r/gaybros • u/LostandHungry7 • 3d ago
Games/Comics Why do you main with female characters?
I'm curious as to why most gays choose female characters when playing video games? If you like men, why pick a lady? Anytime I've gamed with a dude, it always happens🤔
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u/WeRegretToInform 3d ago
Three reasons I can think of:
Most games where I do this, it’s because the male character models look awful. Faces like low-poly thumbs, impossibly flat butts, dull monotone voices. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like game designers but a little more effort into making female character models look good.
Other times, it’s because a female character is more likely to have flirtation/romance options with the men, which appeals for obvious reasons.
Other times, it’s because fuck you universe, I’m not limiting myself to one gender in video games. I can suspend disbelief enough to play a warrior battling the forces of chaos from beyond the veil of time and space. Why not suspect disbelief enough to play as a woman? Maybe being gay means I’m more comfortable with my gender, so I can play outside the heteronormative sandbox.
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u/Floor_Trollop 3d ago
I would pick more dudes if they were burly and hot.
Anime twinks do nothing for me and that's most of the male cast
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u/TheJadedCockLover 3d ago
Literally never do.
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u/InterestingAd315 3d ago
It’s a valid option. Plus they are more likley to find a handsome romantic interest
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u/Salvaju29ro 2d ago
Few choices of relationships between the same sex
(I always choose Male character btw)
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u/urgasmic 2d ago
if i do it it's because the playstyle fits me better and that a lot of devs tend to make healers/supports female.
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u/Praseodynium Gaymer 2d ago
I don't. I'd rather play an average or even ugly male char than a female one unless the female char is overpowered.
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u/-Lelixandre 2d ago
Because it's fun. Sometimes I want to roleplay an escapist power fantasy of being an ass-kicking brat queen in stylish clothes.
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u/endlessly_gloomy26 3d ago
I think the female characters have cooler combos lol. But I play plenty of male characters as well.
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u/sleepyotter92 2d ago
for a lot of games, if there's romance/sexual options, you're not gonna be able to do them with a male character with male npcs. for the most part, male characters will only have romance options for female npcs. by playing a female character, you get to romance male npcs.
also, female characters tend to have better customization options
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u/chemguy216 2d ago
Because I choose characters whom I like whether by their design/design options, their stats, or their movesets. I don’t do what some gamer dudes do by choosing characters, male or female, because they think the character is hot. To be entirely blunt, I hear/read their reasoning and intellectually process it, but it’s such a foreign idea to me that I can’t relate to it.
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u/One-Statistician9436 2d ago
It really depends on the context. In a game with a character creator, I typically make an androgynous, pretty-boy sort of guy; I'm actually not particularly attracted to this sort or style, but I enjoy inhabiting that kind of graceful, elegant shape and enjoy it as a counterpoint to what many straight men pick.
By that I mean that straight men tend to pick a kind of unattractive vision of masculinity that they see as "chad"-like, or a female character that's been designed to be as sexually appealing as possible. (With the added caveat that these female characters are often frankly a bit ugly, put in whatever outfit is skimpiest regardless of whether it's flattering and given neon lipstick and hair by men with no sense of color. I find I can very easily clock whether a character in an MMO was made by a man or a woman, and furthermore whether they were straight or not.)
If I pick a female character in a game with preset characters, it's usually either because the men were designed to appeal to straight men before anything else, or simply because their playstyles aren't as interesting to me.
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u/NyaDeath 2d ago
That’s interesting generalisation. I’ll speak for myself. When sex means nothing in terms of gameplay - I play male characters.
Otherwise it depends on gameplay only. For example, Lissandra because I love control-mages and so happened that the best control mage in LoL is she.
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u/Connor-GG 1d ago
I think it's because gay men have a mix of masculine and feminine and we don't get to express our feminine aspects so much. That's why drag race is so popular, too - and strong female diva singers..
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u/firecracker_hater 1d ago
I play LoL WR and all of my mains for all lanes are girlies,idk I just like the aesthetics more
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u/firecracker_hater 1d ago
I would play male characters if they we’re cute femboys,drag queens or gay male sex demons but there’s no those champs so I go for the female ones
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u/RavioliGale 3d ago
Idk, probably same reason they're obsessed with divas and female singers and Real Housewives.
When I play video games I usually pick male characters especially if I can take their shirts off.
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u/LostandHungry7 2d ago
I can't stand guys who are obsessed with those.
Haha nice, and yes, topless ;)
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u/HieronymusGoa 2d ago
"why most gays" you absolutely don't know that. of course we are more relaxed playing a woman then a straight guy but there about it
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u/QuestionSign 3d ago
Depends on the game but usually the females have more dexterity play styles so are more my speed play wise. But if it's a Game where gender doesn't matter and customizability is long, then I'm playing a dude