I'm all for clever localization but please don't just leave out important story.

[Atmora]

Sounds to me like someone was too proud of his creation and put that above conveying things in a way that all players could easily understand

James Joyce was too proud of his style to make it easily understandable to the layman so Ulysses is a poorly written work.

[sarehptar]

James Joyce was too proud of his style to make it easily understandable to the layman so Ulysses is a poorly written work.

Uylsses is not a video game marketed at teenagers and 20-year-olds who barely pause to read in-game text, let alone have the literary background necessary to closely analyze and discern linguistic complexities. Your choice of comparison is completely irrelevant to this situation.

[Atmora]

Uylsses is not a video game marketed at teenagers and 20-year-olds who barely pause to read in-game text, let alone have the literary background necessary to closely analyze and discern linguistic complexities. Your choice of comparison is completely irrelevant to this situation.

Inception had characters with motivations that were not directly stated or immediately apparent therefor it is too hard to understand.

[sarehptar]

Inception had characters with motivations that were not directly stated or immediately apparent therefor it is too hard to understand.

Inception is not a video game marketed at teenagers and--seriously, we could play this game all day until you come up with an actually decent comparison, but there's literally no point to it because you have completely missed the focus of my original statement. The choices the English team made were based on Ferne's dragonspeak ideas. The other teams did not seem to think following his dragonspeak rules for this scene was a good idea. Therefore, I believe that, as in many things, majority should have ruled and the English team should have done something that was closer to the decisions the other teams made. The fact that they didn't seems to be, to me at least, because they were too close and too personally invested in the whole dragonspeak concept and didn't want to ditch that.

I said nothing about whether or not the English translation was quality writing or whether or not it was hard to understand because it was poorly written. That is an entirely different issue and I have no idea why in the world you chose to fixate on a single phrase of my post as if that was my sole arguing point against the English translation.