So with rumors that you can choose your gender in Zelda U circling round, what do you think about this change?
>Are people blowing it out of proportion?
>Is it not a big deal that Link can now be a girl after 30 years of being a male?
>Should the genders of 'Dorf and Zelda be interchangeable too?
>Now that we're no longer solely playing as Link as we know him, should Nintendo just say "fuck it" and give us a full character creator so we can be whatever color/gender/alien we want with their own name?
>Was it really necessary to change the gender of one of the most popular male characters in gaming just to silence the bleating of a loud minority?
>Will this even so anything to silence them seeing as there's already people unhappy that you can only select gender and not the color of Link's skin?
>Should Nintendo have just stuck to their guns and kept their character iconic like they have everyone else?
Did anyone actually say "female Link"?
Perhaps we'll see the introduction of a plot-important female that is player controlled (setting the game up for shenanigans like Medli puzzles in the Earth temple). Maybe it's Zelda herself.
But that's just a possibility. I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to see the success in the WRPG sector and introduce Link customization.
I wouldn't be happy about it, but I wouldn't be surprised either.
I hope Link stays male only so all the legbeards on neogaf and tumblr cry about misogyny ruining their games
That's all I can say for now
You guys talk about rumors like they are confirmed facts.
It's a rumor from an attention whore on twitter. There is no solid proof, and she has been wrong plenty of times in the past.
Personally, I do not like this idea at all, and I don't get why it's so popular. Link may not have much character, but he IS a character.I am getting so sick of seeing this shit every day on the internet.
>>333819376
>and she has been wrong plenty of times in the past
when?
>>333819336
Linkle was a gateway drug
>>333819336
welcome to /v/
>>333819403
Linkle isn't a very impressive design/character. I think the only appeal is the novelty of a gender swap.
>HYAAAA HEEEEAAAA AAAAAAAH in a cute femvoice
>>333819391
I don't remember exactly, because I try not to pay attention to these shit stains.
But I'm pretty sure she said GTA 5 would be ported to Wii U, and that Inklings won the Smash ballot.
>>333819376
>I don't get why it's so popular
Blame Marvel. Everyone wanted a black guy to play Spider-Man in the movies. Marvel buckled under pressure and killed off Ultimate Spider-Man, and replaced him with a Black/Hispanic teen spidey who's possibly gay. He's also much stronger than the original Spider-Man and can knock out the son of the devil with his mary sue "sting" ability.
The progressive movement now know that if they create enough noise, companies will bend to their demands.
It's bullshit and I'm so sick of identity politics. Female Link would add literally nothing. Nothing at all. If you want a playable female, ask for a Princess Zelda spin-off.
I wouldn't buy it if we can choose between female and male. I guess Nintendo wouldn't do it right and the story lacks with content.
>>333819839
>replacing he with she
much work
such effort
wow
Super Maria Sisters when?
>>333819403
Linkle was a parody of gamer girls and people who wanted Link to be a girl.
It's the legend of Zelda. I highly doubt this change would ever, ever occur.
>Binary Genders
Are Nintendo even trying?
I can't see it happening because of the shit that gets thrown at LoZ games every time they try something new
My opinion is that Link should stay the character that he is
Female Link just sounds bad. It's completely erases the many years of playing as Link. If the female option was Linkle instead, then I'd be fine with it. Play as Link or Linkle, not a male or female Link. Two distinct characters vs. One
>>333819959
Nintendo wouldn't do that.
They wouldn't go trough every single line of dialogue that brings up his gender and change it.
They'd just not have dialogue that refers to his gender, and if customization options exist, his entire appearance.
And he probably wouldn't have a potential love interest like the last games.
>>333820052
I can already see the shitstorm
That rumor sounds like it was passed out purely for anti-hype when the actual game is shown off and it isn't there.
>>333820259
It was passed out so Kotaku could create clickbait about how "real gamers" are mad that girl Link could become real.
>topic of gender selection rumor in Zelda comes up in guild chat
>all the girls are vehemently opposed to the idea
>only guys are okay with it
I get it now. Making Link a girl is like changing the cast of Senran Kagura to men.
>>333820259
It's just another retarded rumor by some lying idiot, the only reason it has any traction is because it involves identity politics and console wars.
doesn't change anything. links always been a silent self-insert protag .
>>333820259
it was passed around because rogers likes the attention she gets by throwing around guesses
>>333818841
>You can play as a girl
>This changes EVERYTHING
No it doesn't, calm down
>>333819626
>Everyone wanted a black guy to play Spider-Man in the movies
Lolwut?
Where are you getting this from?
>Marvel buckled under pressure and killed off Ultimate Spider-Man, and replaced him with a Black/Hispanic teen spidey who's possibly gay
That had been planned, just like how Marvel killed most of the original X-men. The point of the Ultimate universe was to do what they couldn't in the 616 setting, like have popular characters die and not come back.
>He's also much stronger than the original Spider-Man and can knock out the son of the devil with his mary sue "sting" ability
You haven't kept up on comics for the last 6 years, have you?
>gamexplain does a podcast on the idea of voice acting in zelda
>a day later emily rogers comes out with a rumor that zelda u has voice acting
must be a coincidence
of course the other two rumors are totally original as well, I mean no one suggested an NX port or girl link before!
>>333818841
I think people should stop posting this shit.
Emily Rogers also said Soul Calibur V would be a Wii U launch title, Rockstar was working on a Wii U game, and there was going to be Diddy Kong Racing for the Wii.
Stop treating rumors like facts.
Female Mario when? And I don't mean Rosalina or Peach, those are princesses which are a sexist stereotype. We need a strong independent female plumber who don't need no man.
We need some gender options for Samus and Kirby too. Adding options is always a good thing and is in no way meaningless pandering.
>>333818841
I will only be happy if it's an actual rpg and you're not playing as Link
>>333820845
B-Buh-buh-buh Mario, Samus, and Kirby are their own characters!!!
>>333820845
This. Predefined characters make me want to puke.
Still waiting for character-customizable movies and books to hit the market.
>>333820598
>Where are you getting this from?
You don't remember all the hype/rumors about Donald Glover potentially being cast as Peter Parker in the Amazing Spider-Man movie? It got a lot of traction and directly led to Miles' creation. It was a popular enough rumor that Donald was asked about it for years and finally ended up voicing Miles in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon that airs on Disney.
>You haven't kept up on comics for the last 6 years, have you?
But he totally one-shot Blackheart in Spider-Man #1 that released 2 months ago. Pic related.
>>333819391
http://wiiugo.com/emily-rogers-last-wii-2-rumours-well-sort-of/
>Soul Calibur V
>Rockstar game
>No hard drive
>>333818841
I'd rather play as Zelda than as Link but with lady parts.
>>333821282
Back before Tropical Freeze's announcement she also claimed Retro was losing all its developers and going to shit in general.
Retro dismissed her bs as "complete fabrication".
>>333818841
It's a big deal if the game was delayed mostly for this, yeah. I don't have a problem with choosing your gender, but if that's what the delay was for, then that's horseshit.
>>333818841
>rumors that you can choose your gender in Zelda U circling round
>circling around
>rumors
>as in, from more than one person
jej
>>333821110
>>333821110
That's the venom blast it can one shot anything and isn't bendis writing his book now?
>>333820182
>And he probably wouldn't have a potential love interest like the last games.
Yes because that tangibly adds value to the games.
>>333821649
>it can one shot anything
That's anon's point.
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>>333818841
>You can choose the gender for Link
>People actually care about this.
My thoughts:
I personally like Linkle. I like her design and concept, and the salt she gave SJWs.
If the gender option in Zelda U is like in the Pokemon games where the gender you don't select still shows up and stuff, then great.
It should be Link and Linkle, two seperate characters you can choose from, each with their own unique variations in abilities to make them worthwhile. You select one, and the other hangs back as an NPC.
It should also be a unique feature to this game only, and perhaps a few more, not a new standard of the franchise.
I'm all for playing as Linkle/Link's sister/cousin, but I'd like her to be unique, not some meaningless and bland gender swap for people to self-insert into. Not only does it feel like meaningless pandering in that way, but it also fucks with the canon. Yes, I know Link is supposed to be "the Link between the player and the game" but the establishec canon is that Link is always male, Zelda always a princess, and Ganon always a monstrous man who can turn into a pig.
Plus, having two playable characters with variations in combat adds a lot of replay value. Personally, I would have been fine if THIS Link was female exclusively. But adding a gender option into future Zeldas just seems like pandering, and isn't creative in the slightest.
I don't like self-inserting into Link. To me, Link is Link, and has always been Link. Give him a sister, and call her Linkle and let me play as her too, and I'm game. But don't force a "female Link" down our throats because feminists complain.
>>333821481
I'd much rather if Zelda got her own game rather than now have a gender option tossed into the game for no reason.
Are all games gonna have gender options? Will the next SMB let me choose between Maria and Mario?
Or the next Metroid be Sam or Samus?
Add Linkle as a canon playable character, but don't add a meaningless gender select option. FE is all the worse for it desu.
>>333819670
What's lost by a female Link, if nothing is gained?
Does if matter? No.
Is it stupid? Yes.
>>333824316
An entire character, nigga. Link has been canonically male for what, 30 years? They can't just change such an iconic character without receiving some serious backlash. It's not even a matter of being progressive or not, it's just not being absolutely retarded.
I like playing as a cute girl
>>333818841
The only thing I consider in the wake of this is the porn and shipping fanart. I'm fine.
Frankly, I wish they'd remove the male option. Just for you, /v/.
What if the female option was just playing a Linkle?
I don't get feminists.
They don't want to empower Zelda and give her the important role as a playable character. They just want to stitch a set of tits onto a male character and call it a victory.
>>333823604
>the establishec canon is that Link is always male
I thought established canon was that Link is always the hero.
>>333824316
It's not only a waste of time and resources, it also tarnishes an established character. Ultimately it's pointless fluff that would pander to a tiny (but vocal) minority. Most female Zelda fans don't want or need it, they like Link and they're not sociopaths who can only identify with someone if they're an exact clone of themselves.
>>333818841
I will probably skip the NX alltogether. Nintendo isnt the company anymore that I loved so much. All the social justice crap, memes and censoring has taken its toll.
Link's barely a character anyway so who cares
>>333818841
>So with rumors that you can choose your gender in Zelda U circling round
Valley of the Flood was a more credible rumor. If Nintendo wanted there to be gender options or a secondary character, that would have be shown in either of the previews.
>>333824939
>barely a character
So are most of Nintendo's protagonists.
I don't mind. Link was never the same one as other games. He also doesn't talk and you can name him so..
>>333818841
>Is it not a big deal that Link can now be a girl after 30 years of being a male?
Linkle was made for this reason, playing as her in a canon Zelda will be the bee's knees.
>>333820845
We have Pauline (Mario's wife as to why he never married Peach), also Super Princess Peach.
Samus has a husband (Lamus) and Kirby has a wife (unknown at the moment), just use those characters.
>>333819626
And in DC, there's an alternate dimension where Obama literally IS Superman. Hell, in Spider Verse, one of the reason why they won the final battle was that a Japanese Spider-Man crashed his giant robot into the villains. You need to fucking calm your tits; just because there's a black version of a comic book character who canonically has an infinite number of variations doesn't mean the white male superheroes are going away forever.
>>333818841
I guess it does take away from Link being "the one and only" and being his own character while still being an avatar, but I'm open for a female MC, alot of people that claim to be fans of Zelda are female.
>>333819192
I hope the opposite so /v/ and wherever else can cry about "muh forced diversity"
>>333825023
Please play the RPGs, you will thank me later.
>>333819965
>not wanting a Super Princess Peach 2, where you can play as Peach, Daisy, Waluigi, and Toadette
Its like you hate fun or something.
>>333818841
>Is it not a big deal that Link can now be a girl after 30 years of being a male?
>a male can be a female
Are you retarded?
>>333818841
Imagine it like this: what if Ocarina of Time remake on the 3DS had a gender prompt at the beginning, but changed nothing from that point on. (maybe you'd have to change one or two 'he's' to 'they's')
it's the same damn game
>b-but what about the love interests?
you're just making my dick harder thinking about it.
>>333818841
>Are people blowing it out of proportion?
Like always, this is the internet after all.
>Is it not a big deal that Link can now be a girl after 30 years of being a male?
No, link is supposed to be a blank page. He is the connection (hence his default name) between the player and the fantasy world. If it helps immersion why not make her female?
>Should the genders of 'Dorf and Zelda be interchangeable too?
No, because they don't fulfill the criteria above
>Now that we're no longer solely playing as Link as we know him, should Nintendo just say "fuck it" and give us a full character creator so we can be whatever color/gender/alien we want with their own name?
I don't think so, it's nintendo and their baby steps. Also making it possibly to change species would make it look like a general mmo and I don't think nintendo is interested in this now.
>Was it really necessary to change the gender of one of the most popular male characters in gaming just to silence the bleating of a loud minority?
Source?
>Will this even so anything to silence them seeing as there's already people unhappy that you can only select gender and not the color of Link's skin?
What I noticed about this groups is that they will always find something to complain about. They will never be happy.
>Should Nintendo have just stuck to their guns and kept their character iconic like they have everyone else?
It comes to the debate of being stuck in the past or trying to innovate and be called out about it. There is no win here
>>333824903
>It's not only a waste of time and resources
Not really. They have to make a new model for a new game anyway.
>it also tarnishes an established character
No one is "tarnished" by being female.
>Ultimately it's pointless fluff that would pander to a tiny (but vocal) minority.
If this is a consideration for Nintendo at all I doubt it would be the main reason.
>>333825359
Rosalina, not Waluigi.
We need a new Wario Land game with Waluigi in it, it's time, it could even tie into a Wario Ware game so that it has a deep plot.
>>333819453
>I think
You don't think, retard.
>>333818841
I don't care. All I know is that girls who actually like Zelda will appreciate it and complainers will only complain more because Link can still be a boy or Link isn't trans. I just wonder if Zelda will Rule 63 in accordance with Link's gender choice.I wouldn't mind a few dating elements with certain NPCs. Ocarina of Time was pretty much a Harem and I'd love to see Link blow off Zelda at the end for some hot barmaid.
If it helps, through Japanese hate and oppress women in the same way that gamegates would like to, so they don't have any of the equality conversations we have. Also, they're INCREDIBLY racist.
It makes since why so many highly opinionated nerds love them.
>>333818841
I don't care as long no transgender shit is in it.
>>333825668
>girls who actually like Zelda will appreciate it
lol no, in fact in a survey that asked whether they should add a gender selection to Zelda, more females than males answered that Link shouls stay male.
>>333820845
>female plumber in a skirt
She wants to kneel her bare knees and ass down in shit water?
>>333825668
>oppai loli
Hnnnng
>>333825952
Damn, that's surprising. Is fujo love really that strong?
>>333826063
Lonely Western girls outnumber the other fans by a small margin
>>333826063
It's not really fujo love, just girls link staring at a twink's ass while they play.
Nobody cares if this is true. The only problem is that this is a non-issue and people didn't have a problem with being always male. Instead of doing that and wasting resources, Nintendo coulld be doing a good game and releasing it earlier.
>>333818841
I don't know
Pull a dark souls 2 and have Link crawl into a box and come out as female, but every time you turn off the game she reverts back to maleFor shits and giggles
>>333818841
I don't care about any of that shit. I just want my Princess Mononoke sim where I can ride across the lush grassy hills while shooting arrows at demonic entities. The only issue I have is that I'm super fucking worried that they'll make a boring open world game.
>>333818841
I wouldn't really care, it's not like Link really showed a lot of personality in the games so it hardly changes anything.
>>333818841
I wonder if the gender change option is why this game was held back for so long
>new hero is born to slay Ganon
>twins are actually birthed; one male and one female
There, explained
>>333827701
So there's two triforces of courage?
I'd pick male then go on with my life as if none of this drama ever happened.
>>333827935
No, the triforce of courage is split between the two or either one can get the whole thing
>play as Linkle
>reach final boss who's actually Ganon
>says "YOU CANNOT BEAT ME"
>he's right
>you have to start over as Link
>>333827935
Schrondinger's shit. The one you pick has it.
I wanna be a pretty girl like Link
>>333818841
Don't want any of this tumblr tier fanfiction shit on my Zelda.
why do people care so much?
in one of the zelda games link was 4 fucking people
>>333824890
Has that hero ever had a gender option? No? Ok.
A female Link as one of the reincarnations is fine. Giving Zelda her own game would be awesome. Giving you the option to play as his sister/cousin (Making Linkle canon) in one game? Great, I love it.
Hamfisting a gender select into every Zelda game from now on?
FUCKING retarded.
>>333824838
This.
>>333824890
This.
I don't really care whether they make a guy or a girl. It doesn't break anything lore-wise if Link was a girl. Spirit of the Hero and that shit. Kirby, Samus, and Mario don't have this excuse.
If they're gonna make a girl, they should probably go all in and not bother with a girl/guy choice. If boy, go all in and don't bother with girl/guy choice.
But god damn, it's going to be a boy anyway. internet's blowing this stupid rumor up for no reason. Link won't be a girl.
Zelda U Link already looks like a faggot desu. Old, bitter Link when?
>>333830314
It's fine if you give us female Link incarnations, but don't give us bland self-insert Links with a gender select option.
All the different Links have had different personalities and characterizations, further blurring what little character he has in some games in order to give us a gender select option is fucking dumb.
Don't do it!
Give us a canon female Link incarnation. Give us Linkle as his sister. But don't turn him into a bland self-insert. Self-inserts are boring.
>>333825504
I think ALL the time
>>333819441
This.
People still think it's confirmed that this is coming to NX despite that literally being entirely rumors.
I personally don't think it's gonna go to NX, but will probably be backwards compatible.
>>333830830
Yes, exactly. I enjoyed MM Link much more than OOT Link because they turned him into less of a robot, upping his characterization through his thoughts and animations. Dialogue box whilst hugging Cremia and his showing relief after being reverted back to human in the Clock Tower comes to mind.
>loud minority
Women are 52% of the population
>you can finally choose your gender in Zelda U
>choice is between only the two binari genders
>you can't even not choose your gender
LITERALLY UGH
Character customization obliterates story in games and the context to every NPC interaction will be left vague in order to accommodate it.
I'd seriously rather that Link were JUST a girl rather than writing the game around a self-insert MC.
In any case, it's just a rumour, for now.
>>333832232
Most women wanna stare at Shota Link ass though
Personally I would prefer it if they just made Link female. "Oh it just so happens that this incarnation of the legendary hero is a girl." If they were really daring they would even leave in the subtle romance between Link and Zelda. Just insist that it is "sisterly love" so that we can put on our yuri goggles.
>he fell for the linkle meme
>>333832232
and like, what, 5% of the zelda fanbase?
also
>everyone always wants to play as a character representative of their gender
gosh there must be a huge demand for a male samus seeing as how the series' audience is mostly men
Everyone seemed to be fine with playing whats-her-face as well as Geralt in Witcher 3, what if it's the same thing? You have sections as Link and sections as some important 'heroine of time' or Linkle or Zelda or whatever
>>333832135
Basically. Toon Link is loved because of how much personality he has. He's literally the one thing about WW that's universally praised.
The only reason we're able to have interpretations of Link like this one:
https://youtu.be/it2sk2nzbnY
Is because he has an eatablished character.
Giving a gender option is just gonna make every Link from now on bland as fuck. Nothing there to grasp.
Again, make one Link reincarnation female, and no one will be bothered by it. But removing personality from the character by giving players a gender option will not only lead to confusion in "so which Link is the canon one? Boy or girl?" (Like with Corrin and Robin), but just outright ruins his established character. Wanna give players an option? Introduce Linkle as his twin sister in a couple games, and make her playable while Link hangs back. That's fine. That's ONE reincarnation of Link that was twins. But don't retcon the established Lore by saying every Link up until now could have been a girl by introducing this pointless option this far in.
>>333833102
That's fine. But don't force a gender option on Link for no reason.
>>333833380
What if Link has some item or curse that forcefully switches his gender for sections of the game
>zelda series is full of strong female characters with great personalities and potential
>like the one whose name is in the fucking title
>or impa, midna, nabooru, saria, ruto etc...
>WAAAH IT'S NOT ENOUGH I WANT TO PLAY AS A GIRL TOO
>okay well how about we make zelda playable or someth-
>NO I WANT THE CURRENT MC BUT AS A GIRL
>ok well here's linkle she's basically link but still her own character
>NO SHE CAN'T BE HER OWN CHARACTER I JUST WANT THE CURRENT MC WITH TITS
>>333833561
way too lewd
>>333833561
Literally no reason for such an item to exist and would only be worked in to satisfy those who want a female Link. If they want to use a female that badly, make sections where you're Zelda while she's captured or something like Paper Mario did with Peach.
>>333833561
Majora's Mask 2 with a Gerudo transformation?
I'd buy it.
Her comment had as much basis as when the voice actress for the Emerald Herald in Dark Souls 2 called her a romantic interest.
You could play with a girl back in bsx games.
>female link
>zelda
I don't see the problem here
>>333833561
You mean make it a game mechanic that's like Ranma 1/2, and affects tge gameplay>>333833771
? Totally fine.
Again, just don't force any meaningless and bland gender select options into Link's character.
>>333833798
A curse is a curse, it'd be like Wolf Link. Was there any reason for Link to turn into a Wolf? Was it to appease the furry community? And then you can get control of it or whatever later in the game and the female form can do stuff like slip into small spaces or buy shit for lower prices, I don't know.
Link is the hero of time, not heroine.
Just like Zelda is a descendant from the goddess, not god.
>>333818841
>rumors
what rumors, emily rogers spewing shit as always?
Its fine. However Male and Female should use the same character model.
I support it if I can get raped as femlink
>>333834323
>Play as Female Link
>Suddenly Zelda and three goddess ladies are dudes
>Ganondorf/Ganon/Bad Guy is a girl
>Tingle is still tingle
>>333834393
>>333834304
I'm the guy you originally replied to here >>333834286
That guy's just a retard, don't listen to him.
Most people don't have a problem with the idea of a girl Link. What people have a problem with is ruining Link's established character by hamfisting a needless option.
Hell, who the fuck self-inserts as Link? You'd have to be a major faggot to name Link after yourself.
>>333834304
The wolf link thing has solid footing though. Going into an alternate realm where you get transformed into an animal. The same was done in Link to the Past where you were turned into a rabbit when you went into the dark world. Having a curse where you change genders would be a rather ineffective curse and would have no real harm on you to be used.
>>333834536
>general strength down across the board
>not a debuff
>>333828521
>4
Five.
Five fucking people that were biologically male because they had the common sense not to make Link trannsexual.
Finally an answer to "what if Zelda were a girl?"
>>333834536
Make it an accident, then. Like The Emperor's New Groove. You get cursed by a friend or foe that's meaning to help/kill you and they fuck up the curse. Like the early villain before it turns to Ganondorf/Ganon is some bumbling wizard fuck who is still strong enough to be dangerous
ITT a nobody on twitter posted a thing and everyones using it as a source for some reason
>>333834629
>implying anyone supporting female link wouldn't instantly get outraged by this
>>333834536
Think of Ranma 1/2. Being a girl dons you with different NPC reactions and abilities. Like for example, using your feminine looks to seducd dirty old men and info, join girl-only clubs, or trick beta males into giving you rupees. FemLink could also be more nimble and less strong than her make counterpart, so she runs a lot faster, but can't push blocks. It'd be like the Young Link-Adult Link mechanic from OoT. And you could make it so you switch on the fly. Nintendo would never do it cause it'd be kinky and kewd as fuck, but it's acceptable.
Plus, exacerbating gender stereotypes like that is bound to piss off feminazis.
I'd honestly rather have a game where you can choose to play Shiek
>>333834918
If it was something like this, I could actually get behind it but I highly doubt Nintendo will do this. Would the whole game have to rely on it, though?
>>333818841
I hope I can be a gender fluid bi-homo bird.
>>333835372
I'd say so yeah. Tbh, that sorta game sounds like a lot of fun. Nintendo would never do it, since the game would need to have strong sexual undertones at least to be fun, but well...
If anything, I could make a comic with that premise though, cause that sounds fun desu.
https://e621.net/post/show/849792/2016-3d_-artwork-animated-balls-big_breasts-breast
>>333820918
Dude final fantasy 6 is the best Zelda game I ever played in my life
>>333836339
why is ganondorf so shiny
I just want a cute female for all that Hentai
At the end of the day, Zelda is just a casual series for gamergurls and hipsters.
>>333833771
TWENTY SIXTEEN
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What iconic characterization are people thinking is somehow going to be lost here?
Link was always supposed to be a blank slate for the player to self insert.
It's just that he was created in setting where his creators could safely assume that "player" meant a light skinned male.
>People acting as though Link is a character
>>333837852
>self insert
You keep saying that but I don't think it means what you think it means
>>333837852
>he was created in setting where his creators could safely assume that "player" meant a light skinned male.
You are fucking retarded. Stop breathing any time.
>>333838117
I haven't kept saying anything. That was my first post on this topic. Also, you don't need to take my word for it. The creators have confirmed what I said.
That's why his default name is Link. He is the 'link' between the player and the game.
That's why he has no personality or character, and why they don't give him a voice (and when they do try to give him a character and a voice, it turns out laughably bad).
>>333838694
>That's why his default name is Link. He is the 'link' between the player and the game.
You are fucking retarded. Stop breathing any time.
>>333838787
http://www.answers.com/Q/Why_is_Link_from_Zelda_named_'Link'
>>333818841
I don't really care too much but if Nintendo is doing that just to please people then they can go fuck themselves.
FUck, im hype for E3
>>333818841
>>>>>>>>>>>rumors
>>333818841
I don't see them doing a female Link option.
Nor do I even see them doing a female totally not Link character like Linkle as an option either.
But it really wouldn't surprise me if the game has multiple playable characters beyond Link. They would just be their own characters and not Link.
So if the game has Link and some female as a starting characters, it wouldn't exactly blow my mind.
>>333838948
>answers dot com
You are fucking retarded. Stop breathing any time.
>>333839162
>Zelda at E3
>NX at E3
How will the competition even compete?
>>333839252
I'm hoping this is the case.
The multi-character dungeons in Wind Waker were very memorable. More of that is welcome.
>>333839324
Kinect 2.0 and Ridge Racer
Okay, I'm convinced this has to be low level trolling that I fell for.
Link literally has no characterization that this would somehow erase.
>/v/ not wanting to play as the pretty little girl
you've changed, anons, and not for the better
>>333818841
I don't see why why we can't have a separate female character to play as. Zelda/Sheik exists and people like her.
Why couldn't they just bring her back and let people play as her if they wanted a female option so bad? I'm pretty sure no one would oppose that.
>>333839967
>Zelda/Sheik
Then they'd have to work that into the story, by allowing people to play as girl Link they don't need to change anything else
Was the character in the original game ever stated as being male anyway? I know certainly by Ocarina of Time he was, but in the NES game it could have just as easily been female.
>>333834536
>The wolf link thing has solid footing though. Going into an alternate realm where you get transformed into an animal.
But the Wolf Link curse wasn't even supposed to turn him into a wolf, it was supposed to turn him into a ghost.
Fuck your canon, Link is a strong independent transgirl
>>333840224
>it's dangerous to go alone
>mfw creepy old man was just trying to ask you to go on a walk with him
NO!
NO NO NO NO!
A -GIRL- LINK?!?!
SERIOUS FUCKING LY NINTEN-DON'T/!?
SERIOUSLY
FUCKING SJWS
FUCKING SJWS!
THEY WON!
THEY WON GODDAMNIT!
FUCK YOU NINTENDO!
FUCK YOu!!!
>>333840224
Game Theory: Was Link a pansexual genderfluid agendered hero all along?!?!?
>>333840224
Kill yourself
>>333840169
>Then they'd have to work that into the story
How is that a problem? It's literally just princess zelda. It changes nothing other than that she'd be playable.
If anything, people would approve it more since they've turned the token damsel in distress into a kick ass hero.
>>333840224
Games used to be bundled with books and instruction manuals.
Crazy I know.
If she's has hot as Linkle then why not?
>>333840829
>How is that a problem?
Because then they can't damsel her/use her elsewhere. They'd just be sacrificing a character
Don't give a fuck about gender choice so long as Link stays a silent protagonist.
I'd have liked it if Nintendo just made Link a girl and a girl only
It would cause more whining but it would also be a -gasp- change
>>333837852
Yes, because Japanese people are blonde-haired, blue-eyed elves dressed like Peter Pan... retard.
>>333818841
>Should the genders of 'Dorf and Zelda be interchangeable too?
Why the fuck would this ever happen?
>>333820414
>changing the cast of Senran Kagura to men
>implying bara shinobi won't be totally hot
One can only dream
Who cares?
Even if it's a rumor that's true, who gives enough fucks to want to hate an idea like that?
It'd be an optional feature and we'd get more porn.
