male or female

[larryddd]

morning all what do most of you play as a male or female, I reckon its female. also what race is the most attractive for a female I have always played nord.thanks

[AllergicToBrainRot]

normal players- male and female.

Horny players- female and male.

[Docsprock]

Why would you 'reckon' most play female?

[Ilthe]

there are some passive abilities that depend on your character sex, something like "attack on opposite sex are stronger" (or was it defence? don't remember) and "prices with opposite sex are better", and since there are more male enemies and traders, minmax players chose female
it is not always about horny lol

[larryddd]

Originally posted by Docsprock:

Why would you 'reckon' most play female?

most of the player I've spoken to lean towards female, just wondered why. and like I said I always played nord would be nice for a change to play some other race

[SpeedFreak1972]

Mostly male

At a certain point in every play I tend to heavy armor and 2 handed weapons and I find it odd looking on a woman

[larryddd]

yes I tend to stick to light armor normally an archer

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by Docsprock:

Why would you 'reckon' most play female?

One skim at the steam screenshots or the front page of Nexus mods can draw a reasonable conclusion about which sex is played more. Not saying that's necessarily accurate, but it's a reasonable conclusion to make.

[Rez Elwin]

I play both pretty equally, though technically speaking, playing a female offers an an advantage over males because of the Agent of Dibella perk.

While the perk can obtained as a Male character, it'a not as useful.

There are also WAY more armor mods for females, and I'm not even talking about the skimpy ones.

[Sairek Ceareste]

I play as a male Imperial child for my melee character and male Breton child for my mage character.

Don't really play archer because the melee character uses a bow as a secondary anyway, at least when melee literally is not an option (ala, flying dragons) because he does not use any magic whatsoever.

[FauxFurry]

Originally posted by I-sell-diet-water:

normal players- male and female.

Horny players- female and male.

Clearly you are not only unfamiliar sites like VectorPlexis.com and Lady Moraine's Hall of Torque but with the idea that not all players are heterosexual males.

[FauxFurry]

For me, whatever strikes my fancy at the moment which is modified by what mods I have installed.
Recently, due to the Ultimate Body Enhancer race mod reaching a fairly high level of development, I have taken to playing a Nord male who at first glance looks like a female but is very obviously male whenever their armor is unequipped.

[FauxFurry]

Originally posted by psychotron666:

Originally posted by Docsprock:

Why would you 'reckon' most play female?

One skim at the steam screenshots or the front page of Nexus mods can draw a reasonable conclusion about which sex is played more. Not saying that's necessarily accurate, but it's a reasonable conclusion to make.

Not really. It only means that they are the ones who care enough about their characters' aesthetics to share images of them. People playing a default male Nord likely do not even so much as glance at their characters due to staying in first person perspective as much as humanly possible.

[Kuollut]

I will tell you why I play with female (Khajiit) character.

The females are slim and short compared to their male counterparts.

I don't have horny mods I play vanilla so that is my motive, a female assassin/stealth archer is better than males.

[-={LG}=-]

Originally posted by Docsprock:

Why would you 'reckon' most play female?

The enormous popularity of "adult" mods is pretty suggestive I would say. And if you ever played Elder Scrolls Online you'd also come away with that impression. Then there's a plethora of Steam art and such. And the existence of mod sites entirely dedicated to such things. It's not an unreasonable claim.

As for me my character is an extension of my personal identity which I play as an escape from the mundanity of reality into a fictional world where I'm not just some powerless Joe Nobody.

So playing a female is entirely out of the question. I don't identify with being a girl.

[FauxFurry]

Originally posted by -={LG}=-:

Originally posted by Docsprock:

Why would you 'reckon' most play female?

The enormous popularity of "adult" mods is pretty suggestive I would say. And if you ever played Elder Scrolls Online you'd also come away with that impression. Then there's a plethora of Steam art and such. And the existence of mod sites entirely dedicated to such things. It's not an unreasonable claim.

As for me my character is an extension of my personal identity which I play as an escape from the mundanity of reality into a fictional world where I'm not just some powerless Joe Nobody.

So playing a female is entirely out of the question. I don't identify with being a girl.

If you go by the popularity of adult mods, then Baldur's Gate 3 players select males at a 3:1 ratio at the very least.

It also does not account for the fact that mods do not spring from the aether due to pure desire. They are made by people who have the time, skills and the patience to make them (unless they are 'official mods' bankrolled by corporations to host on their launchers), sometimes out of proportion to the wider player base.
Most of the adult content mods fro The Sims 4 are male character oriented but the predominately female player base still choose female sims to play most of the time. The adult mods are no less alluring when used by NPCs of the opposite sex, after all.