Is it possible that one fucking faggot from California and his company is responsible for this hideous practice of disrespecting the source material?Victor Ireland co-founded Wrecking Designs in 1990, during a time when most English vidya translations were sub-par machine translations mixed with some poor salary man trying his best with what little English knowledge he gained in Japanese high school. They took the western gaming scene by storm with their translations that actually read like proper English. Little did vidya enthusiasts know back then, that this egomaniac faggot didn't just translate the Japanese games he brought over, he actually made them into his own.To quote the faggot himself:>Oh this script is really boring, let me put some funny stuff in here. So I would insert funny lines that really had nothing to do with what was going on. And that sort of evolved. I continued doing that, did more of it, and people generally liked it [because] they were seeing writing that they never saw in Japanese-localized or translated games, like ‘Holy crap, this is amazing’.Source https://archive.md/K5cvwAt the turn of the century localizations started petering out due to various forms of criticism against these types of botched translations. Things went mostly okay until the great decline of 2007 when vidya became mainstream. Now most Japanese games brought over have some form of localization in them ranging from shitty meme jokes to cut content in the name of making things more "palatable for western audiences". Sadly it has also spread to animu after the death of fansubbing, with localized Crunchyroll memesubs dominating the subtitle market.So what happened to Wrecking Designs and that faggot? Well Wrecking Designs died in 2006 and came back as Gaijinworks which hasn't really localized much. Their glory days are long gone, but the damage they did to vidya still lingers to this day.
Working Designs were simply unprofessional there wasn't any malice in what they were doing. The type of localizers you don't like operate with overt malice which isn't anything like working designs being unprofessional.
I'm pretty sure you could go back to the 1700s and find reasons to bitch about localizations. You just weren't paying attention/weren't alive.
I can understand being mad at this shit but I cant imagine being autistic enough to make this image and a fucking essay on 4chan about it.
I thought that was Gwen Tennyson at first.
>>749354426go back tourist
>>749354481>i'd localize my cock in her translator (mouth)
>>749354481>Off modelYou just don't get it
>>749354094Working Design was certainly cancer, but this problem has always been present in so many localizers no matter where they're from. From jeremy blaustein where he made Dragon Baby to Agness Kaku messing up some basic fucking shit and hating Kojima, to NISA being generally incompetent. All of them have huge egos.
>>749354984I enjoy Gwen in various shaped and sizes. I just think that grown up Gwen should have just been OS Gwen but taller and with a fuller figure.
>>749354094Localizers are subhuman but translator's notes ARE cringe. Requiring translator's notes just means that the script you're translating is the same referential meme shit that the localizers are peddling. If your script cannot stand on its own merits and requires outside material to comprehend - people who are not versed in that material have every right to call your writing trash.
>>749355186>Requiring translator's notes just means that the script you're translating is the same referential meme shit that the localizers are peddling.???
>>749354481I wish Bigdad wasn't such a massive faggot. I like his artstyle but I wish he wasn't so busy making his 5000th animation of duffy duck railing bugs bunny and make some more m/f stuff.
>>749355029>jeremy blaustein>blaustein>steinDamn, I really don't have to go to wikipedia anymore, huh? I just nootice at a glance.
>>749355241Very informative reply.
>>749354094Localization is fine, the issue is localizers with inflated egos trying to rewrite the story instead of conveying the meaning the author intended.
>>749354094You english niggas don't know about Ken le survivant.
yea
If it's that important to you, you had 30 years to learn Japanese instead of endlessly seething about some defunct company that translated Sega CD games.
>>749354426back to bluesky, weed.
>>749354094Back in the day and I am sure this is true today, I remember hearing that most localizers hold NoA/8-4 as the holy grail as to how to localize.
ITT: people who don’t read, know only one language, and like bootlicking
>>749360063shut up rajesh
>>749355407Weird how you always notice that but never see very obvious things like >IrelandIt's almost like you've been primed not to notice
>>749361785What's so obvious about it?
>>749354094You know, for this kind of things I'm actually glad NMTs are gaining tractions, since they will either force those hacks out of their job or get them to do the ACTUAL translation, since now everyone can potentially compare the source material and call them out. Hope they actually get fired.
>>749354306I don't want to pay attention to every minutiae going on in the industry ffs. I play games to relax and if a product costs a fucking premium it is expected that the translation involved will be faithful to the original.This should not be the buyer's fault for putting their trust into a PAIR PRODUCT WHERE PROFESSIONALISM IS EXPECTED.They need to get fired and stripped of their severance.
>>749363143You mean LLMs? NMT-based translation was the old sauce that people typically think of when we talk about machine translations.
If you think localizations started in the past 30 years, you're off by two magnitudes.
>>749354094Victor Ireland used to call gaming magazines and websites from a car phone in his lambo to scream at them for giving his games bad reviews.He would also boast of deliberately sending broken/modified versions of the games to websites in retaliation for them publishing guides, which he...must have felt impacted sales, somehow. Encouraging rentals, maybe.
>>749363661Yeah, I feel like localization is kind of a recent thing.
>>749363661>>749364050dumb zoomers
>>749364050You're about to battle Inspector Gadget?
>>749364212The localizers felt Inspector Gadget really fit the tone of that character.
>>749359383You are sharty's bitch and also brown
>>749364342Who's Sharty?
>>749363143Machine translation is fucking dogshit, kill yourself.
>>749364369>tomato's weak strawman>meanwhile in reality
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>>749354426>Lol imagine caring about things
