somehow, despite being openly nonbinary for a while now, it's only now i realize that i always felt slightly uncomfortable/annoyed having to pick either male or female.
Just let me play as some cool nongendered thing, a penguin or a robot or something.

hell let me play as an ominous levitating crystal that emits a constant low droning noise. In Animal crossing.

Is that a weird thing for a woman to do?

If I’m going to spend the next 300 hours staring at a character’s ass, I’m picking one I actually want to look at.

Eh, depends on the game. I look at both and pick whichever one looks or sounds fun. Last few games I was a whole team of women in turn based games. Current game I'm a lone wolf male. Sometimes I find it funny making the cutest girl and whomping on enemies, othertimes I make an ugly old lady or man. Sometimes I make them look like me, or my wife, or one of my kids. Litterally depends all on my mood and whimsy at the time.

Always have, always will. Smaller Character models take up less space in 3rd person games and are harder to see in pvp.

Also cake.

women are prettier damn it! and i want my character to be pretty!! >:(

i like dressing up girls :3

You got me, as my defence women characters often have better clothing options, hairstyles options, VA, etc. Lets a man play dress up in peace 😂

I also would rather play more games written for a female protagonist. 3 decades of male player characters is plenty.

Back in the runescape days, I used to get tons of free shit by being a girl. When they stopped gifting, I'd convince them to come to the wild and kill them for the rest of their shit

Only when there models are hot oof I’ve never made a female dwarf character but those Korean boob sliders lol

I might just be a perv

I remember starting Genshin and given identical abilities, I preferred to look at a female character for the first few hours. I don't project myself into games, I always feel like I'm playing the characters as themselves.

Got one comment when I was younger from my girlfriend about how I never played a woman in games and now I almost always do

In see a dude every day in the mirror. Let me have fun and see something different in videogames

Who are you and how did you become psychic

My boyfriend masquarades as smokin hot women in some games he plays. Not sure what his reasoning is, probably multiple things: 1) women warriors in their shredded tunics with weapon & artillery holsters & their cleavage bursting out is a lot more entertaining to look at than some guy warrior. 2) probably interesting to note how differently other players treat you when you're a sexy lady, vs how they treat you when you're just some guy.

Well of course? What else should I be playing as if not? A dinosaur? Don't be silly! Who would play as a dinosaur in a videogame?

nervous laugh

Yes, because I enjoy looking at women more

Every time and I feel no shame.

If they won't let me make a twinky guy then yeah (mainly an issue in Western titles)

Yeah... SO!?

You just reminded me of a memory that may have sparked my desire to transition.

I developed this one character for Dungeons and Dragons. Oh my God, I'm having a revelation as I type this!

Ok, so Calian is a Half Elf who's mother was a High Elf and father was a Half Orc. Years ago, her grandfather on her dad's side had to fight to be allowed to enter the stronghold of a female Orc. He won, and she chose him as her next of many husbands. They legit fell in love and had their son, Calian's father.

So Calian is 1/2 Elf, 1/4 Orc, and 1/4 Human. She has slightly more pronounced canines and Half Orc eyes - mostly just the golden color irises.

Her parents perished in a racist's terrorist attack who hated all half breeds. She was taken in by a group of nuns who maintained a church to the goddess Sune (remember, D&D). She grew up loved and to love unconditionally. Her more Orcish instinct to be a warlord clashed with her desire to love. And who deserved the most love and devotion?

Princesses.

Calian was so enthralled with the idea of saving a princess from danger that she would make up wild fantasies in her mind where she was the heroine who sought out and rescued princesses. This was her vow to her goddess before going her holy quest.

Calian took her job way too seriously and "searched" for princesses in very unlikely places. She frequented taverns to "save" the barmaids, or snuck into brothels to find her real princess she was destined to save. And she was a bit of a horndog but that never actually came up in the game.

And I realize now that she was who I wanted to be. I already had my princess, and after me married, my queen. Now I have two princesses to look after, and I adore them both.

This character has morphed over the years into another persona that I actually am interested in playing as in roleplay with my wife. Am I ever going to transition? Very unlikely. But I text her as this other persona, and it's so nice to be me without having to change me. I still really dislike how I look and feel, but I am a coward who doesn't want all of the hardships of becoming a woman. I'd rather press a button and POOF become one instantly. Oh well. A girl can dream.

Plus women are pretty.

Uhh yeah I guess I am. It all started when I picked Jill for resident evil 1 because I liked her story and load out better. Ever since I just kinda picked female by default.

I sure do:

I am non-binary, but I'm definetely more androgynous/fem voice and (trying) style-wise, usually, so that tends to make the female character option more relatable to me. I also appreciate games that have more femboy/androgynous male options, not just HunkBro 9000.

How else am I supposed to look at tna the whole playthrough?

Yes of course, and I find it funny how we seem to need to find an excuse for that.

Yet, in the need to choose, I identify more as a woman, when it is up to me...

I just go with whatever looks better. Or if there’s total customization, I imagine a backstory and go with whatever fits the backstory.

I’d guess my overall rates are something like 65% male, 35% female.