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[Omeletter]

Well, I'm a guy, and I only play males. Why? I can give you 5 good reasons.
1. I want to recreate realism of middle ages, not beautiful beggars!
2. I want to make the character as real as possible, even face isn't pretty-god-like!
3. Again and again, LORE is the main enemy of TES Modders.
4. I DON'T WANT old, poor, dirty beggar look like 22 years old hot guy!
5. These mods cause BIG issue with Khajiits texture, and that are 30MB and more.

But, if you can give me good female body replacer that doesn't conflict with robert's body Khajiit texture, you will be rewarded!

[Rabbit 51]

Hi! My name is Harem (ha-reem). I'm a female tabby Tabaxi and, along with my friend Ramy (from Ramy's Enfant), I'm the Rabbit's current player character. Rabbit tends to run female characters about 90% of the time. He likes to watch we girls run, fight and play. It's like when we swim. Ramy says that he just llikes watching us skinny-dip, but I think that he enjoys watching the gentle grace that is common amoung our sex. He can spend literally hours just watching me dance for him. Or when we dress. Our world has about half a dozen dress shops and shopping for clothes is one of our most favourite activities. The shopping for and wearing of pretty clothes is not something Rabbit himself could ever enjoy in real life. He calls it role playing, but I think it's envy. We also enjoy dinning out at our two four-star resturaunts, The Hungry Dragon and The Hungry Slaugterfish. Or visiting with wide eyed wonder the beautiful Azure Palace. He also enjoys the "homey" touches that we use in decorating our houses. A boy might use martial spoils from defeated enemies in their decorations while we like to use terra cotta vases, paintings and flower arrainging in ours. He likes the personal things that I keep like the two faulted pearls that Ramy and me found while out on a swimming holiday in the bay, or the snow globe that I bought for Ramy during my visit to Barbada Island Pirate theme park, or the school girl uniforms that we came into this new world wearing. Almost none of this a boy character would find a use for. We feel safe and protected under his loving control and he regains the sense of youth and wonder that he left behind, Oh, so many years ago. So far it's been a caring and sharing relationship that we hope will continue. Ramy and me look forward to exploring the new world of the Shivering Isles together with him and finding new wonders to experience. Well, I hope that we haven't given away too many of the Rabbit's secrets. Thank you so very much for reading my column. 'Bye.


Your Friend,
Harem

[ThePearl]

Well I could make a short or a long post, but I would at least make it easy on the eye (*cough cough* ^)

In short: I like girls

In long:

Well I am a guy and as I said I like girls, and even though I don't play in 3rd person view because it's horrible I enjoy being a nice girl in some sexy armour rather then a big, muscular, ugly orc.

Omeletter said:

1. I want to recreate realism of middle ages, not beautiful beggars!
2. I want to make the character as real as possible, even face isn't pretty-god-like!
3. Again and again, LORE is the main enemy of TES Modders.
4. I DON'T WANT old, poor, dirty beggar look like 22 years old hot guy!
5. These mods cause BIG issue with Khajiits texture, and that are 30MB and more.

But really, strafing for realism in a game where fireballs shoot out of your hand and various random realism breaking things Oblivion has to offer, is just pretty stupid if you ask me

Oblivion will not get realistic, now don't mix up realism and immersion, because while Oblivion is rich of immersion it's not very realistic at all, but really it's all about personal preferences, he likes to be a male, I like being a female.

Aaaaaaaal about what you - as an individual think

[LFact]

5. These mods cause BIG issue with Khajiits texture, and that are 30MB and more.

But, if you can give me good female body replacer that doesn't conflict with robert's body Khajiit texture, you will be rewarded!

Unfortunately, you can't find one(without using plugin, there's no way to solve it). It's vanilla game issue. By default, all Khajiit male and female share same foot texture, and it becomes pain in the ass when you try to use body replacer.

[moirai]

Well, I'm male and always use a female character by default in games, if one is available.

Three reasons for this:

1) Been playing games for nearly twenty years and I'm bored with playing as males, generic or otherwise.

2) It suits my gameplay style better, as I prefer stealth and caution in tactics. Using a female character fits in with this better from a psychological perspective as I'm more 'protective' towards them and therefore more careful with their usage.

3) Eye candy. I have no interest in spending tens of hours looking at a bloke's butt when I can spend that time far more pleasantly looking at a girl's butt.

[Megatarius]

I play females mostly, though I do have two male characters saved, but they're collecting dust.


My characters are actually taken from a novel I wrote during the end of high school, and first part of my university education. I still think the story has potential but it needs a total redo. One of the character's backstory practically fits the basic premise of Oblivion, after some lore tweaking of course. I don't mean the Main Quest though. I still haven't done it.

As others have said, it's aesthetic mostly. I'd rather look at a woman's ass than a man's. My female characters end up being the ones I play the most. I can't stand overtly sexual body replacers though. I use Robert's because they're a down to Earth option for nudity.


But then again, would any Legend of Zelda game be improved if you had the option to make Link a girl? I think not.

Well, I'm a guy, and I only play males. Why? I can give you 5 good reasons.
1. I want to recreate realism of middle ages, not beautiful beggars!

Thank you. However, as others have said, you're in the wrong place if you want historical realism, but I'm sure you know that. Do you use any mods to this effect? If I was to mod Oblivion to be more realistic, the first thing I would nix would be the Black Horse Courier. The second thing I would nix would be a line of dialogue in the Chorrol Palace missing artwork quest in which a servant said he spent the night reading.

[Lucidx]

I think men play female characters because if your going to be looking at something all day, you might as well enjoy the view.

[Herculine]

Somewhere in the billing for both Morrowind and Oblivion is the phrase: "live another life". If I'm going to live another life in a fantasy world I'm going to be someone other than myself. Otherwise I'd have to convince BethSoft to create a game where I can sit in a boring classroom all morning, after which I would go sell clothes to spoiled rich girls who look like Barbie.

My Oblivion avatar is the same gender as me, but she's nothing like me. She's a tall Half-Breton Half-Nord spellcasting warrior. Besides, Oblivion really doesn't give you the option to make your avatar overweight.

But who really cares? Play whatever kind of character you want however you want. Your game isn't mine and vice-versa. If one gender plays as another, for whatever reason, it's not our place to judge them!

[Omeletter]

But really, strafing for realism in a game where fireballs shoot out of your hand and various random realism breaking things Oblivion has to offer, is just pretty stupid if you ask me

Oblivion will not get realistic, now don't mix up realism and immersion, because while Oblivion is rich of immersion it's not very realistic at all, but really it's all about personal preferences, he likes to be a male, I like being a female.

Aaaaaaaal about what you - as an individual think

I mean realist of midieval times, have you watched films like Merlin? On BBC there was one, 6 months ago... So, like realism of combat, not slashing goblin lord 2000 times to kill it, realism of magic, something like Merlin style. Realism of people, not "everyone looks really cool, but none cooler than other". Stuff like that... Download Duke Patrick's Combat Archery, Combat with no recoil Silver Edition, and stuff like that, you'll see realism of combat, so 1 arrow WILL kill you if it hit the head, you'll have to dodge every single arrow, shield will block hit realistically... Much more included...
Anyway, lets keep the topic's original question here, why guys play females.

[wasder]

I'm male and play male characters. Why? I just do. Do I have to have reasons for everything?