Why do most people choose female characters?

Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:00 pm

I play a male characters always i'v tried playing women but then I don't feel like a Bad Ass necromancer or warrior no offence but to me women arn't intimidating, so I have to play a guy, plus if I wanted eye candy I would just get a female companion...
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:00 am

Well for this game, there are ALOT of Male enemies, and Agent of Dibella does 10% extra damage against the opposite six. I would but Male Khajit just sound way more enjoyable over female.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:28 pm

I'm surprised at how many guys say they play female characters for "eye candy's" sake. Grossed out even.

Anyway, I'm female and I tend to play as a female character since i feel like I can relate with her more. However, I've yet to make a straight female...probably just the lisbian in me. :liplick:
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:47 am

Ok so i was going through a post on here where people were uploading pics of their characters and i relised that most people had chosen a female charcter to play with. I've got nothing against it and am even quite tempted to do it myself now. just wondering why?


People are either a girl or want to be a girl
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:51 am

Ok so i was going through a post on here where people were uploading pics of their characters and i relised that most people had chosen a female charcter to play with. I've got nothing against it and am even quite tempted to do it myself now. just wondering why?


I tried to make a decent looking guy, I really did. But they all look like 50 year old men. Heck if I wanted that I'd just play real life. The women (and only a few of them at that) are the only ones I can make look like their in their mid-twenties.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:18 am

Why ?
Because i prefer starring at asses and boobs, don't know why but i don't like starring at men ...
Juste like series ... take House for exemple, i like this serie, but i prefer when number 13 is on screen :hubbahubba:
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:49 pm

Damn, I knew I'd get bashed for saying that. :P Anyway, yeah I see your point about role-playing, but IMO when it comes to gender, I just don't feel the need to change from my own in RL.


Agree with this. The funny thing is that this only applies when I have a choice. I played the first Tomb Raider all the way through back in the day, and it was great. Making my own character and making it be a girl would just be...odd. The only reason most men seem to want a female character is eye-candy. I guess that's where all the nvde mods and "Armor that's a thong and pasties but still gives you full armor protection" mods come from.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 8:48 am

Maybe it's because society is so much more feminine now that guys get in touch with their feminine side
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:42 pm



sixually insecure are the guys who talk about roleplaying and therefore not being able to play a female character. ;)


The reality is there are two sides to that fence. Those that would prefer to look at a female ass on the sole basis that they're uncomfortable about looking at a male ass for 6 hours need to sit down and re-evaluate themselves. It's a pretty skewed and ridiculous statement to begin with, unless these types of players focus the camera on the ass for 6 hours and stand still, concentrating with every fiber of their being on the gluteus. I spot my buddy at the gym and I always keep an eye on his form during squats, dead-lift, barbell rows, etc. I don't suddenly feel any less of a man for making sure his ass is down, back straight, chest up.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:17 am

I don't understand why gender seems to play such an important role in people's identity.

"Being male" puts you in the company of half of humanity. It hardly determines any important aspects about your life or personality or what you can make yourself into at all. If you want to form an identity for yourself, aren't the aspects of your life you have more control over, and which distinguish you from more than just half of the population of the world more important?

I can play a female or a male character equally because there are far more important aspects to my characters than just what occupies the space between their legs.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:00 pm

same reason why everyone just doesn't make a human race
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:10 am

Actually, if you look at the polls which have been made on the subject.. Was it over 90% go male or something similar?

Here's a first character poll: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1171284-your-first-character-poll-edition/

80% males.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:27 pm

Im playing both, strangley i choose my first toon to be female, always happens. And 99% of the time she play a sneaky archer/thief/rouge. Then next one normaly will be a male babarian/warrior.

But i agree its little of the nice looking im after in my first rp toon. And its good to have a few different toons that have different storyline behind them, sinced im get bored now and then on them.

I only wish now CK was released so we can have a reality mod done :D
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:14 pm

I don't understand why gender seems to play such an important role in people's identity.

"Being male" puts you in the company of half of humanity. It hardly determines any important aspects about your life or personality or what you can make yourself into at all. If you want to form an identity for yourself, aren't the aspects of your life you have more control over, and which distinguish you from more than just half of the population of the world more important?

I can play a female or a male character equally because there are far more important aspects to my characters than just what occupies the space between their legs.


Oh come on. A person's gender is a fundamental part of their identity. Gender is not only your genitals. How did I know we'd get into some sort of crap like this?
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:16 pm

I dig on chicks.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:15 am

Shallow thinking in most cases and in others? Rp reasons for sure. Most play males though. Oh yea and briasts.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:09 pm

Oblivion broke me of the "play a female character" habit, because I couldn't stand playing a first-person game with npc's saying things to me like "Fare thee well, m'lady" and "Thank you, kind lady!"

Prior to that, so until the mid 2000's, I often made female characters. However, now I try to somewhat put some of myself into my character, and especially where TES games are first-person it seems really weird -- for me -- to play a female character. Not that I'm a bipedal catman in real life (lol, or AM I?!) -- but if I was, I'd be a male bidpedal catman. (Which would rock, btw).

Anyway, when I was making and playing female characters, I did it because I think they look cool and attractive. Back before I was living with my GF it was sort of nice to have a hot chick on the screen while I was playing. Now if I want to see a beautiful woman I just go in the other room and give my GF a nice kiss.

I do find that since I made the move to not playing female characters that I get into my characters a lot more. It's easier to imagine that some weird version of me is having the adventures on the screen. I simply cannot do that with a female character.

However, to be 100% clear: I do not judge other males for playing female characters.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:38 am

I don't, never have, never will, I don't see any appeal in female characters ... and I'm a girl. I just think female characters are very generic, male characters seem to be more edgy. I kind of like that more. Plus, Dragonborn just doesn't seem to suit a woman, but that's just me. So yeah, I'll stick to my argonian male until the world ends ;)
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:06 pm

Always play Male characters as I feel it's something I can associate myself with more so than a female. For those male members that genuinely enjoy playing as the opposite six, my hats off to you. As long as you're excuse isn't a response along the lines of: "I'd rather stare at a female ass rather than a male ass." All this tells me is you're uncomfortable with your own sixuality.


This.

The fact that anybody is looking at anyone's ass, let alone cares what it looks like, in a video game in the first place is a sad individual.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:49 pm

For me, the gender of the character is based on the concept I have in mind. I would say that the gender of my characters are around 50/50. My ranged-stealth character is always female. My thief is male, my paladin is male, my necromancer will probably be female.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:46 pm

Been playing Bethesda games since Daggerfall. I have never made a female character.


This..
And, I've always played a Nord in the first playthrough..
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:12 pm

Oh come on. A person's gender is a fundamental part of their identity. Gender is not only your genitals. How did I know we'd get into some sort of crap like this?


Except it isn't nearly as important a part of the identity as most people are making this out to be.

Especially in a game where there is literally no gender barrier on anything you do. The extent of the difference is in a few lines changing to calling my character a "lady". There's a much bigger difference between one character who is a Dark Brotherhood psychopath and a questing knight in shining armor than just gender.

The things I value about myself as a person are things I could be whether I was man or woman. The things I make my characters into are the things they could have been, man or woman.

We're talking about whether a character is male or femlae as if it is the only important aspect of a character in this thread. Role playing goes far beyond "dude, your character has [censored]!"
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:03 am

Because I've played, watched, read and listened to hundreds of thousands of male characters and it's gotten old. Even touched a few. Braille I mean... Female mixes up the old archetypes and tropes for a new-yet-same experience that I want.

I'm a male, I'm far more interested in boobs than biceps. Hence, I play female characters because they are more enjoyable to view in 3rd person.


Gotta love those back-boobs.

The only time Ive made a female character in an RPG was in WoW (because I already had 4 or so males) and I had to abandon her at a low level because I got tired of the solicitations for cyber six... Despite my ardent protests that I was a big, fat hairy male.


Eh, I've always found that it's only those who "act" like they're girls that get that kind of experience.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:27 am

This.

The fact that anybody is looking at anyone's ass, let alone cares what it looks like, in a video game in the first place is a sad individual.


I agree, i certainly wouldnt pick a female character jus so i can look at her ass :eek:. However i am slightly temped to now pick a female character because the graphics of thier faces genrally did look better in the pics i saw and i think they do just look more luxurious as a whole, but then again the thought of a slender women with a bow really isnt as intimidating as a big axe wielding warrior, hmmmm its a tuffie.
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Post » Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:35 am

what better than seeing a blonde nord decapitating bandits :wink_smile:
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