Why so many men like to play with a female character?
I’m not judging, I’m genuinely curious. The reason why I’m asking is because in this sort of games I like to make the character resemble me as much as possible in every aspect, so I’m just curious to know what is the motivation behind men that decide to play as a female character.
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 never play females much. I like to just mirror my own gender; I’m playing this game for fun, not for tits and ass. Only thing that sucks is funding mods with male v. They’re rare, and it’s annoying. Nothing but porn over there it feels like at times.
A few reasons. My first playthrough, I played as male V nomad. For my second, I went when a female V streetkid. So, part of it was going for a different story.
Another part is Judy. Yes, people have made mods to allow romance as a male character but those just don’t seem right to me. Judy’s a badass, beautiful, crazy-smart, and one of the only characters in Night City that I could likely be friends with IRL. But friends/extended family is all it could be. She’s very clearly a lesbian, in her character as you get to know her and even her choice and style of tattoos - the roses on her arm especially seem rather anarcho-sapphic to me. Using a mod to “make her straight” just seems wrong, like a violation of deep parts of who Judy is. So, my second character was a lesbian.
And finally, when I started my second playthrough, I was a bit thirsty.
They “don’t seem right”? How so? I am romancing her as male v and I haven’t had any issues. She was originally bi to begin with. There’s mods to fix the voice and some of the animations, too. Using a mod to “make her straight” is harmless. Let me guess, but it’s ok if people make panam romance females, right?
It feels to me like robbing the character of her agency (yeah, it’s a program that doesn’t really have agency). And it seems too similar, to me, to “she just needs the right man” sort of thinking, which is just tiresome.
Let me guess, but it’s ok if people make panam romance females, right?
You do you. I’m not judging. Just stating how experience it myself. I’d not do that myself with Panam because her dialog when flirting with her as femme V makes clear that she’s not into women.
Ah. Well, at least you aren’t a hypocrit? I’ve seen people get pissed that a mod on nexus made judy romanceable for male v, which nexus removed, but then were totally cool with the mod that lets female v romance panam (which, last I checked, was still up a while back). I don’t really think it’s a bad thing at all, you can’t rob pixels of their agency, because they are not people, and the folks who judge those of us who romance judy as males sound just plain silly to me about how bad it is. I don’t see this “she just needs the right man” thinking you mention. I separate that stuff from my videogames, and I simply play how I want.
I separate that stuff from my videogames, and I simply play how I want.
That’s fine. My brain just isn’t built that way. I have succeeded ONCE in playing an evil playthrough in an RPG because I just feel too bad. I don’t typically play games to feel bad so, I haven’t done so since.
As many have said, generally I enjoy watching ladies being badass murderbabes in fiction (not sure I’d actually want to interact with an IRL murderbabe, unless she was on my side). As an aside, one of my favorite aspects of the Horizon series is being an unstoppable murder machine in a cute package.
In Cyberpunk specifically, I think a lot of the plot points are more poignant as Valerie—the whole intro scene with Johnny is a massively more problematic and narratively interesting interaction, for example. Another instance is getting turned down by Kerry, even though he’s bi and ruining River’s day because who doesn’t love ruining River’s day? Also in this game specifically I just really enjoy Cherami Leigh’s performance, but I will more often than not play as a lady in games when it’s an option. That’s just a long winded way of saying “‘cause I like to.”
Sometimes playing as a guy feels like the normal boring experience. Often also ladies have cooler clothes. I feel like my character is cooler as a witch than a wizard
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