Got the idea of posting this when I watched this YouTube video that talks about reasons men love playing as girls.
Why do you do it?
Are there more than one reason?
What do you enjoy about it the most?
If it’s a third person game, I’d rather be looking at her ass throughout the playthrough than his.
You’re looking at the ass through your gameplay?
I never get this type of response. Do you really keep paying attention at whoever ass it is rather than the whole game happening on the rest of the screen?
Same. If it’s fpv only it doesn’t really matter to me.
No one has said this one yet:
I play a mix and generally want to create a distance between me and the character. I’m not thinking “what would I do?” I’m thinking “what would this person do?”
Having said that, if I pick a girl I won’t pick a heterosexual romance option. Romance in games is strange.
Unless it’s Mass Effect or Saints Row, though, right? Then err body gettin’ fucked!
I find women more appealing than men.
I like girls, mostly
I don’t really like looking at men. Yeah, the Witcher games are pretty alright but Geralt is kind of boring for me to watch. Given a choice between watching a buff dude throw a goblin at another goblin in bg3, or a buff woman do the same? Probably want to see the woman. Maybe it’s just low grade ambient horniness.
I never think of the character in a game as “me”. I had a friend who would always make himself. White guy with short hair and a short beard. That’s not for me. I don’t want to watch myself get blown up, stabbed, eaten by a dragon, whatever.
I don’t like when games feel like they’re just giving me eye candy or lazy titillation, though.The whole bikini armor thing I’m not into. Someone else mentioned they hate heels. Same.
low grade ambient horniness
Great band name
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There’s an absurd gender dimorphism in most games where every guy is a mountain of muscles by default. I don’t enjoy that body type - for myself, as a 5’5 dude, or even romantically - and women are usually on the softer, thinner side, so I tend to pick them at first.
If its a game where I can easily change genders, I’ll flip around to my tastes, depending on which clothing looks better on whatnot. - Aliens:Fireteam Elite and Dragon Quest Builders 2 come to mind as examples that did that. Also games with intricate character creators, like Saint’s Row (RIP) are welcome, but rare.
Eastern games tend to have softer men, so those tend to be exceptions. I recall picking male options in both Genshin and Path To Nowhere, and I usually enjoy the male leads in jRPGs.
I think this is my reason. I like lithe, acrobatic archetypes and will, for instance, usually prefer playing stealthy character classes when given the option. Guy bodies in games are (or at least used to be) blocky rectangles; they look like walking refrigerators. Gals usually have a more dynamic and nimble appearance.
Two more relevant reasons: (1) traditinally, non-customizable main characters are predominately male, so when given a choice I’ll choose the less common option to mix it up and (2) I am a guy in real life and am bored enough of it that I feel incentivized to play the other side in game world.
Honestly I just pick whichever option looks cooler. Most games that ask me to pick play in third person, and if I’m gonna have to stare at this thing the rest of the campaign it might as well be something I think looks cool
To quote my best friend, “If I’m going to spend hours staring at an ass, it might as well be a girl’s ass.”
I play a dude IRL so why would I do the exact same thing when I’m trying to escape from reality?
RPGs present the opportunity, and even the excitement, to be something you’re not. There’s allure in trying on something you’d normally never get an organic chance to wear.
Why not? I also play races other than human too
My honest answer:🥚
The title clearly says male players smh
😳
Back when I was uncracked I almost exclusively played male characters so I wouldn’t seem gay, but related more to female characters.
Of course, I’m extremely bisexual and was closeted about that too, but it didn’t affect me too much to see the ass of either generally playable gender as long as they were hot. 😅
Never heard of this being a term - what does it mean?
I had to look it up: apparently an “egg” is a maybe-possibly trans person who hasn’t “hatched” into self-acceptance or self-recognition (yet). It seems like a really presumptive kind of thing to me, but also I kinda get it so maybe I’m an egg too 🤷♂️(🤷🤷♀️)
One of those things that can be kind of rude to imply, and only really works retrospectively.
Egg is a term for a trans person that hasn’t realized they are trans yet. Like an egg before it cracks and hatches.
That was me. 🐣
I wonder about that for myself, not gonna lie. But I’ve been wondering off and on for like fifteen years, so if I am an egg, I’m having very hard time cracking.
Maybe you’re a Matryoshka ;D
Girls pretty
But, if there’s an option to be a robot, I’ll pick that over a male or a female character. For example, PSO2
I don’t relate with masculine characters at all. No idea why as I don’t identify as a woman. I have very little association or ownership of my gender.
Also character creators traditionally don’t have a ton of options beyond the binary. Hair, pronoun options tend to be most of the extent.
Also feminine bodies tend to be more interesting. More curves and interesting shapes while a lot of masculine bodies are rendered as blocky.
Anyone else always annoyed at “girl armor” in games? Always looking like a two piece bathing suit and always either the stomach showing or an open V on the bust? Maybe you get some stupid armored skirt and bare legs too.
It isn’t that I don’t like playing heroines/villainess because I think they can definitely be bad ass and look cool as shit kicking ass but it is terribly done in the vast majority of games, in my opinion.
I don’t judge anyone for their own thing but I think it sucks personally.
im not annoyed at its presence, i am instead frustrated at the lack of himbo armor in games.
Heels are my pet peeve
I like looking at women.
On a similar note, avoiding watching a guy’s butt wiggle for 20-40 hours.
