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Edited by PlayerXVIII: 10/12/2014 9:20:40 PM
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Why do so many guys play as female characters?

It's so confusing when someone joins a fireteam with a female character and ends up being a dude (*cue Aerosmith*). Do they all just want the D? But seriously, can any guys who do this shed some light on.. why? I feel like someone pulled an Oprah, "You get a female warlock, and YOU get a female warlock! Everyone gets female warlocks!" Edit: Jesus H. Christopher, I'm curious. I've noticed this quite often since I started playing, and I can't answer this question for myself, so I wanted some insight. inb4more "why do you even caaaaare?!!1!?!?" Edit again: holy -blam!-, I'm a girl. Hence why I don't have insight to why this happens. Edit, take three: thanks to everyone who gave a legitimate answer! I appreciate the insight :-)
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  • :) In my opinion, we choose what fits best for us. For example, I thought the male HUNTER model looked really odd, and none of the armour seemed to fit well. So I erased him before I even got to lvl 40 and started a female and was instantly happier putting the time in with that character. The female TITAN suffers in a similar fashion I think, armour seems to have been designed to fit the bulkier male Titan, he feels heavier and makes fist of havoc seem more solid, really satisfying BOSH!! Hahaha... WARLOCKS are pretty cool in general and can go either way quite happily. Someone I play with made the exact same character face for each of the classes, warlock,titan and hunter. It's cool because I always feel it is HER playing, rather than an avatar, gives her real personality. Still, for my money I like the escapism of having diff characters each with their own flavour. Also, as someone here said, the female character is sometimes more liveable. Personally I can't stand the macho hero voice and tough-guy posturing that a lot of games make you inhabit with the male. For me it is not about the ass, or being soft, or transgender, or misdirection or any of that. Sorry if it is confusing. There is another side to it too I suspect. As a guy I have played various games over the years where you had to play females (like Tomb Raider etc). If it was weird at first then I must have got over it v quickly. In a lot of fighting games the female characters are faster and have cooler moves than the men, so I often chose the girl. Every girl who played Zelda played as Link, a male character, that wasn't strange, it's just an accepted phenomenon of gaming. So I think we have been given the choice for so long that it would suck if we were gender cast (according to your PSN account for example). I am a guy btb 34yrs old.

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