Why do guys use girl avatars?

[Dominic]

I know it is a choice yes. But I was wondering is there more to it? Do they use them because they like girls? Or do they use them to make other think they are girls? Or is it some thing else?

I also noticed girls seem to use boy avatars to a decent amount to.

So what are your thoughts on this and what do you think the reasons are behind this?

[smoka-cola]

Because they think that their avatar is cute and want to express that

it's usually with the whole senpai/waifu thing

[Dr. Fronkensteen]

Originally posted by ｊｅｒｒｙ ˙ ͜ʟ˙:

Because they think that their avatar is cute and want to express that

it's usually with the whole senpai/waifu thing

This, and i am not innocent of this either. Female characters usually get the best customization options in game though.

I think girls using male characters is more to stop harassment than anything. Even though probably 80% of female avatars are run by men, you still get the creepy whispers when you play as one.

[Myrmicon]

I actually don't know. But then again I do not care to much, everyone can do what they want afterall.

[Watermelon {JESUS IS LORD}]

because why not

[ナルゴ]

Because she is cute.
I like cute things.

[Linus Hyper]

Because that's the closest they will get to a girl.

[😼Studio Cat😼]

Originally posted by Barf the Mawg:

Originally posted by ｊｅｒｒｙ ˙ ͜ʟ˙:

Because they think that their avatar is cute and want to express that

it's usually with the whole senpai/waifu thing

This, and i am not innocent of this either. Female characters usually get the best customization options in game though.

I think girls using male characters is more to stop harassment than anything. Even though probably 80% of female avatars are run by men, you still get the creepy whispers when you play as one.

Oh yeah. I definitely remember that stuff from rolling a female Night Elf in WoW. Young adult men can be creepy AF. And you definitely are not wrong about the amount of customization options and there general superiority on female character.

When presented with an option of gender, I'll usually pick whatever I think looks the best after playing around with character creation, and if they are comparable, I also like to check out story options and different builds in games where a gender has different story options and/or skills sets. Mass Effect has a few that I would have missed, had I not played FemShep.

I have never gotten why people always read so much into stuff like this in video games.

[Dominic]

Originally posted by Studio Cat:

Originally posted by Barf the Mawg:

This, and i am not innocent of this either. Female characters usually get the best customization options in game though.

I think girls using male characters is more to stop harassment than anything. Even though probably 80% of female avatars are run by men, you still get the creepy whispers when you play as one.

Oh yeah. I definitely remember that stuff from rolling a female Night Elf in WoW. Young adult men can be creepy AF. And you definitely are not wrong about the amount of customization options and there general superiority on female character.

When presented with an option of gender, I'll usually pick whatever I think looks the best after playing around with character creation, and if they are comparable, I also like to check out story options and different builds in games where a gender has different story options and/or skills sets. Mass Effect has a few that I would have missed, had I not played FemShep.

I have never gotten why people always read so much into stuff like this in video games.

The clothes thing may be a real life thing to I noticed. Girls a lot of times get more colorful clothes while guys get more dull clothes.

I do like to wear a lot of colorful clothes myself though. As seen in my picture I have a blue cloak on a green Chinese robe and so on.

[.O.]

I have exactly one type of male look that I like, meanwhile I like quite a wide range of female looks.

In games where you can customise your appearance, if I'm creating a human or human-like character I would go for female because I don't want to create multiple alts all of whom look almost exactly the same. It's boring.

However for non-humans, e.g. beast races, tiny races, elemental races etc I do create both male and female characters depending on what is available.

Also there's the question of hairstyle, male humans usually get buzzcut, short spiky, long, afro, maybe mohawk and that's it. Sure there are a few different short spikies and longs, but at the end of the day they all look samey. Meanwhile females can get lots of really different looks just with long hair alone.

[The nameless Gamer]

I picked Marisa Kirisame because she is rather fitting for my playstyles. Accent on precision, mobility and firepower.

[ʙᴜɴ.ᴇ]

I usually just use cute avatars.

[ナルゴ]

Originally posted by The nameless Commander:

I picked Marisa Kirisame because she is rather fitting for my playstyles. Accent on precision, mobility and firepower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPNObgRmjOc

[Sin]

I like girls so, that's that lol
And I'm a big kitana fan.

[Γαῖα]

I wouldnt read into someones avatar based on a self formed opinion.

[100% lob juice]

Just eye candy basically.

I visit steam and other account websites often, so I would rather see something attractive in the bottom-right corner than a close up of some sweaty meme dude