Who cares its a video game man lol

I guess my opinion is there are different beliefs and characteristic to everyone.

Sometimes it's nice to play a character that is the opposite gender to your being. People have a range of reasons, but the reason I made my NB (she has been lvl 15 for months collecting dust at the moment) is because her combat style/animations and sneak, etc look quite cool, kinda like Lara Croft or something. and I couldn't care less about the gender of the player, because if one's done their research, they'll find that gender is irrelevant on a metaphysical & fundamental level.

Many Men Role Playing Girls

As long as you get through the dungeon IDC

willymchilybily wrote: »

Some classes seemed more "girly" to me so have male and female characters, but my friend can't play a game as a female. Played warframe and he wouldn't play any of the female war frames even though some were badass

So I know there are people who think it weird and take it to extremes. But I do worry they are either insecure or taking immersion to a whole new level.

I played Nova she was beast

I'm a female, I mostly play females character that I customize to make them pretty - cute -innocent and pure. My ideal version of feminity. And if I was a guy, I'd fall in love with them!

I also have a male character. He is not looking like the man I'd fantasy upon. But represent sort of what I'd like to be if I was a man. So he is very manly, and fierce, and strong. When I play him, I feel super badass and its a nice feeling.

"A cat is fine too."

People who can't be creative without bringing their fragile gender roles into it weren't very creative to begin with.

It's fiction. Have fun. Or, if you want a social credit system based on the state-sponsored good choices you and your social network are making, go to China. World's big enough for all types.

Acrolas wrote: »

People who can't be creative without bringing their fragile gender roles into it weren't very creative to begin with.

It's fiction. Have fun. Or, if you want a social credit system based on the state-sponsored good choices you and your social network are making, go to China. World's big enough for all types.

You overanalysed it methinks. Choosing your own gender is a choice as much as choosing the opposite gender. If I can't immerse myself as well as a female character it has nothing to do with fragile gender roles or lack of creativity lol.

mr1sho wrote: »

Who cares its a video game man lol

dday3six wrote: »

I seriously couldn't care less what gender a players rolls.

These people know, they do.

Anhedonie wrote: »

"A cat is fine too."

Yes, a cat is damn fine. Oddly enough, when I play as humans/elves, it's categorically female, because as a woman, I relate to them better. I guess. I don't know really. I just roll them and I'm happy.

But my two Khajiit are males.

There. Feel free to analyze that.

Casdha wrote: »

I generally play male characters, but I tend to make them with plenty of Hair and fit as a fiddle. If I used a bald head and a beer belly, well that wouldn't be fantasy anymore, would it

Haha, I hear ya on that one!

Truth be told, old "WldKarde" always has a bald head...I must admit that I do edit out the beer belly though

I play a lizard in game, because in real life I'm... uh-oh, Illuminati confirmed.

As a guy I play both but generally lean towards female characters in games.

there is an old idea that if you play a girl your not manly, or confused about your sexuality or something. This is usually not the case, that said in Live action games or table top I never play a female because that is much more an extension of yourself. In my life I have only met two people that played as females in a live action setting, one was in fact gay but was not confused about it (still made people uncomfortable though) and the other was just being silly and that was obvious too.

for me it depends on the role of the character, I lean towards sneaky agility based characters and women are characterized as being smaller and more nimble, they also often have a smaller appearance even if it does not effect the hitbox. and as someone who is obsessed with style, appearance, and symmetry they often have a better artistic style because of the common hourglass figure and more interesting clothing options as they usually get everything guys can wear plus what only girls should wear (orc dudes in dresses aside), where as guys are a box with sticks poking off of it who generally should not wear what girls wear.

I also have a much more easy time disassociating myself from and roleplaying as a female character, because its obviously not me, so what is her personality? the same can be said for beast races. if I play a human male that looks similar to me I will imprint myself upon it and it will become an extension of myself rather then a character.

and finally its a matter of exclusivity, when I started playing it was with a bunch of guys, who because of old ideas would not play female characters because it was "weird" or "wrong". so I played as a female character because it made me unique, slowly but surely they wanted to be special too and started making female characters. now these days it the reverse, there all playing female characters so I made a male, we also have more women playing who play mainly female characters.

its just a society and comfort thing, its not a problem for some and really awkward for others and neither is right or wrong just different.

however if you start pretending to be a girl to go along with your character THEN it gets weird.