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S.T.A.G.E. said:
AlfredoTurkey said:

For me, it just removes believability to the point of unreachable. Even in games like Halo where it's story is set in an extreme future and rooted in sci-fi, the idea of a female being strong enough to take down armies, or have the testosterone levels to push hard enough to do it, is ludicrous. The only case scenario where it would make even a slim bit of sense is when she's genetically modified but when you have games like Halo 5 where the female spartans have extremely feminine bodies, void of the effects of strength and muscle, it again, fails miserably.

There's a reason why the worlds armies are almost exclusively male. Evolution did not intend for women to physically compete against men. Mentally? Sure. But not physically.


Well...this isn't really an intellectual situation. Its a sales one. As time goes on men generally buy less, but female sales tend to stay streamline even as they age into their middle years and even more when they have kids. They consume more on behalf of two people more often than not. Its wise to market to them industry as the male gamers are getting older and less apt to make as varied choices as they did when they were children. Its a revolving door but more females grew up with games today than ever before. Why shouldn't we follow the market?


If you want to look at things like a businessman, sure. You can take that route. But I'm no businessman. lol



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Torillian said:
I think part of it is that he's a different person almost every game so unless the Legend of Zelda world is sexist in how it picks its heroes there's no particular reason that Link couldn't be female for one iteration. If Link were a single established character (like Samus which you bring up) then I doubt it would be as highly suggested. It's because with the character it makes sense and if you have a character which is a hero chosen by destiny with a fresh person everytime and you never get a female hero that seems to say something about how this world chooses its saviors.


By that logic, why should Link always have blonde hair or be white?



Torillian said:
For another angle on it, let's say you had a game series focused on doctors, and every game a doctor was chosen by God to be the greatest doctor in the world and cure some disease of the time. That game has gone on 12 iterations and thus far every single doctor chosen was male. Given the estimate that about 66% of doctors are male the chance you'd randomly get a guy 12 times is .66^12 or 0.68%. Such a series to some would indicate a statement on the part of the developers on who can and cannot be chosen as the greatest doctor in the world.

I hear a similar argument about the Doctor actually and his 12 iterations.



Lawlight said:
Torillian said:
I think part of it is that he's a different person almost every game so unless the Legend of Zelda world is sexist in how it picks its heroes there's no particular reason that Link couldn't be female for one iteration. If Link were a single established character (like Samus which you bring up) then I doubt it would be as highly suggested. It's because with the character it makes sense and if you have a character which is a hero chosen by destiny with a fresh person everytime and you never get a female hero that seems to say something about how this world chooses its saviors.


By that logic, why should Link always have blonde hair or be white?

Nintendo could just have every game they make have a creator mode. And modify the characters basics. The way you want. The deafult Link/Mario/Samus exsists. But you make whatever color changes. Smash basically does this with the color swaps.



A change of pace from playing as a male, but I don't think changing Links gender is going to make much of a difference, other than giving him more feminine features and a pair of boobs.



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Lawlight said:
Torillian said:
I think part of it is that he's a different person almost every game so unless the Legend of Zelda world is sexist in how it picks its heroes there's no particular reason that Link couldn't be female for one iteration. If Link were a single established character (like Samus which you bring up) then I doubt it would be as highly suggested. It's because with the character it makes sense and if you have a character which is a hero chosen by destiny with a fresh person everytime and you never get a female hero that seems to say something about how this world chooses its saviors.


By that logic, why should Link always have blonde hair or be white?

Agreed, I am arguing within the mythos of the universe and unless the prophecy we're basing the hero's choosing off of states "a white, blonde boy will appear to save us all" I don't see an issue with a brunnette.  

Another interesting point is we all call him Link by default, but you can name him in the game.  Why does that not blow up the mythos similarly to allowing a customizable character?  The fact that there are people out there playing as Babyfart the hero of time doesn't seem to be an issue because we're used to it.  



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Qwark said:
Metroid33slayer said:

Being a man is politically incorrect WTF.


No 90% of your universe is political incorrect, just like an all white cast is incorrect these days.

I don't give a toss about political correctness, it is used to denegrate white males almost like a kind of stealth racism. I was being sarcastic in my previous post.



Maybe because Link is getting more girly as the time passes... :P



Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

No clue, probably some stupid reasons though I bet.



I wish it will never happen