Why do forign previews seem to give fewer blows?

[Jasede]

First of all, a good synchronization speaker can speak so well that you don't notice a difference between vocalisation unless you're really looking for it, and our guys are very good. That's in movies.

In games, lip-synching- well. I wouldn't know, I never played a game with lip-synching anyway.

Also, why would people riot there? Germans don't know English. Not most, anyway. They do know a butchered, corrupted version of it that's just enough to corrupt our beautiful language with hideous English-German constructs, but they absolutely know not enough of it to play a full game in it. And who'd buy a game he can't read or understand? Are Czech people learning English a lot?

I mean, here, English is mandatory, but our kids are so stupid they -really- suck at it.

And nobody in Croatia would riot, I bet, if the quality of localisation matched ours - even though I'd call it only average in games it's LEAPS AND BOUNDS over most east-european and russian things, aside maybe Polish, I heard Polish versions can be real good.

That said, like Jarl, I prefer the original language in anything. I love learning new words from languages I'll never use.

 

[Shoelip]

With strategy games I just buy the German version fron the store, and they're usually translated very well, even the voice-acting is pretty good.

Military stuff always sounds better in German.

 

[Dark Elf]

Meh, dubbing is for barbarians. True Herrenvolk use subtitles.

 

[Elwro]

I heard Polish versions can be real good.

It varies, but e.g. PS:T's translation is a masterpiece. The Polish version of cant sounds very naturally and the whole reads like written by a very good author.

 

[abstract]

are you shitting me? the Polish gaming media gave Oblivion the mother of all blowjobs.

 

[Mareus]

Also, why would people riot there?

1. Our synchronizations are awful, although lately they have improved a bit and that starts to worry me, for it might spread from cartoons to the movies.
2. Our language is a bit archaic and it has trouble translating some foreign words accurately.
3. People are so used to subtitles that I guess it would be very painful to suddenly change that.

 

[Unradscorpion]

Fuck, I'm so used to subtitles, that I never actually watch movies in Serbian, can't understand a word.

 

[shihonage]

Assides from Wired's Preview, almost all American Previews are composed of sucking up to Bethesda. Foreign ones, specially those from Poland or Russia, are pretty much diferent. And this is why I would like to live there.l

No. No, you won't.

 

[Kaiserin]

Everyone outside of the United States r forign. Wuts up wit forigneers?

 

[kingcomrade]

You would like to live there because reviews you can read online are more critical of a video game company?

 

[onemananadhisdroid]

Just one offtopic question JarlFrank. How hard it is in Germany to get a hold of original version of games and movies. I mean I am under impression everything is synchronized on German in Germany. I swear the day that starts happening in Croatia is the day I will move out of Croatia. Doesn't it bother you? Don't people in Germany find it annoying?

No. Germany has got a very, very, very, very professional dubbing industry, and every once in a while Germonized games benefit from that too. Even so, prefering to experience something in the exact form it was made in is a valid reason to stick to the untouched (undubbed) version of whatever. However I would steel feel the urge to react strongly to everybody who wouldn't give the professionals involved the credit they deserve. Anytime. Anywhere.

Dubbing can be an art form ot its own, even. I could point fingers to TV shows, movies and games that even benefitted from dubbing - and this is one's not for the purists: sometimes by applying a little more creative leeway than usual and turning the original thing upside down, for the better of it. Also, a lot of smallish foreign games have very poor voice acting due to the budget involved, and for a number of German game publishers doing quality voice acting is pretty high on their list of things to do.

 

[Longshanks]

I don't care how good a dub is, I always prefer to watch a movie in the original language. It's kinda boring and insular to only watch movies in your native tongue.
On the extreme end of this, we have ridiculous instances where I believe the undubbed version of Mad Max was not released in the States, till the year 2000 . Despite it being voiced entirely in English (that's Australian English, but surely not too difficult for Americans to decipher).

 

[JarlFrank]

On the extreme end of this, we have ridiculous instances where I believe the undubbed version of Mad Max was not released in the States, till the year 2000 . Despite it being voiced entirely in English (that's Australian English, but surely not too difficult for Americans to decipher).

The Americans dubbed an English movie with new American English dubs so it's easier for them to understand? Holy shit how retarded is that