Male Players playing Female Characters?

Is that so very wrong? It's not as if we're talking about life-shatteringly important decisions, here.

Sexism: Sexism is commonly considered to be discrimination against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits.

I'm thinking that the individual merits of the female characters outweigh those of the males.

Are boobs so very wrong?

Nice try, Troll FTW.

If there was ever ONE TIME I wished sigs were working....


This wins the whole thread.

I play nothing but female characters and I'm married... answer that one lol.

But seriously whats the big deal if guys want to play as a girl character? Its not making your game any less fullfilling. Or is the allowance of girl characters played by males in RL somehow effected the amount of RL available males? I could care less if some guy gets off playing a girl character because of her animated boobs. The female body is a beautiful thing be it in art, real life, photos or computer generated. The right to enjoy that is not more or less based on how "real" the girl is. I've met some pretty fake girls out there with pretty fake breasts... are they any less natural then animated?

i myself play 4 females, because as others have said..the males are damn ugly...and surprisingly nearly everyone thinks i'm a girl...is that good or bad?

LOL, NOT ONLY!
Ahh, cmon!
Girls like girls, men like girls.
Is there a problem with that???

I'm a guy. 4 of 6 reasonably persistant characters were girls. my character in EQ and EQ2 are girls. why?

if i am going to be playing an RPG i find it easier to play a female. if i play a male i find my character starts to become ME. no correct me if i'm wrong but i simply prefer to be able to look at things from a different point of view. what is the point of going into a game and being yourself? you get no depth of experience. my playing as a girl means that basically i don't notice the gender of other gamers.

i've never understood this 'ZOMGZ GIRLZ' stuff. i mean, 49% of the world's population is female. something like 55% of the western world is female. more than half the people i know are female. my sister is female. last time i checked my mother is female. what is so amazing about finding a female on an online game?

id just like to make a pnt is that some character classes the sex of the char represents what they should be doing therefore a tanker should be male while someone the heals and cares for u should be female and so on im sure there are multiple examples i just dont feel like sitting here and thinking about them


and thats how i decide and my reasoning

lol. i'm the opposite way around. i have a short female warrior and a likewise short male healer. the only other times i made male chars was for the uber ugly necromancer look

I would have to say that male Necros look ok if done right and not looking wierd.I made one up with a nice hair style not to tall and a decent size build it is to bad they are hunched over unlike a male mesmer.I would have to say that male Necros,Mesmers,Elem and Rangers look fine but I prefer the look of Female Monks and Warriors but Female Rangers are ok as well.I would have to say this all starts off in presearing maybe.

I roleplay.

It turns out, in my long story, there are 2 females that happen to be a Necro and an Elementalist. Since I wanted to have a necro, and an elementalist I created them modeled after how I would expect Reader and Wendy to look.


I try to act differantly on each character.

I vow to keep my MAIN characters Male though.

What I play and why:
Male Monk
Female Monk (so both are different)

Male Warrior
Female Warrior (so both are different)

Male Ranger (female ranger reminds me of a hippie)

Male Elementalist (cuz my wife plays a female ele, so again, being diff)

Female Necro (the male necro looks like needs to be in rehab and/or prison)

Male Mesmer (cuz my wife plays a female Me, so again, being diff)

*sigh*
She quoted me.......
*swoons and ponders romance.........heck, she's younger than my daughter..............Loads up GW and selects Anna.........smiles....*

I'm an artist and I play:
female ele, monk, necro, ranger

When I created my first char, my ele, I looked at both sexes and I could not stand the male starter armor. ugh. I then decided to create a tall, haughty looking female ele w/ a "you know you love me" face haha. It is an rpg after all.

My second, I decided I wanted to make a very petite female monk who weilded a huge ass-kicking sword (I had collected several nice gold fellblades and other swords as an ele and was quite annoyed that my variety of weaponry was limited to some plain looking wands and staffs).

I just can't stand the "hunch back of notre dame" male necro look lol.

I initially was planning to create a hot looking male ranger, but after seeing some of the cool female ranger armor decided to try that instead. And I thought it would be funny to own male wars and casters in pvp w/ a short female interrupt ranger muhaha.

I do wish I had room for a male ranger, and the other day I saw a really cool looking male mesmer in toa. He sorta looked like Johnny Depp which I thought was very cool, I want one for myself now! hehe

Anyway, this being a role playing game, I just play my character who I've designed, whether as a "you know you love me" ele or as a nice female monk who won't mind cutting you down to size if you're just another "aggro everything, blame the monk" war.

To me, the art and hair/armor choices are simply better and more varied. Female chars get to choose between short and long hair, pants and skirts, full tops and bra tops. Hell, the female mesmer even gets earrings and jewelry. I can tell you my ele would sure like some accessories like that! The female armor and hair are usually better designed, and more intricate and detailed (who doesn't like the hanging monk arm wraps or the dangling ribbons in ele and monk hair? i mean they react to the "physics" in the world when you move).

With the exception of the male mesmer armor selection, most male character armor sets look fairly similar to me. All male wars look the same to me as well lol. and why are virtually all male monks bald? And I could never tell what the male ele was wearing, a long coat of some sort or a fancy bathrobe?

In the end however, I must say they had some top notch artists and character designers working on the game. The world is beautiful and even the ugliest male or female character in gw far surpasses the ugliest in many other rpg games out there.

Why on earth would you want to stare at a male warrior when you have that! GRR BABY VERY GRR.





And I know I want this cute little thing to heal me anytime, she is just so sweet lookin, as teh candy behind her.

I play a necro female because i think the girls look better. It's as simple as that

hmm.. i never noticed any bounce w/ my ranger when she fires, but then i usually play w/ my camera zoomed as far back as it'll go.

i'm sure more males might play male characters if there were a larger variety of model options. like skinny, tall male warriors or rotund female monks, or how about really short, small male warriors (smaller than a female monk)? i could imagine it would be fun playing a tiny dwarf like warrior wielding a huge hammer hehe.

as it is, i can't really help it if all my chars look like they're always at the local nautilus 24/7. must be all that running after errant players who need to be healed, or all that health sacrificing =)

I play female chars because deep down, I'm really a woman inside. But I'm also a guy, so I enjoy playing around with making the chars look hawt. I'm spending hours upon hours in the game, why not make the chars look as appealing as I can?

That really is a nice combo on your Monk with Wanders top and Judges buttoms along with asthetics.Pretty Nice.

My daughter and I popped into Ventari's Refuge awhile back and landed next to a female ranger named "Notta Realchick".

Well im a guy and i like to keep 2 chicks and 2 guys...i mean c'mon suuuure it sounds wrong occasionally but i mean c'mon its easier on the eyes, therefor you get more playing time in

male warrior & male ranger, female necro & female elementalist, because thats the way I have been conditioned and thats the way its supposed to be...

But what if the males were slightly better? The male warrior could hit a little harder, the male ranger could shoot a little further, the male could run a little faster (it is my impression that the ladies in this game outrun the lads), the guys with the magic had a little more energy. How would the game-world look?
Playing a female would be harder; so the males were the softies and the girls the real guys.

pardon? now if we were going to do this like that then the girls would be able to deal with DoT better and be able to sprint longer than males. they would be able to multitesk better and so would be able to make better use of shields or maybe even dual wield. i'm not sure where you are getting the energy thing though... are not females meant to be, on average, smarter than guys? is not energy usually attributed to intelligence? so surely Girls would have more energy.

men can deal with trauma better. men can be stronger and faster. women can multi-task better. the have better endurance. they are more intelligent.

its just so much easier to have everyone equal. i mean come on! even Plato reckons that men and women should have the same oppertunities.

I DON'T play female characters because I'd prefer to keep some piece of myself within the game. My hairstyle and skin color tend to be near(-ish) of my rl self.

It's better to KNOW who's the disrespectful assholes as a male than have them surround you as a female.

so, is your name really "DarthShadow"?

j/k

Yeah, that's how I feel.

I usually play male characters, however my necro is a girl. I think the male necro's are gimped, lol

BTW, I'm a guy...

... though he did not think that there would be many women would rise to the same level (e.g. philosopher-king) as men. But I suppose we can forgive him for that. After all, that was 2000 years ago and he had moved up from the caveman's point of view more than most GW players.

I wish they had different body types for each gender...because the male necro looks like a vulture. (hunched back, anorexic body) I would be a necro if the male wasn't so.... weird.

Hey whats the color dye u used, it looks awesome

In actuality, this name does, in essence, show my self.

Star Wars Geek: Shadowy Lurking Killer

Well i am a male but i got 2 male character and two female bcoz i think that female looks much better for Ranger and Monk

And it just a game u would want somthing good to looks at.

because i wanted fow armor, and all male fow armors imho looks rubbish (like the male w fow, what does he looks like lol!!!?? They could have spent more than 1 minute designing him). So i choose a female char

Warriors- always make a male char. Dunno why... A big hulking behemoth of a warrior running at someone isn't pleasent

Monks- I'll either make male or female.

Everything else... Straight up female. Gotta look at something hot when I'm playing.

I wonder, if the game had only ugly females in it, would guys bother playing as them?

i have .... 2 females 2 males... might delete a male tho... and yes im a guy in rl... iunno i like female characters more. sometimes i get made fun of and now iunno wat to do. lol.

I wouldn't ... but is there anything wrong with that?

If you liked blue armor and hated red armor would you buy red dye for your armor? Of course not.

Im a guy and I have 2 male and 2 female chars.

Reason, gender balance my chars

I am a male, and I have 3 male characters and 1 female character. I use the males for eye candy and the female because she gets waaay more respect than the males.

R/Mo - Female
Me/N - Male
W/Me - Male
PvP - Always a male