18-07-2004 01:27									#31
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if I am looking at someone all teh time, it is better to look at girls

I also don't get into cyber relatinoships, both as a girl and as a guy

JM

	18-07-2004 01:54									#32
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quote: Anyway, in Wizardry, there is a class Valkyrie, which is open only to female characters.

So does Nethack. But then in Nethack, you may change sex by putting on some helmet, so you may end up playing a girl by accident.
I agree that Arcanum had different gameplay when you were male or female (particularly 2 side quests: one with a club where only males were allowed into, and another one -Ms Lilly's-).
Seeing a girl running around the screen is probably the main reason after stats/gameplay.

	18-07-2004 03:07									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Barinthus I do it for the diversity. It all started when I played fighting games like Mortal Kombat and I noticed I tend to prefer female characters due to their speed advantage. It goes well with my playing style.

quote: Originally posted by Zero game designers stereotypically design females with stats like speed,agility,dexterity etc etc while males get mostly power and etc.

He said RPG's, but yeah, I played Chung Li a lot because I liked the speed advantage. Although that edge wore down quickly.

	18-07-2004 04:11									#34
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike There are sometimes slightly different plot lines. Didn't you always want to seduce Carth in KOTOR?

Carth is a Pansy

Now Canderous. that's one sweet hunk

	18-07-2004 04:12									#35
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike Good point. When you play an evil baby eating devil worshipping necromancer it doesn't mean you want to be one. Or does it Diss?

that's be cool. I wouldn't mind being an evil baby eating devil worshipping necromancer.

	18-07-2004 05:25									#36
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i've never played a girl unless there was a real benefit, and no pixelated boobs don't count. in quake 2 everyone copied thresh and played with female models because they were quieter and smaller model wise(even if the hitbox was the same) so they'd be harder to see/hit.

	18-07-2004 05:26									#37
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident Carth is a Pansy Now Canderous. that's one sweet hunk

It's more fun playing as a guy and seducing Bastila anyway.

	18-07-2004 06:54									#38
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quote: So does Nethack. But then in Nethack, you may change sex by putting on some helmet, so you may end up playing a girl by accident.

...Remember Baldur's Gate's Cursed Girdle of Gender Reversal I accidentally slapped it on Ajantis... and that made an amusing character just that more amusing

	18-07-2004 07:00									#39
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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud ...Remember Baldur's Gate's Cursed Girdle of Gender Reversal I accidentally slapped it on Ajantis... and that made an amusing character just that more amusing

I put it on myself without bothering to identify it.

I didn't realise I was a woman until I was about 2 thirds of the way through the game.

	18-07-2004 10:13									#40
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quote: Originally posted by LDiCesare So does Nethack. But then in Nethack, you may change sex by putting on some helmet, so you may end up playing a girl by accident.

nethack is not a real RPG

	18-07-2004 12:40									#41
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike Good point. When you play an evil baby eating devil worshipping necromancer it doesn't mean you want to be one. Or does it Diss?

Of course it does

	18-07-2004 15:04									#42
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	18-07-2004 15:24									#43
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I very seldom play as female characters in RPGs.

In beat-em-ups, on the other hand, I tend to prefer female characters because of their speed.

	19-07-2004 05:12									#44
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speaking of.

I once made a thread in another forum saying females shouldn't be able to have a strength of 17 or 18 (in the AD n D ruleset). The idea that women are completely equal to men in every respect seems silly. What's the point in choosing a woman then?

If if you do choose a female with a strength of 18, then you shouldn't be able to use a petite character portrait/avatar. It should force you to choose the huskier pictures

	19-07-2004 05:19									#45
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Women in AD&D can't have higher than 18/50 strength, and that's if they're human. Other races are weaker (ex. dwarves and half-orcs). But that may have changed since I played.

And really anyone with a strength over 13 should be somewhat buff.

	19-07-2004 05:25									#46
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Anyone ever factor the morality into the equation?

Playing a male I think I subconsciously hold back on fighting the females (feels wrong to hit a female, even in a game), with no problem fighting the males.

Playing as a female, no problem hitting/killing anyone ( except maybe that Baby someone referred to earlier, even if they were a devil worshipping evil eating type of Baby )

...

And staring at a computer generated character for hours on end is easier when the character is a female

	19-07-2004 05:33									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Sparrowhawk Anyone ever factor the morality into the equation? Playing a male I think I subconsciously hold back on fighting the females (feels wrong to hit a female, even in a game), with no problem fighting the males.

Nonsense! If they are doing my precious character damage, they shall pay, no matter what gender.

	19-07-2004 05:39									#48
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Most guys hold back from hunting down females "out of the blue" while they will gladly hack to death and loot a guy they don't know.

	19-07-2004 05:41									#49
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Most guys hold back from hunting down females "out of the blue" while they will gladly hack to death and loot a guy they don't know.

I don't discriminate.

	19-07-2004 05:54									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Most guys hold back from hunting down females "out of the blue" while they will gladly hack to death and loot a guy they don't know.

I hack and loot everybody/everything. I'm an equal opportunity hacker.

	19-07-2004 06:27									#51
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I don't do it often, but in a game with little or no roleplaying which touches on gender I'll sometimes choose a female character because it is more soothing to look at.

	19-07-2004 06:27									#52
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Change the "most" to "some" then.

	19-07-2004 09:26									#53
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Depends.

In P&P I will play a female character if the entire group is a bunch of guys just to throw that extra element of RP into the mix that wouldn't be there otherwise-and to be able to slap them on the back of the head both in game and out of game when they're perverts. After all, I'd think most of that stuff would have been left in middle and high school (and the gaming group was all twenty-something).

As far as computer RPGs, I don't play very many. KOTOR would be one, played through being good with a guy, so on my second trip as going evil I just figured I might as well go through as an angry red-head (wife is one sometimes anyway ).

	19-07-2004 18:04									#54
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Let it be known that I would have abused the extra plasma/blaster damage bug ay any chance I got.

	19-07-2004 19:13									#55
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if we're not limiting it to RPG's, then I must say its cause of the mindworms

	19-07-2004 19:52									#56
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quote: Originally posted by Verto 1.) The female character possesses abilities they want. Their choice is purely strategic.

Correct. Female Britons in Morrowind have my 'ideal' stats.

quote: 2.) They are perverts who want breasts.

Not only breats. All the mobile parts...
That and the voice, and the little screams when they hit/are hit...

quote: 3.) They are trying to play all the classes available.

Errr..., well, no.
But well to check the game side quests/possibilities.
BG2: while Nalia complains about not having the right to be Lord (Lady) of her own land, you, as female fighter, you may become her 'Lord Protector'.

	19-07-2004 23:29									#57
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quote: Originally posted by Sparrowhawk Anyone ever factor the morality into the equation? Playing a male I think I subconsciously hold back on fighting the females (feels wrong to hit a female, even in a game), with no problem fighting the males. Playing as a female, no problem hitting/killing anyone ( except maybe that Baby someone referred to earlier, even if they were a devil worshipping evil eating type of Baby )

no because you always assume the person controlling the female character to be male. Its not the digitized character thats important to me, but the person thats playing.

Actually most female charactrs are annoying (due to their usual advantage) and I find myself taking immense satisfaction beating the crap out of them, slipping a few phrase like "die *****" once or twice when im beating on their helpless body after the round is over... or gibbing the body after being killed etc.

	20-07-2004 04:41									#58
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actually I see no problem playing a female in a single player game.

But in a MMORPG? I haven't played one yet. But I'm fairly certain I'll play a male character. I don't want to get hit on by other guys .

	20-07-2004 05:11									#59
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quote: What's the deal with guys playing female characters in RPG's?

They are girlie men!

The only RPG I ever played with a female character was Fallout... Not much electronic boobs there, so that wasn't the reason. The reason was that you could play the game differently then, like someone above said.