Female so far for ESO. When I played GW1 I had both male and female characters.

I am a male and I always play male characters.

Both. The character I want to play helps to define the sex and, to a degree, the appearance.

Both, since we get access to 8 characters.

I think I prefer to play female characters, presumably because I'm female. My first character in a game is usually female and my main is almost always female.

But I rarely have just 1 character in a game. I've got 6 (not counting mules) in ESO and they're split evenly - 3 male, 3 female. I didn't really plan that, I pick whichever sex seems right for the character I have in mind, but that's how it's worked out so far.

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Depends on the theme of the character.

I have an old woman that's got to be the rarest type.

I think it probably is. I have 2 older male characters - neither would appreciate being called old, but ones an imperial in his mid-50s and ones a dark elf who is over 700 years old so I think it's safe to say they're both older than the typical adventurer. But all my female characters are relatively young because that fit the backstories I had in mind for them best.

i find myself roleplaying extremely lesbian female characters in games nowadays; the only reason i can give you is the "i want to play games to be something that i'm not" shtick

i also recently played life is strange, which gave me a strange obsession with female protaganists

I'm a female and I have seven characters; six female, one male. I like all of them and will probably make another male, but I think I tend to make females more bc I'm one, and I like playing really badass female characters.

What I've found is that females ALWAYAS play female characters, they virtually never choose a male.

Males mix it up, some all female characters, some all male and some play a mix male and female characters (me).

Conclusion: guys are more "adventurous" than girls (vast majority who never choose a male character).

Edit: this is from the females I've met in game - guilds etc. Over 20 I'd estimate and not 1 of them had male characters although some in this thread do (which goes against what I'm saying).

All my characters are male. The idea of playing female characters is not appealing to me, first and foremost because I am male.

I'm male, I play both... I tend think of characters more as vehicles rather then strict reflections of myself. Sometimes you want a big sturdy truck, other times you want something fast, light and agile. Currently, 7 females and 5 males... sadly, only 2 have tails.

BTW, I got the "vehicle analogy" from my wife years ago, I let her play one of my characters on SWTOR and after a few minutes and questions, she said she felt like someone gave her the keys to a Ferrari and was deathly afraid "wreak it". I said it was more like a clapped out Datsun, repairs where cheep, drop the clutch, smoke the tires and don't spare the paint!

Mostly female. .7 to 3 ratio.