Serious question to all you guys who play as females

Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:01 am

I like playing female characters a lot myself and sixist comments usually make me rage but after reading a few of your posts and seeing you apologize for it it almost makes you a lovable sixist.

I guess I can't be mad at that, even if it is pretty sixist. :P

I almost thought the exact same thing. He's like Sten from DA:O, who murdered an entire family then said he was sorry and that he felt bad about it, then all was forgiven.
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:46 am

i am just joking lol :evil:


That's good. Alga was about to beat you senseless with her warhammer.

ALGA: That this poster is a man says a lot.
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:31 am

I almost thought the exact same thing. He's like Sten from DA:O, who murdered an entire family then said he was sorry and that he felt bad about it, then all was forgiven.


I know right? One minute Sten calls me a big baby or something then the next he's commenting on art and telling me he feels bad for this or that or something and making me feel like an ass.

I can't hold grudges either. :foodndrink: My fiancee is kind of the opposite. You have to work for an apology and even then it's not 100% she will forgive you but one lovable comment or an apology and i'm all "aw, it's okay. Let's get a drink!"
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:30 am

That's good. Alga was about to beat you senseless with her warhammer.

ALGA: That this poster is a man says a lot.


who is alga and why she want me to beat her with my warhammer :hubbahubba:
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:15 am

It never ceases to amaze me how bothered people are by how another person chooses to play their own game. I've got a bunch of male friends that play females in MMOs. It ultimately comes down to one thing whenever you ask them about it: if they are going to invest a lot of time into this character, they'd rather it be someone that they don't mind looking at for long periods of time. That's why they make a female character, for eye candy. Its as simple as that.

Personally, I'm a guy who prefers to roleplay males. But if my buddy who works in the IT department at my job prefers to roll females, why should I care? Some people just need to get a life, IMO.
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Matt Bee
 
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Post » Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:42 pm

nevermind
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:38 am

Uhhhh.... the female perspective.....?

But all I'm doing is seeing it on a screen. Millions of people every day get over that when they watch heterosixual porm.

In my case I'm seeing two people be married.
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Post » Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:20 pm

But all I'm doing is seeing it on a screen. Millions of people every day get over that when they watch heterosixual porm.

In my case I'm seeing two people be married.

Whoa.... I made a joke, then you used logic.... :ahhh:
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:36 am

I would RP the character that I choose as their story unfolds, without choosing an outcome ahead of time--but it would likely be a heterosixual relationship.
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Post » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:47 pm

When I entered this thread I honestly expected the OP to simply be the word "Why?"


Very much the same expectations.
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Bethany Short
 
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:44 am

if i was a girl, i would only go for other girls in game.
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Russell Davies
 
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:17 am

But no, it's pretty obivous there won't be any girl on girl stuff.

Exactly, this isn't mass effect! :nono:
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:02 am

Two "promiscious" Dunmer girls in "contact" would be...interesting :whistling:

But on topic I think I will make my Dunmer female lisbian (no idea why)
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 7:19 am

Whoa.... I made a joke, then you used logic.... :ahhh:

Ok, fair enough. :P
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:35 am

Thane? He's just so...... Drell. I don't know, he's a BAMF and all, but I just couldn't see doing that as an option for me, even if I did make a FemShep

its all in the voice. Or maybe Ive got a thing for reptilian races, in which case the Argonian maids of Skyrim had best watch out


You could use:
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spoiler text.


thanks, thats good to know for the future
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Post » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:35 pm

As has to be pointed out every time that a subject like this comes up, many, and probably most, of the men who play female characters approach the game entirely differently than you assume.

I don't invest myself into the game at all. I'm not a video game character - I'm a guy sitting in a chair pushing keys. The characters I play in TES games are entirely separate from me - they're individuals in their own right. So when I play a female character, I'm just a guy sitting in a chair pushing keys and following along as SHE lives out HER life on Nirn. And if that life involves getting married, that's fine. It has nothing to do with me.


Forgive me if this post comes off as rude, but really, that's your logic? You're honestly going to sit there and tell me that the character's choices that YOU control has nothing to do with you? :facepalm:

Last time I checked, TES series required the player CONTROLLING the character within it to make the choices for it, therefore, it has everything to do with you.
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 3:07 am

Duh. Read it again, and read the last line in context of the rest. It makes perfect sense what he is saying.
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Post » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:38 pm

She is probably second on the unatural attraction list, but I think I'm obssesed with Miranda



I too have said unatural attraction to Miranda, after all her voice and model is Yvonne Strahovski (My Avatar) One day Yvonne... One day *slaps self* NO snap out of it! the closest I'll ever get to Yvonne is Miranda
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Post » Fri Aug 26, 2011 9:29 pm

Im not that much of a serious RPer and dont really view my characters as an extension or portrait of myself. I dont really try to get in my characters head.


Play style and immersion are definitely a factor. In first person play I do try to get into my characters head, and to the extent that I can I try to become the character I'm playing. In third person games I'm controlling a 'toon' that I'm completely disassociated with ... more like a director directing the scene then the actor playing the part.

So, followup questions. If you would have your character marry an NPC of the gender you are not attracted to in real life, do you tend to play in first or third person? Are you trying to role play, or just play a video game?
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:40 am

I have played the opposite six when acting, on stage, and in general, it was a hoot! Sometimes there were love interests, yes. It is called, among other things, "being in character".

The very idea of getting into the head of another being, implies that you need not be all that similar to him/her/it. So it goes with CRPGs, I assume.
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Post » Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:03 pm

There's one female I have planned, either an Imperial, Breton, or Nord.

She is a Black Widow. She has been abused by men her entire life, starting with her father. She was [censored] when she was 17/18. Her first husband abused her, while they were living in High Rock. But, he pushed her too far, as she stuck a dagger in his chest while he slept. Scared, she fled, eastward, to Skyrim.

Once she has recovered from her initial shock of her first murder, she was in Winterhold, when she was approached by and flirted with by a Captain in the Imperial Legion. She soon took to his flirtations, and they were married in two months. Didn't last long though, as 2 weeks later, she caught him cheating on her with another woman. She tried to kill him, but he escaped. She now promises herself in her subconscious that every child abusing, woman [censored], cheating, man would die; UNTIL SHE CAUGHT ALONE THE MAN WHO CAUSED HER BREAK.
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:30 am

My character will not need any relationships. She'll be single.
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Post » Sat Aug 27, 2011 4:14 am

OMG yes girl on girl action. I HAVE to try this now that I think about it! :celebration:
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Post » Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:06 pm

Unless it's done seriously well, which I doubt, none of my characters will be having relationships. If they do then my female characters will most likely marry whichever characters I myself like. I had my female characters in DA:O romance Zevran. Not because I myself found him attractive (I'm straight). Nor was it for any sixual gratification, despite what opponents to romance in games would have you believe. It was because Zevran was hilarious.
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