So is Nintendo just testing the waters with this girl Link shit?
i wouldnt mind testing her waters if you know what i mean
It's more like she was a big fuck you to people who want Link to be a girl.
She's super retarded and no matter how much she tells herself she's the hero, she'll never be him.
>Linkle
>Nintendo
Pick one.
>>333491989
Lmao this. I'm not totally sure that doing her missions are even required to progress
I kinda hope so. LoZ needs some fresh blood
Did you see that Rogue One trailer?
>>333492082
Here we go again!
What if Zelda was a girl?
>>333491757
Literally SS Zelda with a different haircut
>>333491757
Elves aren't welcomed here.
>>333491757
kimishima rape her everynight with samus locked in a cage next to the bed
>>333491757
Koei realized people liked the concept art of Linkle, and decided to add her. Stop overthinking it.
>>333491989
I can't get over how retarded she is.
I don't care what they're doing, because she's fun as fuck to play as.
>>333491886
~~~~~
>>333494246
She just has no sense of direction. She's pretty capable beyond that.
>>333494359
This. Its kind of like a trope. Even Laguna was terrible with directions
>>333492329
aw man das rayciss
Kind of looks like the elf from dragon's crown with some colors switched around
>>333491757
I know that a lot of feminists and social justice shitbags have hijacked the discussion in regards to this, but honestly I think it'd actually be pretty cool if we could choose a gender in Zelda games.
I'd play her instead of link in a mainline game. She looks cute. Link looks stale and boring today.
>>333494445
So you mean a generic elven archer?
>Hero of time a girl
>Prince Zelda
Sure why not.
>>333494473
Why does it matter? I never consider the gender of the player character very seriously, especially if they're mute.
I think they should, just so we all stop talking about it.
Nintendo is just desperate to make a new meme waifu. It's easy money.
>>333491989
She also has a huge thing for cocks.
>>333491757
I want Linkle to test the waters by having a tinkle in my mouth.
It just goes to show what big fucking babies a lot of these retards are. They're out there fighting day and night to protect their waifus in videogames but as soon as a waifu is made who might POTENTIALLY be liked by THE ENEMY we all have to get mad about it and shake in our boots about this being part of an AGENDA and the next Zelda game will see Link replaced with a black trans woman in a wheelchair.
Get a fucking grip.
>>333491757
Waifus sell games
I for once am happy with Linkle.
It will give fandoms good excuse to have Link bang, or more like being banged by his imouto since he's obviously never getting any from Zelda.
>>333494473
Choosing a gender would ruin Link's character though.
Each Link has a background and potential love interest.
The only way there could be a gender option is if both Links are different characters in the story.
Link is enough of a blank slate that I wouldn't mind with they let your choose their between boy and girl in the future games.
Just don't go changing Zelda or Ganon.
>>333494304
For some reason that image gets me incredibly hard near instantly.
>>333494445
What fascinating insight. No one else has thought of this before.
>>333494948
>ruin Link's character
Just kill yourself
>>333491757
>Nintendo
You mean Omegaforce
I like Linkle but that fucking name has got to go bruh
>>333495119
But it would.
Do you really want Zelda to become a WRPG?
>>333495003
is it the stance the girl or both
>>333495249
I think it might be both. Linkle has some really sexy thighs that are shown off in a lewd outfit.
>>333495235
Well the game is not an RPG to begin with so it would take a lot more workto become that.
>>333494948
>Link's character
I actually prefer her at this point, I have had it with Link's attitude. We need a new Link, a girl one, I know this looks like bait but I assure you it isn't.
>>333494473
Link is already bland enough, we don't need to rob him of his gender. The less specific information there is about a character the less you can write about him.
>>333494948
>Link's character
What, you mean a mute kid?
>>333495539
Wind Waker Link has personality
>>333495589
This is actually true.
If we get Linkle as protagonist in a Zelda game, I would not buy that game. That's like I would like a male Tomb Raider, please no.
>>333494948
>Link's character
Linkle has more character than all previous incarnations combined.
>>333494948
>Link's character
Oh yeah, she's going to burn that dry piece of bark up for sure.
>>333495521
>we don't need to rob him of his gender
This is the problem with antiSJWs. Even though nobody wants to swallow SJW shit, you have to be careful not to fall into the trap of becoming like them.
We should make fun of SJWs crying about the "rights" of fictional characters. This is why them caring about characters being objectified was such a joke to begin with.
But now look, we have Anons doing the exact same shit. Worrying about Link having HIS gender ROBBED.
Link isn't fucking real, and "he" is nothing more than an avatar for the player. He's been reimagined in a different way several times and nobody worried about how "he" felt about that before this. Link is not literally being raped. Get a fucking grip.
>>333495392
>Wind Waker Link is a smug bastard
>Skyward Sword Link has dialogue options
>TP Link is a farm boy
If Link could be a girl, they'd have to give them both the same generic expressions and responses to everything, and have all the characters in the game give the same responses.
It would do to the series what self inserts did to FE.
You wouldn't be Link, you'd be mary sue OC wearing Link's clothes.
>>333495986
Spot on
>>333495881
>Bland anime shit
>More character than Link
Nah.
I've seen that same exact character like 10 times or so, she's a shitty cardboard cutout designed to attract waifufags.
>>333496020
>Implying female Link couldn't be a smug bastard.
>Implying female Link couldn't have dialogue options
>Implying female Link can't be a farm girl.
Literally the only thing we would lose would be stuff like Ruto calling you her fiancee
>>333495960
Half the fun is speculating each Link's personality and life before the game started.
If you just make him a generic character to represent the player, it's all gone.
He's not the player, he's a reincarnation of this guy.
Good Luck explaining this obviously male spirit away.
>>333496020
>if Link was female, it would be a mary-sue!
I know this will put everyone's fedora in a spin but that really is justsexist
If you cry mary sue the moment any female character does anything a male character does then you really are just a sad faggot who gets mad too easily and should probably calm the fuck down.
Or maybe you should talk about it with your girlfriend? :^)
>>333496307
She could be, if it was her game.
I wouldn't mind if one Link was a girl.
I'd be mad if there was an option to change genders, or customize his character.
The only thing I'd be okay with is if the two Links were twins, the other becomes your traveling companion.
>>333496574
I'm sorry you can't read, anon.
Fuck off, "others"
>>333496502
It's not Link so why does it matter?
>>333496681
>She could be, if it was her game.
Why is it not possible otherwise?
>>333496405
And I thought Other M fucked up a franchise the hardest.
>>333496961
>It's not Link
Source?
>>333497062
Where's the source that it is Link?
>>333497034
Because she'd be "that" Link, like Toon Link, Twilight Princess Link, and so on.
If there was a gender option, the game wouldn't have a main Link everyone knows and can recognize, it would have the player's mary sue faggot OC p-p-pls understand pansy cakeboy.
Dont mind me, im just posting, THAT webm
>>333496872
>men just want to adventure and shit
>women want their prettyboy hero
>"others" care more about identity politics than a video game
sound right.
>>333494686
its called a vagina, anon
>>333497430
I have THAT webm saved under the file name "no sauce"
>>333497197
The songs, the fact he calls you his son, or how he tells you that courage is most important, or how seems to know the Master Sword, or the fact you find his fucking grave in Hyrule Castle that is said to belong to the previous hero.
And most of all, pic related.
>>333496872
>other
What if the option to choose gender also changes the gender of the love interest? An interesting zelda game mechanic would be the classic swapping between two worlds but have one where everyone is gender bent. Link could swap genders or have another hero character. It doesnt matter i would fap to ether.
>>333497496
if /v/ has taught me anything, men just want to jerk off to waifus
>>333491757
Depends on who you're testing this for
Otakus: Success
SJWs: Satisfactory
Feminists: Failed
>>333497289
What are you talking about?
All they'd have to do is the same exact stuff they do that gives the other Links personalities, except give the player the option to decide weather Link has tits or not.
People generally consider Link a self-insert anyway. They pretty much already do that by letting you name him and making him mute with implied dialog and dialog options.
Would femLinkfags be okay with a Persona 3 situation where the female version looks completely different and is pretty much considered her own character?
That way, everyone is happy.
>>333497687
There are no love interests in Zelda.
>>333497823
>Otakus: Success
But people in this very thread are crying about how Link needs to be an actual girl because muh dik
>>333497860
Will she not be canon either?
>>333496405
Worst Link reporting in.
He dies in the end.
>>333497860
>>333498004Both would be canon as it's another split in the timeline
>>333497036
Link being a soldier in a past life is fucked up now?
Pretty much. But she's had good reception so...
Except a "choose your gender option" in Zelda U that lets you play as a manlier link, a feminine link, or the androgynous Link from the trailer.There would be nothing wrong with this
>>333497832
Link does what he does because he's not player's self insert, he's his own character on his own mission.
Making Link optionally a girl would reduce him to being a self insert, and I hate Nintendo self inserts with a passion, because they're not self inserts.
Look at FE and Pokemon, you can never join up with villains, or do anything that can be seen as wrong because you're the good guys.
In most actual RPGs with actual self inserts, you are presented with moral choices that affect the outcome of the game and your alignment.
>>333498130
He's a braindead waifufag, anon.
He'll say anything to discredit me or the fact Link is an actual character.
>>333498138
Aonuma wants Zelda to be Skyrim, so you might as well.
>>333497430
Full version some day.
>>333498352
Reincarnation shit ruined Zelda.
>>333498180
>Making Link optionally a girl would reduce him to being a self insert
How is that any different than getting to name him and the occasional dialog options?
>>333495719
You mean Nathan Drake?
>>333498614
It was always there, you were just too dumb to notice it.
>>333497606
Nice fanfiction, where is the real proof?
>>333498665
Different reincarnations can have different names anon, it doesn't affect his character.
Besides, his name defaults to Link now, meaning Link is canon.
>dialog options
Yes and No, such deep choices.
I genuinely believe Zelda lorefags are more embarrassing and unbearable than the Sonic fandom. The Sonic fandom is just harmless autistic children making cringe OCs but Zelda lorefags are actually adults who should know better but are delusional beyond words.
Timelines? Male spirits?
The way people talk about Zelda lore is exactly the same as Mario DEEPEST LORE threads but without the irony. The Hyrule Historia was the worst thing to ever happen to this series.
>>333494246
No, the point is that the compass is taking her where she needs to be, not where she thinks she needs to be. It's like the TARDIS
>>333498754
Even if you discredit Hyrule Historia, the things I pointed out that happened in the game all but confirm it.
You'd have to be a complete moron not to see it.
Do you get at mad at people for saying the tree you see at the start of Majora's Mask was actually the Butler's son because there was no dialogue box at the end where the Butler was like "WAAAHHH I'M CRYING BECAUSE THIS TREE IS MY SON, JUST IN CASE THAT WASN'T CLEAR, THE TREE IS MY DEAD SON"
>>333498926
I've never heard of a Zeldafag going on an insane boycott and pepperspraying a gamestop employee.
>>333494473
At this point (30+ years in) it would be pretty dumb to make Link a girl. There's no gameplay reason for it (the primary reason Nintendo does anything), and there are decades of tradition of him being male.
I would not mind letting you choose between Link or Linkle at the start of the game, and having slightly different stories for each (do all the same dungeons, roughly the same order, but maybe Link is a shopkeeper at the start and Linkle is a knight, or something).
>>333499149
Just wait until female Link is a selectable lead character
>>333498926
Timelines and male spirits were there years before Hyrule Historia, my friend.
Miyamoto confirmed there were timelines as early Majora's Mask.
>>333499167
There's also no gameplay reason not to do it. Your point is moot.
>>333499265
LINK'S GENITALS ARE NOT INNIES
>>333491757
>girl Link
I don't think that's at all what they were going for.
She's supposed to be the HW "incarnation" of Aryll, all grown up and idolizing Link to the point where she borrows his name.
They have the same hair, their names rhyme and both are presented as Link's sister.
i would be fine if Linkle is a cameo or an NPC but
screw making her a PC if they want a playable female character just make Sheik a PC.
I am pissed that tierfags made her overrated in Smash, as it gave her negative popularity and it has been over 18 years since shes been in a main Zelda game. I just want a more mobile, free flowing, character than, light jog, asthma link. I want to play as one of the last of their races
>>333499323
There was -a- timeline
Not the mess that started once Wind Waker showed up and decided they needed to destroy Hyrule for a shitty boat gimmick.
>>333498180
Link has ALWAYS been a self insert and the player has ALWAYS meant to project themselves onto him. He is literally named Link for that reason and no other. He is the "Link" bridging the player to the game world.
>>333498875
>Different reincarnations can have different names anon, it doesn't affect his character.
>Yes and No, such deep choices.
But what if I made named Link after myself, and what if I made him say Yes and No when I would have? Wouldn't that the self-inserting that you're bitching about so much?
>Besides, his name defaults to Link now, meaning Link is canon.
So make the male Link the default. Problem solved.
>>333499442
Autism speaks up
>>333499436
Linkle does not live with Link nor are they related. She lives in a small village and her grandma told her she was the hero.
Also, Aryll is already in Hyrule Warriors as Toon Link's voice.
>>333491757
It's Koei working their fanservice engines in a way Nintendo cannot. The same reason why Cia has such fantastic tits.
>>333499445
The third timeline is just a trash heap for all the games that couldn't fit into the other timelines without contradictions.
>>333499436
Slowpoke, that stopped happening the minute Aonuma went "NO ONLY TOON LINK HAS A SISTER REEEEEEEEEE". Now she's just a girl who grew up being told the legends of the hero and decided "That's what I am, the hero who will save the day". Her story is more akin to "what if Wind Waker Link actually wanted to go on an adventure"
>>333494740
Me too.
>>333499684
>Now she's just a girl who grew up being told the legends of the hero and decided "That's what I am, the hero who will save the day". Her story is more akin to "what if Wind Waker Link actually wanted to go on an adventure"I saw it more as a satire of girl gamers.
>>333499643
If there are 3 timelines then why the fuck even bother trying to make up timelines in the first place?
I fucking hate that this idiotic shit ever went further than autists trying to make charts on fansites
>DMCxPandora's Tower-styled cuhrayzee Linkle game
Would you play it?
>>333499684
Then is Linkle canonically an alternate timeline version of Toon Link that didn't grow up in a world without a hero?
>>333499140
>the tree you see at the start of Majora's Mask was actually the Butler's son
You know where you're from.
I know where you're from.
Go back there.
>>333499536
>that projection
aw diaperbaby get triggered by a well thought out post. i'll dumb it down: (You)
>>333499804
Grow up you goddamn retard
>>333499814
>every game needs to be like DMC
Please stop this meme /v/.
>still discussing this shit
Link is male and that is never going to change.
That's one reason why Linkle, a totally different character, exist in the first place.
>>333499368
That's not the way this works, I'm afraid.
So you make Link a girl... then what?
Why did you do it, if it doesn't affect gamplay?
If it does affect gameplay, what is your justification for girls to play differently than boys?
If it doesn't affect gameplay, you are just part of the Ms. Male trope, where girls are only valuable if they fill the exact same role as a male.
What is the point in the story? If Link's gender being a female didn't affect the story in any way, why did you change the gender at all?
If it does affect the story, how do you do it without demeaning females? Do you trust modern Nintendo to write a story that doesn't reinforce female gender stereotypes (THE BABY)?
Why did you make Link a girl instead of a) using an existing female character or b) creating a new character (like Linkle)? Changing an existing character's gender is inherently a one-off gimmick, so what's next? In the next LoZ, is Link a boy again? A girl? Where you could incorporate different characters into the same game, you can't really do so if you can pick genders (the Ruto plotline, one of the most memorable story bits in LoZ, wouldn't exist if there were a gender selector in OoT).
Doing things because why not is the very definition of a publicity stunt.
>>333499810
Original split makes sense logically and we see its creation in-game in Ocarina of Time, and it was a way for them to make Wind Waker a sequel to Ocarina of Time without retconning the older games.
The third split is the only odd one out because after they retcon'd the old games out of the child timeline to make room for Twilight Princess they had nowhere to put them but didn't want to just say "Well screw those they're not canon anymore" so now they're a "What if" Timeline.
>>333499893
Struck a nerve?
>>333499505
>But what if I made named Link after myself, and what if I made him say Yes and No when I would have?
>"Go here"
>"No"
>"LOL for real, go here"
>"No"
>"LOL for real, go here"
Whelp, guess you turn the game off then, because that's how pretty much how all the choices go besides "Do you want to hear my long ass story again?".
>So make the male Link the default. Problem solved
If there was a canon choice, why would they even do it in the first place?
>gender selectable
Make your own character games always take a hit writing wise. I'd imagine if Nintendo were to make you choose a gender, they'd make you choose between 2 3ds cartridges, one being a femlink's story and another being boylinks story. Probably a twin brother and sister bullshit explanation that haves them going to 2 different world threats happening at the same time.
I'd rather have a game where linkle isn't the reincarnated hero, but she thinks she is. The disaster not being a something written world ending, just really really shitty. So the hero isn't reincarnated in response or linkle has to delay the disaster because actual link is still just a baby or not born yet.
I'd rather a silly spin off that isn't important in the grand scheme of things over all though.
Link should have been a girl in the first place. Only girls wear dresses.
>>333499949
Every Zelda game more or less has every important character played by as a girl. It would kind of fuck up the entire game. And if you gender swapped you would inevitably have people bitching about how female link has no agency, and only does what men tell her to do.
Link doesn't even talk. In every game, he has a girl speak for him.
>>333499167
>I would not mind letting you choose between Link or Linkle at the start of the game, and having slightly different stories for each (do all the same dungeons, roughly the same order, but maybe Link is a shopkeeper at the start and Linkle is a knight, or something).
See, that's an idea I can get behind because it's a solution that would make everyone happy. Everybody gets to choose whatever gender they want without sacrificing tradition for the most part, as the only tradition that IS sacrificed is the fact that there are now two heroes instead of just one.
No no no anon, you got it completely wrong there.
It's "empowering"
Ftfy
>>333499810
>If there are 3 timelines then why the fuck even bother trying to make up timelines in the first place?
To give HW the three way story split :^)
>>333500042
>Make your own character games always take a hit writing wise.
Thank god this is Zelda we're talking about.
>>333500005
>If there was a canon choice, why would they even do it in the first place?
Same reason you can rename Link.
>People hating on the idea of Female Link player character when that would just mean lesbian romances are guaranteed
Plebs, the lot of you.
>>333500196
Reeee fuck off /u/! Stop ruining my vidjers!
>>333500002
Yeah, I'm a furious gamer girl who is going to write a blog about how you hurt my feelings.
Or maybe I'm making fun of you for literally acting like a child sticking his tongue out at girls on the schoolbus.
Keep playing the UR TRIGGERED xD card and proving me right if you like.
>Nintendo made up Linkle to make fun of gamer girls! xD
Get a grip on reality, faggot.
Which would you choose if the new LoZ had Linkle as the playable main in the Wii U version, and Link as the playable main the NX version?
>>333491757
Testing my dick is the better phrasing of it.
>>333500521
That's a dirty tactic, but I'd have to buy a Wii U just for the Linkle version.
>>333500196
>lesbian romance in Nintendo games
>romance at all in a Zelda game
>>333500425
>Nintendo made up Linkle to make fun of gamer girls! xD
Of course not. They clearly made her for fap bait. The story was just thrown together for the sake of giving her an excuse to fight shit.
>>333498702
Not him, but that's what female Link should be: A new IP. You could do more with that and let Zelda stay the way it is. I never even realized the connection until you mentioned it.
>>333500608
Do not post bully gifs.
Please and thank you.
>>333500164
And that reason is?
>>333500902
Not that guy but if they were to make a spin off game like that as a new IP, then they'd have to deliver a for reals Zelda game along side of it or shortly after. I guarantee that dumb shit like that new metroid game and that smtxfe game would have done a lot better if they were released close to what the loudest group wants.
Friendly reminder that not even Linkle could appease femshits because "muh smurfette principle".
>>333499880
I don't actually, please tell me.
>>333500425
Someone is mad Nintendo doesn't care about her.
>>333501201
Self insertion
>>333501264
What makes me really angry about these tweets is that the notion of "male as default" would actually be even MORE reinforced if just a female Link was implemented over a separate character with her own unique identity.
You can't win with these people.
>>333501264
I keep reading that first paragraph and I cant tell if she thinks that a "core" or a main zelda title would be on the 3ds and not the Wiiu or something totally different.
People just don't know what they want.
>WHY CAN'T LINK BE A GIRL?
>Well, here's a character who's basically a girl Link in design, but has her own character and story so she's not just "girl Link."
>SHE'S JUST A GIRL LINK
>WHY CAN'T LINK BE A GIRL?
>>333501641
>SHE'S JUST A GIRL LINK
>WHY CAN'T LINK BE A GIRL?
Please tell me this isnt something someone actually said
Playing as a girl in Zelda would add even less than playing as a girl in Pokemon, and playing as a girl in Pokemon is pretty much no different from playing as a boy.
There's as much justification as adding girl Link as there is to adding an anal vore scene.
>>333501495
What self insertion?
Pretending to be another man?
![200px-LikeLike2[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/b3s9Ap4.png "200px-LikeLike2[1].png")
>>333501874
We've had those in Zelda for a while though.
>>333501810
It's greentext on /v/, of course nobody said it
>>333499167
>>333499368
Fuck having Link be a girl, I just want a good game where the roles of link and zelda are reversed.
Have the spirit of the hero born into the prince of Hyrule while the Goddess is reborn as some peasant girl that uses her wits to survive.
Or hell, they could even pull a Oracle of Ages/Seasons thing: have one game be about playing as link and more combat/action oriented while the other is playing as Zelda while going through a similar quest that's more puzzle/dungeon oriented.
>>333500608
That's the average brain of a femLinkfag.
They want Zelda to be a WRPG with romance, dialogue options and homos.
>>333501810
Not in those exact words.
>>333492329
Git out u grot.
Female Link the same day of male Samus, black Mario and fat Peach
>>333501810
Sarkeesian said it, see: >>333501264
Basically the argument was "no, we don't want a separate character with similarities to Link who is also for all intents and purposes a female Link in the conceptual sense, we LITERALLY want a female Link".
>>333502348
my faith in humanity is slowly depleting
I want Linkle to tinkle on me.
>>333502534
The third Mario brother will be black.
If you disagree with this, you're a racist.Moviebob actually used this as an argument
>>333502549
but wouldnt that fuck with the entire story of hyrule warriors?
>Link was traveling through Hyrule fields WHEN ALL OF A SUDDEN POOF LINK HAS TITS NOW
>The first thing he does is masturbate like every sane male would do
>Feminazis are still mad because its a male link inside a girl links body
>>333502043
As much as getting to pick between a boy or girl would be.
>>333501307
Stop responding to the retards. They subsist on (You)s.
>>333502770
I think what they mean is that they want one of Link's reincarnations in a mainline game to just happen to be female. Everything else is the same.
But then they'd still complain because you can't please feminists.
>>333502735
>implying Mario isnt an amalgation of all the traits of races
>>333502773
You're not being clear what self inserting means.
There is no gender option because Link is male.
You can self insert as Link, yeah. But he's still Link.
People self insert as the shota in Monster Girl Quest whenever he gets raped because they jerk off to that shit, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have his own character outside of those scenes.
>>333502960
That just raises the question of whether or not the Spirit of the Hero is male or not.
Even if Link were born a girl, would it be a girl through and through or would the spirit of the hero make it a man in a woman's body?
Like, the Goddess is clearly a female thing. That's likely not changing. But "Spirit of the Hero" is a bit more vague.
That said, why don't these dumbasses just want a game where you play as Zelda and use wisdom to conquer all, instead of having a Ms. Male character?
>>333502952
I usually keep going until they're backed into a wall and pull a "I was just pretending to be retard!!! GOT YOU GOOD!".
It's fun.
Besides, not calling out retards for being stupid will just draw in more retards.
>>333503353
>make it a man in a woman's body?
The SJWs will finally be happy, Link is a strong independent transgirl.
>>333502770
They're not necessarily talking about Hyrule Warriors, they're saying they want a game in which Link is simply female or at least optionally a female. Otherwise, it would enforce what they call the "Smurfette principle".
The problem with their argument is that the male version of Link is the one everyone is most familiar with, so even if it was just a matter of choosing between male or female as a gender for the exact same character the male version would still be represented as the default choice. If Nintendo was to introduce a female Link into their games, making that female a completely separate character with her own distinct personality and history like Linkle would actually be the SOLUTION, not the problem.
The funny thing about third wavers is that oftentimes they don't even understand their own ideology.
>>333502770
Ok hows this idea sound
>Link wakes up and realises she has tits
>starts to fap like theres no tomorrow
>feminazi's still mad because thats what they do every day before going to their computers and screaming at random people
>>333494948
>>>333495119 >>333495392 >>333495539 >>333495881 >>333495960
Link totally has no character at all, you guise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyHJqrXcSo
>>333503750
Not any of them, but you realize that he stood there, got hugged and stood there again right? He has a s much character as a statue in that shot.
>>333503850
I was referring to the text box
>sigh, you feel warm... and fuzzy... inside
Changing link's gender there would imply lesbianism which I'm totally cool with though.
>>333503750
This is offensive to me as a gay shota.
I don't want to be forced to be a straight one.
Link is my special idealized version of myself, he shouldn't be allowed to enjoy things I don't.
Nintendo please remove this and add LGBT options for shotas everywhere.
>>333503850
There's also Ruto's marriage proposal, Mido's rivalry, Darunia considering you a little brother. Small things like that would have to be edited or rewritten.
>>333503278
You're bitching that getting to pick a gender is suddenly crossing the line into self-insertion rather than Link having a predefined personality, but it's hardly any different than getting to name him and the occasional dialog option.
>>333504135
>Mido's rivalry,
Can still be there
Darunia considering you a little brother.
Wow, they'd have to change the word to "sister" instead.
>Ruto's marriage proposal
Only actual problem.
>>333504408
Wrestling gorons as a girl is not the same dude.
Basically I'm saying women are shitty and weak.
>>333504408
It's kinda implied Mido is jealous of Saria or it could be just my fan canon.
>>333504149
How is changing his entire character design based on a choice on the same level as a name?
It's like you think Link will look the same regardless of your choice.
They're gonna have to add longer hair, boobs, and separate animations for this.
That's a lot more than changing a character's name.
Most people call him Link anyway, if there was a choice, all future discussion of the Zelda game will be full of >she whenever anyone brings up Link being male or female.
We'd no longer have a clear picture of all future Links either.
Whenever you say Toon Link, people picture Toon Link, because he's fucking Toon Link.
>>333491757
Tits and vaginas sell products.
Dick dont.
Dicks want vaginas and tits.
Think of all the fanservice....!!!!!!
>>333504627
He literally says it.
He says "How could you be the favorite of Saria?".
>>333504718
hmmm
maybe i can turn this into a business concept
>>333495003
Its shiny with red spots. Its normal.
>>333504796
Why can't Saria, Ruto, Malon, Nabooru, Zelda just be gay? It's totally realistic.
>current year
>caring about Zelda related anything
Fucking WHY
>>333504907
Why can't Link be black?
so what we're all arguing about is link being a girl.
but what if
girl link
and boy zelda???/?//
>>333494473
I think choosing a gender would be dumb and limiting because all character creation pretty much is, but having some girl links in some games would be cool and there's really no lore reason not to do it when most games have a new Link anyway.
>>333491757
>"Testing the waters" for what? They just added a cute girl to the game. My dick approves
>>333505087
>believing race is not a social construct
>>333505087
In fact why are races secluded to their own kingdom, everyone should live together in Hyrule Town and Hylians should be a hybrid caucasian elf rock fish hobbit mudslime monoracial thing.
you know that would be an interesting change and it's totally justifiable from an in-game point of view with Link being reincarnated and shit. Why shouldn't he become a girl once?
>>333497430camehere for that
>>333491886
>>333504707
>They're gonna have to add longer hair, boobs, and separate animations for this.
>That's a lot more than changing a character's name.
But it's still not going to result in full-blown, RPG-style design a character insertion. A different walk cycle isn't going to suddenly require a different back-story or different personality. If they want to define the next Link as a cocky adventurer they can do that whether it's a boy or a girl. If they want to define Link as a fraidy cat they can do it whether it's a boy or a girl.
>all future discussion of the Zelda game will be full of >she whenever anyone brings up Link being male or female.
Because that's such a problem in games where you can pick a gender, right?
>We'd no longer have a clear picture of all future Links either.
We do now?
>>333505430
People want it to be a choice though.
So he wouldn't be a girl that one time, he's a "Possibly a girl or maybe a boy I dunno" that one time.
>>333505430
Because women don't sell games, that's the actual reason.
>Nintendo going the extra mile, putting in different cut scenes and dialogue for both genders.
Seriously, do you actually believe that?
>>333505753
>don't buy
Eh, whatever
>>333505612
You've convinced me, I think you're absolutely right.
>>333505771
Yeah they wouldn't do that. They would design the dialogue to not involve gender in the first place.But truthfully they wouldn't do it simply because of tradition.
I've always been of the opinion that if the game itself is good then I don't give even half a shit about what pair of genitals my green tunic wearing elf is sporting during my play time. People who make a big deal about this in either direction are fucking retarded.
>>333505753
If there was a real market opportunity I'm sure they would be all over this change. But the only thing women know how to do is bitch, nag and complain.
>>333506219
I fap to either gender so I guess I'm neutral too...
>>333506219
I want to play as a cute girl. This is very important.
>>333504408
>Ruto's marriage proposal
>Only actual problem
Wow m8 do you even know what the current year is?
>>333506401
SJWs want to make you play as a gender neutral thing that sometimes identify as a girl.
>>333494473
It'd be cool if Linkle was Link's sister and you could do some kind of character switching in game.
>>333506648
Not enough, she needs to be protag.
>>333505087
Wouldn't work out story wise.
Black kids get abandoned in the lost woods all the time. They just become skullkids. Why do you think they look like that?
>>333505612
>A different walk cycle isn't going to suddenly require a different back-story or different personality
You'd be surprised how much your life would have changed had you been the other gender, having one Link be a boy or a girl, and claiming they're still the same person won't work. He's not a character. he's one of two now.
>Because that's such a problem in games where you can pick a gender, right?
Because those games have both characters named something different, and if they don't, they get a fan nickname, like femShep, and as Linkle proved, femLink autists won't settle for a girl Link that isn't 100% Link, so we can't call her anything but Link.
>We do now?
Toon Link, he's the one from Wind Waker, small, cute, cat eyes.
TP Link/Wolf Link, the one from Twilight Princess, tall, looks the most realistic of all Links, smiles a lot, but gets a fierce and calculated look on his face whenever he needs to fight. Wolf Link is a fucking Wolf.
SS Link is cross between TP and SS, his suit is also noticeably different.
I could go on, but a male and female Link would each have their own descriptions for what I just said, one won't just pop into your head unless you describe it.
If they put any of the future Links in promotional material, you won't think "Oh that's x Link from y" You'd think "Oh that's the main character from y"
>>333506140
>They would design the dialogue to not involve gender in the first place
That's lazy as fuck and a good argument for why they SHOULDN'T do it.
There's an even more important question.
Why can't the Master Sword be a zweihander for once? Sword and board is inferior to two handed weapon.
>>333507074
Ain't the biggoron penis a two handed sword?
>>333501264
I don't understand
So she doesn't want a strong female hero like Link, but she literally wanted them to take Link and slap a vagina and tits on him?
>>333506571
But is it cute? That's the important part.
>>333507736
Cute and sexy would be a gender signifier, so no.
>>333506945
>You'd be surprised how much your life would have changed had you been the other gender
In real life, sure, but this is video games. They can have Link grow up however they want, and they can certainly have two different gendered Link's grow up exactly the same if they want them to.
>Because those games have both characters named something different, and if they don't, they get a fan nickname, like femShep,
If the story is exactly the same, it wouldn't matter unless someone is telling some story about a gameplay experience involving female Link's design/ animation.
>I could go on, but a male and female Link would each have their own descriptions for what I just said, one won't just pop into your head unless you describe it.
You seem to be under the impression that the two different genders have to have radically different designs, when all they have to do is something similar to the Robin and Corrin where it the same basic design motif just slightly modified to compliment the body shape of the gender.
>trying to please feminists
>>333507989
whoa dude you're really invested in this thing. I appreciate your efforts
>>333507989
>They can have Link grow up however they want
They'd have to remove any potential love interests and have the characters in Link's village refer to him with generic dialogue that doesn't refer to his appearance or gender.
>it wouldn't matter unless someone is telling some story about a gameplay experience involving female Link's design/animation
It would come up surprisingly often, considering Link has been male for more than 25 years, so a lot of people would get confused what Link you're actually talking about.
Most people think of a man when they hear the name Link.
>when all they have to do is something similar to the Robin and Corrin
This is exactly what I don't want to happen.
Robin and Corrin are just self insert characters designed to be the player's avatar.
You can change their body type, hairstyle, hair color, add little accessories, the list goes on.
If they add the option, it would either be Link, or girl Link, and that's it.
>>333502348
that picture pisses me off more than it should have.
You can't satisfy these bastards
>>333494948
>Each Link has a background and potential love interest.
Each Link has a background that's about as in depth as a Pokemon trainer's. Some Links have a love interest. Neither of those actually bar a boy/girl option at all.
>>333494948
why not replace the female love interest with a male one if the player is female
>>333496020
Wind Waker Link isn't smug, he's panicky and earnest.
>>333511203
It's different in Pokemon.
In Pokemon you're just a random kid taking on the world, and that's literally the world if you play online, which has everyone and their own version of the main character.
Link isn't some guy, he's a reincarnation of the hero.
>>333509790
They're right about her not being Link though. Linkle, though she looks a little like Link, is meant to be a separate character.
>>333496681
Anon, why do you think this boy/girl option would have to be retroactively added to the games already made?
>>333491757
I think female Link would better as a rogue/spy or hunter type of character rather than a warrior. And yes, it has something to do with the fact that she's female. Her physique also looks like it'd be more fit for that.
>>333511323
Because that's two whole characters Nintendo has to remodel, rename, and change dialogue around, all for a meaningless feature.
It's not if they could do it, it's why should they?
>>333498180
>Link does what he does because he's not player's self insert
Link is literally designed to be the player's self insert. That's what his goddamn name comes from, and also coincidentally is the reason Zelda games never actually say the name Link when they reference the other games.
>>333501264
But that's just the Zelda games. Link is the hero who saves the day. They're not being sexist it's just a common story style.
Once again they want an existing character to change instead of just making their own characters and story.
>>333511438
It wouldn't, but it would be in all the future games of a series that has been doing it the same way for 25 years now.
There's no reason for them to change it now, especially considering Skyward Sword and Tri-Force Heroes pretty much confirmed it was never gonna happen.
>>333508810
>They'd have to remove any potential love interests and have the characters in Link's village refer to him with generic dialogue that doesn't refer to his appearance or gender.
Any time people talk about Link's appearance, it's something like "boy in green" or "handsome young man". Things that can easily be swapped out with "girl in green" or "cute young lady".
>It would come up surprisingly often, considering Link has been male for more than 25 years, so a lot of people would get confused what Link you're actually talking about.
How? You already have to specify what Link you're actually talking unless you mention something exclusive to a certain game. Could you tell me now which specific Link I'm referring to when I say "his rolling animation looks stupid".
Even "Toon Link" is vague because it's a design shared by 7 different games if I'm remembering correctly.
>You can change their body type, hairstyle, hair color, add little accessories, the list goes on.
Obviously I'm not saying they should go that far, I'm mostly using their clothing and default face and hair as an example to show that you can make characters with two distinct genders but make them similar enough that anyone can recolonize them as being meant to be "the same" even if they've only played the game one gender.
>>333502735
>he's not their brother he's their "brotha"
>>333511641
He's your "Link" to the game's world.
He's not actually you, just your connection, you're seeing what he sees.
Saying he's a self insert would be like saying Phoenix Wright is a self insert because you can get some parts wrong.
>>333499949
Man you must be really mad at Pokemon for pulling this shit.
>>333511692
>Once again they want an existing character to change instead of just making their own characters and story
Correct. If Linkle was made into a different character and had a different backstory, then that'd be good. They're just being fucking lazy. I could careless if Zelda's sex didn't change because Link and Zelda were never that romantic to begin with. And even if they slightly were, it shouldn't matter in this current year.
>change Link to a girl
>becomes sexualised
>feminists still angry
>>333512130
Link is sexualized too and has porn of Ganon fucking him in the ass. What's that? They don't care because he's a man? What a big surprise.
>>333504135
You realize nobody's arguing to make OoT but have Link be a girl, right? This would be about new games.
>>333512074
Exactly. Plus Nintendo have literally handed them a strong female character that could be developed into her own games if she is popular enough. But no.
