Then I pity you for your inability to view yourself in any way other than your gender.

You honestly have nothing else to take pride in about yourself? You have no talents, no hobbies, no special skills that allow you to stand out, no distinguishing outlook on life, no role you fill in society or your social cliques based on anything other than your gender? The only thing of importance to you is that you are "male"? That is honestly just sad.

I play as a female character because the idea of a girl slaying dragons is more epic to me. *shrugs"

But mine isn't really eye candy, I just went with one of the default blonde Nords.

The only time I roll a female is when I play an MMO, since UO and EQ conditioned me to believe that if I was a female character, the lonely nerds of the land would give me free stuff.

The Sims actually had its tremendous sales figures because it was one of those games that didn't sell to an almost exclusively male crowd - in fact, I have seen reports that it was actually more popular with women who are over 40 than the stereotypical teen male crowd. The same can be said for games like Puzzle Pirates - it's just the games that include "Now with 50% more extra-bloody decapitations!" as a selling point that tend to have the 90% young male playerbase.

Now then, yes, obviously a large number of people here are going to say that they play a girl just because they want to stare at a female in a chainmail bikini. Judging by the number of clothing mods for female characters that are made with about 2 square inches of material and the like, this is probably a notable chunk of the userbase, even.

However, I believe that a decent portion of people who say these sorts of things are just unwilling to admit due to social pressures that they actually would like to "get in touch with their feminine side" when they are playing a single-player game that is all about fantasy. If you want to mock someone for trying to play-act out being a stalwart female paladin who defends the innocent from bandits, you are not all that much different than the guy who is play acting out being the hulking brute who can rip wispy waifs in half with their bare hands. In fact, I would say there is far more sixual and emotional maturity to be found in the former than in the later.

If the notion of actually trying to see the world through the eyes of the other gender honestly scares you that much, then it's probably because you've honestly never tried it, and are terrified that you might not think it all that bad.

I won't be playing as a khajiit or argonian female. Not because they aren't physically attractive (that would be weird) but I just think they look odd, their necks are too thin for their heads.

The real question here is:


WHY NOT?

Who cares?

If someone wants to play a sixy argonian mage with a briarheart fetish, then why can't they without you asking why?

The Sims actually had its tremendous sales figures because it was one of those games that didn't sell to an almost exclusively male crowd - in fact, I have seen reports that it was actually more popular with women who are over 40 than the stereotypical teen male crowd. The same can be said for games like Puzzle Pirates - it's just the games that include "Now with 50% more extra-bloody decapitations!" as a selling point that tend to have the 90% young male playerbase.

Now then, yes, obviously a large number of people here are going to say that they play a girl just because they want to stare at a female in a chainmail bikini. Judging by the number of clothing mods for female characters that are made with about 2 square inches of material and the like, this is probably a notable chunk of the userbase, even.

However, I believe that a decent portion of people who say these sorts of things are just unwilling to admit due to social pressures that they actually would like to "get in touch with their feminine side" when they are playing a single-player game that is all about fantasy. If you want to mock someone for trying to play-act out being a stalwart female paladin who defends the innocent from bandits, you are not all that much different than the guy who is play acting out being the hulking brute who can rip wispy waifs in half with their bare hands. In fact, I would say there is far more sixual and emotional maturity to be found in the former than in the later.

If the notion of actually trying to see the world through the eyes of the other gender honestly scares you that much, then it's probably because you've honestly never tried it, and are terrified that you might not think it all that bad.

Guess it depends on if you play 1st or 3rd person. 1st it doesn't even matter what your character looks like at all regardless (which is probably how the majority of people play anyway). 3rd it depends on what doll you'd rather play dress up with

hm thats kinda true (i play 3rd person ) but my prefered armor is the nightingale ....not sure theres anything sixually appealing about that.......in terms of the whole looking at eye candy thing well...unless your wearing forsworn armor i dont see how any of that is attractive

OH GOOD LORD. NO sixY NON-HUMANOID REPTILE OR CAT-PEOPLE. WHY DO THE KHAJIT FEMALES HAVE BOOBS UP TOP AND WHY DO THE ARGONIANS HAVE BOOBS AT ALL?

This comic strip and the subsequent ones fully express my feelings on the matter: http://www.pvponline.com/2002/09/30/mon-sep-30/

Animal-based characters should not have boobs.




Oh come on. Really? That old nonsense? And also EXTRA-BIG LOL at the "seeing the world" nonsense. We aren't talking about acting in a well-written play or television show or movie here, we're talking about people creating fantasy characters IN A GAME. Nobody's "exploring how to see the world through the eyes of the other gender" in Skyrim, they're dudes playing chicks because they like to watch the wiggle in the walk.

I guess there might be technical reasons to play 3rd person for some of the melee combat (I know I shift to that fairly often, though archery is strictly 1st person), but I just meant by 'play dress up' that people running around in 3rd person obviously want to see their character. That may or may not have sixual implications, who knows. Depends on the player.

I guess there might be technical reasons to play 3rd person for some of the melee combat (I know I shift to that fairly often, though archery is strictly 1st person), but I just meant by 'play dress up' that people running around in 3rd person obviously want to see their character. That may or may not have sixual implications, who knows. Depends on the player.

OH GOOD LORD. NO sixY NON-HUMANOID REPTILE OR CAT-PEOPLE. WHY DO THE KHAJIT FEMALES HAVE BOOBS UP TOP AND WHY DO THE ARGONIANS HAVE BOOBS AT ALL?

This comic strip and the subsequent ones fully express my feelings on the matter: http://www.pvponline.com/2002/09/30/mon-sep-30/

Animal-based characters should not have boobs.




Oh come on. Really? That old nonsense? And also EXTRA-BIG LOL at the "seeing the world" nonsense. We aren't talking about acting in a well-written play or television show or movie here, we're talking about people creating fantasy characters IN A GAME. Nobody's "exploring how to see the world through the eyes of the other gender" in Skyrim, they're dudes playing chicks because they like to watch the wiggle in the walk.