I'm male and I have both male and female characters. The main reason that in RPG female characters are better looking and have better looking armor and clothing.

I also have background stories on all my characters. The females often have stronger personalities and powers and they can have darker and sinister ones then the male stories. Both male and females have their strengths and weaknesses so they need each other.

I swing both ways. Why limit yourself with just one type?

I play almost all female characters (all are grils cept my templar healer) because I am female. I relate to the characters more.

I'm a guy, and my main is always an idealized version of myself.

But I do have a few female toons (4 out of 10, to be exact). When I create a character, I ALWAYS start with an RP concept first. All of the other details fit into that overall pattern, including gender.

For example, I'm a huge fan of the Moth Priests and one of my toons is built around that idea. I also liked the precogs from Minority Report, so I got my toon as visually close to Agatha as possible.

So, for me, I have to say gender is just one small detail that has to fit into my character concept. I just go with what makes sense.

I play both male and female characters, I normally choose gender base don the concept of who I think the character is.

Curse of a roleplayer, every character has to make sense.

because I'm a hetrosexual male playing a game in 3rd person perspective.

give me the choice of looking at a female butt or a male butt and the female wins out every time.

tactx wrote: »

Many female characters in game with the most feminine outfits and names, all the details with lipstick, personality, etc. are played by guys. My wife asked me why do so many guys play females? I play a male character. I didn't really know why. I said in jest, maybe they had a sister and didn't get to participate in the doll dress up stuff when they were growing up?

I know some say "because I like how they look", but many she's encountered take it to another level and then she finds out on discord it's a guy and she's really surprised.

In all seriousness:
1) Why do you play a female instead of a male?
2) If you're a female do you play male characters? Or is this a 1 sided sort of thing?

I'm female and play mostly male characters. I'd guess that the reverse is often for the same reasons I play male - I'd rather look at a man's pert butt than a woman's! I never play as 'me' - my characters are always 'they' with their own personalities and tastes.

When I make mods, those are also usually aimed at male. ESO is different in that I have a couple of females in the mix, mostly for variety.

She is more role-fitting than male in my case. I speak about my main. She is an altmer healer, priestess of Auri-El.
And more attractive though.
But I have 14 male and female alts. Gender means nothing than roleplay issue.

Simple answer

I am male and I don't like watching male backsides all day

Female here and I play a female character. I just see her as an idealized version of myself

I'm female, and I mostly play female characters-- at least as a start. Then, after I've explored the female stories in total, I'll go back and do the same for male toons/characters. Especially for more involved stories like Mass Effect, SWTOR's class stories, Dragon Age, etc. If the central toon/character is fully voiced, I'm a lot more likely to roll males just so I can hear the voice acting

In GW2, I rolled both freely because certain actors appealed to me. Plus, there was incentive to check out at least the beginning of each race's stories each week because you'd get free lootbox keys at level 10. So I heard all the voices. The ones I really enjoyed, I stuck with and played the full main story. SWTOR had something similar-- your first toon of each class on each server reaching the Fleet got free cash currency. I rolled everything and heard all the starting stories from every angle.

Here, it's all female so far. But a lot of that is because the story of the vestige is the same. The toons aren't voiced and the text lines are the same regardless of gender and mostly race. Plus it takes forever to level them. I haven't been around long enough to want to roll a male yet or to get to a point where I'd play with him.

@Watchdog

Watchdog wrote: »

Yes, I play for RP. From the gazillion roles available to me to play I most often choose the roles of females I find attractive, intelligent and interesting in all aspects that matter.

As far as roleplaying is concerned, I would love to see you explaining to my Alyona al-Elinhir below that she is actually an underaged girl:

I would prefer to watch the scene from a safe distance, if you won't mind.

Also, yes, I enjoy watching her butt while she is conducting her common neighbourhood heroine business. And, you know, Alyona has enough self-confidence to actually enjoy the attention.