Comments on: The Cultural Implications of Dialects in Video Games http://danielprimed.com/2009/05/the-cultural-implications-of-dialects-in-video-games/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:10:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Hardcore Gamers Blog » Blog Archive » Microtransactions: More Mindless Razzing on Print Media and Complaints About Modernization http://danielprimed.com/2009/05/the-cultural-implications-of-dialects-in-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-16936 Hardcore Gamers Blog » Blog Archive » Microtransactions: More Mindless Razzing on Print Media and Complaints About Modernization Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:35:50 +0000 http://danielprimed.com/?p=1382#comment-16936 [...] an article or two for the site and it’s discussed in the comments both there and a little here at my site. I receive an email or two by people who have particular responses to the article. I then cross to [...] [...] an article or two for the site and it’s discussed in the comments both there and a little here at my site. I receive an email or two by people who have particular responses to the article. I then cross to [...]

]]> By: Simon Ferrari http://danielprimed.com/2009/05/the-cultural-implications-of-dialects-in-video-games/comment-page-1/#comment-16719 Simon Ferrari Wed, 20 May 2009 08:05:15 +0000 http://danielprimed.com/?p=1382#comment-16719 Go go gadget frame analysis! We used Goffman as (fairly specious) theoretical grist for a 3d design project this year. I only read a bit of one of his books, but I'm excited about that upcoming Portal post of yours! Your last post on Dragon Warrior was a fun read; I definitely think it shows that somebody needs to take a long, hard look at common forms, problems, and methodologies of localization teams. For instance, I hated some of the voice acting (which I saw as colonizing and somewhat ethnically fetishistic) in Beyond Good & Evil, but some Europeans I know can't see what I'm talking about. Another friend of mine is researching how proper names are localized for English from Japanese, in regards to adding an ethnic/regional flavor to a game simply by the process of re-naming (all of the Middle-Eastern proper names in Chrono Trigger is a big example). Go go gadget frame analysis! We used Goffman as (fairly specious) theoretical grist for a 3d design project this year. I only read a bit of one of his books, but I’m excited about that upcoming Portal post of yours!

Your last post on Dragon Warrior was a fun read; I definitely think it shows that somebody needs to take a long, hard look at common forms, problems, and methodologies of localization teams. For instance, I hated some of the voice acting (which I saw as colonizing and somewhat ethnically fetishistic) in Beyond Good & Evil, but some Europeans I know can’t see what I’m talking about. Another friend of mine is researching how proper names are localized for English from Japanese, in regards to adding an ethnic/regional flavor to a game simply by the process of re-naming (all of the Middle-Eastern proper names in Chrono Trigger is a big example).

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