Avatars

[Evie82]

Hi all

I thought of this question looking at the gamer thread in the Lounge section, but with it saying non-CD chat I thought I'd better ask here instead (I may well be wrong!)

Anyway! To the gamers here - when you play a game where you can customise your avatar/character, do you tend to go for male, female or just a randomised creation? I usually go for a female character, sometimes more realistically like me and sometimes more of a fantasy. I'm just curious is all.

[Ashley090]

I loke games and my girly side is showing there. If its possible chose sex during character creation, then it is ALWAYS female. She looks like me as how I wish I would look of I was gg. They always have tendency be that "dark and yet girly" style that is show everywhere by making evetything black-pink color scheme. Clothes, makeup, weapons, cars, home, everything.
Also I like Gta5 for its references to CDing there :)

[Sissy_Michelle]

Evie82,

Nice question. I only really play one video game, and I adventure on both male and female characters. My main is male, though and, my two alts are each male and female.

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Michelle

[Teresa]

Evie,
I wasted too much time playing Tiger Woods golf, the fun part was I was Sandy Irons , they do give the girls some cute outfits in the game and some great makeup, the boys hate being beaten by a girl .

[Yoshisaur]

I always use a female avatar when I have the option. Though I don't usually make them look like me. I more try to make them look really cool or cute.

[Tracii G]

Its very common here for people to do the female characters or design a female persona while playing the games.
Lots of threads on this if you search.

[Gabriella111]

For the two games I've seen my bf play, he's been a female character in both. But his overall avatar for his PS4 account is male.

[Tracii G]

I'm not a gamer because it seems like a huge waste of time but if I were to game online I would be a girl persona because thats me everyday.

[Lisa85]

Non-sexed. I don't know if a jet fighter is male or female. A storm trooper could be either under the exoskeleton. One game site my avatar is just a pretty picture of a nature content. Besides in combat games, it is better if they don't know sex/gender.......

[Lily Catherine]

In the rare chance I have the opportunity, female. I'm also not sure one can or should gender cars.

[Chibi]

I always choose female when I can. From playing mmo's for some time it's quite common for guys to play female characters.
When anyone has asked me why I play female characters I always answer "If I'm gonna spend hours/days/weeks playing a game I'd rather look at a cute girl than a burly man when playing." xD

[bridget thronton]

Female avatar if I get to create my own

[Samantha2015]

I love the games where you can customize your look. This from old Hoyle Casino game.

[njcddresser]

Always female. AlwAys young and cute. Gets me lots of interesting comments

[Alice_2014_B]

I always select a female avatar when I have the chance, especially when I play "Settlers of Catan" on the Tablet or someone's phone.
Friends never care.
:)

[Lana Mae]

Last two characters on Skyrim have been female! Different perspective and NPC comments are different at times! Hugs Lana Mae

[Krea]

I like to choose female characters on computer games. Usually one that is a fantasy of what i would like to look/dress like!

[Fiona123]

This thread prompted me to finally get an actual avatar!

[Maria Blackwood]

Female if possible. All my Elder Scrolls and Fallout characters are female.

For Mass Effect and Dishonored 2 I did both genders.

I don't generally mind if I'm stuck with a male if it's a good character, like Adam Jensen in the Deus Ex series. On the other hoof, the Gerault character has kept me away from the Witcher series.

I guess with RPGs where I might spend 300 hours with a character I want more control.

But is it CD related? My sister is cis-normal-whatever across the board and always play male characters. Lots of guys just like to see a sexy female running around instead of some smelly guy. ;-)

[Mickitv]

I play a golf game and always use the female avatar. I just love thinking of me in that short skort and playing golf.

[wendy]

yes ! in fact, I only buy games that feature a playable female character, for example tomb raider, mass effect, saints row.

If the game allows for character creation, I always create a female character (eg. fem shep, female "baddie" in saints row, and currently in killing floor 2 I've picked rae Higgins).

[Maria Blackwood]

Saints Row II had a great moment about this. SR1 only had male characters. You play the same character in 2, but if you choose female, the other characters say, "Hey, you look different."

[Periwinkle]

It really depends on the game for me. In Animal Crossing, you can wear literally anything you want, so I can be a guy who just happens to own and wear a lot of dresses and skirts sometimes. But in the newer Pokemon games, for example, clothing choice is restricted to gender. And female players appear to have a wider variety of options, so I'd pick a female avatar.

I'd prefer that all games with avatars were more like Animal Crossing. I feel like out of any game I've played, my avatar from that game is the one that most accurately depicts who I am.

[Stacy Darling]

Evie,

Hell Yeh!

I only play about once per week and my Avatar Chick is even too hot for me to handle at times.
So I'm A definite Yes, and I'm very pretty!

I'm A hot chick on Twitter as well (slightly different name though)

I'm Stacy where ever I am!

[KimberlyJean]

Kimberly is currently making her way through the Boston Commonwealth of Fallout 4. The Fallout games let you design your character 100%. The sequined dress doesn't offer any protection but I carry it for special occasions!

[Melody A]

I must have started over playing Skyrim around 60 times and have never played a male character. Same with the Sims.

[Samantha2015]

Bloodrayne was another game with a hot female lead. That reminds me I have to load that one up again, not sure I ever finished it.

[Maria Blackwood]

Kimberly is currently making her way through the Boston Commonwealth of Fallout 4. The Fallout games let you design your character 100%. The sequined dress doesn't offer any protection but I carry it for special occasions!

I think there's a mod that allows armor to go over any clothing and also make it invisible. You could wear the dress under the invisible armor. I just use the armor- the female character looks really badass in the heavy combat armor.

I put all my settlers into nice suits and dresses from the clothing fabricator. You can totally crossdress them. :D

[Ashley090]

Isn't F4 only game that allows you to crossdress? :D you can totaly have male character and run around in dresses all the time. But thanks for idea, I should go and make my main settlement as "Crossdress only" :D

Btw, if you looking for game with great character creation then check Black Desert Online mmo. Best char. creation so far, check some yt videos!

[Ceera]

I mix it up, playing both genders, but gaming in various forms was some of my first feminine self-expression.

When I was 18 or 19, back in the late 1970's, I learned about the tabletop dice and miniatures role playing adventure game 'Dungeons and Dragons', which was the first game I can recall playing where you could choose your character's name and gender and could control and describe their actions. I started out early on with both male and female characters, and among the mostly male group of players, found I had a knack for playing a realistic female. My friends and I were active duty Navy sailors, yet they all accepeted my playing most of the girl chatacters in the group, without questioning it. I later did the same in college, and when the Internet came around and there were text-based role playing forums, and later multi-player games, I just kept doing it.

In any game where you can customize character appearance, it was a sure bet I would make a female character first. A pattern tended to emerge for how I would make that girl look - the core of my own feminine self-image. In the multiplayer games, the other on-line players often believed my girls were being controlled by a real girl.

Much later in my life, when I stopped repressing my bisexuality and finally came to accept that I wanted to wear feminine clothes and feminize my appearance in real life, I found I had already created my basic feminine personna. Ceera Murakami was an established alternate identity for me that was so entrenched that I had been earning money on-line doing virtual reality game content designing as Ceera, (primarily in Second Life), and even had a bank account with Ceera as an assumed business name. It was hardly a step at all to have that persona become my real-life girl self. She had been developed in my sub-conscious for decades before I recognized my need to let her into the real world.

[Mayo]

Female. In fact, playing a female character in Neverwinter Nights was very helpful for me in realizing that I was not 100% male.

[Tina June]

I don't play video games, but if I did - I would definitely pick a female avatar.

[Laurana]

In all the games I've ever played I've only played 2 female characters.

The first was a Twi'lek female dancer in Star Wars Galaxies that I used to con items/money out of people.

The second was in a Fallout 3(disappointingly short compared to #4).

That's it. Everything else has been male.

[Tracii G]

I'm amazed that so many here are gamers.
How do you find the time to sit for hours playing a game?
What happens when you I guess "beat or finish the game what then buy a new game?
I'm sorry I never got into gaming so I am asking the question because I honestly don't know what the draw is.