/vr/ - Retro Games

Why didn't you make any friends growing up? It would have been so easy. You should have just talked to other children.

Because you touch yourself at night.

Because the hero needs his anima to thrive. She is the 'home' the hero returns to once he has made his journey. Like Odysseus and Penelope.

>>9184465
Because Zelda isn't actually real, she's just a legend.

>>9184465
Because you decide the hero's name.

Why is it called Dr. Strangelove if he's barely even in the movie?

>>9184465
because you play as link who's nothin' and you're less than NOTHIN'

>>9184465
Because Zelda is of noble heritage, so eventually history was told in a way that made her the real heroine and link just a footnote.

>>9184465
It's a good question since the girl's name cost the franchise me and probably many others as players. There still seems to be many players but you will have noted the significant gay skew.

>>9184512
What's the show or movie where the dude keeps pronouncing Penelope like peen-a-lope?

>>9184591
I just thought the dudes name was Zelda.

Why is it called Super Mario Bros if you only play as Mario?

>>9184597
>Press select.

Was Link supposed to be a kshatriya, vaishya, or shudra in the first game? Because the idea of a serf being the hero in an epic seems kinda sussy and fake.

>>9184584
A Lady being more popular than a Warrior is not historically realistic at all.

>>9184465
Why is it called Mega Man if he's not a man?

>>9184465
Why wasn't it called "The Legend of Triforce"? It's more important for the plot than both Link and Zelda.

>>9184621
Because Japanese people thought of "Superman, Batman, Spiderman", therefore thinking that "man" is just a cool suffix that is synonym of "hero".

Same reason why Lord of the Rings is called such when it centers around the Hobbits.

>>9184512
>he needs his anima
>>>/a/

>>9184593
I think it was called Club Dread. Made by the Super Troopers team. Everytime I see Penelope to this day after that movie came out I say Peen-a-lope in my mind.

>>9184825
i would assume they mostly thought about Ultraman

>>9184467
Because he kept saying shit like that.

>>9184597
bc their names are Mario Mario and Luigi Mario

who the hell is Link?

>>9185306
His real name is Rinku. "Link" is an American invention to make him seem hip. It's Rinku.

>>9185289
my coworker brought this up as a joke ("doesn't 'Mario Brothers' imply their last name is Mario?") to which I said "no, that'd be incredibly stupid, it's clearly just a shorthand reference based on the titular character's fame," but then I looked it up and lo and behold, it's actually fucking Mario Mario and Luigi Mario. I'm still annoyed by how fucking stupid that is, that the boneheads at Nintendo were like "ACTUALLY yes, they do need last names; how about ummm, Mario??" MARIO MARIO and LUIGI MARIO. fuck off Nintendo. fake canon, refuse to recognize.

>>9185306
One of many names for green elf who is actually named Stinky.

>>9184531
fpbp

>>9184512

But then why wasn't the Odyssey called the Penelopey

>>9185809
>I'm still annoyed by how fucking stupid that is
Oh no how dare the video game franchise about plumbers jumping on turtles and eating mushrooms be stupid Miyamoto is a hack.

Because Zelda is a fun sounding exotic name to both Japs and English speakers.

>>9184617
>A Lady being more popular than a Warrior is not historically realistic at all.
Actually, Pajeet, it is a common mythological theme and it's the LEGEND of Zelda after all. The Greeks went to war with the Trojans over a bitch.

Because the green guy is named Zelda. Duh.

>>9184465
the first game was about zelda hiding away the triforce of wisdom
why's it in the second game when it's a different zelda? she doesn't even do anything but sleep
i mean it's a different zelda in most games but that was like a couple years afterward in lore
>>9184545
why's he called frankenstein's monster? why wouldn't you just take your wife's name by that point

>>9185923
don't be a tard, there's a difference between fantasy / whimsy and terrible lore. it'd be like if Samus' last name was "Bounty Hunter." just because it's a fictional word doesn't mean you have to give your characters dumb names.

>>9186223
Zelda is an English name. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon Hildr, which means fury.

>>9186278
The Iliad has women and goddesses in it, but the protagonists are men.

>>9184531
>Legend of FUCK!!

>>9184841
You're a legend!

>>9185809
If you'd taken the time to watch the movie you'd know these things.

>>9186472
she's not even a bounty hunter, retro wanted to make a game with her bounty hunting but they said she's basically a space cop
made a joke about her being a de jure hunter or something

>>9185893
Checkmate

>>9185306
Linkma balls

>>9184465
Nintendo really liked the name Zelda, and I guess you could see it as Link hearing a legend in this new land (OG Link was from outside of Hyrule) that relates to its current princess. Alternatively, Zelda writes down Link's exploits and it's "her" legend as in she is the scribe.

>>9186595
Doesn't it comes from Griselda?

>>9184981
Many such cases.

>>9186595
>Zelda is an English name. It comes from the Anglo-Saxon Hildr, which means fury.
Pretty sure the direct inspiration was Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote The Great Gatsby. She was a symbol of a "charming woman", who high society people would fall in love with. Zelda is a very uncommon name and as someone who speaks a Germanic language I have never seen it in the wild. I don't think it's common in Anglosaxon countries either.

>>9184838
I smiled, Anon

>>9188530
Never said it was a common name. It's a modern-ish rendering of an archaic name, but it's still derived from Old English (or surrounding langauges since german/norse/english are basically the same) as an original source.