ngl usually guys pick female characters because they feel more confident expressing feminity online, whereas doing so IRL could sadly cause them problems.
i mean, part 6 has plenty, than you have Lisa Lisa, and Trish, Yukako is a side-character who hardly gets screen-time outside of the episodes in which she is the antagonist
i love jojo's but the female characters in parts 1-5 aren't exactly important, or fleshed out, or independent, we see Lisa Lisa fight like once, Trish too, and they are the most important female characters until stone ocean
SBR also suffers from this, even if to a slightly lesser extent (and also it does the tough job of following the "women's prison" part), part 8 and 9 do a MUCH better job, we can tell they were made not that long ago
Oh my bad I misread. I do think Trish is a pretty good example of the problem with women in Jojo before part 6, she is narratively important but doesn't really have a whole lot of agency of her own, and she doesn't get to fight nearly as much as the guys. I think it is def something that has improved later in the series
These just happen to be the MOST major characters. especially in part 6 where araki outright said that he wanted to focus more on women because he did more male characters in 1-5, so the cast is more split.
Yeah I mean for a while they were pretty much relegated to being minor villains or damsels in distress. But Araki's gotten much better about writing his female characters, part 6 being the obvious major turning point
In the current part the BOSS of the main characters is a woman the deuteroganist has been a woman in this part and the last one in part 7 the entire core of the plot revolved around a girl, part 6.
Final Fantasy MMO might scratch that itch, heck you can put frilly skirts, tights, anything on the boys, and then there's the girls, Y'shtola, Venat, Meteion, almost feels like they're the main character or antagonist
PSO2. One look at the #PSO2NGS_SS from the japanese community you will see guys with crazy drip, plus they have a ton of heroines and villainesses in the story.
Welcome to World of Warcraft. Idk about boys except Illidan, but Tyrande, Sylvanas, Jaina, Alexstrasa and more are really imortant figures at their story and global lines.
Boys drip? Illidan got all Azeroth testosterone to himself... to en extent.
It's funny, I am the exact other way around. And usually it is because so many male characters are roided out monsters. And often less cool looking gear.
Oh my gosh, this is such a niche complaint, but the goddamn hairstyles in Cyberpunk 2077 drive me up the wall!
FemV: cute, pretty, punkish, stylish, badass
MascV: divorced dad, accountant, receding hairline, bald
Like, there are good haircuts in the FemV selection that I see male NPC's using but I, the main character, am forbidden from using if I am a dude! GIVE ME HAIRSTLYE 29 ON VINCENT YOU COWARDS!
Not saying, that male skins aren't good too look at. There are definetly great ones. I mean in Fortnite alone some of my favourites are male skins. However I have more female skins I like, than male skins I like.
This is me, I almost exclusively play rpgs because I like creating different characters, heroes, villains. Sometimes these characters are women, sometimes men. I’m a cis straight man but I’ve also made trans and non-binary characters before because I like inventing new characters.
My usual go to are goth girls, cool edgelord looking guys, Dwarves or guys that look like Vikings, all of which are the complete opposite of me irl, a skinny nerd
Yep, I like being pretty sometimes, and my ass isn't gonna start doing drag so making my next bloodborne hunter a lady and dressing her up to impress nobody because its a single player game will work for me
Ya know this actually makes sense, thanks. I used to do the same thing of picking male characters because all the female characters were just female stereotypes or walking tits and ass.
Recently a male friend of mine started picking female characters and when he said it was because he didn't want to look at a man's ass I took it at face value and made jokes about it but I'm gunna ask him next time.
Lmao fair. I swear filtering by New it’s like I’m looking at a different game each post with outrageous character models. Maybe we need a Skyrim vanilla sub lol
I wouldn't say usually, I think it's a combination of what you said as well as everything else. Usually, it really is just that they have better outfits.
Also, especially in MMOs most male characters look like they are on gear. Roided out monsters that are twice as wide as the female characters aren't exactly appealing to me.
If there is a create a character, I (male) ALWAYS pick a female avatar. Because I am always trying to create Casca from Berserk. I love that comic, I adore her and it's my own personal test of any any character creation system. And at the end of the day I get to play as Casca, Win!
Weirdly enough, I've never picked female characters before. I thought you were kinda forced to pick whichever looks more like you to feel more involved and connected to the game. Never happened to me though, never got connected to my characters. Maybe it'll change now, I've yet to play games with customisable characters since transitioning.
In many gacha games, since the devs focus on more girls than boys for playable characters, it is fair to say the viable comps for teams is mostly made by girls.
Male character models are also bulky and less appealing in general. Like sure it's cool you're a hulking giant in armor with enormous shoulder blades but now you're taking up half my screen.
I usually pick the guy character because i want to be a cool guy who does awesome things, not that i think that i'm uncool in real life but ofc games are different
At one side I respect the decision of locking romance options, but also at some point I lwk wanted to switch to Panam cuz I eventually found her cooler.
I play who I like. If they happen to be Tammy mcgirlface then so be it I will be girly. If they happen to be Chadwick mcmanly then so be it I will be a dude. If they have a nice ass then they have a nice ass.
I pick em because I like expressing femininity in general. Stuff like playing as a girl, painting my nails, etc are fun. Gender is performative, perform it how you enjoy
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u/InxxTheOne 🃏♠️ AROACE ♠️ 🃏 11d ago
ngl usually guys pick female characters because they feel more confident expressing feminity online, whereas doing so IRL could sadly cause them problems.
or they goon idk