Why doesn't Nintendo make Link more manly and not a woman, like they've been doing for the last decade?
Because feminine Link is the best Link.
Because bishonen appeal to the girls who buy all of his figures.
>>258954337
There is actually some chitchat about this online regarding appeal to target markets and what it does to young male actors. Basically the idea is that men that are effeminate, young, pretty, can be marketed to younger women that are more likely to consumes a product for those reasons. Justin Bieber, is an example. As they get older women find them more imposing than "cute" so they are dropped for the next cute thing. Before JB there was The Jonas Bros, and before than Hansen, and so on.
Also, most japanese doods are secretly homosex that like to look but not touch, and Link is the perfect link for that.
>Hansen
>Link will never look this manly again
feels bad man
remember when link was just some kid kicking ass everywhere he went
that was fun
Link is a link to players to the game. So making him more effeminate, he acts as better link to both men and women.
Still I would like to go back to a Zelda 1 or Lttp design.
They do it to appeal to the Japanese market
Or they could just make him black.
BecauseI like effeminate guys.
>>258957420
I'm all up for a black link in a modern setting ala earthbound.
Not in a SJW or hipster way, just witty humor.
>>258955684
Those were the good days. Back when you didn't have major faggots thinking the lore in Zelda was anything special.
Because Link is a kid and the Legend of Zelda is a coming of age story.
Because he's a teen, and there aren't many manly teens.
That Skull Link from Twilight Princess was a total badass tho.
He was manly and ripped as fuck in OoT. Never again, however.
>>258957859
Go fuck yourself with a rake, niggerlover.
>>258958330
>Zelda
>story
And Mario is an epic poem in the form of a video game right? Don't delude yourself.
Because /ss/.
>>258961163
Not him but
>Zelda
>not about the story
>equating Zelda to Mario
Quit playing the NES versions, starting with Majora's Mask forward it was all about the story.
>>258955278
No, it's the opposite. In Japan, super muscly dudes are considered homogay. They probably look at Western games as being extremely homoerotic because all the protagonists are super ripped, lose their shirts a lot, and are almost bald.
>>258954337
It was a tribute to Tom Cruise in Legend. And Nintendo is still mentally in the 80's.
>>258954337
>Zelda game
>MC is son of hero of time now retired.
>HoT + zelda gets killed by agents of ganon.
>They use the triforce to resurrect ganondorf.
>Train for years to get revenge.
>MC has to wrestle control of hyrule from the now omnipotent ganon.
Dark themed as fuck, pic sortof related.
I would play it.
>>258954586
And all of his games. Let's be real. Zelda is the staple "GUURL GAMER" franchise.
>>258963637
Link is so handsome that he's worth 10 waifus.
Of course, there are plenty other husubandos in this franchise.
>>258963228
We've already seen Nintendo trying to do Zelda games with "Dark" themes. We got Twilight Princess and it wasn't mature dark themes, it was hot topic dark.
>>258960907
make me
>>258963956
True.
But a man can dream anon.
They should just go all out, really.
>>258963228
>Dead parents
Great. Just like pretty much every other fantasy protagonist ever.
>>258963956
You're forgetting something....
>>258963201
The series could have used some deviled Zelda.
because Manly Old-Timer Link would bring in the sony souls babbies in the fanbase again.
>>258964370
Don't fix what isn't broken anon.
Besides, when have we ever seen parents in zelda?
>>258964720
>all that awesome porn to assuage my raging daddy issues
why can't it happen
>>258964759
Link had a family in WW, and it's implied Rusl's family served as Link's surrogate parents in TP.
I find family dynamics a lot more interesting than generic teen angst over dead parents.
>>258964460
That nintendo is long gone. And even then, you had to really dig deep and pay attention to catch the darker themes to MM. What that other dude was talking about is a very blatant and in-your-face darkness probably akin to some sort of post-apocalypse game like Fallout. Bleak, comes to mind.
>>258964759
>Don't fix what isn't broken anon.
>because who cares about creativity, right?
>>258964346
>implying girl link wouldn't be use as a mask/ring effect for joke missions and stealth quests that doesn't effect the game (only fan service)
it's for the better
>>258954586
What is it with girls and their obsession with feminine boys?
Is every girl secretly gay?
>>258955604
>that
>manly
>>258958675
dude
he has a total chick face
are you blind
I'd like to see an older Link. Maybe not as old as pic, but at least in his thirties.
I just want Nobuyuki Hiyama voicing him again.
>>258965259
To OOT Link's defense, atleast you can tell he is a guy, unlike the newest Link.
Because Nintendo needs to appeal to jetta owning legbeards.
>>258965254Bisexual, with a strong preference for cocks
>>258965139
it's one of like five or six ways they could do it well
>>258965073
>wanting JRPG Angsty Edge-tier Link
>implying that's something original
hey, isn't Grill la Grill coming back with an OVA soon?
>>258965385
His face is pretty butch. He has a much stronger jawline and cheekbones than the female characters, who have triangular chins and heart-shaped faces.
>>258965254
I'm a guy and I secretly like feminine boys.
Explain that!
>>258954337
Then it would stop being cool with females
>>258965554
Yep. I don't see how it's relevant but yep, can't wait.
>>258965254
Early pubescent girls find manly features too scary and threatening, that's why they gravitate toward manlets like Bieber.
>>258954337
Oh my fuck, link is hot
>>258965554
....when in my post did I imply or state that I wanted 'JRPG Angsty Edge-tier Link?' All I was saying is that it wouldn't hurt to break the mold sometimes. Sheesh. Having a bad night?
>>258965913
Or maybe girls have preferences, and some prefer androgynous guys over Meat Punchbeef.
>>258965403
No, a Link in his 50s to 60s would be fucking awesome. Just an old dude who has done this shit a hundred times and has a thousand weird magical items that can get him through any puzzle or encounter
>>258966148
>Meat Punchbeef.
>not Lance Thruston
>>258954337
>those arts
Jesus, ravage my asshole right now
>Baaaawww! TP Link is too girly!
>TP Link, who can push Ganon over with his bare hands without Iron Boots
You're just jelly 'cause he's prettier than you.
>>258966148
Next you'll say that men should show more emotions. Hah, what madness!
>>258965756
>>258965254
>g-guys it's a feminine dick, it's not gay!
i prefer a long clitoris that squirts fem juices over cum liquids, thank you very much.
>>258966302
>>258965019
You're really retarded if you think Majora's Mask's darkness wasn't obvious as fuck.
Game over screen.
All of Ikana Valley.
Elegy of Emptiness.
All the Masks being dead characters.
Retard.
>>258966310
Or an /r9k/ favorite, Chad Thundercock
>>258966395
That's gross as fuck, you fag.
>>258966302
I'd play the fuck out an old Link voiced by Micheal Ironside.
>>258966310
>not Dick Hardman
>not Johnson Thickwood
>not Biggol Cox
>notNewman Biggio
>>258965913
I'm a full grown homosexual uncomfortable in his masculinity and thus I shy away from overly masculine men, while not being attracted at all to the opposite. I don't really know why I'm typing this.
>>258966474
When you're 10, none of that is obvious. Maybe a little unsettling or different, but far from obvious.
>>258954337
>fully-bearded Geralt Link
FUND IT
>>258966526
>them bulges
>DFC
>boy hips
look who's talking
>the last decade
He's always been like that
>>258966024
Brendan Frasier as link
>>258966706
He did get a nose job, though
>>258966681
>A character dying right in front of your fucking face isn't obvious.
Just stop
>>258966559
>Link
>old
>voiced
Not in a million years, you Skyrim-playing faggot.
>>258966684
THAT.
>>258966310
>>258966636
>not Massiveson Macroschlong
>not Theodore Penis
>not Rigidnald Beefbattington
>not Monumental Sensual Robustness III
>>258954337
because japan is obsessed with youth now. japan hasn't cared about becoming men in over 30 years
>>258957420
>>258954337
>Why can't Link be a girl?!
>Why can't Link be black?!
>Why can't Link be manly?!
>Why can't Link be old?!
Link will always be a below average height, young pretty boy with light skin and brown/blond hair.
Sure, his design might bounce around within that spectrum, but that will always be his general image. Because that is who Link is.
Asking why he can't be anything, are all equally retarded.
>>258966395
Well, to each their own.
>I actually know it's gay
>I'm actually bi
>I am le epic trole
Why does a male character have to be a bearded elephant wrestler to be considered masculine?
>>258966767
>>258966681
Also Ikana valley is the scariest fucking place I had ever seen in a video game up until that point by far.
>>258966842
>not Oversize Dongmaster
>not Insatiable Gaylord
>not Five Dollar Footlong
>not Captain Genital Expansion IV
>>258954337
Would break the character.
He's always been a fairy like Peter Pan faggot.
>>258966927
you called, princess?
>>258966902
I always thought he was just an average guy. Closeted homofags on /v/ only think he's effeminate because they look at too much gay 2D porn that depicts him like that.
>>258966901
>mfw they make their men trappy and twinky as fucking fuck
>but men in japan must have deep voices even if they are twinks or they are not manly
why
Probably because he's usually a young male. I wouldn't really say a lot of teens males are the epitome of manliness. Sure you got a few that might be, but that's far and few.
Also Japan.
>>258966901
>japan hasn't cared about becoming men in over 30 years
but that's the theme of nearly every Zelda game
>>258967110
Sauce?
>>258967221
God, I hate Japan. I hate gender.
>>258966901
So they forgot the fact that children and teens are shitty people?
>>258967282
are you implying zelda is older then 30 years?
>>258967110
>enjoying this boko no pico shit
/a/ please stop
>>258966901
The new Harlock movie was fucking great.
>>258967282
>zelda
>theme
>nintendo
Anon, please stop posting silly things on 4chan and go off to bed.
>>258966148
Gristle McThornbody
>>258967345
No I wasn't. But now that you mention it, the Zelda series will be 30 years old in 2 years
>>258964720
>>258964720
Not part of either of those fanbases but I'd come back to ninty for that. Too bad it'll never happen because that game would be too much for twelve year olds
>>258966473
why
>>258967718
well thats all i can post
>>258954337
It's not the manliness on the outside, but the manliness on the inside that really counts. He's saved the world countless times in all his many reincarnations, oftentimes when he was still but a child, selflessly risking his life where others would not in order to protect his home and its people.
In Twilight Princess he grew up wrestling giant goats to the ground by making them charge him head-on. Doesn't get much manlier than that.
>>258967895
>well thats all i can post
thank god
>>258967484
How can you not see the "coming of age" theme featured in almost every Zelda game?
>>258966902
This is why we need a spinoff starring Ganon: so people will stop whining about shit like this.And then we make him gay with Ghirahim as his love interest, so we can drink the delicious macho fanboy tears.
>>258954337
we like it or not, man are in any way beautiful.
The only real thing beautiful for a human is a baby. But also for man and WOMAN some "female" characteristics are atractive so the japanes discovered this and use it in order to bring attention to their characters.
Is all in the 10 rules for animation and also in some brain trivia.
>>258967895
>And then Ganondorf ultimately road in and slaughtered/enslaved everyone because these chucklefucks turned the chosen one into a butt slut.
I'm sure they wind up feeling pretty foolish. Or dead. One of those.
>there are people in /v/ that watched the Zelda: Heroic Rage series
>there are people in /v/ that watched those Zelda animu Bleach-like flashes>implying Four Sword Adventure wasn't the best
>>258967718
>>258967895
Mind Break
Trap
Blowjob
Anal
CBT
Bondage
Collar
Shota
Group Sex
Yaoi
Elf
Rape
it didnt mention sounding, damn it
>>258967078
>notBob Johnson
>>258968473
totally worth it, right? anyways, he might escape. maybe thats really why 7 years passed without memory...
>>258968421
>Men can't be attractive
>Only babies are attractive
Go home, Anon, you're drunk.
>>258967170
He was mostly average Until OoT. But even before OoT, he had a little twink body with feminine hips.
Let's put it this way. Zelda 1 to OoT was about 12 years. OoT to SS was about 13. And as we've seen with the new trailer, Link will remain pretty. So Link has been pretty for longer than he's been "average".
>>258968404
But Link has always been straight. So you're no better than the rest.
>Why can't Link be gay?!
>>258968537
>notPenis-man
>>258967918
>manly
This thread is just...manliness means different things to different people. Because of my father and the way my strange sexual fantasies have skewed my memories of him in the years following his death, I've come to think of manliness as a brooding stoicness, occasionally bitter and self-destructive. The valiant, heroic type of manliness people seem to gravitate towards when describing the word just seems not right to me.
I dunno. I'm not sure if the problem is just that I'm moody tonight or if this thread is pointless. Most likely, though, Nintendo just doesn't have any of that in mind when making these games. They're not supposed to be about manliness, they're just to make another installment in their fantasy adventure series and sell it. Any kind of significance anyone associates with Zelda really means nothing. They're just games. It's just Hyrule.
>>258967332
I'm sorry anon, I can't seem to find it!
I can give you this though, I really like this one
http://exhentai.org/g/492695/9d4f5f07f6/
>>258967378
I don't understand what you're implying
>>258968713
okey then tell me the name of a famous person considerred atracctive, thaht does't have in any way female characteristics.
>>258968491
>*Four Swords Misadvertures
fuck i need some sleep
Link is like one of the most popular male characters among female players, and not just because the games he's in are easy enough for them to play. The kind of girls who will buy games like effeminate men (Kingdom Hearts, Zelda, etc.) so it sells to them and most guys don't notice male characters unless they are sufficiently gay-looking, which Link is not except to people with a below-average gayness threshold.
>>258969063
Theodore Roosevelt
>>258968870
strange sexual fantasies about your father?
>>258968870
This. Japan likes slender, clean-shaven men because it was built on a society of aristocrats and upper-class scholars. Burlier men were of the lower classes, and the samurai weren't always that respected and well paid. It was the same thing in China, where the whole society was founded on studying obsessively and passing the civil exams. Japan has a different standard of masculinity than the West.
>>258969063
>>258954337
>make Link more manly
>a famous knight spirit that has been reincarnated as a blacksmith, another knight, a superhuman sumo wrestling farmer, a wandering swordsman, a kid inappropriately living in a forest of death, an islander turned pirate, and an engineer
That's more man than the people who make such comments about his manliness.
>>258969063
George Clooney.
>>258954337
It would be a neat reversal if Link was buff and Ganondorf was lean but scheming and Loki-like.
>>258968421
>>258969504
Wouldn't we just be playing a Thor game then?
>>258969596
Forget it , i rembered something.... from the greeks and all.
>>258969596
i rike zeruda
>>258969504
>Downgrading Ganon from glorious bearmode
BLASPHEMY
>>258966927
Because nature 101.
>>258969063
Squiward
>>258954337
easy non-American would stop calling him Zelda. next question please
>>258969754
The Greeks considered the masculine form to be the epitome of male beauty. Women were just for reproduction, and early Greek statues were all of naked dudes. It wasn't until that one sculpture of Venus that you finally started to see representations of nude women.
>>258969318
>it was built on a society of aristocrats and upper-class scholars
pretty sure it was built on the backs of the peasants but okay.
>>258969840
le realism faec
>>258965756
You're a twink.
>>258969840
That's a physique more suited to Ganon, though. Link's not the guy who lifts dump trucks - he's the quick but reasonably strong physical jack of all trades, so it makes sense that he'd be lean but muscular.
>>258969840
FUCK YEAH
>>258969293
You don't want to know, anon.
>>258969840
Arnie goin strong tho
>>258969930
>Implying anybody gave a shit about peasants apart from their food production
>>258968870
>sexual fantasies have skewed my memories of him in the years following his death
What the fuck?
>>258968421
Did you know that men are actually more attractive than women?
girls look better because they pile on the makeup, but males have evolved more naturally attractive features to attract mates.
How many natural 10/10 women are out there?
way less than men.
>>258969954
Cmon brah.
>>258966901
I always wanted to see an anime or manga about somebody in their 30's finding love.
It always seems like japan glorifies high school, and after that, your life is basically over, and you have no chance of finding happiness, so I would love to see something that turned that chain of thought on its head, hell, I'm not even that old, but I would love for some Slice of Life shit that wasn't fucking high school.
>>258969840
Link is neither real nor is he natural.
Nigga is a goddam super man who could probably have fuck up his world good if he were the evil one.
I think you're missing the entire point of the Zelda series. Link always looks young or "girly" because he's a kid. It's the adventure that pushes him from boyhood into manhood.
>>258970187
I've had a hole in my heart ever since he died. I had to fill it up with something.
>>258970285
You need to read some bara.
Unless you're not into explicit gay sex between non-kawaii men. Then you probably shouldn't read it.
>>258970262
realism kills games
>>258969840
No matter how strong you are, you're no match for a fucking bear.
>>258970285
Nichijou has best girl and the man trying to win her heart
>>258970285
There was this one slice-of-life bakery manga that involved a girl working with some older men, but I can't remember the name.
Fanservice.
Half the time Link is some kind of ranch-hand or laborer, so it makes sense he'd have some kind of muscle tone.
But then again half the time link is like a 12 year old who doesn't do anything.
![e22b89_3114360[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/7GB3z6o.jpg "e22b89_3114360[1].jpg")
>>258970483
Tell that to this guy
>>258969063
whats feminine about this?
>>258970419
Are you are one of those people that has a hole for a crotch, if you know what I'm saying?
>>258954337
cause women play LoZ too.
>>258970672
>All this shirtless Link fanservice in TP
>The only time we see a bearmode man, it's a really ugly dude like Ilia's dad or the Headmaster
>There will never be a half-clothed Ganon wearing a bathrobe that looks like Demise's outfit
Being a bear-lover is suffering.
>>258970784
never understood why hes considered attractive, his eyes are all fucked up. Looks like there was a touch of inbreeding going on.
>>258970695
>Petersen, having his right hand and arm wedged in the bear's throat, actually used his own teeth and jaws to pinch off the bears jugular. When the bear passed-out from lack of blood flow to the brain, Petersen beat the bear on the head with a stick.
Now that's a man's man.
>>258970886
He's strong but sensitive. Ladies love that.
>>258954337
I'd like an Old West inspired Zelda
>Link's a cattle rustler
>Zelda's the daughter of a rail road baron
>Ganon's an outlaw turned oil baron looking to over the rail roads as well
>The Sheikah are Indians
Besides fantasy, Zelda pulls a lot from spaghetti westerns. I'd like to see it done all the way some day.
>>258970672
W-What are you staring at b-baka?
Y-You wanna.. roll around the hay with me? ..
>>258970695
What a fucking baller god damn
>>258970886
>his eyes are all fucked up
What, have you never seen a real human bean before?
>>258970886
>I can't understand why a tall, blonde-haired, blue eyed man with a handsome face is considered attractive
I guess most women aren't as picky as you obviously are.
>>258970809
No, I'm a filthy, filthy faggot.But I could be a girl if you want me to. I'm planning on spinning out of control into a crossdressing, drunken mess, tattooed mess in a few years time and I can already work a whorish, but convincing female voice.
>>258970868
>That sumo scene
I was so flustered I had to take a break.
>>258969840
>that delicious bara
If you don't think that this is the purest form of beauty than you don't know shit about video games.
>>258970886
>never understood why hes considered attractive
Famous.
I believe he even got a part partly because he looked average. I'm not sure if that was for Drive or something else.
Also he was born a Mormon so inbreeding's not unbelievable.
>>258954337
This one's easy OP.
Snowflakes in the thread think feminine features can be in some way manly, or he's "manly on the inside" but it's simply because he's not real.
Link is crazy stronk and powerful, but that doesn't sell in Japan.
Look up Japanese male models. All pretty boys.
>>258971023
>Besides fantasy, Zelda pulls a lot from spaghetti westerns.
Explanation necessary
>>258971180
>tattooed
Gross, anon.
Nobody would want a tattooed trap, there's just something about it that seems wrong
>Everyone rags on WW Ganon for being an old man
>No love for chubby dudes
Seriously?
Don't let this zelda thread die, please. It's the only one shitposters haven't ruined with posts about a certain game.
>>258971261
Have you seen the average Japanese teenaged boy? They usually look like that. At least the non-otaku ones.
>>258971512
What game could you be referring to, anon?
>>258971180
Dude...
>>258971443
WW Ganon is one of my absolute favorites. Not even cause bara, but the design is just original and nice.
Why does every video game protagonist have to be Mr. Man McWarHero to you Americans?
>>258971180
You may want to talk to a therapist. Or make some gay friends who aren't club kids so they can pull you out of that hole before it's too late.
>>258971436
>trap
Whoever said I was aiming on being convincing? I'm talking about the stubbled, shaggy haired man in a dress you see stumbling down some street in New York in high heels with a brown paper bag of bourbon and tampons and wonder how someone could ruin themselves so much.
>>258971872
but why?
>>258971685
I know! His kimonorobe was the coolest thing ever. I was really underwhelmed by his TP design by comparison, partly because it wasn't as visually interesting, and partly because it didn't flatter his figure as well.
>>258971872
But then no one would want to be around you at all, and that's an entirely different problem
>>258971443
There needs to be more good bara of fat Ganon.My daddy issues depend on it.
>>258970475
Body type =/= realism.
On a purely aesthetic basis, a bearmode person looks stronger than a body builder. So giving a character a bear type physique would be a good way to stylized the character into looking stronger.
>>258971315
>Lon Lon Ranch's music
>Gerudo Valley's music
>The fucking entire Sheikah Village section in Twilight Princess
>An entire game revolving around rail roads and trains
>Old timey explosives and abandoned mines everywhere
Would you go to a pool party with Links?
>>258958675
He's just as ripped in TP, only it's harder to tell because TP Link isn't wearing fucking tights. But in the art for Link's Crossbow Training, you can definitely see some arm muscles.
>>258972108
Don't forget the minigames founded on sharpshooting.
>>258971261
>he's "manly on the inside"
How is he not?
Even considering the life he lives before the games start, he had been doing some labor-intensive shit in most of them. Some of that being done as a child. Things most people on this website couldn't do as much as people here can tend to boast.
>>258971261
This is one of the many reasons I don't play jap games. The vast majority of male characters look like such gigantic faggots, and the action is always exaggerated, flamboyant and silly like from some shitty cartoon.
As for Link, Megaman and all of those franchises, I personally believe they lost a lot of their charm when they started adding lore and more detailed art. I loved the original Megaman series, and it didn't feel that childish because the art style was so simplistic and silly, and the story was summed up in a few words.
However, with Megaman X, they started focusing more on the story and tried making the silly characters look "cool". Suddenly you went from a stylized, simplistic platformer, to playing something meant to appeal to the same audience as a Saturday morning cartoon.
But I digress...
>>258971872
sup stephen
>>258963947
No there aren't. Link was literally the only attractive male in the entire series until Skyward Sword.
Yet the series is still popular with girls because Link is so hot they don't need anyone else, apparently.
>>258972276
One of his incarnations, which most of these OPs complain about being "too girly-looking," took down a giant spider, a dinosaur, and whatever the fuck Barninade was at the age of 9. They're just mad jelly that the girls love Link more than them.
Is this MANLY enough for you, /v/? I made it after 1,000,000 hours in photoshop
>>258972193
>has to wear armor at all
What a queer TP Link is.
>>258971617
>>258971925
Because I don't know. I want to ruin myself. I don't know. I just wanna take a bunch of drugs.
>>258971786
Anon, I don't even know if I'm being genuine right now. I don't know if I actually have a problem or if I'm just whining because that kills time and I don't know what to do with myself otherwise.
>>258971998
>But then no one would want to be around you at all
I don't want to be around myself.
>>258972464
Ganon, Shad,Sheik (before the Great Gender Wars), that dude who looked like Cyborg 007 from the ALTTP manga, Ralph, Kafei, muthafuckin' Vaati.
>>258972276
>>258972491
Irrelevant, OP asked why. That is why.
It's irrelevant how snowflakey you want to make it, Link is androgynous and soft looking because it sells in Japan. Has nothing to do with how you in particular define the term "masculine."
>>258957859
>I'm all up for a black link in a modern setting ala earthbound.
would play this
>>258972728
Ganon is the only smexy one on that list and that's only since TP (maybe WW).
>>258954337
he's an elf, mate.
>>258972008
>Body type =/= realism
...The way you're using it is based on realism.
The only way that statement would be true is if you made body types that don't listen to how the various body types work on real living things.
>>258972893
Calling Zelda characters elves is equivalent to calling Link "Zelda" or asking why he wears a skirt.
>>258972680
Drugs and partying will only carry you until your looks run out, which at the rate those guys tend to go, is pretty quick. I can't tell you what to do with your life, but there are other ways to fight the loneliness besides throwing your life away. Having someone nonjudgmental to talk to about your dad who can try to help you sort things out might at least make you feel a little less alone.
>>258972613
>Shiek... I'm already a Darknut
WHOA HOOOOOAAAAH
>>258972728
Is it weird that I found Auru from TP attractive? Unfortunately, he isn't important enough to merit anygheyporn of him...
>>258972680
I see what the problem is now. You just want attention. You're no different from the people who go on forums and say they're gonna kill themselves.
>>258967175
>go to Japan
>get in a taxi
>taxi has the deepest most stereotypical wise samurai voice ever
>YES
Before you say it was just my gaijin perception, NO-ONE else for the entire two weeks sounded anywhere close to this lone warrior.
Has anyone noticed that the horse is carrying your equipment? I hope this isn't just cosmetics and that the horse will actually serve a more meaningful purpose than just a ride
>>258973453
Not at all. I'm just mentioning the ones who seem to get the most attention/fanart.
>every other forum or place to discuss OoT its fanboyism and shit
>at /v/ it just turns into twinks and bara
>>258967175
Fish and rice diet, rather than red meat and grains diet. Folks there tend to be shorter/slimmer on average, but go through normal development with hormones and all that, so they look and sound like adults.
>>258972742
>Has nothing to do with how you in particular define the term "masculine."
Except it does because initial question is based around how the OP in particular defines the term "masculine", which begs the question thus leading to the responses such as these.
Basically the flaw of asking why something isn't A when A is something interpreted differently in the first place.
>>258973841
Its great isn't it?
>>258966902
One thing I find appealing about Link is that he's not even one person, he's a continually reincarnating role that fits this in-game world's cosmic narrative. As long as major shit isn't breached like the role of the Triforce of courage or giving Zelda Link's characteristics (or vice-versa), what makes Link's gene expression so important?
>>258973035
>...The way you're using it is based on realism.
I'm wasn't that anon who posted that image. But I agree with him.
Realism is in all things. But the degrees in which they're recognize vary from style to style.
We are to understand that Link is a humanoid with 2 legs, two arms, and mostly all human anatomy, except for the long ears. That in of itself is a degree of realism. Otherwise, why not make Link blue, with 3 legs, 5 arms, and he stabs people with a bowling ball?
Sure, that might appeal to some. But for the most part, it's just too random to fit within the Zelda setting, so it's discarded.
As for body types, there are aspects to it that are regarded in the Zelda universe. They wanted to make Ganon looks strong, so in TP, they made him a 9 foot tall mountain. And in WW, he was fat, but also very big in order to make him feel imposing. Even when he turns into a blue pig, they still give him a ton of muscles, because it fits the image of a big strong person.
When you look at the style of the game, it already regards varying body types to give different impressions of the character. Therefore, it stands to reason that if they wanted to make link appear stronger, then a bearmode body type would be more effective than any other.
>>258965254
They probably want someone cute to be their best friend but give them a good dicking every once in a while
>>258973841
The thing I'm most excited about from HW is the possibility that Ganon and Ghirahim will become a popular pairing. Link and Ghirahim is way too molestacular for me. Plus I like it when the more feminine-looking guy isn't a stereotypical submissive yaoi dude, and when they're both strong willed.
>>258973221
Thanks for your attention, it's all I'm asking for I guess, if I'm making desperate posts like these. I don't really know what my problem is. I don't even know if it's loneliness or if it's just daddy issues or if I'm just sick of nothing being exciting in the least bit. I guess I just wanna stir shit because I don't really know what to do with myself.
I've talked a bit about this stuff to a close friend of mine, but I'm not sure I really wanna open the floodgates. I've never been the type to talk about myself much like that and I think this is the kind of problem that's just too much to talk to a friend about. I've come to have the reputation of a wildcard amongst my friends, but I honestly don't think any of them want to hear me go on about sex dreams about my dad and how I feel empty all the time. Hell, I don't even know what I'm talking about.
>>258973479
>You just want attention.
I know
![mifune[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/am3o7d6.jpg "mifune[1].jpg")
>>258973593
Could he be still alive?
>>258972464
Ralph
Ralis
Kafei
Shop part timer in MM
Mikau
Japas
>>258974040
Marxist Feminist/10.
>>258973841
>his face looks like martys
>trying to find marty looking through the door reaction image
>google image is giving me megaman/raiden from mgs crossover comic douijin shit
the fuck is going on
>>258974287
>I've talked a bit about this stuff to a close friend of mine, but I'm not sure I really wanna open the floodgates.
See a therapist. They have a confidentiality agreement, so they're not supposed to tell anyone anything unless you give them explicit permission. Plus if they breach that contract you can sue them for a gorillion dollars.
>>258970285
nope japan finds women over 25 unappealing
>>258974050
>what makes Link's gene expression so important?
It's not. It's about his image. If you stray too far from what we know Link to look like, then it is no longer Link. Sure, they can give him the same name. But it won't BE the same.
>>258974050
I wish they'd get more meta with the story. I love that shit.
>>258972728
>Ganondorf
MAYBE in TP, but only if you're really into burly dark gingers.
>Vaati
Probably would be attractive in a more realistic artstyle, but he's in toon form sooo.
>the rest
Ugly fucks.
>>258957420
I actually really liked that video.
>>258974745
You'd be surprised how many fangirls love the Big G. If I had a nickel for every single bishiefied OOT Ganon I've seen, I'd have a whole lot of nickels.
>>258974369
A slightly attractive, unimportant NPC here and there does not amount to much. Not compared to the myriad of waifus in the series that actually contribute in important ways.
>>258974975
The "Ginger kid raised by lesbians" crack made me laugh, even though Koume and Kotake are siblings.
>>258974514
Thanks, again. I really do appreciate it.
As someone whose only experience with therapists was the wide-hipped school counselors back in high school, I think I should at least give this kind of thing a try. But, really, though, I don't think I wanna get better (whatever that entails). I barely know what to do with myself as the empty, whining sack of crap that I am now, what the hell would I do when I don't have all this crap to help me cope with whatever my problem is?
>>258974996
>bishiefied
If they have to make him prettier, what does that tell you?
>>258975124
Do you even know how fandom works? Have you seen how many people in these threads waifu unimportant one-shot female NPCs? Why are you assuming it couldn't possibly go in the other direction?
>>258974996
>bishie
>Ganon
pls no
PLS. NO.
>>258974063
By technicality referencing by real world body types for body types of your designs is push more toward realism than against not. Even in a world of magic and super powers, going by those body is more a nod to realism than not.
Note that I'm not the guy who made the initial comment about realism and vidya. Just sayin' is all.
>>258975273
That whoever makes him bishie is unable to actually appreciate masculine attractiveness, so they make him feminized in order to appeal to their 4chanified sexuality?
>>258955604
TP link would beat the shit out of faggot fairy manchild OoT link
>>258975464
What is this string of posts even about?
>>258975271
The advantage of getting a therapist as an adult is that you can shop around. If you are with one who you feel isn't helping you, you can drop them and find another doctor you have better chemistry with. School counselors are hit and miss, and it's not like you can see someone else if you don't like the one you have. Believe me, I know how that feels, even though it was for a completely unrelated issue from yours.
But seriously, therapists aren't just for prescribing medication, but can help you get a game plan going for your life and figure out healthy coping mechanisms and social skills for making friends. The right therapist could change your life for the better.
>>258975271
>I barely know what to do with myself as the empty, whining sack of crap that I am now, what the hell would I do when I don't have all this crap to help me cope with whatever my problem is?
A good therapist will help get you mentally equipped to be able to handle that.
