I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious. The reason why I’m asking is because in this sort of games I like to make the character resemble me as much as possible in every aspect, so I’m just curious to know what is the motivation behind men that decide to play as a female character.
If its a 3rd person game and im gonna be looking at someones ass for 40 or so hours, im gonna make it an ass I enjoy seeing.
I think women are cool.
Making the exact same character in every game gets old after a while. Also boobs.
Also ass.
I play in 3rd person and I’m a ass man
This exactly. If I’m going to spend hours staring at or hearing a voice, if rather it be attractive to me.
Man-ass or male grunting are not my particular flavor of candy.
For me, it’s the voice. For a voiced character like V, it requires a very special talent to take you on a journey with them, to listen to their fear, pain, anger and despair. Cherami Leigh just does such a fantastic job of bringing V to life for me, of really bringing that raw emotion out and making it feel real!
Mass Effect was the same. Femshep Gang \m/
Character customization is one of my favorite parts of the game. And to be honest dressing up a “hot” woman is more fun than a guy to me.
Also I like looking at a woman more than a man. So there’s that too.
You get to build your own big titty goth girls.
I make my V an attractive and slim woman with a massive dong so it’s absolutely nothing like me.
I think for a lot of people part of the fantasy is getting to be someone else.
There are a few reasons, but please note that this list is by no means exclusive to Cyberpunk 2077…
Games are about escaping reality, as a man I can tell you that in my experience, men are often locked down into a generic “man” mold that is never broken in real life. Gaming gives us a way to pretend to be someone else completely.
Female characters in games tend to be funnier to play as, they often has better dialog and more customization options.
Finally, one of the biggest reason men play as female characters in games is simply because it is better to have pretty female character to look at when gaming rather than a generic boring male character, this obviously includes boobs.
Some of the best cyberpunk characters are women and the clothing is cooler.
For the former point: molly millions/Sally shears and YT were both by far the most interesting characters in the sprawl series and snow crash respectively.
Funny thing about cyberpunk as a genre is the women are often the badasses with complex characters and the male leads are usually bumbling selfish dummies that generally fail to resolve anything (Hiro protagonist in snow crash, Johnny mnemonic, case in neuromancer, and to a lesser degree bato in GIS who’s just clueless half the time instead of bumbling).
For the latter: mox gear is better than worn browns and grays.
I also just think the voice actor is better and Judy is the most interesting love interest.
I would like to know why so many people do what you do: create themselves. That is so… boring…? I have never had such an urge. But then, I barely care about my own appearance at all (gamer moment), so I guess that makes sense.
You never had the idle fantasy of what you’d do during a zombie apocalypse or with superpowers? If not, dang thats rough. Some folks want to self-insert, I don’t blame 'em for having a power fantasy. Heck I’m on team human male knight myself.
Of course I have. I guess I just think of playing games differently, where I want to help the story of someone else unfold, rather than self-insert.
I like to make a character that I think I would enjoy being. That doesn’t necessarily mean someone exactly like me, but also not exactly unlike me.
For Cyberpunk I’ve played both because I play to enjoy the performances, and they’re both different performances. Now when replaying I always do female V because her performance is bloody incredible (not in any way saying the performance of Gavin Drea was bad mind you! But Cherami Leigh knocked it so far out of the park that I consider that personally the “canon” performance)
The character in the game doesn’t have to have anything to do with me at all. Just like a main character in a movie or a book doesn’t have to look or be anything like me for me to enjoy it. I’m looking for interesting stories not my auto-biography
I was actually just thinking about that the other day. As far as I can tell, people tend to fall in to one of two camps:
- Make the character look as much like (a potentially idealized version of) yourself as possible
- Make the character look nothing like yourself
I always make my characters completely different from me, so they often (maybe 60-70% of the time) end up being women. My friend always makes them look as close to himself as possible.
I think it comes down to different styles of roleplay. I’m myself every day. Why would I want to be myself but Cyberpunk? My friend, on the other hand, wants to imagine himself as being in that world.
And then you have the third camp of people who make their characters horny or humorous, which can be fun to do occasionally but I cannot imagine doing regularly.
Play by the no center sliders rule a la Monster Factory.
There he is, hero of earth camera pans to the most fucked up gremlin you’ve ever seen
I’m curious too, what’s the motivation to make the character look like yourself?
To feel more aligned with a character and try the story on oneself, maybe
But I also have never tried that as this seems to be a missed opportunity to play as someone else
Narcissism.
