(Disclaimer: I'm not talking about transgender stuff here. Someone who identifies as a female and also plays a female is a totally different thing.)

I have just discovered Sparc, a multiplayer sports game for VR. Trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRf7kVFAmUc

The game lets you customize your character. Not as detailed as those big-ass RPG's, but here you're inside VR, customizing while you look at yourself in the mirror. You can pose yourself by, well, posing. Check out the attachment. Notice that I'm better at posing when my character is female. Dudes don't pose.

This is a duel game, an evolved version of softball for two players. And before the game start, the two players are standing only a few meters from each other. And I feel it would be a bit much, having another player looking directly at me and seeing a female. Kinda like I'm impersonating a woman, rather than playing a female character.

So I'm a bit confused about the whole deal. Am I misleading the other player? And do I even want to play the opposite sex when I'm that close to the character? Weird stuff!

This is probably opening up a whole can of worms with some people saying "absolutely play a female" and others saying "Why the hell would you want to?" Me personally, I'm somewhere in the middle. If you feel comfortable role playing as a female, why not? But at the end of the day, you're only role playing so who does it hurt?

Now when VR games start including built in voice chat, there's going to be a lot of weirdness even beyond the little you've experienced here.

Good luck, Kasper, let us know how it pans out.

Oh. I totally forgot about the games built-in voice chat...!

When i play as a female character than i get to know her

I think you should, just to experience the sexual harassment you're likely to get and see things from a woman's point of view. It might help you to get rid of any residual toxic masculinity in your personality.

I keep forgetting this is a thing very much part of the modern world, unfortunately. I was raised to respect women, and while I may be old fashioned, I do respect women in general, unless they give me a reason not to.

I still don't get why women aren't considered equal, in things other than physical strength. Maybe I just answered my own question, though... : /

I usually play a female character simply because I find many recorded male voices annoying.

The quote from a male webcomic author about "if you;re going to sit there for hours on end looking at a butt, it may as well be a cute one" comes to mind. I forget who said it and they probably weren't the first one.

I get hit on a couple times a day in MMOs though. *sigh*

edit: Typo fixes.

I think that quote was in regard to the original "Tomb Raider". I could be wrong, though.

I feel like mentioning something related to transgender stuff here.

In particular, you might have the situation of somebody who is transgender but doesn't realize it yet (often, in the trans community, called an "egg"). In this case, playing as a female character can be a way for her to explore her gender identity; this can be a safe way to experiment with gender without having to take real risks.

The same argument applies to trans male eggs playing male characters, as well as for anyone who is questioning their gender; situations like VR games are a safe way to explore gender. Or you're experimenting with gender; that's a perfectly acceptable reason to play as the opposite sex in this sort of game. Doing so hurts nobody, and it might even benefit you. If it doesn't work out, you can easily just stop playing as the opposite sex and nothing is lost.

"I blew up 5 planets and killed a billion zombies as an 8-armed space alien, and I totally get that. It's pretty much in line with my every day experience IRL. But now this game asks me to take on physical features of a human being of another gender - ZOMG what do I do!!?!?! It's completely unfathomable!"

You're also forgetting that I see gender as binary, dt. I thought we unofficially agreed to disagree a while back. If I was mistaken, sorry.

Now imagine that someone has the cojones to make a game with a hermaphrodite/futanari.

soooo... wan2 cybseckz?

In seeing gender as binary, you are being blind to the beautiful gender diversity that is out there. It's like looking at a forest and only seeing one or two types of tree, when there are at least thousands out there (at least one study says there are around 60,000 tree species in the world).

By refusing to see the full diversity of gender, you are closing your eyes to true beauty.