"If you've ever played KCD2 in English, you've quite likely seen my work."
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That doesn't sound like something that's going to work out well. Translating names of items should be fine, but dialog... I'm dubious. You can't just flat-out translate from language to language. The same text will translate differently from character to character, depending on the character and the character's mood. Kingdom Come in particular has an extra issue in that you aren't going to straight-up contemporary English, and you sure aren't going to 15th century English, either. It seems like you would need a model for each character, which doesn't sound all that economical to me.
Mind you, if it CAN be made to work, like some third-party tool that will take whatever language is used and translate it to any others the tool knows, it would be really incredible! As English speakers, getting a game to speak our language is rarely an issue, but it's a heck of a problem for the rest of the world. If even small gaming companies could just plug in something like Speed Tree in and get good translations for 90% of the world, it would be awesome!
"Hopefully people are just [going to say] 'a great game is a great game,' and look at it from that perspective."
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The Great Abandonment was in the mid-90's, really. They could either work their tails off to make a game for the ever-shifting hardware of PC gaming, or they could make it for stable hardware on platforms where they were getting twice the sales even for a bad games. So, they left us! They left us for some guy with more money and a stable home!!
And now that the guy is getting weak in his hold age while we remain viral and strong, they expect us to just take them back?? They aren't even groveling on their knees - they just showed up!
Yeah, damn straight we'll take them back. When's the release date?
