What's the deal with guys playing female characters in RPG's?

[Space05us]

I tried playing a femal character in Fallout, once. I couldnt stand the whine when she (my character), dressed in power armour, got hit by the smallest thing.

[alva]

@ topic
Only Diss can come up with topics like this

[DrSpike]

There are sometimes slightly different plot lines. Didn't you always want to seduce Carth in KOTOR?

[General Ludd]

Re: What's the deal with guys playing female characters in RPG's?

Originally posted by Dissident
If it is truelly roleplay, does that mean they want to be girls?

No, it means their character is a girl.



What is the problem with a man roleplaying as a girl? The whole point of roleplay is that you are becoming someone else.

[DrSpike]

Good point. When you play an evil baby eating devil worshipping necromancer it doesn't mean you want to be one. Or does it Diss?

[Theben]

Re: Re: What's the deal with guys playing female characters in RPG's?

Originally posted by General Ludd
What is the problem with a man roleplaying as a girl? The whole point of roleplay is that you are becoming someone else.

Yeah, just look at all the cosplayers out there. On second thought, don't.

[Maquiladora]

They're ghey.

[DarkCloud]

[quoteYeah, I have to admit the breasts are usually the reason for going for a female character. Except for Fallout and Arcanum. That was story based too since gender actually mattered there. [/quote]
In arcanum it only made sense to play as a female
And I thought it was amusing to wear a dress that had AC 3

(Idiotically, in my first game I tried to make a man wear the dress just to see if he would wear it... it turned out I had wasted 200 gold or so on it though since the game would let me buy but not equip )

[Urban Ranger]

Why are you people limited to computer RPGs?

Anyway, in Wizardry, there is a class Valkyrie, which is open only to female characters.

[Space05us]

Why are you people limited to computer RPGs?

What are you sitting in front of right now UR?

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
They're ghey.

[Zero]

Not just RPGs. Any games with stats, females are usually better for some ppl.

game designers stereotypically design females with stats like speed,agility,dexterity etc etc while males get mostly power and etc. Or their body is slender with its a game that considers hitzones etc....

I find myself picking females most of the time because theyre just better than males in most stat games.

[Alex]

ooh, good memories of lara croft crawling in tight spaces...

[Barinthus]

I do it for the diversity. It all started when I played fighting games like Mortal Kombat and I noticed I tend to prefer female characters due to their speed advantage. It goes well with my playing style.

In RPGs, I do it for the novelty of it, for something different.

Alto on online RPG games such as MUDs, I do play females I don't deliberately seek cybersex or maintain a 'relationship.' I just find it too werid. I don't even do it when I play male characters either.

[Jon Miller]

Re: What's the deal with guys playing female characters in RPG's?

Originally posted by Dissident
If it is truelly roleplay, does that mean they want to be girls? I'm just curious. I'm not exempt, I have played female characters.

any psychologists or wannabe psychologists want to comment?

I plays girls half the time

my freind plays girls all the time

it is true roleplay something that I am not, although usually I do a poor job of doing a different sex

JM