Voice of Mario Wanted To Voice Link

Charles Martinet is a talented voice actor. I'm sure he could pull off a good Link. But I suppose giving Link a voice would ruin the "silent hero" aspect of him.

My thoughts exactly.

Thank God.

It would be weird having Link speak so I'm glad they're keeping him silent.

Since when does giving a character a voice mean giving him entire sentenses? Being the voice of a character can also mean just giving them grunts and all that, which Link DOES have.

Still I'm glad they didn't do that either, the current Link voice is classic and really fits him.

...lz2009-san spoke my ideas (except for the "talented actor" part, since I know nothing about Mario's voice actor).

link will always be mute and thats how everyone likes him

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No. Just no. Link is silent, end of discussion.

I agree with keeping Link silent, but he does have his grunts and groans and "Come on!"s and such. I guess Martinet could do that...

Of course, in my mind, there is only one voice that would suit Link well, and that's Harvey Fierstein.

It's'a me! Linkio!

we know what happened last time they let link talk. "well excuuuuuuseee me princess".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxY8lpYAUM

While they're at it, they should have the princess peach voice actor be Gandandorf! lol

I dunno, I think Link should have a voice as a test run at some point.

...that isn't based on the tv show...

... or the CD-I games...

...or fanfictions...

What if he wanted to voice Kirby?

@ Warios Dude! That phrase is like awesomer than the like live do the mario dance, like ya know? [this is a prime example of sarcasm]

I don't really see what the big idea is with having voice acting in every single game. Keep Link silent. I really don't mind reading the text in Adventure games and RPGs...

Link has no voice.

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I agree that Link should be silent. I prefer to imagine what his voice would sound like instead of having someone do it for me.
Also, I can't imagine the voice of Mario being the voice of Link

This is...weird. 0_o Anyways, I'm glad that Shiggy didn't try to make link have a voice. It would just sound wrong.

I Agree Link should stay Mute i don't want to hear a single Voice.

That's a miracle. Link will always be silent, and that's how it's supposed to be. Stick to Mario, you're already good enough at that.

Doesn't Link yell "Yaah!" when riding Epona hard?

imagines Link with Mario's voice
...Could be an unlockable after defeating the game. XD

Link can stay the way he is, but I would like to have voice acting for everyone else.

He's going to stay without a voice. That's the part I like. I hope he means forever. I think I recall some review of Twilight Princess, might have been Gamespot, criticizing the game for it's lack of voice acting. Which apparently is a necessity in this day and age... I couldn't believe it...

It would lose so much of it's quirkiness if they added voices. The weird little noises the characters make when you speak to them are perfectly fine thankyou .

Perhaps you might not know that Link is currently voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama since Orcarina of time, and the voices consists of different reactions including attack grunts and shouting. No dialogue voices used of course.

It would be nice is there was VO in a Zelda game though. Obviously not Link, but everyone else would be nice.

I know Miyamoto san wants players to feel like they are link and all that crap, but seriously, the rest of the cast in the game don't need to be mute as well.

I knew nintendo wouldn't give him a voice
plus reading text is a staple in zelda ..........but not in the CD-i games >.

Imagining a guy with Marios voice jumping up at Miyamotos leg and going "I wanna be Link! I wanna be Link!" just makes me laugh.

I wouldn't mind if everyone except Link had voices.

Thank God they didn't let him voice Link! We already have a crappy TV show and three crappy CD-I games where he talks. I don't think the fans would take it too well if they decided to turn silent Link into a talker.

Link must be mute. First class, super high quality voice acting to everyone else but Link would be awesome ofcourse.

Have to agree that Link must remain a silent protagonist. As a compromise you would have thought Shiggy should let Martinet be the voice of Tingle, or would that be seen as some sort of punishment?

If they were to ever voice link, they should only use the Japanese voice actor (or any other I guess) who does his grunts and what not to speak in Japanese but retain the speech boxes (in different languages) to act as the subtitles. Japanese is the only way to go if you want it to not sound all cheapened up. Though if this was to be the case, I highly doubt it would ever happen. But I'd prefer Link and all the characters to be left silent as that adds to the game's Japanese charm. The last thing I'd want is Link speaking English in an American accent...that would just sound really cheap (no offense).

I mean we all know how terrible dubbed anime sounds. It'd be no different.

Could've sworn I remember him going like "AIIIIIII! Yai-yai-yai!" after somehow surviving a two-story fall in OoT (I hate you, Megaton Hammer chest room!)

Voice everyone else, but not Link.

I'm fine with Link sounding like a girl.

I have never had a problem with no voice-acting in this francise =)
But... I think it would have been nice if they had done something like in Metroid prime 3, where only the main-caracter is silent =).
But yeah, at the same time... im curious on how the voice of Link would be "Hmm".....

give link and samus voices and let them debate various issues of game life, now thats the "game" i wanna see

After the CDi games, Link deserves to have his voice box ripped out...

I prefer Martinet to say phrases in Mario´s games and not only repeat like crazy the character names. "I´m Wario", "Eeee Wa- lui-giiii"

Another thing i think nobody yours know is that Martinet speaks a very fluid spanish. I met him in Electronic Game Show in Mexico City and i get very surprised heared him in spanish. I wish Nintendo let to Martinet to put spanish phrases in a language option in Mario´s games. "Heeey todos. Yo soy Mario"

It would certainly be a change for Link to have a voice. Perhaps he has some grievances against Nintendo since he's always being forced to be mute. I feel a "reality" tv series coming on.

I hated the blabbering Drake in Uncharted 2. It felt stupid and out of control. Not quite the "Excuuuuse me princes" -caliber, but awkward nonetheless.

I would never want Link to talk. Some one once asked me "Why wouldn't you like it if he talk?" I tried to explain to him, but he couldn't understand. Besides, when I read what characters say, I can use my own imagination on what there voice is really like and how they said it. Plus! Link doesn't have to talk. Why? Because you are the character. That's why you name your file i.e. (Brian) and characters talking to you call you (Brian).

Nothing annoys me more than when a character starts blabbing away while I'm trying to play.

The Prince of Persia games do this too much! I'm jumping around and climbing walls and then the Prince gets the idea to start complaining about this or that.

I would be scared of Zelda games if Link had Mario's voice!

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