If women get more clothing options than men, I sometimes play as a girl cuz fuck man I wanna wear a skirt other than that I tend to play as my gender which is a man.
Because men in games are usually rough tough emotionless bricks. Designed to be “badass”. Playing Cyberpunk as a woman felt kinda freeing and different. Since then I’ve been doing it more and honestly it just feels fresh. It’s also easier to feel like I’m playing someone else. Women also usually have more interesting customization options imo.
Mostly I choose gender based on how good they look. If males look brutish and carrot-y (no offense to Carrot Ironfounderdsson) or soldier-like, I choose female. If women look like drawn by Rob Liefeld, I choose men.
Though I do have a preference to a ginger short-haired woman (elf if fantasy) if I can’t decide on what I want to make.
Anyone else always annoyed at "girl armor" in games? Always looking like a two piece bathing suit and always either the stomach showing or an open V on the bust? Maybe you get some stupid armored skirt and bare legs too.
It isn't that I don't like playing heroines/villainess because I think they can definitely be bad ass and look cool as shit kicking ass but it is terribly done in the vast majority of games, in my opinion.
I don't judge anyone for their own thing but I think it sucks personally.
I hate when equipment looks different depending on the gender using it. Why did those pants becone a skirt? Why did this armor suddenly lose 90% of its plating? Where did the heels come from?
At least the girl armor thing has receded considerably in recent times, so that’s nice.
Preface: the things I’ll mention have, for the most part, improved a lot in more recent games.
I default to women nowadays in almost every game I play. A lot of it is because back when I was a kid male characters were basically hulking hairy ogres with your choices of hairstyles being short, spiked punk and bald. For example: one of my favorite games from my youth is KOTOR, and the male faces are incredibly forgetful. It’s all white guy, white guy with a scar, white blond guy and so on. And that doesn’t appeal to me in anyway. On the other hand women got many different options for hairstyles and faces that were cute, which is something I like to be able to be in games. Granted there are a ton of games where the women were just eye candy, and yet that was still more interesting than generic white guy #555.
There’s something very appealing to me in being able to be a cute girl that still kicks ass in the same way as any buff guy in that world.
In most games, when there’s an option to play as a man or as a woman, I generally choose to play as a dude because…I’m a dude. I guess it helps to immerse myself in the game but I never really gave it much thought beyond that. But in my second playthrough, if it’s something like an RPG or anything like that, I usually switch to a girl just to see different story paths, conversations, personality even.
Except for fighting games. I’ve been telling myself it’s because I love fast, rushdown characters like https://www.dustloop.com/w/File:GGST_Millia_Rage_Portrait.png or https://wiki.supercombo.gg/w/File:SF6_Cammy_Portrait.png. I even managed to fool myself into thinking it was because I used to do the martial art they’re representing, like Lidia Sobieska from Tekken. Which is technically true, they have to have a play style I like.
But along comes Granblue and I’m torn between two characters: the badass old man brawler that is https://www.dustloop.com/w/File:GBVS_Soriz_Portrait.png and zoner archer lady https://www.dustloop.com/w/File:GBVSR_Metera_Portrait.png. And at this point, I can’t lie to myself anymore and will probably play Metera because she’s a woman and she’s hot.
When the game allowed, I make my character to look like my then-gf (now my wife), and named it after her. Idk, I think she’s cute and I would like to see her more.
Funny thing is I’ve never told her this and she have no idea why I always alt-tab out of my game when she walked by (she knows I’m not playing something that would upset her like a porn games or something like that because she can see what I’m playing from afar. She just can’t see the character’name or details from that distance).
Pretty shallow and lame reason: I vastly prefer staring at a woman’s ass all day over a man’s. I’m already a man 24/7 of the day, might as well mix it up.
That, or if I have to follow the internet I don’t realize I’m trans?
I saw some Avatar gameplay recently. There was a portion of aerial flight where you can enjoy the view of a naked ass in hi-def. I'm guessing they chose to play a female Pandorian for the same reason most players choose a female character in video games, (naked) male asses are a niche market for gameplay purposes.
By-and-large, they are more committed to the VO from my experience, which lead to a more believable character and is almost always more immersive as a result.
Male VO is always played as arrogant and tryhard/heroic but comes off as cringy and bland. Whereas female VO seems to typically be played as a survivor-type just trying to figure things out and live. Which is almost always the correct call for the character.
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