About Russian localization...

~~Googolplex~~ · 09-02-2013, 04:08 PM

(09-02-2013, 10:38 AM)VadimLongcat Wrote: It's so awful, after perfect localization of the first Amnesia to see such unprofessional work!

Amnesia TDD has horrible german translation. OK, it's not horrible, but it's not very well done. And I also couldn't say that the english original is better.
I reworked the german lang files for myself to improve experience and immersion.

Hopefully Shentloc will do it better in AAMFP.

Penumbra had perfect german localozation.

**VadimLongcat** · 09-02-2013, 04:12 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:08 PM)Googolplex Wrote:
(09-02-2013, 10:38 AM)VadimLongcat Wrote: It's so awful, after perfect localization of the first Amnesia to see such unprofessional work!

Amnesia TDD has horrible german translation.
I reworked it for myself to improve experience and immersion.

Hopefully Shentloc will do it better in AAMFP.

I've talked about Russian localization of TDD. It was really awesome - some people think, that it's better than an original!
But what I've seen in Shentloc translation got me quite disappointed, because it really looks like some machine-translation.

~~Googolplex~~ · 09-02-2013, 04:15 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:12 PM)VadimLongcat Wrote: I've talked about Russian localization of TDD. It was really awesome - some people think, that it's better that an original!
But what I've seen in Shentloc translation got me quite disappointed, because it really looks like some machine-translation.

Yes, I know. But you said that the first Amnesia had a better translation studio, but that's not correct when I look at the german localization.

Better than the original? The voice actors of Amnesia are excellent. But I think that Penumbra Overture had better german actors than the original english speakers. Possible that the russian Amnesia is even better than the original.

I will definitely also work on my own AAMFP translation. When the original is horrible, other players could use it.

**VadimLongcat** · 09-02-2013, 04:23 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:15 PM)Googolplex Wrote: Possible that the russian Amnesia is even better than the original.

I will definitely also work on my own AAMFP translation. When the original is horrible, other players could use it.

Just in case you haven't seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-7m2_8TJcQ

And yes, it's just what i said to dude from Russia on a previous page - in worst case we could do fan-translation (it would be really hard, though).

**Willy fox** · 09-02-2013, 04:28 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:07 PM)VadimLongcat Wrote: Ты в ВК есть?

Ссылка в профиле.

I know. I tried to translate Justine once... It was a crazy combo between English and French.

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-7m2_8TJcQ
By the way. Amnesia TDD have two different Russin voices for Daniel. And it both are awesome.

~~Googolplex~~ · 09-02-2013, 04:32 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:23 PM)VadimLongcat Wrote: Just in case you haven't seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-7m2_8TJcQ

And yes, it's just what i said to dude from Russia on a previous page - in worst case we could do fan-translation (it would be really hard, though).

Sorry, I do not want to watch any videos of AAMFP before I played it.
To re-translate a game is hard. You can just use the original and then look for mistakes or bad formulation and make it better, but I'm a perfectionist and everything I do must be absolute perfect. Then it's hard and it will take you much time.

(09-02-2013, 04:28 PM)Willy fox Wrote: I know. I tried to translate Justine once... It was a crazy combo between English and French.

Some texts of Justine already are in french. But the english formulation is really hard to translate. Most translators doesn't know the words, translate it not correctly or there is no sense in the text.

That's a problem for story relevant content.

I translated Penumbra Requiem to german - that was a hard marathon!

**VadimLongcat** · 09-02-2013, 04:37 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:32 PM)Googolplex Wrote: Sorry, I do not want to watch any videos of AAMFP before I played it.

It's just Russian trailer of TDD Smile

**Willy fox** · 09-02-2013, 04:38 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:32 PM)Googolplex Wrote: Sorry, I do not want to watch any videos of AAMFP before I played it.

Don't be afraid :3 This is a russian trailer for TDD. *slowpoke*

~~Googolplex~~ · 09-02-2013, 04:40 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:37 PM)VadimLongcat Wrote: It's just Russian trailer of TDD

Ah OK, I know it already since 3 years. Big Grin

**Willy fox** · 09-02-2013, 04:45 PM

(09-02-2013, 04:32 PM)Googolplex Wrote: Most translators doesn't know the words, translate it not correctly or there is no sense in the text.

To use a translator is not very good for you. I use it only like a dictionary, only if I don't know any single word.

But to translate French text, which I don't know at all, was difficult for me. So, resulting text was not very smooth.