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I can understand that you can identify less with a male protagonist, but it could still be a great game. I've played several games with female protagonists and enjoyed them. Same with books.
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Books are different. My interpretation of a CRPG (and I don't play any other genre), is that I co-create the game while playing it. And I co-create it by supplying the protagonist and her relationship to the world and the characters in it. And as a protagonist I always want a heroine. Very definetly a heroine, as in SHE.
It was PS:T in particular that convinced me that I should not waste my toime on male-only game. The only time I had some sort of a success playing PS:T (as in not grinding my teeth in frustration anticipating the alleged greatness to seep in and overwhelm...) was when I said screw you, Interplay, took the dialogues, re-wrote them for the female lead and repalced the main character avatar with a female. Then, Monty's jokes were not a reason to want to go and hung myself wuite so much (though only Shandra managed to take over from him as the most hated character of all times), and Deionar (instead of Deionarra) did not cause me to want to scream in agony at the horrifying cheesyness of the game (hells, I even called him Kivan at first to make it bearable!).
Yes, I played as a male - but only when I needed to test the games. My life is so busy that I don't see myself wasting precious few minutes I can steal here and there on playing something that does not interest me. And PS:T, and it's newest reincarnation - the Witcher- are in that category, no matter what th legions of fans say about them.
In short, and I know, I should have just put that but I already wrote this whole rant... in short, I do not enjoy the games with a male lead. I just don't. I know I won't be able to convince you who can do it that I absolutely do not shoot myself in the foot or steal pleasure from myself, but I do not. And I also have at least two games I haven't played yet (one in progress, MotB) waiting for me to have time for it (not to mention modding and ME coming far too soon, not to mention DA), so running out of games is not an issue as well.