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English Version Games?
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 9:09 am
by Nippy
Hey everyone,
I was intrigued. I saw a post by Mysty in the NwN forum about she ordered an English-version and paid more for it. Why do this? I'm really intrigued...
Thanks
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 9:11 am
by Tamerlane
Have you ever played a poorly translated game, generally Japanese to English seem to be the culprits.
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 9:20 am
by Nippy
I don't need to, that's my point...
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 9:24 am
by fable
Originally posted by Nippy
Hey everyone,
I was intrigued. I saw a post by Mysty in the NwN forum about she ordered an English-version and paid more for it. Why do this? I'm really intrigued...
Why not ask her via PM?
Just out of idleness, I can perceive a few possible reasons:
1) Desire to better her understanding of English.
2) Plenty of English knowledge. Desire to escape bad translations, as Tamerlane suggests. Although I imagine the translation of NWN would be handled meticulously.
3) Inability to acquire the Japanese version soon enough. Maybe there weren't enough copies made, and nothing is expected to show up for a while. Impatience is a wonderful factor in life. There's nothing like giving the finger to Entropy.
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 9:28 am
by Nippy
@ Fable, I asked the forum because I've seen other people say it as well, she was just the example that came to mind.
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 9:42 am
by Mysteria
Re: Re: English Version Games?
Originally posted by fable
Why not ask her via PM?
Just out of idleness, I can perceive a few possible reasons:
1) Desire to better her understanding of English.
2) Plenty of English knowledge. Desire to escape bad translations, as Tamerlane suggests. Although I imagine the translation of NWN would be handled meticulously.
3) Inability to acquire the Japanese version soon enough. Maybe there weren't enough copies made, and nothing is expected to show up for a while. Impatience is a wonderful factor in life. There's nothing like giving the finger to Entropy.
About right, fable.
1) It's a nice side-effect.
2) It just sounds better in English. Besides, in my case, I'm unable to buy it in my mother tongue anyway.
3) Erm, no.
4) I don't have to worry about translating into English when I want to talk about it in here as it is already in English.