Why isn't it? Most Europeans know english. Releasing a game in English-only would enable 95% of the gamers to play it, contra 0% if they chose not to release it because it was too much work translating it to 5 languages. Everybody wins.
Why isn't it? Most Europeans know english. Releasing a game in English-only would enable 95% of the gamers to play it, contra 0% if they chose not to release it because it was too much work translating it to 5 languages. Everybody wins.
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So you're telling me Spaniards, Italians, and Portugueses speak english? give me a break, they don't even attempt it.Originally Posted by Mirage
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I know several portugese persons who know English. I don't know any italian or spanish persons who do, but that's because I've never seen one of them online. And if they don't want to learn perhaps the most useful language on this planet, well, suck to be them.
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You say most speak english, meaning you accept the fact that some dont. Thus, my point stands. Its unfair.
Wow this makes me sick
thats not true. Im from Portugal and we here learn english at school, its part of our education here. I dont care much if they translate a game to portuguese or not, because i try to stick with the original version, thought it would be better to have more translated games for the kids.
Another thing, you said that all the european countries have a different video format? Thats not true, i think Western and Central Europe have the Pal system and only Russia and some other ex-sovietic countries (Bielorussia,Ucrain..) have a different system.
Anyways i dont think this video format will be a problem in the future, since i saw somewhere that, at least the PS3 games (dont know about the xbox), will be compatible with all formats.
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Its just something we've got to put up with. Yes, it is unfair
So every school in Portugal teaches english? Now that's weird. If it were my country I would ban english from being thought in schools.
English speaking people would rather laugh to death before attempting to learn to speak other languages (not all but most)
Maybe the market for Japanese RPGs isn't that big in Europe?
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Which is why in much of America and Britain it's compulsory to take a foreign language in school, I presume. :rolleyes2 (Honestly, I might be wrong on the America part, but most people I've spoken to have to take it for at least a couple of years.) You can get out of it in Britain, but only if you go very intensely down the art and design route.
They don't translate it to Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Bosnian, Egyptian, Moroccian, Arabic, Mongolian or Norwegian either. I'm sure you can find a few people who don't know English in these countries too. OMG UNFAIR.
And yes, I'm aware that some of these languages are spoken in several countries, such as Arabic.
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Yes yes, we take different languages here in the U.S. But c'mon it's not like we really learn it well :rolleyes2
Now, if they focused 2 school hours from K-12 grades with 1 or 2 languages in mind then you'd be saying something. But if I'm right, here in the U.S. we don't start taking foreign language classes 'till Junior High (middle school) and if we do it's only 1 school hour or less which really doesn't allow us to learn it.
yes and french too on the later years... its better to know some languages than just to know 1 language, allows you to go work on any country you want and be more competitive...
you dont care to learn other languages because US is the biggest market nowadays and because of that the english is the main language...
But maybe you will have to learn Chinese in 20 years or so since they'll be the biggest economy by then... xD
its not 50fps... its 50Hz. Fps are frames per second and Hz is the frequency the tv or monitor refreshes the screen. Fps cant vary like you said... since the system is the same...PAL is not better, it uses 50fps while NTSC uses 60fps. Meaning we get fat black borders above and below our screen. Not cool
Theres options to get NTSC signals in games, but some dont. Which is lame.
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Allow me to introduce the tip of the iceberg; THIS is, like, 5% of what we Europeans never saw:
Final Fantasy 4 (aka 2)
Final Fantasy 6 (aka 3)
IT SUCKS!!!
So wait, what Final Fantasy 6 do we have then?
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