Many thanks to all of you for your responses. It is very reassurring to me that my fellow gamers would not go insane over a simple color change,even though it might not be preferable for the icon we know and love.
As some of you were saying, I think that maybe the hardcore imageists might get their panties in a bunch, but the rest of us would be okay. But what if more changes happened to Link's staple equipment? woulld all of us go crazy if link ran into battle with a tower sheild and a nine and a half...
I do not mean to be offensive in any way in this thread. I was simply thinking about tis nbc.com article I saw about the possibility of an African American spider man and I thought, "Hey, I wonder what the response would be from gamers if Link had skin of a different color?" I personally don't...