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I have nothing against girl characters but im always a guy no matter what unless forced to be girl which i was in d2 love sorceress lol magic rules also love well all the classes but what im saying is i want my character to reflect me as in what i would do and how i would look (closest way anyways lol)

I saw a guy said that his mother would ban him from using a computer if she saw he chose a female avatar. :confused:

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.

Typically, I go male characters. Unless the classes/characters are gender locked like Diablo 1 and 2 or premade NPCs like in Warcraft III (the Hero units) or Baldur's Gate, or the class seems better suited to the female gender, most "mage" or "spell caster" classes usually are. Female "Warrior" types seem to butch. Amazon was fine as she was ranged based, as opposed to in yer face melee, like an Orc or Tauren Warrior.

I think that I am most like the protector, but with a little twist. When I play the game I feel like I am "creating" the character, I like to give it a purpose and a meaning and take extra care when selecting the name! So the sex will really depend upon what build I am going with and what "personality" I want the character to have. For example, I will probably neglect using a Female Barbarian, because the personality I attach to the Barbarian is male. But if I were to build a singer (I know the skills are going to be changed, but it still may be possible!) I would probably consider the Female.

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 go for the girls. I like chicks with knives... What can I say?

Wow, that was probably one of the stupidest articles I have ever read from that site. The author was either a 13 year old boy, or still lives with his mom. He pretty much tried to stereotype every gamer's opinion on gender, while he himself was a living example of why people think gamers can't get laid.

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.

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Wow, that was probably one of the stupidest articles I have ever read from that site. The author was either a 13 year old boy, or still lives with his mom. He pretty much tried to stereotype every gamer's opinion on gender, while he himself was a living example of why people think gamers can't get laid.

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 mostly play female characters...hey, if im going to be staring at the ass end of a character for hours....it should at least be aesthetically pleasing.

I see myself more like a roleplaying protector.
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.

I found that read prerty good. Idk what I am. I can be all at some times. I dont really care about gender but I do like the storyline thats what will really move me in d3. Im obsesed with the storyline in diablo I'll have every type of char imaginable (unless they put a limit on how many chars you can have) I will have all sorts of diffrent types of skills and moves and combinations and be like HELL YEA I DONT CARE WHAT THE BEST BUILD IS........yet

I usually just play a gender based on how cool they look (or will eventually look).
Something like the Barbarion (since he's a buff beast) or Witch doctor (since he's humpbacked) I would play as males.

I think that the character model is the biggest factor for me. I use a lot of WoW examples because I used to play so much, but many of the charcters I would play started male, then were re-created to female. All the night elves basically had beards which I didn't like so I made a female and there you go. Better character design, unique details and voice responses, no beards.

I stopped at the quote in the first post.

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.

it depends really. As an example i'll say the classes i chose in WoW:
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.

I think that article was completely pointless and a waste of my reading time. Who cares who you decide to play? There are no groups. People play the characters they like best and generally randomly select the gender. Doesn't make them any less or more straight, or gay in any fashion. Some writers just really don't have any subjects to write about I guess.... and that goes for ALL of the articles posted in the news here from hellforge. They ALL are pointless, poorly written, full of typos with misuse of words and sayings, and look as if written by a 5 year old. No diss here, just pointing out that I see no reason why these "crap" articles seem to be news-worthy and on the main page of diablofans.com... I'd suggest only posting articles that have a real point and purpose. Not some crap "filler" content some kid clearly threw togethor while he was desperate for a topic to write about.

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I think that article was completely pointless and a waste of my reading time. Who cares who you decide to play? There are no groups. People play the characters they like best and generally randomly select the gender. Doesn't make them any less or more straight, or gay in any fashion. Some writers just really don't have any subjects to write about I guess.... and that goes for ALL of the articles posted in the news here from hellforge. They ALL are pointless, poorly written, full of typos with misuse of words and sayings, and look as if written by a 5 year old. No diss here, just pointing out that I see no reason why these "crap" articles seem to be news-worthy and on the main page of diablofans.com... I'd suggest only posting articles that have a real point and purpose. Not some crap "filler" content some kid clearly threw togethor while he was desperate for a topic to write about.

Wow. I didnt think it was THAT bad lol but then again who the hell am i?

I don't understand the hate. It's no N'Gai Croal, but it's certainly no 'worse' than the stuff Brian Crescente writes over at Kotaku. It's mostly funny, jock type humor. And maybe some people don't get that, but that really comes down to personal preference.

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.

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You fail to understand the author. Go flame somewhere else.

Did you bother to read it all ? I don't think so.

true, I am not sophisticated enough to understand an article written by a 12 year old

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I think that article was completely pointless and a waste of my reading time. Who cares who you decide to play? There are no groups. People play the characters they like best and generally randomly select the gender. Doesn't make them any less or more straight, or gay in any fashion. Some writers just really don't have any subjects to write about I guess.... and that goes for ALL of the articles posted in the news here from hellforge. They ALL are pointless, poorly written, full of typos with misuse of words and sayings, and look as if written by a 5 year old. No diss here, just pointing out that I see no reason why these "crap" articles seem to be news-worthy and on the main page of diablofans.com... I'd suggest only posting articles that have a real point and purpose. Not some crap "filler" content some kid clearly threw togethor while he was desperate for a topic to write about.

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...

Not taking it seriously. I get the fact that the author attempts to be humorous. The bottom line is the article is complete shit and all of the articles there are. If you are 12 and you enjoy them then that's fine. My point is the damn articles are completely butched, horrible and unprofessional. Ultimately they shouldn't warrant front page coverage on diablofans, they are not worthy.
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.................................