phred wrote:Are you a guy or girl?
Girl
Do you ever play characters of the opposite sex?
I have, but not so much anymore.
If so, what is wrong with you?
Ha-ha-ha - actually, the original question was "you're a girl - why are you playing guy games?" I've been playing RPG's since the mid-1970's, that is, before we had computers involved. Typically, male characters had better stats. Some groups didn't want female characters (hell, they didn't want female players in some instances though most seemed indifferent and a few liked the notion) deeming it "unrealistic" in the milieu. In D&D I was about 50/50 on the gender, on virtually ever other game, and all of the early computer games, I just didn't have a choice. If I played I played male.
The first time I played a female character in a computer game was in one of the later
Myst games, where I could not only play a female, I could modify her to
look like me. It was... odd at first and I definitely identified more strongly with her than prior characters I'd played in-game.
In WoW I've played almost nothing but female characters, often for the reasons others have stated: I like their looks better, they take up less valuable screen space, I'm not a Tauren or Belf or Dranei in real life, either. (I do have two Human characters - one does somewhat resemble me, the other is about as far from real-life appearance as WoW allows). Basically, the only time I play a male toon there is when I take one of my spouse's out for a bit, and even there, he's running about 50/50 male to female.
In Guild Wars it was all females characters.
Fallen Earth I played just girls.
I've only one character in Numenera, she's a girl.
What class do you tend to play most often?
Hybrids.
In D&D I usually played multi-class characters when I wasn't drafted to DM. In WoW I play a lot of the hybrid classes, with emphasis on damage-dealing. The only time I play a healer is when she's a hybrid and spends a lot of the rest of the time doing other stuff. I've tried tanking, it's not that appealing to me. Mostly, I like to explore, break things, and assist others. Oddly enough, my Numeran character is the healer for her current group, but then, they desperately needed one and since that game isn't as combat focused as some others she does do a lot of other things. Basically, I play generalists and jacks of all trades more than specialists.
I don't object to playing male characters, it's probably that after a decade or two of little to no choice I've been enjoying playing females.