Hibiki Kurosawa
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Yeah, put me with the people who don't care for this. It feels childish and unprofessional.
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Does Nintendo Treehouse rely on memes too much? (Tri Force Heroes Localization)
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MaverickHunterAsh
Member
I happen to like doge and its inherent silliness, so I guess charm is in the eye of the beholder.
Either way, whether you love it or hate it, this doesn't seem like the kind of thing worth going on an angry tirade at NoA about (not saying either of you are, I just mean in general). Then again, gamers are basically guaranteed to make the biggest mountains out of the smallest molehills, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
I mean, if this was a serious-business mainline Zelda game, I could see why referencing a silly meme in a lighthearted way might be in bad taste. Tri Force Heroes is thoroughly silly and aware of its own silliness, though - the whole game is incredibly lighthearted and constantly poking fun at itself, so I think it's fine if the Treehouse wants to have a little fun with it...
...or it would be fine, if fun was allowed.
ultratruman
Banned
truly timeless.
Stupid Nintendo being childish in this children's game, we demand seriousness!
Yeah, looking at this particular example, the EU one is rather painfully phrased.
TheBryanJZX90
Member
The meme is dumb but not really worth crying over. The NOE translation, however, is just bad.
stargateheaven
Member
the real question is why they even changed it between the regions.
NoE does its own English localisation now. They've been doing this since the DS days.
I'm really surprised this is news to some people in this thread. It certainly doesn't help to tackle that whole America is ignorant to the world outside its borders stereotype.
Deadpool_X
Banned
No offense to anyone involved, but is anyone really surprised about this with Audry Drake being involved in the writing? She's always been pretty memey, even when she was at IGN.
Ikr? I still can't forgive them for what they did to Animal Crossing and how NoA butchered Fantasy Life
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-shadow-
Member
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What was done to Fantasy Life than?
And with NOA seemingly doing X... I'm preparing for the absolute worst...
What was done to Fantasy Life than?
And with NOA seemingly doing X... I'm preparing for the absolute worst...
The made
the game hilarious =P
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Read the line. The purpose of the 9000 is a hyperbole measurement. Essentially he is saying that you and your pokemon are super strong, that your power is off the charts.
Maybe because I am exposed to so much anime and well, fiction in general, but I feel "power level" isn't unique to DBZ.
What happened with Animal Crossing? Well NoE did take sixty two years to release the GCN version, but almost everything NoE was questionable in the those dark days. Thank God that's in the past.
Yeah me either, to me it's barely close to that meme and I've never heard that meme either. Not sure why this bothers anyone really
Corronchilejano
Member
Nintendo needs to start taking silly games seriously.
ArchedThunder
Banned
Why do they even have two different English translations? That seems like a huge waste of time and money.
TheMoon
Member
This whole game is all light-heartedness, though. Not just a sprinkle here and there. The whole premise is made of pure goof-sauce. It's a silly wrapper around a multiplayer dungeon crawler, not an adventure with an involved narrative that has light-hearted moments, characters, or the occasional silly sidequest.
Lol, exactly the example I was thinking of
A Claude Moyse Original (TM).
This is my kind of humour.
What's my humour development at? Level 5, maybe 7? It's at least grapefruit-sized by now.
The MH3 cat sailor was great.Localized your comment there.
Joking aside, that character was one of the most popular in the game, and said localization actually made sense with his back story, so I respectfully disagree with your assertion. We don't use memes for the sake of using memes, but in MH, there is a lot of wackiness in the Japanese that is sometimes suitable for this sort of treatment. That keikaku thing wasn't dropped in for a quick laugh, his entire character is based on him being from overseas and mixing native vocab into his lines. It was a pittari fit!
That said...you can't please everyone. There's always the Japanese version!
PS - I love adorbs, it makes sense in the context of TFH (which people should really play before criticizing the localization).
A lot of people seem to forget that memes often become memes because they were funny in their original context. Sometimes that humor can carry over to a new context well; the MH3 cat sailor peppering his dialogue with foreign words and having to constantly translate them afterwords is a funny character quirk whether or not you know the "keikaku means plan" meme.
Such overreaction. Much hemhawing. Wow.
TheMoon
Member
Clearly turning weird Engrish into English for an English speaking audience is pulling a Whoodini on the creator! Come, enter the forest of illusion.
It may have been a good choice for the robot characters, but the deal with the Québec version of SMG is that everyone except Luigi and Rosalina talked in super-thick joual, lol. AH OUÉ ELLE EST BEN FINE LA PRINCESSE
A 1 to 1 translation would be incomprehensible.
Apparently Takahashi was OK with all the changes and obviously some of them are nonsense an unnecessary. So either they forced him for whatever reason to allow the changes or he lost his mind. I choose the first one for obvious reasons.
Clearly turning weird Engrish into English for an English speaking audience is pulling a Whoodini on the creator! Come, enter the forest of illusion.
"Engrish" is kinda racist and "Whoodini" doesn't exist, so yeah.
TheBryanJZX90
Member
To clarify regarding the NOE translation in the OP: I would like to see a bit more context. If they were trying to portray that particular character as a kind of stuffy academic that bores everyone else around, then OK I see what NOE was going for. But if that was just a baseline "normal" way of speaking in the NOE script... Ugh. I'd rather read an entire game written in nothing but doge speak.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
I think its necessary for some languages.
Castillian Spanish and latin american spanish change a FUCKTON, even more than UK english to american english, so its weird that the option of different spanish isn't there either.
You call it waste of money, I call it proper localisation in my country.
Even toads? lol
What is Link is moist as dudes?
Revolutionary
Member
I assure you that most gamers outside of EU don't know or even care that NoE has their own separate English translation. But hey, anything to get an insult in, right? lol
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
German is my mother tongue of course I heard my fair share of bad Happy Birthday songs but that doesn't make it a well founded cliché.
Yes some words that make the "th" a sort of "f" are difficult but other than that it's fine.
sixteen-bit
Member
Like Working Designs without ruining the game balance
mapachealocado
Member
Have they done that a lot? That particular dialogue doesn't seem so bad. I don't think I've seen a lot of memes from them. The "body is ready" thing though, that needs to die already.
Because they're not the same unless they actively go for a neutral localization (which I don't even know if it's possible). Same with spanish but in that case Latin America does get Spain's localization. Simple words like "juice" in Animal Crossing vary greatly from Spain to Latin America and we get stuck with something we barely understand. My consoles are always in english so I don't have to see Spain's localization in my games.
Because they're not the same unless they actively go for a neutral localization (which I don't even know if it's possible). Same with spanish but in that case Latin America does get Spain's localization. Simple words like "juice" in Animal Crossing vary greatly from Spain to Latin America and we get stuck with something we barely understand. My consoles are always in english so I don't have to see Spain's localization in my games.
NoA localizations haven't reached Borderlands 2 levels of memetasticness yet so I'm not gonna get into a frenzy over them, but seeing this does make me a little disappointed in them. I'm sure they have plenty of smart and funny people working there and I'd like to think they could come up with something funnier than a tired joke from the internet.