I play mostly male characters, as I am one and find it hard to identify with female characters.
Though, sometimes to use the 'roleplay' in 'RPG' I play with a female character, and have at-least one female character save file. And I do find it fun to use a female character as my doctor/scientist roleplay character (rather than having a heap of different male characters that are basically all the same except for their class).

I never play in 3rd person in this game, so I don't have 'staring at their ass' as a reason not to us either male or female. Though, if you are staring at the character's ass while playing, then maybe you shouldn't focus so much on that and just play the game, it's not like in 3rd person view the character's bottom is all you can see - you are just choosing to focus and stare at it.

Honestly, with the more complex RPG's like Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and so many others.. I tend to go through many characters both male and female, good and evil. I do this to get the most out of the games and as much of the full picture as well.
Think about it... many games like this have so many possibilities that if you only played a good male character every time, you would get incredibly bored with it by the time you finished the game the second time.
So while I am a male and my character is the same this time, my next one will probably be female. Do I find it weird playing a female... no. I don't get that into it. I'm just playing a game, and enjoying the story.

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A little of both. The genitalia is not unlike a sausage in a bun.

Lol that is the EXACT reason why I choose a female charachter when I am a guy Get really sick of seeing a guy run around after awhile !

I always play as a male, because I'm a male... I play WoW and the many, many guys who play as girls always seem odd to me... maybe its my crowd but IF I played as a female and my friend's saw it they would make comments that aren't allowed on this forum.

To the guy who said he plays as a female cause he doesn't like staring at a mans ass, why would you play in 3rd person? Game is meant to be in first 3rd person is basically here just to take a look at your new armor for a sec. Watching yourself "skate" over the land and slide back and forth when you strafe is a pretty clear indication its not meant for 3rd person.

I usually, well, nearly always go with a male character, if there is a choice, because if I play a game - I prefer to roleplay it, to the extent put by my current mood. My problem is, when I try to roleplay a gender, which I'm not IRL, I will end up either playing female exactly as a male - or turning [censored]ty / lisbian (oh, Fallout 2..). From my opinion, to properly play a different gender, you must either play and act, as you would yourself - and hope it will suffice - or a kind of inspiration for a character, from a good movie or a book.

I don't mind either. But I have started out creating a female character for NV.

Man, you're so straight. I wish I was as straight as you.

First I was a cute lil' japanese girl.
Now I'm a burly latino guy with a kickass beard.
Next up, red-headed nympho.

(Yeah I like to switch it up a lot.)

You should stop staring at pixel asses and start playing the game...

I don't think that's necessarily true. Certainly, there's always been a bit of bias on the developer's part (it's pretty obvious that Todd Howard has long been a first-person kind of guy,) but I don't think it's necessarily true that these games are "meant" to be played in first-person. Myself, I only play in third-person - only switching occasionally to first in order to take a close look at something. Some of us actually have a lot of trouble with the first-person concept, in general.

I've always found that I lack an intuitive spatial sense when playing first-person - which manifests in having trouble navigating stairways, bumping into things all the time, and falling off ledges. To me, it's only "immersive" if my character lacked depth perception, and had no peripheral vision. With third-person view, I have a much clearer sense of where my character's physicality exists within the game world, what's going on around me, and where I'm going.

Personally, while I'll admit that my female character's rear end catches my eye from time to time - in a reality where, let's face it, a personal computer can be used for a much more... varied experience; that alone is, I find, hardly reason enough to justify me playing a female character. (ie, if all I was looking for was sixual gratification, then I really wouldn't be making full use of what a PC and an internet connection allow.)

For myself, I've always roleplayed in the third-person, to begin with. My character has never been "myself -" it's always been more like writing a character in a novel, or directing an actor in a movie. When I'm roleplaying, I feel more like I'm casting an actor for a specific role, and tailor that character to fill that role. So it's not that strange to me to play as a female character - it's just another character that I'm playing.

In my case, it's more that a female character best fits the character concept I had envisioned for the game. I knew I was going with lower STR and END scores and - not to be sixist about this, or make generalizations - it felt more natural to play an agile and charismatic female character than a "weakling" male character. (And - of course - I say that knowing there's no reason you can't have a male character with END 1, or a female character with 10 STR, and it wouldn't be odd, either.)

I always play as a dude.
I made a female char in Fallout 3 just to see whats what, but didn't like it.

Anyway the males I have made in fallout 3 and NV are always the ugliest dogs you could find on the wastes.
Greasy ugly hair, thin face and sleepy eyes : you know the dehydrated, hungry, thirsty, junkie look.

I mean come on, this guy lives out in the wastes, sleeps on bloody mattresses next to mutilated corpses, eats poisonous food and so many other things.

Live in the wastes is no picnick, so of course this guy is gonna look like hell.

Both. My first, Pingas Kahn, was a dude. But now I'm playing as Sasha Bellic.



+10 internets if you can guess Sasha's lineage...

In regards to 1st/3rd person... 3rd person actually has one very good advantage, you can see what is going on around you. So when some gecko or whatever you didn't hear runs up beside you, you know where it is. I probably play the game about 60-70% in third person, switching to first when I get into combat, trying to loot specific items or in a narrow area.

Female, with high charisma + speech for role playing purposes, if i wanna be a guy, i just turn off my computer and live in reality.

This exactly.

1;st char was a male, a guns character
2:nd was a female, a melee one.

They are equally fun, although females often sound like an anime chick when they get hit. I don't know if it's such a bad thing but i noticed it.

roled a girl this time just to be complely heartless. There is something so forgiving when a blonde rolls into camp and kills everyone in cold blood....then strolls to the next town and smiles....everything is ok :whistling:

Ok, thats understandable..I'm the opposite, I am always playing "myself if I was in that scenario" No, I don't have 100 gun skill IRL, but if I had survived the fallout world I certainly would have spent every minute I could training with guns, etc. As for the 3rd person, I guess we are just different in that way. I feel more immersed 1st person, because RL is 1st person. I get what your saying about the vision but they can't mimic that atm, unless you have 3 monitors and a game supporting that. I still stand by what I said however, the game is made to be 1st person and gives the option of playing in 3rd, again as you can see with your character "skating" over the land, it looks like 3rd person was thrown in quickly to satisfy people who want to play that way.

That said, I really like Fallout 1/2/Tactics in the isometric view, Id love another Fallout played like that, but I don't see that happening.

I went for Girl. I tend to be more affectionate towards and protective of female characters than male ones. I almost universally play female characters in single player RPGs, and more frequently males in MMOs, where the character speaks with my voice and I strive for more gender congruency (although it's not a huge issue either way). Anyone who is "disturbed" by the idea of playing an OS character in a game, or is confused and "cannot relate" to the idea of being in the shoes of the other gender, all I can say is...seriously? Seriously, guys? Women are that mysterious and threatening to you? I feel bad for anyone you date.

I'm a guy and I have an easier time role-playing a female.

Make of that what you will.

i absolutely love the homophobic justification for rolling females... fail

Female.

The first reason is aesthetic. I play most of the game in 3rd person except for combat for many of the reasons people have stated above: it’s far easier to navigate the world which is full of quite sudden dangers.

Second: I found long ago in RPGs the less a character is like me, the easier it is to make decisions which go against my nature but are better for the game. Evil characters for instance. This way I never forget I am manipulating a character not placing myself into a game.

Third: I find kick-butt women – Sara Connor, The Bride, Buffy, etc. more interesting than their male counter parts.

I'm actually playing both at the moment. My wife enjoys watching the game and giving "directions" for our female character and I'm playing a guy when she's not around.

Although I'll probably get ripped a new one for being "sixist" or something, we literally spent over an hour in the character creation screen getting the nose and hair color just right... :whistling: