Foreign language, wow

[Cmdo.Delta]

Great game. Almost 120h played, only a few side quests to run. That was fun.
But more than anything else, I played it in French which is my native language.
Usually, I always play in English because French translations are so laughable. And I'm not even talking about the quality of the voice actors. They are terrifying.
So i thought, "let's try it in French and I'll switch to English after I started because it will be so bad anyway". 120h in, all in French. Please CDPR, teach other studios how to make their games cool in French. That was delicious to play.

Any people played in foreign language and enjoyed it? Or is it only in French that all other games sucks but this one is great! XD

[proci85]

How was Pacifica in French? In the English version, half of Pacifica seems to speak something which occured to me like a French dialect, but my French is quite bad.

The English localization is great. Although there are more native languages, as some characters are using Japanese (Saburo), Spanish (Jackie, Padre), French (Voodoo boys), Russian (Scavs), Korean and Chinese. There are also some references in German (Totentanz, "Zeig dich"), Scandinavian (the ridiculosly named mineralwater) and Portugal (the golden Mírame hat). I really loved how they managed to get in so many details.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by proci85:

How was Pacifica in French? In the English version, half of Pacifica seems to speak something which occured to me like a French dialect, but my French is quite bad.

It's Haitian Creole. They're Haitian.

Originally posted by proci85:

Portugal (the golden Mírame hat).

That's Spanish, means "look at me".

[CadaveR]

Italian has a very good translation, they've done a really, really good job.

[Lλmbdλ]

Yeah, french was really good but I prefer still the english version ^^"
Male V was good for example but not as great as the english for me
Same for Female V but ... o gosh the english version was sooooo good I could listen to her for hours
Wait ... That what I did XD !

[Mansen]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

It's Haitian French. They're Haitian.

Haitian Creole*

[Phobos]

Originally posted by Mansen:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

It's Haitian French. They're Haitian.

Haitian Creole*

Yep. Not an expert about their history, but it became a language derivated from french due to their history, if I'm correct it goes back to slavery times, slaves had to learn the colons language, french actually, to communicate with others, but without books or any basics, just by hear obviously. Hence the very basic grammar and approximative pronunciation compared to French.

On topic, I always play games or watch medias in the language they were intended for, so english in this case - not to mention you got Keanu Reeves dubbing his own character so it's definitely a point for the english version. I'm sure most of translated versions are fine, but what I heard from the french one didn't convince me, not about the translation but the tone for some of the characters, compared to the english version.

Can't speak for all characters but Delamain and V are very different, I just don't get why they didn't stick with their original dubbing tones.

It reminds me of Sam Hayden - EDIT: Vega, my bad, been a while. in Doom 2016 and Eternal. Original voice is deep and kinda scary, french one sounds like Microsoft Sam on painkillers. Yuck.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by Mansen:

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

It's Haitian French. They're Haitian.

Haitian Creole*

My bad.

[Cmdo.Delta]

proci85: I really enjoyed the fact they let characters speak their language and translate it. It's super fun!

Locke: i'm glad to hear they did good in Italian aswell. Honestly I was impressed. I always hated to play in French, it's the first time I actually enjoyed a game in french!

Originally posted by Laurone:

Yeah, french was really good but I prefer still the english version ^^"
Male V was good for example but not as great as the english for me
Same for Female V but ... o gosh the english version was sooooo good I could listen to her for hours
Wait ... That what I did XD !

I was really going to try it a bit in English on a new characters just to see the difference. I'm sure it must be crazy good. I just wanted to mention that for once, I had fun playing in french as usually, I keep all my games in english because the translations and voices actors feel lame.

People whine a lot about this game and maybe it requires polishing but I believe they deserve that when something is good, we mention it. And french in this game is damn good!

[Cmdo.Delta]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by Mansen:

Haitian Creole*

My bad.

Creole is derived from french no? but yeah, I had a hard time understanding them. I enjoyed the native language being translated live in game. That was nice.

[Lovecraft's Cat]

Nah man you gotta experience it in the original language. Keanu alone is reason enough.

[proci85]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

Originally posted by proci85:

How was Pacifica in French? In the English version, half of Pacifica seems to speak something which occured to me like a French dialect, but my French is quite bad.

It's Haitian Creole. They're Haitian.

Originally posted by proci85:

Portugal (the golden Mírame hat).

That's Spanish, means "look at me".

I was a bit unsure if it was Haitian Creole or French as Creole is derived from French and while the voodoo boys say they originate from Haiti, the last person who ever lived on Haiti has its funeral during the timeline from the game.

Mírame is the same in (Brazil) Portugal, and while it is "look at me", it can be used as "notice me" (targeted to a crush) depending on the situation and the pronunciation.

[MoDaFoKa]

Super traduction quand ils traduisent "minions" par "mignons"...
Après j'avoue le doublage est pas trop dégueu.

[Cmdo.Delta]

Originally posted by MoDaFoKa:

Super traduction quand ils traduisent "minions" par "mignons"...
Après j'avoue le doublage est pas trop dégueu.

Oh y a pire dans les autres jeux xD
Sauf que dans les autres jeux, en plus souvent les doubleurs ont tellement pas l'air crédible..

Mais faut que je l'essaie en anglais pareil parce que y a généralement rien qui bat l'original.. je dis juste que c'est un des seuls jeux que j'ai toléré de jouer entièrement en français alors que d'habitude je vomis sur mon clavier après 30 min et que je retourne instant en anglais. xD

Originally posted by Scyth:

Nah man you gotta experience it in the original language. Keanu alone is reason enough.

I know lol. I'll try it in english at some point.. i'm just saying that for once, I had some fun playing whole game in french.. it never happened before xD