I never see characters in games as "me". I try to make someone hot or wacky. Often that's a buff lady. Sometimes it's "the biggest beard and hair I can get".

I always play as female characters in any game. Turns out i was just trans all along. Who couldve seen it coming? 🤷‍♀️

I used to play about equal m/f characters but i've gotten increasingly bored with male characters.

I never play as me though, i'm always constructing a headcanon, backstory and playing very writerly.

Over the last 10+ years or so i've just found boy stories more and more boring. I think the last game i seriously enjoyed as male was ME2, coincidentally with a keanu looking sniper type.

Nah you fucked up my first play through is always female. It's a video game not a biography

I played male V on my second playthrough when the DLC came out, and regretted it immensely. Female V had way better voice acting. Finally got to romance Panam though.

I mean if a game is really good and i'm on my fifth+ playthrough and i have a really solid concept for a male character, maybe. And i did eventually play a male bodied female voiced V for the panam romance.

Gay men? They’re real you know.

I don't want to be distracted by the booty

That tracks for me - the female VA gives a lot more emotion, there are some scenes that legit stress me out. Two violent guys vieing for control feela less tense than a guy slowly taking over a woman's mind.