Damn that took ne long to find a titel and it still sucks ... sorry ...
My Question, or lets say the topics reason is actually to ask if you think it is okay to use "old/weird" language if it is intended by style ?
Maybe I need to explain,
I did play a Game which was set in the past and the translators probably wanted to make the language sound old as well, problem was/is that they really used old words which the dictionary even listed as "not used anymore" so I really had to look up a damn lot of words to understand what's going on ... even my 60 years old dad didn't understand half of the words and the game is intended for "teenager".
For me this was soooooo bad but a friend was like "hey that's intended, I don't understand anything as well but it is good like this" ...
For me it felt so bad and he liked it and I guess there is no really right or wrong but it would be still interesting to know what you guys think, would you play a game that is mostly interesting for the story if if they used lots of "weird" words you can not understand or that sound completely wrong (even though they are right) if it is intended to be like that ?
Sadly I can not really give any actual examples as it was not in English ...
maybe this one... the word "bar" means "cash" in German but it was and probably still is possible to use it so say its "empty" but I have actually never heard anyone using it like this but in the game they do so for a German who does not know this and they say the room is "bar" of light it doesn't make sense at all
My Question, or lets say the topics reason is actually to ask if you think it is okay to use "old/weird" language if it is intended by style ?
Maybe I need to explain,
I did play a Game which was set in the past and the translators probably wanted to make the language sound old as well, problem was/is that they really used old words which the dictionary even listed as "not used anymore" so I really had to look up a damn lot of words to understand what's going on ... even my 60 years old dad didn't understand half of the words and the game is intended for "teenager".
For me this was soooooo bad but a friend was like "hey that's intended, I don't understand anything as well but it is good like this" ...
For me it felt so bad and he liked it and I guess there is no really right or wrong but it would be still interesting to know what you guys think, would you play a game that is mostly interesting for the story if if they used lots of "weird" words you can not understand or that sound completely wrong (even though they are right) if it is intended to be like that ?
Sadly I can not really give any actual examples as it was not in English ...
maybe this one... the word "bar" means "cash" in German but it was and probably still is possible to use it so say its "empty" but I have actually never heard anyone using it like this but in the game they do so for a German who does not know this and they say the room is "bar" of light it doesn't make sense at all