[grahf]

I never really understand why people complained FF7 and FFT had bad translations. After replaying both games recently, I finally see what they're saying.

Simple mistakes like this completely ruin the dramatic effect. I became disguisted and quit playing after this particular scene.

 

[Ryos]

And this is only child's play compared to the absolutely godawful translation in FFT. I'm glad Square's translators got their act together by FFO.

 

[kain425]

ye tactics had moments when i had no idea what they were talking bout

 

[F-3582]

The German translation is even worse than yours:

- Menu commands, Abilities, even Limit Breaks are translated word-by-word (Which produces many strange results: Final Heaven = Endgültiger Himmel...)
- Sometimes words are translated, sometimes not (e.g. Sometimes Holy is called Holy, sometimes Heilig...)
- The language style was very often very primitive
- Sometimes chars were accidentally replaced: kühl = kél...

But to be honest, these minor mistakes don't bother me that much. FF7 is still one of the best RPGs I've ever played

 

[ste]

that particular moment is fine in my UK PAL version :/

(Although yeah, most translations aren't half as accurate as they should be, but translating jap-english is a mammoth task from what i know, all of the mannerisms and such :/ spose you can forgive the odd grammar error)

 

[DarkAurora]

They should have the translators translate the game into English and then have someone who's first language is English read over the script and fix grammatical errors.

 

[Galway no Sora]

/Me agree with DarkAurora, they probably should trained the translators

 

[Kid A]

I could have done it better, and I don't know Japanese at all.

 

[psicomaniaco]

Originally posted by grahf
Simple mistakes like this completely ruin the dramatic effect. I became disguisted and quit playing after this particular scene.

U quit playing just Just 'cause of the bad thanslation?? U're weird!!!

 

[ste]

speaking of bad translation, I was just having a quick ten min bash on SFA when I came across this mistake (which recurrs in all of the games where akuma can challenge you)

 

[RPGWizard]

Go Ted Woolsey!.....*/sarcasm*

 

[Kaotic Soul]

If you look at Breath if Fire 2 then you won't think so badly about FF7's translation errors.

 

[Melhisedek]

Any screens of BoF 2 errors ?
And do you mean the SNES or the GBA version ?

 

[Mr. Killjoy]

Well, French are often well translated concerning the grammar, typo, etc... but the language is too much filtered IMO, and sometimes the translation from english is so word-to-word that we don't understand what we are meant to understand

 

[Exodus]

well, some can be typos and some could be translation errors. like Baldur's gate 2 had some spelling errors, but that wasn't a translated game. so not only could they mess up with translations, but with typos, they double the chances.

one that i came across recently was that X-Men arcade game where magneto says "Welcome to Die" and this is verbal, not written, so i don't know...

 

[RPGWizard]

word-to-word translation is stupid, like taking C++ and putting it into a Java/Visual Basic compiler.....with the "basic" code conversion, you might get something slightly workable, but you wouldn't be able to understand it, and there would most likely be bugs up the wazoo.....

 

[RPGWizard]

Originally posted by Exodus
well, some can be typos and some could be translation errors. like Baldur's gate 2 had some spelling errors, but that wasn't a translated game. so not only could they mess up with translations, but with typos, they double the chances.

one that i came across recently was that X-Men arcade game where magneto says "Welcome to Die" and this is verbal, not written, so i don't know...

People.....Spend 12 years in public education.....for that.....

 

[RPGWizard]

Originally posted by Exodus
well, some can be typos and some could be translation errors. like Baldur's gate 2 had some spelling errors, but that wasn't a translated game. so not only could they mess up with translations, but with typos, they double the chances.

one that i came across recently was that X-Men arcade game where magneto says "Welcome to Die" and this is verbal, not written, so i don't know...

People.....Spend 12 years in public education.....typos are something that should be checked.....

 

[Exophase]

The ironic thing here is that FF7's English mechanics are no where as bad as grahf's..

- Exo

 

[grahf]

Originally posted by Exophase
The ironic thing here is that FF7's English mechanics are no where as bad as grahf's..

- Exo

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