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I almost always made girl characters.

And then I made myself one too 👍

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

Why do men, women, and enbies play as bisexual poly dragonborn in videogames?

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.

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.

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.

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!

feeeeeeeeemaaaaales

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.

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.

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.

Depends on the character I'm playing and the game tbh. In mass effect I mainly played FemShep for the voice acting (still love mark meer but prefer Jennifer hale). In bg3 my characters are probably 50/50 split. Same with FNV and other RPGs.

i play dudes cause i like staring at dude ass simple as

the gender depends on which cat i'm naming the character after

If it's single-player, I play either depending on the game, but I have noticed I just don't like using female avatars in multiplayer games specifically. Female characters are fine, like in a Left 4 Dead or fighting game-style situation, but I just feel weird playing as a customisable female avatar in online games probably because the few times I tried I got treated like a girl by random dudes which felt so viscerally unpleasant my skeleton almost popped out of my skin and ran for the door

Women are cool and i hate my male gender for incredibly normal reasons

it's fun to cross dress

In a lot of cases (not the people here) it's because they like having a woman they can oggle from every angle and exercise complete control over. See Shaun's most recent video; if it's enough to be a core conceit of reasonably popular video games, it's enough to motivate g*mers in other games that treat their female characters just a misogynistically.

Plenty of people have other reasons, of course.

10% "there's more options, and I like playing dolls", 40% "just feel like it" and 50%🥚

Eh, I think I keep it fairly diverse. Though they often model their women characters to appeal to gamers which can be off-putting.

I used to have all kinds of excuses for this question, but look at me now lol

Because my relationship to the player character is less like a costume or a wish-fulfillment proxy for myself and more like the relationship between an audience and an actor.

i almost always do -- why would i want to be the same as what i am in real life?

I used to kick so much ass in SF2 using Chun Li and only using the middle kick. If I was in a bad mood id throw in the flying kick-middle punch-low kick combo just to be an asshole

I'd rather look at a girl's butt than a guy's tbh

When I create a male character I've the tendency to mirror my own behaviour and roleplay as myself and when I create a female character I do as you said and give them a different personality, their own back story and etc.

But if is pokemon I always play with the female because they normally exist in the anime.

I don't know why is that but I do that for like 15years.