What gender do you play as in video games?
 

I'm a guy who plays as a guy in video games, but would play as as woman.

Is it normal for guys to play as girls, and vice versa? Just wondering.

I like playing female characters because I'm female. I'd rather not play as a guy, but sometimes games have a main character with a specific gender, so it can't be helped.

If it's a game where characters or classes are locked to specific genders, then I'll choose a female character (so long as it's not a warrior/tank, I could care less about classes xD).

I don't know if it's normal for guys to play as girls or for girls to play as guys though.

I play all of the above XD
I generally go towards characters that are snipers/rogue types regardless of gender.
When making my own character I tend to be a bit narcissistic and make one similar to how I look but of course super glorified to how I would like to be XD so that would be female generally I guess?

Why wouldn't it be normal?

I play whatever I feel like for the character I have in mind. I have male bards and female barbarians, male warriors, female mages, male mages, etc.

I suppose I lean a little more towards female but my current "main" is male. Most people tend assume I'm male anyway, unless they are using "he" as in inclusive pronoun out of habit.

Especially since some games have set characters to play. I'm pretty sure that it will be safe to assume people of any sex will play a video game even if their gender doesn't match the protagonist.

Female here. If the characters are all distinct and, like, real characters, I don't care which gender. However, if it's a character that the player creates (like Skyrim or whatever), I almost always play as a girl. The dude models are always... um... uglier? Like, the modelers spend way less time making them look good than the female models. The female characters tend to have more unique and interesting clothing options too - males in rpgs tend to just have the option between bulky armor and bulkier armor.

My brother usually plays as female characters too. Anyone should be able to play any gender for whatever reason they feel ^-^

Ren and Terisyn are confused as to what this "gender" thing is.

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(But until recently, I've usually played as male on MMORPGs, because harassment is not exactly fun. Gender-locking in games is a huge turn-off.)

I'm female, biologically, and usually lean toward "She/Her/Hers" in terms of pronouns. In games where the player can make their character custom? It really depends on my mood. Sometimes, I wanna play as a guy, sometimes I wanna play as a girl, and sometimes, if I can, I lean more in the middle. Sadly, I've noticed that in MMOs, the females tend to be very overly sexualized, which is very annoying from the perspective of someone who thinks in logical terms of armor and defense (Note to game developers: Boob armor is more likely to kill your female characters if you're going for realistic physics!).

I'm actually working on building a Non-Binary Barbarian named Roan for Dungeons and Dragons. I may try transferring them to Pathfinder as well, just for the fun and challenge. Half the fun of that character is that they don't look overtly masculine or overtly feminine. They're themself, and that's all that matters.

One of my favorite things is pushing the envelope on what is masculine and what is feminine. I have a Pathfinder and D&D Dwarf Paladin character named Helja Grimhammer who is biologically female, but she's got Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, and as a result, has a beard to make male Dwarves jealous.

I have a Cleric, named Galeas, who I haven't picked a race for yet (probably going to go with Hafling though), who is biologically male, and he's very cute and would fall under the "Trap" definition because he's got very feminine-seeming facial features and a higher pitched voice than most guys.

Female Dwarves in DnD tend to have beards anyway, or they used to. I'm not sure if it's written down anywhere anymore. I had a paladin that I made but never played, who had a neatly styled goatee. More relevant to her character than the beard was that she used a rifle.

It's not in the core rules anymore. and there's almost no miniatures of female Dwarves with beards, aside from the one I know of that I made on HeroForge

Depends on the game. Lets say I'm playing dragon age...not going for a certain lover? Male usually. Going for a certain lover for the achievement or just because? Well, whatever I need to be to be paired up with them.

I tend to play males, I think, in part due to all the games where females get less clothed as they level or get better items. I don't need another half naked female on my screen.

It really depends I suppose. If I like the male designs more than the female, then I'll choose male. Though I often get a female avatar.

Saw this thread again and also recalled Aragorn's comment in one of the LotR films. It's heavily implied that Middle-Earth dwarf women had beards (the whole 'look so much like men that the sexes can't be told apart" thing,) and Aragorn outright says it ;).

Older versions of DnD and some writer's played with the beard thing, but the newer editions have written it out.

Seems silly to me. It's a neat detail.

I usually pick female if the option is available. Sometimes I pick whichever one looks the more aesthetically pleasing.

I am a female who plays females in video games if I can. However, if it is some classes that have a set character (Like Baulder's Gate 2), I will play the classes I like over the gender.

Unless you're talking about NPCs, I'm not sure what you mean by set classes in BG2, though I admit I haven't played it much and not for a while. I played the first one for ages.

I'm currently messing around on BG (got it during the sale), and oh boy, the voice acting makes me want to stab things.

I usually play males...
Depends on what kinda characters you can play though.

Boy am I still peeved that healer-type classes in gender-locked games are usually female.

i is female and always play as female,

so does my boyfriend usually lol.

Give it a break, it's old. ;)
But yes. And I've got an annoying amount of memorized.

Baldur's Gate has a mix of characters/races/etc, you just need to go find them. Some take a while to reach.


I'm often amused at the comments about guys apparently assuming that a female character is played by a female, even if they are playing as a female as well.

Depends on the game. When I played as a female in MMORPGs like Runescape and Maplestory, I got more free stuff than when I played as a guy, so I'm more inclined to play as female in MMOs heh. Ain't saying I'm a gold digger, but...
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I tend to play as male and other species when they have really cool looking equips or attack moves.

I'm all for the non-humans. I tend to look to that first, before thinking about gender.

FEMALE. ARGONIAN. BERSERKER. Argonians and Khajiit are kind of my thing. Or, any other beastfolk race that's done well. I cannot stand beastfolk races in which the male's an anthro and the female's a human with ears and a tail.

I wasn't great with a bow in Skyrim (as opposed to Morrowind when it was pretty much all I used) so I would just kite around until the dragon landed and then run into it's face.

I was annoyed at not being able to give my Khajit enough fur in Skyrim so I started with a Nord, but I have one now. Both female. The elder scrolls games are one area where I am decidedly female leaning.

I play a male Argonian thief in ESO :P

I've run basically everything from a male Khajiit brawler, to a male Imperial archer who dotes on his two kids, to a male Breton conjurer, to a female Nord-with-a-bit-of-elven-blood valkyrie-esque warrior in Skyrim.

Oblivion, I've only got my one male Khajiit sneakthief so far, and I surprisingly didn't roll a Khajiit in Morrowind, opting instead for a male Bosmer I'm-hesitant-to-actually-put-him-in-a-class.

Also, Guild Wars 2 might be the only game so far in which I have more technically female characters than male.

I'm always the "adventurer" in Morrowind because I like to pick my skills out. Mirri I decided was an archer-thief, but she's got some magic, too.

As Mirri died with my old game data, I've started again with a tanky dunmer named "Stanley." Reasons.

Usually male, and then if I'm doing a replay I'll use female. :p

I prefer to play as a female. I usually try to make my avatars look like me, but with white hair. :D

That's what I used to do, but I found the more detailed character creation got, the less I was inclined to do it that way.

Sometimes it depends on a feature I want to use. If something is male or female only, I might play the gender just to get the item.

If I can create my own character I usually play a girl, like in Pokemon or Animal Crossing (man, I remember when Pokemon Crystal came out I was so exited that I could play as a girl finally, haha). If you play as a certain character I just play as whoever I like most or has the best stats.

Either works, I guess male though so I don't end up with really fem items