/v/ - Video Games

>>15296499

Good, but there is more garbage out there

They license a ton of VNs and then never work on getting them out in English.

I'm not mad though, for decades Japanese VNs rarely got an English translation. Being an EOP weeb is suffering.

>>15296509

>implying XSeed and other localization teams arent as terrible too

You cant trust any of those fags who believe themselves they're better writers than the original authors and their ego telling them they're improving it. And they get away with it every single time because if you don't like it you're just a "(hardcore) weeb" who doesn't understand what localization means

>>15301646

What separate between the two is that NISA is a whole level of incompetence even when it comes to bugs/crashes (to the point that one of their localized games was reported to harm the PS3 hardware by overheating the CPU) and porting a game to another platform (all their PC ports sucked ass)

Translation-wise, they're both equally terrible though. Wish I also had that pic of Estelle actually gasping in the japanese script, while the english translated text basically said something along those lines "ugh you pig men i'll hit you with my big stick"

Pics related are Hatsuu snickering with all those garbage translators on Twitter, showing they take pride in taking advantage on "translating" the parts of japanese text that arent voiced.

>>15301681

>Xythar preaching about quality translations

There are multiple layers of irony here.

>>15301622

>What is it, a boy!?

>Why is my present a boy!?

>directly after a scene with Cassius, mentioning a present with his return.

>inb4 xseed shill

They're leftist faggots, so no, and there are some bastardisations (I've seen some), especially on non-trails stuff but I played rune factory in nip, and Ys seems fine but if the likes of that are the best cherry picked examples you can find your probably gonna have the opposite effect that you want. Take the Zwei 1 memes for a better example

Show the whole context of a scene or you'll get faggots whining and never taking you seriously since even a well translated game could require a change (think of the way questions or reveals are done in nip for example) that occurs over a few text boxes making it not fit word for word perfect

>>15301681

It's a good thing that Hatsuu is too lazy to become a translator, that she has so much power and isn't should show how something can be well translated then fucked with after though.

>Translation-wise, they're both equally terrible though.

Well if you wanna argue that NISA leaving parts untranslated is more accurate, sure ? But no, NISA is the worst parts of XSEED/Aksys, etc but constant or straight up MTL.

>>15301622

Yeah, Xseed really sucks. At least NISA isn't big on forcing you to listen to their shitty dubs so you can hear what the character is supposed to be saying in Japanese.

>>15301695

They completely changed the focus of the line from Estelle being concerned about why Cassius has brought a boy into the house to instead being focused on her present and being upset about it being an injured boy. The localization made a needless rewrite that despite what seems to be a minor change actually manages to make Estelle come across as significantly self-absorbed, which is the opposite personality of her character

Akiba's Trip 2 and Senran Kagura also had crap translations from XSeeD, but lot of people originally defended them for being "anti-censorship" (which Tom single-handedly blew up that reputation after his interview on GoG, and we know how much this guy has an influence in the team)

>>15301698

I think that's really the sole and only positive point about NISA, but considering how much they fuck up at everything else, it's not even worth to mention it

Also to get back on the topic of Sekai Project, they honestly deserve to die after screwing everyone up with their constant kickstarter projects that practically never led to fruition, shutting down fan translation groups, stealing the fantranslation work and charge it full-price. I havent checked japanese forums/imageboards, but I bet they angered a good chunk of their potential customers by never releasing certain projects there (like the Narcissu 10th Anniversary)

>>15301737

I try supporting publishers like PQube, but then watching Sony fuck them over after dumping who knows how much money into Omega Labyrinth makes me pretty mad. Learning moon runes is probably the only real answer

>>15301742

It is when they do things like force you to listen to this abomination (who's actually pretty endearing in Japanese). I wish they'd at least give you control over which voices you want on and off like standard visual novel audio settings.

>>15303617

>they suck at what they do, but camouflage it by saying translation is an art

Wait a fucking second. I recognize this pattern

>painters and drawers that absolutely suck at what they do. Disproportionate or featuring degenerate garbage. But camouflage it by saying it's art

>pottery and sculpting fags That suck at what they do. Make something that looks like it came straight from israel from the disproportions. But they camouflage it by saying it's art.

>They suck at making video games. Often making horribly bugged garbage that's practically unplayable. Some aren't even games and are just walking simulators because the dev(s) barefully figured out how to make use an engine to make a character move across a planar level of X, Y, and Z. They Camouflage it by saying it's an art

>>15304768

>>15301622

Thats true though. Localisation is not translation.

Localisation is about making games feel familiar. Xseed rewrites Falcom script so that it appears to be written in American. Its why everyone shits on the Crossbell fan translations.

>>15303617

Also looks like another easy answer, but one that comes with a tough price to pay. Some or many of the good translators that do their jobs well, professionally, and accurately, rather than moving on to other fields will have to stay in the translation departments of vidya in order to keep the bar of standards high. A sacrifice that is necessary.