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Mike_L on 02 April 2016

Wright, I know it's an April's fools thread but knowing your sincere view on this topic I'll bite anyway. I'm all for being inclusive. I'm 100% sure that I'll be able to enjoy Zelda U no matter what Link has under his/her/etc pants.

In Zelda U I'm pretty sure Nintendo is going to include the option to play as the female Linkle and I think that's great. I wouldn't mind the option to change the colour of Link's skin either. Personally, I'd probably just go with the Link I've known since I was a child but it's OPTIONAL and I couldn't care less which Link other people choose to play as.

 

Though, we wouldn't be able to play Zelda U before 2028 if Nintendo had to include every single minority and even then there'd probably still be some left unsatisfied.

People with disabilities
Racial
Ethnic
Gender
Sexuality
Religious
Political
Age
Involuntary
Voluntary
etc.

 

Why specifically transgender Link? How would you even be able to see/know if Link was a transgender? Should it be elaborated in a text box? Should NPCs treat you accordingly? Why would the sex even matter in a game without sexualization? In e.g. the Mass Effect or Fallout universe the sex contributes to the characters/stories/options/choices/etc. but in the way Zelda games currently are designed, I don't see why sex/gender matter.

You're a good guy Wright and if it means a lot to you personally, it means a lot to us. But bear with us.. We just want Zelda U to release this century.



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Yuseithestarknight on 02 April 2016
wombat123 said:
Yuseithestarknight said:
First I was like "Okay, that could be reasonable. Let's see the reasoning" and then I see the authors name and I was like "Yup. The article is going to be full of shit, isn't it?". After reading it my opinion on it didn't change at all. The reasoning was pretty much "Cause why not!?", but the fact that Anita just calls Nintendo of having patriarchal stances for the last few months. The supposed Nintendo fan says that, Nintendo, has had a patriarchal stance, even though they have been censoring their games most likely due to these whiners like Anita Sarkeesian.
Maybe Anita should have spend her almost one million dollars on a video game that had a transgender main character, rather than just playing the victim and not making the video series she was supposed to.

All SJWs, feminists and the games media are doing is making more enemies within the video game community every time they try to make a show of force.  Every time they do it, all they do is open more eyes to how screwed up, hypocritical, militant and totalitarian they really are.  What frustrates me the most is that they always attack Nintendo -- I guess they see them as the baddest dude in the prison yard and if they can make Nintendo their bitch then all the other game developers/publishers will fall into line.

They pretty much already are SJW's bitch. Remember the scandal over Tomodachi Life not having gay relationships? How about how much they have been censoring their games recently? The breast size slider in Xenoblade Chronicles X and multiple scenes in Fire Emblem Awakening & Fates for example.

And people just think it's good for game devs to censor their art, because some people who don't even play games don't like to see sexuality and other types of things. It just shows how they aren't tolerant of ideas other than their own.



Yuseithestarknight on 02 April 2016
MTZehvor said:
Yuseithestarknight said:

First I was like "Okay, that could be reasonable. Let's see the reasoning" and then I see the authors name and I was like "Yup. The article is going to be full of shit, isn't it?". After reading it my opinion on it didn't change at all.

...unless I'm missing something quite obvious here, as far as I can tell, the article OP mentioned does not exist. It's a prank. So...yes, I suppose it would be expected that your opinion would not change after reading a non-existant article.

Maybe I should have looked into it more. Fucking hate April Fools day.



Nettles on 02 April 2016

The far left has gone completely insane.
Everything now has to be about race, gender and sexuality.



Nettles on 02 April 2016
Ka-pi96 said:
I would assume this to be an April fools joke. But the OP is Wright... probably not a joke :o

Coming only a couple of months after the story of the dad who hacked LTTP to make link gender neutral?

Plus it's mary sue lol.



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Zkuq on 02 April 2016
Wright said:
Zkuq said:

The only purpose asking for these things usually serves is promoting your agenda. It wouldn't serve any purpose for the game aside from getting more publicity. For some games, the agenda may be fitting, but I doubt Zelda is the game to promote these minorities. I expect that to fit games with a deeper message than Zelda, and even then it depends on the game.

I'm not promoting any agenda. I merely found the points established in the source valids and worth discussing, and so I posted them here. I didn't write them all (I suggest going to the source for the full article), but other than that, no agenda whatsoever, just healthy discussion.

Ah, I didn't mean you personally had an agenda. I just consider the transgender thing itself to be an agenda. And I did check the 'source', thank you. :P



Wright on 02 April 2016
MTZehvor said:

Like 95% certain OP is trolling. Probably best to just not give him anything to work with.

 

Stop driving away my preys, MTZ!



Wright on 02 April 2016

EDIT: Nevermind.



Wright on 02 April 2016

Well, you know what, guys. I think this thread has run its course already. It's 2nd of April already (at least here), so there's no point in going on with a constructed thread using someone else's webpage and name.

I'm open to discuss things like these via wall posts, a different thread or PMs if anyone were to be interested in it, but I think it wouldn't be fair to go on here, all things considered.

 

You know, I'm glad that this thread managed to reach over 100 posts. I know it's also due to some boosting of mine (but what could I do but reply to the innocent souls who thought this was a legit article? ), but still, my first and only April's Fool joke in this site and it seemed to work, despite the very first posts of the thread not falling for it!

 

All I've got left to say, is...check the source, people! I've been saying it all along in this thread, but hardly anyone listens to me!



Cloudman on 02 April 2016

o: I'm surprised people fell for this.

I guess it did bring about an interesting discussion.



 

              

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