Male or Female?? Which will you play?

[MrVicchio]

Only asking cause I generally play a female in MMo's...

Now, there is a good story behind it. When I started playing EQ WAYY back in 99, my wife played for a bit. Her char, a female became real popular, but she quit. Her char tho, was 10th lvl while mine was 3rd, So I played hers... since I took up her char.. I roleplayed as if I was her ( I actually figured I could beat the game in three months and quit... doh!)... kept it up for 2 years.. before I finally droppped the bomb... about 2/3rds of my guild Dark Empire (Rodcet Knife) were shocked, as was Heart of Norrath, my other guild lol. It was quite fun. So I got comfy playing chicks.. don't ask.

[Unregistered]

Get your PSU thong yet?

[Xtc]

i play both

whichever looks cooler.

LOOKS ARE EVERYTIHNG IN A GRAPHIC GAME! :cool:

[diluted]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Get your PSU thong yet?

:lol:

and i dunno - i think whatever looks better. girl probably.

[Tolvy]

Male or Female?
Hmmm...
I'm gunna have to go with "YES" as my answer ;) :rolleyes:

Real answer: I'll probably play male.

[Doobz]

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huh, u must have my algebra 2 teacher :)

[BLuE_ZeRO]

I'll be both... at the same time... just like irl :D

[Flashingfish]

It depends really, we can have 4 chars, so I'll probably have at least one female.

I usually play mals in games, except for UT where the female cyborgs rocked =]

[zMessiahz]

I dunno about boys who play girls. Especially if there is any justification for it besides the weak "It has a smaller profile so it will be harder to see me!" arguement. BTW it doesn't... make you harder to see that is. However, I know that point is open for debate :)

[Tolvy]

Originally posted by Doobz
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huh, u must have my algebra 2 teacher :)

Why you say that?

[TG_NightHawk]

I always play the same gender I am(male). I could care less if the female model could do flips & recieve special attention or weaps! I like to actually play like I would in real life....and I don't want a sex change!!:eek:

[FireFrenzy]

I'll be playing male, I don't forsee it to have too much of a difference, since alot of combat will be in maxes, and vehicles.

[Ahemuro]

I usually play male in quake games and UT games, but in tribes i always played as a female because the male, in both t1 and t2, look like they have big man boobs, and i just wanted to look at real women boobs :D

But the PS male model looks really good, so i might play as a male. idk, which ever gets me harder :brow:

[Xtc]

Originally posted by zMessiahz
I dunno about boys who play girls. Especially if there is any justification for it besides the weak "It has a smaller profile so it will be harder to see me!" arguement. BTW it doesn't... make you harder to see that is. However, I know that point is open for debate :)



hm i also thought about that.

i wonder if there is a smaller profile making it harder to hit! and not just see.


any1 who tried beta know any info on this particular speculation

*cough* Hamma *cough*

[Hamma]

Its all a matter of perspective :p

[Sputty]

In Q3 I play a female because they're slimmer and smaller overall...harder to hit but since they'll be armor and vehicles I'll probably play as what I am, a male

[Serbitar]

I normaly dont understand why men should play female models. MAybe they have some sexuality problems . . .

Ill play as what I am.

[Sputty]

Originally posted by Serbitar
I normaly dont understand why men should play female models. MAybe they have some sexuality problems . . .

Ill play as what I am.
Guess you didn't read wht I put down. In Q3 I pciked the hardest to hit character, a female. Maybe the rest of us are comfortable with ourselves and you have some issues

[Flashingfish]

Now now children.

[Jinxmasta]

It all depends on how much bigger a male is. Looking at the armor screenshots, it looks like it won't be that big of a difference and therefore I'll be male.

EDIT - Now that I look at it, the male NC reinforced armor looks retarted so I might be female instead.

[Toimu]

I've always played a male. Never thought about a smaller profile though. I might make 1 girl grunt :)

[DiosT]

I'll probably play both (you can have 4 characters per account/server)...

If i want to be a pilot, but the light and agile armors for male stink, I'll probably play female...

i care about Fashion(or looks), and hit-box's.. in tribes females were big and bulky for no reason other then to more closely match the male profiles heh, I'll probably play a short female for my sniper(if they allow variable heights like some MMOG's), a large male for my MAX, and a male tank pilot =p

all this assuming the armors look good, If the male armor looks like a cardboard box with tape, and the female armor has the fashion of a ferrari, I'm gonna go with the ferrari =p

and if i play a female character, I'm not going to 'pretend' to be female, just want to make that clear =p those guys are sick.. but this is a fps, so it dont matter heh, in EQ it was sick =p

[MrVicchio]

It was fun for me when I was RPing as my wife because I knew something they didn't. I do stick witht he female models most of the time cause they look better, but I DO mak it clear I aint a gal.

But it was fun playing EQ back then lol.

[diluted]

hmm - i don't like the whole "why would you play a gender different then what you are?" blah i dunno females just look better. like it sounds stupid but with cars with curves and sleek bodies - hey i like that. and for painball guns with really curvy sleek milling - that appeals to me too. maybe because its preference on what looks better in one's opinion. well whatever its all about looks when it comes to char creation.

by the way can you name individual characters, or in-game do people only see your account name. in diablo2 it was different named characters per acct name.

[DiosT]

I'd assume it's by character name, not account name...

and all character names will need to be unique at some level... by server or empire, otherwise ya can't send 'private' messages if they support that system, which i'm fairly sure they will, most MMOG's do...


but i do think they will allow a "John doe" in Vanu and a "John doe" in terran empires, since you shouldn't/arnt able to communicate between empires =p

[diluted]

thats kinda lame. not able to talk between empires.

[Serbitar]

@sputty:

Too bad, EVERY model in Q3 has the same hit boxes . . . size of the model didnt matter. So you picked your women model for nothing . . . if so you should ahve picked the eyeball . .(by the way: same in Tribes 2, where everybody and his brother is running arround as a female because of the same wrong reason . . .)

BTW: Any females here who want to play male models ? In my experience girls cant understand why some males want to play in female armor (neither do I). Maybe some boys in here should go out and see some girls so that they dont have to play as females . . . Call me intolerant but boys wanting to play as girls sound a little strange to me.

Edit: And I dont think that males and females in planetside will have different hitboxes. FPS developers learned to make them the same a long time ago . . . (even if the models are different, sometimes the hit boxes are bigger than the model so that they are equal on every model)

[�io]

Originally posted by diluted
thats kinda lame. not able to talk between empires.

Well think of the possibilties of losers revealign info. It would be way too easy to say "Hey TR! My empire will be attacking your south base in about 5mins!!!"

[DiosT]

what Dio said....


on a side note..

I know 2 women that play male characters... 1 because she doesnt have to listen to men hitting on her every 5 minutes, and the other because her boyfriend origionally played then she took it over =p so rawr =p

[m0rphiu5]

i think playin a female character would be fun, i will have atleast one... the female NC stealth looks soo cool, so thats what my stealth character (main) will probably be....

oh and DiosT nice matrix quote, i was gunna use it myself..... but wouildnt fit in sig, nice job :cheers: :clap:

[zMessiahz]

I, like, play female characters cause, you know, their ass wiggles when they move. After all, if I am going to spend all my free time playing a game, I might as well get turned on while I do it. And have you seen the melons on those toons? Damn boyeee, I wish my girl had knockers like that. Come to think of it, there is just something about women with super-fit tight bodies blowing people up with big guns that just gets me all hot. I don't think I'll even play in a MAX cause it will, like, totally hide their bods. I just hope they add some cool pelvic thrust taunt animations. Wouldn't that just be peachy?

[ft-Marauder]

I played a female in Tribes 1 because of the smaller model, made it harder to see in the distance, and since I was a sniper/light 99% of the time (disk, ELF and laser being my primary armament)I was hopefully usually far from combat. :) Hit boxes were the same, but the model was a little smaller. Also, she had a hot armored ass. ;)

[�io]

Originally posted by m0rph|u5
oh and DiosT nice matrix quote, i was gunna use it myself..... but wouildnt fit in sig, nice job :cheers: :clap:

I prefer : I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals. You see every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed, and the only way to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? �. A virus, human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague � And we are the cure.

It's truth is so deliciously eerie as is Agent Smith. :)

Now back to the topic, picking a gal is fine, i might do it myself eventually, picking a gal for the smaller model is kinda lame. If your enemy can't see you in a female armor he won't see you in a male 1 either. :D

[m0rphiu5]

yes, Agent smith is one of the cooler characters, thats why they bring him back in reloaded, i cant wait for it, or the "enter the matrix" game, its a Q3 mod atm, /me russles around for q3 cd.....

anywhoo, i think its just fine bein a female, not coz theey're smaller or are less of a target.... simple because they (like their real counterparts) are nice to look at, i meen jeeze who here can honestly say they don't much prefer to look at the opposite sex, game or otherwise....... (bar you poofs, you don't count, j/k... whateva floats your boat)

[Daleon]

Generally I stick to males, but I always end up with atleast one female character. Sorry but starring at a Male ass all day in a 3rd person RPG may be your thing but not mine. Its all about the looks. And a little variety is nice.

Most guys should know better than to come onto a female character in an online game these days. I think the only safe game to do that in is Sims Online which is like 85% women. But don't try it in PS or you will end up hot chatting some dirty old man.

I think the Male models are very solid in PS so I won't have any problem playing them most of the time. Sometimes you want to be a BIG BAD MUTHA.

[�io]

Originally posted by m0rph|u5
yes, Agent smith is one of the cooler characters, thats why they bring him back in reloaded, i cant wait for it, or the "enter the matrix" game, its a Q3 mod atm, /me russles around for q3 cd.....

Yeah i can't wait for the other Matrix movies either. That and the Animatrix. :thumbsup:

Ok back to our scheduled topic. :)