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[Catastrophy]

It's the cute little fish in your ear that makes it possible.

[Sartoz]

Somehow I knew pseudoscience would be involved.

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You mean science fiction don't you?
Besides, the Omni-Tool does everything.

PS: Using a stupid IPad at the moment

[NRieh]

 

The Quarian ship in ME2 has Quarian writing on the walls, so they have made languages before.

Handful of Quarian words can hardly pass as a 'language' if you ask me. DA 'elvhen' is the most advanced BW-language so far, but they could not even agree on stresses and transcriptions. 

 

SW\KotOR\TOR way makes the most sense, imo. But it can be tiresome and annoying, especially when 'allien' voice samples repeat. What works for Chewbacca or Jabba the Hutt was never meant for advanced communication in a 50++ hours long game. 

 

 

BioWare should do something similar. Gives me an alphabet that can match up to the Latin alphabet, and I could translate on my own. No matter how alien the symbol looks. Plus, that would keep me more hooked on the lore.

Writing English words with some sort of ME-Aurebesh won't add much depth or lore, not to me at least.  Making artificial languages takes time, knowlegde and skills. Symbols should correspond their origin and the language itself. Why would the alliens even use the alphabetical system and not some sort of hieroglyphs?

 

I don't think we're going to see anything like Tengwar or Cirth in gaming settings anytime soon. 

 

ps: Speaking of artificial languages, I'm reading 'Expanse' now, and I really-really like the 'Belters' speech. It makes perfect sense, that's what 'spacer'\'colonists' talks should look like, instead of  'classic' Canadian and British we hear all over the ME, imo.

[Norhik Krios]

I would like some extra items/loot/enhancements/armor mods, that, just when you find them or/and equip them, give you the visual data. In kingdom hearts you needed an ability to see enemy healthbars, how about some "codex'" that you have to find and read and datamine in order to either translate stuff manually or just have some AI-UI-translation.
I like to start from zero and work my way to a certain comfort zone, like in most legend of zelda games where you start as a total civilian and when you think back or restart a new game you go "oh crap, all the things I had found before..."

p.s.: But I guess that would be too deep for today's mainstream "I got no time for videogames but I'll play them anyway" gamers, that want to have action and input every second, that seem to have become the main audience for 90% of the studios out there.

[AlanC9]

They could just pull a Star Wars and give us the universal/common alien alphabet. When we walk up to a sign, poster, or written alien journal, we could translate it ourselves. It would probably take a minute or so, but once we learn the letters, we could eventually read it.

Well, there is gaming precedent for this approach; it goes back as least as far as the Ultima series.

I'm not sure what problem it's solving, though. It isn't realistic, and I'm not sure it's even immersive.... whatever the hell we mean by that these days.

In the MEU, if you didn't know the local language you'd have augmented-reality glasses to translate the signs, so it made sense for signs on the Citadel and Ilium to be legible to Shepard.

[SagaX]

¿How would you explain that english is used in other galaxy by non-human species? ¿Or was english taught to british by aliens from Andromeda???

 

[Dalinne]

¿How would you explain that english is used in other galaxy by non-human species? ¿Or was english taught to british by aliens from Andromeda???

 

 

Maybe the opposite... Maybe there is a Khet in Andromeda who keeps saying everything advance of their culture comes from ALIENS. And then we appear and... this Aliens-History-Khet-Channel-Guy gets deppressed because we are pretty disappointing as an advance and superior aliens

 

BTW, Do you think Andromedians knew or suspected about our Milkies existence?

[Steelcan]

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