No purchase without dubbing

[Feomathar]

It massively destroys the immersion when a game is not dubbed in one's own language. It takes away all the fun. Every respectable game invests in this. Really disappointing. I was actually looking forward to the game. And before someone says again: English is the only true language and they should save the money for dubbings - you can happily play with English audio, but there are people who don't like it that way and wish for the alternative. The developer has now saved the money, but as a result, will also earn less.
Therefore, it's always a ridiculous argument.

I hope it will still be added, even though I don't believe it will.

[parent child bowl]

Originally posted by Feomathar:

It massively destroys the immersion when a game is not dubbed in one's own language. It takes away all the fun.

Speak for yourself. My suspension of disbelief doesn't work in my native language and I get an aneurism when I hear talk about magic, demons and stuff in it.

Depending on what your native language is, it's not a loss. I'd also argue that the amount of people like you is comparatively low. Most will just play in english.

So yeah, cost is not a ridiculous argument.

[Flannaz]

Originally posted by Feomathar:

It massively destroys the immersion when a game is not dubbed in one's own language. It takes away all the fun. Every respectable game invests in this. Really disappointing. I was actually looking forward to the game. And before someone says again: English is the only true language and they should save the money for dubbings - you can happily play with English audio, but there are people who don't like it that way and wish for the alternative. The developer has now saved the money, but as a result, will also earn less.
Therefore, it's always a ridiculous argument.

I hope it will still be added, even though I don't believe it will.

yeah marginally less - the cost to dub in another language depending on the langaage would not break even

[Feomathar]

It's quite amusing that even small studios can afford the cost of dubbing for their players to provide an immersive gaming experience, but larger studios fail due to "costs." This indicates more of an "I don't care" attitude rather than a "We want to deliver the best possible product.

[Turkwise]

Just turn voice audio off and voice it yourself then. Perfect solution.

[Kocayine]

Originally posted by Feomathar:

It's quite amusing that even small studios can afford the cost of dubbing for their players to provide an immersive gaming experience, but larger studios fail due to "costs." This indicates more of an "I don't care" attitude rather than a "We want to deliver the best possible product.

Sometimes it's for the better ~ there's always subtitles in your own language

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Originally posted by Feomathar:

It's quite amusing that even small studios can afford the cost of dubbing for their players to provide an immersive gaming experience, but larger studios fail due to "costs." This indicates more of an "I don't care" attitude rather than a "We want to deliver the best possible product.

The issue here is often times bigger studios want better voice acting and thus the pay and amount of lines etc... all add up to much larger, while a smaller studio no one will be upset when it's not the world's best voice acting.

It's not impossible but the cost is significantly different usually.

[Iorveth]

Originally posted by Feomathar:

It massively destroys the immersion when a game is not dubbed in one's own language. It takes away all the fun. Every respectable game invests in this. Really disappointing. I was actually looking forward to the game. And before someone says again: English is the only true language and they should save the money for dubbings - you can happily play with English audio, but there are people who don't like it that way and wish for the alternative. The developer has now saved the money, but as a result, will also earn less.
Therefore, it's always a ridiculous argument.

I hope it will still be added, even though I don't believe it will.

Instead of complaining and expecting the world to bend to your wishes, why don't you invest in yourself instead and learn another language? I am Italian but I learned English years ago, now I want to learn Chinese, these skills are not only useful to make me enjoy video games smoothly, I will also be able to put them to use in the workplace...

[Mu'Ammar of Carthus]

Originally posted by Feomathar:

It's quite amusing that even small studios can afford the cost of dubbing for their players to provide an immersive gaming experience, but larger studios fail due to "costs." This indicates more of an "I don't care" attitude rather than a "We want to deliver the best possible product.

What "small studios"? For which games for instance?
If there aren't quite as many dialogue to record, obviously it's going to be much cheaper.

Originally posted by Feomathar:

It massively destroys the immersion when a game is not dubbed in one's own language.

My native language is French and nobody on this earth is as big as me on immersion.
And I really don't see how english would be immersion breaking.

Now if it was in a game like Sekiro, you bet. I would NEVER play it in anything other than Japanese dub. But Dragon's Dogma 2? I really don't see the problem.

Originally posted by Feomathar:

I hope it will still be added, even though I don't believe it will.

It's very, very, VERY definetly not going to happen.
You can stop hoping right now.

[pRaX]

womp womp

[Pineapplelord9k]

the way i see it is if a game is made for specific languages then it should be played in those.

point being if you can choose that language and there is voice acting for it go ahead but i also usually go for the voice acting of what studio made it so for example a lot of japanese games i prefer the japanese voice acting over the english voice acting.

but seriously games usually dont get a lot of dubbing because its a lot more time that doesnt usually result in a better experience because MOST not all but MOST people simply dont care as long as they have subtitles to read and understand

[Cyflan]

Originally posted by Pineapplelord9k:

the way i see it is if a game is made for specific languages then it should be played in those.

point being if you can choose that language and there is voice acting for it go ahead but i also usually go for the voice acting of what studio made it so for example a lot of japanese games i prefer the japanese voice acting over the english voice acting.

but seriously games usually dont get a lot of dubbing because its a lot more time that doesnt usually result in a better experience because MOST not all but MOST people simply dont care as long as they have subtitles to read and understand

Yeah, agreed on this.
Even if I don't understand the language being spoken, as long as there's subtitles that I can read, I prefer the original language in basically every situation.

Even though it might be amusing to hear more games in my native language, it'd be more for the humor of bad dubs than because I want to listen to it for a whole game.

[Piflik]

I haven't played a game in my native language since Oblivion. The translation was just so bad. I never want to see a "Schw. Tr. d. Le. En. W." ever again.

For those who don't know, that was supposed to read "Schwacher Trank der Lebensenergie-Wiederherstellung", literally "weak potion of life energy restoration", or better "weak healing potion". But that was too long for the XBox-optimized UI, so it was abbreviated into oblivion (pun intended). And you could instead have called it "Schwacher Heiltrank", which would have not been much longer than that abomination of an abbreviation...

And games aren't the only thing I can't stand consuming dubbed. I recently watched some Marvel movie in German and it was so insanely cringy. Didn't really help that it was a Marvel movie, but I rewatched it later in English and it was a lot less bad...

[Rail]

so what dub do you want, ukraine?

[H-Foundry PIXIV]

in the membrane.