• MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
        24·
        5 months ago

        And the canon version of him is one of gaming’s biggest queer icons. Link is trans, Samus is gay, and Chief is ace.

          • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
            13·
            5 months ago

            So effeminate that they can pass as a woman whenever they want. And their girlfriend has a male alter ego. Let’s face it, they’re both genderfluid.

            • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
              5·
              5 months ago

              Kinda feels like a stretch when they disguised their gender rather than fluidly being both, and link is literally the boy of legend but if it makes you happy then by all means

                • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
                  4·
                  5 months ago

                  … when is Zelda a boy?

                  She disguises her appearance as sheik, she is not a boy though. She disguises her gender to be someone else but she is not living as a boy/man.

                  Robinhood and his merry men also disguised themselves as women, it does not make them trans.

                  Link is literally a boy as canon. He is the boy of legend.

                  I have no problems with representation and I advocate for more of it for everyone but it’s a stretch my dude.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
      10·
      5 months ago

      God no.

      I hope it gets wiped and start over with competent show runners who actually play the games and understand them. There’s a reason the Last of Us and Fallout TV series are highly acclaimed.

      • cm0002@lemmy.world
        3·
        5 months ago

        100% and I watched the entirety of season 1 trying to give it a fair shake. But it’s just too obvious it was supposed to be “its own thing”. Which, maybe with a bit better on the story side, it would have been a fairly decent original IP. Nothing ground breaking or spectacular, but decent.

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Agreed, I also watched season 1 and was willing to watch an original take on halo, but it was just fucking terrible.

      • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I’m not really sure I agree, and I think Fallout is a good case in point. They did nail the general vibe with the dark humor, easter eggs, etc, but it was pretty much a 100% original story that had very little to do with any of the games.

        I think the same could have been done with Halo, except the writing and execution of the original story were fucking awful. Faithfulness to the games was never going to help it anyway.