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| Re: JA2 German voice acting appreciation thread[message #355009 is a reply to message #355008]
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Thu, 20 September 2018 14:10  
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| townltu |
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1st: The voice of a merc may be her/his most important aspect for me,
as after all the yearss i have reason to believe that even the crappiest merc can be transformed into a battlemonster,
that is if his personality/voiceset motivates me enough to put the required effort into the campaign.
I am native german speaker, and played the german version 1st, for ~ 1+y or so?
That may create a bias towards that version (ymmv), but I really prefer the english voices.
Mostly as some of the german voice acting is too far off for me, particularly Razor and Cougar,
(a sacrilegue to replace Shawns voice with that high pitched something ;)
while some german voices are certainly on par with the english ones.
Additionally german localisations in general tend to have more restrictions regarding foul language, violence etc,
so a usually play english versions.
Last not least german terms are often quite long, so translations may break the limits of txt message windows/cells,
requiring workaround like smaller fonts etc.
Btw doesnt the original german version require a patch to show xploding heads etc?
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| Re: JA2 German voice acting appreciation thread[message #355010 is a reply to message #355009]
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Thu, 20 September 2018 14:39
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| Ino |
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townltu wrote on Thu, 20 September 2018 13:101st: The voice of a merc may be her/his most important aspect for me,
as after all the yearss i have reason to believe that even the crappiest merc can be transformed into a battlemonster,
that is if his personality/voiceset motivates me enough to put the required effort into the campaign.
I am native german speaker, and played the german version 1st, for ~ 1+y or so?
That may create a bias towards that version (ymmv), but I really prefer the english voices.
Mostly as some of the german voice acting is too far off for me, particularly Razor and Cougar,
(a sacrilegue to replace Shawns voice with that high pitched something ;)
while some german voices are certainly on par with the english ones.
Additionally german localisations in general tend to have more restrictions regarding foul language, violence etc,
so a usually play english versions.
Last not least german terms are often quite long, so translations may break the limits of txt message windows/cells,
requiring workaround like smaller fonts etc.
Btw doesnt the original german version require a patch to show xploding heads etc?
Having played the German version when it came out in '99 I can tell you that exploding heads were in the game. But it was a point of discussion back then, I think my original box even has a "FSK 18" label because of the violence. However, I don't think foul language was ever censored in any German version of games that I know, the US is way more restrictive with their *bleeping* of expletives.
I've played the German version for the longest time, until I discovered that JA2 was available on Steam (but only in English). I snagged that version quickly because I was afraid of the old CD some day not working anymore and I need my JA2 at least once a year.
In direct comparison, the English version is better, because the accents are overall more fitting, a German hillbilly slang is not the same as a southern hillbilly slang, same goes for the German characters. But nonetheless the German voice acting was brilliantly done, and I usually try to avoid German versions like the plague. Some characters are even better in the German version, like Trevor for example.
Would be nice to play in German again I guess, but is that even possible with 1.13 and the Steam version being in English?
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