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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 68 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Why would I want to look at a dudes ass in third person for 120 hours?

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hey, we're not here to judge. You can look at dude-ass to your heart's content.

[–] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

If they keep stacking em, I'll keep packin, em.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I heard this several times and it confuses me a lot. Are you actually looking at the backside of the character instead of the rest of the game?

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Depends on how much you have to dodge and how much your character is in your peripheral.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Honestly, confuses me as well. I'm all for playing whatever gender you want to, but looking at polygons in the shape of a human ass is... different for sure.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

120 hours

Commander Shephard?

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

It's their favourite perspective in the citadel.

Ha yup that's my go to when I think of it, but it applies to a lot of games. Shepaaaaaaard

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[–] Pondis@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I usually play a female character, because if im going to stare at an ass for 120 hours, it might as well be a nice ass.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Exactly my philosophy. Also the whole "escape reality" bit. I also like RPGs where I can be an immortal skeleton or a lizard prince (ok, both of those examples were actually just Divinity: Original Sin 2).

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

if you find yourself playing games as an immortal skeleton or a lizard prince, you may not be entirely human. join my community and see if you relate to being a skeleton or lizard 😃

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm a big, fat, hairy, cishet dude, and I always play as a woman when it's an option. Female characters generally get more attention from the developers (for obvious reasons), so they usually have better designs and animations, resulting in an objectively higher-quality product. It's also fun in multiplayer games because toxic dweebs hate it when they think they lost to a girl.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The same toxic dweebs might also go weird towards you sometimes, it's definitely an experience getting to know why a lot of women carry pepper spray in public.

[–] Cloaca@mtgzone.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

100%

I was playing Monster Hunter World and made a character based on the Hub Lass.

It took less than two hours online to get someone asking if I have a boyfriend.

[–] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

My little sister had to change her PSN username because men would keep messaging her out of the blue sending her their numbers and asking for nudes/snapchat.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

funnily enough that's exactly (but opposite) what i told myself before i realised i was a trans man

"oh i play exclusively male characters because they have better armour models and the animations look more immersive, and i prefer to hear a dude talk/groan when i'm in dialogue or get hit. no other reason haha"

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago

If I’m going to spend several hours staring at the backside of a character, I want it to be a cute girl, thank you.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I've just come to the conclusion that my digital persona is a woman. I'm a cis hetero man in real life though. Not really any questions about it. But even in VR, I just exist as a lady.

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My wife plays as a male and I play as a female. When we were playing wow, random male characters would drop me 100gold at a time. This is when we were very early into wow and we just started getting silvers.

[–] suite403@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Star Wars Galaxies I would leave my character dancing in a cantina and come back to thousands of tips in credits.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

I did the same. I normally wearing skimpy clothes. Unfortunately in WoW you have to be there to accept.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

If a person plays as an opposite-gender character, it's because they secretly wish to be that gender and are therefore trans.

If a person plays as a same-gender character, it's because they like looking at same-gender ass and are therefore gay.

There are no other options.

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If they somehow find a third option anyway, that just mean's they're a furry.

[–] Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

On the one hand, this is funny. On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of humor that led to me repressing my gender identity. I feel so conflicted.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

That's the neat part: you can't repress your gender identity because 'straight' wasn't an option!

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(Unless you actually are straight, but whatever -- it won't kill us to be the ones who have to just fuckin' deal with it, for once!)

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(Seriously though, my intent was to be funny in an inclusive way, not a repressive way. Apologies if I missed the mark!)

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Playing the opposite gender would knock me out of immersion much less than installing that many anime-ish mods.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Female characters sometimes have smaller hitboxes.

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I tend to play female characters. Only because of the smaller hitbox tho, definitely not for other reasons.

:3

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i play female characters because it’s better for speedruns :3

no i don’t do speedruns, why do you ask?

[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I like girls so much I became one in real life 🏳️‍⚧️

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I'm hardcore hetero on the Kinsey Scale, but I've always played females. Fuck it, I've been a male every day of my life and games are there to escape reality (for me anyway).

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I make em look like me as much as possible because I want to be the badass lol.

Except final fantasy, I went with the exploding ponytail with the emo bangs because it reminds me of my first paladin on wow.

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[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I play opposite gender so i can fapping while playing

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Boy wait until you hear about this thing called internet porn. Gonna blow your mind.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

can i play it?

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 10 points 4 days ago

Reddit comment section on lemmy

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I played as the opposite gender one (1) time in 2010, to hear the novelty of the female VA for the protagonist in a fully voiced game after two runs as the male protagonist, and I haven't stopped since. RIP me 😔

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[–] BoiBy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

For me that depends on a game. I noticed that in a fantasy game I usually pick female character and if it's more normal earthly setting (especially shooters) I go with male. I don't know why, maybe because of outfits. For me fantastical outfits look cooler on girls and military outfits look cooler on dudes.

[–] MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Forcing trans ideals on folks because of the character they play is one of the reason the cheeto bandito won... just stop it its toxic as fuck.

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

I just think they look better. Rather stare at something nice than fugly. The only time i play a male is when they have bad ass enough looking armor at low enough levels. Even then its prob an alt from all the gear I got on my female main since its not usable on her.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My character looks exactly like I do, though.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

The floor and wall textures alone scream "this is NOT Skyrim!" but some asian MMORPG. FF14? Black Desert?

[–] SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.kya.moe 3 points 3 days ago
  • CBBE
  • SMP Physics
  • Bodyslide
  • countless other risque mods

now we talkin'

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

I've tried it once or twice, really isn't for me, always end up going back to a male character. Maybe if I played more in third person, I'd be more likely to play as a female one... but probably still no.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Is that the new Roaming Girl set?

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