I make my V an attractive and slim woman with a massive dong so it’s absolutely nothing like me.

Making the exact same character in every game gets old after a while. Also boobs.

I think for a lot of people part of the fantasy is getting to be someone else.

The only game I’ve tried to make a character resemble myself was GTA5, just because it seemed funny. Otherwise, I make up a character and some are male, some are female.

For me, it’s the voice. For a voiced character like V, it requires a very special talent to take you on a journey with them, to listen to their fear, pain, anger and despair. Cherami Leigh just does such a fantastic job of bringing V to life for me, of really bringing that raw emotion out and making it feel real!

I was actually just thinking about that the other day. As far as I can tell, people tend to fall in to one of two camps:

Make the character look as much like (a potentially idealized version of) yourself as possible

Make the character look nothing like yourself

I always make my characters completely different from me, so they often (maybe 60-70% of the time) end up being women. My friend always makes them look as close to himself as possible.

I think it comes down to different styles of roleplay. I’m myself every day. Why would I want to be myself but Cyberpunk? My friend, on the other hand, wants to imagine himself as being in that world.

And then you have the third camp of people who make their characters horny or humorous, which can be fun to do occasionally but I cannot imagine doing regularly.

I think women are cool.

If its a 3rd person game and im gonna be looking at someones ass for 40 or so hours, im gonna make it an ass I enjoy seeing.

Man I’ve no idea why I do it. In have a female VR avatar too. I’ve thought about it. It’s just what I do. Like, there’s no desire to be a woman in me, but in virtual space I just seem to be one.

Character customization is one of my favorite parts of the game. And to be honest dressing up a “hot” woman is more fun than a guy to me.

Also I like looking at a woman more than a man. So there’s that too.

Role playing is much more fun when I’m not playing someone similar to me.

I play in 3rd person and I’m a ass man

In cyberpunk I did both. I made a blades only femme fatale with sandevistan and mantis blades, and I made a male hacker V with smart weapons.

I suppose I base my choices more on what fantasy I have in mind for my character than the fact that I’m a man myself, but if that isnt as much of a factor I very pragmatically go with “girl ass on screen > dude ass on screen”.

I don't generally do that. But...what do YOU want to look at when you play games?

On Skyrim, cause I have boob mods,and I love boobs. On any other game I generally play male chatacters cause I am male and that is therefore more relateable to me

Some of the best cyberpunk characters are women and the clothing is cooler.

For the former point: molly millions/Sally shears and YT were both by far the most interesting characters in the sprawl series and snow crash respectively.

Funny thing about cyberpunk as a genre is the women are often the badasses with complex characters and the male leads are usually bumbling selfish dummies that generally fail to resolve anything (Hiro protagonist in snow crash, Johnny mnemonic, case in neuromancer, and to a lesser degree bato in GIS who's just clueless half the time instead of bumbling).

For the latter: mox gear is better than worn browns and grays.

I also just think the voice actor is better and Judy is the most interesting love interest.

There are a few reasons, but please note that this list is by no means exclusive to Cyberpunk 2077…

Games are about escaping reality, as a man I can tell you that in my experience, men are often locked down into a generic “man” mold that is never broken in real life. Gaming gives us a way to pretend to be someone else completely.

Female characters in games tend to be funnier to play as, they often has better dialog and more customization options.

Finally, one of the biggest reason men play as female characters in games is simply because it is better to have pretty female character to look at when gaming rather than a generic boring male character, this obviously includes boobs.

When I first played an rpg with a basic character creator (the demo of bg2 I think, it’s been a while), I made a character that was as close to me as possible.

When I was in a period of playing lots of rpg, I tended to make characters that were far from myself and with lots of variation. So more often than not female, but not always.

And now that I play less rpg again, in the rare case that I start a new game, I again make characters that are close to me in looks. Usually an older greyer version, but still recognizably me.

For Cyberpunk I’ve played both because I play to enjoy the performances, and they’re both different performances. Now when replaying I always do female V because her performance is bloody incredible (not in any way saying the performance of Gavin Drea was bad mind you! But Cherami Leigh knocked it so far out of the park that I consider that personally the “canon” performance)

The character in the game doesn’t have to have anything to do with me at all. Just like a main character in a movie or a book doesn’t have to look or be anything like me for me to enjoy it. I’m looking for interesting stories not my auto-biography

¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ It just feels right man

Games is about new experiences, escapism if you will. Playing as somebody else and trying to thing how that person would act and feel adds to the escapism.

I tend to gravitate towards female characters in single player games and I ask myself this same question a lot. The weird thing is that I have no gender preference when my options are more limited - it’s only when I’m being asked to customize my appearance. With male characters I never really know what I’m looking for - usually what looks right is what looks familiar. Maybe I’ll be scrolling through hair options, find something that reminds me of Aragorn, and before I know it that’s who I’m roleplaying. With a female character it’s easier for me to resist these influences and make someone original because I can rely on my own preferences to tell me what looks right. I’ll still play male characters if I have a specific influence in mind, but otherwise I find myself much more likely to actually finish a game as a female PC.

Obviously subjective, but;

• Smaller hitbox
• Better animations
• Many awesome games where the equally awesome protagonist is female (Metroid, Portal, Hellblade, Tomb raider, Horizon, etc)
• If the story is based on the character, it's often more emotionally intelligent
• Usually more agile, fast, stealthy, and has long-range attacks (magic users, snipers, archers, etc)
• Usually has more of a flourish in attacks, so fancier and more graceful

I'm male, 5'7", 150, athletic build. Definitely male in appearance, but I'm not bulky. To your point about "the character looking as much like you as possible", depending on the game, my frame is more similar to the female than the guy who's neck is bigger than my waist.

I like smash-em-ups just fine, but sometimes I want to approach the mechanics as I would in real life, and that's intentionally, and executed with subtlety. A lot of male-focused paths/stories are forced to be blunt force and loud.

You get to guild your own big titty goth girls.

I started my first playthrough as a male. But male V just seemed like a dull loud asshole. So I restarted as female V. For me this seems like the intended way. V is still loud and brutal but also seemed more sensitive to me.aybe it’s just the voice acting.

One of my biggest criticisms points is, that it’s not really possible to play a calm and collected character in Cyberpunk. That’s something I’m dearly missing. Cyberpunk 2077 is not really an rpg.

I would like to know why so many people do what you do: create themselves. That is so… boring…? I have never had such an urge. But then, I barely care about my own appearance at all (gamer moment), so I guess that makes sense.

When I was a kid I’d always choose princess peach in mario kart. I think it was my way of subtly projecting my confidence in my own masculinity. Basically showing off lol

I was an egg so now I’m a woman playing a female character.

I used to make characters look like me, but I found that got boring. And in this age of hyper monetisation and paid costumes it was costing me money. I figured that it was more fun to make an interesting character out of free costumes. And it turns out I like staring at a female character more than a male one.

Unlike some, I prefer to make a character that doesn’t represent me physically. As a man, I find it more interesting to play as a female protagonist.

2077 is a first person game, so seeing the character really only happens in the menu. In third person games where I can see my character, I… just prefer seeing women. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like a game is worse if I can’t look at a female character, but if I have a choice, why not?

For 2077 I’m not exactly sure why I chose it the first time. It may have had something to do with not being able to make a male character that looked like some version of me. I probably didn’t like the long hair options. I don’t regret it though, I really like Judy.

If it’s 3rd person game, most of the time I roll female characters cus I just like looking at women. My inner perfectionist desires pretty. I noticed a funny trend, if I roll a male character and the model doesn’t look 11/10 I will just get bored of that game and stop playing lmao

Well, don’t want to play myself. So I made “random” good looking characters. Which I realized years down the line, that I’m subconciously creating my current girlfriend, ex, crush, etc. It’s funny now going back into old games and seeing a totally different, “random” character from those times

I’m curious too, what’s the motivation to make the character look like yourself?

Just like I don’t play humans in games with non-humans, I’m a dude in real life so I don’t necessarily want to be a dude in-game. Also, the third-person ass thing is a give in, obviously!

In XIV I created my tall dommy mommy. It’s boring making thngs based on yourself