Narration / Voice Acting in trailer

[Stormfly]

Originally Posted by Brag

German version trailer better than English

look, even the german trailer isn´t worth to much, for a german it sounds like a footage of U-751 and was nothing compared to "Das Boot", also they even dont know the importend things like, on german submarines the highest rank is a LtCdr -> Kapitän Leutnant (Kaleun) not a Captain or Kapitän...

...those little but important details just tell us, they have simply no or just little knowledge assets in their promotion team, it seams consulting a WWII atlantic war expert is highly recommended.

I hope they mistaked very deliberately, so we just have something to talk about

[Sailor Steve]

That language chart posted earlier is interesting, but this version says something different entirely:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_language

The number of people who live where the language in question is native, versus the number of people worldwide who speak the language, are two entirely different equations.

The reason SH3 had "American" English without German accents is mainly because they knew that someday they might make a US fleetboat sim, and thus the voices were already done. I'm hoping that this is indicative of the same sort of thinking.

[Sonarman]

I think it was indeed a mistake to use American accents a German accented English voice actor would have sounded a lot better and more in keeping with what we are used to in movies etc.

This is actually probably quite an important point as it has already been picked up in the two major SH5 previews I have read online.

Battlestations Pacific has recently been ridiculed for its terrible voice acting/accents hopefully the released SHV will not suffer the same indignity.

As I recall the opening cinematic for SH3 has some great German accented English speaking voice actors they should try to get those guys back for SH5 in game audio.

[mookiemookie]

For those of you all up in arms about the trailer...

If you knew nothing about SH3, and only watched the , would you have the whole picture about SH3? Could you pass judgment on the entire game based on that?

I thought not.

[Frederf]

It's not the "whole picture" it's the "theme / tone." The SH3 intro was miiiiiles better than the SH5 intro. There was teamwork and diligence from the crew on watch. The commander assertively and precisely told orders.

The SH5 trailer had a bunch of emo submariners too wrapped up in themselves to notice the enemy. Then they take a hit from a naval shell and it's not big deal. Really? The German kalun, reflecting years of training and experience is barking out primetime television drama orders like "Deeper!" what. the. fudge.

I have to agree with RR.

If the SH5 trailer was a teaser or other advertising material that would be something else but the video was the intro. This is the video designed to play before the final game every time. There are basically two cases relating the intro to the game that follows:

1. The game intro is nothing like the game in terms of tone. That's very inconsistent and indicative of bad overall design and direction cohesion. Not a good sign

2. The game intro is indicative of the game in terms of tone. That speaks of a very shallow and lackluster arcade game. Not a good sign

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Frederf

If the SH5 trailer was a teaser or other advertising material that would be something else but the video was the intro. This is the video designed to play before the final game every time.

And you know this how?

[Rockin Robbins]

He knows because history repeats itself. Wonder about the manual there...

[mookiemookie]

Well, our friends at Ubi Romania are the ones working on this and I think they know what they're doing by now.

[Sonarman]

I wonder if the marketing division had a hand in selecting the voices, the same geniuses who put a Typhoon image on half of the stuff in the limited edition SH4 box. Little details matter and and can put potential customers off.

[Sonarman]

Originally Posted by Stormfly

i totaly agree with you Rockin Robbins,

...but they had to produce a short trailer, showing all the new features, by telling us what business strategy and target group is sitting behind it (teenagers)...

Read the comments here to see what the teenagers think of SH5

Originally Posted by Highbury

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

i agree and no matter what the language is that you choose, if its german crew it should be german accent even if they speak russian or english

[Sonarman]

Maybe they should follow Hollywood's example witn Sean Connery and just use a Scottish accent for everything,... Russian-Scottish in Red October, Spanish-Scottish in Highlander, American-Scottish in Outpost etc etc'

Torpedosss loshhhh

[Frederf]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

And you know this how?

There's this little thing called the English language. The word "intro" denotes the introduction video to the game. If this wasn't the game's intro... they wouldn't have called it intro; they would have called it "teaser" or "trailer" or "video."

[Stormfly]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Read the comments here to see what the teenagers think of SH5

lol thanks for this, is indeed funy

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Read the comments here to see what the teenagers think of SH5

Now I want to hit them.