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I think it's reasonable to expect that some users who choose a male character are going to want more masculine styles ... and one who choses a female character may well want to look 'feminine'.
As a default/common choice there's nothing really to disagree with there. But limiting choices, especially to a narrow set of archetypes, is a different matter. I probably wouldn't object if there was a checkbox that said "enable (opposite of current gender) hairstyles" or whatever.
RPGs are better when they're a bit different whilst remaining internally cohesive. They don't
need grumpy dwarfs and mechanical gnomes and so on to make sense, and there's no reason it can't break out of certain other clichés too, (when doing so makes sense).
Saints Row is some gangstery thing? Don't know that I'd enjoy that, and I'm not going to look into it because I should already be asleep by now and you keep distracting me!
:@EDITED: 12 Nov 2011 06:48 by BOUGHTONP