I always make a male and female character and give them the same name from my other games if possible (I gave them personality/backstories in my head, dont ask). And sometimes I make multiple characters from different classes, species, races, skin colors etc. and if I feel creative, their back story/bio. Helps if one is a creative person that likes to write stories.
men
females
lol every time
Why are g*mers like this?
What I would give to never see the phrase “females” ever used again…
I almost always made girl characters.
And then I made myself one too 👍
Dozens of us!
Same!
The “RPGs to Trans” pipeline.
I, too, drank deeply from it.
Final Fantasy VI had some great women characters for its time and looking back I liked Celes quite a bit. Now I know why I guess. Lucca in Chrono Trigger was also pretty awesome.
Literally the same story as my friend from childhood, probably one of the reasons none of us were too surprised by her transition and we were all immediately supportive
Many such cases
Hahaha
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
New Vegas had me playing a bisexual character before I realized I am bisexual because it gave me that sweet damage buff vs everyone
Why do men, women, and enbies play as bisexual poly dragonborn in videogames?
Because that’s the option that allows the most playability/choices.
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.
I’m not bowing I’m recovering MP get over yourself
Silence peasant. You’re dps and there are hundreds like you. I could replace you like that
AntiOutsideAktion starts casting Teleport-HollaOh man the sticker, what is it from? 🤩
Hi I’ll be your 8 foot tall orc healer today, firing heals down at you like a UAV
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.
My favorite variant of this is that if you pick a dwarf in the Lord of the Rings MMO, there’s no gender option, since they all have beards and look the same
Based.
It’s this way in discworld too, at first
“Are you a guy or a girl?”
“Dwarf.”
“No, no, I mean, what do you prefer?”
“Mining.”
“No, I mean, what’s in your pants?”
“A pickaxe.”
The regular dwarfs actually do have the option, but clicking it doesnt change anything. Which is even funnier.
I just got two little Christmas gnomes. The man has a beard and the woman has long pigtails braided together to look like a beard
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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.
Just be like me and play argonian in every game because based lizard liberation, 50/50 on masc/fem (except in skyrim because fem argonian voice just sounds awful
)I just wanna be the lusty argonian maid that we’ve all read so much about
That sounds like it might be a fun playthrough
Vegeta cares not from where the blood flows, only that it flows without cease for all eternity.
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!
Wow look at this DEI SJW fake gamer
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.
feeeeeeeeemaaaaales
Fah Mah Les
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.
One of my friends did similar, kept making different versions of the same character for D&D until he realised he didn’t want to play the character, he wanted to be him.
Which was good, because I found his character really boring next to stuff like the unreasonably sexy paladin, swamp gnome, or legally-not-evil cat. His PCs are much better now, the fire-fighting rat is very entertaining.
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
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.
