Male Character vs Female Character

iriyabran

iriyabran

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Feb 2007

[Lord]

E/

female with all female chars
except sometimes i pvp with male assassin
they're just too sexy to not play with

Kityn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2005

Michigan

Heroes of the Horn [HoH]

N/

I am Male.

Female Warrior.
Male Warrior.
Female Necromancer.
Male Ranger.
Female Assassin.
Female Elementalist.
Female Ranger.
Male Dervish.
Female Paragon.
Female Mesmer.

$neekie

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

R/

Im male, all female characters. Same reason as most guys, rather look at a female.

mzzls

PyrAnkh

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Lowbird Academy [LoW]

W/

Female with all female characters.
Nothing much more to say lol, thought itd be pretty obvious i would not make male characters.

Defrayer

Defrayer

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

Finland

The Monstrous Fangs [fang]

R/

Male here. My first character, my main, is a female ranger. I liked rangers, and I guess female-option seemed pretty. The only male chars I've created after that are warrior (got deleted around lvl 14, I found warriors boring to play) and a male mesmer (my most recent char, decided to make a male char after a long time). My PvP mesmer is also a male, and PvP ranger is a female.

As someone stated before, I find female characters more aesthetically pleasing than male ones. I also find it more interesting to break out from the classic "man->strong, female->weak"-formula, and make these pretty females some ass-kicking killing machines

pixiLated

pixiLated

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

Resident Gutter Dweller

Shards of the Silver Moon [MooN]

E/

Female with all female chars. Hubby also plays mainly female chars.

Doesn't matter a jot to me what gender someone chooses to play, it's all about how they are as a player and how they interact in the team.

xMorgannax

xMorgannax

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2007

Staffordshire, UK

Men of Subtance [YMCA]

N/

I'm female with all female chars.

Even my storage chars are female. I can't stand being male chars in any game.

The male warrior dance still disturbs me. Like when you're standing in town, selling and minding your own business and a male Warrior stands behind you and spams /dance so it looks like he's humping you... Freaky people

Farrell-Zander

Farrell-Zander

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2005

Switzerland

Male with all male chars. Keeps people from asking if I'm male or female, since hardly any women have male chars.

scraggles

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

LaZy

So... do you guys not play halo, or zelda, or mario... because you don't want to look at a male character?

I find it kind of amusing that this is the 'reason' that most people use female chars.

Str0b0

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Carolina

N/Me

Male with 24 character slots, 21 male 3 female. I guess male characters just come naturally to me but every now and then I like to watch a nice ass in a tight outfit, digital as it may be, running instead of the backside of some dude.

I don't play Halo because it's just C&C Commando with slightly better graphics, that's right I said it Halo is an unoriginal, uninspired, generic shooter and isn't that great. I don't play Mario because platforming is lame. It's the 21'st century. We can render 3D environments now. Zelda I don't play because well it's the 21st century, how hard is it to do a cutscene with voice acting instead of text boxes. Who still uses text boxes?

creelie

creelie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2007

Alberta

Charter Vanguard [CV]

Mo/

4.

Although my pvp chars are almost always male, and as goofy as possible.

Shakti

Shakti

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Home...

Vier Reiter [Vier]

Female here. Until 2 weeks ago I had 14 all female chars. I recently wanted to start a NF ele (my guy wanted to start a baby derv and we like to play together) I decided to try a boy because I wasn't terribly fond of the girl hair etc, plus I have a canthan ele I love and have never tried a male gw char. I really like him, but I do feel kinda bad for the guy...like the only boy sibling with 14 ass kicking older sisters....

Thunder79

Thunder79

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Aug 2006

Chaos Rising

Quote:
Originally Posted by scraggles
See, I'm amazed. I make the character the way I like it, only males though. Then, I play the game for months on end without every really looking at my character again. I'm watching whats going on everywhere else on the screen. I focus more on the game around me than my character. For example, with my 55 monk, I'm NEVER watching him. I'm always watching my enchantments. Then, when I'm running around, I'm watching the radar too see whats coming up.

I wish people would play the gender they really are. Otherwise it makes me feel like I'm surrounded by a bunch of 13 year old perverts. No offense.
If you're really concentrating more on the game rather than the characters why should it matter what gender the people are who you are playing with?

I have two accounts, my primary is mostly female, my secondary is mostly male. I play female characters because I'd rather look at something I like the looks of. I do not pretend to be a female and if my actual gender is requested I am completely honest with whomever requests it. If some little prick wants to flirt with my character I give them a good reality check.

If anything the perverts in the game are the ones trying to flirt with an anonymous stranger (whether they are playing their gender or not), which you have no idea about gender or AGE for that matter.

It shouldn't matter what gender the characters are or the people are...we're here to play a game not cyber in some online chatroom.


As for games with only male characters...like I said...I'm there to play a game...I don't give a crap what the gender is...but if I have a choice I'll go with something that looks better.

gasmaskman

gasmaskman

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

None, I don't play anymore.

Mo/W

I use male for Pve and female for PvP.

(<-male)

I GO TO AMERICA

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2007

I'm male with both

Elementalist (main) - Female
Monk - Female
Warrior - Female
Dervish - Female
Necro (first char, retired =P) - Male
Ranger - Male

Inzilbeth

Inzilbeth

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2005

West Coast, Canada

Tomahn Tso D'ni

N/Me

Female with all female characters while hubby's toons are all male.

chowmein69

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2007

me=male

warrior -male
monk-male
monk -female
sin-male
derv female-
paragon male
ranger female
mesmer male
ele male
necro male

floppinghog

floppinghog

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2005

pit of brimstone

Squad Six Six Six [ssss]

A/Me

me= male (can you guess by avatar? :P )

I only pick the gender based on the best armor/armor combo I want, same for how they can look. Everyone has to fit the bill and look cool enough. Oh and the dances play a big role too... I can't stand how some of the gender different dances are.

war = male
ranger = male
paragon = male
(i also plan on getting those kick ass horns on the norn armor)
dervish = male
assassin = male
mesmer = male
(should have made female for armor, but i originally wanted a male pirate)
necro = male
ritualist = male
ele = female
monk = female

Amanda Daark

Amanda Daark

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2006

Daark

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Str0b0
Who still uses text boxes?
Ehm...Guild Wars?

Female with all female characters here.

dark_prince2023

dark_prince2023

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2007

W/Mo

every guy has a female Ele come on get with it everyone knows that! lol dance my pretty dance you don't need the cloths the danceing will keep you warm.

Spazzer

Spazzer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2006

USA

Team Asshat [Hat]

Mo/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Str0b0
I don't play Halo because it's just C&C Commando with slightly better graphics, that's right I said it Halo is an unoriginal, uninspired, generic shooter and isn't that great. I don't play Mario because platforming is lame. It's the 21'st century. We can render 3D environments now. Zelda I don't play because well it's the 21st century, how hard is it to do a cutscene with voice acting instead of text boxes. Who still uses text boxes?
Why would you even mention this?

Corwin_Andros

Corwin_Andros

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

Wayward Wanderers

W/E

Guy with Both

Mesmer - 1 Each for PVE and 1 female PVP.. The PVE female is my main.
Warrior - 1 each
Ranger - Female.. Have had both but the male got deleted
Necro - 2 females. I hate the way to males look.
Monk - 1 female. Have had both at times.
Ele - 1 each.
Rit - 1 female
Sin - 1 male. Females look too anorexic.
Derv - 1 female
Pragaon - 1 female

Other than the instances where I specifically mentioned I didn't like the way one sex or another, I generally go for whichever I prefer. As has been often mentioned though, if I'm gonna be playing for hours and following a character around, I tend to prefer looking at the shapely females over the guys.

My male warrior was my first character, who my forum accounts are all named for. The ele male is cuz I like being able to make a character that had that "Dark Elf" look, and the make mesmer is the closest I could come to a character that actually looked like me.

Lil Mystique

Lil Mystique

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2007

In England soon to be with Leslie ^.^

Slash Afk [afk]

A/

Female with all female characters

Leslie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

England

Slash afk [afk]

A/

Male with all Male characters. They all match one of my girlfriend's characters.

big papi

big papi

Town Dweller

Join Date: Dec 2005

on the LOST island

[SMS]

i am a male so i make all male characters in every game i ever play

Tea Girl

Tea Girl

Banned

Join Date: Jan 2007

Mo/Me

im a girl and i like being a girl and play gw as a girl girl

tbh i can be a guy

Faith Angelis

Faith Angelis

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

UK

Male with all female characters.

My characters are not me; I tend to think of them as seperate 'people' from myself - that sounds weird - what I mean is I don't personify myself in my characters.

I guess it's different for people who create their characters to be reflections of themselves, but Faith as a character has been playing around in various RPGs for me for seven years or so, and she's kinda taken on a personality of her own as have her sisters...

WinterSnowblind

WinterSnowblind

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Feb 2007

I find it a little odd that girls tend to play as all female characters.. and guys do the same. I'm sure there must be some deep psychological meaning behind that.

I'm male, and I have five male characters and four female.

bebe

bebe

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

http://tinyurl.com/4g5ueb8

Put the peanut in the peanut hole!

I'm a female and make female characters.

They're just prettier? xD!

Sammy Darvanian

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2007

Myth of the Jabberwock [Epic]

Me/

I'm female with, at the moment, only female characters.
If I make a pvp dervish however, it HAS to be male everytime for the /dance. ^^
(Which is quite awkward for my boyfriend :P)

Str0b0

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Carolina

N/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Spazzer
Why would you even mention this?
Because someone made a half assed point about people saying that they are male with female characters because they don't want to look at a dude should be unable to play those other games because they had male protagonists. Reading FTW!

Redfeather1975

Redfeather1975

Forge Runner

Join Date: Sep 2006

Apartment#306

Rhedd Asylum

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by WinterSnowblind
I find it a little odd that girls tend to play as all female characters.. and guys do the same. I'm sure there must be some deep psychological meaning behind that.

I'm male, and I have five male characters and four female.
I think it's because everyone wants to be pretty.
Except for me! If I can make an elderly man character, I will!
You should see my Oblivion dude. He's ooooooold'd'd.

Darkobra

Darkobra

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Type like an idiot, I'll treat you like an idiot

E/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by WinterSnowblind
I find it a little odd that girls tend to play as all female characters.. and guys do the same. I'm sure there must be some deep psychological meaning behind that.

I'm male, and I have five male characters and four female.
There is, actually. Males make whatever looks good to them. In this case, females. Whereas females make avatars that closely resemble themselves. Again, females.

Drakken Breathes Fire

Drakken Breathes Fire

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2007

They May Be Dead [DEAD]

N/

My Primary is a male necro with a mohawk, because I have a mohawk, and his face, looks like my face. (It's kind've creepy actually.) My Assassin is female, because I used to play Assassin in Diablo 2, and she was female. (And also my second favourite class, pre 1.10) My Ritualist is male, and named after my Characters brother. My paragon is female because the male paragon is as rushed and campy as the male dervish//assassin.

Selket

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Grand Court of Selket/Sebelkeh

What If You Had An Outpost Named After You [slkt]

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Miss Temptress
I'm a female and make female characters.

They're just prettier? xD!
Stop lying omg

jrk247

jrk247

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Twenty Gold For Mountain Troll [Tusk]

Male - Both male and female characters.

scraggles

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jul 2006

LaZy

Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunder79
If you're really concentrating more on the game rather than the characters why should it matter what gender the people are who you are playing with?
It was just a question out of curiosity. Nothing wrong with that, right?

Thanks to the mod who added the poll.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

Male - male/female chars

2nd account is all males and all mules

-Loki-

-Loki-

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

Female characters in this game are just so much better looking than male characters.

Malice Black

Site Legend

Join Date: Oct 2005

True, but the number of people running around with half naked ele's or small blonde monks is annoying.