Do you enjoy playing as a man or woman in games?

[LLLawliet]

Heh, I prefer two-tailed foxes, personally.

I really miss playing as different characters like Tails in Sonic games.

 

[Serendipity..]

I will confess here to playing ms PAC man on more than one occasion if I thought nobody was looking.

 

[Joyly]

I always play a female character, no matter the game.

 

[kakotan2143]

I play both and depends on how goofy the males look in some games, my main toon in WoW is a female Draenei mage

 

[Nienna_Lady_of_Tears]

I play both and depends on how goofy the males look in some games, my main toon in WoW is a female Draenei mage

Ugg, yeah, the only good looking males in Azeroth are blood elves.

 

[Saleena]

Heh, I prefer two-tailed foxes, personally.

:o *hides her other tail*

 

[Saleena]

Ugg, yeah, the only good looking males in Azeroth are blood elves.

Worgens were the occasion where the males looked better than the chihuahua females. <3 female draenei and their corny jokes.

 

[xSqUiD]

Both

 

[MJ Bond]

I'm already a guy in real life, and to be honest, staring at a dude's butt all day in games gets kinda boring after awhile. If said game is third person, in any case. So what I do is I use games to show off female characters that I think are cool. I'm into many different things, anime, visual novels, you name it, so what I do is show off cool and obscure characters that pretty much no one else knows. Then if someone asks me about my character, I can introduce them to the story. I consider it free advertising.

 

[rustom]

If it's a multiplayer game, I'll usually play as a male character and the same goes with all games in general I guess with the exception of having no other choice.

 

[LinkxPeach]

I like to play as the man characters than the woman because they're cooler.

 

[CounselorForChrist]

Thinking about it even more, at heart I hate for lack of better words being a sheep. I like to be different. If most people play as men, I'll play as a woman. If most people use assault rifles, I'll use a sniper rifle. If most like blue, I'll like red. lol. Maybe I'm a rebel at heart lol.

 

[gerbilwoman]

A women because I am a women and I feel we are underrepresented in video games.

 

[The-Doctor]

Both mostly but tend to be female more than I am male.

 

[Ferazhin]

I generally play guys to escape the blatant sexism & harassment. I also tend to play attractive male characters for my own personal enjoyment of the game.

Most games tend to have a male protagonist so I have no problem playing male toons. However I abhor playing "fanservice" female characters.

(Oddly enough on one hand, yet hardly surprising on the other, most of the "mailbox dancers" I've talked to in WoW are younger guys playing women as horrid [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] stereotypes.)

In regards to Lex' comment: Most of us tend to play games as an escape from jerks IRL, not just 1 gender or another.

 

[Standing_Ultraviolet]

It really depends on the game. I'm boring in that, when I play games with a character creation aspect, I usually model the character after myself. So, therefore, it's almost always male. When there's no option, though, I prefer games where you play as a female (or as an equal or greater ratio of female-to-male characters if the perspective shifts) just because women are underrepresented as default protagonists in video games.