Role playing is much more fun when I’m not playing someone similar to me.

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ It just feels right man

Self-inserts are fine, but severely limit the scope of your roleplaying. I play as men and women, and make characters with their own specific drives, flaws, and strengths.

I also occasionally make my partner and play as her, which might be weird for some but I like it from time to time.

Bewbs

Valerie's inflection is more satisfying than Vincent's IMO. I also prefer the additional styling options.

I don't generally do that. But...what do YOU want to look at when you play games?

Games is about new experiences, escapism if you will. Playing as somebody else and trying to thing how that person would act and feel adds to the escapism.

2077 is a first person game, so seeing the character really only happens in the menu. In third person games where I can see my character, I... just prefer seeing women. Don't get me wrong, it's not like a game is worse if I can't look at a female character, but if I have a choice, why not?

For 2077 I'm not exactly sure why I chose it the first time. It may have had something to do with not being able to make a male character that looked like some version of me. I probably didn't like the long hair options. I don't regret it though, I really like Judy.

I started my first playthrough as a male. But male V just seemed like a dull loud asshole. So I restarted as female V. For me this seems like the intended way. V is still loud and brutal but also seemed more sensitive to me.aybe it's just the voice acting.

One of my biggest criticisms points is, that it's not really possible to play a calm and collected character in Cyberpunk. That's something I'm dearly missing. Cyberpunk 2077 is not really an rpg.

A few reasons. My first playthrough, I played as male V nomad. For my second, I went when a female V streetkid. So, part of it was going for a different story.

Another part is Judy. Yes, people have made mods to allow romance as a male character but those just don't seem right to me. Judy's a badass, beautiful, crazy-smart, and one of the only characters in Night City that I could likely be friends with IRL. But friends/extended family is all it could be. She's very clearly a lesbian, in her character as you get to know her and even her choice and style of tattoos - the roses on her arm especially seem rather anarcho-sapphic to me. Using a mod to "make her straight" just seems wrong, like a violation of deep parts of who Judy is. So, my second character was a lesbian.

And finally, when I started my second playthrough, I was a bit thirsty.

I've almost always played female characters in video games because I prefer characters with speed and agility advantages that suit my preferred duck & dodge play style.

You can play as who you want to look like, or who you want to look at. I prefer the latter.

I've never really been on the manly man side of the spectrum, and not many games offer options for more androgynous or feminine looking men, so I usually feel better represented by a female character.

Also, for 2077 specifically, I prefer fem!Vs VA.

I just go with what feels right, different looks for different play throughs. Or just something ridiculous I can laugh at

Smaller hitbox

Obviously subjective, but;

• Smaller hitbox
• Better animations
• Many awesome games where the equally awesome protagonist is female (Metroid, Portal, Hellblade, Tomb raider, Horizon, etc)
• If the story is based on the character, it's often more emotionally intelligent
• Usually more agile, fast, stealthy, and has long-range attacks (magic users, snipers, archers, etc)
• Usually has more of a flourish in attacks, so fancier and more graceful

I'm male, 5'7", 150, athletic build. Definitely male in appearance, but I'm not bulky. To your point about "the character looking as much like you as possible", depending on the game, my frame is more similar to the female than the guy who's neck is bigger than my waist.

I like smash-em-ups just fine, but sometimes I want to approach the mechanics as I would in real life, and that's intentionally, and executed with subtlety. A lot of male-focused paths/stories are forced to be blunt force and loud.

I think most guys just want to look at the female character doing the things, as if they're a spectator where other people play games as an extention of themselves. I like to imagine I'm in the game and that my character is me. That's hard if I'm a female character.

Autogynerotica

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lYv_yiOHVFI

If it's 3rd person game, most of the time I roll female characters cus I just like looking at women. My inner perfectionist desires pretty. I noticed a funny trend, if I roll a male character and the model doesn't look 11/10 I will just get bored of that game and stop playing lmao

Unlike some, I prefer to make a character that doesn't represent me physically. As a man, I find it more interesting to play as a female protagonist.

I tend to gravitate towards female characters in single player games and I ask myself this same question a lot. The weird thing is that I have no gender preference when my options are more limited - it's only when I'm being asked to customize my appearance. With male characters I never really know what I'm looking for - usually what looks right is what looks familiar. Maybe I'll be scrolling through hair options, find something that reminds me of Aragorn, and before I know it that's who I'm roleplaying. With a female character it's easier for me to resist these influences and make someone original because I can rely on my own preferences to tell me what looks right. I'll still play male characters if I have a specific influence in mind, but otherwise I find myself much more likely to actually finish a game as a female PC.

This YouTube short I stumbled upon a while ago pretty much covers it... https://youtube.com/shorts/haOm9TY90uY?si=rOnOKRMHPQslVn5e

me: I do this on 3rd person games. If I'm going to look at a figure wandering the landscape for hours, I'm going to make an ass I like to look at.

I'm a simple man.

I never play females much. I like to just mirror my own gender; I'm playing this game for fun, not for tits and ass. Only thing that sucks is funding mods with male v. They're rare, and it's annoying. Nothing but porn over there it feels like at times.