Update on the River City Girls Zero “literal” translation thing:
Wayfoward responded by announcing they’re changing the language option names to “RCG” and “Original”
Good that they didn’t remove the option outright but still silly of them to even bother responding
Update on the River City Girls Zero “literal” translation thing:
Adrian Roberts
Jace Gutierrez
>wayforward
Why do you fags play ugly western trash again?
Julian Reyes
>two english translations
Elijah Wright
yes, one by localizers and one as a direct translation from the japanese script
Jackson Butler
I understand why they conceded but its moot since the trannylators are still gonna seethe about 2 different translations regardless.
Angel Ramirez
I don't get it. Why is there two?
John Sanchez
What's the point? Just use the direct translation and hang every localizer and it's supporters.
Wyatt Harris
One is localized, one is literally just translated from japanese to english
Eli Russell
I'm guessing the "localization" script is pretty much fan fiction tier and the other is an actual translation.
Juan Foster
Who are they conceding to?
Isn't calling it original even "worse" than literal?
Michael Turner
>one is literally just translated from japanese to english
Oh, you mean a translation? Wow, what a novel concept.
Lincoln Wood
What’s the controversy? Is it “offensive” to call it literal?
Kevin Phillips
best thing about this is how a translator complained that this reinforces the mistrust in their translations. I WONDER FUCKING WHY
Austin Long
lol that's even better
it makes the localized version sound even worse since it isn't "Original" and just some faggot or trannylator's take
Lincoln Hill
It's offensive to game translators because they often get criticized for rewriting dialogue like adding memes and changing scripts.
David Parker
I have no clue, haven’t been following the game, but depending on who did the work, that is a possibility.
Levi Morgan
A bunch of "official" translators not affiliated with RCG0 were bitching that the game offered 2 different English translation tracks, one of which being referred to "literal" and that for some reason causes harm to translators or something.
they'll still bitch that they're offering 2 translations but WF's ass is covered by doing this
Carter Nguyen
Can you blame them?
Ian Perry
Wayforward is under the deluded impression that anyone who would want to play a port of a Super Famicom Kunio-Kun game
>got into the Kunio-Kun/River City franchise through River City Girls
>does not know about the popular and easy to find ROM of Kunio-tachi no Banka, fan translated into literal if vulgar English for the EOPs more than ten years ago and easy to plug and play on fucking ZSNES
If all the retro gamer girlfriends and the kids who bought the game because they saw a dabbing Kyoko .gif on Reddit want to pay money for an ironically bad localization of a ported ROM right alongside a "proper" one, that's their call
Jeremiah Rogers
Sounds based, we need direct jap to english translations on games now.
Ethan Ortiz
we know discord trannies and their ilk post on Any Forums so the localizer probably made this thread in the first place to make Wayforward look bad for this based decision
Owen Barnes
B-baka!
Ethan Perry
Literal translations never work. It’s why the best bible translation, the NIV, uses thought for thought. Because that works best in languages
It’s why Lattimores translation of the Odyssey is shit and everyone reads Fagles. Everyone in this thread that doesn’t see that is retarded. Wayforwards original translation is fine, but autsists think that literal is better when they know nothing about linguistics
Jaxon Lewis
YWNBC
Ryan Turner
I wish OP had provided any context at all, but maybe they were trying to draw a distinction between a truly literal English translation of a Japanese script (which would be incomprehensible due to differences in the structure of the languages) and a "straight" translation that adapts the language differences while keeping the meaning as close as humanly possible?
Adrian Jenkins
Non literal translations never work, because they are NEVER correct. The answer is to have both versions.
Blake Torres
king james 4 lyfe bitch
didn't read the rest of your comment because yr a fag
Alexander Nguyen
one is propaganda and reddit memes the other one is the actual intended dialogue
David Brown
When americans don't get americanized works they riot.
That's why their "localizations" are full of outdated memes, shit jokes, zoomer linguo and general canceraids.
Gavin Hall
>We hear you
Ethan Adams
They're both inaccurate fanfiction, one's just less fucked up
The intended dialogue is Japanese only
Carson Myers
Localization people didn't understand what Wayforward meant and the brainrot from whatever dipshit culture war they're obsessed with kicked in and started shitting their diapers for the hundredth time.
Every other week someone makes a post about how "geez I don't like how they localized this script to be so quirky" and localization people will make 20 tweets crying about how there's no other way they could have written it and how the only other option would be to make it as dry as possible or some dumbass thing.
Tyler Harris
>reading the cuck version of the Bible funded by King Cuck that adds shit not in the Bible
You can’t attack Wayforward and then in the next breath defend the KJV you flaming homosexual