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MariOne
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Erewhon in Neverland
May 1999
time: 06:21
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Originally posted by Straybow
At least make the version with English manual available—how many European gamers can read English at least a little? |
Indeed.
The irony is, that usually the localised versions are ludicrous in the best case, really shìtty sometimes.
I usually *LOATHE* our local italian versions of the game.
Often I have more trouble getting or grabbing the needed game info from a poorly translated italian documentation than from the original US one.
The only one I found that had a just decent localisation job done here, was Trade Empires.
Besides, in the recent times, all the publishers who were claiming to delay their game because they wanted to simultaneously release the localised versions in Europe, ended to make the US version available the same at least 1 month prior to the localised one, so that's just bull.
Now that I became a bit more suspicious about getting games from day one (after the big disillusion that CivIII was - truly shelfware), I must face a conundrum:
if I wait too much to get a game, the italian versions would have come out, and the original ones would have been taken out of stock in the local shops - tragedy.
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Asmodeous
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Personally, I don't see how Graphics are so important.
It's a viewpoint like that, imho, that causes games like Bridge Commander, et al, to come out. Games that look really pretty, have great graphics, but are really no fun to play.
One of the best games that I have ever played is still Ancient Domains of Mystery (Or ADOM), and the BEST game that I have ever played is still Wasteland, back in the day, from Electronic Arts back when they still had an O in their abbreviation. 
Wasteland was text-based with a bit of a graphical interface, and ADOM, well, search for it on Google, if you see the website, you'll understand. It's a Rogue-like game.
Those games, crappy graphics and all, are still some of the best, because they have something a lot of games these days severely lack, SUBSTANCE and REPLAYABILITY.
I would be happier to shell out $40 (or $8,000 Canadian. ;D Nuttin' but love, guys. Nuttin' but love. ) for a game that has substance and replayability and crappy graphics, than to spend $20 on a game that has great graphics and nothing else.
To this day, I still find myself playing MOO2 periodically, because, although there are a tone of games that LOOK better, it's still more fun.
Me.
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Rantz
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Southern CA
May 2002
time: 05:21
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quote:
Originally posted by Straybow
Yes, I recall some QS person saying that the Euro version wouldn't have the printed manual. Probably worried about the cost of translating and printing for a half dozen or more languages. Idiots. At least make the version with English manual available—how many European gamers can read English at least a little? |
I don't think antyone on the QS side *or* the IG side ever said there wouldn't be a manual with the overseas versions. I had said at one point that I didn't know what we were going to do for the European versions, since the growing trend in retail for the Euro market is to put games in DVD-style boxes which doesn't leave a lot of room for a manual. Honestly, I don't know what the final descision is on the oerseas packaging, so I'm afraid I can't give much more info than that.
As far as the paper manual, we're expecting it to be about 180 -200 pages depending on layout, charts, illustrations and such. The goal is to have it be a good and helpful manual.
crazy thought, that.
As soon as I know what's happening with the Euro/overseas packaging, I'll post an announcement.
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Eaglezeye
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Rantz,
Thanks for the feedback.
Best of luck to you and the team during the next two months.
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Rantz
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Southern CA
May 2002
time: 05:21
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quote:
Originally posted by moomin
I get the feeling you're getting a little worn out by running around doing damage control at every site where imaginative fans do their best to trump each other in cynism. |
Oh no, I consider it to be good exercise. And thanks to Eagle for the kind words... It's going to be a busy six weeks...
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Rantz
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Southern CA
May 2002
time: 05:21
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As of today, there's no official packaging completed for the overseas version of moo3. I've seen the 'blueline' (pre press edition) of the manual and it's fairly beefy.
More as soon as we get confirmation on it.
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22-08-2002 22:08
I get enough eye strain just playing games on the PC 
Present company excluded… 
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