Why Do Men Tend to Play as Females in Games? (ME: Why not?)

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I almost always made girl characters.

And then I made myself one too 👍

Why do men, women, and enbies play as bisexual poly dragonborn in videogames?

feeeeeeeeemaaaaales

Vegeta cares not from where the blood flows, only that it flows without cease for all eternity.

Naw, my dysphora goes so bad as a child I had to play men when I could, though family would be like 'hehe, lil tamagotchi is that your boyfriend?' (nah way too masc). Virtual reality induced gender dysphoria, yep.

In TES sometimes I want to blend in (dark elf in Morrowind, Imperial in Oblivion, Argonian in Arena, etc) in some MMOs I'm that guy that plays a boring human support class dude while everyone else is a blue-red tree bard.

Hey now in fallout(s) you can get a perk(lady killer/black widow) that increases the damage against enemies of the opposite gender, and being how that the ratio of men to women enemies is like 85% to 15% , it's just smart and logical to play as a girl

AND NO OTHER REASON

One exception: If I'm playing as a dwarf, he has to be male and have a great beard. Otherwise, what's the point? Unless lady dwarfs have beards in this setting, then I'm doing that.

I sometimes prefer playing men just because of how male-gazy they make women look. It just seems weird at times, beyond what I'd brush off as artistic and stylistic choices.

In some games girls getting cooler clothes, like in Pokemon. In stuff like Guild Wars I loved both male and female armor sets, depending on the class.

I almost always make my melee characters women and generally small. Yes the lady gnome is your tank today, bow down to your leader.

Women are cool and i hate my male gender for incredibly normal reasons

Mostly because I'm sick of playing dudes. I grew up playing dudes and so many games today still make you play a dude. I want some fucking variety in my games!

I gave them personality/backstories in my head, dont ask

FINALLY, I’m not the only one.

It’s actually what gave my egg the last kick it needed. I was getting bored with always playing the nice, naive protagonist and wanted something different with my Dragon Age 2 playthrough. So I spent an entire evening making my fem-Hawke, searching for a name and making up a personality and was really satisfied with my creation.

Well, 2 weeks later it dawned on me that I didn’t really create a personality, but instead just subconsciously gave her my own, which I was keeping buried under a big pile of denial and ignorance. Turns out that you don’t have to be very feminine and cute to be a trans woman.

And to put the cherry on top: I also liked the name so much that exactly 10 years later now, I’m finally gonna make it my official one (well, with 1 letter changed).

The end.

the gender depends on which cat i'm naming the character after

If it's single-player, I play either depending on the game, but I have noticed I just don't like using female avatars in multiplayer games specifically. Female characters are fine, like in a Left 4 Dead or fighting game-style situation, but I just feel weird playing as a customisable female avatar in online games probably because the few times I tried I got treated like a girl by random dudes which felt so viscerally unpleasant my skeleton almost popped out of my skin and ran for the door

I'd rather look at a girl's butt than a guy's tbh

Men protagonists tend to feel kind of cliché.

Also I'm a little shallow and like seeing women, especially powerful, competent ones.

i play dudes cause i like staring at dude ass simple as

Depends on the character I'm playing and the game tbh. In mass effect I mainly played FemShep for the voice acting (still love mark meer but prefer Jennifer hale). In bg3 my characters are probably 50/50 split. Same with FNV and other RPGs.

I usually pick whatever sex looks cooler or has better animations/armor. Like in the case of FFXI the female options look a lot better and flashier than the ho-hum males.

I play female characters because I will get distracted by hot male characters. I routinely get mauled in Silent Hill 2 because I'm too busy admiring James Sunderland's impeccable form and not the mannequin around the corner. God, I'd let that man smother me

In a lot of cases (not the people here) it's because they like having a woman they can oggle from every angle and exercise complete control over. See Shaun's most recent video; if it's enough to be a core conceit of reasonably popular video games, it's enough to motivate g*mers in other games that treat their female characters just a misogynistically.

Plenty of people have other reasons, of course.

I used to have all kinds of excuses for this question, but look at me now lol

If I hadn't played female Shepard in Mass Effect, I would have missed out on Jennifer Hale voice acting. 90% of the time, I play female simply because I prefer hearing a female voice over a male voice. I hear my own all day lol.

I used to kick so much ass in SF2 using Chun Li and only using the middle kick. If I was in a bad mood id throw in the flying kick-middle punch-low kick combo just to be an asshole

10% "there's more options, and I like playing dolls", 40% "just feel like it" and 50%🥚

it's fun to cross dress

Eh, I think I keep it fairly diverse. Though they often model their women characters to appeal to gamers which can be off-putting.

Because my relationship to the player character is less like a costume or a wish-fulfillment proxy for myself and more like the relationship between an audience and an actor.

The video mentions smaller hitbox, but a smaller character model also gives you more ability to see around your character from the 3rd person camera perspective. When I played World of Warcraft, I chose the man model of the largest race (for the racial bonus) and wore bulky plate mail body armor as part of my character class. I realized it was hard to see whether I was standing in fire or other ground effects. Watching other people play, I noticed that it was easier to see whether you are standing in bad stuff if you chose to play a woman human character, and much easier if you played as a gnome. I chose to start using consumables which made my character model visibly smaller.

When I create a male character I've the tendency to mirror my own behaviour and roleplay as myself and when I create a female character I do as you said and give them a different personality, their own back story and etc.

But if is pokemon I always play with the female because they normally exist in the anime.

I don't know why is that but I do that for like 15years.

Cos I wanna look like a girl, ideally heather mason specifically. I remember when i would play sims 2 as a kid and i would make little scenarios based around me in the game but the me i made was never a guy lol.

My often go for female if given the choice. No idea why though.

Although my main in WoW from MoP to TWW is a male troll hunter[was a female BE paladin from wrath to MoP]

I’m sorry to say this but back when I played vidja I only played as women because I wanted to feel cool and a feminist ally, I actually preferred and enjoyed playing as a man

I hit random 4 or 5 times pick the first name that comes to mind and hit go

I don't often play female characters in fighting games as they rarely are made in the archetype I like. I like grapplers and charge characters. I do like Mokoto in street fighter. Tiara from punch planet. A few others I could rememberwith time.

i almost always do -- why would i want to be the same as what i am in real life?

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