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[–] 71 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I used to think my desire to play female characters was a "closeted trans" thing. It's not. I'm definitely a cis gendered male. I've realized, at least for me, it's more of a self worth thing. I don't want to play as something I don't particularly like, such as me, and so I play something as opposite as possible. I'm working on that, tho.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    For most 3d games you spend 99% of the time looking at the backside of the character anyway. Lady butts are just better to look at generally.

    Additionally in most character creation it seems easier to get a decent looking female character than a decent looking male character. I'm not entirely sure why but most male characters in games look like blocky fuzzy potatoes. When you start getting weird with fashion choices on top of that it just looks like a potato dressed like a goofball. With female characters you can go nuts with crazy hair colors, piercings, and wild fashion choices and it looks more deliberate somehow.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Bisexual woman here, so I agree with you on the butts, but straight girls and gay men do exist.

    Okay feminism time. In my opinion, the reason that dude's look like potatoes in video games is most likely because of the gender disparities in the industry. There just isn't anyone that looks at men from the perspective of attraction.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I think you're spot on.

    Part of the reason I think it's a little easier to render women is that they typically have smoother less textured skin than men (video game women look like they are wearing makeup even if it makes no sense), and we're only just now getting the graphical fidelity to render realistic looking facial hair or fine stubble in realtime.

    Not that long ago making stubble on a male character usually just involved putting an irregular brown shadow on their cheeks which can be pretty indistinguishable from dirt.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    While I don't disagree with those points, I just don't think the technical aspects are that much of the issue.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I was wondering that until modern games started changing voicelines to reflect the characters' gender.

    The moment Drifter referred to my hunter as "Sister", all those doubts were cured.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am similarly cis gender, straight male (much to my more fluid spouse's amusement and dismay). I've just found the fem- voice actors to be better. Femshep, the female lead in Ghost Recon Wildlands, etc. Or maybe it's that the brah actors for the male characters sound so consistently dumb. And now it's just a thing I do.

    PS. I hope you love yourself.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago

    I like how this meme is crafted to be life-ruiningly specific for maybe 2 people in the whole world, but we all get to blithely enjoy the anti-humour

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Out of the loop. I don’t get it.

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  • [–] 128 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's a setup for them saying you may identify as Trans, then switching it up by explaining some news for you, as in something said in the news, aka a storm coming

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Oh well. I thought there was a joke about being trans in Florida.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I often choose female characters in games because I like variety and male characters are super common. I always make them non-white if given an option, too, although non-human is best of all!

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I always choose female characters in games with a third person camera. If I'm gonna be staring at them the whole time I play they better be nice on the eyes!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I've heard that reason a lot, but I'm usually too busy kicking ass to pay attention to hers. And I prefer outfits that look intimidating rather than skimpy.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I play a girl in dark souls because dark souls 2 stole my gender

    That coffin changed it all boys gals

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Hello fellow dark souls 2 enjoyer. The Internet had made me think there were no others.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    If they would have called it something else people would like it more. If they called bloodborne or sekiro dark souls and shoehorned in some lore, people would hate those games.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not enough playable spider girls...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    A close friend of mine is making a playable-spider-girl-based game.

    I'm in the process of programming a procedural spider walk for it: https://youtu.be/oeBFCxbtwXM

    The spider body is placeholder, it will become a drider. The plan is to make the legs able to seek and grip on arbitrary 3d geometry, including flailing when no good purchase is available, and allow the spider to traverse on any surface.

    Edit: I am also chronically ill but slowly finding stability, don't hold your breath for this to come out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That is awesome.

    Can I also not hold my breath for a spider-tank game?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Spider tank game does sound cool. I actually have a scifi concept about cyborg-vehicles that people ride inside of. They're genetically-engineered living tissue with cybernetic components, a cockpit and possibly a neural interface, and they would be walkers.

    The walking controller is generic, so it really should accommodate any number of limbs. And you could quite easily make it lumber more slowly like a mech.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Basically Eva spider tanks? Want.

    I don't see a lot of games actually make legs look like they're reacting to the ground under them so the concept is cool and really makes things feel ... grounded. The last I remember is MechWarrior 4 from forever ago.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Huh, I never made the connection with Eva, but I watched that as a kid so the influence would've been there.

    And yeah, MW4's feet blew me away when I first saw them. The way they tilted to match the ground and rotated to turn the mech.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I have a fascination with collars. I want to be a dog. Where is the video game that lets me play as a dog?

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago

    Thanks for letting me know! I left a window open at home and don’t want my precious BLÅHAJ to blow away!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Shoutout to my fort myers and cape coral homies

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    See also Cas confessing to Dean, followed by world events.

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