Link NO, the world he lives in YES, if it worked for half-life games, than it can work for Zelda games.

The title of the thead is a little misleading, since he already has a voice when OOT came out. It's suppose to be "speech", rather than "voice"
I'd say yes if I actually see a gleaming hope that they can pull it off like they did with Samus in Other M, but other than that, I would have to say no. It would just break away of what I see some part of myself in Link...

No voice, thanks! And no orchestral soundtrack! they're never as memorable as midi music!

(the only exception is Brawl main theme, but only because that is beethoven level quality!)

That's what I'm saying.

Cut the crap drop the ocean novelty, the train novelty, the dog novelty, the mask crap, the talking hat BS, hell I don't even remember what little gimmick Link was using in the last DS game that I can't even remember the name of.

I just remember the final dungeon was so boring that I couldn't pull myself to finish the game, even after taking a few months away and coming back I was still bored.

I have to agree with this.  I unfortunately haven't played ICO or SOTC but I thought the nonsense language in Starfox Adventures was well done.

Skip to about three minutes in.

^^ That's not a bad idea for the NPCs of Zelda :)

as for Link, i'd rather see him speak a known language instead of jibberish... or none at all, he's sorta human imo. (i was gonna say english but i forgot that there are several other languages that gamers speak lol)



**quick question: i don't notice this cuz english is ~pretty much my first language, but for people who's first language isn't english, how many spoken languages are usually included in big games with voice acting???

There was always Japanese/english option in most games during the last gen, as well a third one that squeezes in, either french for canadians or spanish for latin americans/spaniards so far. And that's just for voice acting, it's alot more for texts. But that's unknown to me...

NO

If the language spoken is like the one use in Shadow of the Colossus or Satr Fox Adventure, then yes, besides that it will be add more personality for Link as an adventure hero character