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DarkWeaver
A Dark Prince
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
Posts: 517
Location: The Netherlands |
You can also translate it yourself on this website : http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box |
Mon Mar 01, 2004 10:38 pm |
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Gorath
Mostly Harmless
Joined: 03 Sep 2001
Posts: 6327
Location: NRW, Germany |
quote:
Originally posted by Bartacus
@Gorath Can you make a translation of the official Gothic2 site latest German new rapport? I think it contains some info that contradicts your info gained by Jowood. -> Read that in the English text
It only says that PB is neither working on a 2nd add-on nor do they have the intention to change this. And that G3 is in the works and will be relesed 2005.
In early 2002 PBīs mother company Phenomedia went bankrupt. They survived but several developers closed. PB bought out the Gothic IP, but of course they needed funding to survive until the G2 came out. JoWooD helped them out in exchange for the publishing rights.
So PB alone owns the brand, I think. Even the official Atari G2 page has a copyright notice. Another hint in this direction.
JoWooD paid the development of everything with the G2 name on it. They have the worldwide publishing and distribution rights. Late 2002 they were also almost bankrupt. They closed all international subsidiaries and stoped all publishing efforts outside the German markets. Since then they sell licenses to other territories to local publishers. Atari was their choice for G2.
The voice recordings for the add-on were done last September by Piranha Bytes in a studio in London.
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Xerxes712
High Emperor
Joined: 01 Nov 2002
Posts: 605
Location: Uber die Welt |
If the English voice recording were done for the add-on, do you think an English version of the add-on could exist even though nothing of its existence has been officially announced? 
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Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:24 am |
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Daedalus
High Emperor
Joined: 04 Jan 2002
Posts: 2516
Location: Estonia |
its GOLD i am sure in it but who will publish it thats the problem |
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Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:50 pm |
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Sem
Solid as a Rock
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Posts: 3386
Location: at the Dot |
It's sort of Jowood's style to publish non-German versions of Topselling games about a year after the german release. Just look at games like Aquanox. It's was clear all along that Jowood would publish Aquanox but still it took about a year before it was shipped. It happened that way with both AN1 and 2, so I think that will be the same for gothic 2 NotR. |
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Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:30 pm |
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Sem
Solid as a Rock
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Posts: 3386
Location: at the Dot |
Although I hope something else  |
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Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:33 pm |
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Dez
King of the Realms
Joined: 08 Jan 2003
Posts: 455
Location: Fortress of Tell Halaf |
i just don't get it..why do they keep making different versions, when you could make one version with multiple language options..
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Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:13 pm |
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Spunior
Keeper of the Gates
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
Posts: 117
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i just don't get it..why do they keep making different versions, when you could make one version with multiple language options..
Um... many reasons. First of all, in the case of Gothic it would mean you'd have to ship it on more CDs since the recorded voices take up quite an amount of space. And you'd have to provide that for multiple languages. And since publishers want to save every cent they certainly will not ship a game on more CDs than actually necessary.
Also, the translation is not always handled by the same company. And also depends on other factors. It happens quite often that a game gets published in country XYZ while there's no publishing deal for other regions yet. For multiple language versions (in this case) that means that the company wouldn't be able to release the game until they know when and how it will be published in the other regions. No thanks. |
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Tue Mar 02, 2004 6:29 pm |
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Milten Rulz!!!
Guards Lieutenant
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Posts: 173
Location: Virginia |
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Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:50 pm |
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Daedalus
High Emperor
Joined: 04 Jan 2002
Posts: 2516
Location: Estonia |
indeed gothic would be then probably like 6 or even more cds |
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Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:11 pm |
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Dez
King of the Realms
Joined: 08 Jan 2003
Posts: 455
Location: Fortress of Tell Halaf |
ehmm how many languages..i'm talking about only english and german ones.BEsides i would like to play with orginal language with english subtitles..orginal is allways the best..i never had undestood why voices must be translated to an other language instead of just putting subtitles 
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Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:07 pm |
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Spunior
Keeper of the Gates
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
Posts: 117
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i never had undestood why voices must be translated to an other language instead of just putting subtitles
Because this is not going to sell to Joe Average (aka mass market). |
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Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:25 pm |
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Bartacus
Il Buono
Joined: 24 May 2003
Posts: 4706
Location: Belgium Flemmish part |
Yes, but is it selling now? I'm sure Joe Average doesn't like an old game, what the addon will be for him.
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Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:20 pm |
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DarkOmen
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 33
Location: UK |
So still no release date for the addon? 
O well people just wait a little bit longer |
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Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:13 am |
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Uocjat
High Emperor
Joined: 06 Mar 2003
Posts: 706
Location: deep in the dungons of area 51 |
guess i'll go hybernateing again ..
already quite done whit hacking both G 1 and 2 .. even though i have yet to find where they hide the player models hmm .. or are they even there ? |
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Thu Mar 04, 2004 1:24 am |
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