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Blade and Soul might be the benchmark for English localization.

ragz45ragz45 Member UncommonPosts: 810
in General Gaming
I've only played about 12 hours so far, but I'm so immensely impressed with the (english) localization in the game it's blowing my mind.  I have played a LOT of Asian imports over the years, and to a T, almost all of them are like they were translated using google translate.  For the first time ever, Blade and Soul actually feels like they hired a competent translator to do the dialog.

It really feels like I am in a nice, well translated, anime like Ninja Scrolls or some such, which I'm loving.  The quests and what not may be very generic, the combat is quite fun.  But personally all of that pales to the story & localization in my eyes.  I'm just in heaven.

Praying to god that games like Bless and Black Desert learn from this and do an equally good job with localization efforts.

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  • eye_meye_m Member UncommonPosts: 3,317
    Good to hear,  now I'm really looking forward to trying it out. Thanks

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  • ragz45ragz45 Member UncommonPosts: 810
    edited January 2016
    I'm quite happy with it, especially considering the fact that I wasn't even considering it.  I won a $25 key.
  • MikehaMikeha Member EpicPosts: 9,196
    I am enjoying it too.
  • BaitnessBaitness Member UncommonPosts: 675
    edited January 2016
    If this is not a bait, than what is better about it than any other triple A game that has been localized?  How is it better than the current champ, FFXIV?
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,936
    VastoHorde said:
    I am enjoying it too.
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  • Octagon7711Octagon7711 Member LegendaryPosts: 9,004
    I enjoyed the beta but have to many MMO's I'm playing at the moment.  It's definitely on my short list of games to play.

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  • reeereeereeereee Member UncommonPosts: 1,636
    I think it's just the large amount of voice acting that makes it seem better, I didn't notice the translation being significantly better than Aion. 

    As someone who doesn't enjoy questing the combat and graphics almost make up for it.

    Also you seem to be using translation and localization interchangeably and they're not really the same thing.
  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414
    Vindictus also had a good localization.
  • RhygarthRhygarth Member UncommonPosts: 259
    fun pvp game, i dislike the silly character flying thing thats just stupid and the fact you cant just run where you want, you have to stick to the paths most of the time
  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
    FFXI was the benchmark and done by Square Enix since before NCSOFT was even a business.They didn't stop there,they added an actual language translator as well.

    I have not paid much attention but i bet Capcom has been doing ti well for a long time as well.We are just used to seeing a lot of bad ports because the market is flooded with a lot of really low budget games.

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