Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Why do men play a female characters?

Just a thing that always interested me as a psychologist.

So before playing this game I was assured that this is just because some guys likes the looks of a woman character. Average game time played by an adult is about from 1-3 hours. So for some men its more appealing to spend those 3 hours looking at a woman rather that playing a male. Just a "visual" preference. They don't associate themselves with the character and bluntly speaking just "enjoys the view" while playing. But this game introduced Lizard race that has no resemblance to a human female. And we still have lots of men playing a female lizard. Now that is interesting...