A Real Drag
Jan11
on 2006-01-11
at 00:01
A little secret; I’m prone to playing games like World of Warcraft in drag; female characters that is. People treat you differently, and you’re a smaller target. I don’t have any inclination to actually dress as a woman, but I do now understand why a girl needs more than one pair of shoes.
Back when I played Star Wars Galaxies, I ran two accounts and role-played a pair of twins:
If anyone remembers playing with the Omaki Twins, I’d love to hear from you.
↓ Transcript
Chat Window:
Party [Tuekute]: Ready Ace?
Party [Justacel: I guess.
Party [Roxxon]: woot!
Party [Justace]: Just one thing. know I agreed to play Alliance with you two.
Party [Tuekute]: We'll be like the 3 Musketteers!
Party [Justace]: Yeah. I also appreciate your agreeing to help me level up to where you are.
Party Can't play with us if y'all ain't at our Party [Justacel: I am looking fo ard to it. But I still have one question.
Ace
Why do Ihave to play as a girl?
Roxxon and Tuekute are in a guild named "Feministas."
Party [Tuekute]: Ready Ace?
Party [Justacel: I guess.
Party [Roxxon]: woot!
Party [Justace]: Just one thing. know I agreed to play Alliance with you two.
Party [Tuekute]: We'll be like the 3 Musketteers!
Party [Justace]: Yeah. I also appreciate your agreeing to help me level up to where you are.
Party Can't play with us if y'all ain't at our Party [Justacel: I am looking fo ard to it. But I still have one question.
Ace
Why do Ihave to play as a girl?
Roxxon and Tuekute are in a guild named "Feministas."
I have an entirely hetrosexual reason for playing games with female avatars, if you’ve been fishing for one to use. Works for (straight) girl gamers playing as male characters also.
The game places your character/avatar squarely in your line of sight, and you’ll be standing, walking, or running away from the screen 99% of the time. If there’s going to be a butt in your face for nearly the entire game, it may as well be one you can appreciate.
That’s the whole reason for Toom Raider. One of the early testers moded the test levels to change the ‘Indy’ knockoff into a girl. One of the developers walked by his cubical and asked about it. He said ‘If I have to look at their ass 8 hours a day, I’d rather look at a girl.’ The developers realized MOST gamers (the demographic being male) would feel the same and changed the character immediately.
Also for Fallout, and Skyrim there are gender specific perks that I feel are better with females (more damage vs males which includes most major enemies, and better prices from male vendors which is more than 60%)
Thank you for this piece of trivia. Even 10 years ago people thought you were weird if you chose to play the opposite gender. I preferred playing the opposite gender anyways just because of all of that time I would be spending looking at that butt.
You can play a character in a game without it having to be a representative of your own self. That’s what Role Playing means, in RPG.