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Squilliam said:
I don't speak aboriginal, sorry.

don't worry i know u arent "original".



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Ich bin noch nicht an der Stelle, aber morgen dann. Hab's mir also nicht durchgelesen.

What I'm really hating are spelling mistakes. The German translation of Okami was a pure disaster. I am a perfectionist concerning the orthography, so I was forced to change the language into English.

There was one hilarious mistake in Little King's Story too. A big 'KING' was to be read on the screen. The German translation wrote 'KNÖIG' instead of 'KÖNIG'. I was crying!



Well Rol that really sucks, but it makes me wonder if it is really an error in translation or if the problem also appears in the english version. Probably you are correct and they use something like "there I lie" in the english version, but still, it isn't so obvious to me that the problem exists because of the translation.

On another note, the german translation really sucked for Okami as Vas-y said. Didn't take much away from an amazing game though.



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RolStoppable said:
 

Khuutra said that he didn't have that problem and I think he knows what I was talking about.

I still wonder why they even made Spirit Tracks. The way the Zelda series is going it would be better if those guys making them would make something other than Zelda once in a while, just like pretty much all other teams at Nintendo aren't working on sequels to the same games all the time.


Yeah it seems a bit like an overkill on the DS now with two similar games in such a short time frame. As long as this goes only for the handheld games while the home console ones still feel as epic as the others did I'm fine with this though, but we will have to see how Zelda Wii turns out.

And as long as they want to release two games for both consoles a gen and a spinoff like Crossbow Training, they just don't have the time to work on another game. Have they done anything else than Zelda since Majora's Mask actually?



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RolStoppable said:
Khuutra said:
RolStoppable said:

The German translations for Zelda games (Nintendo games?) appear to suck

Those translations are the best among all games released over here. Of course other companies caught up in the past decade, so the gap isn't as big anymore.

Schnickschnack. You wouldn't claim that if you had played more PC games in your life, e.g. The Secret of Monkey Island or other LucasArts adventure games.



^ Okay, that's acceptable



For your joy, the google translate was awful enought to not understand almost anything. Anyway i share the same problem as you with the spanish translation [latinamerican or even worse the spanish from spain]
For my luck, they used to release first an english version of the game and later and spanish one, but neither Phantom Hourglass or Spirit's Tracks it didn't follow the trend and i needed to change the language of my handheld for and adecuate translate



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Khuutra said:
RolStoppable said:
Khuutra said:
You know, I didn't have that problem in the English translation

Maybe you should play that one for future Zelda titles

I would have to change the system settings for that, I rather risk having a bad translation than doing so much work.

Btw, I just remembered that Ocarina of Time had a similar problem. After more than a month of owning the game I had only found 90 of the 100 skulltullas and just for fun, I decided to play the game in English for a change (already played through the game like five times before). Somewhere in the game it was mentioned that skulltullas like soft soil (either in the skulltulla house in Kakariko or by the guy who sells you beans). That's where all of the ten missing skulltullas were!

The German translation didn't give that hint.

The German translations for Zelda games (Nintendo games?) appear to suck

Which is odd, given that NoE is based in Germany.



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RolStoppable said:
nintendo_fanboy said:
RolStoppable said:

Khuutra said that he didn't have that problem and I think he knows what I was talking about.

I still wonder why they even made Spirit Tracks. The way the Zelda series is going it would be better if those guys making them would make something other than Zelda once in a while, just like pretty much all other teams at Nintendo aren't working on sequels to the same games all the time.


Yeah it seems a bit like an overkill on the DS now with two similar games in such a short time frame. As long as this goes only for the handheld games while the home console ones still feel as epic as the others did I'm fine with this though, but we will have to see how Zelda Wii turns out.

And as long as they want to release two games for both consoles a gen and a spinoff like Crossbow Training, they just don't have the time to work on another game. Have they done anything else than Zelda since Majora's Mask actually?

I don't think so. I guess it must be pretty boring for a developer to only make Zelda games and somehow it seems like this translates into the games. They try to change things up to make it more interesting, but it's actually counterproductive, because they continue to drift farther away from Zelda's identity. Already two DS games without a real overworld to explore and who knows what they will do with Zelda Wii. To me the games feel less motivating with each new title as the only redeeming quality are the dungeons and bosses while the rest is merely there as filler.

Yeah I agree. Phantom Hourglass was really only inside the dungeons on par with the other games, and it seems Spirit Tracks is the same.

I don't know though if this is really because the team is bored or because they know that a handheld game also sells well when the quality is a bit lower. Zelda Wii will be the proof of this.

I think it would be the best thing to have another team to make the handheld games, one that is maybe a bit less talented, but more passionate just like Flagship was when they did the Oracles and Minish Cap. Like that, the EAD team would have time to do something else.



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