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

If a game has character creation. I usually just go for regular human guy because I'm an unoriginal cunt. But sometimes I mix it up and make him look whacky or silly, depends on the game.

If you play a certain protag and she happens to be a woman then who cares? If the game is good then great.

We all can agree that "I play a female character because I don't want to look at a man's ass for 40 hours. I'm not gay" is blatant cope right?


Besides. If you look at video games and het pissy that your real life self isn't reflected 100% in your character then you need to get some perspective because it's a video game. Only trannies care about self inserting what they WANT in life in a god damn video game of all things.
 
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The Pierrot said:
I'm pretty sure a part of it is just a simplification of the fact that playing a woman in those kinds of games means that the player, as the one controlling them, can do whatever they like with the character. Nothing deeper than that.
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That's a bad simplification of player choice if that's really all it is.


wtfNeedSignUp said:
You are really asking for it

More seriously, pretty much the entire runtime of the game you will have the main character occupy a good chunk of the screen, usually with game systems designed around equipping costume/armor sets. So having a female on screen is preferable, same as having a female voice on apps. The only reason I'd play a male is if it has romance since it's either romancing lesbians or males, both disgusting in their own right.

I never had the "PC is literally me" feeling in a game where it would make sense to play as a man unless you have AGP.
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1. I watched that entire video and have no further questions.

2. I like my character to be a vessel in things like CRPGs, and it's more immersive if the character resembles myself in such games that allow for it like Elder Scrolls or Cyberpunk. Playing as a woman creates a minute disconnect between myself and the world I'm interacting with from the start, same could be said for other races. That's not to say "never", it's just my first choice, and the alternatives may be explored in subsequent playthroughs. Sometimes, it even means new content and interactions, and I like it when I get my money's worth. Still, I can't justify choosing the opposite sex for the eye candy alone, and it's really difficult for me to understand players doing that for any other reason than being coomers in most cases.

I think back to WoW where half the players dress up as softcore porn and spam a sexy dance emote, or how with Nexus Mods if you flip off the "hide NSFW" switch, you learn the most downloaded mods are 4k nude female models, tit inflators, and bikini armors.
 
PetiteFeet said:
And then you have Kerry fucking Eurodyne who you can't mack on as a female V despite him being bisexual? Come the fuck on, in anno domini where EVERY FUCKING "DIVERSE" GAME HAS PLAYER-SEXUAL NPCs! I'm just mad because the OG Illidan Stormrage voice actor is Kerry
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Because Kerry isn't really interested in a romance with you. He never got over Johnny. Male V is the closest he can come to finally getting to fuck Johnny.

The Kerry romance is /deeply/ toxic when you really think about it. And I usually would cringe at using that word. But Kerry is not emotionally... well... at all. Neither is Rogue, really - one of the subtexts of Silverhand's story is that he kinda fucks up the life of everyone he touches.

Actually I'm not sure it's even so subtle as to qualify as subtext.


PetiteFeet said:
And let's be real, point me to a game where the intended player experience is the female when you're given the option of either gender because I can't think of one. It's understandably the default when gaming is still by and largely a straight male oriented form of escapism/hobby.
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Both Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla have the female option as the canon choice.
 
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MembersSchoolPizza said:
Both Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and Assassin's Creed: Valhalla have the female option as the canon choice.
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But do they make sense, "dev canon" or otherwise? I haven't played either and I won't so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Cassandra a lesbian or do you get a superficial choice of male and female love interests? Because in my head it's not very diverse and LGBTQQWTFBBQ+ friendly to write a stronk wamen who has to ignore her sexuality in order to continue her bloodline, unless of course Ubisoft threw the whole "Desmond Miles is genetically connected to Altair and Ezio which is why he can become them in the Animus" logic out after the last Ezio game (which I never finished, forgive me)
Dysnomia said:
I like to make the female characters cute. At least have a decent face if I can customize. It can be funny to play as an uggo or genetic abomination sometimes. But I'd rather be attractive.
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Weird, I thought it was only me. Especially when the visuals don't fucking matter but there's a character creator anyway, like in Dark Souls. People always make the ugliest possible abominations, meanwhile I spend hours in the character creator.
A Deer In Headlights said:
Only if the character is trans (which hardly happens since I avoid that slop). I've been having a hard time trying to finish Celeste after I found out the developer retconned the main character to be trans. It's both stupid and ironic when they need to have a man be the "strong female". Other than that I'm pretty indifferent but usually lean towards what would make things more interesting.
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Weirdly enough I could see myself giving Celeste a pass but I'd actively try to find mods to remove the trans bullshit. What little I've experienced of Celeste felt relatable in that mental illness and self-esteem issues is something most of us have had a brush with, either personally or loved ones that have struggled with it. I can't tell if it's a blessing or not that I generally dislike platformers that are that tight, gameplay wise. Dodged a tranny bullet.
Lurkerish Kandor said:
Dragon's Dogma 1 had many very specific reasons to choose gender/height/weight stuff, because all of it factors into gameplay in some way.
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I liked that Dragon's Dogma you could be the fattest, tallest of butch ogre-looking woman and you'd have better stamina for climbing on monsters or you could be a literal gnome who could fit into holes and crawlspaces. I don't think I ever dabbled with either extreme and just did my usual Casca-esque amazon, throwing my pawns like it was going out of style.
Chapalapachapa said:
i'm fucking over female protagonist in games
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Strong Female Protagonist games are such an instant turn-off because you just know it's a man with breasts because the writers are hacks or it's a Stunning and Brave Mary Sue who can do no wrong, who's a total GirlBossTM and all of the men are toxic but also incredibly weak, needing her to save the day every time they fuck something up.
 
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PetiteFeet said:
But do they make sense, "dev canon" or otherwise? I haven't played either and I won't so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Cassandra a lesbian or do you get a superficial choice of male and female love interests? Because in my head it's not very diverse and LGBTQQWTFBBQ+ friendly to write a stronk wamen who has to ignore her sexuality in order to continue her bloodline, unless of course Ubisoft threw the whole "Desmond Miles is genetically connected to Altair and Ezio which is why he can become them in the Animus" logic out after the last Ezio game (which I never finished, forgive me)
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I'm not sure. I gave up on AC when the lore started to get increasingly stupid.

My understanding is that in both games, there are numerous romance options of both genders - there's no indication from what I now that either version of the main characters have a default sexuality. (Looking it up just now, it looks like sexual partners are like Pokemon in those games - countless, gotta fuck 'em all!)

But they also did away with the "the (meta) main character has to be related" thing, apparently, too. They can now do it with just a sample of the DNA, making it even stupider. Or just as stupid, actually, I suppose.
 
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It doesn't really matter to me.

I do have a personal rule when it comes to games that let me make my own character though. If the game has beards that look good I'll play a dude, otherwise I pick a chick.
 
Troons ruined picking female character for the sex appeal

But personally I like the role playing aspect of ROLEplaying games, making characters who look like me and where I feel ashamed if characters get mad at me was something that happened when I was 8 years old.

Now I can switch between characters like Ork Axhead who only walks in a straigth line and thinks a bow is for women, and a female assassin that kill to please the god of suffering
 
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I used to sometimes play female characters when I was younger, but that never clicked with me and hurt my immersion.

The last time was probably when I tried femshep in Mass Effect because the autists at the forum shilled the voice acting so much, but I found it to be very off-putting to play a woman who is supposed to be the greatest soldier in the galaxy and has a really tryhard voice.
Also, the voice actress always sounded like she wanted to fuck that one bland negro in the crew, that was incredibly strange.
 
Male because I want to live the primordial desire to be greatest warrior of all and cater to my power fantasy, this includes all genres. The only time I played as a female MC was Bayonetta and Silent Hill 3, because the female MC are well written and great.
 
PetiteFeet said:
I liked that Dragon's Dogma you could be the fattest, tallest of butch ogre-looking woman and you'd have better stamina for climbing on monsters or you could be a literal gnome who could fit into holes and crawlspaces. I don't think I ever dabbled with either extreme and just did my usual Casca-esque amazon, throwing my pawns like it was going out of style.
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For my recent 50th playthrough (ish, I've lost count tbh) I decided to forego my usual thing of playing as a huge Mystick Knight based on my IRL height/weight, and instead play as "Lil Timmy" the tiny daggerist.
It's fantastic how gameplay stuff aside, even just the character being shorter makes the entire world FEEL bigger and more difficult to platform around due to camera height and distance. It's inspired me to do some retarded big long video deep diving into DD: DA in the next year, with the first 2/3 comparing a Lil Timmy playthrough to a playthrough with my usual character type.
 
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I feel like it depends on what exactly the character options are. Games where I can choose the gender without it changing the gameplay, I'll always pick female, but games where abilities are based on characters, I'm gonna pick characters with abilities I like.
Gonna be honest, when I was in middle school, I would be disappointed if the game I wanted to play didn't have female characters or cute options, but as I got older, I honestly realized I couldn't care less because it didn't change if the game was good or shitty. DRG is one of my favourite games, even though there are technically no "female" or "pretty" characters (I think lore wise it's been said that the female dwarves look the same as the males though anyway).
It's retarded to not play a game just because the character isn't the same gender as yourself. I had gotten GTAV back in middle school, and I only ended up doing the story mode during high school because it took a while to get out of the mindset of "the character isn't a girl, i can't play it". Not sure what even brought that mindset to begin with, could've been due to cultural upbringing or some shit.
 
I used to play as female characters sometimes. I swore it off when a borderline-tranny former friend gave me shit for it in a tabletop RPG. I won't ignore a good game just because the protagonist is a woman, but if there's any customization I'm playing a dude.
 
No, but I generally play a dude if I'm given a choice. If there's a sex-locked class (back when games did this), I'd usually try out the female-exclusive ones to see if they click before settling.

Not trans, thankfully.
 
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