Castle Paradox

[JSH357]

Anyone ever played Star Ocean 2? Holy shit, THERE'S a poorly translated game. And have I mentioned Mario and Luigi yet? No. Play it. It has a great translation! ... And it has... FURY!

... and why IS this in the OHR forum?

[Iblis]

[MultiColoredWizard]

[Camdog]

Threads that go off topic make the baby Jesus cry.

[Komera]

[Me]

Komera, Komera, Komera . . .
You obviously have never attempted to learn the language that is Scots Gaelic. A more twisted sense of the pronounciation of word I have never seen. Examples:
(in the following, CH is a heavily aspirated noise, like the ch in loch or Bach or Nacht, and all r's are rolled)

Tha mi gle mahth - I am quite well (I;m feelin' really good)
Pronounced:
Ha mi gley va.

Oidhche mahth - Good night
Pronounced:
OyCHuh va.

And the rather long clincher:
Chatoir dia air falbh bho thide air am talamh na h-uairaichean air an cuir seachad ag ionnachadh Gaidhlig.
"The Lord does not subtract from one's time on Earth those hours spent learning Gaelic."
Pronounced:
CHatoir dia air faluv vo do hichuh air an taluv na h'ooriCHan air an huir seCHat akyoonsaCHud Gallic.

Talk about weird pronounciations. Mh and bh are both pronounced "v", "d" is "t", "t" is sometimes "ch", "th" is just "h" or is silent, and "dh" is whatever it wants to be, usually a really weird guttural sound that I can't type. Add to that the different conjugations of nouns depending on the syntax ("Good" is "math," but every time here it was "mhath") and the COMPLETELY RANDOM non-rules, and you have a VERY hard language to translate.
Of course, it is Indoeuropean, whereas Thai isn't, so it's got an advantage there, but still . . .
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[Komera]

[Aethereal]

To continue the off-topicness (against my better judgement), I stand by my theory that SO2's translation is 75% exactly what the Japanese text says without any regard for English grammar and orientation. It's still an above-average game, it just needs a serious retranslation (DeJap?).
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[planethunter]

I speak Gaelic irish and I have to say I could make out most of the words,
even though the two languages have been isolated for hundreds of years,
I still got the broad meaning of it. I think to critcise a series of lanuages that are thousands of years old is a bit silly, sure the phonics sound a bit rough but the kind of people who spawned this language were of the farmer type... so I needn't explain too much.
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[Me]

Actually, I had no intention of dissing the Gaelic language. I think it's one of the most beautiful and outright cool languages there is. I just wanted to point out that, if we were on the subject of pronounciation, Gaelic takes the cake (and eats it, too).
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[planethunter]

ok, I just want to point out that all of the rules are not as random as they seem, it's rather that the individuals who used the language in it's early stages found it difficult to pronounce certain vowel-constant combinations... albeit the 'random' aspect of them, when certain constants are added or removed to ease this.
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[chris98]

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

nintendo does censor games,

example: Yugioh, arlonwey(not sure about spelling) is completely nude in japanese version of the game, while in english version she has a red dress.
so some of the games do get censored.
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[Komera]

you two do realize that this thread is over two years old, right?

(speaking of yugioh, i just recently got myself a red eyes darkness dragon card!)
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