as everything ive read and since everything points to the male hero which i have no issue playing as, just wondering can you play as female aswell ? and if playing as either male or female will they have different fighting styles and interactions with NPCs ?

You has been able to play both sixes and all races in all the elder scroll games, imperial and orc become playable since Morrowind. So yes you can play as female.

I shall dismiss this as the OP having never played a TES game before, and say yes ya can be either.



most likly there won′t be much, besides maybe a few animation tweeks and deciding the gender specific he/she him/her etc in dialog

I have played morrowind and oblivion and know that you have had the choice, but this one is differet in the sence that the info started that u were a king etc... so that assumes male and nothing has stated at the moment that u could play as either and or what differences to the game that will have

I don't remember that info at all. Besides in the trailer where someone is sneaking around a forest, that someone looks very much female for me so ...

You'll likely be able to play as both, but with minor dialogue and (hopefully) animation differences.

I have not heard words of you being a king, just that your a dragonborn, a neutral aspect that can aply to both genders, the only king I heard is the king of Skyrim that suppose to be dead at the time the game starts.

TES games have always focussed heavily on player freedom - you'll be able to choose from a large number of races, and either six, and have some method of customising your character, whether it be Oblivionesque sliders or a multitude of presets (or both!)

The gameplay effects will be minimal for six differences, and potentially minor for race differences, depending on how you play. You'll probably not get any serious diologue changes, but genderspecific pronouns will almost always change.

I don't even remember that king of Skyrim unless you mean the wrong interpretation we've been doing of the lyrics of the teaser.

Not even Todd could sell to us why we couldn't play as a female. Be that as it may, I wish he would try...for fun. :whistling: It would be interesting to hear what he would say.

so far as I know Todd (or someone else) mention the reason "the son of Skyrim spill there own blood" is because a internal, political war cause by the death of the King of Skyrim.

ok so i cant find where i read the king part, mayb it was in the dragon language on the back of the game informer magazine, not sure tho but it does say 'they will call him dovahkiin'

im happy to play as male as i usually do, just wondering for replay value if u can and if anything major would be different to want to use a female

expect maybe like a manual for a product, how many people do you know who say he/she in a dialogue? You pick a gender when you talk, just because the trailer pickt a male doesn′t mean it excludes the other

as for gender effects, as I previously mention, I doubt you see anything more difference then people saying she rather then he, etc

To the OP:

Sir or Madam, where have you been?

lol i know doahkiin means dragonborn was meaning the word HIM right before that but all good tho . question answered

I believe they are speaking of prophecy, which never gets the little details right anyway

yeah I realised that, so I edited my post.

Everything of what points to it?The only TES game that did not let play as a race and gender of your own choosing was Regard- where the player took on the role of a redguard with a pre-set name. So if you're somehow forced to play as a male, i'm going to be a bit ticked because i always play as a girl..in fact i dont think ive ever played as a guy o.O Nothing against guys, it's just i can't relate well to the other gender xD

I'm not worried though, there is no evidence to suggest it's a male only game..that would just be silly.

lol all good and yeah would be annoying to write he/she everywhere

it would be cool if they gave the female a completly different fighting style since where movie, tv show etc... the females always have a better fighting style, alot more kicks and flips, better to watch lol

as for the king thing, doesn't it say he died,and there's a civil war over whether to stay in the empire, or whatever they call it...

but yeah, i'm sure i've seen females in the trailer. (being played)

Not only can you be genderdextrous you can also be speciesdextrous and be a beast - actually I wonder if lore wise the dragons have Argonians as distant cousins?

and frankly I find it sixist, giving females elaborate, none functional, trying-to-show-of-there-body styles

I for one hope female fight as down to earth and dirty as the males do.

That really doesn't mean anything. In Morrowind, the text in the opening cinematic referred to a prisoner being taken to Morrowind "Unaware of the role he was to play in that nations future.", not sure if I got the quote completely right, but you get the idea. The fact that the Dragonborn is referred to as "he" doesn't mean anything, after all, when referring to jusr the Dragonborn, not the particular character you'll create, they don't know if you'll play a male or female character, so really, there's not much else they can do, other than improperly using "they" as a singular term, since English lacks a specific gender neutral pronoun for a single person.

There's no evidence to suggest we won't be able to play as a male or female character, so the logical assumption is that we will. Though I doubt the choice will have a significant impact on gameplay, obviously, dialog referencing you're character will refer to you as "she" if you're a female character rather than "he", and some dialog and quests might be a little different depending on six, I mean, Morrowind and Oblivion had that too. Take for example that one person on the road in Morrowind who would ask you for a kiss if you were female, or that quest in Anvil where if you were female, the gang that was robbing people would offer to let you join them rather than trying to rob you like if you were a male character. But I doubt we'll see anything that will significantlty alter the gameplay experience.



I have to agree there. Why should a female character who we're meant to believe is as strong and skilled a fighter as her male counterparts have such a different fighting style from them. Oh, right, fan service, because we're talking about a fighting style that is designed to show off the character's body. Keep the combat animations for the sixes the same I say.



Why should they? Just because both races have scales doesn't mean there's any relation between them, you wouldn't say cats are distant counsins of humans, despite also being mammals.

Male, because I'm male