Why do guys play as female characters in the game

[gamingreal]

wanna go to a club where people wee on each other? Ever drink Baileys from a shoe?

Lol. I'm old Greg, do you want to see my mangina.....

[WhiteCell]

I think for the overwhelming majority of males it's simply due to visuals. It is for me and it's usually a pretty easy choice due to how absolutely awful most male RPG character designs are. Developers skimp out heavily when it comes to male character options compared to females. So for myself it's a choice between some lame looking guy with fewer option or some visually appealing set of boobs and a butt on screen for hours.

I don't role play. I just want something that looks nice and since we're talking fantasy, the pink alien chick with a nice rack and cyberpunk goggles is believable enough for me.

[Shadewhip]

As a gay guy, I like looking at a guy's ***, so I made a sexy male character. It's no different than a straight guy making a sexy girl to his liking, if that's what improves his game experience. As long as the guy's honest that he's a guy and isn't trying to deceive anyone. [Trans people are obvious exceptions]

But seriously, you straight guys have it easy with the amount of revealing clothes you have for girls. The most revealing option for a guy? A gulanite mining vest. Yeah.

[Elric1]

realmreaver73 here. I play Heather Three. I am a guy and I choose her because mostly? Why not? I find her appealing and I used to RP as a GM for DnD (thank god for fade to black when I had to RP a barfly one of the guys was hiotting on..yeesh)

But really I guess experience in DnD made it a meh. I do like to look at her (Til a cut scene I never noticed she was wearing a push up bra in her black outfit) but I plan on changing to a male when Casts are avalible so I can play one that WOULD represent me properly.

[Prelude]

There is no reason other than visual things. In my opinion it usually works out that the female characters have better animations and or armor designs and that is why I typically make female characters, but its not always the case. Usually its whatever I think looks better in their end game armor. When I made a character in Defiance I made a female Irathient because I liked the look of the pants/boots on the Veteran starting gear.

[Jestunhi]

I have come across some people doing this and I don't understand why what are your thoughts on this people?

Why aren't fantasy games populated by 100% human characters? After all we are not really elves or orcs.

Why don't most of our characters never get in a fight? After all, gamers don't often go around starting fights.


The answer is because this is a game, not reality.

[Kiwoo]

Taken from ESA.

Forty-seven percent of all players are women, and women over 18 years of age are one of the industry's fastest growing demographics.
Today, adult women represent a greater portion of the game-playing population (30 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (18 percent).

http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp

Yet so many male gamers still think gaming is primarily a male only pastime. Time to wake up.

Anyway on topic. When I first got introduced to multiplayer games, Everquest. I started with a male character because I was naive and didn't know what kind of reaction I would get as a female gamer playing a female character. But after playing and finding that the vast majority of gamers don't care what gender your character is that when I switched to SWG (pre CU of course ^^). I made my first female character.

Which I still do to this day.

But male or female behind the screen, male or female in the game is a non issue. We are all the same, gamers enjoying the same pastime.

[Jestunhi]

I'm rather concerned for people that questions this.

Are they unable to seperate games from reality? They see someone playing a female character as declaring something about them IRL?

Does the same apply where the option is not given (e.g. for playing tomb raider)?

[Jestunhi]

Taken from ESA.

Forty-seven percent of all players are women, and women over 18 years of age are one of the industry's fastest growing demographics.
Today, adult women represent a greater portion of the game-playing population (30 percent) than boys age 17 or younger (18 percent).

http://www.theesa.com/facts/gameplayer.asp

Yet so many male gamers still think gaming is primarily a male only pastime. Time to wake up.

Anyway on topic. When I first got introduced to multiplayer games, Everquest. I started with a male character because I was naive and didn't know what kind of reaction I would get as a female gamer playing a female character. But after playing and finding that the vast majority of gamers don't care what gender your character is that when I switched to SWG (pre CU of course ^^). I made my first female character.

Which I still do to this day.

But male or female behind the screen, male or female in the game is a non issue. We are all the same, gamers enjoying the same pastime.

But looking at the actual report, this is including stuff like farmville and angry birds.

Hardly the same audience as an MMO, especially a niche sci-fi one without tab targetting.

[Wash]

Didn't read the whole thread but a few reasons.

1. The guys always seem to look like fried vomit in these games, no idea why, check out WoW. I know arguably ALL the characters look terrible but check out the Human males and their faces that look like they were beaten from a side of beef.

2. I've known games, whether by design or not, have had the female models move faster and have smaller hitboxes.

3. Dat ***.

If you want an example of really creepy check out "Manthras" from Final Fantasy XI.

For those not familiar: FFXI had two gender specific races the Galka (Male) and the Mithra (Female.) The Galka were huge, hulking sides of beef with little eyes and the Mithra were cute little cat ladies. There would be guys playing Mithras solely so they could dupe people into paying for things or helping them with quests by flirting with them. Yes this was totally a thing, we booted a "girl" from our Linkshell (guild) for doing it.