I don't play all too many video games, but I did play F2P WoW and on private servers for about a year. Sometimes I would create a female character and just do some beginning quests for the sole purpose of being a female, and then I would delete the character.
Also, I go to a friends house with a group of guy friends once a week to play Halo - I've been doing so for years now. I would always play as an elite, but about 5 months ago I started playing as a female spartan once in a while. For about two months now that's all I play as, and I love it. It's crazy how simply selecting "female" in a video game can make you feel so free and "right".

Quote from: mwandishi on July 23, 2013, 01:16:35 PM
I don't play all too many video games, but I did play F2P WoW and on private servers for about a year. Sometimes I would create a female character and just do some beginning quests for the sole purpose of being a female, and then I would delete the character.
Also, I go to a friends house with a group of guy friends once a week to play Halo - I've been doing so for years now. I would always play as an elite, but about 5 months ago I started playing as a female spartan once in a while. For about two months now that's all I play as, and I love it. It's crazy how simply selecting "female" in a video game can make you feel so free and "right".

Did you delete the female character because you felt ashamed? If so you need not worry, plenty of people gender bend on MMO's. You think all those females running around are actually females?

I wouldn't say shame... I just wanted to avoid questioning from peers

Quote from: mwandishi on July 23, 2013, 01:59:00 PM
I wouldn't say shame... I just wanted to avoid questioning from peers

I rarely found I was questioned, in fact I often found that people assumed all avatars were male until proven otherwise xD

While I think these days I tend to go more for male characters, I usually think of the character I'm playing as being a whole separate person from me, so in most cases the character's sex doesn't bother me. In Dragon Age: Origins, for instance, the first character I created was male, but I ended up with an equal number of male and female characters. If the character is actually meant to represent me, however (like a self-Sim or something), I'd rather them be male.

I play male characters.  As I kid I picked what I'd been told to pick my whole life, so chose female ones, but since then... nope.  Even before I put a name to this feeling.  It's funny thinking how I always restarted pokemon to play for a while as a male character, but never saved it because I didn't want to lose my progress on my female one.  At college there was a bit of a craze of playing pokemon on emulators on our phones, and it felt so good to be able to have the male character with "Alex" in the menu thing.  Fortunately my parents don't realise it's an option in most games, or that my Skyrim character's name is Maðuri, which I got from the Icelandic word for man, "maður".

It ->-bleeped-<-s me where games change powers on female options and they are not as powerful to play.
Take the classic Golden Axe... play the red amazon?  Hell no... her weapon reach is like 8 pixels.  Play the blue barbarian and his weapons longer.... but thats moot as the green dwarf is the best one to play.
I hated that chunlis attacks needed hold-press-release when I could do two circle+button attacks in that time.

Many years ago I worked at a game company and got into a huge fight with the producer because he refused to put females into multiplayer...  or as enemies... or anything beyond something hot to rescue or give medpacks.  Frustrating. I didnt realise wh y exactly it upset me so much.  Lol.

When I played EQ I used a male toon as having guys hit on me was a bit disturbing.
With WoW and SWTOR I used exclusively female toons
I have only played a fps once and it was default male

oh my god this is me everytime XD

I even go out of my way to try and be a girl character and i may even star teh game with a girl character then give up and eventually switch to a male one in an mmo. and especially recently as i find out just how much i really dislike the female body. i would much rather be a stronger male character or hell a femme looking elf dude than play as a girl.

i remember one time, long ago when Virtual magic kingdom was a thing, i played around as agirl then switched to a guy character and didn't tell anyone i was a girl in real ife. mind you i was like 11. to think that even at that age, when i was hardly thinking about my gender, i was all swapped XD

and now with ff15 coming out, i have no problem at all with them all being guys in the main party. hell i'd prefer it. i love playing games with a male protagonist...go figure.

Quote from: BeefxCake on July 31, 2013, 03:05:23 AM
oh my god this is me everytime XD

I even go out of my way to try and be a girl character and i may even star teh game with a girl character then give up and eventually switch to a male one in an mmo. and especially recently as i find out just how much i really dislike the female body. i would much rather be a stronger male character or hell a femme looking elf dude than play as a girl.

i remember one time, long ago when Virtual magic kingdom was a thing, i played around as agirl then switched to a guy character and didn't tell anyone i was a girl in real ife. mind you i was like 11. to think that even at that age, when i was hardly thinking about my gender, i was all swapped XD

and now with ff15 coming out, i have no problem at all with them all being guys in the main party. hell i'd prefer it. i love playing games with a male protagonist...go figure.

I'm gutted that FFXV looks to be a sausage fest

I will play female characters in games 100% unless of course the female characters are marketed entirely to horny teenage boys. Which is why I love Bethesda games so much they represent women for the culture in the worlds really well.

Quote from: mwandishi on July 23, 2013, 01:16:35 PM
I don't play all too many video games, but I did play F2P WoW and on private servers for about a year. Sometimes I would create a female character and just do some beginning quests for the sole purpose of being a female, and then I would delete the character.
Also, I go to a friends house with a group of guy friends once a week to play Halo - I've been doing so for years now. I would always play as an elite, but about 5 months ago I started playing as a female spartan once in a while. For about two months now that's all I play as, and I love it. It's crazy how simply selecting "female" in a video game can make you feel so free and "right".

I completely feel you; when I played WoW forever ago my friends would always ask why I played female characters and I told them it just felt right. (At this time I wish I was born female but didnt even know being transsexual was a thing so I just used games to be female for a change). I am currently leveling my second wizard to 60 on Diablo 3 so I can trade my male Wizard's gear to my Females <3

I've pretty much always played female characters, given the choice. This started with Pokemon Crystal, which was the first one to offer gender choice. As soon as Prof. Oak said "Are you a boy, or a girl?" I hit girl. And because I'm super original, I named her Kristal. Kristal looked super cool, tough and hardcore. She let me know that girls didn't have to be pink and frilly, they could be BADASS! (No offense to pink and frilly girls)

Later on I played Diablo II, and I played as the Assassin, a female only character. (Not that that would dissuade me.) I named her Kris, in honor of the coolest girl ever. Kris the Assassin basically codified the character of Kris for me, and in every game I played since then, the first character I create is always her. I've been playing Kris for over a decade now, and she's been in more alternate universes than Spiderman.

This came to a head in Mass Effect, where Renegade Fem!Shep became the true voice of Kris, and by extension, myself. She's the kind of woman I want to be. I wish I could get her voice down, but alas, even my considerable vocal talents cannot replicate that beautiful tone. Oh Jennifer Hale, why do you mock me so?

In games with no choice, I don't really care who I play as. Cole McGrath? Sure, whatever. Prince of Persia? Yeah, he's pretty cool. Mario? I'd rather play as Luigi, myself. But you give me a choice between "M" and "F", and I'll pick "F" every time.

Thankfully most of the game I play have the option to be female or have females as the main character. However When I am stuck playing a male character it does make me feel really weird. Right now I'm close beta testing for Warface, right now they only have male characters. I'm pretty good at that game, so when I see my male toon (the games shows the top 5 players at the end of the game) like idk I feel like it's chipping away at my heart. I don't know if I can really explain why. Even before I came out as mtf I always enjoyed/wanted to play female characters. Maybe that was just another clue that I should have been born female.... Now, when it comes to customization when possible I am so self conscious of both how I look and toon looks like. I find my self battling a line between how I really look and how I wish/or think I should look like.

On guild wars 2 I managed to only make one human character so I didn't have to battle customizing all my toons. But my one human just happened to be a light armor class, and of course just like any other fantasy mmo they wear more revealing armor vs the other armor classes. I believe I spent 2 hours customizing her before even hitting the intro mission. Even after I think I used 2
full makeover kits. Luckily because of the play styles I enjoy playing my guardian and mesmer the most, so I don't play my human much. My mesmer is of course a light armor class as well, but she's a really short asura so she really doesn't have human traits to them to worry about. My main toon which is the guardian is norn. The norns are pretty much bigger versions of humans, but because their lore and background is summed up like... a viking feel to em but they live in the snow (but they prey to the 4 animal spirits rather then pillage villages). Knowing that I just rank with a white and black color scheme and it turned out to work just fine. Sorry for all the info about gw2 I probably could have left out ( i just really like the game lol ), but you get my point.

After thinking about it for a bit I think the only to game I can stand playing male characters are splintercell and Assassin's Creed games. The reason why I don't mind it on those those games is because I think they are so cute/sexy toons and epicly badass. I can't believe I forgot this male charactor but Sora on Kingdom hearts, I loves the story line so much I didn't care that the main toon was male.

yeah, even before i realized I was a girl, I always picked female avatars when available. not only did they feel more relatable(gee i wonder why), but often times, if the characters are different rather than just being skins, the girls tend towards my preferred methods - magey types, or sneak-thieves.i played through threads of fate three times as mint before finally getting around to the boy to complete my save file. heh.

the only big exception in recent years was borderlands 1 - i don't really like the siren's skills that much but i adore sniping, so mordy was more up my alley.
and then in borderlands 2 they have gaige, whom as something as a powergamer i absolutely adore even aside from the fact that she's adorable. fat stacks on anarchy and a good shotgun is bliss.

I've recently reactivated my WoW account and looked over my characters. Most my males are either feminine or at least small or squishy or treehuggery. Most of my females are rather masculine.

My main is a female night elf priest, from back when I wanted very hard to live in the body I was given (and priest/cleric is closest to doctor/healer I wanted to be irl) but I don't play her much because my garbage computer means an average framerate of 6 or 7 fps and standing in fire kills her before I see it. My other characters at max level are a male gnome mage, a female orc rogue, and a male pandaren warrior who I made because my guild asked me to so we could get an achievement. He's kinda useless. I love how fat he is and how he moves but I can't figure out his story. And his tail looks stupid.

I've got a girl gnome warlock who I like because she's all hardcore and evil and girls aren't supposed to be. I've got a tauren druid who picks flowers and is basically Ferdinand. Lately I've been playing a female dwarf hunter.

I have a number of mid-level male blood elves. It goes without saying they're all pretty, um, well lol they're all pretty. Caricatures of well dressed gay men.

Gender only seems to be mentioned explicitly much in pvp, and it's almost always abusive. People assume all healers are girls, and "female" gets thrown around as an insult no matter what role you play. The extent of it depends on server or battle cluster or whatever.

I generally keep my mouth shut when people are being nasty in that way, but if in trade chat or any other place that lots of people might be listening, I gently argue with those who use ->-bleeped-<- or dyke as a casual insult. I can't imagine being a gay teenager and seeing that kind of thing as the norm. I'm not brave enough or ambitious enough to try to ask strangers to stop calling each other retard. Not yet.

Lol now I'm rambling and my gosh I'm glad I didn't have to come of age with the internet the way kids do nowadays.

I'll always play as a female in a game provided no one that i know face to face knows about it, i am still in the closet and am for good reason.

I always play as a female. I have tried to make a male character to set some people's mind at ease or to simply try something new. But I prefer to be female and to act as such. Problem is with the guys to seem to think that you are there for their amusement and want to demand to see your body. I have once received from a couple guys demands to see naked pictures to prove I was male, cause they believed I was too good at playing the female.

Totally agree with all who don't like to play male characters because it just feels weird/different, it just feels more natural to play a female character. In GTA V's case you can only play as males... kinda bummed (still a 100% satisfying game) older grand theft autos allowed you to enter a cheat code to play the game with civilian character models. I used to run around in a bikini sporting a minigun mowing down pigs fwahahaha!! I hear there will be more codes soon so hopefully the switch character models will exist

I always play as a male character, it just seems like the only choice tbh. When I was trying to feel comfortable with my body I attempted to make a female character in Fallout: New Vegas. I did the first few missions in Goodsprings then was leaving the area when that prompt came up asking if I was sure about my character. I ended up changing it to my default male character/alter ego. Hell, I even tried to play as a female in Oblivion but as soon as I got out of the sewers I gave up and went to my male Dunmer character.

I think the only game I played a female character in was Baldur's Gate. Not sure which one... It was on PS2? But the elf was a female, and in some alternate reality I'm an elf so I had to go with my true race. XD

I always pick a female on RPGs.   One of my faves is to customize and accessorize.  Esp in games like fallout where I can throw on a nice 50s dress and hat w/godmode and go explore.

Recently in online games I've gotten daring and presented as female which is incredibly liberating from the normal trapped feeling I always have.  It actually gave me the courage to kinda let myself go at work yesterday.  (And in a van full of ggs,  they were pretty confused haha)