• yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    1 个月前

    Eh, depends on the game. I look at both and pick whichever one looks or sounds fun. Last few games I was a whole team of women in turn based games. Current game I’m a lone wolf male. Sometimes I find it funny making the cutest girl and whomping on enemies, othertimes I make an ugly old lady or man. Sometimes I make them look like me, or my wife, or one of my kids. Litterally depends all on my mood and whimsy at the time.

    • pptiny@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      1 个月前

      Fellow dad here that does the exact same thing. I wish I could add anything useful to this but you’ve already so eloquently explained it. Thank you for that.

      • yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        1 个月前

        My wife still teases me for how I play stardew valley. I was in a grumpy old man “get off my lawn” mood when I made my character. Played through it and hated how completing quests bumped up your reputation. So, I made extra effort to give people trash gifts so they liked me less.

        My character fishes, farms, explores caves, and is drunk whenever he’s in town, and liberally gives out trash to everyone that he crosses. Everyone hates him and that’s exactly how he wants it.

        He since retired to the island as he finds the lack of people peaceful.

    • kingofthezyx@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      1 个月前

      For me it’s like if I want the character to be an analogue for myself, I choose a male and try to make them look like me. If I want the character to be cool, I aim as close to warrior princess as I can get.

    • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish
      2·
      1 个月前

      I generally make my character male if it’s a first-person game, and female in a third-person game if the characters are interesting looking. If I’m going to stare at an outfit and ass for 100 hours, I may as well enjoy it.

  • alx@lemmy.zipEnglish
    32·
    1 个月前

    You got me, as my defence women characters often have better clothing options, hairstyles options, VA, etc. Lets a man play dress up in peace 😂

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 个月前

      Literally why my version of “the boss” from SR 2 Saints Row is canonically trans.

      “Let me play dress up with this mexican looking fat avatar that looks like me”… ooooor “let me make a sexy looking busty lady and put her in all kinds of cool outfits”

      🤔

      yeah, I should have just ignored the character customisation aspect entirely and stayed looking like a schlub in game just to prove to myself that I’m a man.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      1 个月前

      The VA part was especially noticeable in CP2077, the male VA sounded like someone doing a stiff stereotypical mobster accent, while the woman VA was excellent, with far more emotion put into the lines, couldn’t imagine playing it any other way.

      • alx@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        30 天前

        Yeah this is a clear edge case. both VA were good but the VA for fem V was insanely well done.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 个月前

      Last games I remember playing where the men had similarly interesting outfits were Monster Hunter World and Elden Ring and Final Fantasy

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        30 天前

        MH wilds finally lets us equip the male/female armors regardless of the character’s gender ! It really upped the fashion game

  • Nasan@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    31·
    1 个月前

    I also would rather play more games written for a female protagonist. 3 decades of male player characters is plenty.

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 个月前

      I have something similar watching movies/shows with women protagonists that are meant for women audiences. Tired of watching guy main characters ig, still totally cis tho!

  • Blurntout@lemmy.caEnglish
    282·
    1 个月前

    Only when there models are hot oof I’ve never made a female dwarf character but those Korean boob sliders lol

    I might just be a perv

  • HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    24·
    1 个月前

    Got one comment when I was younger from my girlfriend about how I never played a woman in games and now I almost always do

  • Bamboodpanda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    1 个月前

    If I’m going to spend the next 300 hours staring at a character’s ass, I’m picking one I actually want to look at.

  • swagmoney@lemmy.caEnglish
    231·
    1 个月前

    women are prettier damn it! and i want my character to be pretty!! >:(

  • huquad@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    1 个月前

    Back in the runescape days, I used to get tons of free shit by being a girl. When they stopped gifting, I’d convince them to come to the wild and kill them for the rest of their shit

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 个月前

      Also (back in the day) you needed to be for the “Recrutment Drive” quest.

      One of the mini-bosses pulled the “No man can defeat me” card so you had to show up to the challange as a chick and slap the shit out of the knight. Sir. Tiffy Cashin would give you a coupon to the make-up witch (It just opened the character creator pane) so you could change things back if you wanted to.

      • Nikko882@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 个月前

        Well, chances were you would need it, at least. You were given a random selection of trials every time you attempted the initiation, so you could randomly not get the “No man can defeat me” guy.

        Also, the makeover mage (who themselves swapped between male and female every few seconds, because of you have magic powers, why not have fun with it?) only let you change your sex and skin color. To change your hair you needed to go to the hairdresser and to change your default clothes you needed to go to the clothes store.

  • likebudda@reddthat.comEnglish
    18·
    1 个月前

    I remember starting Genshin and given identical abilities, I preferred to look at a female character for the first few hours. I don’t project myself into games, I always feel like I’m playing the characters as themselves.