Does the gender of the protagonist matter to you in games?

The gender type don't really matter to me since they don't have any implication on how good or great a game is in my opinion so it really doesn't matter much to me. A good example of this is the Resident Evil series for me, I still enjoyed every single one in this series even though I have to use a female lead in some of them.

It doesn't matter to me I know some people it bothers them but I do usually choose a female character or if you can choose to play as a Male or Female I would play once as a male then play again as a female.

Maybe a little. When the protagonist is a female, I really can't complain. I'd take any female over the "strong ultra-cool hunk" protagonist any day. Some examples: Samus is 100000 times more awesome than Master Chief. I can think of many females that are way cooler than Marcus Phoenix. I'm not against male protagonists, but developers often try too hard to make him as "cool" as possible, which only makes him cheesy instead.

Always have a hard time understanding why people who aren't 10 years old can think Master Chief and Marcus Phoenix are cool..