Who said you can't immerse yourself when playing with the opposite gender?

My character looks exactly like I do, though.

I just think they look better. Rather stare at something nice than fugly. The only time i play a male is when they have bad ass enough looking armor at low enough levels. Even then its prob an alt from all the gear I got on my female main since its not usable on her.

The floor and wall textures alone scream "this is NOT Skyrim!" but some asian MMORPG. FF14? Black Desert?

If a person plays as an opposite-gender character, it's because they secretly wish to be that gender and are therefore trans.
If a person plays as a same-gender character, it's because they like looking at same-gender ass and are therefore gay.
There are no other options.
- On the one hand, this is funny. On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of humor that led to me repressing my gender identity. I feel so conflicted.
  
  That's the neat part: you can't repress your gender identity because 'straight' wasn't an option!
  (Unless you actually are straight, but whatever -- it won't kill us to be the ones who have to just fuckin' deal with it, for once!)
- If they somehow find a third option anyway, that just mean's they're a furry.
  No wonder when given the option, I have male heads on female bodies...
  
  does it change anything if its a female head on a male body?

The gender is tied to the role for me. Male warrior, female assassin, male wizard, female ranger, male anyone with a gun, female thief.
Its about picking the gender that best fits the vibe of the character. The character is in mind their own person and also never represents me.
All this doesnt matter since I'm picking a warrior 99% of the time became i hate wizards and sneaky folk.

CBBE
SMP Physics
Bodyslide
countless other risque mods
now we talkin'

I usually play a female character, because if im going to stare at an ass for 120 hours, it might as well be a nice ass.
- Exactly my philosophy. Also the whole "escape reality" bit. I also like RPGs where I can be an immortal skeleton or a lizard prince (ok, both of those examples were actually just Divinity: Original Sin 2).
  
  if you find yourself playing games as an immortal skeleton or a lizard prince, you may not be entirely human. join my community and see if you relate to being a skeleton or lizard 😃

Forcing trans ideals on folks because of the character they play is one of the reason the cheeto bandito won... just stop it its toxic as fuck.

Why would I want to look at a dudes ass in third person for 120 hours?
- Hey, we're not here to judge. You can look at dude-ass to your heart's content.
  
  If they keep stacking em, I'll keep packin, em.
- I heard this several times and it confuses me a lot. Are you actually looking at the backside of the character instead of the rest of the game?
  
  Depends on how much you have to dodge and how much your character is in your peripheral.
  
  Honestly, confuses me as well. I'm all for playing whatever gender you want to, but looking at polygons in the shape of a human ass is... different for sure.
- 120 hours
  Commander Shephard?
  
  Ha yup that's my go to when I think of it, but it applies to a lot of games. Shepaaaaaaard
  
  It's their favourite perspective in the citadel.
- Don't you romance dudes as a female character?
  
  Only when it's necessary for the plot
  I don't like ruining my 100% lesbian runs
  
  Not always…

I'm hardcore hetero on the Kinsey Scale, but I've always played females. Fuck it, I've been a male every day of my life and games are there to escape reality (for me anyway).
- I make em look like me as much as possible because I want to be the badass lol.
  Except final fantasy, I went with the exploding ponytail with the emo bangs because it reminds me of my first paladin on wow.
- If you need a way to escape reality and you choose to be a girl, you might not be as male or hetero as you think, Just sayin...🥚 🏳️‍⚧️
  
  You can keep saying it, but that doesn't make it true. Trying to force someone to be trans is just as bad as trying to force someone to be straight shame on you.

My wife plays as a male and I play as a female. When we were playing wow, random male characters would drop me 100gold at a time. This is when we were very early into wow and we just started getting silvers.
- Star Wars Galaxies I would leave my character dancing in a cantina and come back to thousands of tips in credits.
  
  I did the same. I normally wearing skimpy clothes. Unfortunately in WoW you have to be there to accept.

I'm a big, fat, hairy, cishet dude, and I always play as a woman when it's an option. Female characters generally get more attention from the developers (for obvious reasons), so they usually have better designs and animations, resulting in an objectively higher-quality product. It's also fun in multiplayer games because toxic dweebs hate it when they think they lost to a girl.
- The same toxic dweebs might also go weird towards you sometimes, it's definitely an experience getting to know why a lot of women carry pepper spray in public.
  
  100%
  I was playing Monster Hunter World and made a character based on the Hub Lass.
  It took less than two hours online to get someone asking if I have a boyfriend.
- funnily enough that's exactly (but opposite) what i told myself before i realised i was a trans man
  "oh i play exclusively male characters because they have better armour models and the animations look more immersive, and i prefer to hear a dude talk/groan when i'm in dialogue or get hit. no other reason haha"

So I’m also in this crowd, and I’ve also given my gender as a cishet man lots of consideration. I genuinely don’t identify in the real world ultimately as a woman and don’t really wish I’d been born female. I’m more in the crowd of it just being a different experience or perspective that isn’t otherwise available to me.
If I could easily flip between two universes where I could be either man or woman, I’d be interested, but only if it was reversible. I wouldn’t want it to be permanent.
And this isn’t from the perspective of being gender-fluid either. I wouldn’t want any of that in my current life as it exists right now.

Playing the opposite gender would knock me out of immersion much less than installing that many anime-ish mods.
- I think that's ffxiv.
  Or someone modded skyrim to be ffxiv.
  
  I was going to comment that this looks more like ffxiv than skyrim, and expose the boomer who made this meme that can't tell the difference between two extremely popular games.
  Although I've never played ffxiv so I don't actually know if that's what this is, and I didn't play enough skyrim to be able to identify those wall/ground textures.

I tend to play female characters. Only because of the smaller hitbox tho, definitely not for other reasons.
:3
- I like girls so much I became one in real life 🏳️‍⚧️
- i play female characters because it’s better for speedruns :3
  no i don’t do speedruns, why do you ask?

I've just come to the conclusion that my digital persona is a woman. I'm a cis hetero man in real life though. Not really any questions about it. But even in VR, I just exist as a lady.
- Have you ever considered being a lady in real life?
  
  I don't think that's an unreasonable question! But no, I have not. I'm very comfortable in my own body as it was given to me.

If I’m going to spend several hours staring at the backside of a character, I want it to be a cute girl, thank you.

Female characters sometimes have smaller hitboxes.
- No nutshots either. No really, Combat Arms from Nexon had a feature called "Nutshots" which acted the exact same way as a headshot, instant kill. Just a more hilarious death animation. Then they sold a russian female spy in latex as a paid skin with stat boosts and special weapons like a minigun and since they were a woman they couldn't be nutshot. People complained and they got rid of nutshots..

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I play opposite gender so i can fapping while playing
- Boy wait until you hear about this thing called internet porn. Gonna blow your mind.
  
  can i play it?
  
  Boy wait till you hear about this thing called adult flash games. Wayy better than porn.

For me that depends on a game. I noticed that in a fantasy game I usually pick female character and if it's more normal earthly setting (especially shooters) I go with male. I don't know why, maybe because of outfits. For me fantastical outfits look cooler on girls and military outfits look cooler on dudes.

I played as the opposite gender one (1) time in 2010, to hear the novelty of the female VA for the protagonist in a fully voiced game after two runs as the male protagonist, and I haven't stopped since. RIP me 😔
- Don't worry sister, it gets easier eventually 🫂 🏳️‍⚧️
  
  Preferring to play female characters does not make someone trans, jfc.
- Mass Effect?
  For me it was Mass Effect.
  
  Mass Effect 2, yes

They're the same picture

I've tried it once or twice, really isn't for me, always end up going back to a male character. Maybe if I played more in third person, I'd be more likely to play as a female one... but probably still no.

I generally try and make my characters look like me (or my fursona if they have furry character options). The only exceptions are, Fallout 2, Demon Souls, and a lot of shooters because there are mechanical differences. Fallout 2 has special dialogue for women and makes saving Vic easy as fuck, Demon Souls has armors that are specific to gender, and female characters in shooters often tend to be smaller and thus harder to shoot.
So I guess I am gender fluid, but only if I gain an advantage when changing genders.

I think it's very likely you're trans and there's nothing wrong with that, it's important to come out and accept yourself and realize that these are signs you might not be as cis as you thought you were.
Check out !egg_irl@lemmy.blahaj.zone and !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns@lemmy.ca and see if you relate to anything there. If you do, you're probably not entirely cis 🏳️‍⚧️
- You must follow the Egg Prime Directive. You may not push or coerce people into identifying or not identifying a certain way. You must respect them as the gender they claim to identify as. In addition it is extremely in poor taste to make assumptions about other people’s identities based on external factors, we understand it cannot be helped but it is best not to as it can affect the way you treat others in noticeable ways.
  
  Don't quote that gatekeeping garbage to me, I'm not pushing or coercing anyone of being trans. No trans person does that. That's TERF garbage meant to try and villify trans people for existing or being supportive of other trans and questioning people.

Several bro justifications in here however this has lead to thousands of cracked eggs and it's only a matter of time fellas
- Lots of people make excuses, but if they really sat down and thought about it without any internalized transphobia they'd realize it's actually because they want to be a girl more than anything else.
  
  So what does it mean when i like the idea of me having a dick i can use to plow a woman with consentualy?