Male or Female?

[Baneblade]

My main is typically male, while my alts are generally female.

[Infernalis]

In RPGs I tend to take a male first then alternate male/female. On PS2 though I think I'll stick with a male avatar considering it's a FPS.

[Accuser]

Female Medic (as all my healers are)
Female Infil (because it's badass)

Probably male for the other classes though

[Ratstomper]

Originally Posted by Littleman

The "dat ass" argument isn't really shallow, the reasoning is just silly if you take it too literally. Men roll female toons because, hey, we like looking at beautiful women whether they are animated, CGI, or even real.

And you don't think it's at all...I dunno, creepy....to make a character in a video game so you can just oogle them all the time while you're playing?

[DirtyBird]

Its all going to depend on the emote voices for me.

[Dairian]

I guess I have always played men characters. But playing a female wouldn't make me feel less of a man. In most games men usually look better than woman.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Dairian

I guess I have always played men characters. But playing a female wouldn't make me feel less of a man. In most games men usually look better than woman.

You sure you're playing the right faction?

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by Ratstomper

And you don't think it's at all...I dunno, creepy....to make a character in a video game so you can just oogle them all the time while you're playing?

No more creepy than putting a poster of a model on your wall.

[hypehype]

I like it when Males play female characters, I get sick of the cybering you see on online MMO just because a female avatar logs in.

its funny how its always a female with a full friend list

[Ratstomper]

Originally Posted by Baneblade

No more creepy than putting a poster of a model on your wall.

Yeah, I've never done that either.

Although, I think the part that's creepy is specifically choosing something different about your character just for some kind of weird sexualism. A model gets paid to pose and have posters made, a character is something you make and control. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it just seems kinda distasteful to me.

[GreatMazinkaise]

Originally Posted by Ratstomper

Yeah, I've never done that either.

Although, I think the part that's creepy is specifically choosing something different about your character just for some kind of weird sexualism. A model gets paid to pose and have posters made, a character is something you make and control. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it just seems kinda distasteful to me.

It becomes a problem when a female player makes a request for female toons that don't look like lingerie models and is subsequently shouted down by the devs who deliberately miss the point (Blizzard, recently). Female toons should not be manufactured to satisfy the male sexual fantasy in MMOs, and women should not have to choose male toons just to be taken seriously. The art team for PS2 is taking the high road for this game, thankfully.

[Littleman]

Originally Posted by Ratstomper

And you don't think it's at all...I dunno, creepy....to make a character in a video game so you can just oogle them all the time while you're playing?

Not creepy at all. I explained that men like looking at women. I like looking at women. I don't find it distasteful at all. It's a concept you'll just have to get used to.

I guess the difference here is I see my toons as characters in a story, while I suspect players that can only play same sex toons very much project themselves into their toon(s.)

I'm not about to have a line-up of males only unless the females are successfully unnattractive... like when a majority of their armors seem designed by a sexually frustrated teenager (I'm looking at you, TERA.)

Or in Planetside's case, I can't see my own toon often anyway.

[kasiraghi]

I have played females in games before where they had smaller hitboxes, but I'll be playing male in PS2 since there's no diff!

[Rago]

Originally Posted by kasiraghi

I have played females in games before where they had smaller hitboxes, but I'll be playing male in PS2 since there's no diff!

Which Game has smaller Hitboxes for Females ?

[Forsaken One]

Originally Posted by GreatMazinkaise

It becomes a problem when a female player makes a request for female toons that don't look like lingerie models and is subsequently shouted down by the devs who deliberately miss the point (Blizzard, recently). Female toons should not be manufactured to satisfy the male sexual fantasy in MMOs, and women should not have to choose male toons just to be taken seriously. The art team for PS2 is taking the high road for this game, thankfully.

Honestly the female "toons" feel like a waste of art, resources, time, and effort from the devs atm.

"tasteful" female toons since they all wear armor anyway should just be a unimodel. Take the males model, stick a females head on it.

Its highly retarded to make a whole new model, just so you can place a super bulky chest piece thing on it so it kinda looks like a butch female thing.

I'd much rather they have just scraped females like most war games do and spent that time and effort on entering and exiting animations imo.