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Originally posted by laresloci
People giving away free stuff and treating a person differently, just because of the way a toon looks, seem to be the ones with a problem. |
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Goldknyght
Novice Member
Joined: 1/12/06
It''s one thing to have a opinion, but enforcing one is unconstitutional. |
Originally posted by Fungo
People giving away free stuff and treating a person differently, just because of the way a toon looks, seem to be the ones with a problem.
Its the way of a dude you try to court your lady to get somthing in return later but they dont seem to wrap around the idea that that this is a virtual world u dont have to do that. But boys will be boys |
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Interesting theories about sexuality and character choice here. I'm a 41 year old married heterosexual male, and most frequently I choose female in game avatars as my main. I do enjoy the role playing challenge of playing across gender type, but mainly I pick female chars because if 90% of my game time involves staring at the ass of a particular character, I'd rather stare at a shapely woman's ass than a guy's ass. This doesn't make me homosexual, or homophobic, it's just a matter of my scenery preference as a heterosexual male. That's not to say I don't also play male (or in the case of greenskins genderless) chars, but I usually only do so on some of my alts. That being said, those people who refuse to ever play a cross gender character strike me as people who have possible hang-ups about their sexual identity. It's possible that they are either compensating for latent homosexual urges by being "extra macho" in their choice of entertainment (WWF, monster trucks, male only game avatars, etc.), or they are so afraid that someone might hit on them in game or accuse them of homosexuality that they act in a homophobic manner about sticking with their own gender, and thus prefer a "sausagefest" type of game experience. It's also possible that any kind of Role playing is viewed as unfun or too much of a intellectual challenge, and they only play characters close to their personality type.
I don't find it unusual that mature players who are confident in their sexual identiy are not bothered by playing cross gender avatars. I do find it sad when people try to substitute in game chatting and fantasy for real life social interaction with people of their sexual preference. I think that while gaming in general and fantasy gaming in particular is a fine pastime for entertainment, they should not replace real life relationships with family or friends. If someone finds that they are playing a game to statisfy a need for social intimacy, they realy need to back off and reevaluate the direction their life is taking if they want to be a healthy functional individual. However, if someone is happy being that oft parodied stereotype of the social misfit living in their Mom's basement and refusing to join the real world because of a fear of failure. Then they need to come to the realization that male player numbers significantly dominate over female players numbers in MMORPGs. The majority of Avatars of both genders are played by males. Also, because of how some jackass guys behave in MMORPGs many of the female players actually play male Avatars to avoid the jackasses.
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I've never really understood the whole debate about Avatar gender. 90% of the time when I create a character, it's by coin toss. I couldn't care less if the avatar is male or female. As long as the model doesn't look fubar. In those cases i'll forgo the coin flip, and go with the model that looks best. Based on low, mid, and high level armors. I also look at animations. Bad animations with a good model, just ruins it completely. >Nope, problem is you can't contruct a halfway logical counterpoint to anything, probably because you don't understand what it is you're arguing about in the first place. - Hellmoob |
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Why does people gets so hanged up in the possibility some males play females or females play males? Do they also get hanged up in that; On a little side note. One of the things I like with AoC is that the armors there for females made more sense, Armors for females in games like GW and most if not all Asia produced games is for making the character look sexy. Just how many females would run into the wilderness in boots with thin five centimeter high heels? they'd get stuck the moment they hit soft ground. |
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By the tone of this reply, it's obvious you feel the need to defend your sexuality. I'm gonna go with either homosexual or homophobic.
Played > UO AC AC2 AO SWG FFXI DAOC GW WOW L2 EQ2 LOTRO EVE CoX DDO EAB Neo MXO TR AOC |
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This topic like always comes up, in every MMORPG. Just wait for the game to come out, and see the topic of guys playing girls come up at least once a month on the official forums. |
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Wardrop
Elite Member
Joined: 3/18/04
The meaning of life is attained by caring for the one you have created. Papa for life!!! |
Who cares...
Guys and girls enjoy playing games.
Im sure the girls that game dont want to be Harassed. They just want to kill shit, Hence the reason most play as dudes. If a guys playing a female toon again who cares... Why does it bend your dick? Guess your the dirty SOB that sees a girl toon and gets that instant boner and wants to try to score. Thats pretty damn pathetic. I find my self laughing everytime i see posts like this.
If your old enough go hit the bar or something, you should know better... If not then get some buddies together and figure it out. it aint gay if you dont push back...
LOL The Power of icons... anyhow on a serious note... Im sure the guy playing that girl toon would appreciate it.
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Originally posted by zindel Well, with people like the guy you quoted one usually leads to the other. So my guess is both. Not that there's anything wrong with being gay. People in denial are just amusing sometimes with their doublethink. |
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Dunno I newer rolled a female chr. although it`s yours money and yours choice will you play a male or female chr .I usaualy create characters as a male bla bla it`s all irrevelant if u are not gonna hawe fun if u play it so we playing MMO`s a fantasy worlds so be whatever u want for yours money. |
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Originally posted by Digna
males who enjoy toons with manly pecs play males males who enjoy toons with pert female boobies and buttocks play females |
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Why would a male want to look at a male character all day when he can look at a female character? |
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Originally posted by Zeroxin
yea i agree, there is no pervs or little immature kiddies like there is on wow, only mature people that knows what their doing, plus if there is any just /rude and /ignore |
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Originally posted by bedolla3401
yea i agree, there is no pervs or little immature kiddies like there is on wow, only mature people that knows what their doing, plus if there is any just /rude and /ignore Oh please, this is a broad generalization. There will be immature people and there will be "kiddies". You will never get away from it, the only reason it seems more prominent in WoW is due to the population size. The more people you have the higher the chance of finding an idiot. It's a Jeep thing. . .
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MMORPG's aside how many of you created an all male or all female party in games like baldurs gate or icewind dale? I know my party was always mixed, somehow I always think that casters always look better as females, I rarely make female melee oriented toons. (May make a female warrior priest this time, i've seen a few character models that remind me of Joan D'Arc somehow). Getting back to warhammer though, due to the locked nature of some of the racial genders I can see there being far less stigma in playing sexes not the same as one's own. |
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Again, who cares? The only people that are affected by people playing the oppisite gender are the people that are looking for cyber. Play the game to have fun, not to get your rocks off, there's plenty of porn floating in the general internet for the cyber. |
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I'm male and I almost always play female toons, and here's why. Remeber the old fighting games like Tekken, Soul Calibur and DOA. The girls always had the fast agile cool moves while the guys had the slower hard hitting moves. I prefer the former so I got in the habbit of choosing female toons. It just stuck. Besides, it's so much fun to kick someones arse and say "lol, you just got your ass whooped by a 95lb girl". :)
p.s. I'd rather look at a femal butt over a male butt for 200 hours anyway. |
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Originally posted by Mizary
nice teetee´s mizzy |
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which proves my point. :D |
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Digna
Apprentice Member
Joined: 11/19/05
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. |
I kind of think at all times..'Hmmm..pixels....weee..yum?'...erm, no. That's what I got married for. |
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For the love of anything left on the face of this earth Please Purge my account and ban me Forever from this sight. It has become a place i wish not to visit anymore. Thank-You and good bye.
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Just name your character something non-feminine, I mean, you only need to look at your name if your looking in the top left corner of the screen or chatting. Savvy? Tried: WoW |
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If you give your toon quite a tough sounding name then most people will realise that you're obviously a bloke |
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