This one is interesting: "Gender-bending popular in video games" :)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14304639/

One gem:

"One of the people that I met online who is a mom in Indiana was really intrigued by the fact that I was actually a guy and at the time I was playing a female character," he said. "I had to break the news to her that I'm actually a big hairy guy."

Quote:

"They'd rather look at a character that looks like Lara Croft than a character that looks like Rambo,"

Yeah, no duh.

I'm not into MMO games, but I can see the confusion.  Oh yeah, & any guy who plays as a female for role-playing experience IMO is probably a f*g.  But if they're doing it for "visual stimulation" then that's just that. ;D

I made my character in Pokemon Sapphire a girl and named her Nicole.   ;D

There are games that force you to play as a girl. Sword of Mana for GBA for example has a different storyline and gameplay if you choose the girl.

Can anyone say Samus Aran from Metriod?  The best female charcter for any game on any system.
~~NGD

yeah for real~ Samus is a babe!! i dont mind playing as her and the games are badass~ crappity smack Lara Craft~

Fighting games are the best games to choose a female character. And yes, most of the time female vid game characters tend to be pornographic. My fav fighting game is Bloody Roar for NGC, and no exeption here  8-)

I need to buy that game~ One of the only fighting games im really good at~  ;)