Ill do my first playthrough as a male character, as ive already chosen what hes going to be like

Then my second will probably be female

... I know I might seem shallow but you do realize there are a crapload of people out there IRL who are ugly right?
It's not like everyone in real life look like swim-suit models or Bruce Willis.
Why of all characters did you decide for these two then?
And I like Moira's mustache, I wanna comb it. :fallout:

sacrilage! You dissing Moria? I'll fight ye... choose your weapon, ping-pong or bowling?

-- edit: sorry mods, not picking fights really. Going offtopic maybe..

someones got a crush on Bruce Willis.

also picked those two because one of them had a mustash and the other i mistook as a man at first.

they dont exactly look ugly more like misshapen. paladin cross looks like a fish

im not saying some characters cant look attractive. the characters just look weird in fallout 3. and its hard to find them attractive

True.

True.

And that is why cosmetics mods are so popular for Bethesda's games. For Fallout 3 it's the Project Beauty mod, that makes the people look more like people

I disagree. I think Moira is quite good-looking. Not as in "thin as a stick with a paint bucket of make-up on"-beauty (thank God!), but as in natural beauty.

well i have a console. so i cant have nice things

@tabris- well its not really there body. there faces just look weird. there body looks normal

Yeah, there is something odd going on with the whole upper lip thing on the female models... I almost think they might have been trying to add a bit of depth to the lip, and it's just getting misread, but... :shrug:

As someone with a bit of an art background myself, I also tend to look at the female models as a pretty good measurement of the overall quality of the game's models and textures (not to mention grasp of anatomy.) I don't know if it's a gender thing, but every guy I've talked about this agrees with me that the female form is harder to "get right" than the male one. (Still not sure whether or not the converse is true for women artists, however.) That holds true in pretty much every medium, I find.

And especially in game design, it seems, there's a fine line between making an attractive model, and keeping within realistic limits (ie, the whole "Lara Croft has to be so... 'epically' proportioned because of the limitations of the graphics" argument doesn't really cut it with today's technology.) And of course, there's always going to be issues that crop up when using one base model for every character out there (so that you have decrepit old ladies walking around with the bodies of nubile young women... :shakehead:)

Anyway, long story short - a lot of times I'll make a female character in games just to kind of gauge the quality of the art team working on the game. And as far as Fallout 3 was concerned (and how I'm guessing Fallout: New Vegas will go) I just couldn't settle on a male character - with the tools provided - whose face I was even close to satisfied with. I'm not sure what it was, but when I finally gave up and switched genders, I was much more easily able to obtain an end result that I was happy with.

Male. I can't fathom role-playing a female character, personally.

I was talking as a Pc gamer,because of the lot of mods available for FO3,females (and males too) can be very well looking,face and body.Sadly for console gamers,they have to stick with chars like those you posted.

Male.

I think it's a bit weird playing as the opposite six to myself, in a game where you choose your six and character, of course.

In open character RPGs I usually like to envision the protagonist as some version of myself, so my first will be male.

If the game is good enough to play multiple times like I imagine FONV will be, I'll probably build and play a female character eventually.

Both, first male, being male myself then female

when i play a male character i always end up being goodie-two-shoes kind of guy but when i play female characters i always end up as evil, i don't even plan it that way it just ends up so with me, even when i plan to make evil male, he just ends up being good, when i plan to make good female, she ends up being evil

Female, they tend to be easier on the eyes. There was no real advantages, or disadvantages, in character gender in FO3 and I've seen nothing to suggest New Vegas will be any different here.

Maybe whenever you play as a male you get too into your character and can't stop your own emotions and being that you're a good person it always end up being good.
While when you play a female you're finally not playing as "you" so now you can do all the stuff you never would to yourself because your heart restrains you from doing them.
And whenever you try being good with a female, that urge to just let go and do what you normally wouldn't do is too big to contain and therefor end up being evil.

Or maybe I shouldn't eat so many delicious mushrooms.

I will mostly play female characters but I do like to play through as a male once just to see the difference.

I did the same thing in FO3. For me at least, role-playing the opposite gender allowed me to do things I normally wouldn't do as a person like:



It's not so much that I think females are evil, it's more like "role playing" the opposite gender affords me a certain level of detachment so I am much more free to express my "evil" side. =p

My first character will be female, unless I manage to make a male face while fiddling around in char-gen that sparks my imagination.

Female for my first couple of playthroughs

on my first play thru im going to make a female, she is going to be a flirty manipulating she devil with no rescpect for human life. but on my second i am going to make a man resembeling me,(but with a bad attitude and high on adrenaline)

My first female is always evil in every RPG I play, my first char is always good (agreed with Gabriel77, I get invested in the first character and always feel bad when I do evil things) but my second char is female and inevitably ends up cruel, a mix of taking the most diverse alternate route from the first and a continuation of my first female RPG character who was just evil, since then I've felt mildly obliged to recreate/extend her in every RPG. The Fallout universe evil female is my favourite...

Nothing like watching the tight posterior s- i mean... erm... Chicks can kick ass too! Besides if the game includes the option of encounters with the same six it's win win.

I wonder how many gay people there are though (except for who give the player... Special massages. O_o ).
I want to be able to flirt a several gay guys too.

Females of Death all the way baby! :rock: