For an example of bad publishing, let's take Atari's publishing w/ Gothic 2. The USA has YET to receive a version of Gothic 2's Expansion -- Gothic 2: Night of The Raven. And it aggrevates me to see Atari not publish one b/c the game, unfortunately, did NOT sell well in the USA! I would have no problem w/ taking that expansion game in its original foreign AUDIO language, as long as they provide me some English subtitles, if they have to. Or if they think the English translation of Audio would take too long to produce. That would be fine w/ me!
- <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> in the German version has no voicactiing at all ... most probably "to expensive" for Ubi Soft, who at the same time supported Far Cry *very* much. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />
- The "Deluxe" version of NWN has NO Patches at all ! - says an editor of a local gaming magazine.
Indeed, Atari seems to be a bad publisher, taking from everything I've heard.
Another thing that bugs me in gaming: poor voice acting b/c the game is translated from one language to another. Why is poor voice acting hired often for foreign games, when translating a game? Well, we know why -- to save $, obviously. But if they are going to hire cheap voice acting, I think they just should forget that idea -- keep the game's AUDIO in its original language and give the player the option to be able to put English subtitles on.
I've written several times of the voices of the skeletons heard when in "Crusader of Might & Magic" the actual "Crusader" attacks them - they sound rather like a bunch of teenies exposed to their greatest idol ! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
I almost fell from my chair, laughing.
Games are often produced in English first (not forst [nice typo <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" /> ] ) - due to the "big market", which is english-language. Games are often translated later into other languages, it seems to me.
Maybe Gothic 2 would've sold better if Atari, the publisher, marketed the game BETTER than they actually did.
I see this often with highly underrated games - <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> in Germany, for example.
