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

The Crack Spiders Bitch said:
I design and name my characters to be as hilarious as possible in cutscenes.
Male or female doesn't matter - I do it for the lulz
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Some day I want to create a hideous troon and just be mean to everyone in the game for lulz.
PetiteFeet said:
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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It's the writing. It seems few writers have a good grip on how to make a strong female character without girlbossing it up the arse. It's like they only understand "tough chick" as a surface element. They have no idea how to properly develop such a character to make her believable and enjoyable to play.

I was thinking back to the Phantasy Star games. Alis Landale sees her brother killed and takes up his quest and get justice for him. Alys Brangwin was pretty cool too. Tough and didn't take anything from anyone. But it was well written. That's the kind of tough female character I want to see.
 
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Not really. I don't care if player character is male or female as long as game is good. If the game has character creation I just pick male and don't bother touching any appearance sliders except for skin colour because, for all my tolerance and acceptance of others, I ain't playing a nigger.

I'm not a tranny.
 
Depends on the game, but typically not. If it's a game where you design your character, 99% of the time I'll make a guy. If it's a game where you choose between premade characters, I lean towards male unless I really prefer the female design. It's not like I'll pass up on a game where the protagonist is female, though.
 
Personally i always chosen a male character when playing a game but i dont care, and people spending moneys to have a tr00ns lookalike on games is insane
 
I literally don't care about the appearance of my characters at all. If given the option, I'll press "randomize all" and go with whatever abomination the game shits out. Otherwise, default settings is fine. If I must choose a gender, usually I go with male because it's more believable.

The sole exception is Conan Exiles, where I play as a woman with the tits slider maxed out and everything else at minimum so she's this impossibly-proportioned titty monster bouncing her way across the desert. You can't be apathetic 100% of the time.
 
I prefer to play as female characters, with the main exception being racing games, where I usually play as male characters in them.
 
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Depends on the game really. For example Vampire Bloodlines 2 gives you imho an easier playthrough when you play as a female Vampire because some quests run differently then. I usually try both genders in Roleplay games just to see if there are differences. Otherwise I take what the game throws at you (though to be fair I at least want a good looking character because it is escapism)
 
Kinda depends on the game, for anything you can customize I've got lots of characters of either sex in my writing and generally like to slot in whoever seems like they'd be fun in the setting.

For games where it's just 'male version or female version', never really cared, go with whatever looks better in the artstyle.

Class or (fantasy/scifi) race was always way more important, male or female is just sort of an 'eh, whatever'.
 
Yes.

The reason I say so is if I didn't, if I didn't say, "I'm a white guy and I want to play games with stories about white males like myself" games would have nothing but niggers.
 
It doesn't bother me to play as an established character regardless of gender unless it's a tranny but then again I wouldn't play the game in the first place. If there's a choice I choose to play as a woman because I'm dumb and gay and love immersion in games. That being said I do enjoy things like my Frank Reynolds dark urge run in BG3.
 
Thiletonomics said:
Modern-day racing games put player characters and clothing customization for some reason. And Wagons > Nissan Skylines, anyday.
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NFS Most Wanted & Carbon have the same guy with jacket.
NFS Prostreet had a guy with t-shirt and helmet.
Simple but effective.
 
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Care is a strong word.
I don't care if it's something like Alien: Isolation or some other story based romp, but given a choice for the game in a RPG or MMO or whatever have you, and I will play a male 99% of the time. Literally the last time i voluntarily played as a woman was on runescape for free gibs as a kid.

"Gender" of the characters has never really been an issue, it's simply just been dogshit writing and obvious characters inserted just to fill a diversity qouta that lean obnoxiously into sterotypes that never shut. the. fuck. up. about. themselves.
 
I usually choose male if given the choice, I hear a lot of people argue that they choose female because "i don't want to look at a man's ass while playing" , which i find to be rather weird, since i don't tend to stare at my character's ass as a habit, so that must be some deep seated faggotry on their behalf.

I have been more sensitive with the whole diversity nonsense though, and if i find nigger/faggots/niggerfaggots or troons in it then either the game must be THAT good to ignore all that, or i just won't touch it, and games are often never THAT good.
 
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Schwarzwald said:
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.
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Honestly I can relate somewhat.

As a kid, I was actually a little extra "no girls allowed" with my games, in Pokemon for example, my entire party was all male pokemon with no female ones to behold. I also used to have a full male party in Final Fantasy Tactics, even though you could argue that the women characters were better than their male counterparts. I think I even disliked using Tails in Sonic 2/3 because I thought he was a girl lol.

Nowadays, I actually don't really care about playing as a woman protagonist, and certainly don't care using them as party members, but if the game gives me the option between a man or a woman lead, then I always choose to play as the man no matter what, it just feels right. I also try avoiding playing as women in fighing games, unless their fighting style looks REALLY cool.

I don't think I ever played as a female avatar in any game ever thinking about it.
 
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Don't mind the character's gender most of the time, if made to choose I normally choose a guy, unless the female design looks better, on games like Skyrim or Fallout I usually play a guy on the first run and then a woman on the second run where I mostly try to do the opposite stuff to the first run.
 
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