It's just part of the fun for me to make a male character sixy, unless I have some specific rp concept in mind that dictates otherwise. How is that not productive? I don't play Skyrim to be productive. lol

I can't percieve a world in the eyes of a woman. I play a male character, myself.

Ditto! If I try to play a male toon, I feel so weird and I can't really get into Character. Although, I have a huge imagination and most of the toons I play are nothing like me (hey I don't steal and kill hahaha), but I can't play a guy LOL

I made a few male toons in an MMO, but ended up just using them as storage alts LMAO YES that's what you ALL are good for! =p

I never play as a female Character, only if you are forced to it like in Diablo 2 "Sorceress" - "Amzone".... But if i can chose the gender i play male.

Oh noes! a rant. I can`t see why a person playing the opposite six might not want to play that character so he can look at the butt. I`m sure a lot of blokes like Tomb Raider primarily cos they could stare at female butt while playing.

Denying nature is denying your true self...

Oh noes, a meme!

Choosing to play a female character "to look at their butt" isn't choosing to play a female character. Boxing female characters into "female roles" is equally closed-minded.

In Tomb Raider you couldn't choose the gender and in the first parts it was way to low poly to look at And i only played the first two parts of Tomb Raider. Then i played Indina Jones

I have a fairly even distribution of male/female characters in all games where it's an option......

Fiction writers have to write actions for characters based on motivations for the other gender all the time...

I don't see the issue.

i don't try and perceive gameworld decisions through the eyes/mind of any real-life woman.

i play video games as both male and female. cosmetic.

I've always seen the "if I have to stare at a butt, it'll be female" comment as a silly/jokey shorthand for "Being a straight male, I appreciate the appearance of the female form. Given the choice, I'd rather look at women than men."


And for the "lol pixelpr0n!" crowd.... people have been able to appreciate and recognize beauty in many forms, for thousands of years. Whether in person, drawn in ink, painted with oils, carved in stone, photographed, or described in text. So yeah - nothing crazy about being able to look at a well designed character in a video game (female or male) and say "That's pretty/handsome/attractive/whatever." It also doesn't imply anything overtly sixual, unless you're also going to say that noticing a hot girl on the street or the beach means that you're having six with them / [censored] edit: (hmm, that's censored. Let's say "engaging in solo pursuits")/ etc.

"What? can't stand the sight of a strong nord woman???"

I sometimes feel like I'm not playing my character, and I'm letting them make their own decisions. Female characters don't pose a problem, and they can even fall in love. Of my 10 chars 5 are male and 5 are female. My Khajit is modelled on my own moggy - so you think you've got problems playing the opposite six? I can't bear the thought of her getting in harms way, so she will be my pacifist playthru.

I love me!

Yep, I'm not sure why, I've just never had the interest...

I had the 2nd one (The Ancient Gates) on PS2, great game, loved it.

Anyway, funnily enough, the first female character I created was in Morrowind - First char I created in that game was male and very much based on me but it just seemed a little...boring. So I created a female character but she got locked out on the MQ by not taking a key item from a corpse at one point (and I was on Xbox at the time so out of luck).

Made a third character, also female.

This 3rd character was then one I used in other games whenever I had to make a character - MW was pretty much one of the first games I'd played where I was forced to make a character, I was a console gamer back then until I decided to buy a PC just for MW - so it was kinda cool to have an off-the-shelf character I could make for a number of games, even non-ES ones.

I've even used her in MMOs (and, whilst I was already respectful of women prior to that I gained a new level of respect from having a female char in an MMO).

Why do I like my female character so much? Guess it's kind of cool to disengage the machismo so it gives a greater degree of escapism in that respect.

I'd also say that female characters tend to look better in most games - males characters fall prone to exaggeration much more, though not always, than female characters.

I'm actually a little surprised at how many people in here are saying they have difficulty playing as the opposite gender. I have no more difficulty playing a female then I do playing an Elf, a lizard, an alien lizard etc.

You say weird, I say incredibly and horrifically creepy. I think you and I are still on the same page, though.

I think only males who are unsure of their own masculinity have problems with this.

I started playing female characters in games, about the time that you COULD; Previous to that, your only choice
in such games was playing a male. Maybe that is why I started.

As at least one previous said, its no different than playing an orc/elf whatever. Well, really it is; You are closer
to a human/nord female than you are to an elf male (genetically.)

All of my world of warcraft characters have been female. Again, I think its male adolescents
finding it weird in that game.

Being able to play a character of the opposite six is part of growing up.

I am an old man currently playing as an Amazonian-Nord lass. While first and foremost, I have many friends who are of various sixual orientations. Therefore, as long as I have played Dragon Age Origins (DAO), with an open mind, where the sixual orientation goes both ways, I don't find it difficult at all. For as long as I have played DAO I have come to find that the women characters in DAO are much better fighters overall. My favorite class is playing as a Dual Swords-woman Battlemage. That said, that is how I am playing here in Skyrim.

"Given that my character is and Amazonian-Nord, she came to Skyrim in search of her never seen and long dead estranged father's heritage. Little did she know, however, that she carried with her the Dragonborn blood. The inborn soul of a Dragon. Thus, born and raised on the isle of Atlantis among her Amazonian sisters she had learned her fighting skills and Mage skills along side of the female skills. To that end, she prefers the company of women and thus has Muiri for a companion." (Since there is no romance in Skyrim, there is only one's imagination: and, that a shame.)

sorry for the double post.

as a guy, ive always played a guy.

Role-Playing as a woman is what some people are trying to get across, if there male of course. I can't RP as a female character.

I don't care about "sixy" but If I play a female, I'm certainly not going to play and ugly one.

see I find it wierd, it's not like you have to RP the minutia of existing as a female. In a cRPG even more so. Expecially as you are thrown into the same situations either way. You are both dragonborn, both a Warrior/thief/mage/hybrid class. So what really in the disision making process of playing a cross gender characte that's blocking you guys up?

Bingo.


And another one. The only new thing in finding fictional video game characters attarctive is the medium in which they are presented.