English Language Everywhere?

Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:30 am

Hey,

I'd like to know if the English language is included in every country's version.
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Sammykins
 
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Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:10 am

Of course it is. Which AAA title in recent years didn't have an English version in every country? Oh, right...Borderlands 2.
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Jacob Phillips
 
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Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:21 pm

Of course it is. Which AAA title in recent years didn't have an English version in every country? Oh, right...Borderlands 2.

And assassins creed, or maybe it was just me, who couldn't find the right settings.
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Taylor Bakos
 
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Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 3:16 am

Of course it is. Which AAA title in recent years didn't have an English version in every country? Oh, right...Borderlands 2.

Seriously? With all the humor in it. How stupid can the publisher be?

Deus Ex: Human Revolution didn't have it either.
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Suzie Dalziel
 
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Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 3:28 pm

Wow, a lot of games didn't have English as a main language setting? Is that some kind of anti US movement or something? People need to understand that translation is often a bad move because the translators don't recreate (adapt) the meaning of the original work. So in a sense it's censorship basically.
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Post » Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:57 pm

Exactly.

I think sometimes it has to do with disc-space limitations. There are only so much voice tracks you can put on one disc. I live in Germany and games there often include German, French, Italian, Spanish. Whereas the UK/US version merely include English (+ sometimes Spanish for the Mexican-Americans, I guess).

But there is so much lost in translation, as you said, that the original language should ALWAYS be included. Especially if the game has such a great voice-cast as Dishonored has. Main problem is: most Germans don't give a [censored] and also do not have any sense of taste (this was known, I think). 95% are perfectly happy with their abysmally dubbed version.
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