Both. Currently, I am doing my first playhtrough with a male.

I pay more attention to the gameworld, NPCs, enviroment and game overall.

Does it make me weird(or gay as the homophobes like to say) that I don't give a damn about a bunch of pixels that resemble a badly shaped butt? No wonder half of the male population on PC who play girls will dress those poor gals in little to no clothing at all. Judging by the pics on the oblivion/fallout3/newvegasnexus..

But hey whatever floats your boat. Someone prefers to role-play, and someone else the "Barbie Doll simulator - now with more +10DT bikini chainmail!"

Wait there is +10DT chainmail??? Where??

I almost exclusively choose female characters in games where I make my own character to play as. Games like Fallout or Mass Effect. I simply prefer using female characters to male characters, not because of sixist views. I might choose a male character but not in the first playthough in these games.

Playing as a hot female who has a thing for stealth, sniper rifles and strange meat pies.

Haha yeah.

Though I'd think anyone slightly homophobic would prefer to use a male character instead of a female - as-in, paying a 'straight' male character rather than a female character with all the male npc's little 'hey baby' comments and whatnot..

It's like, someone (if they're male) would rather play as a female and presumably act like a female in the game (talking to male npc's as they would if they were female to get stuff etc. with black widow perk) and dress in something they like to look at when running around in 3rd person, than to play as a male (if they are male in real life) and use lady killer perk (or confirmed bachelor perk)..... etc. With the silly reasons like 'I don't want to stare at a man's ass'. Lol.

If that's what you're staring at then you're probably playing the wrong game. (And you can also zoom out on 3rd person, you know)

But if people use a certain gender just so they have something they deem to be easier on the eyes then so be it. We all have a different opinion on what that is. Just as long as people don't spend too long looking at their character instead of keeping your eyes peeled for Fiends or Deathclaws.

I normally play as a dude, but sometimes go for the chick

yupp i do the same thing

i think if i were a woman, i would shudder at the thought of having six with that slimeball.

Female character, since I can't relate nor identify with male characters despite my upbringing which was strongly male focused - personal reasons. I find I can role play and be more immersed with a female lead, a male lead only ends up making me pretty depressed and bored to tears.

Also since the majority of NPC's in the Fallout games are usually male, compared to the few female NPC's as a whole, then the Black Widow perk is vastly more useful.

As a kid growing up I saw a cartoon called Heavy Metal, for a kid of 14 or so in the early 80s the movie totally blew my mind. Tarna the Terakian was such a conflict with my narrow view of the cookies and band aides type of women (mom, sisters, aunts, grandmothers) that made up my world she became my first fantasy girl. A dangerous yet safe fantasy girl for a boy of 14 with little knowledge and no experience she provided a contrast to the women and girls in my life at the time. It is like when you see the older guys riding around in the Corvette, or Porsche, with the sixy buxom 19 year old in the passanger seat, that 20 years ago as a new pup turned loose on the world were both out of reach. Now 20 years later i can afford the Corvette and the buxom 19 year old for the passenger seat, but something changed. Sadly, i have become too responsible to roll the car around on the street as it was designed nor can i just roll the buxom 19 year old around on the hood as she was designed. Instead i settle for the safe consequence free blast from the past hot sixy ass kicker named Tarna revisualized with every game or story, but they are all still her in spirit. So as i toss her hot ass around in my kick ass over built drool inspiring PC i get a little flash of the past. In the geek world I am that [censored] who will spend anywhere from 2500 to 3500 dollars on collection of PC parts i will lovingly assemble. My pride and joy is my PC, it is MY Corvette, and every character i make is my buxom 19 year old for the passanger seat. I always RP them as a combination a mixture of women, taking a bit of each one, Tarna, Mrs. Smith, Laura Croft, Jinx, Vesper Lynd, Wai Lin, and yes i wil even throw in sme Judy Dench for good measure. Make no mistake though they are all eye candy for my viewing pleasure, just one more point of enjoyment i can derive from a game.

Asai

Currently playing through as female simply to see if the game does right by it's own story and I get beaten over the head and enslaved after working through the Legion

As a male, I always pick male characters, so i guess i always think of my in game character as an extension of myself and want to make it as close as possible.