Cute!

Aesthetics vs. Utility; the age old problem is gaming.

Hitbox choice is based.

"I like tiddies, damnit!"

amen

FACTS!

there is a flat chest joke to be made from that

wait, smaller hitboxes? is that an actual thing in games?

In most cases, yes. Since the models is usually smaller there hit and hurt boxes are normally smaller. To compensate, the usually have stubbier limbs so less range (USUALLY Looking at you 3rd Strike Chun) or lower HP values. Depends on the game of course.

Gods dammit rei i dont come to FA to be reminded of the lovecraftian abomination that is 3rd strike chun

Could be worse. Could be Marvel vs Capcom Chun. Makes me wonder what a combo of the two would be... Oh wait SF5 shadow lady trial....

well the term hitbox is pretty outdated since in most cases it is no longer a actual box around the model but pretty much the outer layer of the edge, like literally skin tight. that leads to some games having literal hitbox porn where certain boss abilities can be dodged by quick selecting certain emotes like going on your knees to pray to dodge a giant blade that would hit you square in the chest otherwise. looking at you there dark souls.

Oh I actually know of an example of that, in tf2 heavies will do the medic emote to block headshots cause it raises their left hand and will get registered as a bodyshot

that's cool! also a instance of "NOT THE FACE" I believe XD

Nah, they still use hitboxes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TJmiDcsxdA

If they didn't they would have way more polygons to calculate and tank your machine on each interaction.

yes , but even in tf 2 those are a hell of a lot smaller then they used to be, the first shooters I played literally hat one giant square.

fighting games still rely heavily on hitboxes....infact most 2d games do

Ah.. skullgirls levels of hit boxes.

I plat female too but only on Skyrim, Fallout 4, and New Vegas. Most of my armor and clothing mods are female characters only. I also love a girl with a weapon. either a great sword or a WH-19.

Those are both excellent answers truth be told. I always prefer ladies of more so in games or classes/races that did not doll them up. Like Charr from Guild wars. more so if they weren't automatically weaker then the males.

Sure PSO2 is pretty bikini armory in someplace, but you can be a big sword wielding wall of F-you that 'will not' fall and can bring the hurt.

I pick girls cuz I wanna feel pretty :3

As a guy, World of Warcraft scarred me. Play as a guy? No, gross. They are all roided out freaks. The girls have better animations and the armors look better as well. That and I learned later I'm gynephilic, so that fed into it. Then the cherry on top is that I see the character I make as a separate entity that I control and protect. And I feel more motivated to protect a woman than a big beefy dude.

Well this is a perfect example of the difference between a roleplaying gamer and a competitive gamer. XD

Both are good answers xD

Frankly, I always seen this conversation being made the other way around... Like 'I choose male cause they have larger HP pool and stronger stats in strenght and costitution' and 'I choose female cause for the 99% of the time you have to stare at them ass anyway.'

'Their design is more pleasing and believable'

She's aware that in modern games ladies doesnt wear chainmal bikinis anymore, right?

depends on the game, but I know some where the men wear armor just as skimpy.

Im with Stella. The bulked armor on male models looks so bad ass.

Me too! Since they are bigger, bulkier and stronger.

Evie's a Wraith main player

Two very solid answers ~ :U

I pick girls because they have better hair customization.

This is surprisingly important since most cutscenes remove the goddamn helmet.

Comes down to what butt you want to stare at for hours.

Both are valid points!

so one is for immersion the other for maximizing
I can agree with both perspectives

I used to get into trouble in some FPS games because of that. I honestly didn't know they had smaller hitboxes, I got hit often enough. But some people will ban you for playing a female. no matter what your actual gender. or be cause "everyone knows girls don't play games, and when they do they play guys" or some shit. Excuse the language. I was in more than one all girl clans so it just gets me angry sometimes.

They both make pretty good points

Wait.. There are girl characters in games? ( I mean other than Samus?). I play Hell Let Loose, Warthunder, and ENlisted for hours and I haven't yet seen a girl.

If there are voices, I see which voice I like more. Tends to be 70/30 in favor of the ladies.

"Listen, if I'm going to look at someone's ass for 4+ hours, it better be one whose sex I'm attracted to!"

I like the response both have on this topic; both are right on their own terms.

personally i pick female characters most of the time. I'm a guy. and the majority of my wow characters are female. I think this says a lot about me.

It is more common than a lot of people think. Gender switching not only occurs in gaming, but also in chat rooms and things like Second Life. Far from being an expression of someone (male or female) having homosexual tendencies, it has been found to be a matter of curiosity and often, the temporary rejection of a cultural stereotype.

A lot of people wonder, what would it be like to be the opposite gender for a day, or a week. That isn’t a sign of sexual preference but more of a creative and empathetic personality. In one study, a survey was done to compare a gamer’s character with the actual person. The most striking difference was a pre-teen who was paraplegic, and could not leave his bed for more than a few minutes. He always played the big, strong arrow catcher of the party and was the first to rush into battle. In some cases females played male characters because they felt other gamers took them more seriously.

Damn. That's really interesting

I thought so too. It changed the way I thought about gender swapping on-line.

For me, in World of Warcraft, I chose the character's gender based on the role I wanted the character to play. Agile and sneaky rogue, inspirational healer, or perhaps a devious warlock? I associate some of those traits with females. Big, brute force characters, like warriors or paladins will usually be a guy. This is our course not a hard and fast rule, just a tendency. Especially in WoW, where that trait is entirely aesthetic, and has no major impact on gameplay.

(P.s. I felt the male Nelf had the best shield welding animations in game, at least through cataclysm)

LOL
Hey, I was THERE when the animated movie 'Heavy Metal' hit the theaters.
I still have a crush on Taarna!
And, 'cause I feel compelled to share-
Heavy Metal and Taarna (and her weird, vulture thing mount)
"Taking a Ride!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYqEgFEkxek

;-P

There is an old gamer joke about how in female armor, the less it covers the higher the armor class. And then there was the introduction of ‘jiggle physics’ to games like ‘Street Fighter’. When Diablo first came out, I usually played a female character because they had a range weapon (a bow) that allowed attacks from a distance. It had nothing to do with character design or how they looked.

When the new Wonder Woman movie was set to come out, there was some question as to how ‘bulky’ the actress would be be. Some people mistook this as people thinking ‘A woman has to big and butch to be a superhero’. In fact, the speculation, at least from comments I heard (or read) was if the character was going to be as over muscled, steroid driven body type as the male superhero, but with big boobs.

Adorable. Lol

because if I have to look at an ass for hours on end, it might as well be a NICE Ass.
just sayin

I think the old MMO quote was: "If I'm going to stare at an ass for hours, it's going to be a cute one."

Yup, if there's a choice, I pick female....because I like looking at women.

I beg to differ: male armor didn't used to have that much customization to it; back when Bald Grizzled Military Man Shooters were all the rage, it all looked like the same blocky, square-cornered, drab color of grey. Male armor would attach a clunky, square cube and call it "an ammo pack", when the women's armor made it look like IT ACTUALLY FIT on their person/armor/belt.
It's better now, but women's armor always seems to have a tad more customization.

Playing a gal in Monster Hunter and being super jealous of all the guys in their substantially cooler armor. Sigh

...because I play MMORPG's in third person camera, so I'm going to spending a LOT of time looking at that ass

... Wait, do they?

Male, because I associate with that gender. However, I choose woman a lot more In role playing games, because I dissociate myself from reality, so my gender doesn’t matter.

Ash mains.

munchkins and gaming :P XD always min maxing XD