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Why Some Men Opt To Play As Women When Given The Option

When it comes to picking a male or female avatar, some gamers prefer the “odd” choice of picking the “softer” and “gentler” gender. Gamemoir's Victor explains why he usually selects a woman character when given a choice.

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3585d ago Replies(6)
randomass1713585d ago

This article makes some silly points and some unnecessarily loose jabs at Ubisoft that don't strengthen them very much. I too prefer playing as women, but it's because I have a preference for female protagonists. That's not to say female main characters automatically take precedence over male ones. The character has to be likable or interesting. But since I'm more drawn to women characters, I tend to pick playing as a woman if given the option. It's a preference that needs little explanation other than "Oh I like this a little more."

Volkama3584d ago

In games that let you create a character a lot of people immediately try to make a representation of themselves (or what they want to be).

But that gets tiresome, especially when you come to the inevitable conclusion that you cannot create a good representation of yourself.

Then you start to make characters that have no connection to you, or perhaps are delibarately different from you. I play as women, old men, monsters, dwarves, whatever. I very rarely choose to make a strapping atheletic young man like myself :)

randomass1713584d ago

I did that a lot when I was younger, but nowadays I like playing as a girl because the fantasy is more fun than the reality.

Volkama3584d ago

Hey man, you can play as a girl in reality if you want. I'm not here to judge you!

mrpsychoticstalker3585d ago

Because they probably need a girlfriend. Kidding Kidding. on some games the women characters are more agile.

sinncross3585d ago

I agree with this. I tend to play as characters who Agility is better overall and it just so happens that games (a least a few years ago) tended to make the women the agile characters.

Bhuahahaha3584d ago

not only that

chicks with big sword wacking on something looks bad@ss

Neixus3584d ago

No, that looks pretty stupid.

I'm rocking male characters when going melee, while going female characters when i'm a caster / ranged

Az1mov3584d ago

I'd rather stare at a sexy pair of ass of a female character that I fantasised about than looking at a man avatar's back through the whole game. and I'm married, and no I'm not a frustrated teenager. My red haired female shepard looked gorgeous though :D

mhunterjr3585d ago

I usually pick whichever is the better character model. In TitanFall, for example, I exclusively pick women, because the male models look overly bulky given how nimble they are supposed to be...

Iltapalanyymi3585d ago

i tend to play as a grill every time when given the option. but for some reason i did not do it with mass effect gaems.

King_of_Nothing3584d ago

Different strokes I guess, I personally think its sad that devs feel the need to provide grills as a third option along side male and female

Bassmint3584d ago

I play as a grill every time too. Sizzling hot burgers and sausages, hell yeah!

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5 Of The Best Narrative Twists In Video Games

GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds

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Rebel_Scum7h ago

With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?

Not clicking on your article otherwise.

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

Discover our top video game adaptations of popular board games, from Bloodbowl to Wingspan & get your board game friends into video games!

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.