ZhangKaiRong Posted December 20, 2018 at 12:37 PM Report Share Posted December 20, 2018 at 12:37 PM 2 hours ago, sekkar said: I agree with you. It doesn't really make sense to me that tons of AAA get a Japanese (full audio) translation, while Chinese gets none. My understanding is that Japan is not really a huge market for western PC/console games anymore. If the Japanese market is big enough then surely China+Taiwan+some of Singapore and Malaysia should be big enough to get a translation as well? , This whole topic got derailed.... But anyway: a pretty big difference between the Japanese gaming market and the Chinese gaming market is that the Japanese developers dominate their own market, which make it a default to release everything with Japanese voiceover, therefore gamers in Japan accustomed to playing games in Japanese, making Western developers to release their games with Japanese voiceovers to be competitive on the market. The same cannot be said about Chinese developers. It would be nice to hear some opinions here from Chinese gamers, but my (obviously limited number of) Chinese friends expressed that they did not care about Chinese VOs at all in video games, if there is Chinese subtitles it's perfect for them. The whole problem starts with the question whether Chinese dub really results in a boosted sales figure in the Chinese-speaking countries, compared to release a game with Chinese subs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sekkar Posted December 20, 2018 at 12:51 PM Report Share Posted December 20, 2018 at 12:51 PM 13 minutes ago, ZhangKaiRong said: But anyway: a pretty big difference between the Japanese gaming market and the Chinese gaming market is that the Japanese developers dominate their own market, which make it a default to release everything with Japanese voiceover, therefore gamers in Japan accustomed to playing games in Japanese, making Western developers to release their games with Japanese voiceovers to be competitive on the market. The same cannot be said about Chinese developers. It would be nice to hear some opinions here from Chinese gamers, but my (obviously limited number of) Chinese friends expressed that they did not care about Chinese VOs at all in video games, if there is Chinese subtitles it's perfect for them. The whole problem starts with the question whether Chinese dub really results in a boosted sales figure in the Chinese-speaking countries, compared to release a game with Chinese subs... You are probably right. It could also be because translating to Japanese is "easy" as it's a known process, where all the needed infrastructure and personell is already in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agewisdom Posted December 20, 2018 at 01:42 PM Report Share Posted December 20, 2018 at 01:42 PM 5 hours ago, Mijin said: Also there are some "games" of course intended for learning language, the most well-known being Influent. I bought it, but only played about 10 minutes. For me it was not really a game, just a not particularly-efficient studying resource. Same here. Influent looked interesting at first but... I find the free lessons on Du Chinese more interesting. 5 hours ago, Mijin said: Skyrim for example, you can play in English with Chinese subtitles. XCOM2 I also tried to play this way and it was OK. Thanks. I'll have a go at playing these with Chinese subtitles. But probably once I'm at a more advanced stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
杰.克 Posted December 21, 2018 at 07:11 AM Report Share Posted December 21, 2018 at 07:11 AM Football Manager games now support simplified and traditional Mandarin! If you like this sort of game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StChris Posted January 27, 2019 at 01:53 PM Report Share Posted January 27, 2019 at 01:53 PM On 12/18/2018 at 11:32 PM, ZhangKaiRong said: If you have a PS4, I also recommend the 龍が如く or Yakuza series (called 人之龙 in Chinese). Glad to hear the Chinese localisation is good, as I wasn;t sure of the quality. Do you have to buy the game from the Chinese store in order to have the Chinese subtitles, or do all versions (PAL in my case) include Chinese? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZhangKaiRong Posted January 28, 2019 at 08:55 AM Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 at 08:55 AM 18 hours ago, StChris said: Glad to hear the Chinese localisation is good, as I wasn;t sure of the quality. Do you have to buy the game from the Chinese store in order to have the Chinese subtitles, or do all versions (PAL in my case) include Chinese? Unfortunately, SEGA has always been following a special route in localized content, and only the regional copies include the corresponding subtitles. So, the international version has Japanese voiceover + English subtitles, the Japanese version has Japanese voiceover + Japanese subtitles, the Korean version has Japanese voiceover + Korean subtitles, and the Hong Kong/Taiwan/SEA version has Japanese voiceover + Chinese subtitles. I ordered the Hong Kong version of Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 6 from Play-Asia, otherwise the Hong Kong/Taiwan/Singapore PSN stores all have the Chinese version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StChris Posted January 28, 2019 at 02:29 PM Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 at 02:29 PM @ZhangKaiRong Thanks. Well, at least the PS4 is region free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted January 28, 2019 at 02:33 PM Report Share Posted January 28, 2019 at 02:33 PM Chris forgot to mention the useful suggestions he makes here https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/57800-localisation-of-games-into-chinese-seems-to-have-turned-a-corner-inc-game-recommendations/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murrayjames Posted January 29, 2019 at 02:24 AM Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 at 02:24 AM @Mijin, see also “The Grand Gaming Project” thread on this website. The thread has seven pages of commentary and info on Chinese video games: https://www.chinese-forums.com/forums/topic/32078-the-grand-gaming-project/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mijin Posted February 11, 2019 at 08:12 AM Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 at 08:12 AM Excellent guys, thanks for the links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Members hexxagon Posted May 17, 2021 at 04:37 PM New Members Report Share Posted May 17, 2021 at 04:37 PM Genshin Impact is a very good choice. It's has Chinese voice acting and text options. It's also a big enough game to teach you a lot of Mandarin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StChris Posted August 20, 2021 at 09:26 AM Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 at 09:26 AM I new gameplay trailer of Black Myth: Wukong was just released: Black Myth: Wukong - Official Unreal Engine 5 Gameplay Trailer - YouTube Although I'm usually a little jaded on anything based on the overused Journey to the West/Three Kingdoms stories, this is really lining up to be something special. It seems to be getting lots of positive reactions from non-Chinese audiences too. Apparently, it's not due to be out until 2023, so it's going to be a long wait until we know for sure if it lives up to its potential. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZhangKaiRong Posted August 23, 2021 at 03:59 PM Report Share Posted August 23, 2021 at 03:59 PM Vampire the Masquerade: Coteries of New York and Vampire the Masquerade: Shadows of New York are massively off (70-80% discount) on Steam / PS4 / and I guess on Xbox as well. These are visual novels, and they have Chinese language subtitles (at least Coteries have, I played one character's route in Chinese). Feels like an easy reading, so I recommend any fellow Chinese-savvy Methuselah to buy them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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