I made a female character once just to try out this perk in New Vegas. Other than that is the only time I ever made a female character in a game.

Thank God.

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Im playing DA2 right now, I'm a female warrior, I'm gonna have all females with me as much as possible, just because you never see that

25% of the characters I make are female doing it for the purposes of hearing extra dialogue (and other slight differences presented in-game) as well as different roleplays that I have in mind that I would have a harder time doing as a male and just because. Nothing really big for me but for the most part I play as a male that offers greater ease at roleplaying.

Yeah, otherwise I'd have to join the circus. :unsure:

One thing I've noticed in my time here at these forums is that there's two basic approaches around here to roleplaying games. Some players prefer to... "be" the character they are playing. In general, I've found that they prefer to play in first-person, as well. And I think that's probably a fairly apt anology to their approach. (This isn't how I play, so I'm paraphrasing from conversations I've had with other members over time regarding this - apologies if I'm inaccurate.)

Others (myself included) prefer to see them more as... "directing" or "writing" the events on-screen. In general, we prefer third-person point of view - and again, I feel that's a relatively apt anology to that particular approach. And of course that

So I don't think I'd be going out on a limb to make the assumption that those players who are going to be more comfortable playing as a character of the opposite gender will tend to lean more towards the "third-person" approach to gaming.

Myself, as a male gamer - I mostly play as my own gender when given the choice. I will occasionally roll a female character, however. It tends to be a lot of reasons, and it really has little to do with watching a character's sixy backside. At least with me.

Firstly, as someone with an art background - it tends to be more difficult to model the female form properly than it is with a guy. If I want to really judge just how good the character modellers are - the female characters are going to give me a better idea than anything else. And with a lot of games giving you the option to facegen your characters - there have been some games where I just couldn't get a male character to look.. "just right." And in those cases, I've found I've usually had a lot more luck getting a female character's face to look closer to what I'd originally envisioned. (Again, a lot of that comes from my art background - if there's no slider to adjust the particular feature I want to tweak, and yet I know exactly what I'm going for, it can get a bit difficult for me to settle for anything "less.")

And a lot of times it simply comes down to what sort of character I've got in mind to play for a particular game. When I'm creating a character for a videogame RPG, I kind of start off from the perspective of almost like casting a character for a movie. What do I know about the game so far, and how things are going to go overall? Who do I see being a good fit for the main character? And sometimes the stats I'm picking help that along, as well.

In Fallout, for example - I almost always go with 3's in STR and END so that I can raise AGI, CHA, and INT to 8's. I'm usually going for someone who's not going to be as physical, but who makes up for it with finesse and intelligence. Certainly, there's no reason that a dude couldn't fit that role as well. (And obviously there's nothing stopping me from creating a compelling female lead with 10 STR, for instance.) But for me, it's always just organically ended with me deciding to create a female character for Fallout. And that goes all the way back to Fallout 1 - so I'm certainly not creating female characters just so I'll have something pretty to look at.

I don't necessarily set out to come to that decision - but combined with my approach to roleplaying in general; if I think a female character would be compelling in a particular role, then I'm comfortable playing that.

Funny how only guys ask that type of question. Maybe because female gamers are used to be stuck with the opposite six character when there's no other option?
I personnaly play both genders. Depends how I feel when I create a character. It's like reading a book, or watching a movie. If the storytelling is about a male hero, or female hero, does it matter? When you have options, be it six, race, size... it offers slight changes to the feel of the game. That's it.

Ok, maybe I tend to create a male character when I ovulate...sometimes :whistling:

To experience the thrill of having a woman do something you tell her to. That's why I play female characters. :rolleyes: