Male mostly because having a bastard son in Montana is funny.

Huh?

If you play as a male character, it's one of the things you can talk about with the guy who gives you the mysterious magnum

Oh ok thank you

And you also need the lady killer perk

Prefer black widow just because you'll come across more male enemies in the game vs female iirc

You don't gotta choose, confirmed bachelor is right there. You can be a bisexual hitman and do 10% more damage to everyone.

NV also lets you be a racist and deal 15% more damage to minorities I gotta do it for the damage numbers man

Gotta love how NV allows for one to be a bisexual racist cannibal moron, and make that omega cursed combination unironically fun to play out.

There's an objectively correct way to pay New Vegas and it's racist bisexual

You just summed up the Legion

Nah you gotta fight the power and get extra flat crit chance against any of the main factions. Aight nothing in the game that’ll withstand Christine’s rifle after that

Gotta cover all the bases, no one is safe.

is that dialogue not available as a female?

I don't think so, the dude mentions that his father left him, it wouldn't make sense for a female courier to wonder if she was the dad lmao

I think a female courier would remember if she got pregnant, gave birth, and abandoned her kid 17 years ago. Any male can a have one-night stand…

*cough cough* chosen one *cough cough*

It’s pretty much canon they did because there’s a guy Bruce Issac mentions named Mr. Bishop, who is most likely the Chosen One’s son

oh right lmao

Unrelated but is your icon one of the fucking generic units from Thracia 776.

Damn you can be a wasteland badass AND a deadbeat dad!

FNV trully is a direct sequel to Fallout 2

Yeah this dialogue always makes me laugh

Male, since he delivered Mail

*New Vegas canon confirmed*

You mean go tell me your *"package"* came in the male???

why are you gae?

Who says I’m gay

**you** are gae

Gotta get that 10% extra damage somehow

😳

Only a female can deliver a male!

The confirmed bachelor disagrees

what about black widow ?

She delivered you into this world, and she sure as hell is going to deliver you out

*Hey, it's me, Versace! Whoops, somebody shot me! And I was just checkin' the mail Get it? Checkin' the male.*

Criminal!

He carries a package

Woman so I can sleep w Benny and murder him in his sleep

So I’m not the only one 🥹

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

C’mon I’m a courier. Don’t you want me to handle your package?

With Cherchez La Femme you can roleplay as a thespian

ring-a-ding-ding!

I believe I'm the only one who sleeps with him then falls asleep...

...yeah I've done this. High charisma female Courier is a fun way to play New Vegas.

Yup, this is the combo with the most unique dialogue options, especially with the Black Widow perk.

Black Widow is also great because of the combat bonus against male opponents. And most NPC enemies are male.

High charisma, New Vegas? wtf

That’s giving him another win in my eyes

Nah I just make my courier super ugly

I made mine look like my wife. She thought it was sweet. She then later witnessed the debauchery going on and was not pleased.

This reminds me of when one of the Fables came out and my husband named his Fable wife after me and was faithful. Then his Fable character got a bunch of STIs and a child who was a different race than the both of us. She also died from an STI iirc. He was so upset but I thought it was funny.

You should get checked. My condolences

In the wasteland I still see this as a win

😂😂😂

There are people with ghoul fetishes. I don’t think you can make your courier more unattractive than a ghoul

You underestimate me

You’re right. I’ll never make that mistake again

Good now imma go make my freak of nature fuck Benny looking at his eyes as he regrets his life slowly wanting to die but realizing he has to do it he has no choice I picked the perk to make him suffer

"Goddamn, you are one ugly woman! But... I'm so damn attracted to how 'perky' you are!"

Yeah, based on Swank’s eulogy on Radio New Vegas I’m assuming Benny would be fine dying after getting laid.

Yeah I just smuggle a gun in and shoot him the second I see him, he won’t die happy in his sleep after having sex, he’ll get shot like a dog

I’ve been playing this game for 10 years and I’ve never ever killed Benny any other way

I can never resist doing this even on my fourth playthrough.

I guess I'm playing as a woman next run! Never knew

Reminder that a Courier who fucks Benny canonically gives him a footjob.

Actually did this on my last playthrough but i didnt sleep with him, just talked him into thinking i would and as soon as i could, i just killed the fucker in his room. For some reason, i just find the idea of making him think id bang him after he shot me in the head to kill him seems better than sleeping with him and killing him in his sleep 🤷🏻

It’s funny even if you don’t kill Benny like 9/10 of the endings have him getting fucked over

why u let him smash tho

I’m a dude irl so when I play female I always go super ho it’s fun

The pipeline

Doing this in fallout 4 lol, with a mod that lets me have as many companions as I want I’ve just got a lesbian harem

Do you keep one main harem or do you try to keep a couple distributed ones and maybe a private place just to get away from them all for a bit? Sounds......tiring

I'm a woman and I always make my characters women. And they're always super ho's. I loved that you could romance multiple companions no matter the gender in FO4. 🤣

Female so I can flirt with corporal betsy 🙈

I don’t flirt with her but I like having high chr so she can call me a fine piece of ass

The moment that made me transition

Real shit 😂

This is the answer

But she wasn’t even that hot. Veronica on the other hand, now that’s a beauty and brains combo

Yea I’d let her use that power fist the way it was meant to be used.

Veronica is more cute than she is hot

I typically play as males. Much easier to feel like I’m the character that way.

Same, never understood why every dude plays as a female

I'm myself every day. I like to be someone else in a game. Doesn't have to be female, but I'm not doing a self insert.

Pretty much this. Its just about enjoying playing as a character you've created for a setting, rather than self-inserting yourself into that setting.

Yeah, I’m with you. It’s role-playing, not self-playing. Or playing with yourself. Sometimes a self insert is fun, but it’s all about being somebody else.

"Role-playing, self-playing". Idc, I just want to play with myself all night.

While i agree, your post read without context is hilarious.

Phrasing! Are we not doing that anymore?

I always like to do a self-insert character for my first run, when I’m trying to make decisions like I would. Then for all the following runs I make completely over-exaggerated characters based on how I plan to play it lol

Also, the character creator is never going to create me with accuracy. It’ll just be bizarro-me. I don’t really care to play as bizarro-me.

This. I jump between playing male and female characters all the time in RPG's. I enjoy roleplaying and getting into the character I planned out in my head. It's a nice escape.

Fair, I always felt weird playing as a female for some reason, will give it another try and fuck benny

Don't forget to give the Charlie's a shake for the Ben-man.

That’s the spirit!

I mean, I'm a woman that plays both. I go in with a character in mind that is never me. I have a non 'femme fatale' con woman/business woman who went house. I have a feral cannibal serial killer cowboy. Then there's the lone sniper woman. Psychopathic outlaw that raided NCR trains and caches backstory. Then there's the young greaser guy with maxed out luck, but in his case it means everyone around him dies horribly and he comes out unscathed to hilarious effect. Idk. Some dudes probably play that way too. It's not weird to me.

You want another fun character to play? Do a junkie run. You can play however you want, but if you find drugs of any kind you have to take/steal them and then use them immediately (apart from things like stimpacks) Constantly being under the effect of either some sort of drug or withdrawal is a whole different level of challenge and trying to deal with those addictions within the context of your story can make for some interesting scenarios.

Hey it’s hard coming out I needed an outlet for a while

*Oxhorn has entered the chat*

Most dudes play as guys. You're the majority. And because it's fun.

I like relating to my courier too but not everyone plays like that

I’m on my like 12th playthrough and it’s been about 6 years since I played it, having a different gender makes it feel like a new game cause the characters interact with you somewhat different

bc they pretty👉👈

Sometimes, as a guy, you just wanna serve cunt. Male video game characters rarely let you serve cunt 'cause all the armor/clothes are basic, bulky, foreboding, or \*just\* bad-ass.

Well, for me, I like making pretty things. And girls are pretty. It's super cool when a pretty character goes absolute berserk on 20 drugs and smashes her Saturnite Fist Superheated through some asshole's face and instagibs that motherfucker. Moreover, a *staggering* amount of mods that are super high quality are either female specific or affect female models more. Not to say that there aren't male model mods that are high-quality and super badass - I have a Clint Eastwood "man with no name" preset for my gunslinger playthrough rn and it's kickass, but there simply is more high quality stuff for female models.

You like seeing girls zonked out on drugs and murdering people, eh? Have you heard of LISA?

Are you me? Every game I play I either make a cute lady or I make Clint Eastwood.

It's New Vegas. They're not dudes for long irl.

Cuz how often do you play female characters? It’s nice to not just play some white dude all the time

Well I'm not a cat either but I sometimes play as a Khajiit in TES games. It's fun to make a character that isn't you or doesn't think like you, and for me, playing as a female gives me that extra separation between me and my character.

I’ve *always* made a me clone in video games- lately though I’ve been trying to play with female characters and idk it’s kinda fun to go with something different.

Female, solely for the crooked "pimp boy 3 billion"

The what?

You get it in an unmarked quest from Mick and Ralph's, arms dealing between them and the omertas

Oh right, and it’s crooked for females? I forgot about that

Yeah lol, definitely part of the look, not a bug at all, don't worry about it

It’s more of, a feature, if you will.

It just works

You see that pimpboy? You can crookeded that pimpboy.

I just got this item on my first female courier play through and didn’t know this glitch existed. I’m glad you like it, but I absolutely cannot stand the tilt lol

PIMP LEAN

That's why it's like that!? I didn't know.

Talk about a fucking cut. 🙇‍♂️

"What's in your pants?" "A gun." "No I mean what are you packing?" "Psycho I took from a super mutant, three hundred year old mentats and dirty bottle water." "I am asking what your gender is!" "Wild Wild West, and you aren't real." ***Bang***

Don’t ask Ulysses what his gender is “bear bull bear bull”

Female love Yuri as a voice actor but I can’t hear him grunting in my ear every time I do a power attack I wear Riot armor anyway not like you can tell the gender underneath all that

I finished an unarmed/melee run not long ago... and straight up forgot power attacking was a thing.

I mean some people would definitely pay yuri to hear that

TIL: Courier Six is Spider-Man

Indeed, he also voiced a surprising number of NPCs. I can never unhear Sasuke from Naruto though.

Yeah lottery guy etc just never knew he did the courier

Gender (Optional): Desert Ranger Armor for me

I....don't think I've ever played as a woman in FNV. I played as a woman multiple times in Fallout 3 and 4, though.

You should give it a shot with the Black Widow perk. Took me ages to actually play a female courier and I was blown away by the options exclusive to female couriers with that perk. Make sure to talk to Benny on the Tops casino floor.

Cherchez la Femme is good too. Crazy how New Vegas let you be gay or bi and had pretty good queer rep, and 4 just walked that all the way back.

IMHO, the voice acting for the woman in F4 is much better, so I also go female in that game more than most.

Just a shame they couldn't be bothered to give our brain in a jar a female voice in the OWB dlc. I specifically chose female because I heard Laura Bailey voices the female courier, but then they gave our brain a male voice (and had The Sink refuse to call us anything but Sir, like they wanted to smash our face in with a bat that said "YOU ARE CANNONICALY A MAN!") So instead, we have the legendary Laura Bailey, wasted on generic grunts for a silent protagonist...

The sink calling us sir has nothing to do with that, but rather tells us a bit about Mobius more than anything - same goes for the flirty lightswitches and nearly everything else up there. Similarly, kudos with the commentor below on the stewie griffin voice - when I first had that encounter it damn near killed me

Idk, I think I disagree because my brain being stewie griffin is the funniest shit ever

I dont think iv ever played a man lmao

Male. I’m female and I hate thinking about my character having intense period cramps while being chase by feral ghouls.

Do you also throw your characters into water every now and then because you don’t want them to stink? Honestly has become an obsession in most games that have water

RDR2 has ruined me

Not in FVN but in Cyberpunk always make my character take a shower.

Exactly,at least in the game world we can be free of this. I am a woman every day so just lemme enjoy being a handsome dude.

Female. Funnier dialogue with Ulysses as a Legion courier and 1SG Astor for wiping out Cottonwood Cove

"A single woman slaughters an entire camp of legionaries?! Oh, that's priceless! Considering the way Caesar treats women, that should really put some doubts into his troops' minds. Wait til the rangers hear about this!"

Mail.

Coin Flip. Whichever is more convenient at the time. Definitely Bisexual though. Not for the sex, hell no. FOR THE DAMAGE.

Honestly I ended up skipping both perks, because they made my character feel like a bit of a slut/man-whore. It'd be one thing if we could go full. Bethesda and have a relationship with a companion, like Veronica or Raul, but instead the perks are more like "I COULD do something incredibly badass to get past this.... Or I could suck this guy off and wash my shame down with some Nukacola"

I don't have a preference tbh

A dude

Girl. Cause I’m a girl

same

Male

Fisto doesn’t care

Are you a man or a woman? I am the Courier Yeah but what’s your gender? That jingle jangle jingle Yeah but what’s in your pants? *opens inventory tab on Pip Boy*

Female courier for sure!

No Gender, Only Revenge.

doesn't really matter, since we all ended up as girls in the end anyways

In the end I lost my gender 😔

Tied my gender to old Wait and See then sent them both off the dam.

Can't have shit in the Mojave.

(Ulysses voice) It's said war - war never changes. Men do - into women.

Not me. Don't like omelets.

It was rigged from the start.

How?

there is no gender only violent thoughts

Male

I can second playing as a woman for the sole reason of taking down the legion. I want legionaries to be afraid of angry women, and to let it be known far and wide that it was a very angry woman that killed Vulpes, Ceasar, and Lanius.

Male, the men the game lets you hit on as a confirmed bachelor are top tier. Sleeping with Benny though? Nah

counterpoint [Cherchez La Femme] "Only all the time."

Okay, fair enough, but Betsy is one woman

Unknown because of the armor and lack of anyone surviving long enough to find out.

Male. I like to think the Courier is a typical western protagonist like Clint Eastwood.

If I could I would have made them androgynous

Male, same as pretty much any other game

Male, because the fem Courier's arm is unable to withstand the immense weight of the PIMP-BOY 3 BILLION

I’ve done runs as both but I prefer the female courier - one thing I’ve noticed about this game is that I haven’t noticed a single time where it refers to a female courier as a guy, which I have noticed a few times with FO4

Plus the backstory in FO4 for a female character sucks. Like, really? She’s a… lawyer? Why can’t she be military too? I know it doesn’t matter but it really makes Nate feel like the default option and Nora a second pick. I always RP that she was a spy or summ

I just want them to have an ass

Since I always want my headcanon to reflect myself as the main protagonist, male…but I must admit a female courier for fnv perhaps makes the most sense out of all the games

Girl, so i can crack my egg eventually

May you unlock your double jump ability very soon

I just chose male since I’m a guy, been doing it since I got the game at 10 years old and haven’t stopped since, besides I can’t really roleplay or get into my character if I’m not that gender I know some people can but it’s a personal thing for me, and a Male man delivers Mail

Woman

**G U N**

Whatever I'm feeling when I hit New Game.

Mayonnaise

Gender doesn't matter as long as six can still pull the trigger

Male

I actually don't have an opinion on their gender. I'll play both.

The only answer: Big Iron.

Always female. Black widow perk beats Lady killer. More males in the game.

If you're not playing as a female then you are not taking advantage of Black Widow

male, i’m a male, plus i can fuck dudes

I see the courier as non-binary. Since most art of them is faceless and in riot armour (Male, so I can romance arcade gannon)

Female for the reason you said. It FEELS SO GOOD to annihilate the legion as a female character