universal translator anyone?

I don't believe that I am whining, or making a fuss, I didn't originally say anything about sight becuase it isn't so much about sight, as it is about a bad color pallet, and the fact that I would like them to actually talk, which is why I mentioned a universal translator, instead of just having them speak basic. You could hear the gibberish in the background, but the forground would be basic for you.

I also mentioned that it would be an option, for those that want it, or those that don't.

Also, with a universal translator, it wouldn't have to be different voices, or the original actors, it could be one generic voice for any non basic speech.

Erm...

In the game your character appears to understand them, its just you as the player that needs the subtitles.


Which is, erm, just like the films....

No - you are quite correct. You didnt whine about it.


However you did create a thread which said it didnt happen in the movies, when, erm, it does and you ignored my post that explained it so I have reincluded it for your perusal:

What I meat by that was that everyone understood everyone more or less (there are some exceptions like huttese for some, or the language that the princess spoke while she was a bounty hunter. But in general you get the feeling that most everyone speaks basic, and the ones that don't are numerous enough that many people have them as additional languages. They didn't in most cases need translators for the most common languages, which is mostly what we are dealing with. They are common enough that our characters understand them with no issues... Would be nice if we could do the same.

Examples:
Uncle speaking jawa (obviously not botchi though)
Luke speaking jawa, and the twilek tongue.
Han speaking kyshek (?), Huttese, rodian, among others.

If I remember correctly, the new movies had universal translators in the senators hover booths, so it isn't like the tech isn't in the universe.

Also, 3PO was a protocol droid.. that is a lot more than just translation.

Just some thoughts.

In the movies you don't see them say "oh, wait, let me finish reading your subtitles so I can understand you"... They know what the people are saying....

What I meat by that was that everyone understood everyone more or less (there are some exceptions like huttese for some, or the language that the princess spoke while she was a bounty hunter. But in general you get the feeling that most everyone speaks basic, and the ones that don't are numerous enough that many people have them as additional languages. They didn't in most cases need translators for the most common languages, which is mostly what we are dealing with. They are common enough that our characters understand them with no issues... Would be nice if we could do the same.

Examples:
Uncle speaking jawa (obviously not botchi though)
Luke speaking jawa, and the twilek tongue.
Han speaking kyshek (?), Huttese, rodian, among others.

If I remember correctly, the new movies had universal translators in the senators hover booths, so it isn't like the tech isn't in the universe.

Also, 3PO was a protocol droid.. that is a lot more than just translation.

Just some thoughts.

I am all for immersion... but seriously.. the silly voice overs instead of having someone actually speak something you can understand sucks...

In the movies you don't see them say "oh, wait, let me finish reading your subtitles so I can understand you"... They know what the people are saying....

It also sucks visually on bright planets like hoth where reading that text on a white background is a bear.

Heck, give it as an option.. for those people that "need" to hear the gibberish to feel like it is star warsy enough for them, let them hear that, for the rest give us English.

Also, if they could add an option to have some droids switch from their pseudo-robotic nonsense to English, that would be great. I love this game, but I seriously quit playing my Knight because having to try and read lines like "T7 + Jedi = Saving the galaxy!" before it moved on to the next stupid thing that idiotic droid said was tedious. I had to read a couple of his lines a couple times to figure out what the hell he was saying, and it would usually move to the next one before I could.

Actually, as far was we know, all the charcaters you used as an example only understood the language and never actually spoke it.

true enough, It was early, I was tired, I mean speaking as in comprehending. sorry for the confusion.

It was clear that in the examples those people understood what the alien was speaking, and the alien understood basic.