Normally I pick male as I am one but this time I was thinking of trying female as we know even less about her then the guy and would be more interesting playing as a housewife wondering around a unforgiving wasteland and just adding to that special feeling you get when you play a fallout game for the 1st time. Im kinda hoping beth adds a bit more diversity between the two genders for example the male is the only one that has the ability to do the guarantee crit in vats due to his military training while nora has a different ability in the medical or speech/bartar skills.

Definitely female.

I even like the appearance of the default female so won't have to do much editing.

POW!

I always play a female character first in my Fallout playthroughs & fallout 4 will be no different.

First and every other playthrough will be with a male character, for ease of identifying myself with the character.

male.

Female

Male always.

Be it for 10 playthroughs or 100.

Probably female because so far every demo has shown the male and I want to be different from the get go.

Male. Unless my fiancee lets me play more often if I create a female character based on her.

I've never had problems "identifying" with a character, male or female. I will be playing as a female mostly because I can, and I always do in games that allow such. There are so many games out there with male protagonists that female ones are a nice change of pace and besides, I like the differences.

Male for first 2 playthroughs then maybe Female.

Not sure which I'll start with first, but I'll end up playing both.

Female

Being a Bethesda game I doubt there will be any real differences besides a few different pieces of dialog.

Doing male first so I can compare the male protagonist dialog compared to the female protagonist dialog on my second play through.

Undecided, I'll look at each and see which is more appealing.

Female, so long as Black Widow is still a perk. If not, probably a male then.

- To clarify, there are usually way more men as raiders/killable NPCs than females so I take it as a tactical advantage.

Male. . .because I'm one

I may create my first female toon ever in a Fallout game this time around just for the different voiced protagonist.

I've always liked Charchez La Femme myself.

Likely true, but considering the depth I've seen so far, I'm hopeful that there will be slightly more differences than that.

It would be nice. One of the actual differences that I remember is that one quest in Oblivion where that female gang of thieves would try and rob you if you were male or try and recruit you if you were female.

The female PC sounded much better in the little snippet we heard, so I'll probably try her first.

Female first in all likelihood.

Well she is Jack from ME2/3.

I'm going to assume it's the same background regardless of gender. So assuming you're a vet if you play as male then my guess is if you pick a female character then she will also be a vet. That's my guess at least.

On topic, all my Fallout characters are traditionally female so I'll be rolling a woman this time out as well.