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Hey there. I'm on my second play through on Mass Effect. My Sheppard is a female, which I suppose is to be expected. If at all possible, I play my characters as women. I was wondering, do those of you who play ME play as male for another perspective, like some men will play through as a woman. Or do you simply play through as women? If so, why?
Personally, I think I'll always play ME as a female. I mean, most games don't offer the option to change the sex of the main character. Thing is with ME, it feels awesome being the hero as a woman. The one person who changes the fate of the galaxy. I kinda love it.
I love ME, and will probably play through a bunch more times. Thanks to the multitude of starter options, I can't imagine this game would ever get boring.
Personally, I think I'll always play ME as a female. I mean, most games don't offer the option to change the sex of the main character. Thing is with ME, it feels awesome being the hero as a woman. The one person who changes the fate of the galaxy. I kinda love it.
I love ME, and will probably play through a bunch more times. Thanks to the multitude of starter options, I can't imagine this game would ever get boring.
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And yeah, playing as a female hero is great. I specifically love being able to play as a bisexual woman, not something many games let you do! I like being able to play as a POC too, though the appearance options could definitely be more varied.
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I started Dragon Age, but didn't get very far into it. ME took over my life. lol I should probably get back into that game again too. Once I finish ME.
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An annoying thing about Dragon Age:Origins is that quite a few origins have family members who are always white regardless of what your PC looks like. Dragon Age 2 fixes this, adapting their colouring and appearance based on your character design choices, it's pretty cool. (Plus of course there's mods, but that's not the same)
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Sometimes I find myself imagining a headcanon where the character's actually female, or where I'm someone separate from the main character. I prefer not to have to, though.
It's weird because I didn't always notice this when I was male-presenting. I think it's partly because guys are assumed to be genderless defaults. I do know I had trouble sympathizing with really stereotypically masculine characters though, like every male human in World of Warcraft. :P I mean, it's great that they let you play a burly mage, but there's no option not to if he's male.
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No. >_>
Srsly though, I don't want to play Fearless Space Captain, I want to play Space Magical Girl. :P I guess it's still not bad, although I've mostly been playing Xcom and FFXIV lately.
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Yeah, I think FFXIV is probably more in line with magical girl. It's very anime/manga.
I've always been a fan of science fiction, so ME really suits me.
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... so does FFXIV, sort of, since the Garleans use so much magitek it looks like freaking Star Wars sometimes. Although I understand it's debatable whether or not Star Wars counts as science fiction.
I grew up with sci-fi too, I've just been having trouble getting through Mass Effect. Partly because of this, and partly because of reformatting and changing character designs and stuff meaning I've played through the start like three times now and have to do so again. >_>;
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