THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: duckman2000 on February 14, 2014, 04:30:14 AM
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/a/a7/SOD-SpeakEnglish.jpg)
How the fuck is teamwork going to happen when no one speaks english? :mindblown
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I'm sure the situation sucks, whatever it is. Care to put the bizarre image you have posted into context?
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You know how when you play online in the real world, there is a common language which really helps when you're trying to get teamwork going with a bunch of strangers? In Europe you have people speaking french, italian and german like it's a completely normal thing to do.
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You just have to learn the top ten most spoken European languages.
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You just have to learn the top ten most spoken European languages.
As a swede, I can sort of decipher enough german to know when I'm being insulted. With the french, I just assume I'm being insulted all the time. Italian, though, that one I don't know about.
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Like it or leave it
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Avoid playing games that require having to talk to anyone else?
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Those german insults are just our dirty way to let you know we want some sexy time :-*
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You just have to learn the top ten most spoken European languages.
As a swede, I can sort of decipher enough german to know when I'm being insulted. With the french, I just assume I'm being insulted all the time. Italian, though, that one I don't know about.
As a Swede who has studied French, Spanish, and Interlingua I can gather enough keywords in Italian to string together the gist of simple phrases. That's usually enough for online multiplayer games. Eastern European languages are more tricky.
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They don't have to embrace English, because they're not as small as Sweden. Jävla kioskmongo. :P
I have a natural advantage with slavic languages but I'm just as lost when they write in cyrillic. It's mostly insults anyway. Everyone knows what cyka means, or however you write it. And if it isn't insults, they are just chatting to each other. I still play Blacklight Retribution on occasion an it's full of Yugoslavians and Turks.
I had French in school, four long years, but can barely tell a greeting from an insult. :/ I really don't see much Italian, Spanish or Dutch, come to think of it... The Dutchies probably all speak English, on account of being tiny and well educated, as the Swedes and other nordic countries.
Teamwork doesn't exist unless you happen to joing a team which speaks English or whatever else language dominates the round. It's just how it is. You can still call out objectives though or simple warnings. There's a chance that those are understood. In very old games (DoD: Source, CS) you'll see people naturally fit into whatever role they need to fill. You don't need to say much then. Helps that they are rather simple games when it comes down to it.
I wonder if the language problem is why TDM is so popular. No need to communicate to succeed.
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Lord Flashheart wouldn't complain about this stuff.
That's because he's got a plan... and it's hot.