Recent content by Strudel

I know I'm going to be in the minority here, but honestly? I really don't want PSN to be louder. Already playing some of the more popular games online demands muting the most irritating speakers within seconds of starting. Call me cynical, but given that the average age and gender of gamers is...

This. It frequently impresses me how ignorant people are about this sort of thing. Macs are not iPhones. They're x86 PCs running a limited subset of hardware with a different OS. It's a computer, which is as open as platforms get, since software installations are not restricted in any way...

How fluent are you?

I'm not trying to criticize the voices...really, I have no problems with them! I just wonder if it's BETTER in the "original" language (as an aside, I'll be very interested to see sales numbers, but even more interested to see a sales breakdown by country/region). I hope a francophone can come...

Heh. I know, but when was the last time you gave a bottle of them to an adult and restated their name? I'm not saying issues were a deal breaker. I just wonder if they were completely non-existent in the French version.

I'm not referring to accents, though those are present and occasionally weird. It's the writing. Some of the actors don't really have an accent, or at least not one that interferes. But say, the use of the word "wasteland". It seems like that might be a mistranslation. Maybe it means...

I played Heavy Rain, and I enjoyed it a lot. But as many reviewers noted, it's got a few flaws. I'm of the opinion that you only notice them because the whole package is pretty good, but it seems to me that a lot of the script and voice issues may very well be language related. I realize that...