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Video Games, a gold mine on Steam for L-R

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TMoneytron
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 Message 9 of 13
09 September 2011 at 5:29am | IP Logged 
Dr. POW wrote:
BTW, do you have to pay for the game in the other language again if you already bought it in English? I have spent a fair sum of money on Steam, so this would be something great to use if I don't need to.


Best thing about it is, you simply go up to your options and change your language to whatever you want to practice. Many games come in 4 or 5 languages.

Steam AUTOMATICALLY downloads the files needed to play the game in another language, if it is offered. I nearly crapped my pants when it happened because it was so easy and awesome.

That is the best thing about games with recorded dialogue. I never realized this would have been so useful until the idea occurred to me.

Also, the Star Wars vocabulary is making me laugh. Kopfgeldjäger (Bounty Hunter), that is a German word I never thought I would memorize. It's eclectic but very fun and effective.


Edited by TMoneytron on 09 September 2011 at 5:30am

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rjtrudel
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 Message 10 of 13
10 September 2011 at 3:01am | IP Logged 
So you can listen to the L2 while reading the L1? Also, how can you find out which games have which
language combinations before you buy them?
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t123
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 Message 11 of 13
10 September 2011 at 10:18am | IP Logged 
rjtrudel wrote:
So you can listen to the L2 while reading the L1? Also, how can you find out which games have which
language combinations before you buy them?


No, you get L2 audio and text together. On Steam the languages are listed on the bottom right, for example:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/24980/ lists English, French, German, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian,
Spanish.

If the game doesn't have full speech, it's usually listed as well: http://store.steampowered.com/app/32360/
English*, French, German, Spanish, Italian *languages with full audio support

RPGs and adventure games are usually the most dialogue heavy. For Japanese, Nintendo DS is the way to go.
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mikonai
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 Message 12 of 13
10 September 2011 at 5:48pm | IP Logged 
Now that I think of it, I think I remember watching some videos of Portal 2 multiplayer
with audio in English but the subtitles in Italian. If a language doesn't have audio
support for that game, I guess you can get your L-R one way, but not the other.
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Dr. POW
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 Message 13 of 13
11 September 2011 at 12:28am | IP Logged 
I really wish that L.A. Noire was on steam. I'm pretty sure that game is 90% dialogue and
audio.


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