Narration / Voice Acting in trailer

[GoldenRivet]

about the narration and voice acting in the trailer.

it was very clearly spoken english and there have been some complaints about it.

i would like to remind you all...

... if you select the english option in SH3 or SHIV you get that same plane Jane english.

Im sure if you select the "German language option" in SHV you would get the good German voice acting.

they probably used the plane english option as this trailer was aimed at an english speaking audience.

so... dont fret

[Mopy]

Heheh it was odd to hear American voices after being used to hearing German in SH3 for so long. There is a German voiced trailer though:

http://silent-hunter.de.ubi.com/silent-hunter-5/

I'm looking forward to German voices/English subs again

[Highbury]

I am sure it will have the option to choose as SHIII did.

However, it would be nice if the English itself was at least German accented... I don't know, would just seem better that way.

[Ragtag]

German language with english subs. I really hope there are options for changing speech language in the game.

[Contact]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

aimed at an english speaking audience.

Yeah and feeling straight ridiculous. English speaking audience should satisfy reading subtitles instead. Do you think SH3 trailer was made for only german speaking audience ? No it was made because of logical factors and period.

[conus00]

^^^
HAHAHAHA, well spoken! I have been living here in the US for almost 10 years, have learned the language and speak it daily but it keeps amazing me how majority of Americans think of an English as a pinnacle of languages, "The World Language" and "the hardest language to learn".

Only about 20 -25% of planet's population speak English as a native or second language.

[Ragtag]

They aim for the most realistic Silent Hunter game ever. German speech should definatly be in-game imho. Otherwise the immersion will be killed on the spot, at least for me.

[danlisa]

For those complaining about the Voice acting, I ask you this:

"How much do you think it costs to hire professional voice actors for games?"

Alot!

For all I care, they could have Mickey Bloody Mouse voice the German crew as long as the money saved is put towards development and bug killing.

[conus00]

Originally Posted by danlisa

For those complaining about the Voice acting, I ask you this:

"How much do you think it costs to hire professional voice actors for games?"

Alot!

For all I care, they could have Mickey Bloody Mouse voice the German crew as long as the money saved is put towards development and bug killing.

Good point. But let me see "more than 1.5 million copies sold." at even underestimated $35 a copy we are at 52.5 million $ made.
They could afford one....
Just kidding.

[Melonfish]

Originally Posted by conus00

^^^
HAHAHAHA, well spoken! I have been living here in the US for almost 10 years, have learned the language and speak it daily but it keeps amazing me how majority of Americans think of an English as a pinnacle of languages, "The World Language" and "the hardest language to learn".

Only about 20 -25% of planet's population speak English as a native or second language.

see the problem i have with charts like that is its data manipulation. in fact it tells you NOTHING of how popular a language it is just how many people that speak it. these are two seperate things.
the prime example would be mandarin chinese. granted over a billion people speak it, but they nearly all live in china!

spanish and portuguese are very popular thanks to south america and english is quite provalent.
however i would deem english as a very easy language to learn compared to others, its well structured and easy to understand. this makes it easy for other countries to learn because generally their language is alot more complicated then english, and it prohibits english speakers from learning other languages as they seem complicated to us (that and we're lazy sometimes)

but yeah back on topic i'd love to see some good german voice acting and english text options on sh5 that would make it wicked methinks, plus my german is getting there nowdays!

[Contact]

Originally Posted by danlisa

For those complaining about the Voice acting, I ask you this:

"How much do you think it costs to hire professional voice actors for games?"

Alot!

For all I care, they could have Mickey Bloody Mouse voice the German crew as long as the money saved is put towards development and bug killing.

Yes a strong decent game requires solid budget, so ? you said nothing new here. But that includes also voice actings. If you could play SH5 with mickey mouse voice that means there's something wrong with you..

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by Contact

Yes a strong decent game requires solid budget, so ? you said nothing new here. But that includes also voice actings. If you could play SH5 with mickey mouse voice that means there's something wrong with you..

Not really, we played SH3 for years with high pitched squeaky crew members.

You know, people are banding around the figure of 1.5 million units sold as if this is some grand number but that is across the whole SH library, that's only 375,000 units per title (given equal sales). Not great for a PC game. The budget given to the Devs by Ubisoft will reflect these sales figures.

I can pretty much assure you that SH5 will not have an adequate budget allowance to cater for accurate and believable voice actors. Voice acting is too much of a financial drain, especially when you are trying to code an accurate sim. Indeed the most accurate and believable voices for any Sim are community created.

[Dowly]

I hereby vote that Neal sends a SubSim mug and T-Shirt to all the original cast from Das Boot and a letter ending with "Or else..." so that they would do the voice acting for SHV.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Highbury

I am sure it will have the option to choose as SHIII did.

However, it would be nice if the English itself was at least German accented... I don't know, would just seem better that way.

Like trying to watch Cruise in Valkerie, almost funny and ruined the movie.

[Contact]

Originally Posted by danlisa

Not really, we played SH3 for years with high pitched squeaky crew members.

You know, people are banding around the figure of 1.5 million units sold as if this is some grand number but that is across the whole SH library, that's only 375,000 units per title (given equal sales). Not great for a PC game. The budget given to the Devs by Ubisoft will reflect these sales figures.

I can pretty much assure you that SH5 will not have an adequate budget allowance to cater for accurate and believable voice actors. Voice acting is too much of a financial drain, especially when you are trying to code an accurate sim. Indeed the most accurate and believable voices for any Sim are community created.

Ok so you know digits. However I still think it is no excuse to leave voice actings behind. I think it is not less important part of the whole work for exitement and immersion factor of the game.
Budget retrenchment in any development state is always causing lower numbers in buy off. But I want to believe UBI had done their homework and planned the budget correctly.