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SvennoJ on 03 July 2014
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HigHurtenflurst said:
kitler53 said:

I believe there are two distinct types of gamers when it comes to these matters.

Gamer A) the in-game avatar represents me.  this is my story.  these are my actions.

Gamer B) the in-game avatar represents someone else.  this is a story.  i influence their actions.

i'm certainly gamer B.   even in a game with the silent character and a first person perspective i still never think of it as me.   as such,.. when given a choice i almost always pick female avatars.  i feel more invested in female companion than a male companion.  it's the same in my personal life where i have a lot of female friends and very few male friends.

i imagine gamers in the A category would want a character that looks like them,... correct sex, color, and build.   i'm sure it helps a lot with their immersion.  i completely get it even if it is not for me. 

I think this is nice sum up, though I think being one or the other doesn't always mean you pick the same sex, especially for completionists like myself.

Personally I think I am a Gamer B, I don't tend to think of the character as an extention of myself, and I tend to prefer a female protagonist... but when given a choice as in Mass Effect I often pick male first, and will try to make it look similar to me, but a second playthrough will have a similar amount of time and effort put into it and would be female, and subsequent playthroughs after that I am far more likely to be female (unless different character game mechanics mean I prefer playing as a specific male character)

I like a strong female lead, and strong female characters in general (AC:Brotherhood I deliberately only recruited female assassins... took a while as they seem more likely to be the opposite sex as your last recruit) but I still like to play as myself on occasion.

I'm of the B variant too, which helps with multiple playthroughs (sometimes concurrently switching between characters) making changes based on what I think the character would do. I wonder how gamers of the A variant do multiple play throughs? You're role playing after all, why play as yourself every time.

If you're strictly in the A category I can see how beyond 2 souls might be a tad difficult to get through in certain scenes.