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Same, non-cis white guy but I usually pick the not-me main character when given a choice. In Pokemon I'm a chick, in Stardew valley I'm a black chick, in Orcs Must Die 2 I'm the sorceress.
What kind of egotistical fuck chooses the "me" character every time
I play men characters a lot of the time because the boobs armor trend annoys me. I always try to make them look very distinct from me irl though. I really like this new trend of making all armors gender neutral (e.g BG3 and especially MH wilds, since the series had a long standing tradition of making some of the female armors really... Let's say "not realistically functional as an armor". In the new one they still have these versions but you are free to choose any of the 2 looks regardless of your character's gender).
See I'm able to find comedy in the boob armor, but I'd much prefer to see feminine armor be designed to look equally as epic as the masculine armor designs
Some archetypes of boobs armor can work e.g the half naked barbarian, which is fairly gender neutral too thanks to Conan and shit, but sometimes it's ridiculous.
I've talked before about how hilarious Verac's Brassard, a pretty dang good piece of Armor from RuneScape is. Visually it's a giant shoulder plate with a couple of leather straps to hold it in place, but it's somehow a very competent armor stat-wise especially when considering the cost to purchase it or work to acquire it as a drop. (The wiki page indicates it's basically useless, but back in the day it was a common budget selection for armor because anything better costs at least quadruple, if not orders of magnitude more than what the brassard would cost)
It hilariously has more coverage on the feminine model than on the masculine model
I typically play female characters in games too. Always have. They're something outside my world experience, I can experience the story through a lense I may not have seen otherwise.
It's nice to see yourself represented but like... Shiiiiiiit dude. I'm reading a book or playing a game to be immersed in the story. Why people put so much stock into who or what a character is; it's beyond me.
I just want some good stories with good characters. I can't fucking wait to kick ass as Cirilla in the Witcher. I loved being Girlboss V in Cyberpunk, Senua was stellar.
Open world RPG? Bet your ass I wanna be goth mommy in plate armour ripping out a dragon's throat.
Also sometimes games had smaller hitboxes for women and little me fucked with that more than anything.