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I bought Medieval II yesterday. Great game, lots of fun.

I chose to play the Holy Roman Empire for my first game. And what do I notice? All the people talk funny!

And not just funny funny, but making me cringe funny.

"Leave no Auslanders alive!"
"Praise Gott! We have taken the city!"

The same thing happened with Company of Heroes. The things the Germans say in that game are utterly ridiculous. It's a total bastardisation.

If I pay $90 for a computer game...is it too much to ask to get someone who speaks German to do the voice-overs if you insist on having people speak German in the game? I mean, there are something like 130 million of us out there!

Does this bother anyone else?

I prefer the characters to talk in their own native languages rather than trying to speak in English for the mass gaming and game-consuming populus, who are predominantly English-speaking.

Here in America, we spell "Honor" without the "u".

We coincidentally won both World Wars.

Here in America, we spell "Honor" without the "u".

We coincidentally won both World Wars.
:rolleyes:

Yes, by yourselves.

You should only play german video games then if this bothers you that much.

Sie haben keine Ehre!

You know this reminds of a story my grandfather told me once about watching a POW movie from WWII, where one of the german guards when pointing to escaping prisoners, said something in German that he said translated as "Look at the red baloon." Or something like that, I just remember the quote what the movie was other then being a WWII war flick is not as clear.

Ya hachu kupeet ahdin koshka!!

We coincidentally won both World Wars.

you have to be in it from the start to boast that *shakes teapot*

Does this bother anyone else?It doesn't just happen in video games, but movies too. I hate it how everyone finds it cool to have German henchtroops in movies, but they're all Americans with discernable accents.

Well there are mods for ROME Total War that worked on adding native languages (by pro linguists nonetheless) but I find in the end that I don't care. In the end, it's a good bit of humor.

Here in America, we spell "Honor" without the "u"..
Relevant how?

you have to be in it from the start to boast that *shakes teapot*

My mom butchered our kitchen and got a convection stove and switched out our nice electric one. Now I can't use my favorite tea kettle. Way to make me sad. :(

You should only play german video games then if this bothers you that much.
They're so difficult to get here. But I do enjoy the Gothic- and Anno Series.

But that's not the point. The point is that if they want their guys to speak German (which is fine, it makes sense - even though the language spoken by the peoples of the Holy Roman Empire in 1100 wouldn't have much in common with modern German), then why not do it properly?

I haven't had a chance to check yet, but they probably bastardise other languages too. I just don't see the point.

My mom butchered our kitchen and got a convection stove and switched out our nice electric one. Now I can't use my favorite tea kettle. Way to make me sad. :(

be a man and make a fire to put it over simple.

Sie haben die Leute geschmecken geraucht und wir sehen machen werden wollen.

I bought Medieval II yesterday. Great game, lots of fun.

I chose to play the Holy Roman Empire for my first game. And what do I notice? All the people talk funny!

And not just funny funny, but making me cringe funny.

"Leave no Auslanders alive!"
"Praise Gott! We have taken the city!"

The same thing happened with Company of Heroes. The things the Germans say in that game are utterly ridiculous. It's a total bastardisation.

If I pay $90 for a computer game...is it too much to ask to get someone who speaks German to do the voice-overs if you insist on having people speak German in the game? I mean, there are something like 130 million of us out there!

Does this bother anyone else?
LULZ
130 million?:eek:
Slightly but i get more peaved at games that wont show the Swastika as representing Germany in games where it kind of should.

130 million?:eek:
According to wiki, anyways. Hell, if people have a bit of an accent, I wouldn't mind.

But the actual sentences they put into the games just annoy the living shit out of me.
And the accents they do give the Germans in Medieval II all have something of Arnie about them. Which is a little silly.

That being said, the English faction seems to have pretty good speakers. But that was to be expected.

Slightly but i get more peaved at games that wont show the Swastika as representing Germany in games where it kind of should.
I guess they just want to make sure. The law in Germany (and probably a few other countries) says "no glorification", and some games might be close to that line at times.

And in some cases you could even make a case that it really isn't necessary, since the swastika was a NSDAP symbol, and the Wehrmacht for example generally didn't have much to do with it.

Here in America, we spell "Honor" without the "u".

We coincidentally won both World Wars.

Þe Soviets won WWII, þe British Empire WWI, þanks for showing up late to þe dance þough. Better late þen never, your honour. ;)

Þe Soviets won WWII, þe British Empire WWI, þanks for showing up late to þe dance þough. Better late þen never, your honour. ;)

^ðanks.

Does this bother anyone else?

Yes, the accents in that game are fucking terrible. Not just the Germans, all of them. Riddled with stereotypes, too. The French generals make me laugh (they're the only faction i've played extensively). "I HAVV SPILT MY WINE!! I VILL MAKE ZEM PAY!"*

And to be honest, i'm more than a little disappointed in it. You could basically do the same game in a mod for Rome: Total War. Not worth the extra $90 I paid for it.

*Not a direct quote - but there definitely is a remark about spilt wine.

Þe Soviets won WWII, þe British Empire WWI, þanks for showing up late to þe dance þough. Better late þen never, your honour. ;)

What's with this (þ) thing?

Slightly but i get more peaved at games that wont show the Swastika as representing Germany in games where it kind of should.

Since it's illegal in some countries, that's a decision on their part to avoid criminal prosecution.

Here in America, we spell "Honor" without the "u".

We coincidentally won both World Wars.

I always find this kind of shit embarrassing.

What's with this (þ) thing?

:þ

:rolleyes:

Yes, by yourselves.

No, no, no. We won both world wars because we don't spell honor with a "u". We saved millions of gallons of ink that was vital to the war effort by not doing so.

:þ

Yay!

Does this bother anyone else?

Oh, pipe down. Three "words" for you: "Bork, bork, bork." :rolleyes:

Does this bother anyone else?
Ja, tut es.

I bought Medieval II yesterday. Great game, lots of fun.

I chose to play the Holy Roman Empire for my first game. And what do I notice? All the people talk funny!

And not just funny funny, but making me cringe funny.

"Leave no Auslanders alive!"
"Praise Gott! We have taken the city!"

The same thing happened with Company of Heroes. The things the Germans say in that game are utterly ridiculous. It's a total bastardisation.

If I pay $90 for a computer game...is it too much to ask to get someone who speaks German to do the voice-overs if you insist on having people speak German in the game? I mean, there are something like 130 million of us out there!

Does this bother anyone else?

I have often wondered what Germans would make of mickey mouse German, or German accents, but have been too embarrassed to ask.

Here in America, we spell "Honor" without the "u".

We coincidentally won both World Wars.

This post confuses me :confused:


This is an international forum. Many spellings (even the correct ones, sometimes), and indeed languages, are used. Cope; we have to deal with your missing U's and overzealous-zedding.
The server is .co.uk; honour is spelled with a 'u' in British English.
This thread was (initially) about Medieval 2, which is mostly set before the discovery of the Americas, and all before the founding of the USA.
Neither of the world wars happen during the game.

Anyway, Medieval 2 is on my List Of Games To Get, but probably not this year. I've not finished a game of Rome or Barbarian Invasion so far, and have been distracted from my most recent campaign (to the tune of 30 hours last weekend) by Dwarf Fortress (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/), which is a truly brilliant game.

They're so difficult to get here. But I do enjoy the Gothic- and Anno Series.

But that's not the point. The point is that if they want their guys to speak German (which is fine, it makes sense - even though the language spoken by the peoples of the Holy Roman Empire in 1100 wouldn't have much in common with modern German), then why not do it properly?

I haven't had a chance to check yet, but they probably bastardise other languages too. I just don't see the point.

I'm not sure it would help. Look at that mary poppins movie. It has english actors in it, but it still is a horrible warped walt disney version of how the english behave and speak.

I mean, there are something like 130 million of us out there!

Does this bother anyone else?

130 million German speakers? Yeah, that bothers me.

I'm not sure it would help. Look at that mary poppins movie. It has english actors in it, but it still is a horrible warped walt disney version of how the english behave and speak.

You mean you anglos can't fly and don't break into song (with full orchestral backing) every five minutes?

You mean you anglos can't fly and don't break into song (with full orchestral backing) every five minutes?

They don't?

*crumples up and throws plane ticket into the bin*

You mean you anglos can't fly and don't break into song (with full orchestral backing) every five minutes?

We don't?

Well that explains the funny looks.

Hehe.

I just tried playing Poland. The Eastern European accents are just as bad as the German one. Just remember those really really bad Cold War action movies - and of course, there are plenty of stereotypical comments about alcohol involved. :)

I bought Medieval II yesterday. Great game, lots of fun.

I chose to play the Holy Roman Empire for my first game. And what do I notice? All the people talk funny!

And not just funny funny, but making me cringe funny.

"Leave no Auslanders alive!"
"Praise Gott! We have taken the city!"

The same thing happened with Company of Heroes. The things the Germans say in that game are utterly ridiculous. It's a total bastardisation.

If I pay $90 for a computer game...is it too much to ask to get someone who speaks German to do the voice-overs if you insist on having people speak German in the game? I mean, there are something like 130 million of us out there!

Does this bother anyone else?
Its a bit annoying, and RTW was guilty of this as well. Ok, more crap voice acting than anything. The Greek factions all sound like they're from merseyside. :rolleyes:

Civ IV on the other hand has all the units murmur something in what sounds like their own language (I think, haven't played it for ages).

I mean, there are something like 130 million of us out there! Just when I thought you were posting under the influence I remembered our Swiss and Austrian brothers. :p

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that Age of Empires II had each civilization speak in its language. The Teutons spoke Middle High German, the Goths spoke either Old German or Gothic, the English spoke Middle English, and so on.

Is it really 130 million? I would have thought it would be closer to 95 million, more or less.

Is it really 130 million? I would have thought it would be closer to 95 million, more or less.

I'm way too lazy to even check wiki for Austria and Switzerland (and, what, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg?) but Germany itself has 80 million.

I'm way too lazy to even check wiki for Austria and Switzerland (and, what, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg?) but Germany itself has 80 million.

Austria is about 8, I think. Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Lux, the relevent parts of Italy et all, can't be more than ten.

No doubt there must be a little overseas in places. But 100,000,000 is the most I can envisage.

I bought Medieval II yesterday. Great game, lots of fun.

I chose to play the Holy Roman Empire for my first game. And what do I notice? All the people talk funny!

And not just funny funny, but making me cringe funny.

"Leave no Auslanders alive!"
"Praise Gott! We have taken the city!"

The same thing happened with Company of Heroes. The things the Germans say in that game are utterly ridiculous. It's a total bastardisation.

If I pay $90 for a computer game...is it too much to ask to get someone who speaks German to do the voice-overs if you insist on having people speak German in the game? I mean, there are something like 130 million of us out there!

Does this bother anyone else?

Yes. Maybe you should get yourself hired on to a game company, and make even more ridiculous German statements. It's not like the game writers would know the difference.

ich rede wie mir der Schnabel gewachsen ist

Austria is about 8, I think. Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Lux, the relevent parts of Italy et all, can't be more than ten.

No doubt there must be a little overseas in places. But 100,000,000 is the most I can envisage.

Okay, so I did look it up, and German wiki (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Sprache) says it's 120 million native speakers, tops. So Neu Leonstein wasn't all that far off.

You were all right to some degree;

German is the main language of about 96 million people in Europe;

-German is spoken primarily in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, in two-thirds of Switzerland, in the South Tyrol province of Italy (in German, Südtirol), in the small East Cantons of Belgium, and in some border villages of the South Jutland County (in German, Nordschleswig, in Danish, Sønderjylland) of Denmark.


-German-speaking communities are to be found in the former German colony of Namibia, as well as in the other countries of German emigration such as Canada, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Venezuela (where Alemán Coloniero developed), South Africa, and Australia.

- Plautdietsch is a large minority language spoken in the north by the Mennonite communities, and is spoken by more than 200,000 people in Mexico, while standard German is spoken by the affluent German communities in Puebla, Mexico City & Quintana Roo.

German is an official language in the following regions/countries in Europe

* Austria (sole official language)
* Belgium
* Germany (sole official language)
* Liechtenstein (sole official language)
* Luxembourg
* Schleswig in Denmark
* Siebenbürgen in Romania
* Switzerland (majority language)
* South Tyrol in Italy (majority language)

German has a presence in the following regions/countries in Europe

* Alsace in France
* Galicia in Ukraine
* Lorraine in France
* Upper Silesia in Poland

German has a presence in following countries in Africa

* Namibia
* South Africa

German has a presence in following countries in The Americas

* USA & Canada
Amish (USA and Canada)
* German speaking South America
in Brazil
in Argentina
in Chile
in Paraguay

The language is used by 30% of white Namibians. German is a very vital language in Namibia and it has its own German-language newspaper the "Allgemeine-Zeitung".


All this adds together to 120 million people speaking it since birth with another ten million not being natural speakers. Making it somewhere in the range of 130 million speakers.

Okay, so I did look it up, and German wiki (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Sprache) says it's 120 million native speakers, tops. So Neu Leonstein wasn't all that far off.

Bah. More pro-germanic propaganda. ;)

Hehe.

I just tried playing Poland. The Eastern European accents are just as bad as the German one. Just remember those really really bad Cold War action movies - and of course, there are plenty of stereotypical comments about alcohol involved. :)

Try listening to an Irish accent on American television/cinema.

*remembers Leprechaun*

*shudders*

-snippage-
And in some cases you could even make a case that it really isn't necessary, since the swastika was a NSDAP symbol, and the Wehrmacht for example generally didn't have much to do with it.
True for Units or to represent the army the Black Cross could be used, but the Swastika was the German at the time.
What i also find annoying is the insistence of the History Channel to say 'The Nazi's' attacked Point 'A' or Object 'That', it was Germany dammit!

Since it's illegal in some countries, that's a decision on their part to avoid criminal prosecution.
That's weak.
Though your logic is sound >.<

I bought Medieval II yesterday. Great game, lots of fun.

I chose to play the Holy Roman Empire for my first game. And what do I notice? All the people talk funny!

And not just funny funny, but making me cringe funny.

"Leave no Auslanders alive!"
"Praise Gott! We have taken the city!"

The same thing happened with Company of Heroes. The things the Germans say in that game are utterly ridiculous. It's a total bastardisation.

If I pay $90 for a computer game...is it too much to ask to get someone who speaks German to do the voice-overs if you insist on having people speak German in the game? I mean, there are something like 130 million of us out there!

Does this bother anyone else?

90 fucking dollars for a computer game??? wtf?

90 fucking dollars for a computer game??? wtf?

Australian dollars are worth less then US Dollars.

Making it somewhere in the range of 130 million speakers.
Told ya. :p

90 fucking dollars for a computer game??? wtf?
Aussie Dollars.