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Final Fantasy XV - German/French dubs announced, Lat.Am Spanish/BrazilPortuguese text
- Thread starter The Last One
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Ohhh, I jumped the gun, anyway it still is a great improvement. It seems we are now officially a "viable market" after all this years. It's good to be recongnized, I hope other companies follow (looking at you "JefeMaestro").
Ooohh... It would've been cool to hear a Latin American dub as well.
Yeah, even if just for the sake of it. As long as we always get the choice to pick dubs, I'm all for it.
Yes, you can switch in-game. English and Japanese voices are included in the German version.
The Cartographer
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Alex_Mexico
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Remember those weird times where videogames starting noticing Latin America and tried to make one so-called "neutral" spanish for every country including europe? It sucked for everyone! Remember Halo 2? It was horrible!
Thankfully that weird transition ended quickly and since then we started getting our own dubs (when there's any to speak of).
It weird how Americans or British can perfectly hear or withstand a dub from each other that they don't feel the need to redub nothing but when it comes to Spanish and Portuguese we Latin Americans need our own versions because the general consensus is we can't stand european Spanish and Portuguese.
daitoqu
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Actually, Dissidia 1 on PSP was released with ru-subs. And some of Android-Steam re-releases of old FF's have localisation too C:
But, yeah, this is first ever mainline game with ru-localization up-to-release.
LordBaztion
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So glad publishers are taking seroiusly latam. Buying the game day one (will play it in english anyway, or maybe japanese, I don't know).
Edit: oh wait, its just the text... It doesn't worth make an announcement for that, its the bare minumum they can do.
What happened? I don't remember XIII having a bad translation.
The Last One
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Brazilian gaf, here's an example if FF XV was dubbed by profissional brazilian dubbers:
https://youtu.be/S88xuTB7PnU
https://youtu.be/S88xuTB7PnU
Prompto needs to be voiced by his japanese actor in the german version! ^.^
NoctisVsStar
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Noctis taking over this year
Brazilian portuguese is too different from Portuguese Portuguese, we kinda butchered a bunch of verb tables when we've decided to use "você"(3rd person pronoun) as "tu"(2nd person), we actually use vowels when we speak(vowels in PT-PT are more silent or hidden, when brazilians make then sound louder) and we can't speak as fast as the portuguese...and there are a lots of words and slangs from portugal that in brazil just sound ... wrong LOL... sometimes i think is easier to understand english than portuguese from portugal...it's almost another language
They do have Greek text in all the Uncharted games and I love it.
Only foreign media with Greek VA are kids shows, so it's not really needed but I would still love to see it one day.
Wow, someone read my secret diary about wanting a French dub of Final Fantasy stuff.
For those not in the know, ever since a misstep with FF7 (the FIGS versions were a 2nd generation translation from the English) and some wonkiness with FF8, Square Enix does a phenomenal job with their European translations, and I generally play Final Fantasy games in French because I feel it "fits" better, hard to describe. But the French translations have always been their own, fresh-from-the-Japanese translation and approaches translation challenges differently from the English.
They are also crazy with their mobile ports, as those have an absurd number of translations in them; if you only speak Bahasa Indonesian or Thai, your "official" RPG options are pretty damn limited, but the mobile FF ports have those languages.
For those not in the know, ever since a misstep with FF7 (the FIGS versions were a 2nd generation translation from the English) and some wonkiness with FF8, Square Enix does a phenomenal job with their European translations, and I generally play Final Fantasy games in French because I feel it "fits" better, hard to describe. But the French translations have always been their own, fresh-from-the-Japanese translation and approaches translation challenges differently from the English.
They are also crazy with their mobile ports, as those have an absurd number of translations in them; if you only speak Bahasa Indonesian or Thai, your "official" RPG options are pretty damn limited, but the mobile FF ports have those languages.
MultiJhonny
Banned
Good. It's been too long. One week!
I also hope they redo Cindy's voice too, that over the top country accent was.. interesting. Having a country accent is one thing but that was super.. bad lol
Alex_Mexico
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Holy shit, really? I mean I always knew there were differences as much as Latin and European Spanish have but almost another language? As native spanish speaker I couldn't tell the difference between both Portugueses and I've had both spoken to me slowly enough and I'm able to understand 90% of what they're saying. Its truly amazing how similar Spanish and Portuguese are that you can speak in one and be understood by the other without having to know the same language.
All the voices were bad in the English dub though.
that's actually better than I expected o-o
Fire, Fira, Firaga, etc. were Piro, Piro+ and Piro++ in Spanish.
The rest was probably good, I just found it silly
That, and the subtitles using original Japanese names when the English dub used English names—like "Serendipity" vs "Xanadu". Just minor nitpicks
MultiJhonny
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I wouldn't say all of them were bad, sure they needed improvement but the only 2 I thought were just bad was Ignis and Cindy. Now I didn't think the others were necessarily good so I do think rework was needed.
They did confirm that they rushed the VA to get the demo out so I am curious of how it is meant to sound.
awww, with such quality dub teams in Mexico and they are not going to dub it to Latin Spanish? such a shame, the game has an actual very big audience with LA being mostly Latin Spanish speakers
I hope it will be the same, sounds good in spanish and it doesn't really mean something in english apart from fire, and the later ones lose that mean
I hope it will be the same, sounds good in spanish and it doesn't really mean something in english apart from fire, and the later ones lose that mean
AuthenticM
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I see. I very much don't think like that. I say they are not mainline FFs simply because of how different their nature (or DNA, if you will) are. I consider Final Fantasy Tactics to be a masterpiece, and one of the greatest games ever made. But still, had Square released the game as Final Fantasy VIII, it would have been a mistake.
That would be stupid on their part. All they need to do is have the dubs in separate files, with the video and sound effects in their own file.
NoctisVsStar
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Yeah, at least that's how I feel... I mean, we CAN speak with portuguese people with almost no problems if the person speaks a bit slower than usual, but understanding portuguese tv shows is hard... Sometimes we can understand better spanish speech(depending from the region, i can't remember now if it was castillan or latin spanish) for example...and while we do learn the whole verb tables at school there are lots of things from the "original" portuguese we don't use at all...
I can't hear the differences from latin spanish and castillan but i imagine that for a native speaker it must be a bit like our case...
Alex_Mexico
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We're getting there. We've gone from having to import english only games from the US for insane prices (unless you went for the grey market), to having them here for competitive prices, to having some of them with european Spanish to now where a big game not having at least latin spanish subs is the odd one out and many include even latin dubs!
The market has grown a lot since the primitive days of young me having to play Super Mario RPG with a dictionary back in 1996 because english-only! It's just not as big yet as to warrant the extra dough needed to dub to our language such a huge game like FFXV.
Fire, Fira, Friaga, etc. were Piro, Piro+ and Piro++ in Spanish.
The rest probably was probably good, I just found it silly
That, and the subtitles using original Japanese names when the English dub used English names—like "Serendipity" vs "Xanadu". Just minor nitpicks
Magic has always been translated like that since the Final Fantasy VIII translation (VII had different names IIRC, but that translation was a disaster).
Personally I prefer Piro++ to Firaga, it makes more sense.
Edit: And the Spanish translation using the original names it's not a bad translation. The English translation invented those names, how would the Spanish translator know that since he is translating from the Japanese text? If anything that's Square Enix' fault.
Alex_Mexico
Member
Trust me. It's night and day.
And I'm willing to bet that the Spanish you understand better is the Latin one (especially from Mexico... never watched El Chavo del 8 in its original tongue?) since it's the more neutral. Spaniards took the ball and ran with it to their own tiny little corner, it's so different from the rest of us. Most of the Spanish dubs for movies and tv shows that people all over Latin America get are made in Mexico because of its relatively neutrality so chances are thats the one you've been more in contact with. You'll never hear a European Spanish dub making its way over here officially (unless the thing was originally produced and made in Spain at which point it wouldn't be a dub).
NoctisVsStar
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Watching DBZ, Saint Seiya in Mexico Dub vs that Spain Spanish is night and day. Onda vitallll gtfo with that Spain BS lol
It's the year of the prince #Believe
Eh, you know how German dubs are here. Though, I tried the German one in TW3 for a few minutes and it actually wasn't that bad.
Quadaess Suikun
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Fire, Fira, Friaga, etc. were Piro, Piro+ and Piro++ in Spanish.
The rest was probably good, I just found it silly
But it has been like that since 8. You can like or dislike ir, but it's not a XIII's thing.
EDIT: beaten ^^U
NoctisVsStar
Member
I would go fucking crazy if that were the case.
Most games today are dubbed to Latin American spanish on Venezuela, though....
AuthenticM
Member
In French, I've often see Feu, Feu² and Feu³. It's cool. I don't miss the "ra" and "ga".
Alex_Mexico
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I would go fucking crazy if that were the case.
Most games today are dubbed to Latin American spanish on Venezuela, though....
Nope. Argentina. And AFAIK only Sony first party games are getting dubbed there. Microsoft, WB Games, EA, Ubisoft (i.e. the big guys) do it in Mexico. Venezuela was becoming a powerhouse for latin spanish dubs a decade or so ago but that industry, among the rest of the country, went to shit mostly.
Tribes of Trusty
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NOM DE DIEU un doublage intégral en français en plus des voix japonaises ?
Cet opus de Final Fantasy XV ne cessera jamais de m'étonner.
Cet opus de Final Fantasy XV ne cessera jamais de m'étonner.
I regret being there day one for XIII but here I feel obligated to.
Feu1 Feu2 Feu3 is kind of outdated as it was only present in the terribad translation of FFVII. Nowadays it's more "Brasier" "Brasier +" and "Brasier X"
I understand now, but you could've just said that as an MMO, XIV would get better localization deals or something like that...
I don't think i'd consider XII as having the same DNA as VII by this reasoning, since the game is basically an offline MMO, for example, nor even XV(it WAS a spin off after all), FF gameplay style range is a bit larger now, you know?
...but I agree that having an online game in the mainline series is tough, as we'll always be able to play VI, or X, but when XIV's servers shut down the game will be gone for good, so there are people that won't ever be able to play all Final Fantasy games because XI and XIV won't be there anymore...i used to exclude those games from my mainline because of that reasoning at least, but XIV was just too good so i've stopped doing it xD