Why are the characters speaking english?

[dethtrain]

It's really bizarre watching hispanic characters speak english with a spanish accent while in their native country. Wonder why ubisoft did this and not just have them speak spanish with english subtitles? On top of the fact that a lot of their lines are mixed. This isn't the bronx..

[pbN]

A lot of the countries in the Caribbean speak Spanish, English, French, among other languages. Obviously, they have to cater to their audience, thus having a lot of English and Spanish in the game. Yara is a fictitious country in the Caribbean that has Soviet/Cuban influence. So it's not bizarre, considering that English is usually taught as a second language in the Caribbean. Lines being mixed is very common, usually called Spanglish.

[Wayz]

Is Mexican, Brazilian, Japanese, Russian,French & Spanish language files in the games besides English. Best bet your PC is set for English and the game detected it & set it thus.

[Bountyhunter]

Who cares, you can change the spoken language and subtitles in the mainmenue of the game.

[Shiva]

Because they tried that kind of stupidness in Primal and it was a storytelling disaster.
Nobody wants a whole game full of "ooga-booga, guar guar gaur!"
The language in Primal is NOT a portrayal of culture, it is just a completely unnecessary annoyance.

If the whole game is in any nonenglish language, a big portion of the audience will completely lose interest in anything being said.
FC6 is an Action FPS; I don't have time to read subtitles while I'm in the middle of a gunfight.

Furthermore, the "Spanglish" used in this game is actually quite fitting for a bilingual culture!
The culture is properly portrayed without sacrificing the dialogue and the bilingual aspect allows them to get away with an outright ridiculous amount of profanity (way more "naughty words" than any other Far Cry game... by A LOT) which, for me, is a huge plus!

[Bountyhunter]

Originally posted by Shiva:

Because they tried that kind of stupidness in Primal and it was a storytelling disaster.
Nobody wants a whole game full of "ooga-booga, guar guar gaur!"
The language in Primal is NOT a portrayal of culture, it is just a completely unnecessary annoyance.

If the whole game is in any nonenglish language, a big portion of the audience will completely lose interest in anything being said.
FC6 is an Action FPS; I don't have time to read subtitles while I'm in the middle of a gunfight.

Furthermore, the "Spanglish" used in this game is actually quite fitting for a bilingual culture!
The culture is properly portrayed without sacrificing the dialogue and the bilingual aspect allows them to get away with an outright ridiculous amount of profanity (way more "naughty words" than any other Far Cry game... by A LOT) which, for me, is a huge plus!

Ahh, i understand. Thx for the infos, because i thought to buy it in sale.

[Lopper]

just pretend that you understand spanish and thats why you can understand them

[Bountyhunter]

Originally posted by Lopper:

just pretend that you understand spanish and thats why you can understand them

Yes, unfortunately I don't speak a Spanish and the mix of English/Spanish and also German/Spanish is only suboptimal for me. I will certainly agree with you that I most likely missed a lot of good funny dialogues because I just didn't understand it. I can't change it or start to learn the spanish language lol. And to the subtitles is also completely clear that nobody has time to read something like that.

[dethtrain]

Originally posted by pbN:

A lot of the countries in the Caribbean speak Spanish, English, French, among other languages. Obviously, they have to cater to their audience, thus having a lot of English and Spanish in the game. Yara is a fictitious country in the Caribbean that has Soviet/Cuban influence. So it's not bizarre, considering that English is usually taught as a second language in the Caribbean. Lines being mixed is very common, usually called Spanglish.

It is bizarre. I'm puerto rican and recently visited the country. No one speaks like this down there. In the bronx though, yeah. Words are mixed all the time. And its usually because the ones who are born here who learn english first, use english words when they don't know the spanish counterpart. I did this all the time with my grandparents and just crossed my fingers hoping they knew the english word.

[Buzzerker]

quit being a racist imperialist Yanqui and change the language to Spanish already with English subtitles so you can play the game 'Authentically'.