Do you play as a girl or a guy ?

[Vorena]

I flip a coin. Such as in FE7 where you get to choose a gender that does absolutely nothing other than change up some dialogue.

Expect in cases where it actually matters I will choose accordingly. FE12 Male MU has better classes. Or FE13 where FeMU and Chrom give you some easily accessible Lucina and Morgan pair.

[Naughx]

Male because male.

Sometimes I get puzzled when female friends refuse to play a game on the grounds that there is no female option and the reason is because "males are disgusting"

Strange... So they won't play TLOZ games?

I don't think you should care much if the game is great. (Like Metroid games - since I'm male)

Edited January 13, 2014 by Naughx

[Acacia Sgt]

Hmm, well, I play as the male for the most part. If the game supports more than one save file (or in the case of Pokémon, I can acquire both versions), I do at least one playthrough with each. This practice isn't just for gender, though, I do that whenever the game gives you choices and allows for enough saves to cover them all.

[SakuraFish]

I play almost always as female characters.. I don't even know why, since the is no real reason behind.

I choose even the females if they are weaker difficulty- or gameplaywise. Additional difficulty is the way to go!

Even in FE13 i never really played a file as the MaMU although i've completed the game like 15 times. I just love my FeMU as a Peg/Falcoknight to much <3

[Alfred Kamon]

As a guy if he is meant to represent myself in some way.

But in general I prefer female characters.

The only game where I totally prefer playing as a female is Monster Hunter. Better outfit designs too.

[Breezy Kanzaki]

Normally:

Male on first playthrough than female the next.

After that I cycle depending on what names I come up with

[NinjaMonkey]

Male if you get to create your own character (and Pokemon), otherwise it depends (for example, in Mario Kart Wii, I usually choose to play as either Peach or Rosalina) .

Edited January 13, 2014 by NinjaMonkey

[Shadow Mir]

Dependent on the game. But I ALWAYS play as a female in Pokemon.

[Aura Wolf]

With games where you create your own character, I have almost always gone with male.

For other games, I would say it's pretty close to equal for both genders.

[HeroMaster47]

For me, it depends on the game, and the character design. For example, I always play Black/White 1 as a female because I really like the female design, and I'd rather play Black/White 2 as a male simply because I like the design better (not by much mind you, I really don't like either trainer in BW2). More often than not, I'll choose the female option though.

[MacLovin]

Whichever one looks best.

[Kiriane]

Male except when there are valid gameplay reasons to pick female.

[Excellen Browning]

For me it really varies a lot. I do not adhere to my gender stereotype and I always enjoy playing a character whose dialogue options I agree with, so that's what I tend to seek out though I prefer a male characer over a female one in general.

In Dragon Age, I clearly preferred playing a female character, even though I've done runs in both genders. In my opinion the female gets the better conversation options/option not to be stereotypically male or female. In Mass Effect I didn't have a preference for either; male Shepard was too much of a beefcake to my tastes but in comparison to female Shepard he had better dialogue IMO.

[The JOJ]

Male if it's a self insert quite obviously.

Well, to think about it I haven't played many games with gender choices that ARENT games with self-insert characters.

[Emeraldfox]

Both, but mostly male for immersve reasons.

[Murdok Dracul]

I alternate: in my first file/version of a game I'll be male, in my second I'll usually play female. I find that I like playing as a girl quite a lot because their outfits and hairstyles are generally more interesting than the boys'. There is a slightly weird feeling, though, when I play online using a female character. I've not noticed any discrimination between sexes at all; I just don't like people thinking I'm a woman. That said, I shall NOT restart my 300-hour-plus-long MH3U file just to be a man.

[Azura]

I prefer playing as a girl since I like to imagine myself as the character I play as, and well, it is easier when we share a gender xD

[Wen Yang]

Female all the time.

Because I dislike the idea of looking at a male ass for god knows how many hours the game takes. ^_^

[leafeon]

in fe:a i chose a male even though i'm, "female", because i really want to marry one of the girls (especially sully/panne), but i'll probably be a female on my second run.

in pokemon i chose female because the females looked really cute, and they have more clothing options.

in animal crossing i also chose a female because they have better hair options.

it really just depends on the way they look for me, i guess.

[eclipse]

. . .and that's a necropost.