Female Protagonist

[The Magic Toad]

So is it just me or is the vast majority of games recently been with a female protagonist, personally i cant play games from a female prospective be it game like Skyrim, Sims or games found on this site. Also i haven't really tried them so if i was going to what are some of the best titles and also what is you're opinion on playing as a female in games.

 

[DaScoot]

When I started on my text game, a big priority for me was making the game adapt to the user's preference - including setting the genders of the MC, the sidekick, and about 70% of the game's other characters. Reason being that I think everybody should have the opportunity to play the kind of game they want, and when 90% of the games out there are made by straight guys, the market variety is really limited. I've been going through a lot of Nutaku games and VNs on Steam lately, and of everything I've seen in those markets (probably dozens), there's like...three that aren't 'you are a man pursuing women.' And none that are 'you are a woman pursuing men'. As someone who appreciates variety, this disappoints me.


As a player, if you give me a character generator I will always make a female character. I used to give the old 'if I'm going to be staring at a butt for hours, it better be a nice butt' line, but honestly, I just think it's a lot cooler to watch a woman kicking ass.

 

[polywog]

The main benefit of playing a female character is when you have the option to go 3rd person perspective or follow cam mode. Then you are staring at Lara Croft's ass the entire game.

 

[vitkren]

I think that if you create a game where one needs to raise MC's sexiness\slutiness, most people would prefer to see a pic\video of an attractive girl pleasuring herself than of a guy sitting alone in a room, jerking off.

As for games recommendations - I liked "Big Kuyash" (?) and, maybe, "House" (2 out of 3 characters are women).

 

[Gomly1980]

I don't mind who the MC is as long as the game is good.

I have both female and male characters in RPG's where character creation is allowed especially games like Skyrim and Fallout but that's mainly because mods and far more being for female characters.

It mainly depends on how the character is done though. A lot of male characters are dickheads. I don't mind a slut, I love sex myself but a lot of male MC's can only get a woman through blackmail or coercion and that's not my thing.

I will admit I have a hard time playing female MC's in games like Road Trip where the lass is made out to be a complete moron and gets fucked for stupid reasons. Even Katies Corruption where it starts out after some old bloke cums on her face while she's asleep. Rather than tell her partner she gets used as a cum dump because ... game logic.

I'm not an SJW by any stretch of the imagination but I don't find stupidity attractive. It's kinda hard to get turned on when my face is in my palm over some moronic act the MC has got herself into.

TL;DR - it doesn't matter what gender the MC is as long as the story is good and they are well made.

 

[stauffi]

I prefer playing as a female char. Most i like battlefuck/battlerape or manager/slave trainer games.
My main characters goal is to become the most powerful slaver, but ideally if you fail you have to get out of trouble.

In Skyrim/Fallout 4 my setup is pretty fierce, if you get defeated you are raped and maybe enslaved. I try to avoid this of course, so it only happens occasionally, but when it happens it is an interesting diversion. Otherwise alongside playing the game i try to build a huge slave harem.
But if i play Skyrim/Fallout 4 the adult mods are only an addition, but i still play and enjoy the normal game 80-90% of the time and only occasionally hunt/train new slaves or try to escape out of slavery myself.

Furthermore I love those battlefuck/battlebondage games which i only discovered a few months ago like "the moral sword of Asagi", "Evil godess" or "Damsel Quest 3".

I also love slave training or brothel management games like Custom Maid 3d, Whoremaster or Simbrothel.

And i check every new game from Illusion since though they usually lack gameplay they are at least visually usually the best (apart modded Skyrim/Fallout).

 

[Malkav]

Why is it a problem? The only downside I can see is that it may encourage less variety in the girls you get to see fuck, if it is just your character. In most games you are usually crushing on one girl anyway, so why not let the story focus on her.

I don't understand how you would not want a female "hero", is it a fetish thing? Like, some sort of masculine validation?

 

[tarzan999]

Bethesda hasn't made a good game since Morrowind.

 

[The Magic Toad]

It's more that i spent many an hour of my youth playing DnD so RP in my games is pretty high and ive never been able to step into the shoes of a female character its not that i haven't tried on the occasion like the latest Lara Croft games i thoroughly enjoyed them but then i wasn't playing a character i created + this pre determined character had a well fleshed out background so i felt comfortable as the character.

 

[Malkav]

It's more that i spent many an hour of my youth playing DnD so RP in my games is pretty high and ive never been able to step into the shoes of a female character its not that i haven't tried on the occasion like the latest Lara Croft games i thoroughly enjoyed them but then i wasn't playing a character i created + this pre determined character had a well fleshed out background so i felt comfortable as the character.

I think I can understand your reasoning, just not relate. In real games I am a powergamer, and in erotic games I am just there to watch people have sex. There are so many with terrible story and unbearable gameplay elements, that I don't expect anything from them except pornography.

 

[pcg50]

Recently i have been playing mount and blade warband . And i had 10 runs maybe 1 male . It's an RPG game in medieval society and when you pick A woman as a main character that is going to lead an army and Most other Lords will be a dick to you , and you have to be overqualified compared to the male Character to be accepted as a mercenary , be sworn as a lord , or be respected as a Queen later on . And it's tough to marry as other lord want the typical obedient House-wive .

Other than that Men or female pick in RPG always been mostly meaningless ( intentional by design in western modern rpg ) ,
I personally pick men or female over trivial things : better voice , hate for Bikini armor , Lesbian scenes , better sound effect when hit ( star-bound ) ...

In porn games , whatever gets me more female scenes . As simple as that

 

[The Magic Toad]

I think I can understand your reasoning, just not relate. In real games I am a powergamer, and in erotic games I am just there to watch people have sex. There are so many with terrible story and unbearable gameplay elements, that I don't expect anything from them except pornography.

Yeh basically soon as i have to name a character my RP goes into overdrive i just started a new skyrim play through as a khajiit took me 45 mins to research a lore friendly and suitable name for the characters name ended up going for J'Zorka the J meaning young single and names starting with Z mean orphaned or parent less.

 

[Malkav]

Yeh basically soon as i have to name a character my RP goes into overdrive i just started a new skyrim play through as a khajiit took me 45 mins to research a lore friendly and suitable name for the characters name ended up going for J'Zorka the J meaning young single and names starting with Z mean orphaned or parent less.

And I would never make a Khajit because their unarmed fighting power is useless for anything but flavor.

 

[The Magic Toad]

And I would never make a Khajit because their unarmed fighting power is useless for anything but flavor.

Sneak sneak thief master pickpocket.

 

[polywog]

Yeh basically soon as i have to name a character my RP goes into overdrive i just started a new skyrim play through as a khajiit took me 45 mins to research a lore friendly and suitable name for the characters name ended up going for J'Zorka the J meaning young single and names starting with Z mean orphaned or parent less.

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[Viron]

Having a female as MC is simply more screentime for an attractive female. Simple as that.

 

[Olivia_V]

Other than that Men or female pick in RPG always been mostly meaningless ( intentional by design in western modern rpg )

I actually hate this about modern Western RPG's. It's lazy and pandering, and sends the implicit message that a woman is nothing more than a man in bikini armor. One of the reasons I loathe SJW's in gaming is that they make it so hard to have compelling RPG characters, because any hint of difference in the experiences of male and female player characters, and they'll cause a costly uproar. I think it'd be interesting, for example, if choosing a gender creates stat bonuses and demerits, or if choosing a gender opens up unique story lines, difficulties and effects. The Lara Croft "rape scene" game over would have added a unique aspect to having a female main character that you don't get with a male one (and added incentive to get the sequence right), but of course it got torpedoed because of the Perpetually Triggered.

What I do like about female MC's in porn games is that, other than the obvious "more pics of pretty ladies" and no pics of the character clutching his dick, is that the best-written ones can be fun explorations of the nuances of female sexuality. I wish more women tried writing games like these. Tlaero, for example, writes well enough (though I can barely call her work a "game" as such), but she seems unwilling to write a female POV character.

 

[mladko]

i always choose female character, if its possible, mainstream game, or porn game, i prefer watch nice female buttocks, not man with a beard

 

[IndoorMinotaur]

Gender is a funny thing. I think it's important for developers to be clear about what players should expect in their games to avoid pigeon-holding the player unexpectedly into something they aren't comfortable with.

Beyond that, the player has all the agency. If the game is a female protagonist, and they, for whatever reason, aren't a fan, they have every right not to play the game. What they don't really have the right to do is play the game anyway and complain about it for not being what it never claimed to be.

 

[pcg50]

currently playing another War-band female run , i managed to finally marry a lord , by basically giving him half my kingdom to boost the relationship .

it's not just about pandering , less lines . I mean Fallout new vegas has Sexism against you from certain character if you pick female . And an arena fights in caesar's legion where the last fighter is a captured female ranger , which made the guys running the arena puzzled how can a woman defeat several challengers .