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[hellsjarhead]

Just curious if this was explained in ME1 or somthing, I expected there to be alot of subtitles in this game with all the diffrent aliens but surprisingly they all speak english.

[Your Synthetic Superior]

hellsjarhead wrote...

Just curious if this was explained in ME1 or somthing, I expected there to be alot of subtitles in this game with all the diffrent aliens but surprisingly they all speak english.

They don't. Everyone has translator implants ala Star Trek.

Codex entry introduced with Bring down the Sky.

Modifié par Your Synthetic Superior, 03 mars 2010 - 12:43 .

[racer06]

They don't, your suit has a translator built it so you can understand humans and aliens when they speak different languages.

[Flash_in_the_flesh]

That's because you have super-duper real time translator implant in your ear.

[hellsjarhead]

oo ok that makes a lot more sense haha once i thought about how they all speak english its all i could think about well playing.

[A Fhaol Bhig]

Read Hitchhikers guid to the galaxy.

[cancausecancer]

Maybe cause if your main character can't communicate with anyone it would suck.

[Stabby McGoodstab]

cancausecancer wrote...

Maybe cause if your main character can't communicate with anyone it would suck.

Mass Effect: Charades sounds like it would be interesting. BioWare would save a lot of money on voice work.

[Malysoun]

Ah yes, "universal translators", the mythical pieces of equipment that make foreign and alien languages sound like perfect english. We have dismissed this claim.

[Qwepir]

Babel fish.

[SirVincealot]

. . . and yet, all species with lips (Krogan, Asari, Salarian) move them not only in sync but with the proper shape (most easily verified with any word containing the letter "o".)



Things that make you go "Hmmmm!"



SirV

[Aidinth]

Maybe everyone is just speaking the citadel trade language, including the humans. I believe the codex mentioned that multiple language still exist even among individual species, so learning the trade language would be the best way to communicate with the greatest number of people. And since the player obviously doesn't speak the language, the game translates it all into English for us.



Or it could be the translator implant with data of all the languages you're likely to encounter and a net connection to download more as needed. Either way works.

[Bio Addict]

It's only the best language ever...

[Karl45]

SirVincealot wrote...

. . . and yet, all species with lips (Krogan, Asari, Salarian) move them not only in sync but with the proper shape (most easily verified with any word containing the letter "o".)

Things that make you go "Hmmmm!"

SirV

You people are picky. They speak english, because english speaking people are buying the game. Would you rather you read subtitles while and annoying loop of alien speech plays(a la Kotor) or are they supposed to create their own complete language for every race in the game. 

I'll take english please. I don't care if had the dumbest explanation possible for the reason everyone speaks it.  I don't think Universal translators are all that farfetched compared to some things we see in Sci-Fi.

[MPSai]

SirVincealot wrote...

. . . and yet, all species with lips (Krogan, Asari, Salarian) move them not only in sync but with the proper shape (most easily verified with any word containing the letter "o".)

Things that make you go "Hmmmm!"

SirV

That's where your willful suspension of disbelief comes in.

[ImperialOperative]

Omnitool

[addiction21]

Babel fish
The Babel Fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and is a universal translator which simultaneously translates from one spoken language to another. It takes the brainwaves of the other body and what they are thinking then transmits the thoughts to the speech centers of the hosts brain, the speech heard by the ear decodes the brainwave matrix. When inserted into the ear, its nutrition processes convert sound waves into brain waves, neatly crossing the language divide between any species you should happen to meet whilst traveling in space. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.[1] Arthur Dent, a surviving Earthling, commented only 'Eurgh!' when first inserting the fish into his ear canal. It did, however, enable him to understand Vogon Poetry - not necessarily a good thing. The book points out that the Babel Fish could not possibly have developed naturally, and therefore proves the existence of God as its creator. However, as Man points out, God needs faith to exist, and this proof dispels the need for faith, therefore causing God to vanish in a puff of logic. Then Man says, "my, that was easy" and goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

[withateethuh]

I'm pretty sure they speak english for story-telling reasons. Some of you are just a tad bit thick in the head. Real world logic seems less important to you than fictional logic.

[The Questioning Motive]

Translators, they can support hyper drive and mass effect cores. Why not translators, I mean it IS the future.

[GnusmasTHX]

Because they know a superior race when they see one, and thus conform to the language spoken by that race.

[TJSolo]

Unless you have a quad, you aint superior.

[EternalWolfe]

TJSolo wrote...

Unless you have a quad, you aint superior.

"Ah, the benefits of a redundant nervous system."
"Yeah . . . we don't have that."
"Oh.  Well, it must have hurt like hell then."

[Qwepir]

On a serious note, game mechanics. It never really bothered me.

[GnusmasTHX]

TJSolo wrote...

Unless you have a quad, you aint superior.

Who says I don't?!