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| Sandman Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5436 days ago 168 posts - 389 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 1 of 16 23 March 2012 at 7:29am | IP Logged | ||
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I apologize if this has been posted elsewhere but I didn't see it. But as I am completely amazed by the language learning potential of this game, I feel I absolutely have to post it regardless.
For those of you who have heard of Skyrim, it is one of most highly rated games of recent memory. It is essentially a near sandbox, extremely open-ended RPG fantasy game, with many hundreds of hours of content. The makers of Skyrim are well known amongst gamers for building gaming worlds that are the absolute most massive in existence. As it is a relatively new game, it does take a fairly new computer with an okay graphics card to run. Regarding language learning .. which makes this THE most ridiculous game (by FAR) I've ever experienced regarding language learning is that through the Steam client which is installed for this game you can play the game in many different major languages. And when I mean play the game in different languages ... I mean MASSIVE audio (complete foreign audio for the entire game, in which speech is ever-present as NPCs you interact with are everwhere) in foreign languages AS WELL as full subtitles options in those same languages for ALL speech. Playing in Japanese, I have the option of listening to the game in Japanese (or English), and having English (or Japanese) subtitles ... in any combination I choose. What makes this game truly extraordinary is that it has full in game audio in different languages (an amount of which is truly massive, the amount of voice talent in different languages must have cost them an enormous amount of money ... I feel the Japanese actors are actually BETTER than the English actor version) and complete subtitle availability in those same languages exist. With ownership of the game, one can switch clients to any of the languages available as well, no need to buy different versions of the game. By switching the steam client to a particular language (Japanese for example) the game automatically downloads the game files specific for that language and you can then cut and paste out the audio files, reload the client back in English and allow it to switch the client (and subtitles) back to English and then paste back in the Japanese audio (or whichever language you choose) files afterwards. You can then use English subtitles if you wish (or leave the client in Japanese if you wish to use no subtitles or Japanese ones). You will want to check the languages available (I looked it up and it seemed languages like Spanish, French, German, were all available), but the list I've seen was amazing. Personally I have been playing the game with Japanese audio and English subtitles. But as I said, one could easily switch to Japanese subtitles or take out subtitles altogether. The specific audio and the specific subtitle choice is free to choose (although the subtitle choice will coincide with the game client language). If anyone gives it a try, the language files to cut out and paste back in later are: Skyrim - Voices.bsa Skyrim - VoicesExtra.bsa I only promise full compatability with Japanese, as I haven't yet tried others ... but from their language list it seems like it is a very long list. I'm not interested in being tech support in this thread, but I will help if I can. Information should exist on the interwebs. For those of you who think this is just a positive game review concerning languages, I want you to realize this is different. Skyrim is an enormous game of such massive depth that one could spend an entire year playing, essentially living in an alternative fantasy universe. It is almost universally rated as a top 10 game of all time. Edited by Sandman on 25 March 2012 at 10:54am 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5621 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 2 of 16 23 March 2012 at 8:30am | IP Logged | ||
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This sounds interesting. I have no interest in computer games per se these days but from
what you are saying it sounds like anyone playing this game would be able to create a virtually immersed environment. One thing I hope you can clear up - Are the people you encounter in the game other players or are they pre-programmed characters forming part of the game. Thanks for letting us know about the language learning potential here. EDIT: on closer inspection, it seems that this game is not free. I think that could have been mentioned in the original post. Edited by magictom123 on 23 March 2012 at 8:38am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4735 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 16 23 March 2012 at 10:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Do you know about language compatibility for the PS3 for Skyrim?
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| onurdolar Diglot Groupie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4680 days ago 98 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 4 of 16 23 March 2012 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sounds amazing, i am an enthusiast of both Role-Playing games and language learning. I will check it as soon as i get home; i wish there is an Italian version as well.
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| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4957 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 5 of 16 23 March 2012 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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My computer's too old to run Skyrim, but there are a few older games of the series also
available, and I know for a fact that Morrowind (which is pretty cheap on Steam) has a fan-made Italian translation out on the net. It doesn't feature the voice-overs that Skyrim does, but there's a MASSIVE amount of text in the Elder Scrolls games (as the series is called). I'm fairly sure that Oblivion (the next newest game to Skyrim) and Skyrim have been translated by the creators into at least the more major European languages: German, Italian, Spanish. Steam automatically downloads any available language files for the games when you change the interface language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| onurdolar Diglot Groupie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4680 days ago 98 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 6 of 16 23 March 2012 at 9:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well my computer seems good enough for the game but it costs 60 dollars. About Morrowind;
does it have English subtitles with Italian audio like OP mentioned or full Italian? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4957 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 7 of 16 24 March 2012 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Morrowind is an older game, so there's limited audio in general. Certain story events
get full (English) audio and I think characters have some generic tag lines, but it's mostly just text. Additionally the translation is done by fans, and although I understand it's very good, they didn't overdub the audio, so it's all in English. There are Italian subtitles in the add-on, but that's about as far as it goes. If anyone's interested, the mod (short for modification, sort of an add-on for games) is here: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Det ail&id=8693 Download the "MorrowindITP.zip" file and follow the read-me inside (which is also in Italian, but the instructions aren't incredibly complicated). If you have the expansion packs you can do the same thing for them as well. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sandman Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5436 days ago 168 posts - 389 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese | Message 8 of 16 25 March 2012 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
It's a single player rpg. The speech interactions are mainly with NPCs that give out quests, NPCs you interact with during quests, or NPCs that just talk to you as you're walking around (which happens often). And by the way, the language list from the Steam page says English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese. In addition to Japanese, I tested Italian to see if it worked and it was fine. Full audio and subtitles were working. Edited by Sandman on 25 March 2012 at 1:17pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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