For me, it’s the voice. For a voiced character like V, it requires a very special talent to take you on a journey with them, to listen to their fear, pain, anger and despair. Cherami Leigh just does such a fantastic job of bringing V to life for me, of really bringing that raw emotion out and making it feel real!

Why be me when I can be a pretty girl

I think women are cool.

A few reasons. My first playthrough, I played as male V nomad. For my second, I went when a female V streetkid. So, part of it was going for a different story.

Another part is Judy. Yes, people have made mods to allow romance as a male character but those just don't seem right to me. Judy's a badass, beautiful, crazy-smart, and one of the only characters in Night City that I could likely be friends with IRL. But friends/extended family is all it could be. She's very clearly a lesbian, in her character as you get to know her and even her choice and style of tattoos - the roses on her arm especially seem rather anarcho-sapphic to me. Using a mod to "make her straight" just seems wrong, like a violation of deep parts of who Judy is. So, my second character was a lesbian.

And finally, when I started my second playthrough, I was a bit thirsty.

Making the exact same character in every game gets old after a while. Also boobs.

Cause being a dwarf isn't an option.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYv_yiOHVFI

Character customization is one of my favorite parts of the game. And to be honest dressing up a "hot" woman is more fun than a guy to me.

Also I like looking at a woman more than a man. So there's that too.

As probably a generic "dude" as one can be, I like playing female characters because it gives me a chance to be someone I'm not. I play games to remove myself from the real world for a bit, and playing a male character feels too much like self-insertion.

It's weird, but being forced into playing from a "self" perspective I find to be less enjoyable. I like being told a story, and getting to participate in it, but I dont like when the story feels like it's supposed to be about myself, rather than a character.

Valerie's inflection is more satisfying than Vincent's IMO. I also prefer the additional styling options.

You can play as who you want to look like, or who you want to look at. I prefer the latter.

I mean, I generally prefer to look at female asses. But I often think the female voice actor is better, although Male V is about equal.

Why is it important that your character matches your gender?

I make my V an attractive and slim woman with a massive dong so it’s absolutely nothing like me.

I started to use female protagonists for UT2K4. Smaller target. But, then it just morphed into just wanting to see a badass woman be my hero.

This YouTube short I stumbled upon a while ago pretty much covers it... https://youtube.com/shorts/haOm9TY90uY?si=rOnOKRMHPQslVn5e

I'm trans. 😺

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As many have said, generally I enjoy watching ladies being badass murderbabes in fiction (not sure I’d actually want to interact with an IRL murderbabe, unless she was on my side). As an aside, one of my favorite aspects of the Horizon series is being an unstoppable murder machine in a cute package.

In Cyberpunk specifically, I think a lot of the plot points are more poignant as Valerie—the whole intro scene with Johnny is a massively more problematic and narratively interesting interaction, for example. Another instance is getting turned down by Kerry, even though he’s bi and ruining River’s day because who doesn’t love ruining River’s day? Also in this game specifically I just really enjoy Cherami Leigh’s performance, but I will more often than not play as a lady in games when it’s an option. That’s just a long winded way of saying “‘cause I like to.”

I don't but if I do it'll be with mods, wanna see them booba jiggle

I think most guys just want to look at the female character doing the things, as if they're a spectator where other people play games as an extention of themselves. I like to imagine I'm in the game and that my character is me. That's hard if I'm a female character.

Sometimes playing as a guy feels like the normal boring experience. Often also ladies have cooler clothes. I feel like my character is cooler as a witch than a wizard

In Cyberpunk i started first with a male character and on the second playthrough chose female to shake things up and really enjoyed the voice actor. My subsequent playthroughs have been with female V.

Autogynerotica

I would join the "more pleasant to watch" gang, but I would also say that maybe getting an experience that I can't get IRL is an incentive to play as a female character for me. Also that's probably the same as with Ranma ½, and people feel differently about it.

And also maybe because exclusively male characters tend to fit in the heroic overcoming archetype that does feel a bit stale

The only game I’ve tried to make a character resemble myself was GTA5, just because it seemed funny. Otherwise, I make up a character in the same way one might for a work of fiction, and some are male, some are female.

I was actually just thinking about that the other day. As far as I can tell, people tend to fall in to one of two camps:

1. Make the character look as much like (a potentially idealized version of) yourself as possible
2. Make the character look nothing like yourself

I always make my characters completely different from me, so they often (maybe 60-70% of the time) end up being women. My friend always makes them look as close to himself as possible.

I think it comes down to different styles of roleplay. I'm myself every day. Why would I want to be myself but Cyberpunk? My friend, on the other hand, wants to imagine himself as being in that world.

And then you have the third camp of people who make their characters horny or humorous, which can be fun to do occasionally but I cannot imagine doing regularly.

me: I do this on 3rd person games. If I'm going to look at a figure wandering the landscape for hours, I'm going to make an ass I like to look at.

I'm a simple man.

Some of the best cyberpunk characters are women and the clothing is cooler.

For the former point: molly millions/Sally shears and YT were both by far the most interesting characters in the sprawl series and snow crash respectively.

For the latter: neokisch mox gear is better than worn browns and grays.

Who cares. People have been doing this since the inception of video games. Let people have their fun.

I just go with what feels right, different looks for different play throughs. Or just something ridiculous I can laugh at