What motivates a GUY to roleplay a girl?

[LigH]

I once made a female character to check how much the oh-so-poor girls get harrassed by oh-so-evil macho players (yes, players - not characters).

During that month I had not even one bad experience...

[Raleigh]

Raliegh, if you would like a collegiate sort of environment, there is a guild that's sort of structured that way. At least I think it is- it's the Knowledge Seekers.

You didn't get what I meant, did you?

I meant that the least thing I would like to do in a roleplaying game is a character that resembles me in almost everything that happens in my real life, if I wanted to do that, I would "roleplay" in something called MSN Messenger with my RL friends instead, the chat tool for a game named First Life.

[Illyria]

a game named First Life.

Wouldn't want to get the "Game over" message in that game
And about the topic. Woman are almost always pushed to play men in Games 
  Even in Freaking Fable (the lost chapters)! Almost every FPS, and the biggest amount of units in RTS are men (only special units are sometimes woman)
[DON'T start about Tomb raider, everybody knows 'Kain' Is a way better action game serie, and again only men are playable  ]

So don't go wondering why a Girl would play a guy, It's because of the lame ass devs of good game who can't come up with games with women!
Praise they oh mighty PS devs for having playable woman! 

[neko kyouran]

So don't go wondering why a Girl would play a guy, It's because of the lame ass devs of good game who can't come up with games with women!
Praise they oh mighty PS devs for having playable woman! 

Go play The longest Journey or its sequel.  You'll be pleasantly surprised.

[Aerianna Kzin]

This is a great topic and there have been some really great respoces! All of my charachters have been female, I am not so sure I could play a male, yes it might be kinda fun to play around on but I dont thinik I would want to make that my main char. mainly because I think it would be harder to play the oppisite gender and as far as males being harrasing or whatever to me, I have had a few from *pats the kitty on the (I dont think I can say the word here fill it in yourself )" to my Yilian char that got a "nice rack" tell just from some random stranger. but I just took in all ic. I guess it kinda makes it all more realisitic I mean some kran comes up and touches my butt while my husband is standing there, then gets hit butt kicked and sent to the DR--man that's just like real life, (well execpt for the whole dying part, hehe but you the point) your gonna have jerks that walk up to you and do such things, it sucks none the less but thats just life. And as far as the nice rack went my guild and I had a blast laughing that one up, a new guild member would join and I'd intorduce myself as "hello I'm Kelate, with the nice rack, pleased to meet you" or whatever, I guess I just like to laugh at peoples sillyness more than anything. oh and for all you ladies (and guys too if you experience this), if something is to vulgar or out of line, there is always /ingnor and even /report, kinda like filing a sexual harassment charge but many of my male firends play fenkis and thats cool, I admire thier talent, I am just not sure it's something I could do, however after reading this post it might be a fun challenge to try it sometime   okay that's all I have to say for now hehe

[zanzibar]

This is a great topic and there have been some really great respoces! All of my charachters have been female, I am not so sure I could play a male, yes it might be kinda fun to play around on but I dont thinik I would want to make that my main char. mainly because I think it would be harder to play the oppisite gender and as far as males being harrasing or whatever to me, I have had a few from *pats the kitty on the (I dont think I can say the word here fill it in yourself )" to my Yilian char that got a "nice rack" tell just from some random stranger. but I just took in all ic. I guess it kinda makes it all more realisitic I mean some kran comes up and touches my butt while my husband is standing there, then gets hit butt kicked and sent to the DR--man that's just like real life, (well execpt for the whole dying part, hehe but you the point) your gonna have jerks that walk up to you and do such things, it sucks none the less but thats just life. And as far as the nice rack went my guild and I had a blast laughing that one up, a new guild member would join and I'd intorduce myself as "hello I'm Kelate, with the nice rack, pleased to meet you" or whatever, I guess I just like to laugh at peoples sillyness more than anything. oh and for all you ladies (and guys too if you experience this), if something is to vulgar or out of line, there is always /ingnor and even /report, kinda like filing a sexual harassment charge but many of my male firends play fenkis and thats cool, I admire thier talent, I am just not sure it's something I could do, however after reading this post it might be a fun challenge to try it sometime   okay that's all I have to say for now hehe

Sexual harassment is a bannable offense in this game, and rightfully so.

[Iridena]

The only problem with the /report is that usually the person who harasses you usually does it once and then you can't report it, unless you just keep the chat log from it? So far I've only had 2 or 3 instances of someone commenting or touching my female Ynnwn.
Wish I had kicked him or something, but I'm a slow responder. Like all things, there's advantages and disadvantages to being a female character, like stated in the above posts.  It would be fun to play an evil male character just for the heck of it.

[Karyuu]

/report is a retroactive command - which basically means that it records backwards and forwards. The last 50 messages that you sent or received will be logged for GMs to take a look at, as well as the next several minutes after the report was started :]

[Unnamed_Source]

I'm just curious as to what makes a guy want to roleplay a girl character?

Could it be.. Perverts that like watching their Fem characters from the rear camera potision move around?

[Freddo]

Could it be.. Perverts that like watching their Fem characters from the rear camera potision move around?

Is the rear view of a PS character so fascinating that players want to spend the entire game watching the sight? I doubt if such players will make much game progress.

[Unnamed_Source]

Haven't you noticed all those Fem characters running around like headless chickens? Most of the time running in circles but like wise those traveling from Oja to BD(visa versa) only to turn right around after getting there. That's how you spot the Pervs. Game progress is in the eye of the beholder, RPer's by the number of friends, Explorers by knowlege, Leveljunkies with the goodies they got,  and for the Pervs how large of a bulge they have in thier crot...Ummm, Yeah..

[Illyria]

 
IMHO pervs have better places to go, ever seen an elementalist dancing in her underwear in GW?
and besides, if one only looks at the meshes of their char, is he/she then Roleplaying it?
Cause the topic says Roleplaying, not playing

[Nurahk]

You people have an interestingly low opinion of your peers.

I highly doubt somebody would spend so much bandwidth and disk space so they can watch a half dressed fenki run around.

More likely than not they just want to be noticed or, perhaps, have some urge to be female...surprised Seperot doesn't have a slew of female characters, actualy.

Or, in the case of those who continue playing their female characters, they just enjoy having a female character.  They get to experiment with how women think and the like.

[seperot]

Cadoras, i know you love me, but please dont bring up my name everywhere


anyways I only play a female when the male char's are so badly done it makes my eyes hurt.

Or in the case of single player games when your promised a different game from it... like KOTOR and fallout, then i play both sides.


I think sometimes your right cado but sometimes guys just play females to attempt a different prespective...

[Karyuu]

I highly doubt somebody would spend so much bandwidth and disk space so they can watch a half dressed fenki run around.

If you ask around, a surprising amount of male players from all MMOs will freely admit to doing that Since third person is the most common camera view, they'd rather have something they can appreciate on their screen than a guy's behind. (Can't blame them )