It’s the question asked since the beginning of time; even before Abraham turned to Jesus and said “Dude, if you could be a chick, who would you be?” (to which Jesus replied “Angelina Jolie of course. Duh.”). It’s the reason Shakespeare wrote “the Tempest”, and went on to direct “The Crying Game”. The ultimate in X and Y bending enigmas: Why do gamers choose the genders they do?
Anyway, I'm definitely a protector. My brother and I, for a while, would do mf runs and give the drops out on thursday night in games called "Gimko." We gave all the drops . . Kira's Guardian, Black Hades, Rainbow Facet. . if hell Baal dropped it, we did too. We did about 7 - 9, but stopped because it was too hard.
I also think it's a reason I wanted random PvP in D3. While I never, ever pk'd somebody, it was fun trying to protect the low levels against the PK'ers.
In the case of the Witchdoctor. For a disease spreader I would probably go male and for fire female. It all depends on how I want the character to feel.
I'm sorry, it was just painful to read.
Gender doesn't matter in games unless it's your only source for the opposite sex. I wish they would just auto assign gender to classes like in D2 and have it come out earlier.
You fail to understand the author. Go flame somewhere else.
Did you bother to read it all ? I don't think so.
I really tend to help people while playing, I even give my cube for a 6lvl sorceress.
I'm always writing things like:"!Die" or something while in dungeons.
I think it's like a tabletop RPGer curse.
Something like the Barbarion (since he's a buff beast) or Witch doctor (since he's humpbacked) I would play as males.
Writing a degrading joke on Jesus/Religion in an article is just lame, somehow it's becoming the 'hip' thing to do in order to increase your e-penis. If it were instead a racist joke or a jab against Black People or Asian's (not a racist here) the whole internet would frown and the article would not have made it on diablofans.com's front page.
Not many come out and just say it but yes I'm religious. I know it's the internet and yes, I know there will be a flood of mighty keyboard warriors getting a hardon right about now; ready to flame me for even saying my piece but fuck it.
Mage: Female
Rogue: Female
Warrior: Male
Hunter: Male
Paladin: Male
i tend to choose male for healer or brutish force kind of people. As a hunter i could only think of a male to create but i cant quite reason it.
Wow. I didnt think it was THAT bad lol but then again who the hell am i?
Besides, last I checked, we're fans of the game and we cover interesting articles that spur discussion.
Many people make the choice of their gender in games an important issue, especially during character creation. There are a myriad of reasons behind this, and while some people just don't care, the millions of people who play World of Warcraft or any other game with a gender choice in it do so for reasons that can range from something as simple as preferring the armor on a male character to something as psychologically complex (relatively speaking) as pretending to be a female to get preferential treatment from other players.
true, I am not sophisticated enough to understand an article written by a 12 year old
All those people didn't bother to read it all or what ?
You know, he includes THE REST, I believe you are part of THE REST. Just read it all.... DUDE
and don't take it too seriously...
Seriously... writing an article trying to make gender choosing in games seem really complex, sharing no information thats new to anyone, horrible writing, horrible topic, horrible from every angle.
Maybe a thread in the forums would be fine, but this is not front page news. This article is not more important than the blizzcon ticket contest winners. Just more filler to take up space and make it so actually newsworthy posts and genuinely on-point articles get bumped away. I wish there was some kind of filter or moderator who monitored sol invictus for plugging away at that website. Plug articles that are actually worth a damn. And it's not hate, i'd like to see them do better and if the plugs on the front page went to articles worth reading then I would applaud. But this should be unacceptable, it has been numerous times thinking I was being sent to an article worth reading then feeling like "wtf? did i seriously just waste that much time reading so much garbage compiled by a 12 year old?"
Each time was because of front page news post by sol invictus plugging towards a shitty article on hellforge, trying to make it sound like i was about to be in for a good read.................................