Halo 4 permaban for sexism

[eliasfrost]

because changing their character to something that breaks out of the
game's setting without changing other appropriate aspects in the game
(The girl's dad did this which was great!) can kind of ruin how the devs
wanted you to experience the game originally.

The devs want the player to feel like a hero, being a boy or a girl won't change that fact. But for the player to decide whether she want to be a girl or not is important in a game that obviously is supposed to make the player feel like the character, especially in a game like Zelda were the gender of the hero don't really affect the story or the universe where the game takes place. There's no actual part of any plot in any of the games that is centered around Links gender, so why not change his sex if that's what you want to do?

It's kind of like what I said turning Daniel Chinese without changing
appropriate dialogue, because using that really breaks out of a game's
universe which goes out of it's way to state otherwise. Just saying. If
someone likes it however, I won't go, and stop them if that's what they
really want.

Except in Amnesia, Daniel is a fixed character with dialogue, a very specific set of values and morals, personality and look that defines the character. In Zelda, you are just the looks, Link don't actually say anything, he has no specific moral and value setup, personality or dictate the player choices, except the goal of the game, which is to rescue Zelda. Everything else is up to the player to decide. While Daniel is more of a movie character that is actually set in stone (with some minor tweaks that makes the illusion of personal character development). But that doesn't mean you can't change the gender or ethnicity of Daniel, if you want to do that then go ahead, but he is in fact on a different level of character than Link is. And is harder to change the ethnicity and gender because he is already so fleshed out.