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...

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.

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:

People are either a girl or want to be a girl

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.

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:

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.

Maybe it's because society is so much more feminine now that guys get in touch with their feminine side

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.

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.

same reason why everyone just doesn't make a human race

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.

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

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?

I dig on chicks.

Shallow thinking in most cases and in others? Rp reasons for sure. Most play males though. Oh yea and briasts.

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.

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

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.

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.

This..
And, I've always played a Nord in the first playthrough..

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]!"

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.



Gotta love those back-boobs.



Eh, I've always found that it's only those who "act" like they're girls that get that kind of experience.

I agree, i certainly wouldnt pick a female character jus so i can look at her ass . 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.

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