Arakmoth Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 This can be quite a post to read, if you do not want to bother reading the behind my frustration, skip to the "IN SHORT" part. I appologize for any mistakes (grammar or spelling) in my post below, English is not my native language. Like all the people on this forum I have been waiting for a next Halo game. A game that most feared would not be Halo worthy, but in my humble opinion turned out far better then expected. However, I can hardly look at my tv-screen while I play this game, because the game's menu bothers me to no end. I live in the Netherlands and for about 20 years of my life I have been playing computer games. All of them were in English. No one ever bothered to translate any menu's or ingame texts. On tv it's just the same. Every noteworthy televisionprogram is in English. It even has come to the point that I do not like to read books when not written in English, because I can envision stories better when written or told in English compared to my native Dutch language. The day I bought Halo 4, it looked strange to me that there was Dutch text on the cover of the game. I checked in multiple stores (also to see if prices might vary), but all of the gamecovers were in Dutch. So I bought the game and returned home. Excited as I was, I immediately place the game in my Xbox 360 and start the game... It came as a shock to me that EVERYTHING INGAME IS TRANSLATED IN DUTCH!!! It seems 343 industries is one of the first gamedevelopers in history, that thought Dutch people might be glad if a game was translated for them. There is also no option that lets me choose what Language I would want to use. Besides the fact that I am not used to my own language being used in games (excluding games for kids aged 6 years or under), which makes it all very silly and hilarious to play Halo 4 (not what I want in my Halo games), the Dutch is often not correctly translated! It looks like they just put half of the ingame texts through google translator, or hired a very old guy that uses old Dutch to translate the game. Even worse, in some parts of the menu they forgot to translate the English altogether!!! IN SHORT: I bought Halo 4, expecting a well polished game with maybe minor ingame bugs. I got a game, that is the first translated game I have ever bought. The translation is not only a bad option stylewise, because we Dutch people are accustomed to all our media being in English, but also because the translation is sloppy: 1) old fashioned use of words, which makes no sense in today's use of our language. 2) some sentences look as if translated by an automated translator (like google translate). 3) some parts of the game are not translated at all and thus in English! This might seem to be a minor issue to most of you, but to me and all of my friends that have bought/played the game it ruins a big part of the game experience. Besides that, it looks sloppy on the part of 343industires. I wonder if there is a way 343industries could release a file that would, upon installation revert the game's written texts back into English, or that would add an ingame option in the menu to let players choose their language of preference. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cortar Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 This can be quite a post to read, if you do not want to bother reading the behind my frustration, skip to the "IN SHORT" part. I appologize for any mistakes (grammar or spelling) in my post below, English is not my native language. Like all the people on this forum I have been waiting for a next Halo game. A game that most feared would not be Halo worthy, but in my humble opinion turned out far better then expected. However, I can hardly look at my tv-screen while I play this game, because the game's menu bothers me to no end. I live in the Netherlands and for about 20 years of my life I have been playing computer games. All of them were in English. No one ever bothered to translate any menu's or ingame texts. On tv it's just the same. Every noteworthy televisionprogram is in English. It even has come to the point that I do not like to read books when not written in English, because I can envision stories better when written or told in English compared to my native Dutch language. The day I bought Halo 4, it looked strange to me that there was Dutch text on the cover of the game. I checked in multiple stores (also to see if prices might vary), but all of the gamecovers were in Dutch. So I bought the game and returned home. Excited as I was, I immediately place the game in my Xbox 360 and start the game... It came as a shock to me that EVERYTHING INGAME IS TRANSLATED IN DUTCH!!! It seems 343 industries is one of the first gamedevelopers in history, that thought Dutch people might be glad if a game was translated for them. There is also no option that lets me choose what Language I would want to use. Besides the fact that I am not used to my own language being used in games (excluding games for kids aged 6 years or under), which makes it all very silly and hilarious to play Halo 4 (not what I want in my Halo games), the Dutch is often not correctly translated! It looks like they just put half of the ingame texts through google translator, or hired a very old guy that uses old Dutch to translate the game. Even worse, in some parts of the menu they forgot to translate the English altogether!!! IN SHORT: I bought Halo 4, expecting a well polished game with maybe minor ingame bugs. I got a game, that is the first translated game I have ever bought. The translation is not only a bad option stylewise, because we Dutch people are accustomed to all our media being in English, but also because the translation is sloppy: 1) old fashioned use of words, which makes no sense in today's use of our language. 2) some sentences look as if translated by an automated translator (like google translate). 3) some parts of the game are not translated at all and thus in English! This might seem to be a minor issue to most of you, but to me and all of my friends that have bought/played the game it ruins a big part of the game experience. Besides that, it looks sloppy on the part of 343industires. I wonder if there is a way 343industries could release a file that would, upon installation revert the game's written texts back into English, or that would add an ingame option in the menu to let players choose their language of preference. Oh boy, I really want to the see the resident fanboiz justify this. Sadly, I expect that nobody else will touch this thread with a ten foot pole! Sorry OP for the shoddiness of this game, I'm sadden to hear about yet another failure on 343's part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorB77 Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 Oh boy, I really want to the see the resident fanboiz justify this. Sadly, I expect that nobody else will touch this thread with a ten foot pole! Sorry OP for the shoddiness of this game, I'm sadden to hear about yet another failure on 343's part. I wouldn't know the severity of this since I am not Dutch. There have been multiple complaints about language and I think that 343 needs to invest more time in this to make sure all of the people can enjoy the game to it's fullest. I hope that in Halo 5 they can hire some translators to ensure that the game runs smoothly for everyone in terms of the language quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arakmoth Posted December 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 I wouldn't know the severity of this since I am not Dutch. There have been multiple complaints about language and I think that 343 needs to invest more time in this to make sure all of the people can enjoy the game to it's fullest. I hope that in Halo 5 they can hire some translators to ensure that the game runs smoothly for everyone in terms of the language quality. In English a few examples that might sound pretty bad could be: sneak shooter gun (instead of sniper rifle) fat foreman (instead of heavy infantry) speedy booster (instead of speed boost) I wish that if they choose to translate all texts, then do translate ALL texts, so we can have a laugh about it becase everything will become a huge joke that way. Wharthog should be whart swine (literally translated from Dutch) and stuff like that. It would make all of their efforts somewhat doable. But now, a wharthog is still a wharthog, and although the flamegun is translated to 'flammengeweer' (which sounds rediculous), scattershot is still scattershot O_o, although it could be translated to 'verstrooi geweer' (which also sounds rediculous, but would still be fun if everything was translated like that). And then again some map descriptions are translated but some are not and the text is just there in English... Is this a forum read by staff of 343 industries by the way? And if not is there any way I could contact them? It wouldn't be very hard to make a file to rescript all the texts to English. It's all there in the code of the English games anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose The Ace Posted December 17, 2012 Report Share Posted December 17, 2012 eh trasloters are bad anyway google trasloter sucks try in on a well camtin sparklez video or rooster teeth any and u will see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cortar Posted December 18, 2012 Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 In English a few examples that might sound pretty bad could be: sneak shooter gun (instead of sniper rifle) fat foreman (instead of heavy infantry) speedy booster (instead of speed boost) I wish that if they choose to translate all texts, then do translate ALL texts, so we can have a laugh about it becase everything will become a huge joke that way. Wharthog should be whart swine (literally translated from Dutch) and stuff like that. It would make all of their efforts somewhat doable. But now, a wharthog is still a wharthog, and although the flamegun is translated to 'flammengeweer' (which sounds rediculous), scattershot is still scattershot O_o, although it could be translated to 'verstrooi geweer' (which also sounds rediculous, but would still be fun if everything was translated like that). And then again some map descriptions are translated but some are not and the text is just there in English... Is this a forum read by staff of 343 industries by the way? And if not is there any way I could contact them? It wouldn't be very hard to make a file to rescript all the texts to English. It's all there in the code of the English games anyway. No, this is a fan made forum, as far as we know, no 343 member even checks it. Go to Waypoint for that. eh trasloters are bad anyway google trasloter sucks try in on a well camtin sparklez video or rooster teeth any and u will see I think YOU should look into a better English translator... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arakmoth Posted December 21, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 No, this is a fan made forum, as far as we know, no 343 member even checks it. Go to Waypoint for that. Haha, I guess I'll head over to waypoint then who knows what might happen. I have my hopes up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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