Culture Wars General - KiA Diet Coke Edition

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BananaSplit said:
I remember the english translation of DQ11S to be so much a pain to read, back when I tried the demo on PC last year, that importing the japanese version was another reason why I ended up getting a Switch later (JP version on PC is region-locked on Steam).

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To be fair, I dont mind the idea, as it does represent how the world was in the original I think, because all the parts have different dialect, I understand it is meant to convey an accent, but it just becomes very annoying to read in the end, at least for me because english is not my first language
 
ZMOT said:
it's a discussion that will never be solved, but when I play or watch a japanese creation that features japanese work culture (which is pretty unique all things considered) - or any other foreign material for that matter - I wanna know why the author chose that pun, and I can still appreciate it even if I didn't go "I understood that reference" captain america immediately. not to mention most replacements fall short of the original anyway (if they're so good a writer that they can localize puns they most likely don't work as videogame translators for shit pay to begin with). honestly I take some mangles machine translated engrish over all the "lol so quirky I'm so clever" translations. if you wanna jerk yourself off write a fucking book.

honestly that annoys me more than the examples @BananaSplit posted, dialect still keeps the original intact, just changes it's form. a translation note how this should be kansai or whatever wouldn't really suffice either since that requires a lot more background than something grammatical.
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For puns they used to have little * notes that would appear on screen but then they wound up growing to the size of wikipedia articles and blocked out shit (I remember one especially was explaining the whole significance of the eagle, eggplant and Mt Fuji). These long explanations also were on screen for too short a time to finish reading before vanishing so you had to go back and pause just to read everything. Some of the ancient ADV DVDs had this.

I agree that It's honestly a problem with no perfect solution. So pick your poison.

Now could something like that work for games? Well the games would need to be programmed so the extra layer of popup boxes would appear. So that goes beyond just the translation team.

It would also probably not be implemented by every company unless there was a industry wide standardization of translation practices. Almost like an ESRB for translated content.
 
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NBA 2K22 is reportedly going to update new songs every Friday as their soundtrack, while originally still having artists like Travis Scott, Megan Thee Stallion, Jack Harlow and the late Juice WRLD’s songs in the game.

Just from the list in question, the people are mainly from the pop rap/hip-hop scene and there’s not really any other genres besides maybe underground rap and alternative music (haven’t heard of People Under The Stairs since the Tony Hawk Underground Days).

Plus on another article where the music curator for NBA 2K’s newest installment claims that they’re going for a more globalized audience while also allowing the fans to upload their own music to pre-recorded instrumentals (possibly rap influenced, if we’re being honest), I found the picture that they used on their site to be hilarious to me:

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I can somewhat understand Travis Scott since he’s popular with kids and all, but Megan Thee Stallion is not that much of a global star. Even then, Travis and Megan as hip hop/pop rap acts do not represent the global audiences from an international standpoint. If by international standards through music, then reggaeton, J-pop and to an extent K-pop music, would be far more popular than rap music as a whole.

Don’t mean to be long winded with this post, but as someone who’s unashamed to admit that he’s played the NBA 2K series from its earlier popularity with the Sega Dreamcast and PS2 days to even the XBOX 360, it’s pretty unfortunate to see how far NBA 2K has gone.

Even while they still spread micro transactions and Denuvo like software to force you to buy the same sports game every year.

I can honestly tell you that in the early days of its inception, NBA 2K was never like this at all.
 
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NBA 2K22 is reportedly going to update new songs every Friday as their soundtrack, while originally still having artists like Travis Scott, Megan Thee Stallion, Jack Harlow and the late Juice WRLD’s songs in the game.

Just from the list in question, the people are mainly from the pop rap/hip-hop scene and there’s not really any other genres besides maybe underground rap and alternative music (haven’t heard of People Under The Stairs since the Tony Hawk Underground Days).

Plus on another article where the music curator for NBA 2K’s newest installment claims that they’re going for a more globalized audience while also allowing the fans to upload their own music to pre-recorded instrumentals (possibly rap influenced, if we’re being honest), I found the picture that they used on their site to be hilarious to me:

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I can somewhat understand Travis Scott since he’s popular with kids and all, but Megan Thee Stallion is not that much of a global star. Even then, Travis and Megan as hip hop/pop rap acts do not represent the global audiences from an international standpoint. If by international standards through music, then reggaeton, J-pop and to an extent K-pop music, would be far more popular than rap music as a whole.

Don’t mean to be long winded with this post, but as someone who’s unashamed to admit that he’s played the NBA 2K from its earlier popularity with the Sega Dreamcast and PS2 days to even the XBOX 360, it’s pretty unfortunate to see how far NBA 2K has gone.

Even while they still spread micro transactions and Denuvo like software to force you to buy the same sports game every year.

I can honestly tell you that in the early days of its inception, NBA 2K was never like this at all.
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They'll update the soundtrack throughout the year, but not the roster.

Talk about fucked up priorities.

Sports games at this point would probably benefit from the old MMo model where patches get released throughout the year and you're charged a subscription to play.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Sports games at this point would probably benefit from the old MMo model where patches get released throughout the year and you're charged a subscription to play.
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That sounds interesting, but then you’ll deal with a bunch of sports fans who will make 10 to almost 20 minute vids complaining that 2K’s business practices are making you get a subscription while trying to play online.

It really continues to open my mind how much sports fans of sports games have narrow minded views on how today’s business practices make people pay $60 to almost $70 on games like this, yet the fan base will still buy it due to stuff like what they infamously showed back in NBA 2K20:


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albert chan said:
That sounds interesting, but then you’ll deal with a bunch of sports fans who will make 10 to almost 20 minute vids complaining that 2K’s business practices are making you get a subscription while trying to play online.

It really continues to open my mind how much sports fans of sports games have narrow minded views on how today’s business practices make people pay $60 to almost $70 on games like this, yet the fan base will still buy it due to stuff like what they infamously showed back in NBA 2K20:

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Sports are a hard genre to fix, because if you lack the official teams you cause 90% of the audience to nope out.

So it makes you wonder if they're really in it for the actual gameplay most of the time. Because stuff like NBA Jam and NFL Blitz put a spin on the genre, but games like that are no longer made.

Really the other creative sports game that's out there that did really well was Rocket League.
 
Marissa Moira said:
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One issue with going the live-service route, is how it would handle team roster changes, or if a team name gets changed, i.e. the Washington Redskins in the NFL renaming to the Washington Football Team. Would people that purchased the game before the name/roster change be allowed to use the old team/roster, or would it be forcibly changed to the new one? That would be even more problematic with wrestling games, given how WWE has been on a firing spree lately.
 
Jason Schreier attacks game studio on Twitter for daring to post a picture of their staff in a Gamasutra article, comprising exclusively of white men, and making strange comments about how "diversity" improved his ventures.


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The people running the studio are not too pleased with Schreier's commentary:


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Hutchinson states that not only does Schreier have his email/ways to contact him, but he didn't even bother before throwing up on Twitter.

If having only white men in your small studio is weird in 2021, what's even weirder still is that people still reference Gamergate and imply the studio has some guilt by association:

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How is this not racism/sexist? If seing a team of 20 white man is the only thing you need to already prejudge them, maybe the problem is with you and not them, you are the one hyper fixating on race and gender.
Just look at all those comments like "are they all clones", not only do they all talk and most likely have the same opinions, pretty much making the "you need diversity in your team to have different views" point mute, they are literally making the exact same type of comment they would call racist if the team was any other race.
 
Becomemysoulreaver said:
How is this not racism/sexist? If seing a team of 20 white man is the only thing you need to already prejudge them, maybe the problem is with you and not them, you are the one hyper fixating on race and gender.
Just look at all those comments like "are they all clones", not only do they all talk and most likely have the same opinions, pretty much making the "you need diversity in your team to have different views" point mute, they are literally making the exact same type of comment they would call racist if the team was any other race.
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The irony is, as usual, if you made those same comments with regards to an all-black or all-female team, you'd be toast.
 
11 white dudes made the best cyberpunk game in the last 5 years (The Ascent) so all this tells me they have a better then average chance of making a good game.
 
Tachibana said:
Jason Schreier attacks game studio on Twitter for daring to post a picture of their staff in a Gamasutra article, comprising exclusively of white men, and making strange comments about how "diversity" improved his ventures.


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The people running the studio are not too pleased with Schreier's commentary:


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Hutchinson states that not only does Schreier have his email/ways to contact him, but he didn't even bother before throwing up on Twitter.

If having only white men in your small studio is weird in 2021, what's even weirder still is that people still reference Gamergate and imply the studio has some guilt by association:

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Wow what an undiverse and shitty looking team full of white dudebros, I'm sure these dudes have NEVER made an influential video game in their lives.
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Water-T said:
John Romero isn't white - he is Mexican and Native American.

But your point still stands anyway
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He's white-passing in those old pictures. I'm sure at least some of the guys in that group photo a few posts up have native/latin blood slavic blood as well. Forgot these guys are Swedes.

Trying to apply American standards of ethnic mixing to Scandinavia, hooray.
 
VolkAnsGewehr said:
Called out that jew and he blocked me within minutes. What a little bitch.
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That's not how you do it, you rope him into an hours long debate and once it's fully a ideological quagmire and you're sure he's wasting his time, you then start with the oven puns.
 
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Game Data Library on Twitter: "It wasn't that unusual during the earl…

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The recent Famitsu ranking chart in question - https://archive.vn/D1Bjq
Edit: The ranking in the November 1988 issue of Famitsu - https://archive.org/details/famitsu61november1988/page/n5/mode/2up

It's expected that situation to happen more often in the future because of SIE's self-sabotage (and with little to no Playstation games on the horizon), clearing the big N of any decent competition

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