I usually play a female character, because if im going to stare at an ass for 120 hours, it might as well be a nice ass.
Exactly my philosophy. Also the whole “escape reality” bit. I also like RPGs where I can be an immortal skeleton or a lizard prince (ok, both of those examples were actually just Divinity: Original Sin 2).
I’ve just come to the conclusion that my digital persona is a woman. I’m a cis hetero man in real life though. Not really any questions about it. But even in VR, I just exist as a lady.
If I’m going to spend several hours staring at the backside of a character, I want it to be a cute girl, thank you.
If a person plays as an opposite-gender character, it’s because they secretly wish to be that gender and are therefore trans.
If a person plays as a same-gender character, it’s because they like looking at same-gender ass and are therefore gay.
There are no other options.
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If they somehow find a third option anyway, that just mean’s they’re a furry.
On the one hand, this is funny. On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of humor that led to me repressing my gender identity. I feel so conflicted.
That’s the neat part: you can’t repress your gender identity because ‘straight’ wasn’t an option!
(Unless you actually are straight, but whatever – it won’t kill us to be the ones who have to just fuckin’ deal with it, for once!)
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(Seriously though, my intent was to be funny in an inclusive way, not a repressive way. Apologies if I missed the mark!)
I play opposite gender so i can fapping while playing
Boy wait until you hear about this thing called internet porn. Gonna blow your mind.
I’m hardcore hetero on the Kinsey Scale, but I’ve always played females. Fuck it, I’ve been a male every day of my life and games are there to escape reality (for me anyway).
I make em look like me as much as possible because I want to be the badass lol.
Except final fantasy, I went with the exploding ponytail with the emo bangs because it reminds me of my first paladin on wow.
I played as the opposite gender one (1) time in 2010, to hear the novelty of the female VA for the protagonist in a fully voiced game after two runs as the male protagonist, and I haven’t stopped since. RIP me 😔
For me that depends on a game. I noticed that in a fantasy game I usually pick female character and if it’s more normal earthly setting (especially shooters) I go with male. I don’t know why, maybe because of outfits. For me fantastical outfits look cooler on girls and military outfits look cooler on dudes.
Several bro justifications in here however this has lead to thousands of cracked eggs and it’s only a matter of time fellas
My character looks exactly like I do, though.
So I’m also in this crowd, and I’ve also given my gender as a cishet man lots of consideration. I genuinely don’t identify in the real world ultimately as a woman and don’t really wish I’d been born female. I’m more in the crowd of it just being a different experience or perspective that isn’t otherwise available to me.
If I could easily flip between two universes where I could be either man or woman, I’d be interested, but only if it was reversible. I wouldn’t want it to be permanent.
And this isn’t from the perspective of being gender-fluid either. I wouldn’t want any of that in my current life as it exists right now.
Is that the new Roaming Girl set?
I’ve tried it once or twice, really isn’t for me, always end up going back to a male character. Maybe if I played more in third person, I’d be more likely to play as a female one… but probably still no.
The floor and wall textures alone scream “this is NOT Skyrim!” but some asian MMORPG. FF14? Black Desert?
You can’t talk about immersion if your Skyrim character looks like that. Nothing immersive about it.
