Gamespot is currently running a competition in which gamers vote to decide the greatest video game hero of all time, and, of course, Link has made it to the final four.
He is currently locked in a neck-and-neck battle with Gordon Freeman of Half-Life fame, and is just barely losing by 0.1%. You can check out the competition
here :
http://www.gamespot.com/greatest-video-game-hero/vote/index.html?battle_id=62
GO vote LINK.