I always play dudes in games, i do not know why, heck when i play roleplaying games with pen and paper still never played a chick, It is cool that you guys get to play both though. Does seem to give you alot more options for characters.

I will probaly start my first playthrough as a female character (so yes, the opposite of me) since i like to play something different then myself............i'm realy boring

But once i finish with that character i will probaly make a male character for the second run through.

During all of my gaming history from Morrowind to Fallout 3 to Skyrim ive never played anything but a male who i name after myself. so.. nope

I will be playing a female, i often do, but this time it is also about the voice. I love that it is the same woman that voiced Jack in Mass Effect.

Standard explanation for me, If I have to look at an ass for hundred hours it better with an female one

The voice probably make this more pressing.

I generally play female characters, yes.

This. They're action figures that I move around in a game world. Not some personal projection of "me".

I play entirely in first person, but I'll pop into third to see what an armor looks like, or to take cool screenshots. Eyecandy mods are the highest percentage of what I tend to download.

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As an aside - based on general statistics when these threads pop up (like, when it showed up a few times a a poll - each got 300+ responses - in the Skyrim forums; or when Bioware released the overall statistics from the Mass Effect series), the average result seems to be that roughly 80% play as their own gender, 20% as opposite.

Normally I play as myself in games that allow me to do so.

However the aspect of a mother turn wasteland badass has its appeal story wise. When I think of this I hold two mental images side by side. The first one of the mother holding her child gently singing her kid to sleep. Being a loving mother, house wife, and all around typical 50s woman.

The next image I see is her getting ready for combat and jumping into the back of power armor. She lost her family, lost her world, and lost everything she ever knew. And yet her is this woman, fighting in a war that she is 200 years late for. In a world that never knew she existed until she left the vault.

I feel that there is a very long journey between those two images and I am very interested in seeing her evolve as a person. Even more interested than playing as myself.

So yeah on my first playthough I wkll most likely play as the opposite six.

I am a Male, but I almost always play a Female character if I have a choice. I have played less than ten Male characters in a Bethesda Sandbox since 2001.

If I'm not mistaken, they already released the name of the voice actress for the protagonist right?

Nope, playing as female in post-apocalypse just do not fly for me.

And i try not to play as female in the game where you can murder people, woman must give life, not take it.

I always play these games as some version of myself. Being male irl, I always choose male characters.

At games I am able to choose the gender, I tend to play as a male that I am, because it makes it easier for me to immerse myself in the game

and kind of feel like I'm the character. Of course I don't play the games as my character, that would be very boring.

As I'd prefer to get an ordinary job instead of risking my life hunting mutants / zombies / goblins. But most games tend to not have simulation

of actual jobs in them, and when they do, they are usually boring, so I end up playing another type of person.

Now when it comes to playing games with female protagonists, depending on the game, it might make me feel somehow different.

In Perfect Dark, which is an FPS it was kind of easy for me to forget that Joanna is a character and woman, and get to feel like I am there shooting people.

But on games like Tomb Raider, where Lara is always on display and on the focus of the action, I kinda feel like like I'm her daddy or friend helping her

do the things she does on the game. I don't get to feel like I did it, but like she did it, with my help.

No. Don't have an interest in females enough honestly.

It would be awesome if it was close to the truth. There is a lot of lifebreaking, if not outright murdering women.

Any i hope they would get more discounts, like Fo2...

I probably will play both, for both roleplay reasons and to see how their delivery of the voiced lines differ.

I'm trying very hard not to comment on these posts cuz everybody is entitled to their wrong opinions but unf my [censored].

My first character is almost always a male, but I end up making characters of both sixes eventually.

I think i'll role play as myself using my first name just to hear it in game.

My first character is usually the typical white knight male stereotype. After that I'll make a much more twisted but not necessarily evil female character. She is always a lisbian though as I find it hard to rp liking guys being a straight male.

Morally grey women have always interested me in both entertainment and..."entertainment"n. Always make for a fun experience.

It's just like in Mass Effect

Anyway, always. Can't play as myself, as i'd be the first skeleton you find in the wasteland, as a straight man i like women, and the I-word is utterly meaningless to me

Overloaded and having to walk back to the place i store stuff? Nothing I-word about it, i play Candy Crush or watch the TV, or just plain cheat with god mode. Which doesn't work for being overloaded in Skyrim, please fix BGS

my first character will probably be my old favorite, a sneaky bastard who will help anyone who asks, as long as it doesn't get in the way of his goals of course. after that it'll depend on what voice actor i like more but i will of course play both, it'd be a waste not to experience all of what the game has to offer

I'll be playing as a female for the following reasons:

_ The male voice actor sounds like a bland robot, and if I'm gonna be listening to my character talk the whole game, it'd better be a voice I like. I mean, have you HEARD what he sounds like in the demo? He reacts to the news of being asleep for 200 years like, "Oh crud, I left the oven on, didn't I?"

_ If the plot revolves around finding your family, then playing as a male would feel too much like Fallout 3, with the parent/child roles reversed. Playing as a female would make for an interesting twist on Fallout 3's plot.

_ If the child is the antagonist (god I hope not), then playing as the mother would be a refreshing take on the usual 'father vs. son' conflict.

_ I like to play the opposite gender because I don't do conformity.

This. This right here. This sums up exactly why I'll be playing as a woman in Fallout 4. A woman who used to be a doting mother now badass fighter in a world so radically different from her own that she may as well be stranded on an alien planet? Fighting monsters that once would've only existed in her worst nightmares? Yes please!

It games where I can pick my gender, I tend to play as a woman, unless it's a BioWare game in which case normally I eventually roll a guy to romance the straight girl or in the case of DA:I 2 guys to romance Cass & Dorian.

That being said the idea of a mother waking to find her husband & child dead seems like a more unique & interesting roleplaying opportunity than rping a father, that tends to be a more common storyline.

The voice actor may also impact my choice, in ME non of my male shepards made to it ME 3 because I much preferred Jennifer Hale as a VA.

I've never once rolled a male!Shepard for that reason. Fem!Shepard actually sounds like someone I'd take orders from and who takes her [censored] seriously.

That's the way I look at it, also the prospect of a suburban mother being thrown into a post apocalyptic world full of horrors is an interesting one.