"girly talk"? Lol what do you think we talk about? We're not "six in the City/Clueless" walking cliches you know - some of us are even ambivalent towards shoes

If I complete a quest, I want a kick ass sword. Not a cute new dress or a request for my hand in marriage. What did you think would be an obvious choice for the female character's reward?

You're right, but if your playing an MMO, then I consider it to be an in-game transixual considering this little perky chick with big briasts would have a deep voice on the mic.

Hah, I hear that's an effective way to get free swag. =) "Stratergery".

True but I know when I'm playing a male it doesn't feel like I'm getting it right.
I think the problem is when I play a male I feel I should be playing differently to how I normally play so I overdo the macho then I get annoyed with the character because they've turned into a cliche :shrug:

My blood elf never smiles and doesn't even get big shoulders.

Well, I have tried some females before, like... 4... out of like... 100... Or something... Once I did it cause I found this mod making it possible to change postures, make your guy eat and so on. So I made a female to try some stuff out there, instead of letting male Imperial guards standing in the female hand-on-hip position I walked around with my own girl and tested different "Seductive Walks" (that was the name used by the mod!) and all that stuff by myself.... Okay... I sounded weird now...

I guess I am a little shy and it just feels wrong hearing your warrior run around screaming and groaning while fighting bandits... Its slightly... Weird for me... Especially when I get the question: "Are there GIRLS fighting there?" or "Are you killing a GIRL?"...

I just feel more comfortable with the male Imperial warrior, or the male Altmer scholar/magician, or the male Breton book-collector than with the female characters.

I ALWAYS used to play as females. I was going through a phase I guess, because I never do any more. It's just weird to do that.

I'm a guy, and I create female characters in Oblivion all the time.

I'm similar to the OP in a way, I enjoy making faces in face-gen. If a game has a decent face-gen system and gender option, I'll probably pick female. Unless the male options are really freakin' cool.
The male options are generally limited in games, you can either make a square-jawed, cigar chomping badass, a not-so-square-jawed badass who doesn't always have a cigar, or you could make a [censored] who uses too much hairspray.

My main reason for picking female character in Oblivion though, is for screenshots. http://tangentgirls.com/gallery/d/5995-1/Screenshot+07_010.jpg image of mine, for example, would not have worked with some big hairy dude in 400 pounds of armor.

If I actually played the game though, I'd probably pick a male character....if I could find some decent textures and an armor mod that doesn't look ridiculously effeminate. :shrug:

Personally, I'll make males for most games, since I find it's easier to relate to the character. The only exception would be Demon Souls, where I made a female because I had an easier time making a satisfactory face. (and she looked better with very light blue skin then her male equivalent)

Anyone who weighs 400 pounds would not be fit for adventuring.

The average height of men aged 20-29 in the United States is 5'10". A healthy man of that height should weigh somewhere between 139-173 pounds, although for a warrior I would be leaning more towards the 173 pound mark.

Obviously the weight range gets heavier for taller people.

Very nice picture, by the way.

I beg to differ :meh:

I generally have characters 50/50 male and female. Just depends on the character I would like to play. I don't think it's weird or anything at all.

FWIW, my first character / main character is always male.

So why do you think he's wrong?

I do not care about it, although sometimes I like to play as a "macho woman". But a few times I play as a man. And I am a man.

"...400 pounds of armor"

I was obviously exaggerating though. I think those giant suits of armor look goofy.

...I totally missed the last two words of your sentence...

I must now redeem myself by saying that armour doesn't weigh 400 pounds.

NO EXAGGERATING ALLOWED! :whistling:

XD

Okay, I won't exaggerate anymore.

I have 2 female characters in my game, and one I probably play the most out of all of the characters now. I tend to roleplay smarter when playing either of them, for some reason. Not really sure why lol.

Fair enough man. I hear where you're coming from. That's why the games are so good. You can do whatever you want.

There isn't a single thing a female character could say that was more awkwardly suggestive as the sound male Nords make in Morrowind: "Ooooooohhhh....".

"Because he's a Macho macho..woman?"

I've tryed this before, didn't like it, she ran like a man which is a turn off in every sense of the word, when I play a woman, I want her to walk run, sneak like a woman, not a man.

Sounds extremely sixist I think, but it's true in my case.

I don't know, I've tried playing as a female, but it just feels awkward to me. And I find it harder to role play as the opposite six.

It's a joke. :rolleyes:

I don't mind either way. Although my first character will always be a male (Human, white, brown hair, slightly bearded if possible, basically an Aragorn sort of guy). I don't mind using female characters, but usually, I have a sort of backstory for them. Being a guy, I'm inclined to make male characters but I'd say that there is a 60/40 chance. I just depends what I deem their back story to be, what race they are, and what kind of combatant I want them to become (badass dwarf with a huge hammer, the daughter of a famous archer, a witch, a man with a sword who becomes a legend). For me either is fine.