Female or Male character?

[Rowan]

If theres an RPG that lets you choose which sex you'd like your character to be, do you choose Male or Female? And why? I choose female because its nice to have a sexy character to look at while im playing the game. I like to see the character in different outfits etc, I find it pretty cool. I lose that fun with male characters because I really couldnt care less what they look like. Since a lot of RPG nowadays allow you to customize your characters, its such a big aspect of the game that I would find that kind of fun lost on a male character.

[Alpha]

I don't really care. However what I do hate is when outfits/clothing items are tied to in-game abilities and stats. Then you end up dressing your character not in ways that you like, but as some fugly Frankenstein just to max out stats, or having two builds: one for boss stats, another one that isn't painful to look at.

[SOLDIER #819]

Male. Once, I started playing as a female in KOTOR before realizing that most of the romantic interests would not be women... which could have been fun at first, but probably wouldn't illicit the dramatic effect intended. So as a rule of thumb I don't play female characters in western RPGs. That said...

I rarely play them. If I'm playing an MMORPG or some dungeon-wandering JRPG with little to no story, I'll go 50-50. Especially when I played WoW, where it was a choice between stupidly sexy and just plain stupid-looking. The human males looked like apes.

[Xanatos]

It really depends whether the game gives me an option to create my character from scratch or not. Since most WRGs do offer such option I choose male as I like to model my character to resemble me as much as possible (I'm egoistic as that, yes), in most JRPG male characters are usually androgynous posers while babes tend to be hawt, thus my choice should be obvious.

[Cyanist]

Male. usually good-looking ones.
I can't stand watching those girls, all that flailing about as they run. I can't believe they'd be able to fight monsters in real life, either. :/

[Fluffy]

Most of the time I find the male characters look stupid, so female is quite common for me. If the males look fine, the females probably still look better, but at least I might play male in that case.

If the game has some kind of romance option, I'll probably go male.

[Crescent]

Usually I pick Males..TBH Im not concerned with the sex, I don't give a shit what they look like, my choice ultimately comes down to the stats, abilities, weapons tied to that sex if given those options. Often its the males that hold most of my preferred weapons. Although when I play Elder Scrolls, I often choose a female because I love trying to make it look like a supermodel hahaa..getting the bone structure right, eyeliner, eyeshadow, eye width, face shape, nose width etc..Its like a fun mini game to me. There are mods for that as well, I dnt care. But it doesn't hurt to play as a sexy Vincent or Vergil lookalike every now and then..

[Mystyrion]

Usually depends on the game and it usually comes down to how they look to put it in a nutshell.

Women characters look atrocious in the Fable series. So I've always gone with Male.
Same goes for The Elder Scrolls series (In my respectful opinion)
Mass Effect I chose to make the Shephard to look like me without a lot of detail gone into it.

On the other hand though, Women are usually more tantalizing in MMO's. Guild Wars 2, Tera, WoW..... all classes, all women.
Even Diablo I chose a woman. They just look better.

[Unknown Entity]

I like playing as both. Currently, I'm playing as a male Blood Elf in WoW and a male Nord in Skyrim. But I have female characters in both games as well.

Female characters do look a lot better than male characters though, and I prefer them slightly more. I always prefer to play as a combat rogue, and men don't usually fit the bill unless there's an option to make them thinner, haha. Bulky male rogues are a weird look.

[Kurt Zisa]

It honestly depends on the game i'm playing and then it's usualy based on how they look. If one gender has silly hair or clothes i'll most likely go for the other one. Yeah that's dumb but I don't want to be irritated by the person I'm playing as. I played as a girl most of the time on Pokemon Crystal because before that game came along, you didn't have the option to play as one.

[nix]

It really depends on which looks cooler.

Take Diablo 3 for example, i made a Demon hunter..

And decided to go female, mainly because the female model looked exactly like my assassin from Age of conan, but also because the male Demon hunter stands around like hes just shat himself and is trying his best to hide it. He looked goofy as hell!!

And when i made the wizard i went female too, but thats just nostalgia from diablo 2, wizard being set on female.

I stick to the same trend for all other games generally, if male version looks crappy ill go with whichever looks cooler..

[Josh_R]

I usually go with male seeing as how I am one. When I play RPG games I like to get into that shit, and imagine myself as that character. So I make myself a male character to do this.

[Heartless Angel]

I usually go with a female. Partially because of the entertainment that comes with customizing that just isn't there with a dude that I don't care what looks like, and partially because it makes the character less like myself. More detached from my reality, further immersed into the realm of fantasy. I don't like my fantasy time to remind me of reality.

[Firefly]

I usually go with male seeing as how I am one. When I play RPG games I like to get into that shit, and imagine myself as that character. So I make myself a male character to do this.

^ This is exactly how I am(except with female of course). I have made male characters but they bore me.

[midgetbob]

I have a few names / class types that are male / female... in almost every game I play, those names / classes go together with the corresponding sex

[NikkiLinkle]

Female. Because I am one and I love customising my character. Pretty hair, awesome clothes! I know I sound like a bimbo, but idgaf, I love it

[Rowan]

in saints row 3, i do the same thing. I like making my chick have massive breasts and wear skimpy (but stylish) clothing. I also make her wear glasses. I love it. I dont care about having some muscly meat head guy character, its boring to me.

[LocoColt04]

As with most, it really depends upon the game.

Mass Effect, for example, saw a Female Shepard for the Paragon playthroughs and a Male Shepard for the Renegade playthroughs. (Jennifer Hale is such a badass though; I'm told I need to do a Renegade FemShep to hear how well she plays those lines.)

Dragon Age was dependent more upon which class role I was setting for my characters. Dwarven Noble Male Warrior w/t tank spec, Dalish Elf Female Rogue w/ range spec, Male Human Rogue w/ backstab spec, etc. Dragon Age II saw the female character right away, and I have not played a male character yet.

In White Knight Chronicles, you create a player who has no certain role in the story, but is used in the multiplayer aspects of the game. Since the protagonist was male, I created a female.

In my MMOs, it tends to be a male character - though my main pilot in EVE Online is female. Most of the other games only see the female as an alternate character.

In Pokémon games, it literally alternates between games. As Pokémon Black is my most recent title, I have a girl named Freya. When Pokémon Black 2 rolls around, since it's technically a new character despite being a continuous storyline, I'll do the flip again and create a male trainer.

In Dragon's Dogma which I've poured 100+ hours into sporadically during my time MIA from here, my player character is male, dark skinned, and has elf-like pointed ears. I wanted to make him look as much like an Elvaan from FFXI as I could, and I'd like to think that I did so well enough. My pawn (for those who haven't played DD, a pawn is a personal companion - and you can hire additional user-made pawns to fill out your party) is female, but at max height with some crazy redheaded swoop hairstyle. She's ridiculously powerful, and still looks good - and because of this, she remains ranked in the top 4500 pawns on the ranking board despite there now being over 600,000 PS3 pawns ranked internationally. (Prideful moment, my apologies.)


There are many more examples, but I figured I got the point across well enough.