Male almost exclusively. Lara is the obvious exception. In her case I kind of feel like the underdog which makes me want to kick some ass. Other than that and party-based RPGs where I
end up playing as a fem I play as a male. The reason is immersion and if I'm building a character from scratch he's usually an idealized me in one form or another. I can't relate to fems as well.
Maybe it's based on the old protection meme and I still don't want to put them in danger? So I don't even create them. Problem solved! IDK. As long as I'm being introspective I haven't played Bayonetta or Mirror's Edge but I think most of my decision making there is an aversion to long button combos or based on $/hr and replay value.
I don't play games to look at female bods and if characters are over sexualized it usually just makes me feel bad for the writers/artists and like a bit of a geek myself. That said it's nice if some of the secondary characters have a nice shape as long as they're believable and not some schoolboy's wetdream.
Does it strike anyone else as funny that in all those first-person games it just doesn't matter? Nice gun though. Now let's consider why I prefer carbines to rocket launchers. Or not.
