| the-pi-guy said: That's not very simple at all. Do you have a desire to play as a monster? When you play Uncharted, do you desire to be in the shoes of an adventurer who gets shot at? The gender of a character really doesn't matter. It's just a label to describe what parts a person has. Why do you have such difficulty playing with different parts, particularly when inhuman creatures have more different parts than woman do? |
I'll try to explain it, since I have the same problem as Shiken in regards to playing as a female character.
I first encountered it with Final Fantasy X-2. Some of my friends (me included) were annoyed that the playable characters were all female while others didn't care - so we wondered why and discussed it.
We came up with the following: there seem to be 2 types of players.
(1) Some people take the character that is given to them and play as that character - it's like a book or a movie to them. The character has it's own personality and the player just role-plays as that character. Players like that won't have a problem playing a character of the opposite sex.
(2) Then there are players like me (and Shiken I guess). They don't really role-play - they project themselves on the character. They view the character as a representation of themselves, which obviously leads to difficulties when you have to play as the opposite sex.
