I am a woman, and I play as women. I will occasionally play as a male character to experience all the content, but my first preference is to play as a woman.
sexist rant: CHARNAME has to be stronger than anyone else in the party. How could a girl achieve that? It would require an all female party.
And this is why Anomen would end up singing coloratura soprano if my character could choose her actions rather than her words, and he'd have two softish rounded objects protruding through his skull...
@LadyRhian Yes, the only bad thing in playing as a girl is Anomen. Even though I always play as Legal Good I usually tend to reject him breaking his heart during his romance, bwahahahah. Thankfully there are mods
Ahahah, scared ? Maybe I've been lucky but I'm registered to lots of forums about gaming or rpg and the fact that I'm a girl have never made a difference in any conversation.
@Bjjorick Trust me, my female character had 18/00 strength at the time. Had I found the strength tome earlier, Anomen would have bounced off the ceiling of the Inn we were in when he threw his opening romance lines at me. Otherwise, he'd have learned to fly without bracers, boots or rings of any kind.
@Sophia I am looking forward to downloading and playing the Solaufein Mod and seeing if Rasad isn't a bunghole. Anomen is so bad, even no romance at all would have been better, I feel. But I do have to admit, a romance with Solaufein calls to me quite strongly. I even have an avatar picked out for him...
omg @Permidion_Stark I loved the last one. It's just so funny! (I know this contributes in no way to the discussion, but I believed credit should be given because it was really laugh-worthy!)
@Sophia Thanks. That's my favorite pic of a male Dark elf. All the others, I look at them and see Drizzt. Just about every other good pic on their is a pic of Drizzt: http://weidu.org/pics/index.html
I always play as a guy and run with the girdle of gender-bender the entire game.
In all honesty I end up making female toons in BG more often because the portraits that aren't already in use by an NPC fit the class I feel like playing better than the extra male ones. When I make a male character, I end up finding my own portrait to use and that takes effort.
It's true, most of the other are Drizzt-like. There are lots of good pictures of drows in that deviantart account! I like best portraits in which you see the character only over the shoulders because those portraits fit in better with the original ones, but from those pictures you can make really good portraits!
It depends on what I feel the setting needs - when I started up Knights of the Old Republic, literally the first thought that came into my head during character creation was "Oh yes, Star Wars could really use a competent female hero." With Dragon Age: Origins I did a bit of gender reversal - my first character was a female human knight (which, pleasant surprise, no one in Thedas finds strange, my second was a male elf mage. NWN and NWN2 allowed me to split the difference between female Barbarian, male sorcerer, male Blackguard and female Red Wizard.
If the game features a choice of gender, I will mostly play females. In games where I can't romance the females because they didn't program same-sex relationships, then I don't have a choice but to play a male character to experience that content. I'll generally do that on a second or third play-through.
I'm a heterosexual male person and I heavily favor female PCs (Mmmm Liara, my sweet pseudo-lesbian blue bundle of love...) but I play males as well when I'm in the mood.
I'm a heterosexual male person and I heavily favor female PCs (Mmmm Liara, my sweet pseudo-lesbian blue bundle of love...) but I play males as well when I'm in the mood.
As Jolanthus says, screw society.
In Skyrim I played a female and I married Aela the Huntress.
Mostly play male characters. I do make female characters as extra party members in party-based RPGs, but it's never the main char. Will occasionally make female chars in MMORPGs too, but they mostly just end up as character screen eye-candy... Since my in-game char usually is a virtual extension of myself, I find it very hard to get immersed in the game if playing a female char.
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Thankfully there are mods
@Sophia I am looking forward to downloading and playing the Solaufein Mod and seeing if Rasad isn't a bunghole. Anomen is so bad, even no romance at all would have been better, I feel. But I do have to admit, a romance with Solaufein calls to me quite strongly. I even have an avatar picked out for him...
http://weidu.org/pics/5/DM041L.bmp
Beautiful portrait!
There's also this one: http://mavrosh.deviantart.com/art/The-Red-Couch-Socair-320158627
In all honesty I end up making female toons in BG more often because the portraits that aren't already in use by an NPC fit the class I feel like playing better than the extra male ones. When I make a male character, I end up finding my own portrait to use and that takes effort.
There are lots of good pictures of drows in that deviantart account! I like best portraits in which you see the character only over the shoulders because those portraits fit in better with the original ones, but from those pictures you can make really good portraits!
Having said that he's a powerful character and his storyline has some EPIC fights that ramp up the difficulty way past anything in BG2.
solaufein is ok, but he could be great if toned down a bit with equal amount of "ordinary" talks.
I play what ever the hell I want, society be damned.
As Jolanthus says, screw society.
It's a very uncomfortable concept to imagine/RP myself as a female. No thanks.