I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious. The reason why I’m asking is because in this sort of games I like to make the character resemble me as much as possible in every aspect, so I’m just curious to know what is the motivation behind men that decide to play as a female character.
Role playing is much more fun when I’m not playing someone similar to me.
If its a 3rd person game and im gonna be looking at someones ass for 40 or so hours, im gonna make it an ass I enjoy seeing.
One of the weirdest people I ever knew said that exact thing about why he played a girl in Pokémon games. That dude was incredibly sus.
That’s weird. I was talking about custom made phat ass booty bitches on Ark. Aren’t the Pokemon protagonists rather young?
I believe they are canonically ten years old, yes. We were in college when he said that. I don’t know how deep this goes, I stopped talking to him soon after.
Character customization is one of my favorite parts of the game. And to be honest dressing up a “hot” woman is more fun than a guy to me.
Also I like looking at a woman more than a man. So there’s that too.
I was actually just thinking about that the other day. As far as I can tell, people tend to fall in to one of two camps:
- Make the character look as much like (a potentially idealized version of) yourself as possible
- Make the character look nothing like yourself
I always make my characters completely different from me, so they often (maybe 60-70% of the time) end up being women. My friend always makes them look as close to himself as possible.
I think it comes down to different styles of roleplay. I’m myself every day. Why would I want to be myself but Cyberpunk? My friend, on the other hand, wants to imagine himself as being in that world.
And then you have the third camp of people who make their characters horny or humorous, which can be fun to do occasionally but I cannot imagine doing regularly.
Play by the no center sliders rule a la Monster Factory.
There he is, hero of earth camera pans to the most fucked up gremlin you’ve ever seen
I play in 3rd person and I’m a ass man
This exactly. If I’m going to spend hours staring at or hearing a voice, if rather it be attractive to me.
Man-ass or male grunting are not my particular flavor of candy.
Making the exact same character in every game gets old after a while. Also boobs.
Also ass.
I make my V an attractive and slim woman with a massive dong so it’s absolutely nothing like me.
For me, it’s the voice. For a voiced character like V, it requires a very special talent to take you on a journey with them, to listen to their fear, pain, anger and despair. Cherami Leigh just does such a fantastic job of bringing V to life for me, of really bringing that raw emotion out and making it feel real!
Mass Effect was the same. Femshep Gang \m/
In cyberpunk I did both. I made a blades only femme fatale with sandevistan and mantis blades, and I made a male hacker V with smart weapons.
I suppose I base my choices more on what fantasy I have in mind for my character than the fact that I’m a man myself, but if that isnt as much of a factor I very pragmatically go with “girl ass on screen > dude ass on screen”.
The only game I’ve tried to make a character resemble myself was GTA5, just because it seemed funny. Otherwise, I make up a character in the same way one might for a work of fiction, and some are male, some are female.
Man I’ve no idea why I do it. In have a female VR avatar too. I’ve thought about it. It’s just what I do. Like, there’s no desire to be a woman in me, but in virtual space I just seem to be one.
Been playing male characters in games since the dawn of time (1990) so now I like to switch it up every now and then since we have the option to choose our own characters in a lot of games now.
I think for a lot of people part of the fantasy is getting to be someone else.
You get to guild your own big titty goth girls.
I think women are cool.
