I always play as a male, unless it's Soul Calibur II or some other fighting game. Not because they are hot or anything, but beacuse girls kick *** in fighting games.

Nightmare? Necrid?
The only female character in SC2 who's 'up there' is Talim, because she's ridiculously fast.

This site is qoddam fascinating, I've been reading off and on for quite a while, but this seemed appropriate:

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001369.php

Also, I posted here on this issue [second to last post, but the whole thing is interesting]:

http://www.nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/000551.php?page=2

I have been an avid rpg player, mudder, and most recently mmorpger for many years, covering everything from Achaea to Realms of Despair to Kingdom of Loathing to World or Warcraft.

Primarily, in text games, I play males [as I am a 22 year old one myself], and in visual games, I use female avatars.

A good part of this, is that in many games, the male avatars are possessed of enormous codpieces and gigantuan biceps, which obscure noticeably more of the screen than female avatars, not to mention it just bothers me on a visceral level.

As well as simply being able to see somewhat better around a female av, their physical rendering is often much preferrable to the male ones. This is not in the manner of "I'd rather stare at a female backside", but in that the male models are very often absurdly-to-repugnantly muscle-bound, and usually have very poorly realized facial features. Take World of Warcraft, for example, where my gnome and human are female, because the male models for those races look alternately creepy/leering or just plain neandertal and slow-witted. Furthermore, I have yet to find a game, where the male models come close to representing my own form, and here the female avs are almsot a more reasonable approximation.

Moreover, I rather enjoy collecting and fashioning various garb, and I find that outfitting my female avs tends to lend to more aesthetic results than the males. The primary exception here, is my male Tauren Warrior, who looks awe-inspiring in heavy arms and armor.

Finally, my use of female avs is something of an attempt to balance the demographics of the game world. It can be a bit bothersome, or disconcerting, to wander through cities where 90% of the people you pass are male.
Posted by: Dormouse on July 5, 2005 02:07 AM

Nightmare? Necrid?
The only female character in SC2 who's 'up there' is Talim, because she's ridiculously fast.

Shouldn't that be Remus?

She's pretty easy for me to counter for the most part, though..

Unless you're the type that switches stance every 2 seconds.. then she becomes a pain in my ***.

I play as a guy, always, unless it's unavoidable (see Mysteries of the Sith)

Nightmare? Necrid?
The only female character in SC2 who's 'up there' is Talim, because she's ridiculously fast.

I usually play as a male character, especially if I can make it look like me. If the sex of the character chages some of the game a little bit, like KotOR, I'll do that to see what's different.

Seung Mina!!

She's the best piece of virtual booty this side of Lara.