Are you racist?

[Stonecarver]

Did I make sure the subject grabbed your attention? Hell yeah, I did. What I am referring to are video game races. I will admit, when I see a human I think "Where the hell is your imagination man? Did the unoriginal train make it's final stop in your dome?" That being said, my Mesmer is a human. So maybe I have a bit self hate going on. But hey, they have a kick ass great sword animation. That being said, when I play my charr I spit on humans. *patooey*   Silly? Yes. I am a silly silly man.....erm charr.

[Kalabajooie]

I almost have an alt of each race. I'm tempted to ditch my Human Warrior, but he was my first character from back in the betas, my first 80 AND has my GW1 main's name. My current main is a human Engineer, but he's not going anywhere as he's the star of my Living the Story series. Of the others, I have a Norn, an Asura, and a Charr that I haven't had time to level.

Maybe I should just buy a character slot to complete the set. Think we'll get one with Heart of Thorns?

[GrilledCheese28 (aka Aruth)]

I'm only racist in the sense that I really really don't like the Norn and Charr models and animations, to the point that I deleted those alts and won't make anymore. Asura I am indifferent to.

[Aberrant]

My 2 "mains" are Asura. I have alts across every other race, but the Asura are the bestest.

[Zeli]

Picking a race, for me, is all about looks. It has to look good. And I don't mean pretty or sexy. Sadly, some MMOs don't have very many good looking options. GW2 is a rare one that really makes all their races look good. Guild Wars was great at making humans though. But anyway, I think Asura look awesome. I love the look of the Charr... but I've tried to start a few alts as Charr... and I can't handle a hunched over running/walking animation. It's prevented me from making the undead, troll, and werewolf-folk in WoW, and those Valkyn in DAoC too.

I have a mix of all the rest of the races. Norn was my first 80. Sylvari was my second. Going for my 3rd on an Asura.

Total count: 3 Asura, 3 Humies, 1 Norn, 1 Sylvari

I'm not real happy with my humie-thief... maybe I could try a Charr again as one of those. A Charr thief would kind of be hilarious. I tried one of those before though.

[Stonecarver]

Something I found that helps with charrs is when creating them, make them short. They don't come off as lumbering. Their movement has the illusion of quickness when smaller. I hear ya though. I could never play undead and trolls for the same reason. There's something psychological to it but I almost feel like I am playing more hunched over at my keyboard if I play those races. Luckily charrs get on all fours. Yes, there is  joke somewhere in that last statement.

[Slurm]

Well, let's see...

Here's the first character I ever created. Well, technically Zeli made it for me while Jabb and me were in Orlando when the game's pre-launch play time happened:



Here's my next level 80, a Guardian with whom I had loads of fun running in WvW. But I don't find them much fun in PvE.. .soooo....



My next and last 80, and my favorite, the Necro.



and then there's this ugly little thing I made to soak up all those free experience tomes....

[Aberrant]

So yeah Slurms is racist.

[Maeve]

I'm definitely a game racist. I almost never roll a human either. Because yeah, I RP a human all day, every day. Playing one in game is boring to me in most cases.

I hate short races. I think it is because I am tall in real life and being short is like "ewwww". (Sorry to any vertically challenged people out there...)I came to this theory because my friend, who is short in real life, prefers to play all the short races and has an army of asura characters.

That being said, I have several norns in GW2. Which are basically just tall humans, so kind of a sell out for my original "I hate to play humans in game" philosophy.

I have a charr necro, a sylvari guardian and one human mesmer. I have one asura that is sitting at like level 22. Little possums, I tell you. Although I like the opossums.

I think with the asura in GW2, they are also the "cutesie" race. In general, I've never gone with the cutesie stuff either. I do play my little pink thief though whenever my daughter wants to play with me because she loves it and asura is part of her vocabulary now.

[Aberrant]

I might be an outlier, but I am 6'4" in real life, and I like short races.

However, I do like huge races as well. I tend to go either small or big. Even though I didn't play Midgard in DAoC, I LOVED the Trolls. I thought they were one of the coolest looking races in any MMO.

[Slurm]

I had a Troll Skald for a bit, yeah, they were pretty great. LOVED my Thane and my Hunter, though.

I normally stick with human-like races, with my caveat being I'll always roll the more Norse-like ones if available. Can't really explain it beyond having a long time love for Norse Mythology.

[Maeve]

It is the lore of the Norn that makes me like them as well.

And, well, my sample size of my study of who likes short vs tall characters consisted of two. So I don't know that my theory holds much water.

[Winin]

I'm like Abb, 6' 1" but I enjoy gnomes most. Asura work pretty well here. I also have a plant-dude.

[Maeve]

Fine. It's just me. I'm a heightist.