Males with female chars in MMO's?

Sorry if this is slightly on-topic, but I just got into a sligh arguement with my kinship (guild) in LOTRO, whether it's ok for a male to play on a female character. It was a joking, light-hearted arguement, but an arguement nontheless, since I wanted to make a female lore-master (healer) after I was bored with my Champion.

Now, my kin was against it, and asked me not to create a female char, and I felt obligated to abandon the idea, and that was a big let-down. It's not like I have cross-dressing urges, feel the need to seduce men, or desire to wack off to my own char while watching her ride a horse, or anything, but I'm into roleplaying and style, so I felt that it was appropriate to make my healer a gentle-looking, female elf. It'd be pretty and pleasant, you know?

So I figured I'd ask GS: what do you think about this?

I hate that **** in MMO's. I play Ragnarok Online and my guild leader was a girl (or so we thought) because his char was a girl. But when he told everyone he was a girl it was kind of awkward.

Now cause of that people don't believe me that I'm really a female playing Ragnarok Online. Apparently it's a 'myth'. sigh.

I hate that **** in MMO's. I play Ragnarok Online and my guild leader was a girl (or so we thought) because his char was a girl. But when he told everyone he was a girl it was kind of awkward.

Now cause of that people don't believe me that I'm really a female playing Ragnarok Online. Apparently it's a 'myth'. sigh.

Kikouken

I hate that **** in MMO's. I play Ragnarok Online and my guild leader was a girl (or so we thought) because his char was a girl. But when he told everyone he was a girl it was kind of awkward.

Now cause of that people don't believe me that I'm really a female playing Ragnarok Online. Apparently it's a 'myth'. sigh.

Kikouken

LOL, yeah, I agree that secretly being a guy while playing a female is kinda weird, but if your leader told you guys right away, wouldn't things be less awkward?

MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing Girls

but honestly, it shouldn't matter at all what gender your character is. just play the game and have fun.

I have a WoW playing friend that only plays girls because "if you're going to spend hundreds of hours looking at the back of your character, it might as well look good" That's when it gets weird

"if you make a female character, than you can get people to give you stuff more easily and get more help on quests and stuff

I'm a guy and i play as female characters in MMO's all the time. It's really easy to get free stuff from nerdy guys"

LOL True. But we only have 3 dances in LOTRO, and all of them last for 2 seconds and then have your character start claping and tapping his or her foot =\. Not very exciting.

MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing Girls

but honestly, it shouldn't matter at all what gender your character is. just play the game and have fun.

Severed_Hand

[QUOTE="Kikouken"]

I hate that **** in MMO's. I play Ragnarok Online and my guild leader was a girl (or so we thought) because his char was a girl. But when he told everyone he was a girl it was kind of awkward.

Now cause of that people don't believe me that I'm really a female playing Ragnarok Online. Apparently it's a 'myth'. sigh.

Naked_Shooter

LOL, yeah, I agree that secretly being a guy while playing a female is kinda weird, but if your leader told you guys right away, wouldn't things be less awkward?

Things were still pretty awkward because I thought it was a girl I was talking to and leading the guild in war of emperium raids :|

I'm a guy and i play as female characters in MMO's all the time. It's really easy to get free stuff from nerdy guys :)ForgeUL

Screw healeas. Warriors are the only way to go. Or whatever the equivalent of that is in LOTRO. Cerussite

Champions, and that's what I have now. But I was so impressed with the usefulness and awsomeness of healers when I went on a few instances, that I decided that my next char would definately be a female healer. It was just really awsome.

Champions, and that's what I have now. But I was so impressed with the usefulness and awsomeness of healers when I went on a few instances, that I decided that my next char would definately be a female healer. It was just really awsome.Naked_Shooter

[QUOTE="Naked_Shooter"]Champions, and that's what I have now. But I was so impressed with the usefulness and awsomeness of healers when I went on a few instances, that I decided that my next char would definately be a female healer. It was just really awsome.Cerussite

Why would I want to be a tank? That's scarry sh*t, taking all that abuse...

[QUOTE="Cerussite"]Screw healeas. Warriors are the only way to go. Or whatever the equivalent of that is in LOTRO. Naked_Shooter

Champions, and that's what I have now. But I was so impressed with the usefulness and awsomeness of healers when I went on a few instances, that I decided that my next char would definately be a female healer. It was just really awsome.

Yea I use to play WoW and every time I made a new character that had healing powers, like a druid or a priest, I would make it a female. Actually the majority of healers in WoW were female and the mojority of warriors in WoW were male. Kinda weird huh.

I hate that **** in MMO's. I play Ragnarok Online and my guild leader was a girl (or so we thought) because his char was a girl. But when he told everyone he was a girl it was kind of awkward.

Now cause of that people don't believe me that I'm really a female playing Ragnarok Online. Apparently it's a 'myth'. sigh.

Kikouken

Now, my kin was against it, and asked me not to create a female char, and I felt obligated to abandon the idea, and that was a big let-down. It's not like I have cross-dressing urges, feel the need to seduce men, or desire to wack off to my own char while watching her ride a horse, or anything, but I'm into roleplaying and style, so I felt that it was appropriate to make my healer a gentle-looking, female elf. It'd be pretty and pleasant, you know?

So I figured I'd ask GS: what do you think about this?Naked_Shooter

This thread is ancient, but I just have to say this: your kinship's hang-up on make-believe genitalia is really creepy. What do they do, demand you confirm your gender on Ventrilo so they can make sure that everyone plays with the right virtual plumbing installed?

Honest, this kind of thing always makes me think the "you must be your correct gender" -people who are cruising for dates/cybersex and whacking off to other people's avatars. If you're not, in a virtual world there's just no reason to care.

The whole point of video gaming is to escape reality. MMO's moreso than any other genre. What's the difference between pretending a male night elf, troll, or dwarf and pretending to be a female human, orc or something else? It's all make believe!

I had a couple of females characters. For the sole reason that if you pretend to be a chick you can wind up with some good loot. Never understood why that is but hey, it worked.

Look when I play a game, I don't wanna stare at a mans butt for the entire time.

Secondly, men get odd and give you free stuff if you just pretend to be a female.

i pick females because theyre generally more visually appealing. And no, as a guy myself, I dont roleplay as a woman so there aint no creepiness. Though is some jackass wants to give me one gold for my draenei priest to dance naked, hey thats fine by me.

what am I supposed to do? make a sexy looking guy?

It's fine as long as you don't pretend to be someone else e.g telling people you're a middle aged single mum :)

I know it's not an MMO but I play as a boy sometimes in Pokemon for a change and my bf always creates a girl character on games where you have the choice. It's boring playing as the same gender your whole life (as long as you keep it in games!)

Look when I play a game, I don't wanna stare at a mans butt for the entire time.

Secondly, men get odd and give you free stuff if you just pretend to be a female.

PelekotansDream

Ditto

Yes, and I hate even more when they practically pretend to be girls online.Zaeryn

that's to get attention basically...

MMORPG = Many Men Online Role Playing Girls

but honestly, it shouldn't matter at all what gender your character is. just play the game and have fun.

Severed_Hand

lol :)

I think it's really weird, because in RPGs you're supposed to BECOME that character, ROLEPLAY that character. So I could never pretend to be a girl.mmogoon