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Language Support

causeisunknowncauseisunknown Member Posts: 50
edited June 2012 in Archive (Feature Requests)
As a non-native English speaker (Turkish), I want to play BGEE in my language. At least menus, gameplay dialogues (text), spell names / descriptions must be changeable.

I don't care the game voice is English or not because I know that building a multilingual game (with doubling) is hard and expensive...

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  • AndreaColomboAndreaColombo Member Posts: 5,533
    On the other hand, I - an Italian user - would like to play the English version of the game. I'm all for localized versions to make the game accessible to gamers who want to play it in their language, but please do not force them upon gamers (I'm not saying this was the case with the original Baldur's Gate; just making it a point that every language should be made available to anyone).
  • causeisunknowncauseisunknown Member Posts: 50
    I'm not good at English so sometimes I don't understand what a speel does or what an npc says... I think, text must be multilingual for this reason.

    At the same time, this is the good way for increase sells...
  • AndreaColomboAndreaColombo Member Posts: 5,533
    edited June 2012
    Trent has already said on Twitter they are going to support as many languages as they possibly can, so multilingual BG:EE is a certainty.
  • AkerhonAkerhon Member, Translator (NDA) Posts: 614
    Trent has already said on Twitter they are going to support as many languages as they possibly can, so multilingual BG:EE is a certainty.
  • causeisunknowncauseisunknown Member Posts: 50
    And only text conversation is so easy. Before releasing the game, texts can be converted different languages.
  • CadrosCadros Member Posts: 253
    It still takes time to do, and I get the feeling that they want this out as fast as possible, I'm vaguely suprised there is no turkish mod.
  • TanthalasTanthalas Member Posts: 6,738
    I'm not sure if Turkish is one of the languages that they plan to support, but I'm certainly not opposed to people wanting to be able to play the game in their own language. Though there's always the question of if its something feasible to do or not.
  • causeisunknowncauseisunknown Member Posts: 50
    Maybe they can not provide Turkish, Greek etc... as an offical language but if they write the program this way, somebody can translate and put it into the program easily.
  • ThomsonThomson Member Posts: 25
    I'm from Poland and BG is famous thanks to the outstanding dubbing. Many RPG games are dubbed by great voices. I think that Polish actors would cope with such a task so i hope that a Polish version will appear. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and I wish good luck with EE. Sorry for my bad English.
  • AliteriAliteri Member Posts: 308
    I'm not sure if Turkish is one of the languages that they plan to support, but I'm certainly not opposed to people wanting to be able to play the game in their own language. Though there's always the question of if its something feasible to do or not.
    Yeah, I don't get the disagreement. The poster is asking, rather than demanding (as have happened in pathetic moments of misplaced nationalism), for localization but he's ready to compromise with voice acting - and frankly, so am I, I found it rather amusing when games started including localization in my language (especially since I grew up with english as the exotic language of fantasy in general) and I never gave that much value to voice acting.
    Maybe they can not provide Turkish, Greek etc... as an offical language but if they write the program this way, somebody can translate and put it into the program easily.
    I'm pretty sure that fan translations are already possible, its just a lot of work so it doesn't happen often.
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