Guild Wars 2

Does anyone else play a character that is the opposite sex? Personally, I never liked how the male Asura or Norn looked so I ended up rolling female alts. Is that weird? I understand some people may use the excuse “if i’m going to play a game for x amount of hours staring at a butt, i might as well look at a nice looking one”, or something of the sort. Additionally, I understand that it’s not that big of a deal, but I am curious as to how many people do this. I do this just for aesthetic purposes and not to acquire free items and such. So, anyone?………………………….guys?…………

As a roleplayer I have a bunch of different characters of both sexes. From the amount of time I’ve been playing MMOs (Or really any game that lets you choose your gender), I can say with confidence that this is something that is very common.

I fully understand what you mean with regard to the aesthetics of the character you are playing. I myself also play a female Norn. To use another game as an example, I almost always play through the Mass Effect games as Femshep, because I think she fits the story better than a male Shepard does.

There are of course the trolls who will get on your case about this, but you should treat them like you would any other troll. /ignore

I wanted to play a female Norn, but their running animation is awful. Same with female humans. I know it’s trivial, but my OCD kicks in while playing as a Norn or human female and seeing their bad animation. It completely ruins my game experience.

Despite their interesting combat and running animations, Asura and Charr do not do anything for me aesthetically so I don’t play them. I don’t really like the male Norn running animation either, nor am I someone that is enticed by their huge size. That basically leaves me with human males, which is what my main and 3 alts are. Boring and pedestrian? Maybe, but it’s the only way I can stay engaged with this game, at least until they possibly fix the running animations.

Thanks for the replies. This is my first game that I’ve decided to play the opposite sex, since the other MMOs I played were gender locked, so it felt awkward rolling a female alt.

In the beta I used a female human ele, but now im rocking a male human ele. My main in Guild wars 1 was female and a paragon I seem to do better in games with females.

I am planning on making a female human/norn ranger at some point though, so no I don’t think its weird after all its an RPG it means you can be what you want.