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11/04/2011, 04:00 am
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RAWR!
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If you would follow the forums, you would recognize that TTG is hugely taking advices by its fans. Especially with JPTG. However, I didnt expect the game with German language support and on my opinion Woodsyblue post is the most understandable for TTG's reason of translation. In advance, i mostly hate translation. Good translation is expensive and much work. It's not like math, there is no perfect solution, and thus many meanings and puns get lost. I always prefer the original, because thats how its meant to be. |
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11/04/2011, 08:59 am
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I know that translations are never perfect, and I always prefer the original version, but sometimes you're tired and want to play without much thinking, and playing in a language that is not yours is more uncomfortable, like try to drive from the back seat (Rebecca Black reference?). And a lot of people can't play with only english subtitles. I have many friends that would love to play Back to the Future and Jurassic Park games but they just CAN'T.
I thought that Microsoft would help with translations, like they did with Wallace & Gromit, which has been the only TT game in Xbox to the date and had multilingual support. Maybe my post was a bit hostile, but I was sad and needed to let off steam. Last edited by nomecopies; 11/04/2011 at 09:07 am. |
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11/04/2011, 09:04 am
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11/04/2011, 10:02 am
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I agree with nomecopies, it is nice to play in their own language, without the stress of having to translate the sentences.
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11/04/2011, 01:33 pm
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Let's see which PC games that are due to release this month will include Italian and Spanish languages (list from vgreleases.com):
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North - ITALIAN&SPANISH NCIS - ITALIAN&SPANISH Sonic Generations - ITALIAN&SPANISH Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - ITALIAN&SPANISH The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - ITALIAN&SPANISH Aliens:Colonial Marines POSTPONED RELEASE (but all past Gearbox games were at least in Italian) Jurassic Park: The Game -  Need For Speed: The Run - ITALIAN&SPANISH Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 - ITALIAN&SPANISH Saints Row: The Third - ITALIAN&SPANISH Assassin's Creed 3 - ITALIAN&SPANISH Anno 2070 - ITALIAN&SPANISH Time of Fury (cannot find any info from Wasteland Interactive) Serious Sam 3: BFE - ITALIAN&SPANISH Which is the only game that is known to not have Italian and Spanish languages? 
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11/05/2011, 06:02 am
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Will German language be included in the Steam release or do I to have to order it directly from Telltale to get the game in German?
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11/05/2011, 06:27 am
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Telltale is a relatively small dev company with budget limitations. All the others are highly funded massive corporations. To telltale each language taken for translation = a fair slice of budget that could be used to make the game a whole lot better and has limited consumer impact since like 90% of the world can speak english to some degree and therefore can cope with english only. To massive devs of the other games, they probably already have in house translation teams and the cost is like a drip in an ocean in their budget. Afterall translation is a big effort, its not just simply this is english this is italian its essentially a full re-write of dialogue to translate the grammar, slang terminology, colloquialisms of language and in some cases entire re-imagines to make puzzles/challenges work as they can be wording dependant. (good example is the speak easy password in BTTF, the options in other languages have to be entirely different for the mechanic of last syallble = first of answer to work) Plus not only is there that element of re-writing it all there is the cost of getting an entire extra cast of voice actors for the language if its a full translation. Last edited by Emo Hoe; 11/05/2011 at 06:31 am. |
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11/05/2011, 02:08 pm
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Jurassic Park!!!
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It will be out for spanish and german just with sub titles it's coming out with a lot of a variety of languages just with sub titles. Im good with english so im not worried
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11/05/2011, 03:28 pm
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italians should start to learn english
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11/06/2011, 05:06 am
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11/06/2011, 05:34 am
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 Good answer. Bravo!!Now also have to learn Chinese, is the language of fashion. I'm on it.
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11/06/2011, 08:01 am
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11/06/2011, 02:41 pm
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... Imagine us, from Brazil???? Or... the Russians, Chinese and Japanese! We all play a lot video games and our market is good for that!
 Telltale should invite cheap translators for that.... hehehe I candidate myself to translate the texts to Brazilian Portuguese! hueuhueh Isn't that what the fan communities do? the MODs with translations. The point is that not all costumers are used to play complex games out of their native languages. Mainly European, asian, Hispanic and Luso Americas too... Not all costummers are fortunate to know English pretty well. For example, I would like to buy a copy of Back to the Future to my 10-year-old nephew. But he could never play such a game. He's a Brazilian kid, and a brazilian kid doesnt speak fluent English.... The same with the Spaniards, Italians and Japanese... Look this link: the most spoken languages of the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ative_speakers |
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11/09/2011, 09:03 am
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Which Languages are included in pre-order Jurassic Park: Deluxe Pack?
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11/09/2011, 09:06 am
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11/11/2011, 10:19 am
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Great!°!!!
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11/14/2011, 04:23 am
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On a very general note, we've had this discussion for every game since time memorial. I actually recall a very heated thread for BTTF where German was the most-demanded language for the game. Strangely, when the surprising announcement was made that there IS German text and speech, the extent of applause didn't quite match the former aggression.
So, just a reminder to keep this discussion alive with a fair share of walking in someone else's shoes. If you speak English, it's hard not to look down on people who can not play a game in its original language. If you live in a country which doesn't have a dubbing culture, it's hard to understand why subtitles just don't suffice. If you're not in the translation or voiceover business, you might have an oversimplified idea of the process and its obstacles for smaller companies. BTTF was a great step forward concerning foreign language support. It does leave a lot to be desired, but I'm sure the more successful TTG is internationally, the more languages will follow in future games. It's just that for the initial release of Jurassic Park, obviously the same connections were used as for the Back to the Future game, hence the same languages. As always, individual publishers in foreign countries may contact TTG and sell the product with their own translation and voiceover work in retail editions, so don't give up hope for an Italian or Portuguese edition of Jurassic Park just now. Quote:
There are many ways to evaluate which translation would be the best idea. A rather easy one is to have a look at your website hits and where they come from - this way you'll have a first "interest map" for your game world domination plan. I wonder how this statistics looks for TTG.
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11/14/2011, 04:30 am
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if we only refer to the number of people who speak a certain language (mother tongue), we would have to make the following language support (in this order):
1. Chinese (1.213.000.000 speakers) 2. Spanish (329.000.000 speakers) 3. English (328.000.000 speakers) 4. Hindi (242.000.000 speakers) 5. Arabic (221.000.000 speakers) 6. Bengali (181.000.000 speakers) 7. Portuguese (178.000.000 speakers) 8. Russian (144.000.000 speakers) 9. Japanese (122.000.000 speakers) 10. German (90.000.000 speakers) 11. French (68.000.000 speakers) Last edited by tope1983; 11/14/2011 at 04:34 am. |
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11/14/2011, 06:53 am
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How exactly can German only have 90,000,000 speakers when the combined populations of Austria, Switzerland and Germany have already 98,000,000?
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11/14/2011, 07:05 am
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