I really hate how the animals speak. And that's why I get FOMO of what could otherwise be a really cool feature. I can't stand it because they just couldn't resist turning simple communication into a Disney cartoon. The spell does not turn the animals more intelligent and able to speak in eloquent sentences. The communication should be much more basic. But Larian had to take it too far and humanize the animals.
That's right. Above all with the spiders
(Stridulation) I have it at that time already reported. Their sentences should only be able to be interpreted. Personally, I prefer to speak only with the dead and not with animals and plants.
I've always hated this argument. It's freaking magic, it is doing its job to translate the way an animal thinks into something comprehensible to a humanoids mind.
You mentioned speak with the dead, which I am guessing you have no problem using with dead humanoids who don't speak common but communicate telepathically, like mind flayers, what about other living beings that don't speak common? Maybe I'm wrong and maybe you are frustrated that people can communicate with each other in a video game, and you don't want anything in the underdark to be able to talk to you, but geez it is a really petty complaint.
Don't worry, I'm not that lacking in solidarity, especially since I don't care overall. I can understand both your points of view. At the time I reported it, I was of course going by my purely subjective impression. My report was also more of a suggestion than a complaint.... I don't report a thousand things one by one, but as holistically as possible, and that was then in the context of the German translation. I didn't just think about a simple correct translation, but also about immersion, logic, context, etc., which is how the report came about. I tend to agree with 1varangian, but the bottom line for me is that it doesn't matter if the spiders speak directly or it is paraphrased indirectly. So this has nothing to do with frustration at all. I think your argument is just as strong as 1varangian's counter argument.
I would even go so far as to suggest that the two spells Speak with Animals & Speak with Plants should have been tweaked into one, i.e. Speak with Natural Beings or something like that.
