Slow news day Luke?

Well, “why, I don’t see the point,” is simply how a lot of people see this. It’s not a wrong or invalid opinion about the whole thing. If the dad is just practicing at hacking, ok sure. But the act of doing it simply appears to be taking a political stance against the overwhelmingly dominant male protagonist lineup in…

I guess I’m a bad parent unless I romhack a old videogame to make them feel special.

Brb gonna change Samus into a boy in Super Metroid. Just wanna make my son feel good.

So if we read Harry Potter to a little girl, but we don’t change his name to Hariette Potter and make him a female for that child listening to the story, that means we’re not being nice to the child? Can you please explain the logic behind that, because I don’t get it. Should I be mad that Leonardo Da Vinci didn’t…

Name one aspect of the gameplay that becomes different if Link isn’t a boy.

I do see your point that Link’s gender has a real impact on the overall package of the game.

I don’t know, it’s just way to PC and nonsensical. What’s wrong with playing a character of the opposite sex? I don’t play Tomb Raider and think, man why am I a chick, I’m engage by the idea of playing the role of another character. So I mean why change it?

I will never understand the Link gender issue. The character is a boy, accept it and move on. The lengths people go to pretend otherwise is weird.

Ok I’m a man and here is my list of favorite games: -Zelda, Mario, perfect dark, metroid, beyond good and evil. At no point in my life, I ever thought that I would like to change the protagonist of a game because it was a female. I seriously think that the only problem here are the people who get so worked up over…

I came here to side with the poster, but as i think about it I really don’t. If I create a story about a Taiwanese girl over coming adversity, and you decide to change it to a white boy, you have taken my story and the purpose away from me. Now I know link is a half fairy boy and on large terms doesn’t fully matter on…

yeah becuz making your kid play link as a boy is SUCH a hateful thing to do. someone call DCS over this. /[sarcasm]

If your child feels fucking woe over something like this then they are retarded and useless.

If you email a website with something you did, it wasn’t to be considerate, it was for attention. That’s how this one looks anyway.

Not trying to be mean but why? Link is a character with a definite background, other wise he wouldn’t be referred to as son. Why not let your daughter enjoy the game the way it was meant to be played.

Sigh.

Cool, but, why?

When you talk about flipping tables over things more substantial, then look at the current Fire Emblem issue. This isn't just Street Fighter, and for the crowd that disagrees with localization tweaks they're talking about EVERYTHING. I think you need to consume information from multiple sources and not just one…

Nah, Ono has come out and said that they changed it, not because of internal decisions, but because they didn’t want people to be offended, and there were very vocal people online, saying they were.

It’s not dramatic to call it censorship. In the NES/SNES days, Nintendo of America made sure that all references to alcoholic drinks were changed to soda or root beer... Christian references were removed (FF’s white magic spell couldn’t be called Holy), crosses were removed, the words “die” or “kill” or “death” were…

that’s what I tell Luke every time he posts cosplay pics ¯\_(ツ)_/¯