Guy gamers who play girl characters

[Elvie]

When I play male characters it's usually because I want a change. Game characters are not me, so I feel no restriction of gender or any other kind of restriction really. I tend to play female more often (and I am female), but I think that's because I am forced to play a male character in so many video games I like, that it still has a novelty value that I am allowed to play as a female character. I suspect a lot of gamers, both male and female, have a similar reasoning for playing a female character - ie because we can and there's actually an option to not go with the seeming default of male.

[ParanoidHobo]

I had planned to play a male, in design similar to my FFXI char, but there came a point in his life where he was wearing a skirt, dangly earrings, and a frilly shirt

I was not terribly down with that

[CrystalRainbow]

I picked a Female character IG because I like looking at female bodies.

Real or otherwise.

[Noshpan]

Aesthetically, female character models are usually more appealing than male models. It's a rare thing indeed when the male character models look like they have had just as much thought and care into making them.

As for me: most of my characters are female, just as myself. But my main is a male Miqo'te and the reasons I play him is because a: my friends on are Leviathan, b: a female character would be silly with the name, c: there were no male Miqo'te available for play in 1.0 and d: Ganth is a representation of a dream character (though younger in appearance than the dream-version).

[Altera]

I see this question asked on almost every MMO forums. I am a guy in RL, but I just think seeing a girl in videogames is more cool than a burly dude,
It was when I played Resident Evil 1 on PS1 way back, it was so much more badass having a girl Jill Valentine kick zombies butt, than the strongman Chris Redfield.

Plus I like to cut a break with reality for a while when I play videogames, and most often, the animations, combat and gear looks better on a female character than on males.

And if you were to choose your own gender due to reality, then what class would you be? A Mechanic, receptionist, dairyfarmer? As being a Dragoon, Paladin, Blackmage prolly isnt possible in the realm of Earth like it is in Eorzea

[ValorSekari]

Fantasy world,
I want to live in this fantasy world as something I can't be IRL

[i2agnarok]

Whenever I have a game where I can create a character, I will always go through all of the races, both genders, and see what I can make. Whatever comes out cooler-looking is the one I end up playing.

I don't like Lalafells.
I knew cat-people would be the most numerous because the internet loves cats.

Although I had some appealing-looking characters of both genders for other races I like, I settled for the Hume female. The game lets me change classes freely, so I have no reason for an alt. I just go with whatever I think is better looking at the time. Males in some games, females in others. I had 3 male and 3 female characters in SWTOR, for example.

For the Resident Evil reference above, Jill Valentine is always awesome.

For the record, I address everyone with gender-neutral terms unless you have told me otherwise and I assume everyone is a dude. Even if you have been confirmed as a woman, I will still talk to you like I talk to everyone else.

[Arkghyom]

This thread again! Nya!

[Pandastirfry]

it's funny how this comes up in every MMO forum...usually at least once a year.

I'll give my justification, Typically it's cause game male models look awful. If they're not "Grizzled Lumps of meat with a mouth hole" like most western games then they're "Virtually indistinguishable from girls" like most Eastern games. And typically Female characters are a little better done, though still have some pitfalls, either too sexy (like most elves/dark elves/etc) or just weird lookin' ("monster" races/dwarves/etc) but usually you can find one that doesn't look hideous. Then it comes down to gear, in XIV they went with the rather novel (which really shouldn't be) approach of gear looking practical on Female models rather than the "chainmail bikini", and for some of it looks better on female models.

[i2agnarok]

Then it comes down to gear, in XIV they went with the rather novel (which really shouldn't be) approach of gear looking practical on Female models rather than the "chainmail bikini", and for some of it looks better on female models.

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