Male Players playing Female Characters?

Since there is a thread already about female players playing male characters, i was just wondering the reasons behind why male characters play as female characters?

Well personally i play a female warrior as one of my characters and the reason for that is i just don't like to models for the male warriors.

I dare say probably most female chars are in fact guys irl. Probably because they want something nice to look at while playing, and also there's the more devious side that girls get preferential treatment by guys (fact of life). Hence the more unscrupulous elements take advantage of this.

I dont want to stare at men's asses all day
male characters dont have suduction type dances
male warriors look fat in certain types of armor
female monks have a certain healing touch
japanese names just sound more mystical on females
there arnt any latino/asian men


kinda i want to, maybe just for tonight, we can pretend its all right; whats the price i pay? i dont care what they say, i want to

I have a female character just because in this game the females look gooed

http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=440

I'm too in the ways of alter-egos (Although I don't go anywhere near furries, gah). I just find it more comfortable playing female characters. Sides, I'm not online to pick up girls, unlike most guys.

One word: BOOBS.

Because the myth is true: there are no real women on the internets much less in video games. Therefore brave young men must pay the ULTIMATE PRICE and make female avatars so online video games aren't one giant sausage factory. (even though they :0)

All joking aside, I'm not too sure.

When creating a character, I am doing just that. Not my own alter-ego. I think what the character is going to be like, what sort of experiences the character might have had, what the character's morals and aims in life might be, and then stick a gender onto it afterwards (not... literally, because that would just be weird). As such I have an equal number of males and females on all the RPGs I play. Though, my main character is always a male.

I agree

Male models simply don't look that amazing.

I play a female mesmer and eles for one reason: Their male counterparts are ugly.

Nuff said.

As a guy, I've got 3 male characters and 1 female character. Nothing wrong with that. Female warrior designs are more appealing then male warrior designs. And yes, I do stare at my female warrior sometimes. God damn she's hot.

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Since this game is in 3rd person I play female characters so I don't have to look at my male character's hairy butt all the time.

I don't play a female (I am a guy) but if I did it would be because of the following:

Better looking armor
Better dances (I love the thriller dance)

Have you ever, in your life, seen an attractive male warrior in the game that was male? No, you haven't. So my warrior is female. And hot.

Have you ever, for that matter, seen an attractive female ranger? No, you haven't. They all look like redneck hillbilly women. No offense to hillbilly's. So my Ranger is a male. And he's hot.

My PVP slot changes, so that hardly counts, and... lastly...

Have you ever seen an ugly Necromancer of either gender? No you haven't. Mine happens to be male. And he's damn gorgeous.

It's all opinion, anyway. My gorgeous necro may be hideous to you. And I don't care.

For a long time its been a play style thing. Think for me it all started with Blaze in Streets of Rage 2. She just destroyed everything in her path and suited my play style the best. This sort of trend carried into every fighting game that came out: Chun Li in SFII, Seung Mina in SC etc etc. A same sort of trend in RPGs, my other big genre. Anywhere I either had a female lead, or the option to create one, they usually also had skills and abilities tuned just how I would have liked them to be.

Fast forward now to Guild Wars. No real play style reason at all to choose one model over the other. Just preference. Habits die hard though, so all my characters are female. Coincidentally, the female models in this game are also pretty styling.

she knows the stuff and for me(i'm a guy) i always have male pve chars and female pvp chars.....dont know why.

wat u mean as in character models or as in RL ppl?