1 Month in impressions/criticisms...

[Attarik]

Seems like most of the posts griping about the translations are all just fundamentally flawed since they're all based on a lack of understanding of world languages. Pray and Must needs are both completely valid and frequently used ways to start sentences.

[zipzo]

Seems like most of the posts griping about the translations are all just fundamentally flawed since they're all based on a lack of understanding of world languages. Pray and Must needs are both completely valid and frequently used ways to start sentences.

I wasn't aware that on box it said that knowledge of foreign languages not localized in the game was necessary to understand everything properly on the first go.

You cherry picked two examples but there a heck of a lot more where it came from. People do NOT talk like the English localized characters often do, otherwise it wouldnt irritate me in the first place chief.

I also am in a country where the English I hear can be from any odd country around the world. Its not just Americans that visit Japan.

[Intaki]

People do NOT talk like the English localized characters often do, otherwise it wouldnt irritate me in the first place chief.

People don't talk like some of the Japanese characters do either. The Japanese text is full of archaic terminology and keigo that you simply do not hear from a normal speaker.

[Kosmos992k]

Seems like most of the posts griping about the translations are all just fundamentally flawed since they're all based on a lack of understanding of world languages. Pray and Must needs are both completely valid and frequently used ways to start sentences.

Where? I'll accept that the word 'pray' may be used on occasion as an opener in a sentence, for example, pray tell which language must needs use such constructs as "must needs". Whether or not a similar construct exists in other languages is not the issue. The issue is that this piece of language exists in the English language localization, I don't believe it is in any of the other versions. It's an archaic expression in English, and as such fits the apparent desire of the English localization team to use archaic linguistic forms to create an otherworldly fantasy setting. Still, pray tell why we must needs use it instead of simply saying 'must'.