Why some men opt to play as women when given the option!

[kitler53]

SvennoJ said:

HigHurtenflurst said:

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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.

i've always kind of thought the existance of gamers of the A variant was part of why first person shooters are soo popular.

i personally like character driven games.  i'd rather play a third person shooter than a first person shooter.  i like cinematic games a lot.  i've played though games where i didn't like the gameplay but i loved the story.  i find character editors to be a chore,.. i click female and then random until i like one enough.  basically, i feel like my B status affects my choices in the games i choose to play and enjoy.

..so i got to figure that A gamers do the same.  first person shooters as those have better "immersion".  probably online multiplayer because there is no story to get bored by.   games like skyrim and fallout too, the western RPGs instead of the jrpgs.  games with fantastic character editors.  there are people that love these things.  basically all the genres and features that i hate.