In game Gender Dysphoria

[Feather]

I noticed that I got better treatment if I played a female character in MMOs, especially a female caster (female in dress/robe has a kinder appearance than a female with blades and heavy armor). My first choice used to be male characters, but once I got high lvl female characters this changed and I now find it harder to play a male character. Maybe it's also got to do with my playstyle (usually caster-oriented) and female characters usually don't look as silly and bulky. And when it comes to collecting gear and sets, it just gets addictive to play female characters.

[blue]

I love this question! My characters are always femme, but plumbing varies wildly.

[Emily Aster]

I noticed that I got better treatment if I played a female character in MMOs, especially a female caster (female in dress/robe has a kinder appearance than a female with blades and heavy armor).

I noticed this too in DAoC, but then it started getting weird. I had a few years in there where I'd have an even split of male and female characters so I could switch to male when I got creeped out. It started with people being mean to me about how wrong it is to play a girl when I'm not. After some time, they were convinced that I was indeed a woman and started being really nice. I got invited to more groups. People were giving me random armor and gold gifts. It was amazing! Then the cybering attempts started and that was when the male characters started being created to provide an out. I'd "lose my internet connection" for a few hours (like I actually pulled the network cable out of the computer so I'd go link dead) while I was on a male toon, then come back when everybody was gone.

[matthewzguitarz]

Interesting question, I used to play male characters when I first started gaming, but when I got on Star Wars Galaxies, I started playing as a female character. I thought at that time that I was just a freak for wishing I was born a girl, so I told everyone I met that I was a guy in real life.

But it got interesting near shut down, people started telling my that I was lying. Since I did a lot of roleplay, it got really interesting, until I decided to use voice chat during a guild event

Anyways, now I understand why I really seemed like a girl, I have a feminine personality, and just am good at watching what girls do and add them to what I do(probably explains why I sit with crossed legs now, without meaning to).

Skyrim was interesting as well, first time my family saw me playing a female character, was probably weird since the character looked like a real girl, too bad I started losing interest in video games.

[Sammy]

I noticed that I got better treatment if I played a female character in MMOs, especially a female caster (female in dress/robe has a kinder appearance than a female with blades and heavy armor). My first choice used to be male characters, but once I got high lvl female characters this changed and I now find it harder to play a male character. Maybe it's also got to do with my playstyle (usually caster-oriented) and female characters usually don't look as silly and bulky. And when it comes to collecting gear and sets, it just gets addictive to play female characters.

So true . But my first choice always is female character specialised in ranged damage . Kinda archer-girl - You can see it from my avi. I dont like the look of heavy armor, but some light armor here and there, curvy bows and sword, and those outfits with cloaks, hoods, pirate boots and such...

[Feather]

So true . But my first choice always is female character specialised in ranged damage . Kinda archer-girl - You can see it from my avi. I dont like the look of heavy armor, but some light armor here and there, curvy bows and sword, and those outfits with cloaks, hoods, pirate boots and such...

hey, I like your style  I love all things curvy and I dislike heavy armor as well.
Bows always go great with a female character 

[Sammy]

hey, I like your style  I love all things curvy and I dislike heavy armor as well.
Bows always go great with a female character 

I like the style of Your avi too . Exactly my type And if I can modify the color of my outfits... I would change them once or twice per week until I got a new set . But I do not play anymore as I am losing interest in video games as I go further into my transition...

[Feather]

I like the style of Your avi too . Exactly my type And if I can modify the color of my outfits... I would change them once or twice per week until I got a new set . But I do not play anymore as I am losing interest in video games as I go further into my transition...

When I played WoW I was obsessed with transmogrification. I could not stop working on my female characters. I did not care about competitive achievements, I wanted pretty characters.. In GW2 it is even more intense.

[Sammy]

I was lucky to stay out of the WoW - but I was into Warhammer: Age of Reckoning for some good 6 months I kinda very much enjoyed the WAR dynamics and how it is very much PvP and group-cooperation oriented. It is not as apparent in Tier 1 when basically everyone is just getting their grips to the game and newbies and free-account owners from Order and Destruction are getting at each other at Festenplatz , but it gets very party-game in T2 and in T4 You can only survive in group because Tier 4 is only about competitively taking zones from the other faction, while defending Your own, ambushing their attempts to take base objectives, taking them instead and laying seiges on their castles to unlock enemy capital. Just to say what a good group can do - once in T3 we had a warband which consisted of two pug-s, but somehow we managed to get cooperating at extremely intuitive level - nobody was doing stupid things and all players were essentially doing what their classes were supposed to do. So we lost our outer wall to Destruction, there were more of them than us and they managed to put down 2 siege engines (cannons) and battering ram in our courtyard... We managed  to knock their battering ram down and kick them out. We proceeded to destroy their cannons, when they respawned and came back from their camp - but we did not escape into our castle, but instead kicked them out again . Then we continued to kill their cannons and as soon as we did so, they came back for the third time, even in greater numbers - but we felt soooo invincible that we charged them instead of getting charged and then they finally realised that they are not getting this zone !

[Emmaline]

Funnily enough it was one of my tells too (@yukari).  I realised I did not cross dress, as it was womens clothes on a mans body... but in a game I could put on a womans ROLE- body and clothes.

I played a female elf hacker in shadowrun, which the lads felt a bit strange... especially when I did a really good job at it.  I was in denial you see.

My last dnd character before I figured it out was, ironically a male paladin trapped in the body of the female witch who killed his family- unable to control her body or magic, or leverage his muscle memory  he was forced into a level 1 ranger class.  A girl brain in a guys body, playing a guy, playing a guys brain in a girls body.  How meta is that?

I have always picked female avatars, and actually got in a huge arguement with my boss when he refused to put female characters into multiplayer of the game I was working on.  I understand why I got so riled up now.  It was the third game this happened on and it irked me considerably more than I could logicslly justify.  Denial.  Wonderful thing.

[Yukari-sensei]

Funnily enough it was one of my tells too (@yukari).  I realised I did not cross dress, as it was womens clothes on a mans body... but in a game I could put on a womans ROLE- body and clothes.

I played a female elf hacker in shadowrun, which the lads felt a bit strange... especially when I did a really good job at it.  I was in denial you see.

My last dnd character before I figured it out was, ironically a male paladin trapped in the body of the female witch who killed his family- unable to control her body or magic, or leverage his muscle memory  he was forced into a level 1 ranger class.  A girl brain in a guys body, playing a guy, playing a guys brain in a girls body.  How meta is that?

I have always picked female avatars, and actually got in a huge arguement with my boss when he refused to put female characters into multiplayer of the game I was working on.  I understand why I got so riled up now.  It was the third game this happened on and it irked me considerably more than I could logicslly justify.  Denial.  Wonderful thing.

Tell me about it.  Although it's gotten funnier now. I am forbidden from participating in the board game "Battle of the Sexes", because I give an "unnatural advantage" to whichever side I  play for.

As to the DND character, it's no more meta than I and my sex-changed rogue...  Seeking a "cure" for "his" "curse" by swindling the easiest prey...  which happened to be dim witted men.

To make matters worse my kid sister was playing a male character, trying to catch me for swindling his best friend! Oh what fun!

[Emmaline]

Lol.  Advantage.

[Emoroffle]

I always play females in games, well ever since I first realized I was a girl, that was when I was 18 or about 11 years ago. Just a month after that realization I made my first female character. It was on FFXI and I still play her to this day. I love that game.

[skin]

Most of my life I played male characters.  I was paranoid about anyone discovering my dysphoria, so I just avoided anyone asking why I chose to play as female.  Nowadays I'm much more comfortable and confident about myself and getting to play as female is a nice escape 

[Emmaline]

I always used the Lara Croft argument.  If I am going to spend any time looking at an ass it better be a girls.
Useful tip if your still in closet

[Emoroffle]

Hah, that was my exact excuse while in the closet. Being a lesbian however made it somewhat true. Who wants to look a flat piece of meat when there's a curvy-licious option?

[Emmaline]

Lol... me too 

I must confess I loved playing females in quake 3 just to hear them grunt and moan as you jumped and got hit.  Very sexy.  *Blush*

[Bookworm]

I guess I am strange. Games are one of the few places I dont have this problem too much. I will play as either. I generally defacto to male, but that is because I game with a lot of people I know and I dont want to have to explain myself all of the time. I also dont really care. I mean I cant play what might be a female game and that does suck. Like sims are my all time least favorite game because of the gender dysphoria. Other games where the default is male not too bad. I just cant get behind a male sim. -shrug-

[Emmaline]

My wife always commented on my choice of sim.  Female, emo, short hair and lesbian.

It was meeeeeeeee all along!!!!!!!

Worringly she always plays crazy cat ladies.... hmmm...

[Dreams2014]

I'm glad I found this thread, because I experience playing female characters all the time, and I'm physically male.

Ever since I was in my teens, in my early days of playing World of Warcraft I'd play a female character and at first I got stick for it from friends, but you can smoothly dismiss it considering plenty of men play females anyway (MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing Girls )

But it went much beyond that for me, it feels comfortable. I cannot and will not play male characters now with a few rare exceptions. At first I thought it was simply because devs tend to put more effort into the female characters? Or perhaps it just felt right.

But I have shared experiences with a few here where they've been questioned continually. My friends girlfriend asked me why I chose to play female characters on games like Dragon Age II, and I replied because I'd just watched said friend practically complete the game as a male. Also on Tekken 6 I always play Ling Xiaoyu and I was able to justify that by saying her move set feels comfortable to me (which is true, but I also feel comfortable playing her). But yeah, I don't think anybody suspects anything. They'd probably jump to the conclusion that I'm just sad and lonely rather than having an identity crisis lol.