playing as male or a female character in game

[-DMR-]

I don't know if theres a thread about this subject.

But anyway, as a male gamer behind my character, I quite like to know if anyone has an in-game character, which is the opposite to their real life gender. I think the female miquote look quite good, as well as the lallafel and elezen races. However, I wouldn't say no to making up a tough looking male roegadyn character.

I was wondering also, if theres any female gamers who play as in-game male characters.

[Nyhmrae]

I'm a nerdy lady, but I like to play as both genders . My main is a Miqo lady. I did have a Miqo boy, but I deleted him 'cause I wasn't satisfied with his look. I'm in the process of recreating him and figuring out one other alt, as well. I love my alts ^_^. I need to find a role play group so they can have some lurve and not gather dust.

[Coatl]

I play female miqo'te because you can't be a male miqo'te.

[Shioban]

I don't know if theres a thread about this subject.

But anyway, as a male gamer behind my character, I quite like to know if anyone has an in-game character, which is the opposite to their real life gender. I think the female miquote look quite good, as well as the lallafel and elezen races. However, I wouldn't say no to making up a tough looking male roegadyn character.

I was wondering also, if theres any female gamers who play as in-game male characters.

People have different opinions on the matter on whether it's "creepy" or not to play as the opposite or even the same gender as yourself.
I know plenty of women that play male character because that's just what they find appealing of the character choices for that particular game.

I personally swap between male and female ones based on aesthetic considerations and less so "I am a boy, I must play a boy" "I am a girl, I must play as a girl"

Mostly I just consider it a character, just like a movie or a book or any other game that you "embed" yourself into as you experience it, that's all it is.



My aunt watched my play FFXIV 1.23 once with my female hyur her response was "Wait, why a female character not a male one? Wouldn't that confuse people?"
After explaining, "When people play Tomb Raider do they go "Oh, this is a female character, but I'm not a female therefore I can't play this".




At the end of the day it's just a character, what you do with it however changes that.
If you pretend to be a female and wish people to think that, that's up to you.

[SummonerSenah]

Female who plays female characters here. I have a lady Miqo'te and a femRoe. I do have an alt male Elezen created but haven't been able to get him on the server yet.

[Noshpan]

'm a woman and I predominately play female characters, both in MMOs and in table-top RPGs. For me, it's a matter of aesthetics. Usually female character models are better-looking than the male ones, though this game seems to be capable of creating some rather impressive-looking male characters. Though, in this game, my main character is a male Miqo'te.

[WinterSolstice]

Male, I play both male and female characters.

Like some others, I view my characters in any game as a separate entity, like the main character in a book, and do not link them to myself at all. My main criteria for picking the race/gender of the character I play is mostly dependent on how their animations look, how clothing/armor looks on them, and if they are simply aesthetically pleasing. I also typically like to play smaller characters, I dislike large character models.

I started with a male Hyur when the game was released, but didn't like how they stood and felt they were too large. I changed to a male Miqo'te, but didn't like the exaggerated way that they ran. I fiddled around with Lalas for a bit, and while I didn't have any complaints, I just didn't like playing as one. Settled on a female Miqo'te. The aren't large but not too small, so armor tends to look better on them (imo).

[Dijana]

I'm a female and I play female characters. When I was a teen I used to sometimes have male alts (in a game where your account was genderlocked so I'd have to make a new account and would dualbox the male characters) but it got awkward when the other girls in my guild didn't realise it was the same person and some had a crush on me as a male character ._.;

I know a couple girls that play men, and men that play girl characters. I've got nothing against it so long as they are honest about what they are in certain situations and dont lead anyone along, only time it bothers me is when I look around and despite maybe being the only actual woman in the group, Im surrounded by often scantily clad women going into battle with giant axes and swords and stuff. Makes me feel like Im in an anime lol

[Donjo]

Yep, I'd say there are two major camps when it comes to situations where one can create their own character.

1. Create a character in this world as a representation of yourself and proceed to be yourself.
2. Create a character in this world different from yourself and proceed to play the role.

As for me, I went with female Miqo'te as a male in real life because I liked the Miqo'te as a race and I believe that it goes against lore to have male Miqo'te playable. Thus, it simply wasn't an option in my mind. It was only a bonus that female Miqo'te happened to have my favorite running animations and such across all of the races and genders!

[Eye_Gore]

All the games I have ever played where you could choose between male and female, being male, I always played as male. So on that note.....The game is a Fantasy right? Why not live it?