Do you care about (your characters) gender when you play a game?

It really depends on the game. Usually I just go for a default guy that doesn't look terrible.
 
Depends on the game and character. I usually just play the "default" gender and then for another playthrough, i just switch it up. Theres nothing weird about playing a video game character of an opposed gender unless you make it weird or try to inject yourself into said character.
 
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It's pretty juvenile and probably autistic, but I've never wanted to play a female character in anything ever. Not in fighting games, sidescrollers, nothing. There is something deeply uncomfortable to me about it, borderline emasculating, maybe transvestite-ish. Felt this way ever since I was a little kid when I wanted nothing to do with girls, but it never changed even after puberty and into adulthood. In RPGs I am okay with them as party members. Would never, ever play as a female character if I had any choice whatsoever. The dudes who want to play as girls to "look at the character" have always weirded me out.

I want to say the only game I ever played through entirely with a female character is Portal, outside of games where you need to unlock things by beating it with certain characters and it's necessary.

Just my opinion and I recognize I'm probably in the minority. pls be patient i have autism
 
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When playing males I usually imagine it's just me. However, when playing the female I see myself simply as the invisible hand guiding her along her journey. :gunt:
 
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Do you care?
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Not really, it just depends on the game. If it affects stats then I choose whatever is best for the build I want.
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Are you very particular with what gender the character you're playing is?
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More often than not, I pick based on which voice I like best or if there's any impact on the game.
For example In Fallout New Vegas I played as a man for the Legion, in Cyberpunk I played as a woman because I liked the voice actress.
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I'll primarily choose whatever is tactically advantageous in a game, but if it's purely cosmetic I'll pick whichever gender is better designed. In either case, if I replay a game I'll usually play as the opposite of whatever I initially chose. And you know, sometimes you just prefer to see a girl, not even for gooning but just because they're easier on the eyes.
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Depends on the game. If it's a story-driven game where I'm playing as a specific character, I don't care as long as the story is good and not wokeshit.

RPGs, it depends on whether or not there's any advantage to picking a woman over a man. If there's replay value in picking a female character, I'll do that at least once*.

Shooters, I'm always a dude. Doubly so if it's supposed to take place in the "real world", or something close to it. Unless they choose to go pure fantasy (like CoD has) and deliberately make the outfits for the females skimpy, there will be hardly any difference visually between a man and a woman when you tack on a bunch of web gear, pouches, body armor, helmets, and bulky uniforms.
 
It depends on the game. Generally in warfare games I play as men unless the tone of the game is more on the fantasy side/the type of playstyle I'm going for. Really, I customize my characters often to go along with whatever style loadouts I use in games. Otherwise, men look cooler in tactical armor, but at the same time female spartans are hot. And if I use random voices in helldivers I'm stuck with twinkdivers or giant burly woman-divers 50% of the time, so I just play as Yosuke. That's about all I care though. I'm secure in my sexuality, I couldn't care less about the gender of my vidya game characters.
 
When I create a character in Fallout 3, New Vegas or more specifically Skyrim, it’s always as a man. The question is always ‘can I play as something other than a Nord this time, and can I finally try that battlemage build.’ It literally doesn’t enter my head to choose a woman PC.

The one time I created a female character in any game at any point in my life, was the first days of Cyberpunk 2077 just to see how big the boobs can get. Shortly after, I restarted and made a proper male character.

With the scant exceptions of Alien: Isolation, early Tomb Raiders, select Resident Evil games and Alien 3 on the Genesis, playing as a female protagonist fills me with a powerful sense of dread.
 
I like it if it fits the story. Part of Role Playing is being able to put yourself in the mind of someone who is not yourself and act out the story to a certain extent. So When the story calls for Geralt of Rivea I am all for it. Likewise with Horizon: Zero Dawn, it was fun to play as Aloy. More importantly a Female character trying to be Geralt would not seem serious. A male character trying to do the Horizon story would also seem pretty silly. It just doesn't fit.

Then of course there are the slapfights over which Commander Shepherd is Canonical. Male Shep or Femme Shep. I play through the games as both because I loved them and am a hard core completionist about Games I like, and I honestly preffered the Femme Shep, mainly because her voice actress was waaaaay better then Male Sheps voice actor. Shepherds brand of sarcastic humor and devil may care attitude came across better with the female version. Which could be chalked up to the superior voice acting.

I think at the end of the day the character has to fit with the story. If something is shoehorned in to check a box, it removes the suspension of disbelief and you are taken out of the experience.
 
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Just thinking about this - in the decades I’ve played fighting games, I’ve never played as a female character with the solitary exception of Spiral in Marvel vs Capcom 2 and X-Men: COTA.
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I don't care what gender the characters I play are because I'm not trans.
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What about Poison from SFIV?
 
For a non create a character game, yes it matters. But thats because I'm judging if this character is likeable or makes sense in the given scenario.
That's why everyone hated Abby in the last of us 2. She was a selfish, unlikeable, unredeemable piece of shit you were forced to control and was as large as a man because fuck it, why not?
Ellie had cringe lines like "bigot sandwiches" but she was far more believable as a character. Minus the shoe horned lesbian stuff.
 
I absolutely don't care unless the game gives me a reason to care. i.e. If a character comes off as insufferable or unlikable. It's not often I run into this problem though as I don't indulge in the Western slop of the last decade. Not that Japanese games are perfect in this regard, however most times some of those characters edging on 'annoying' are negligible. They're typically better made games and that's my primary concern.

Depending on the game, I might be more inclined to pick one gender over the other if they have better looking armor, like the armor in MH World I much preferred with female over male -- which is not the norm, I preferred the armor in the older games for the men.

Sometimes it's just as simple as some of the male designs being shit, and the ladies being hot, so I'll pick the hot piece of ass instead.

No, not a tranny.
 
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