Why do MEN create FEMALE CHARACTERS?

[keela]

Okay, I swear to god this is an honest and curious question.
this is something I've always been wondering, but never asked much, and thought I might get some interesting answers here

Why do men like to play with female characters in games that you can choose your gender?

(For disclaimer I'm talking only about games where you can choose your gender, I don't feel nothing by playing 2B or Geralt of rivia for instance)

I'm a girl, and I really like playing female characters, I don't see any appeal in playing men, I can't exactly explain why, but as dumb as it sounds, I like to create and play a pretty female character and I probably feel that way bc there's more connection with my character representing my own gender I guess?

I've been playing online for as long as I can remember, and in all those years, I've ONLY MET ONE girl who played a male character, and she told me she did it so she wouldn't be bothered.
As for men, almost every female character I could find was being played by a guy. I thought for a long time that it was because of the sexy appeal of the female characters, or maybe bc some people could get free items as female?

Anyway, this happens in singleplayer games as well, and is happening in Baldur's Gate too, naturally, but there's little sex appeal here and nothing to gain, so what makes you choose a different gender for your character in this game and possible others? Is it about the roleplay? Is it about appearance?

Just to be sure, there is NOTHING wrong with that, and I know for a fact that there are girls who play male characters, as well as MANY men who play male characters. All I'm saying is based on my experience where the amount of men who chose this is much higher than the women.
And obviously I'm referring to man as people who identify as male as a gender

EDIT: Something I want to point out, I'm not necessarily saying about creating yourself, only your gender.
As much I love creating a female character, I don't ever create myself, I create a CHARACTER that I find suitable.... aaaand after reading some answers, I guess I don't find that nice BECAUSE I'm also a girl, but because they're pretty to look/nice to create?
Someone said that you either wanna ♥♥♥♥ or BE the character, I guess that's right lmao
for a lot of cases anyway

[Xype]

If I am going to stare at an ass all day it is going to be a female ass.

[pizzawolf238]

Originally posted by Xype:

If I am going to stare at an ass all day it is going to be a female ass.

typical coping take

[Gameer4life]

Why do you care so much? Because I promise most guys who play female characters on games are not thinking about it that deeply.

[keela]

Originally posted by Gameer4life:

Why do you care so much? Because I promise most guys who play female characters on games are not thinking about it that deeply.

As I said in the post, curiosity

[Capt.Luke]

Originally posted by Xype:

If I am going to stare at an ass all day it is going to be a female ass.

same for me, plus if there is romance in the game I will see 2 girls in action

[Gracey Face]

The only game I have ever made a female character for is mass effect and that's just because femshep's voice actress is "better".

I have asked some people this myself and the most common response I got was "If I a going to spend 20 hours with my camera behind the character watching their ass bounce up and down while I run from waypoint to waypoint it might as well be a woman's ass."

[Tao314zdin]

That depends on the game, for games like BG3 - not sure.

However for things like souls-series where you have just your char and no real gender-related interactions:

Originally posted by Xype:

If I am going to stare at an ass all day it is going to be a female ass.

^

[VoiD]

Few people like the idea of staring at a man's ass for 200 hours.

[Dregnautt]

So i can play the entire game naked and enjoy the view :D

[ChalkStorm]

girls are pretty, boys are icky. therefore i play girl.

[Azure Fang]

I speak for myself and nobody else:

1: If I'mma stare at an ass for hours on end, I'd rather it be a female ass.
2: From a developmental standpoint, the dominant side of my family has traditionally been female, so rolling female avatars has always felt more natural.

[Zehm]

I typically make male characters, being male myself. When I make a female character on the rare occasion, its to see the different armour skins or to fulfil a certain character archetype.

[zero]

fun, its a video game, why else?

[Gamer de esquerda]

Originally posted by Xype:

If I am going to stare at an ass all day it is going to be a female ass.

Unfortunately, this is actually true for most gamers. I've actually read a research paper that confirmed most players would create a female character in an MMO to stare at her ass.

Just shows how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the gaming community is, unfortunately

[orthostatic]

Guilty as charged OP, and have been for decades. I almost always make a female with the same hair/eye color that I have. This is for two reasons:
1) I refuse to endure decision paralysis during character creation.
2) If I have to stare at an ass for 40-100 hours, it isn't going to be my ass.

There you be.