Does no one play male v?

[Licoix]

All the promotional stuff, even the phantom liberty ending shows female V, and most videos i've seen of people playing have picked female V, is male V just not popular, is it the voice acting?

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Larry:

I do remember by ME3 there was a big vocal surge in talk about how much better "femshep" was better and what not and how much better Jennifer Hale(Is that her name?) was better than Shepard

His name is Mark Meer, but yes. That time they were both doing Stern Action Man voice, but people still deluded themselves to think that Jennifer Hale had a more emotive voice anyway. Considering people feel like periods at the end of text messages make them sound aggressive now, I would guess the underlying problem in the RPG player community is some kind of issue with male authority.

[Larry]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by Larry:

I do remember by ME3 there was a big vocal surge in talk about how much better "femshep" was better and what not and how much better Jennifer Hale(Is that her name?) was better than Shepard

His name is Mark Meer, but yes. That time they were both doing Stern Action Man voice, but people still deluded themselves to think that Jennifer Hale had a more emotive voice anyway. Considering people feel like periods at the end of text messages make them sound aggressive now, I would guess the underlying problem in the RPG player community is some kind of issue with male authority.

You could be right.

The same was said of male Eivor vs female Eivor in AC: Valhalla. Clearly male Eirvor is better suited, better spoken and far more fitting a viking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8UK-htza-c

There couldn't even be a snowballs chance in hell female Eivor could be considered better suited or even better acted than male Eivor.

Then again, I think it's just a bunch of arguing over nothing. 99% of people couldn't give a ♥♥♥♥. They play what they play and first time around that generally tends to be the gender of the person playing the character at least first time around where gender may have an impact. Because the majority of gamers(Not including mobile gaming) consists primarily of males you're going to see this reflected in the characters players choose where gender has an impact.

Also, I know the myth about how it's "55%/53% male to 47% female" "gamers" but this data stems from one key question: "Have you played a video game this year." When further broken down and asked if they consider themselves "gamers" only 9% of women considered themselves a "gamer" compared to 33% of men(Over three times the number of female "gamers"). So, no... it's not 50/50 or close to it. It's nowhere near 50/50. Gaming is predominantly male.

[astraldooley]

Male V had a bunch of trailers and promo artwork for the base game. Phantom Liberty went almost purely with female V for whatever reason.

I always play male V, his accent fits the streetkid vibe I'm after.

[-=PR=-moon knight]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by Larry:

I do remember by ME3 there was a big vocal surge in talk about how much better "femshep" was better and what not and how much better Jennifer Hale(Is that her name?) was better than Shepard

His name is Mark Meer, but yes. That time they were both doing Stern Action Man voice, but people still deluded themselves to think that Jennifer Hale had a more emotive voice anyway. Considering people feel like periods at the end of text messages make them sound aggressive now, I would guess the underlying problem in the RPG player community is some kind of issue with male authority.

Jennifer Hale was definetely better in Mass Effect 1 and maybe 2. Mark Meer stepped it up in Mass Effect 3, and I overall think male Shepard fits the setting better.

Cyberpunk is a different story, V is an punk mercenary, not a soldier or an action hero. Female V acting fits the character better than male V

[birukt]

Originally posted by Grenade_Cobra:

I really don't have a preference for this game as both voice actors I enjoyed and I've beatin it with both. I mean Panam or Judy how do you really choose. Now say Mass Effect? Female Shepard all the way.

haha Mass Effect is the reason I'll usually choose female voice actor over male these days. That said, I think male V does a better job. I don't know, something about the world of Cyberpunk 2077 lends to the grittier vocal delivery in my opinion. Some of Fem V's lines make me cringe because I don't buy the delivery. That said, Judy is the better romance so I still choose fem V half the time.

[Achilleon]

I played the male V and have noticed the same thing after release. The initial media was all male V, but all material now is female V. I think this is due to the modern take on replacing all male main characters with females.

[Paulie]

The initial teaser trailer showed Male V. Vincent > Valorie

[goodbye_bonito]

Male V has weaker VA that does not understand the role and feels like an afterthought.

[Paulie]

Originally posted by goodbye_bonito:

Male V has weaker VA that does not understand the role and feels like an afterthought.

more than half the people that criticize voice acting in that regard often cant do better themselves. just saying.

[goodbye_bonito]

Originally posted by Paulie:

Originally posted by goodbye_bonito:

Male V has weaker VA that does not understand the role and feels like an afterthought.

more than half the people that criticize voice acting in that regard often cant do better themselves. just saying.

Why should they?

[HTakara]

whats the point of playing a female avatar in a first person game? it makes no sense to me, you can't admire the T&A

[BlaznXazn]

I prefer romancing Judy, plus I just can't stand the idea of being the guy who is romantically linked to loud mouth girl boss Panam. Just not the fantasy I'm about being first ♥♥♥♥♥ to my female master not to say that's not appealing to others. Just a personal preference.

[StemDeckOnly]

only ever played as male

[Megapewpew]

The reality is the large majority of gamers play the male(in every game); just "female protag" fanclub is very loud online.

[wendersen]

My first gameplay is male V. Not sure how the EN VA sounds like because I'm using the JP VA.