17th April 2005, 9:52 AM
Right, by naked I meant in your undies. It was fun to do in KOTOR and Fable because of all of the funny reactions you'd get from people.
DJ, you don't need to understand a foreign language in order to write a game script for one. There are neat people called translators who do that work for you. And believe it or not, but in America it's actually pretty easy to find Mandarin actors for whatever purpose, or they could have just gotten the voices done in China, which probably would have been cheap. This is Microsoft. They're kind of a big publisher.
"Functionally" it's better? That's nonsense. You're always reading subtitles in games anyhow, so even the most uncultured of gamers would have no problem with that. The American voices in Jade Empire take all seriousness out of the game.
DJ, you don't need to understand a foreign language in order to write a game script for one. There are neat people called translators who do that work for you. And believe it or not, but in America it's actually pretty easy to find Mandarin actors for whatever purpose, or they could have just gotten the voices done in China, which probably would have been cheap. This is Microsoft. They're kind of a big publisher.
"Functionally" it's better? That's nonsense. You're always reading subtitles in games anyhow, so even the most uncultured of gamers would have no problem with that. The American voices in Jade Empire take all seriousness out of the game.