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Do you prefer to have 'your own gender' character, opposite or are you not bothered?
Angelxx
Member Posts: 81
Just asking out of curiosity, do you usually stick to creating your-own-gender character?
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i created a female character because I'm gay and I want to get married to a guy
fucking lame
I'm a male and I've always played male characters. Guss I never played a girl character, cause maybe people would think and treat me like an actuall girl. Since mmo's are with real people, I don't what them to get the wrong idea.
Offline rpg's I don't mind playing female characters, just don't trust being one online.
it doesnt bother me. I usually go with whatever theme or story Im rolling with or sometimes evenjust which looks best. just because you think a male/female character of a mmo race looks better shows no bearing on your sexuality.
If you are bothered by the idea of someone playing a gender opposite their on the you are most likely superficial and have an immature mindset inappropriate for a social, albeit mostly anonymous game.
and ..
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I create whatever I feel like that day. If it's female I give her a name that I think most females wouldn't give to themselves. 8 times out of 10 my preferred female name is available whether the game is new or 6 years old.
Most of the time I create male characters.
Females for healers and ranged classes, males for melee classes. I'm leaning towards Bard and White Mage so I made a female Miqo'te
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Since I will have no alts in FFXIV and I really care about the story, atmosphere and choices of my character, I chose something I could stand.
So it stood between following personas:: a female "witch", a very old male warrior or a tiny young warrior. I find all those three choices to be interesting and be something I can stand and evolve.
This time around I chose "very old male warrior", so I made a Hyur Highlander with very pale skin, greyish hair and proper mature haircut. His face also looks "hardened" but remorseful.
Fairly indifferent, really.
I used to make more opposite-gender chars in the past, lately I've been making more same-gender ones. I seem to get attached to those more, and it doesn't confuse people as much.
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...What? Felt some hate in that statement. Sickos should be those old men who play as little girls. /sighs
Males playing as females may deceive others. And I don't like deceiving people (in such a way, at least xD). Seriously.
Personally I prefer playing as a male (I prefer being seen as such). Main character is always one. In case I create a sub, I use similar (non-girly, preferably) names so people would recognize. Example: Ray Knight (male), Ray Knightess (female). Or even better: Raynit, Raynitess (interesting, huh?).
This all is assuming you're a man (obviously). 'Cause... women? Who cares, hah. I'd even encourage. Lol.
*THAT* topic again.....
I'm tempted to put together an image showing off all the characters I've devoted substantial time to in the MMOs I've played. There are monsters of varoius shapes, sizes, and genders, human men of different ages, builds, and skin colors, undead women and men, Victoria's secret models with horns, goth women, cat women, and so on.
I'm not trying to hide behind my characters, and since some people have serious emotional reactions when they discover a player is not who they imagined them to be, I'd have no problem displaying a little Mars symbol in my character's name tag.
I roll characters I think look cool, have good animations, look good in the game's armor, etc. For me, in this game, that's a female Miqo'te. Whether plate or robes or the bard artifact armor or mittens, they can pull off every look in the game IMO. In a game that lets you play every class, that was a big factor for me.
Usually male but I personally don't care as I see the character as "a character" and not "me".
For example, I made a male dark elf character in Final Fantasy as a gladiator.
However, I wanted to try archer but I felt one of those cat lady people (You can tell I don't care about names either) might seem more interesting "as a character".
And yes I know you can play all classes on one character but I like the idea of different personas, different characters embodying different roles.
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I used to always make all male characters.
I now almost always make all female characters.
It's kind of funny. I installed and fired up VGSOH the other day and all my old characters were male and I was like, wow, it's been a LONG time since I've played this.
45. Married to a hottie. Thoroughly straight.
I'm not sure why exactly. I guess I prefer looking at the female form more than I do looking at the male form. Playing a cutesy male character doesn't do anything for me.
I'm not against RP and I'm not really into RP. To me, my avatar is something for displaying gear and is a bag of stats and skills. I don't consider my character to be an extension of me.
I like my characters to look good but I'm not like "ooh, these are some smexy pixels," because I do have RL involvement with another human and I'm not depraved like so many basement dwellers with zero hope of intimate interacts with other humans.
I don't care what other players do with the gender of their avatars. I do wish I could delete the accounts of people that give their avatars stupid, clever, offensive, religious, drug-related, or otherwise immersion destroying names. In a game with a sub, I expect better than F2P doodtopia.
Premium MMORPGs do not feature built-in cheating via cash for gold pay 2 win. PLAY to win or don't play.
FF games tend to borrow heavily from religious themes.
When it's only humans as an option I go for own gender and try to make my character look like my real self.
It doesn't bother me if other people want to roleplay a different gender, after all these games we play are RPG's and if a player is any good at it he or she might fool allot of people.
playing female cat and act like girl player. i want see what hapens....
so far some one wanted have sex with me, then there was players that flirt and pass loot for me^^