An Introduction to Dragonspeak

[Balipu]

Maybe? I'm not here to point fingers at people.

Well you did kinda imply that the localization team left out some meaning from the original on purpose in order to make room for an idea not in the original. That's some serious finger pointing right there. As a fellow translator I think the localization did an excellent job with the dragons. Yes, their version is better than the original, so what? It happens.
I think they are right about this, and right about the astrologian(no it is not completely different from astrologer). I know you didn't claim the latter, but many did.

[Karen_Cerfrumos]

Well you did kinda imply that the localization team left out some meaning from the original on purpose in order to make room for an idea not in the original. That's some serious finger pointing right there. As a fellow translator I think the localization did an excellent job with the dragons. Yes, their version is better than the original, so what? It happens.
I think they are right about this, and right about the astrologian(no it is not completely different from astrologer). I know you didn't claim the latter, but many did.

Because they did.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ersus_english/

[Grayve]

Because they did.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ersus_english/

I read it. The English version is superior. All the points are in the English version, save mention of the 'Shadow'.

Midgardsormr sounds, well.. like a mysterious ancient dragon should, in English. In the Japanese, its like... he's flat.

[Balipu]

I read it. The English version is superior. All the points are in the English version, save mention of the 'Shadow'.

Midgardsormr sounds, well.. like a mysterious ancient dragon should, in English. In the Japanese, its like... he's flat.

Yeah. Like how all the Kefka fans forget that in the original he was simply an irritating nutjob that everyone hated, characters and players alike, and only in the english dub did he become the Joker 2.0 he is now. Reading the word to word translation, I didn't understand more. I just noticed that Midgardsormr didn't have a personality in the original.

[lololink]

Yeah. Like how all the Kefka fans forget that in the original he was simply an irritating nutjob that everyone hated, characters and players alike, and only in the english dub did he become the Joker 2.0 he is now. Reading the word to word translation, I didn't understand more. I just noticed that Midgardsormr didn't have a personality in the original.

In the english version he only looks like he hasn't practiced english since hundreds of years, Midgardsormr seems like a sadist that likes torturing you and criticizes all you do and hates mens more than anything else, while the japanese one seems to be wiser, consider that Hydealyn chose you and that it might mean that men aren't all as bad as the Ishgardians that still occupy the lands they stole to the dragons and want to test you to see if there is still hope for our kind or if we are all sinners.

[Viridiana]

In the english version he only looks like he hasn't practiced english since hundreds of years, Midgardsormr seems like a sadist that likes torturing you and criticizes all you do and hates mens more than anything else, while the japanese one seems to be wiser, consider that Hydealyn chose you and that it might mean that men aren't all as bad as the Ishgardians that still occupy the lands they stole to the dragons and want to test you to see if there is still hope for our kind or if we are all sinners.

I didn't get the impressions you got, and did get almost everything you said was only in the Japanese. All out of the English scenes and voice. Having compared the two, very little was changed. Things were made less explicit, yes, but very little information was completely dropped. The only thing I can think of that was dropped was that he only sealed the blessing in JP versus stripping it in EN.

[MeeDeggiThePunisher]

Y I didn't understand more. I just noticed that Midgardsormr didn't have a personality in the original.

That's a failing on your part.