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Apparently, in the German version of the game the tutorial messages are written using "middle age speak". I'm assuming that the reason for the messages being plain English was because there were two English translators working on the game and the one who started the translation didn't really know how to speak the "old" English so he went with the plain and simple one (also explains why the earlier messages had so many errors). When the campaign was to be translated, the second better translator did the job. Just speculating .
My question being, should the tutorial messages be rewritten in old English after all? :oops:
Why they shouldn't be:
- Learning how to play the game should be easy, and old English is more complex
- Old English is harder to read than normal English. It requires more concentration and sometimes you can misinterpret things. That could be bad for the tutorial.
- Younger players may have trouble understanding it
- It will be a lot of work changing all of the message (just joking)
- I can't do as good a job as the translator did, (I can try, but I've never studied it) and that might make it seem tacky
Why they should be in old English:
- It makes the game more consistent throughout
- It adds to the feel of the game, making it seem more medieval
I hate decisions like this! I'm not really sure.
I'd like to ask some other peoples opinion on this one, maybe do a poll for it?
So what is your opinion?
Lewin.