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Title: Hilfe mir
Post by: Tamas on January 27, 2012, 12:17:46 PM
I really should get the motivation together to re-start my German studies, after 18 years or so.

I remember the Germans were big on trading games on such. Can you recommend some not too obsolete ones I could like? I learned English by playing RPGs and computer games, it should work with German as well. :P
Title: Re: Hilfe mir
Post by: Lucidor on January 27, 2012, 12:39:23 PM
Steam: Auf Schienen zum Ruhm - German version of Steam. Great game!
Title: Re: Hilfe mir
Post by: Maladict on January 27, 2012, 04:04:30 PM
Patrician, Settlers, Anno...
Title: Re: Hilfe mir
Post by: Martinus on January 27, 2012, 06:02:42 PM
Sorry, there's no way you can pass for a Volksdeutsch. Too gypsy-looking.
Title: Re: Hilfe mir
Post by: Tamas on January 27, 2012, 06:18:59 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 27, 2012, 06:02:42 PM
Sorry, there's no way you can pass for a Volksdeutsch. Too gypsy-looking.

Nigga' puhleaze.

After a couple of days in München, I asked for zwei weißbier at a stand on an open-air festival with such authenticity, that the German woman behind me in the line asked me a question about something regarding the stand had for sale or something. I didn't understand it of course, but I took that as a compliment to my expert adoption into the German ways of ordering beer :P
Title: Re: Hilfe mir
Post by: Syt on January 28, 2012, 01:46:58 AM
yes, not too many trading games coming out, unfortunately. I second the Patrician games. EA's FIFA Manager is the most popular sports manager in Germany and still (I think) developed ba a German guy, so you could check that out, too. Then there's the Piranha Byte games (Gothic 1-3, Risen) that are originally German. Also, Bioware translations (Baldur's Gate through Mass Effect) tend to have pretty good German localizations that don't make you cringe.