When it comes to character creation, do you prefer a boy or a girl?

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I dunno man really , whatever the game offers me it also depends on what I want to be in the world how I imagine I would be in that world if there was an option for a bird however I would always choose it.

 

[lvl]

For sure girl, specially if its a fantasy game with combat armor and stuff. I always like to have a baddass warrior with small armor and a big weapon! lol

 

[Stare best girl]

depends, in Pokemon games I go for boys(maybe if I replay BW2 I could go for Mei this time) and in Dragon Quest III, IV and IX I go for girls

if I play Xenoblade X is likely that I will go for a female character and maybe I could make a human and aged up version of Chocolat from Solatorobo(as I make the joke that she wants to play Xenoblade X on Switch)

 

[Cu-Neo]

I often play as a Girl ??, there's more customization and clothes options in the majority of games. But if the canon protagonist is male I play it that way.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

A girl the first time, but if the character creator is robust enough I'll end up making multiple characters.

 

[Enian]

Honestly, I have and especially had more resemblance to a girl than most of the male muscle builds you find in games. So when I wanted to self insert, I often chose girl over boy.
A lot of developers, I feel like, put more effort into the female models and armor anyway, making it the objectively better sex.

Nevertheless, sometime I just want to role play a character and then it simply depends on what story I want to experience.

 

[ExeExe]

I used to always pick girl, since I always wanted to have more female options when I was a child; made me feel like I belonged in the hobby after all.

Now, as an adult who no longer gives a crap whether I belong or not, who enjoys looking at hot men, and also utterly sick of the horrendous female characters in games in past few years, unless there's romance options and you need to be a girl to romance the male ones, I always pick the boy option. Then, even if the game still has almost nothing but female characters (srs, ever notice how in most jrpgs from the last decade have a very uneven ratio of female party members to male, even if there is no romance in the story?), at least the character I'll be looking at most of the time aligns with my preference.

I miss the days of almost boy only games like megaman X so bad... ironic, considering this current situation with the female characters is supposed to be *for me*.

 

[Taukyrie]

It depends on the game and what I want to play as because I sometimes like making characters from other media in whatever I'm playing.

But my default go-to is female, where I make my sona. (My sona is basically a red-headed gijinka Re-GZ Custom from Gundam) The one exception I can think of where I did pick female and didn't make my sona was God Eater 3, where I made a gijinka of the Banshee from Gundam Unicorn instead.

For an example of me making a character from a different piece of media, my second file in God Eater 2 is meant to be a gijinka of Knight Neo Gundam from Kikoushin Densetsu.

 

[ZombieFish]

Girl, almost always, and if there’s customization I like recreating my favorite characters. I play as Heather Mason in every Tony Hawk that lets me.

 

[Opapete]

Used to be mostly making boys, but honestly, it kind of depends of how cute the girls are now, I have developed a simple formula for this:

If 1.5 divided by Cuteness (starts at 1 and can only go up the less cute something is) is at least 1, then I will make a girl. Otherwise, default back to making a boy.

 

[lil_thang]

As time has gone on and sex preference in chargen becoming less of an empowerment and more of an baseline default expectation, I'm kinda starting to resent the question.

If there's a character creator, I want to make as horrendous a freak of nature as possible. Gender selection does not factor into this.

If there's a character creator, and I cannot make a horrendous freak of nature, I personally fail to see the point as I'm not doing the 2 hour prep for my goon session making a sex doll.

 

[Opapete]

As time has gone on and sex preference in chargen becoming less of an empowerment and more of an baseline default expectation, I'm kinda starting to resent the question.

If there's a character creator, I want to make as horrendous a freak of nature as possible. Gender selection does not factor into this.

If there's a character creator, and I cannot make a horrendous freak of nature, I personally fail to see the point as I'm not doing the 2 hour prep for my goon session making a sex doll.

^ I guarantee this guy has never played tony hawk.

Joke aside, sure, why not. Can't stop you either way.

 

[MasterEn]

When I play a game with a character creator, I tend to choose boy. Mainly because I'm the opposite audience for character creation. Lots of people like to get real creative with their designs but I'm the exact opposite.

You've got people building "Reinhardt the Paladin" or "Sakura the Untouchable." Then there's me with my Preset #1 named Jim.

so, your character is the hero of the hydlide series traveling throughout the multiverse, then?

 

[ZombieFish]

As time has gone on and sex preference in chargen becoming less of an empowerment and more of an baseline default expectation, I'm kinda starting to resent the question.

If there's a character creator, I want to make as horrendous a freak of nature as possible. Gender selection does not factor into this.

If there's a character creator, and I cannot make a horrendous freak of nature, I personally fail to see the point as I'm not doing the 2 hour prep for my goon session making a sex doll.

2 hours? Slacker.

 

[LuckyStar]

In my experience, the female option nearly always has a better design and/or more clothing and styling options available. Also, if there's story differences in regards to character interactions or romance options, the female path is often more interesting to me.
When I was young, I'd always use my own name and pick the guy character, but now I always try to use canon names or canon-appropriate names for the girl option. I've never really felt the need to role-play as myself in a game, so picking the girl doesn't affect my immersion into the story.

 

[bjork]

It depends on the game. I remember making a pretty cool pirate dude in Tony Hawk 3, but in Fallout games I always make the closest approximation to either a chola or Bull Nakano, depending on how I'm feeling that day. Given the choice to be another race, or species, I'll usually take that too. Oblivion and Skyrim, I'm usually an argonian because they have waterbreathing.

 

[Zachery2112]

so, your character is the hero of the hydlide series traveling throughout the multiverse, then?

You know what? Sure, you're right. Jim is a multiversal level hero. Not a threat, but a hero. He slayed Chaos and the Cloud of Darkness from both Final Fantasy I and III. He has rescued Princess Zelda. He patrolled every wasteland in Fallout. He beat the Dragonlord a couple times. He was done some funky stuff in several FromSoftware games. He's even shown up in Baldur's Gate. What was his alignment? Neutral-Good.

Because that is who Jim is. No matter what world, no matter the rules. He is always the hero. All these power-scaling nerds think they've got it figured out with their threat levels and feat systems. But Jim? He is on a completely separate classification. He is using the hero level classification based on how much of a hero he is and oh baby he's multiversal. There will never be a hero quite like him.

Look at this man, this hero. Look at him and try to tell me he isn't the savior we all need and deserve. You can't. He is THE protagonist.

 

[MasterEn]

You know what? Sure, you're right. Jim is a multiversal level hero. Not a threat, but a hero. He slayed Chaos and the Cloud of Darkness from both Final Fantasy I and III. He has rescued Princess Zelda. He patrolled every wasteland in Fallout. He beat the Dragonlord a couple times. He was done some funky stuff in several FromSoftware games. He's even shown up in Baldur's Gate. What was his alignment? Neutral-Good.

Because that is who Jim is. No matter what world, no matter the rules. He is always the hero. All these power-scaling nerds think they've got it figured out with their threat levels and feat systems. But Jim? He is on a completely separate classification. He is using the hero level classification based on how much of a hero he is and oh baby he's multiversal. There will never be a hero quite like him.

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Look at this man, this hero. Look at him and try to tell me he isn't the savior we all need and deserve. You can't. He is THE protagonist.

not going to lie. you've sold me on playing hydlide with this.
it would be interesting to see a character traveling throughout different games, but not being affected by their mechanics, only by his own.
i did recreate jim the knight in soul calibur 4 or 5. he looked pretty badass.

 

[Amag0k1]

Homunculus that looks as ugly as possible, so that when i am op, i am worshiped and still look like i do.EPIC!

 

[lil_thang]

^ I guarantee this guy has never played tony hawk.

Joke aside, sure, why not. Can't stop you either way.

Tony Hawks Underground 1 was my favourite.

i only bluntly reply as this is the second comment i've recieved in as many days that was to the effect of "I bet this dude [I am a trans woman] only does X" and it being completely the polar opposite, lul.

 

[BobbertMoss]

I play boys most of the time, I like trying to make the prettiest guys I can with the tools given, though I can't say I always succeed. I only really play as women when I have a character idea in mind, which doesn't happen often cause I'm bad at it.
I played Mass Effect as a female character because I heard people liked the voice acting better and I wasn't able to make a male character I thought looked good, and I played KOTOR 2 as a woman because that was canonical for the story. I also did for Divinity Original Sin 2 but I was playing multiplayer and thus not that invested in the story (also because the name was a dumb pun)
I did make a custom (boy) sprite for Pokemon Infinite Fusion once, but they changed how they do sprites for that game so it didn't work last time I played

 

[mel]

When presented with a character creator I usually stick with the default options. I get very nervous about making decisions for whatever reason.

 

[pHoeniX_WRIght]

If it's a roleplay-heavy game then male, if not then I shamelessly choose female, for uh reasons.

For example I really like playing Monster Hunter with a female, I actually find it cooler tbh

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

Depends on my romance options and level of customization. Usually girl on first runs then boy then it's a matter of it's a game worthy of a another play through. That's also assuming gender doesn't determine difficulty or story progression which is it's own toss up.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Depends. In a lot of RPGs, the female option always gets more options. More clothing options for Pokemon, an easy Sylvain recruit for FE3H, sometimes even minor things like design or how Hilda's hair flies back when running but Hilbert's is stationary. As a result, I tend to choose girl even if I think the boy has a better design. Unless it's Fire Emblem Awakening (Male Robin looks better and is the universal design) or SMT (no playable girls in SMT for some reason minus a few fringe times for some reason lmao). Being same-y is also influential to my pick. A lot of male designs are kinda generic shone battle protagonist designs you'll never remember, especially the silent self inserts. Pokemon is a good example. Ever notice how similar the male protagonists look from Gen 2-8? Another good example is Etrian Odyssey because I always find the male designs in those games incredibly samey but if you look at the girls, this isn't a problem. For a really good example, boot up Etrian Odyssey 1 (or 2) and take a look at the Dark Hunter class.

(just learned there's a Link mod for EO HD and that's fire as hell but ignore that)