Link Is, Yes, On A Boat

@WoozyB:

Meh. My opinion remains unwavered.

Nice boat...

@Quicksilver4648: Effing play something Sax Man!

@Rey Rodrigues: Nothing like some dry humor to get your day going.

@gomerkyle9: and i jizzed. in.. my. pants. =\

Vintage

@Zorantor:

umm...hes on Saturday night live? they pay attention to him because he makes funny parody music that people with no sense of humor don't get, like yourself.

@gomerkyle9:
I have just learned this is by the same guys as "Lazy Sunday" and other comedic songs. And that's awesome.

@LadyXbox:
That's a paddlin'.

This was not even close to being worth my time. Granted it's only forty-five seconds, but I've come to expect better from Kotaku that these stupid, asinine, fan-made music videos. If it's that slow of a news day, don't post anything, but don't put this shit on the front page.

AllHailShake

@Rey Rodrigues: Thread made me wet.

what, too easy?

@Rey Rodrigues:

WATER you guys doing? I don't get it....

I would have preferred Hydro Thunder gameplay footage to that song. IMHO...

@716: I saw a Spanish guy doing the Bartman.

Wakkadude21

@Solday: I second that. I, for one, am getting damned sick of all the "transportation-centric" Zelda games. Like the new one... a train. Fucking sweet... I have a train. Maybe next time I can have some kind of primitive flying machine!! Er, wait...

@gunluva The Steam servers are too busy to handle your reque...:

Seeing as how they mostly parody different hip hop styles and their profanity, then yeah, I guess I could see that.

Doesn't make the lyrics any less funny or the production values any less amazing.

WoozyB

So... you mean to tell me that this boat song is an actual commercial song?

Jackablade

Did Link fuck a mermaid?

Im so sick of that song. I cant go anywhere without someone yelling Im On a Boat! The Lonely Island was good for the first 5 minutes they released their cd

Spartanidiot

@Rey Rodrigues: heh. water.

JellyDoodle91

@Etheris: YEEEAH BUOY!

716

Nice boat.

@CmdrBladeHearts is replacing his perfectly good screen name...: We didn't do The 'Bu this month, we didn't do The 'Bu! * clap clap*

716

@Koneesha: I don't think it's only that specific video. There are several like it. But I guess it might have played a role. ;)

PirateSquirrel

@Rey Rodrigues:

This thread has realy wet my appetite for water puns. I shore am ready for some more...

*dies from bad puns*

@The Question: I keep drifting back to this thread for more, but it seems like it's just becoming diluted.

@Etheris:

Well blow me down, I'm surprised that you could get so many water puns in a row. Your post has certainly blew mine outta the water...

@Quicksilver4648:
Would've been more awesome if he had a boombox.

Even though its a Game Cube game, it still looks really good today.

ParadoxControl

Ah man, I was waiting for the "I fucked a mermaid" part.

@Everyone in this thread: I mostly had the same experience as Bronyaur, I played the game up to that point and really enjoyed as much as any other game in the series, then I tried to do the Triforce collection and after like the first two shards lost all interest. Essentially all Zelda games are a giant fetch quest where you go to dungeon A to get item x which allows you to get to dungeon B and get item y and so on, but maybe it's that it's not a dungeon. I don't know if there is truth to this but I read that the triforce piece was supposed to be in another dungeon but they scrapped it and did the treasure hunt to get the game released faster. It also took me forever to get the crane to pick up the treasure, I think because the cell shading basically took after my depth perception. I noticed the same problem when you had to leaf glider into that one dungeon. Oh and I also had to get rupees each time to buy the damn maps too because I never had enough. Eventually I'll get around to finishing it.

bla19

Yes, ridiculous rap songs and videogames.

I've got a nautical-themed pashmina afghan!

Gray665

Pretty lame.

Rip off!

This is the original: [www.justin.tv]

@Etheris: With my hose+fountain attachment...

@Toasticus: I may or may not make it rain.

I don't get it. Unless the joke is that the song is "I'm on a boat" with lots of swears while showing the Link game with him on a boat -- being ironic that a child-like animated game would have such music in the background. Does that qualify as a joke?

Xsid

@Etheris: Damn the torpid hoes, full steam ahead!

@Koneesha: Correction, the MOTHERFUCKIN space olympics!

svenhoek: When In Romero

@gomerkyle9: Actual Song epic, song with link, not so much.

@The Question: on Deborah's desk

@Rey Rodrigues: I'm surprised how long it took for someone to make this.

@Kenny: what?!? no swim trunks?

delta-kapa

@TRT-X: Nice

Koneesha

@PirateSquirrel: So that's where this song came from?

Koneesha

@Tenshigure: This is the space oylmpics.

Koneesha

@Toasticus: All of this nautical nonsense makes me want to chill on a boat with some hose.

@Jnas: Well, that was out of the blue. Put down the reefer!

THIS THREAD IS LIKE...H20.

@OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.: The occasional pearl of wisdom makes it completely worthwhile, but these threads can be hard to navigate sometimes.

@Rey Rodrigues: This is a great thread. All the puns are ferry impressive. Sometimes these puns threads can be junk.

OW-Holmes, the housekeeper.

@Rey Rodrigues: OH GUYS.

I was expecting a boatload of puns.

WATER.

I dunno if i did it right.

The funny thing is my fiance is playing WW right now and the other day I was sitting there watching her play and I started belting out the song as she was sailing around for the triforce pieces.

Wish it was cleaned up though, and longer. It looks and feels like they just sloppily smashed it together.

Someone should make a video of Wind Waker with the song "Boats and Hoes" from the Step Brothers movie. xD

@nworobes: I agree with you where the Wind Waker is concerned, the fetch quest really didn't bother me, considering I found the whole idea behind the WW was to explore.

49 islands was it? An enormous ocean with all of those islands, if you found searching for the 8 triforce pieces a chore, I guess you found most of the game in general a chore. I'd assume you probably found next to no treasure maps as well, another large aspect of the game. People whinged about WW's length, sure the story wasn't as long as Ocarina, but the sheer amount of exploration and side quests to do trumps Ocarina's entirely.

@Quicksilver4648: I'm on Shrooms!

Assassin_Kensei

@The Question: Boat him! In water on to.

MrPerson

@Quicksilver4648:
@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!:

*vomits*

@The Question: Titanic threads always get iced.

Krytha

@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!:

Then who was boat?

@The Question:

Sorry, I meant "Kotaku." One more typo and, I swear, I'm gonna go off the deep end!

@Rey Rodrigues:

Man, koatku is really going down the drain...

@monkeysaresilly: Yeah, it's going to stay afloat just fine.

@PirateSquirrel: I have never seen something that so perfectly encapsulates everything that is wrong in the world.

@nworobes: (Almost tagged everyone in the thread...) You do all realize that the original premise of the original Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda 2...okay, ALL OF THE ZELDA GAMES...was to traverse the land to combine the pieces of the triforce scattered over the land, right?

Sure, it may not have been as "treasure hunt" style, but it was all "to get to one dungeon, you had to get the bombs from another dungeon, and to get those you needed the grappling hook from another, which couldn't open the door until you had the boomerang from another dungeon".

@Neko (Mimi) Mode: No way, my ship hasn't come in yet. I think there's a link between water puns and dry humor.

@Neko (Mimi) Mode: You're all wet. We could saturate this thread for weeks!

monkeysaresilly

If I hear my friends at school singing this song I'm going to go "Nice Boat" on they're asses.

@ShinuZERO: LMAO this song is amazing and so is this video.

@Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare: Now that's actually a song you could mash up with video games.

@Koneesha: But believe me when I say...he f**ked a Zora!

@henhowc: No, he thought it was Akon, because of how Autotune makes everybody sound the same.

They should have put it to boats and hos from step brothers =D

this song is shit ._.

amazing. so much potential yet so lazily executed

@Moonshadow101: You have to watch it in context with other music videos on boats. They're quite some of those and they're always all about posing.

This one for example:

+ Watch video

PirateSquirrel

Would be better if it were longer.

EmeraldDragon

@Kenny: Man, I was at Kinko's straight flippin' copies.

spinthelights

@Rey Rodrigues: We should abandon this thread. It has been a total wipeout.

@Ken:
I love that song as well, sue me.

Horusz

@mercatfat: I love the song... >__>

Ken

Pure fail. Great song ruined.

Seriouslyno

Amusing, but I don't think it holds a candle to "The Adventures of Duane and Brando: Mega Man 2" in terms of win and awesome. It's also NSFW or small children. :p

@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!: I link you forgot to.

@CosmicElement: A cool breeze blows in and I ...

where's the mermaid.

mightyg

So basically they took clips from trailers and the stuff, only put boat clips on and put I'm on a boat on it?

I don't get it.

@Rey Rodrigues:
looks like the situation in Hyrule is becoming un-bear-able.
no?

nikolaj

@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!: He should have that checked

TAKE A PICCHA, TRICK!

Kotaku posts AMVs now? That's cool. I'd do an AMV if, ya know, I didn't think it would get WMG'd.

@Koneesha:

yeah.

in short, your amusement is the x in an algebraic equation of how deeply disconnected you are with modern pop society.

not that there's anything wrong with not being able to look at things beyond face value!

@Spiffyshaun: If you think this thread is all washed up, why don't you just sail over it?

Alienation

@Ganepark32: You realize The Lonely Island is universally amazing, right? Do you not understand their comedy, or something?

@Rey Rodrigues: Water you talking about?
This thread is all washed up.

Well that was massively underwhelming. Sounded like an excellent idea.

skewt

@Sammo21: Yea, same here, and the funny thing is I don't watch SNL anymore, but I only know about this through a friend showboating this around like it's funny. I prefer "Boats and Hoes."

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

Was that Link singing~!?

@gomerkyle9: But this isn't SEa World. It's as real as it gets. Im on a boat Motherf%%ker don't you ever forget!

Koneesha

@hiryu3: I never thoguht i'd see the day!

Koneesha

@ShinuZERO: now thats a good joke.

Koneesha

@LuigiHann: Correct. T Pain makes it for me though. Repeating everything in his voice and stuff. Also i like how in alot of thier songs they bring up movie stars.

Koneesha

@gomerkyle9: He took the boat?! But who could resist the call of the mystery box... The boats a boat, but the mystery box could be anything! It could even be a boat!

linkthe2nd

@undefined:

I sea what you did there

WTF did I just watch?

@Zorantor:

It's mostly because they're rapping so enthusiastically about something so mundane. Also there are some amusing rhymes in there.

LuigiHann

@Indypunk: This.

Marceuse

Disappointed that he didn't get to the nautical-themed pashmina afghan.

@ShinuZERO: That was a very shallow comment.

@Leanid: I was swept away by your gesture.

Combine

@BlitzGrilo: Like seriously, did Kotaku just post a Wind Waker AMV? Seriously. Wow. That was so pointless.

@MjrShake: hey he's on a boat mutha fucca don't you ever forget

@Solday: It was an awesome game, but yeah, the boat rides really did an excellent job of taking way too long.

@Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare: Who the hell is this guy? Why do people keep paying attention to him? He's not interesting.

Oh man the song wasn't funny with the original video, but seeing it used with wind waker is some of the funniest stuff ever.

ircmaster

@Moonshadow101: Agreed. Someone was very enthusiastic to show me that video, and all I had to say about it was "so?"

It's really beyond me why people think that's so funny.

@henhowc: Just curious because umm T-pain is actually in it. haha

@Darkest Daze: Huh? Do you mean T-Pain?

"Never thought I'd be on a boat."
Now they need to do "Dick in a Box" using Portal.... think about it.

Reminds me of all those anime "music videos" with Linkin Park or some other band playing on top of random clips that are terribly spliced together.

Wonder if he fucked a mermaid...

NoHoldsBarred

@gomerkyle9: It's sad how auto tune makes everyone sound the same. I thought it was Akon in that song.

Darkest Daze

@Bronyaur: Thanks, that answer was actually very insightful. Since, as you said, it's doubtful that very many people just flipped out over the fetch quest and vowed to never play the game again, but that was probably the scenario I was imagining in my mind.

And I'm certainly no stranger to that sort of indifference, where you just don't care enough to bother finishing the game.
I've never finished Super Paper Mario, because to unlock each new area, you have to explore the main hub town until you find a new path. After having done that 6 or 7 times, I just didn't care to meticulously explore that boring, drab hub town again.

Though in that case, I feel like part of it was that I didn't particularly care to see what came next in the game. Super Paper Mario was a pretty "meh" experience for me, and I feel like I had a pretty good idea where the story was headed, so something else came along to distract me from SPM, and apparently at no point did the urge to play it ever get rekindled in my heart

I guess I just don't see how someone could have the same situation with Wind Waker, which I found to be a much more compelling experience than say Super Paper Mario.
But hey, I guess everybody's different.

nworobes

@Farnic: A winrar is you

@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!:

Epic.

@Noodle-Works:

I guess I just hate profanity.

Is it too late to dive in with another pun that just wouldn't float anywhere else?

TrjnRabbit

@Leanid: What, you mean this affluent stream of posts?

interim has his cake and is eating it too

How can I nominate an entire thread?

Leanid

@CosmicElement: jizzed in your pants?

@nworobes: I wish I could.
I've played all the zeldas since OoT. I played all 3 metroid primes. I don't mind doing tedious stuff.

But I never did finish Wind Waker, because I just found the hunt too... tedious? Boring? I couldn't tell you. It's not like I threw down the paddle and sad "I can't take this any more!". I just stopped playing it, and didn't really care to change that.

The funny thing is I did get a lot of extra treasure I didn't need. It just really wasn't fun, I think is the bottom line. Even tedium needs to have some degree of fun to keep me going.

Keep in mind this is purely subjective, but I don't think you're going to get a satisfactory objective reason to your question.

Bronyaur

@Combine: I think you all need to take a "bow".

@ReconToaster.: every chunk of water out there!

Good game. Terrible music. The two shouldn't be mixed. It's amazing how well Wind Waker still holds up but then it isn't overly old yet. But it'll still look great 10 years down the road (unless you work at Kotaku in which case it'll look awful because it's a Nintendo title. That's right I went there because it's true).

Ganepark32

@Indypunk: Yeah... this basically ruins the game and the song both.

spannu

@ShinuZERO: With his FLIPPY FLOPPIES no less.

@interim has his cake and is eating it too: Okay, I won't. I'll try to stay afloat with a floatation device of puns.

Combine

this > fiddycent

Crash__Man

@Rey Rodrigues: What I wouldn't give to pun (natch) you all out of your impending misery.

But it's rather late and I'd rather not toil away any time conjuring up a somewhat decent pun when I could just throw in a mediocre one.

... Now I'm beginning to sound like the average "creative mind" in the entertainment industry.

B33

@Alternate, I cho-cho-chose the impossible:

Your right. We shouldn't have to "wade" through this crap.

@Bissrok: It's a real song though it's off a comedy album by The Lonely Island (which has two writers and one actor from Saturday Night Live.) Between this and "Jizz In My Pants," it's pretty hilarious.

@Koneesha: ...You do?

Really?

WHY?

Moonshadow101

It's The Lonely Island. They do digital shorts on Saturday Night Live mostly. All of them hilarious. Jizz in my Pants and Dick in a Box are by far the two funniest music videos ever made.

Ghostwise

Is that a real song?

If so, I'm pretty sure I could dominate the rap market with very little effort.

Bissrok

@Volante007: I loved the sailing, until it was time to get the tri-force pieces. That is, for me at least, when the game fell apart and got boring. Other than that, it's still the best Zelda game in recent generations.

@nworobes: Urgh, you got to this just before me. >_<
I've never understood it either. I, personally, loved the search for the Triforce pieces. Part of my love for the series is never knowing if I'll get the Triforce, or how I'll put it together...
Fetch quests are no big deal to me, so long as the world isn't completely impossible to navigate/so long as I'm not collecting anything set by random drops (TOO HUMAN... >_<). Otherwise, I'm fine with it.

@Combine: Don't sink down to their level.

interim has his cake and is eating it too

I got my swim trunks, and my flippy-floppies

Reptar2022

@gunluva The Steam servers are too busy to handle your reque...:

You've gotta be kidding me! you're either one of those rare super jaded people on the internets- i heard they're are a COUPLE of them left online these days.. OR you don't like fun.

I think its the latter.

The lonely island skits and adam samburg are the only things that keep SNL fresh and interesting. every other cast member is under-utilized and the writing is awful.

Appreciate it for what it is, its silly and dumb and over the top and in your face. just like the internet! yay! what with your LOLs and FTWs and don't forget the blogy blogs, myface, bookspace, tweety tweets, nano-apps, iboobs, google this and that and metubes!

Noodle-Works

@Combine: This entire thread makes me want to walk the plank.

Clearly not long enough. We need a full 30 minutes of NON STOP BLOODY SAILING.

Yeah...Wind Waker's ruined for me. Getting all the sculptures and all the treasures...so much sailing...so much endless sailing... I love it, seriously, but WAAAAAY too much sailing to do everything. And wind changes.

Phantom Hourglass got it right. Motorboat FTW.

Volante007

@Danin:

Haha, I beat you to the punch!

@bla19: Upon looking at more gaming forums and comments in the past couple years, I always see this ("the Triforce piece scavenger hunt") as the one complaint people always bring up about Wind Waker.

I really don't get it. Sure, having to get the pieces of the Triforce was a pointless fetch quest (albeit it's at the end of the game when you've explored most of the ocean and should have the teleportation song to speed things up). But what game doesn't have some sort of stupid fetch quest these days?
All 3 Metroid Primes have a fetch quest at the end that you have to do before going to the final area, and somehow whenever one of those games gets mentioned online, no one jumps in to exclaim "Yeah, that game was pretty good, except when the devs made you search around for those goddamn artifacts at the end of the game." Yet without a doubt, multiple people think to mention that in articles on Wind Waker.

Admittedly, in the Metroid Prime games, the items that you're fetching are meshed into the world a little more believably, as opposed to in Wind Waker, where they're just buried near random islands for no logical reason.
So is that it? Do people not mind going on meaningless errands, as long as the devs spend three seconds tricking the player into seeing some reason for doing so? Do gamers not even notice the numerous fetch quests they are sent on, unless they're as obvious as Wind Waker's?

I ask these questions as a person who player Wind Waker, and had no problem with gathering those pieces of the Triforce, because I had already spent half the damn game sailing around and occasionally digging up buried treasure, so the extra 30 minutes to get some Triforce pieces really didn't seem like much when I was able to tolerate (enjoy, even) sailing around for the previous 30 hours.

So please, someone explain this to me.

nworobes

I hate that hot rod guy. He is unfunny.

@Noodle-Works:
Ugh. I hope this Lonely Island nonsense blows over. Lazy Sunday was good, but everything else just kinda missed the mark.

@soulgrunt: That pun was a shipwreck.

Combine

The sad part is the second I saw the title of the post this song popped into my head.

@Rauzaruke: Oh god, I'm drowning in terrible puns.

interim has his cake and is eating it too

@Indypunk: But it's not Sea World, its as real as it could get.

@soulgrunt:

Oh dear, here comes the wave.

@ithyphallus:

you just jealous cuz you're straight makin' copies. not on a motherfucking boat with your flippy floppies.

Noodle-Works

@bla19: My friend and I just had this conversation on going back and playing Wind Waker again, but we both agree that the only thing that will hold us back is that damn inevitable triforce searching. Nearly killed the game for me, luckily everything else was superb

I still can't even beat the game. It must be pure luck finding the Frog in the cyclone to get the song because I sure as hell can never find him. 3 hours looking all over that cursed ocean, and I never saw one big cyclone. :{

Okari

so monkey fighting sick of this monday to friday meme

ithyphallus

@LllusionX has a fanboy clone!!:

THE WHOLE WATER?

ReconToaster.

Such a good idea, played out soooo poorly.

could have done better for sure.

J.D.

WUT

tnasoundlug

@ShinuZERO:

I bet that dolphins splashin, gittin evry body all wet.

@Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare: Nonsense, Bing Bong Bros came out in 2005, and it's still my favorite.

@Danin: Gettin' e'rybody all wet.

gomerkyle9

@Quicksilver4648: You might like our penises.

@The Maginomicon: It's weird for me reading Link being referred to as "the Link."

Kuwabara Kazuo

I couldn't get into wind waker. I couldn't stand all the boat riding.

@Mister Jack Wants Compelling DSiWare: It took them that long and it wasn't even any good...

gomerkyle9

I had this same idea after reading these:
[theslackerz.com]
and the follow up (see last panel):
[theslackerz.com]

But I was too lazy to ever follow through.

@Alternate, I cho-cho-chose the impossible:

Link was on the Nintendo Dolphin, if that counts for anything.

@Dangeresque, Eliminating Targets:

Aaah, well there you have it. The actual music video (+full song) is much more epic, in its parody-humored fashion and all.

@+ Watch video