Just realised I don't like playing as female in video games.

[User]

Just finished ac syndicate and it was boring as hell every time I had to play as Evie. Not that I hate women or anything it seems I prefer to play as a man in video games. I'm a man so it makes sense. But considering more and more games switching to female protagonist these days I think my gaming days are coming to an end. Anyone else feel the same way I do ?

[Castyles]

Pinky eredeti hozzászólása:

Doesn't bother me. I can play as either.

[Masque]

I do when they're pretty and not some hideous lantern-jawed mannish beast with the side of her head shaved and danger-colored hair and the full woke backstory.

Not any current Western games, I guess is what I mean.

The female protags in AC: Odyssey and AC: Valhalla are hideous, of the two recent games where you could choose. It's all the Western devs can do nowadays, though. Ugly is the new Moral Good.

[Mr Jt (Gog is king)]

nullpo eredeti hozzászólása:

If I make my own character I also always make male character. For fixed protagonist it all depends on the character. Seems like you just get bad one

Yeah if a character is fixed than it’s fine but some just refuse to buy a game if it’s not their own gender. I played nearly any rpg what is available and always played a guy as well. Usually i create myself and roleplay

[[ T h e B o s s ]]

Really don't have a preference, i'll usually make one male character and one female character separately for whatever i'm in the mood for if the game allows for that.

TimRaveler eredeti hozzászólása:

Just realised I don't like playing as female in video games.

Expect a visit from the Ministry of Truth for saying comments like that.
The regime (or it's followers) doesn't like it when you don't go according to the program.

[Polverrati]

Masque eredeti hozzászólása:

I do when they're pretty and not some hideous lantern-jawed mannish beast with the side of her head shaved and danger-colored hair and the full woke backstory.

Not any current Western games, I guess is what I mean.

The female protags in AC: Odyssey and AC: Valhalla are hideous, of the two recent games where you could choose. It's all the Western devs can do nowadays, though. Ugly is the new Moral Good.

I kinda dig the half shaved look on women sometimes ngl

[Li77lehorn]

I'd rather play as male. I think it's probably the female voice that I find difficult to hear when being forced into a female character. It just throws me. But it depends on the game too. In multiplayer shooters I chose the smallest and darkest characters for any slight advantage/placebo.

[sleeps]

ok?

i challenge you to play bayonetta and came back and talk to me

but that aside. it's your opinion anyway. oh and also play original mirror's edge.

[TwisterCat]

I think what it comes down to for me is the power trip. When I'm playing a game like God of War 1 or 2, it doesn't matter that I'm not invested in the character, there's a certain enjoyment out of playing as Kratos. He's angry, he's shredded, and he's killed titans.

Meanwhile, with female protagonists, it requires an investing story and lead protagonist to make up for the awe factor, which I think Hellblade does a good job of, for example. That doesn't mean games leaning more towards hack & slash don't work with female protagonists, but I'd rather just be playing as a male, if the story doesn't work with me.

[MShields]

you played ubisoft game.

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The games i play have mostly males in the lead roles except for tomb raider. But in games you can choose like far cry 6 i'll choose the guy for immersion reasons and also because the story is exactly the same. My friend and i co-oped far cry 6 and he chose the female and i chose the male and they both had the same dialog and missions.

[Vinz Clortho]

Green gunner eredeti hozzászólása:

However then there's the disappointing case of the: ""hurr durr I wanna stare at a girl butt instead of a guy butt." folk.

Yeah it''s hard to please everyone. For me I just think that the story should always be number one. OK you want to put a hot girl/guy in the game wearing very little - nothing wrong with that from a marketing point of view but why are they wearing that costume in the story?

I just watched the Justice League movie and Superman has his shirt off for about 80% of that lol. Nobody ever thinks to offer him one even when he's standing in a corn field at dusk.
Some of the anime games and series are ridiculous too where there are teenage girls with massive boobs flying around in a bikini or some kind of skimpy evening gown against giant robots & demons.

As much as I was not a fan of the Cowboy Bebop remake, I think Daniella Pineda had a point about changing the costume. Suddenly when it's a real person wearing it you realise how ridiculous it would be for someone to dress like she does in the anime all the time.

Better example would be Jessica Rabbit. Yeah when she first comes on screen you notice the most obvious thing about her but then later you realise she's the most moral & stable character in the movie. She just can't help how she looks because she's a cartoon.
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way"

[That Guy]

Not really honestly, i mainly prefer playing as female characters so that i can get a feel that women in whatever game i'm playing aren't just here for the plot or cry around and actually do something, women can be badasses too.

[Wayrest]

It only bothers me, sometimes, if the game is written/designed to be played from the perspective of a female. I think the main reason for this is the current trend for "strong" women in the roles and in this context "strong" is usually a euphemism for "abusive". I just don't like abusive people, virtual or otherwise.

Take Horizon Zero Dawn, for example. The abusive female protagonist challenges the male aspect of a priest's sun god by saying that she doesn't see anything dangling from it, as though that is the definition of being male. At that point I'd want to role play the priest and reply that the mountain she worships is supposed to be female but I don't see any ludicrous fatbags flopping about on it, or a reeking, snot-lined tunnel leading into it. Abuse begets abuse.

Off the top of my head I could also give detailed examples from Assassin's Creed and Tomb Raider.

Of course, abuse is sometimes the aim of the game. Wasn't there a game released years ago called something like "swearing simulator"?

[Siluva]

Liu Roll eredeti hozzászólása:

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Wayrest eredeti hozzászólása:

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Hitting the nail on the head.

[MinionJoe]

I used to play all kinds of characters in all kinds of games.

But society now requires me to only play games that support my own gender identity.