I played as same gender so far but it got boring, I want to mix up things a bit

I will make male characters, I want to fight with a handsome/fiercesome warrior

GreenHere wrote: »

Not to get all high horse-y here, but I genuinely [snip people who can only enjoy characters that are the same gender as themselves. Seems like they're just missing out on worlds of interesting stories and possibilities.

My question is, "If you only play characters that match your gender... why?"



(Not trying to look down on anyone here, [snpi] I'm genuinely curious why some people get stuck on only matching-sex game protagonists.)

I think the same for one-race players

Diversity is more fun and not being stuck with one race

Sometimes you feel like being a tailed lizard...

Both. I like to play a variety of characters and have both male and female Altmer, Dunmer, Bosmer and Khajiit.

As a male I only play female characters. I never really like the look of males in any game, and females always have more customization options before they start looking weird. Not sure why this is.

Females are visually much better looking as well!

For me the choice of gender in a game has nothing to do with the fantasy, reallife, sexuality, or anything else.

Both.

• I prefer looking at females.
• I prefer being male.
• 5-6 of my characters were adapted from other games or stories. 2 of those were female.

Why not both?

I have the same number of male and female characters in my roster, which option do I pick?

I have a lot more of mine than of the other. Not sure why, but I like the immersion angle mentioned above. I think that is it. yes

I dislike playing a gender other than my own so much, that I refuse to even try games like The Witcher and Red Dead Redemption, even though I am very much drawn to them

I don't roleplay at all. In D&D I played a male dwarf once and it was interesting, although not my usual there either. Video games are different to me, my character is just a tool for me to listen to someone else's story and a lot of them (single player) make me play a guy anyway. Given a choice I'll always create a same gender character.

RaddlemanNumber7 wrote: »

A mixture of both. In-game characters are not me. They are themselves.

This.
My characters are neither me, nor who I'd like to be nor who I'd like to be with. if I were anything like my characters, I wouldn't spend my time playing computer games. The difference gender makes is negligible in comparsion.

When I make a new character I think about who they are, their race and gender are part of their identity, not mine.

I go for 100% immersion so I want to play as myself. Also, since I'm gay, I have even less motivation to play as a different gender (like, I'm aware some heterosexual people prefer playing different gender bc it's aesthetically pleasing).

AvalonRanger wrote: »

"Hey!! lesson. If you find sexy looking young female
player at the MMO field, then player must be male. And...
If you find fine looking beautiful young male player, then player must be woman.
It's a common sense."

When I see a female character with fancy makeup, dresses, and poses, I assume female player.
When I see a half naked female character with sloppy outfits, I assume male player.

It started out as just way to play female protagonists when I was young. Games that had a set protagonist whose appearance you couldn't really alter were generally always male. So if I wanted to play a female character, I could generally only do that in games where you created protagonists. There were some exceptions like Tomb Raider, or games where you were a named character but got to pick their gender like Dragon Age. But generally speaking, if it was a named character helming a non-ensemble game, it was a dude. And I'm not a dude, and wanted to sometimes play as a character like me.

Now there are more and more female protagonists kicking butt and taking names. And those women are increasingly from a diverse variety of backgrounds. I have even played a biracial woman with a skin tone close to my own who's also an army brat, which I thought was too specific to ever see reflected in a game. And yet, in Overwatch I can rain justice from above using her.

But the tendency to play rpgs as characters that are more reflective of what I look like still persists. It's basically habit at this point. Comfort food.

I'm glad things are way better out there now for the younger generation. I think a lot of people like putting a small piece of themselves into rpg characters. But it's cool that there are more choices out there now.

And hey, I still love me some male named protagonists. Nathan Drake for example is still one of the best protagonists out there to me. It's not a problem nor has it ever been one to play one. It's just nice to have more variety now. Tis the spice of life, after all

Both. Because i never identify myself with my character.