Question to non-Anglosaxons - what language version games do you play?

[Razgovory]

Which British accent should they use?

[Sheilbh]

Latin American people are always whining about how the Hispanic (as in Spain and Portugal) dialects  are used.  I am not  sure what a difference this makes for Brazilians but the differences between the Spanish spoken over here and that spoken in Spain is pretty profound it seems.

My impression is the difference between Portugal and Brazil is far, far greater. Spanish is more like English - so they're like Brits moaning about Americanisations or vice versa

[Syt]

games often take months to be released in Britain after having been released in the UK

[Josquius]

Which British accent should they use?

Whichever is most appropriate to the characters.

games often take months to be released in Britain after having been released in the UK

UK=US. Woops.

[Syt]

Anyways, those long delays are more the exception than the rule these days.

[Iormlund]

Latin American people are always whining about how the Hispanic (as in Spain and Portugal) dialects  are used.  I am not  sure what a difference this makes for Brazilians but the differences between the Spanish spoken over here and that spoken in Spain is pretty profound it seems.

My impression is the difference between Portugal and Brazil is far, far greater. Spanish is more like English - so they're like Brits moaning about Americanisations or vice versa

Every Simpsons' clip in youtube devolves into an intercontinental flamewar over the choice of Spanish used. Personally, I simply can't stand most Latinamerican accents (Argentinian is ok). I'ts like nails on a blackboard thing. Just wrong.

On the original topic, always English versions, except certain cases (German in Silent Hunter for example).
Same goes for movies and shows. Exceptions being Simpsons or Futurama, which are extremely well dubbed and which I started watching long before I had access to the Web.

[Zanza]

I don't really care. English and German are both fine.

[Liep]

The only game I remember that had a Danish translation was EU1, and that wasn't very good and covered only about 80%.

So English it is, although I once in a while I set games to French to brush up on it.

[Scipio]

English.

[Razgovory]

Which British accent should they use?

Whichever is most appropriate to the characters.

games often take months to be released in Britain after having been released in the UK

UK=US. Woops.

How do you deem which is appropriate?

"This character is a hideous space monster, so we'll make him Welsh.  This character is a Roman solider so we'll give him Midlands accent, and this character is the Emperor of Japan so we'll give him a Cockney accent."

[Martim Silva]

Singe Portugal doesn't have a great tradition in translating games, I often try to get the version that is closer to the original. Which is English in 90% of the cases. A few French games are the exception.

That said, we've recently had games released here translated in Castillian (like X-Com) and some attempts at portuguese translation (usually games for little kids). As expected, those are mostly left unsold (and made me buy X-Com on gamersgate to get the English version. No way was I going to play that in Castillian*).

The odd exceptions are in console games, where several titles are Japanese. I change them to Japanese ASAP, as English voices for the characters just sound plain wrong.


*: Sometimes dubs can be strange. In X-Com's first mission, for example, Dr. Vählen is supposed to try to speak to a German soldier that has been mind-controlled, and the German accent of the English voice actress is positively atrocious. In the German dub, on the other hand, we get the impression that a German-speaking commander needs to ask the doctor to talk to a German soldier. Just weird 

[Agelastus]

Which British accent should they use?

Whichever is most appropriate to the characters.

games often take months to be released in Britain after having been released in the UK

UK=US. Woops.

How do you deem which is appropriate?

"This character is a hideous space monster, so we'll make him Welsh.  This character is a Roman solider so we'll give him Midlands accent, and this character is the Emperor of Japan so we'll give him a Cockney accent."

"All your base are belong to us."

[Ed Anger]

Ah, Geordie.

[Razgovory]

Ah, Geordie.

Well when he said British accents I assumed they would be in English.

[Camerus]

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