I'm a woman in real life and chose "both".

My first - and main - character in any game that allows me to choose is female because that's the character I try and model after myself, making the choices I would, essentially as much of a self-insert as I can within reason. A power fantasy, if you will. Khajiit is also my favorite race in Elder Scrolls games, so my first is a female Khajiit Nightblade stamtank.

I have one other female character I made that I haven't really played much and honestly might replace with something different. All my other alts are male - another Khajiit, an Argonian, and an Altmer. Might make a Dunmer one day, too, and probably male again. Not sure why I gravitate towards males for the other runs. I just get a character idea in my head to RP and choose whatever class and gender feels like "them".

I also play in first person, so none of my decisions are ever about what butt I'll be seeing on the screen. LOL That always seems like an odd reason to me regardless of the gender of the player. For the guys who say "I'd rather stare at a lady's butt", does this mean you can't get into other games that have a forced male protagonist because "oh noes, dude butt"? Just seems odd.

Almost all of my characters in this game are female, because I am one. I identify more with my female characters for certain.

But I usually keep one or two male toons around to dress up and use when I’m in the mood to play from a different perspective. Of my many Skyrim characters, about half were female and half were male. I always chose male followers.

I play both because I don't have to worry about gender locked classes being in ESO that's a good thing on ZoS.

Coz I roleplay me in Tamriel xD

JinMori wrote: »

LadyAstrum wrote: »

I play females....I can't play males. I find myself feeling bored. I couldn't play Witcher for this reason. I guess I project myself partially onto my character, and although I was a bit of a tomboy as a child, I grew up to be feminine and that's how I like my characters to be: powerful, but strong in their feminine energy.

What?

I would assume that it's the gameplay that bores someone, the gender of the character should just be a preference.

[Snip].

But even if i did a female character, i would never consider the gameplay boring, because of it, the gameplay has nothing to do if you play as a male or a female.

Oh, and i also prefer the look males have when wearing armor.

Oh, and you are missing out by not playing the witcher 3, awesome game.


[Edited to remove baiting]

I'm not here to debate how I feel. What I choose to play, and what I choose not to play is entirely my choice.

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Mettaricana wrote: »

11 female characters i find it boring to play males in mmos... also 2000 hours later wont be watching a mans butt as i run through questing since 90% of eso is spent staring at your own characters back side

90%

This is why you run into walls.

If you were wondering.

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

My magicka characters are female.
My stamina characters are male.

Pretty conservative, yeah I know... it's just that it's how I like them

It's the same thing for me too.

all my magic toons are male, while all my stamina toons are female

I play all female characters apart from a couple of male argonians...

Mostly male characters on account of being male in real life, but I have more than one female character. Based largely on concept.