SE: Please tone it down a hair

[Nabiri]

To be more specific, it's some of the newspaper article authors for the Lodestone that tend to use sentences that have nearly 7 words in a row (many of which I'm not familiar with) that all start with the letter P or something. XD Next sentence - same thing. Over and over for the whole paragraph. It almost ends up a tongue-twister. (I have no problem looking up words -- in fact, I do whenever I see one I don't know.) But those can be hard to understand without reading over 3 times. lol A little too flowery and poetic for my tastes.

But I LOVE the text in-game. :3 It's great! I do understand if some people have trouble with it though, so I wouldn't mind seeing it adjusted a bit, as long as it keeps the same flavour it has now.

[Asiaine]

Still, I was always under the impression that the point of telling a story was reaching the widest audience possible to convey your message to, which was why Shakespeare used the language he did in his works, and why they have stood the test of time.

This is a very nice point you brought up. The reality is that this is not always the case. Some story tellers tell stories in a way that only a certain audience would understand. Carring little for the widest audience, but more for a specific audience.

For example, a lot of poetry can only be understood if you are of the right mindset (or drunk). Many of the older songs with their hidden meanings are fully understood by some and completely incomprehensible by many others. A popular example is 'American Pie', where there are still many debates on what he is trying to say.

(This differs from Bob Dylan where they just don't understand what he's saying ^.^;;; )

[Kiroh]

This is a very nice point you brought up. The reality is that this is not always the case. Some story tellers tell stories in a way that only a certain audience would understand. Carring little for the widest audience, but more for a specific audience.

For example, a lot of poetry can only be understood if you are of the right mindset (or drunk). Many of the older songs with their hidden meanings are fully understood by some and completely incomprehensible by many others. A popular example is 'American Pie', where there are still many debates on what he is trying to say.

(This differs from Bob Dylan where they just don't understand what he's saying ^.^;;; )

Which is why those poets never gain a very large following, which I'm fairly sure SE intends to do...someday.

[Agoven]

Frankly I really enjoy the writing depth of this game...being a writer and poet myself...I find the writing really refreshing...albeit a little cryptic at times...

Please stop whining if you don't understand basic English...maybe you need to read more...what's it they say these days? Oh yes...yes foreigners speak and write better American English...then Americans.

[Yumi_Hibiki]

really? i mean really? this is a problem now?
english isnt even my native language and i can follow and enjoy every conversation ingame without any problems (safe for the pirate talk maybe but that doesnt mean i dislike it)

i dont want to point fingers or anything but it would be a shame if they end up duming it down to a generic niveu.

[Kiroh]

Frankly I really enjoy the writing depth of this game...being a writer and poet myself...I find the writing really refreshing...albeit a little cryptic at times...

Please stop whining if you don't understand basic English...maybe you need to read more...what's it they say these days? Oh yes...yes foreigners speak and write better American English...then Americans.

If for no other reason than I don't want people like this to continue playing, I hope they dumb it down to the most ridiculous 1337 speak they possibly can. The very last thing this game needs is more idiots like this talking down to and lecturing people on language when they log onto the forums and into the game.

(Could you be more condescending, really?)

[BlueMage]

While the detail the writers and localization team put into the game is one of the things I love most about this game... I admit, I do tend to just skip and TLDR it in the Journal when I have to talk to an NPC with more apostrophes than letters in his dialog.

[Yellow]

I'm entitled to understand the English of the game!!!

Jokes aside, I think the style of writing used in this game is really nice.

People need to stop dumbing down our language. It's embarrassing listening to my international friends joke about how our language is turning into a joke.

If you're that bothered not understand one or two words, then maybe you need to take a look at yourself (I mean seriously??) :S

I'm not denying that I haven't run into a bunch of words I've never read before, but I reread the sentence and pick it up..

The only time I've had trouble was the pirate dialogue in Limsa Lominsa.. and that was pretty fun to decode (^^)b


First it's dumbing down the gameplay.. now it's language? What's next?

[Firon]

I think some are confused or is it just me I don't think ppl have a problem with the writing i think ppl have a problem when a npc talks to you for 7 paragraphs about how 3 dodo's attacked her and she wants you to kill them.

[whoopeeragon]

IMO...

There, shortened 95% of the posts in this topic. This one included.