EPTPlaying as a female character in video games - Page 2
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zergnewb
United States816 Posts
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Caller
Poland8075 Posts
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zoLo
United States5896 Posts
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boezou
United States56 Posts
Also, is OP THE NukeTheStars? If so, I'm a big fan. In fact, I'm gonna go watch an OSL commentary right now. | ||
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prototype.
Canada4215 Posts
At least that's what I believe in... | ||
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Hittegods
Stockholm4641 Posts
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MTF
United States1739 Posts
On July 06 2010 15:23 Hittegods wrote: I like to either make the most badass character possible, or the most hilarious one. Female are neither badass, nor hilarious. You'd rethink that if you chose to go full Renegade as a female Shepard in Mass Effect/ME 2. I hate the male voice actor for Shepard. Played through both ME1/2 with the same (renegade) female Shepard before even trying the male version, and he sounded very flat in comparison. | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
Not saying anything about people who play as female characters, but for what I personally was trying to accomplish by playing RPG's made it make no sense for me to play a female character. | ||
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eMbrace
United States1300 Posts
"dude why are all your characters female blood elves?" "because they're sexy as hell?" "wow, you need help bro" | ||
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ClanOverdosed
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29 fps
United States5725 Posts
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SleepSheep
Canada344 Posts
On July 06 2010 15:51 29 fps wrote: playing as a female character with a female user name can get you freebies. people will be really nice to you.... until they somehow find out you are male. Lara, is that you? | ||
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sob3k
United States7572 Posts
I actually managed to make a really hot char in ME2, definitely helped sit through all those boring cutscenes. I only ever get even a hint of immersion playing FPS's....and you cant see your model in those. | ||
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
For me it was simply that female characters looked better, so if I'm going to spend 100's of hours looking at it hey, female it is. | ||
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chocopan
Japan986 Posts
Sometimes, the "core" of the game is really designed around a male character, and the female option/s are obviously trivial/embarrasing, and in those cases I choose the guy. That definitely isn't the case in ME1/2. In this context I also remember something Miyazaki said when asked why his protaganists were so often young girls. He replied something along the lines that, in our culture, when a man or boy is aggressive or commits an act of violence (I think he actually talked about picking up a gun as his example), it's entirely normal and we don't blink. But when a young girl commits an act of violence, the audience has to sit back and think about what she is doing and why she is doing it and what it really means and what they would do in that situation (even more so presumably when it is a young character). ME1/2 makes a lot of interesting ethical points and gender difference isn't really among them (the Asari being unigender notwithstanding - they look female, which makes them more or less female in the story). But still, I do think that, even disregarding the voice acting, the male Shep is normative, a character we have seen many times before; and FemShep is something a bit different. Not a lot different - as I say, gender isn't really a concern of the story - but enough to make it interesting. To me anyway. Just my 2c. | ||
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spinesheath
Germany8679 Posts
In many other games I prefer female characters, though if the gameplay is different I prefer the one that is more fun to play (for example in Tales of the Abyss I could directly control my female party members, but they are mostly support casters or have lengthy animations, while the fun to play swordsmen are male). I never had the feeling that I had to express my male superiority through not playing a female character. I don't even know of a case where someone tried to make fun of me for it. Some guys considered female characters as inferior, which made it even more fun to play those - and crush the nonbelievers. Btw, what about Samus Aran? If you're one of the guys who only played male characters, how shocked were you when you found out that she's a female? | ||
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Kashmir
New Zealand178 Posts
On July 06 2010 14:39 Waxangel wrote: I've always enjoyed playing 'ugly' female chars when the choice is given. Tauren female in WoW =o Y u no luv teh fur?  I like playing both sides for different angles. Wish there was more than just the princess or the butch to pick from for femmes though. | ||
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Severedevil
United States4839 Posts
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Malgrif
Canada1095 Posts
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kzn
United States1218 Posts
Of course, I also remember Age of Conan where female melee characters could only do like 40% of the dps of male ones because of an animation bug. | ||
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