theonecrisco Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Could you explain to me a bit of whats behind your wanting to play as a female character? I have no urge what so ever to play as a female and am kind of interested in seeing what drives people to do so...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinterSki Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I guess they prefer to look at the opposite sex, I prefer to play a male character even though I am a guy myself I just relate more I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarefootWarrior Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Yeah, same here. I am a guy and prefer to play as such. It's going to be interesting to see where this topic goes...LOL! :tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herculine Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Being a girl I can only guess here, but I think most guys (playing in third-person mode) prefer to look at a female's backside through hundreds of hours of gameplay rather than some beefy Nord guy's rump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dasri Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 I'm a closet transgendered person that would love nothing more than to be a hot fantasy-type woman with a set of really huge....swords. There, is that the answer these topics are always fishing for? For a serious answer, I play both. It depends on the goal I am setting at character creation. I do tend to select female more often and I think it is because they tend to have more effort put into the models and clothing than males. This Doesn't seem to be the case in Skyrim, but it's demonstrably true in quite a few other games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trey5511 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) We're all horny 12 year olds. ;) Aww, someone beat me to it. Edited November 23, 2011 by Trey5511 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitsuneshoujo Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 What I would like to know is, why does this always show up in gaming forums? I am not intending to troll the OP, or accuse him of trolling, but does it really matter WHAT people play? You never hear anyone making snide (or otherwise) comments about people - male or female players - playing races other than human. I play what I find attractive. Simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borge12 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) I play as both. My rationalization is that I could either stare at a female character's butt or a male's. However, this isn't always the case. For example, my nord warrior is a male, it just makes more RP sense. My next stealthy assassin character will be female. Edited November 23, 2011 by borge12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roltak Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Well I can't speak for everyone but for me it was in Oblivion mostly the mods. I can't count how often I thought "Wow, that armor looks awesome I wonder how it looks on my male avatar" only to see that it is using the standard leather armor set look or something comparable for males. The same with the general look, most of the time the male characters just looked not half as good as the female ones. How many different body replacers have there been for females and how many for males? And very often the custom races had the same problem, that (at least in my opinion) the females seemed to have received much more love and care from the makers then the males. So in short, because I prefere to have unique looking armor, chars etc. instead of a cheap knockoff or the reused standard armor. At the moment I am playing a male but perhaps I will switch over towards female again, depends on the trend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dowly Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 (edited) I play whichever suits the character. My first character was a male imperial warrior, purely because heavy armor imho looks better on males. Now, I'm playing a female nord thief/assassin because when I think of a thief character such as the one I'm playing as, I always think of Catherine Zeta-Jones in that one movie with Sean Connery. (Ok ok, I only remember the scene with her arse :tongue: ) Edited November 23, 2011 by Dowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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