Im kind of weird, I usually choose the girls in games if im only given two character options as some of the guy characters in those games have kind of silly designs. However, If im playing a game where you can customize your character, I will almost exclusively choose male as I can have the chance to create a character that fits with me. So I am usually found on games with high custom creativity content (particularly the sims, I get to play as me basically in there as the guy I am)

Funny topic!

I almost always create a female character when I play a RPG like Skyrim, and my RuneScape character is usually a female too (if only there would be a make-over mage in real life...). When I am doing a Skyrim playthrough I usually marry a female character as well (yay for homosexual marriage in games!). Sometimes I do play a male character however, and I don't mind doing so.

It is a shame that there is no option to be a female soldier in games like MW3. I mean, women are still heavily outnumbered in the armed forces but they are definitely out there.

I wish my PlayStation didn't brake down, I'd be playing oblivion right now as a female character as always,  ,every game where there's a choice I choose a female character, even back before HRT when I had friends I'd play as female, they use to hate it because I would kick their but on tekken playing as asuka.

Well... I play MMORPG and have every sort of toons...

I draw my guys matching a reference male, a hero. I do get compliments for doing it right but I tend to be rather shy while playing a guy. Mostly I avoid talking about myself (especially regarding name/gender) but every once in a blue moon when there's only 1 female in a squad of males I just say I'm a female.

With my girls however I let my imagination go loose. Last time I rolled a female I eventually spotted some similar traits to my own... I think I'm more sociable/helpful as a female. However I end up telling my name/gender quite often in order to avoid stalkers and marriage proposals lol

I almost always play female characters unless its a racing game and i have no choice, or for some reason the male model actually looks better (to my eyes). When i was asked about that I used to say "I play this game for several hours a day, why would I want to stare at a man's ass the whole time when I could stare at a cute butt?" In truth i'm a bisexual mtf, but when your not out to someone and they ask you something to fish for an answer, little white lies tend to form!

I always create Female characters, the only exception is when I have to present that character(in vs. or games where they could see me) to others or have multiple files (ie Pokemon)

Video games were part of the force that lead to the knowledge of myself being a transgendered person. On a subconscious level of my mind I always picked female, and when I did pick make, the experience grew stale. I played a lot of Oblivion and even some Skyrim around when I figured this out(though personally I have now come to the conclusion that I really didn't like Skyrim all that much it bored me quickly it felt much more empty than Oblivion, but whatever) I play a lot of Minecraft, but that doesn't really count because until VERY recently I have been using an albino ferret skin that I had to handcraft myself everytime.

SIDENOTE: when I play terraria I technically play as the male model with femine hair just because it still looks like a female and the actual female model looks derpy and really hard to fight monsters in...

I usually play a male character, but every now and then I play female because of the design or the play-style or what have you. But "my" characters are pretty much all male. If I have an option for multiple characters (EG: Sims, Miis, Animal Crossing...) I sometimes have 1 female character, but that's really it.

I play male characters more in computer games but do also switch it up between male and female characters somewhat. In table top RPGs, I play about evenly male and female characters as well as a lot of nonbinary characters.
I usually imagine my tabletop characters to be trans or gender nonconforming to some degree, and several of them have been within game canon. My fave character I've ever played was a MtF druidess, and I might actually write a book about her some day.

Don't remember if I posted in this thread before....

But, I find I mostly play as a female, at least while I am on the PC, if I am playing on a console I most likely will play as a male to avoid my family asking about it(my brother for whatever reason thinks it is wrong for you to play as the opposite gender in a game, then again for me I guess it technically is the same gender?). In all honesty, if I am playing as a male in an MMORPG, I find that I am very shy or just have a lack of motivation to play the character... If for whatever reasons the male models look better, or the classes are gender locked, I will usually make a somewhat androgynous male character.

For singleplayer games I most likely just play whatever the character was officially.

If the game doesn't offer a female character I find it really hard to get into, that is the reason why I have spent like ten minutes in the Witcher 2 yet have spent forty plus hours on Dragon Age 2 despite being widely considered a worse game.

This usually doesn't effect me much because I don't do that much gaming in general. Though when I do I usually pick the boy.

But tonight I was at a friends house playing some Wii games that used a Mii she had made for me a year ago. The Mii was female and it bothered me SO MUCH. I was getting to angry because my character was wearing a dress and a bikini. And I couldn't tell my friend why because I'm not out to her. And it was so frustrating...so yeah. I get this.

Quote from: Hikari on January 07, 2015, 02:58:19 PM
If the game doesn't offer a female character I find it really hard to get into, that is the reason why I have spent like ten minutes in the Witcher 2 yet have spent forty plus hours on Dragon Age 2 despite being widely considered a worse game.

I bought Far Cry 3 yesterday, and I could not pick a female character . Oh well, I am enjoying the game... wish I had bought it months earlier haha.

My wife came in the other day while I was playing Saints Row 3rd and I was playing pretty much as the person I truly feel like and she said "wow, you can dress in drag in that game"?  I was actually insulted on my character's behalf because I thought she was gorgeous.  I just thought it was funny how it was a blow to me as she wasn't in drag at all.

I've almost always played as a woman except for online for obvious reasons.  It's all starting to make waaaay more sense now.

What I find unfair is when you get specific bonuses as a certain sex, I find those games typically aren't suited for me because I obviously want to have an easier gameplay experience, but if it's unfairly balanced toward male, then I might not play. I typically play as a female on every game that has the option, and if a voice chat is part of the experience, act like it doesn't mean anything that I'm playing as a female or I don't use the voice chat itself. Sometimes listening is better than participating in the speaking cause people say good stuff.

My Runescape character was Vulynn way before I chose that name as my own. She has been female ever since I excepted my gender years ago, in the days of the Makeover Mage. I had 3 accounts on RS, and they all ended up being female at one point.

Skyrim, Oblivion, Bordelands 1 &2 (I chose CL4PTRP in The Pre Sequel, I love that little bot enough toskip out on Nisha or Athena), Perfect World, AOTTG, Lost Saga, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Elsword, MapleStory, Sims (all of them), really any game where gender is of your choice. It's been this way for years, I believe close to 9 years. I don't like playing a game with a guy as my avatar unless there is something worth it like story.

I generally only played male characters until a few years ago, when I decided I would no longer be afraid to play what I wanted. Since then, I can't stand playing male -- it just doesn't feel right. My friends (they don't know about me) often give me a hard time about it, but I'm cool with it. I do prefer when the female body types aren't so... exaggerated, however.

I used to play male characters when I was 12, 13 years old. Even at 16, I believe I played some male characters. I began playing female only characters at age 16-17 and never stopped since then.

I often infuriate my friends because I refuse to play any game where male is the only option.

As it was said before in this topic : being a male is already a pain everyday, I don't see why I should play a male in the game on top of that.

I play on MUCKS as a femme character.  Funny, since it's text based and you cant actually -see- anything.  I get to describe how the character looks, which means I have full control over it.
However, on this game, Terraria, I have male chars. Prevents fights that way.

I always play a female character. It was interesting to explain to my parents...

Dad: Why are you a woman in that game?
Me: *immediately dons skimpiest armour I can find* Because eye candy.
Dad: Mmm. I see. *nods approvingly and walks away*

Mom: Why are you female?
Me: Because it's not reality?
Mom: Fair enough. *walks away scratching head*

And then there was my sister..."Why are you - oh holy crap that is hot nevermind I don't even care. Can I watch?"

The only game where I wasn't female was an experimental pen-and-paper game a friend of mine was trying to develop back in middle school, because there were just too many dudes playing for me to try the usual route. I knew what'd happen.