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Latiro wrote:

Hi!

we've thought about this quite a lot. For now though, we've decided in favor of English voice acting. To me, it sounds like you're afraid that the quality of Enderal will suffer if we create an English version. I can assure you, though, that this won't be the case, since our translators are not part of the core team which builds Enderal. So, they'll be working on the translation at the same time we'll be working on Enderal. We'll try to achieve a similar voice acting quality like the quality we had in Nehrim, and the German version will probably be released a couple of weeks/months sooner than the English version - So, if you enjoyed the German-speaking voice actors, we might release an English-text only version of Enderal. Shouldn't be too much work.

And, you can be sure, that we'll try to achieve a similar quality for the English voice actors.

All the best,

Latiro

Besides, I just want to hear the words "Für die Freiheit der Menschen!" again.

Defianc4 wrote:

I actually found the German voice acting combined with subtitles to one of Nehrim's strengths. this is for a number of reasons:

1) The German voice acting was high-quality. This made for an engrossing experience as I enjoyed hearing professionals slide their tongues around the rough German consonants with ease. It was quite a therapeutic during the gentle moments, and rather frightening during the dramatic scenes, akin to Germanic berzerkers charging a bewildered Roman legion.

Which brings me to my next point.

2) In America, the German language is quite exotic and romantic, and thus lends itself to Fantasy. Think of the appeal of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Most Americans speak only English and/or a little of the Latin languages, so the faintly familiar sound of German has its own special appeal. It's more difficult for Europeans to understand the appeal when the border is a daily piece of life only a couple of miles away, but the US is so big that a great deal of people don't visit other countries until they are adults, and that country tends to be Canada, which is not much different. Consequently, other European languages tend to be romanticized, earning titles such as The Language of the Gods. Thank Wagner for that.

3) Mediocre English voice acting is painfully bad. This was one of Skyrim's mistakes; sometimes the voice acting did more harm than good when it came to world immersion, and at best did nothing to help. The Witcher committed this sin on an even greater scale; I literally skipped through half of the game's dialogue because I couldn't bear to listen to the disengaged, dispassionate voices assailing me.

So that's why I found Nehrim's top-tier German voice acting to be far more impactful than the voice acting in games like Skyrim and (god forbid) The Witcher.

Add on top of that the significant cost of English voice acting and you have yourself a win-win decision in favour of German voices.

(we) can handle a world where there are multiple languages involved.

Crosshair wrote:

How do the other people here think about this? Please tell us what comes into your mind concerning english voice acting and Defianc4's opinions.
P. S. We plan to offer a german version in any case.

Hazzmat wrote:

If the English voice over doesn't work out after all I can live with it if only they translate all subtitles and texts from ingame in English. ( so no leftovers like in Nehrim! )