Famitsu interview with Yoshi

[myahele]

that perv who wants my lalasausage

[meldon90]

I'm personally glad they changed Haurchefant, from reading his JP dialog my reaction to his sacrifice would have been "thank you evil pope, that guy was creepy, please can you make him bleed out faster?"

him being a friend who we slowly formed a budding bromance with, rather than "that perv who wants my lalasausage" made his death WAY more emotionally impactful.

He'll find all the lalasausages he wanted in the afterlife. Poor perverted soul.

[Kosmos992k]

they didnt approve that with Yoshi-p?! > that makes me even more mad.. I was mad enough with the change.. how they changed his animation and dialogue..but argh.. it wasnt even approved?! /sigh....

Indeed...
Hmmm....I play with JP voice Acting on because the English cast makes me want to burn my UK passport and hide in the wilds of Montana to avoid being judged over the wishy washy, emotionless, prim and proper, oh so very English, annoying and utterly not fitting voices used in the EN version.

As for Haurchefant, my reading of his character has always been that he has kind of a hero worship thing going for the WoL, really wants to help in any way he can and is flamboyant and overtly emotional - not sexual, and can't help being over the top about things. There are characters like him in many Anime for example. They are typically friendly, always flamboyant and a little ambiguous with regard to their orientation. But they always wear their heart on their sleeve and are emotive in speech and manner, sometimes to the point of making the main character a little uncomfortable.

The biggest difficulty watching with JP audio is that you can't read the text of what is actually being said because you get the text from the EN localization. I'd love it if there was an option to display the un-localized EN translation that goes with the JP dialog, but I doubt that is something that they'd add at this time.

However, Haurchefant doesn't come across as 'pervy' (as so many seem to think) so much as he does as an overtly, and overly, flamboyant guy with a huge hero-worship complex for the WoL and a strong bond of friendship to the WoL. Remember, the WoL was the one who helped him when *no one* else would. That strong friendship and Hero-worship is probably due several factors not least of which is the lonely nature of his position, being stationed in the middle of nowhere with the expectation of serving there for a long time with no friends, and no respect (remember he's there by virtue of his birth). Prior to the WoL entering his life, he was in a situation where it doesn't matter how noble he is, it doesn't matter how valorous he is, and with the political intrigue 'back home' it doesn't matter how honest he is, he's gonna get the crap end of the stick no matter what - though he makes a brave face of it. Then the WoL essentially saves his life and family honor, a debt of gratitude that for him seems to literally go to his core being.

So yeah, there are some awkward moments because he's just way over the top about things, but the motives - in my opinion - are not sexual. The dialog is suggestive - deliberately so - apparently in both languages, but more so in JP, but merely suggestive. In the context of the type of character he is and his relationship to the WoL, the dialog actually makes things even funnier because when we reach that point and realize that actually, it's just his 'way' and nothing more, we see how ludicrous it is to suspect anything of him. Like that one scene where Alphinaud sort of intercepts what seems to be a very suggestive moment. If you have a good handle on Haurchefant's character at that point, it's actually quite funny that Alphinaud so promptly steps in to 'save' you. In the great tradition of farcical humor, misunderstanding precedes hilarity.

I actually find it funnier still that so many people take him so seriously and ascribe labels like 'pervy' and sexual motivation to him. I just find it very difficult to take that aspect of his character as anything other than comic relief.

[Nekodar]

Those were the only take aways from player feed back regarding "The Diadem???"

Are the english subs really not worth even trying (heard the JP devs ignore most suggestions english players make) or have any of you read a single thread in there???

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/1330

I have been backing you guys for quite some time as being one of the best MMOs as far as listening to the player based but when you put together...

Keep in mind that the interview was 3 or 4 days after 3.1 went live. That's not a lot of time for feedback to build up.

[Dererk]

Some of the Haurchefant's dialogues are really hilarious in japanese, a shame that they decided to change the character so much.

Our localization team is probly remnants of 4kids.

Hope you didn't want sensible content you could do with your FC! After this, you'll HAVE to join the Dino Island zerg to get a decent drop rate.

Took less than a month for this content with so much potential to be totally ruined.

I was looking forward to it to. I saw it as a combination of dyamanes and sky from FFXI. Sadly I'm slowly starting to hate it its just spam mobs press combo buttons do high damage get credit repeat. They should have an RNG going on adding new objectives every 10-20 minutes to give bonuse gold chests.

Sadly I don't see it becoming obsolete soon due to how matirea is getting a much needed rework one that's been needed since 2.0.

[Nekodar]

https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/12....1-Impressions

More parts translated from the interview. Cover things better than the summary.

[ExiaQuanta]

Guys. We all know they changed the dialogue to get rid of any hint of favour system lol.

[myahele]

Haurchefant does have a front row seat with a group of shirtless men doing squats in front of him

[Pterois]

Keep in mind that the interview was 3 or 4 days after 3.1 went live. That's not a lot of time for feedback to build up.

OH ok... that is a bit more reasonable but it was pretty apparent from the get go that the alliance feature needed to be looked at.

Not only that but this thread...

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...eeds-attention

popped up 3 days after 3.1 dropped and there has since been several echoing the request. Seriously... if you even try going into Diadem as 2-3 party's the second you step in there and realize you cant talk with the other parties then it should have become pretty apparent that it needs to be fixed. And for all the "use FC chat," that argument goes out the window once you realize you will have a few tag alongs who aren't in your FC almost every time.

[Felis]

Perhaps they (the western english localization team) were forseeing that people might get uncomfortable with the romantic interest from Ser Haurchefant and instead made him go the Garrus 'Best Friends Forever' route.

fixed it a bit.
The german localization still create the feeling that he want to be more than just best friend.