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[Nitrocuban]

Mass effect fields.

[K_O_513]

Probably because their voice actors speak American English.

[Sir DeLoria]

Quarians all don't speak American-English, except for Kal'Reegar(Adam Baldwin). The rest all have either a Middle Eastern, Eastern European or British accent.

[RZIBARA]

eyezonlyii wrote...

@RZIBARA

WAAAAAAAAAAY off topic, i was never the biggest Ashley fan but I'm loving your gif

lol thanks.

Its beautiful 

[Rusty Sandusky]

How would you like it of you were playing a game and everyone was speaking in languages you couldn't understand?

[Artifex_Imperius]

ITS not that aliens speak AMERICAN-ENGLISH... ITS actually HOW Shepard perceives it!

[cooldonkeyfish]

There was a moment when talking to Thane that Shepard mentions his translator must have malfunctioned.
I've always assumed they had in-ear translators.

Edit: 
Here's the line...
Thane: Thank you for listening, siha.
Shepard: I think my translator just glitched. What did you call me?
Thane: Siha. One day I'll tell you what it means.

Modifié par cooldonkeyfish, 28 septembre 2013 - 03:34 .

[Cornughon]

Universal translators... just a means to overcome an obvious obstacle when travelling through space and seek out new life and new civilizations. Just like hyperspace/warpspeed, mass effect fields, (molecular) transporters...
They're just invented to bring the focus of those games and movies and such on more important things. Or, because scenes with a shuttle craft flying in and out of the Enterprise's shuttlebay might have been too costly... (as an example for the trans-/teleporter issue).

So why do most of them speak American English? Because Universal Translators, and Shepard seems to be American, even when spaceborn).
Why do some of the aliens have an accent, or how come some words don't seem to be translated at all (like Keelah'Selai, or in the case of Star Trek again: Klingons...)? Because voice actors, and to spice up the variety in characters and races.

So in short: Science Fiction

Modifié par Cornughon, 28 septembre 2013 - 04:08 .

[TheCast]

Clearly, you are all liars! Aliens in Mass Effect speak italian, like humans do!

...oh

[Arcian]

eyezonlyii wrote...

@RZIBARA

WAAAAAAAAAAY off topic, i was never the biggest Ashley fan but I'm loving your gif

>Long hair in battle gear
By loving the gif, you are hating logic and common sense. It's not too late for you to turn away from this abomination.

[Cornughon]

Arcian wrote...

eyezonlyii wrote...

@RZIBARA

WAAAAAAAAAAY off topic, i was never the biggest Ashley fan but I'm loving your gif

>Long hair in battle gear
By loving the gif, you are hating logic and common sense. It's not too late for you to turn away from this abomination.

I personally hate logic and common sense when playing fictional 'video games'. I don't really care if this or that isn't "realistic", since it's meant to be an escape from reality in the first place....

[Th3 Bunman]

Why would you want to play a game where you couldn't understand what they're saying?

[AlexMBrennan]

Ever been to a Star Trek/LotR convention where they speak Klingon/Elvish?

[Br3admax]

A much better question is: why would something that goes through a translator have accents?

[Armass81]

Why does this question keep coming up again and again?

Its the most easy thing for the viewers.

[spacehamsterZH]

Abraham_uk wrote...

Are you sure they're not speaking Canadian English as opposed to American English?
Bioware was Canadian last time I checked.

Mass Effect should've been called Canadians in Space, but I guess that didn't have quite the same ring to it.

[Mike 9987]

Wait. So, you would rather them all speak an indecipherable language, making the game completely impossible to understand?

[gisle]

Constructing a language would be quite the undertaking, let alone having the VAs speak it... to just subtitle it. Even if the translator described in ME is impossible as one can't real-time translate without mind reading (word order, sentence structure, words pronounced the same [homonyms], etc...), it's an understandable design-decision that sacrifices a tidbit of some players' suspension of disbelief to save lots of resources for more important aspects of the game.

Modifié par Gisle-Aune, 02 octobre 2013 - 07:30 .

[Argentoid]

From the ME1 DLC Bring Down the Sky codex entry


Technology: Translation

Human cultures remain linguistically divided. Some converse in Spanish, others in Mandarin, Arabic, Swahili, etc. Every alien race has their own equally broad panoply of languages and dialects.
Most individuals know only their mother tongue, and rely on machine translation. Modern portable computers allow anyone with a few hundred credits of equipment to enjoy seamless real-time translation of alien languages, courtesy of handheld PDAs, computers in clothing or jewelry, or sub-dermal implants. Without fast and accurate translation, galactic trade and culture would not exist.

Governments provide subsidized software, updated through the public extranet "on the fly", often as users approach spaceport customs facilities. Even the batarians, who isolated themselves from galactic society nearly two decades ago, take pains to provide up-to-date glossaries and linguistic rules, though most suspect that this is only so they can continue exporting propaganda.

It is still considered broad-minded and practical to be able to speak without machine aid. Children often take courses in alien language, and most races can speak the simplified artificial "trade tongue" with little difficulty.

Some species must rely on machine translation to interact with the rest of the galaxy. Hanar, for example, cannot reproduce the spoken language of any humanoid species, and other races cannot reproduce hanar bioluminescence without mechanical aid. Newly discovered or obscure races don't have machine translation available until the linguists have had time to study them.

[KaiserShep]

spacehamsterZH wrote...

Abraham_uk wrote...

Are you sure they're not speaking Canadian English as opposed to American English?
Bioware was Canadian last time I checked.

Mass Effect should've been called Canadians in Space, but I guess that didn't have quite the same ring to it.

Everyone would be too polite, and wearing denim. 

[KotorEffect3]

Um because the players of the game either use English as a primary or secondary language?  Though I would love to hear what the native Krogan dialect sounds like.  Probably something along the lines of "GAARGH ERGGHH BWAAAMM!"

Modifié par KotorEffect3, 03 octobre 2013 - 11:16 .

[Ananka]

They don't, they all speak german.

[Sanunes]

KaiserShep wrote...

spacehamsterZH wrote...

Abraham_uk wrote...

Are you sure they're not speaking Canadian English as opposed to American English?
Bioware was Canadian last time I checked.

Mass Effect should've been called Canadians in Space, but I guess that didn't have quite the same ring to it.

Everyone would be too polite, and wearing denim. 

Hmm... I wonder if we could have had Cmdr. Chris Hatfield singing Space Oddity at the end of the game instead of what we got then?

To the original topic as others have posted the game has translators to help people communicate and its also helps the player with the game for I always find I miss a lot of what is happening for I am reading the bottom of the screen and missing everything else.

I do like how they handled the language issue with The Hunt for Red October, for you had the Russians speaking Russian until they zoomed into and all of a sudden they were speaking english.

[Pearl (rip bioware)]

Have you ever tried to create a new language, complete with a searchable dictionary, morphology, and syntax?

Now do that, let's say, seven times. See the problem yet?

It's far easier to just give your VAs their lines and hand-wave it with an in-game translator chip than it is to teach them the correct pronunciation and intonation of languages you made up yesterday.