Weirdarse Language Options

[SotiCoto]

So... let me get this totally straight here, in case I've mixed anything up...

This game is made by Dutch developers, right? Based in Amsterdam, right? Yet there is no option for Dutch audio that I see... which is doubly weird as there are a lot of other uncommon languages included. SO my usual choice of setting the audio to the native language of the game isn't there...
For that matter, there are separate options for Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Mexican Spanish... but the only option for "English" is American. SO my secondary option of only setting audio to "English" in non-American games if said audio isn't American is also a no-go.

Doesn't this strike anyone else as weird? I don't even know what to do with the audio options now. Do I play it in yankie-doodle mode (I get the impression most of this game isn't social, so maybe it isn't too bad as long as the protagonist isn't a blabbermouth) or just pick some other European language and hope for the best?


[Edit]: Okay, so some of the voices sound American while others don't. But the protagonist sounds exceedingly Murican. Ew.

[Seamus]

Well, the main character is voiced by Ashly Burch.

Who was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Which is in the US.

Imagine that. She sounds American. Because her voice actress is American.

[SotiCoto]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Well, the main character is voiced by Ashly Burch.

Who was born in Phoenix, Arizona. Which is in the US.

Imagine that. She sounds American. Because her voice actress is American.

And just what do you expect for figuring out that blindingly obvious fact? Yes, she is obviously American, hence my having remarked on it in the first place.

*Slow Claps*

Now if they were going to bother making two variants of Spanish and two variants of Portuguese, it wouldn't have hurt them to add a proper English besides the American. Nor, for that matter, adding in Dutch... not that I can speak Dutch, but given I play Japanese games in Japanese, Polish games in Polish, French games in French... well. But perhaps you're too brain-damaged to understand that.

[Seamus]

American English and British English are the same language.

The same can't be said for the Spanish spoken in the Americas vs Castilian.

Or Brazilian Portuguese vs Portuguese in Portugal.

[SotiCoto]

Originally posted by Seamus:

American English and British English are the same language.

There is no point in stating obvious fallacies. American is as different to English as Brazilian is to Portuguese, Quebecois is to French, or for that matter as Afrikaans is to Dutch. It is a derivative, and while for the most part speakers of one can understand the other, there are enough drastic differences to cause misunderstandings.

Anyway, you've been blocked since before I made this thread, but apparently Steam doesn't do blocks properly. Imagine my disgust at finding the first response to my thread here was from someone who already managed to earn my disgust elsewhere. Steam really needs to up their game and make blocks absolute and two-way.

[Seamus]

Hah. I remember you now.

You're the guy who got his ass kicked by Leshen.

Pathetic.

[SotiCoto]

Something seems to have been cleared up at least. Unless the names of the places are also translated depending on language, then this game is ostensibly set in America (specifically Colorado, though the terrain seems a bit changed). That at least justifies yankie-doodle mode... though it doesn't make Aloy's frequent nattering over absolutely nothing any more tolerable.

[Orion Invictus]

Originally posted by SotiCoto:

Something seems to have been cleared up at least. Unless the names of the places are also translated depending on language, then this game is ostensibly set in America (specifically Colorado, though the terrain seems a bit changed). That at least justifies yankie-doodle mode... though it doesn't make Aloy's frequent nattering over absolutely nothing any more tolerable.

When people are alone for prolonged periods of time, sometimes they talk to themselves, voice their thoughts out loud. It's not that weird.

[SotiCoto]

Originally posted by Orion Invictus:

When people are alone for prolonged periods of time, sometimes they talk to themselves, voice their thoughts out loud. It's not that weird.

I know it happens sometimes... but:

A. The lines repeat quite often, and it is gradually chipping at immersion to have Aloy keep saying the same things over and over again.

B. I just don't like her voice. I don't like most of the voices in the game. But her VA is from Arizona, which is park of the region of American accents I find annoying (i.e. most of the south to southwest).



I'd much rather this game had a voice frequency option like Monster Hunter Rise does, so I could turn down or turn off her random jibber-jabber.

[Seamus]

Amazing.

You're still whining about this.

[Seamus]

Y'know, the best part is, there's actually a plot reason for Aloy to sound the way she does.

And you'll probably whine about it just the same.

[SotiCoto]

Just how obsessed with me are you?
I'm not going to click the "Show" link any more, no matter how much you spam messages at me, so you can just bugger off elsewhere, scum.

[Seamus]

Astounding how continually bitter you are about this.

Lost to Leshen? Better make a thread complaining about how horrid the fight is when you could solve the problem by playing better.

Characters speak in an American accent in a game set in America? Better make a thread complaining about it out of some utterly idiotic sense of superiority.

Classy.

[synaptic seaslugs]

Wow SotiCoto, do you think Americans refuse to play Elden Ring because there's no American option? Or should it be played only in Japanese, because the devs are in Japan, even though the game is clearly based on English myths and legends and voice acted brilliantly? Or for that matter, why not Dutch there too, just for the hell of it?

Since you seem to get an aneurysm from hearing American voices and thus can't judge well, rest assured, you're missing out. The American English voice acting in this game is well done, ranging from naturalistic to hilarious. Too bad your wacky superiority complex ruined it for you.

[Insert Name]

I am so confused! Someone better lock the thread quick! before the confusion spreads!

[corbo]

What's weird is that you can't play in the actual tribal dialect of this post-apocalyptic future. It doesn't feel authentic and immersive at all in English. And it wouldn't be better in Dutch. Where's the Sacredlandsish voice over?