German speech

tinitoon · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 105

Talking about all the different features.
There is one essential thing to me: I want my crew to talk GERMAN! Otherwise it would mean a great loss in atmosphere.

Maybe you should have the choice between german only or with subtitles or english only.

Oskar · Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Hamburg, Germany

I can�t believe that SH III is only in English? Is that right?
A subsim of D�nitz� Grey Wolfes and they will talk only american english, that cannot be true! Anybody knows what is fact?

OSKAR***

(...if that is true that means much work for my studio!)

Der Teddy Bar · Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 1360

All those talking know nothing regarding the facts of SHIII Confused

All those that know (yes we are looking at you Neal) are not talking Sad

But at least Neal is not poking his tongue at us whilst going "nah nah nah......." Very Happy

tinitoon · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 105

Well, do you agree actually that it is an essential part of a WW2 subsim that the crew talks in german?

As we know very little about this I'd love to hear a statement from someone who knows.

Drebbel · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 9:23 am Post subject:

Since Germany is an very important market for SHIII I am sure that German speech will be included (just as in SHII and AOD)

AS · Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 573 Location: Germany

Since both SH2 and AoD had German voices, I don�t see why there shouldn�t be German voices in SH3. What�s more important to me is that this time they use good speakers taking the situation aboard into account. AoD was much better than SH2 here.

Someone suggested different tones depending on the situation, which in my opinion is a great idea. By the way, most of the stuff they say is sheer nonsense, like "Neuer Sonarkontakt" ("new sonar contact") , as the Germans didn�t use the word "sonar" at this time.

Also very funny are those monoton, almost bored to death voices telling you in a "by the way" kind of style: "Schiff gesichtet"="ship sigthed" (yawn, we�ve only been out here for three weeks seeing nothing, so don�t be too excited about it), or "Achtung, Wasserbomben", which translates like "Mind the depth charges" Wink

Another good one is "Ziel erreicht", meaning "destination reached" or in other words: "We�re here!". Now can you imagine how ridiculous that sounds somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, grey sea, grey sky no land for ages, and all of a sudden one guy approaches you on the bridge, saying "So we�re here!" At last! And I was under the impression we weren�t here, but there. No, here! Oh you mean there? Well, good fun for Sesame Street!

Cheers, AS

tinitoon · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 105

Hey AS! You are so right! The SH2 sailors were real tough guys. I mean they always sound like being at a cheese counter and not in a WW2 torpedo tin.

We want good voice actors!!

NeonSamurai · Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 504

As for the examples ya gave AS, reason alot of them happen is cause some guy who doesnt speak german writes all the lines to be said, and then tries to translate them, rather then doing the research and having the lines done with out translation (ie where you use the correct technical german sub phrases, and the equivelant english phrases)

tinitoon · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 105

jason210 · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 467 Location: Sweden / UK

I agree. German voices are a must.

AS · Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 573 Location: Germany

Since we can take it for granted that a dev team developing a U-Boat sim has to read about U-Boats and see films, especially "Das Boot" which pretty much serves as a reference in the genre. Consequently, it�s just not possible NOT to come across all those nautical and technical terms... I think the SH2 team just didn�t care. Obviously they hadn�t had the time, the money and the motivation. I cross my fingers SH3 will do better!

Cheers, AS

Oskar · Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Hamburg, Germany

Can�t they ask the producer team of the "Das Boot" Directors Cut if they can use some of the voices in there?
Isn�t that cheaper than recording new ones?
Almost every situation in the fil has the right commands u could use in a subsim!
Okay, maybe not able to do this because of the reserved rights of the author, but:
They should use this film Sounds as an example to record similar ones!

OSKAR***

many of us used the "Alaaaarm!" shout from the Movie and me as well, I�ve integrated the machine, scope and diving orders from "Das Boot"in SHII!

Oskar · Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 19 Location: Hamburg, Germany

america person · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 8:40 pm Post subject:

agrees w/ others better german voices should be a must also i forget are there subtitles when its in german, i would check but i cant play games during the week(im in highschool, parental rule) so if theres not then in sh3(how do you get roman numerals) tehn there should be some imo.

AS · Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 573 Location: Germany

@America person:
Roman numerals on the keyboard? Is it possible that you are the guy who is also desperately searching for that damn "Anykey" (as the messages always say: "Press any key", don�t they?)

Roman numerals are in fact letters since the Romans didn�t HAVE a numeral system. Your figures 1,2,3, etc. are Arabian (yes, hard to believe for some, but there used to be a time when Arabians were far ahead of Europeans). So it is
I (capital i)
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII (as in the famous U-Boat type VII)

etc.

X=10
L=50

Glad to be of help, AS