choose my gender.
....Saints Row games did it best to be honest, I mean it allowed me to costumize the hell out of my character, and I loved it so much

AcadianPaladin

I have really only one character and she is a small, magically inclined elf. So it has been for me across several games for well over a decade. I am not her - I travel with her and she is a dear friend. ESO is her current home.

I guess the origins of her gender spawn from Diablo II where playing a mage or mystic archer type character class dictated her gender.

I've tried other characters of both genders but this one is so much a part of me that any others just don’t feel natural. What we are able to do is manifest her in ESO as both a magplar (healer) and a magsorc (pets/dps) – but her heart in ESO is primarily in the magplar.

Tomg999

I have a bunch of chars, maybe 2/3 Female 1/3 male (I'm male IRL).
I'm not a RPer, but I look at it kind of like a writer. I create characters and follow them through their adventures.

TrueGreenSmoker

Mainly Male but my templar on NA and EU are female I don't know why lol. I made my EU AD Sorc a female too I never played sorc as a female so this will be new I guess??