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archer9234 on 30 June 2015
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DeduS said:
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.

 

I still really can't understand point 2. You're saying you project yourself into the character. So you imagine yourself as another person, already. But since it's female, your brain says this is wrong? Even though your acting out another characters life basically. From my POV. You're playing as someone else, no matter what it is. Would you have a problem playing as a animal, plant, bug, book? those are far more less relatable. Would you have a problem if you picked the female charr in Guild Wars 2. Both male and female Charr are virtually identicle in appearance. How about Samus. Would hiding behind a bodysuit prevent this response?