I'm not trying to beat her, just make my character the way I would like to look and perform.

So I can safely assume you go about nearly naked when say, shopping for vegetables?

I imagine it's just a nonsensical "defense of sixuality" response caused by the nonsensical attacking of sixuality that often comes with this question, such as the OP's original phrasing.

I've often wondered, while watching the hubs and son play, whether or not their aggressiveness is due to testosterone, their personality, or a combination of both. They are more inclined to carry weapons, heavy armor, and engage in melee combat head on, their reflexes, attention to mechanics and direction are also better than mine. I know that there are males who favor stealth based play, so I assume that combat styles tend to reflect mainly on personality, but I assume testosterone plays a role. Pun intended.

I tend to explore slowly, am deliberate in attack or retaliation, and favor magick and poisons over brute strength. I also tend to worry excessively about companions, something my spouse and son don't seem to be bothered with. I have always assumed it is personality and hormones that influence style of play.
Does gender make a difference in gameplay, or is it mainly personality? Does age?
Both the hubs and I are more thorough in exploration, whereas the son and daughter are not, but have much faster reflexes.


My husband makes both male and female characters, he calls the girls his feminine side. He also on occasion, looks at their asses. He never bothers to change their clothes though, unless it is for weapons/protection upgrades. He has absolutely no sense of fashion, the poor girls.

This , if we followed the rules above this there would be few female characters in WoW , then there wouldn't be as fun to trick people to think your the opposite six so you would get money.

I always assumed Garrus skills at "calibration" :hubbahubba: would come in handy. Oh who am I kidding... all the romance options for a femshep are soooo cheesy that it induces giggles in me when I even see an option on the dialog tree.
I have to say that I really like Jennifer Hale's VA, but Mark Meer totally grew on me - when I play as the male Shepard, I just assume that the voice - that sort of clueless occasional wise-assery mixed with a does of being a total [censored] on many occasions makes Shepard who he is. And the delivery of "It's a big stupid jellyfish" in ME1 always makes me crack up for five minutes. He's kind of so bad he's good and I could not picture the male shepard with a different voice.

Back on topic'ish, there are times I have had a great deal of fun playing a male character. In The Witcher, one of my favorite games, I had a grand time making Geralt a complete hound dog. I was playing at the same time as some guys on this forum and I think they were pretty entertained at my project of making sure Geralt got laid by every possible character he could. I know some women were offended, but eh, it's still a game and female characters like Triss and Sh...whatever her name was, were pretty strong in their own right... if hilariously susceptible to Geralt's dubious charm. I ended up preferring my male Lone Wanderer in Fallout 3, to the female one as well - no idea why, but I got into that role a bit more than when I ran through it as a female. :shrug:
It's why I like games - I get to do random stuff, play as random characters...

The options for FemShep in ME2 were disgraceful. Silly angsty bird man, icky angsty lizard man, or painfully boring Jacob. Yay. Though Jacob did get... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gGShiM1Exc. Apart from that, no same-six options, because oh my! we caught flak for those last time, even though we've been doing them in our game for ages!

Well, except with Kelly, but that didn't count.



While I can understand the personal appeal a SoBadIt'sGood voice actor might have, most people won't really feel the same way. Mark Meer is a cardboard, emotionless "actor" in Mass Effect. I can't really wrap my head around the choice for him as Shepard.


Gah, people get offended at the slightest thing these days. It's just a game, and yeah the six dialogues and scenes and cards are awfully cheesy, but damnit, just because a game is stupid about six doesn't mean it encourages men to see women as lust objects. That reminds me of the whole Mass Effect six scene controversy. What crap that was too.

No. You don't have to focus on anything to play a game, it's just that easy, you're not flying a plane. Staring at female ass is an entertainment of choice, I do that quite often discreetly while on the train, not to mention beatiful boobs.

I want to look at something petite and sixy as I have to watch their butt in a zoomed out camera mode.

Seriously though I just do it for the heck of it though I will say i'm a bit..."biased" as most of the female characters I make are rather voluptuous being the traditional hourglass shape.

It can really change the experience, you haven't completely played a game until you've tried both genders.

Don't know. I can't bring myself to play a female. Not because it's 'gay', I just find it uncomfortable to pretend I'm a female, partially because my RP is always ingrained with parts of my morale compass and personality, so it'd feel like I'm a girl and it'd just be some weird mind screw feeling. I don't really judge people who play as the opposite six though, some people do it simply to do it, others for more personal reasons. But hey, it's their 50 bucks, if an opposite six character is how they more fully enjoy a game, more power to them.

Yes. And sometimes in the game also.

There's your problem. Play with the character, not as the character

When I play a female character it's usually because I'm hoping the game will recognize me as such and give me new/different options. Females are usually not the lead so I like to give them that role, especially if there is a male chauvinistic lead character.

See, I just CAN'T. I've tried, but it just makes me not feel as immersed in the game, so I basically just become the character. It's hard for me to do the 'I'll play a female PC and be the invisible god controlling all of it's actions' attitude. Dunno why, just never could do it. :laugh:

Why do you need to pretend that you are the character to enjoy the game? Sometimes I'll make a character and have a set personality that I intend to play them as but I never pretend I'm the character. I have no idea what it would feel like to be a woman, an elf, or a 287lb bruiser, but that in and of itself hasn't stopped me from playing as those things.

I have no doubt it's play style -- and whatever works for you is fine -- but I've never become immersed enough in any game to feel a need to think like my PC. Every game is a sandbox to me, so I just try new things. And sixy outfits

It would actually be pretty scary to feel like I'm "in" those games.

Oh, I can get so in the game that I don't notice anything else. Phone ringing, cats dying of hunger etc.

Well, i have the opposite problem, i can't "become" the character or play as "myself", so i understand that compltely :hehe:

Time gets me, when I'm immersed.

What it's Thursday? I have a beard, am now failing three classes, and I started Monday night, what the...?

:P

I tend to think I'm an unrecognized pioneer of this trend...

I do it because girls kick ass too. I think my reasoning is reasonable. It's always the males being heroes. And since few games have heroines, I choose to play one.

This is why I love games like Parasite Eve, Suikoden(my party is usually 1 male(main char) 5 females) RE: Veronica, Tomb Raider and RE2: Claire's disc.

Well as a result of this thread I'm doing another playthrough of DAO as a male mage. I'm finding it much easier to play an 'ass' character as a male...hmmm...

Because I enjoy staring at women more than men in my spare time.

Funny, because in Fable I managed to constantly nag my husband to take out the trash, among other things.

Sounds just like me, minus the beard. And the classes.

It's odd to me that anyone would even ask this question, really. How has any author ever been able to write a book with characters of more than one six? Or bad guys, if they themselves aren't bad? Even if it's not something you're any good at, the idea of having a character in your head that isn't you is hardly new or shocking.