Dialog in Japanese Games....

Explain! Please explain this to me. Why is the dialog in all japanese games so insipid, so poorly written, so useless so akward.

I really don't get it...

Name exceptions if you know them...

Translation errors

Execptions

Blazblue, Ace Attorney Series, Ghost Trick, Professor Layton.

Its spelled dialogue btw

All japanese games have bad dialogue? That's a bit harsh. I very much doubt you have played ALL the japanese games out there...

Last Remnant? You should listen to the dialogue in that game. Blew my mind up. Final Fantasy XIII, another game with great dialogue. Full of emotion, and good script writing. So to say that all japanese games have bad dialogue is a bit harsh, you probably haven't played the right ones. Plus, the fact that Japanese is spoken differently to English. What you might think is akward, isn't for the Japanese. (Or speakers of other asian languages).

But I'm unsure if you're talking about Japanese games, or Japanese games that have been dubbed to English?

Either the localization is bad or the source material was bad to begin with. Try the game in my sig for an example of great localization. Atlus games usually have great localization too.

So learn Japanese if you want to really enjoy them! I can tell you for a fact that translators take extreme liberties even today. Squeenix's guys are some of the worst (someone there LOVES old english). Sega's pretty bad too. Atlus is decent but it's still stupid to play something like Persona in english.

the general reason is that its already hard to find good dialogue to begin with. with foreign games you have to find a good translator as well.

if you want an example of an exception, theres shadow of the colossus. its sparse, but anything said by the deity is pure poetry.

Japanese developers are still stuck in the 80's and can't be bothered to hire professional writers and voice actors. I mean, look at Nintendo. One of the biggest game companies out there and they still don't use voice acting at all.

There are a few exceptions, naturally. While neither Okami or Katamari Damacy use voice acting, the writing is pretty strong.

Not sure if you're talking about games that are badly dubbed (In that case, I think Persona 3 and Final Fantasy titles are pretty good though) or the " generic anime style"... I can't stand that kind of thing any longer, it's too much of this kind of stuff in too many animes/mangas:

Western scenario: *eats some food, drink wine and some booze, have lots of sweaty sex*

Anime version of this scenario: Two persons blushing, "u.. uhm, milku or l-l-lemon soda?", "..."W--What is it?", "Ah nothing, you look beautiful", "*super blush*, a..aa--a I--" "Don't worry! *puts hand on her shoulder*", "*girl thinks for herself: he's touching me! we're so perverted, he probably want to see my panties*, we--we- shouldn't do this"

This is the case in many games too, such as Star Ocean Last Hope, Eternal Sonata, Disgaea and also those crappy cheap games such as Cross Edge. It just drives you crazy such in Star Ocean, they just draaaaag the dialogue out with this kind of awkward stuff.

localization. it ruined TWEWY for me. they just sounded soo cheesy.

the general reason is that its already hard to find good dialogue to begin with. with foreign games you have to find a good translator as well.

LoG-Sacrament

Nier. If all Japanese games were as well voice acted, had a good script and were as fun to play I'd play alot more Japanese games.

Explain! Please explain this to me. Why is the dialog in all japanese games so insipid, so poorly written, so useless so akward.

I really don't get it...

Name exceptions if you know them...

GeneralShowzer

So you're asking people to explain one of your delusions? Good luck with that.

localization. it ruined TWEWY for me. they just sounded soo cheesy.

martinX3X

Really? I thought they did an exceptional job on the localization. It must've been really hard to translate Japanese slang and pop culture into something Americans could understand and relate to, but I thought they were successful.

Japanese developers are still stuck in the 80's and can't be bothered to hire professional writers and voice actors. I mean, look at Nintendo. One of the biggest game companies out there and they still don't use voice acting at all.

There are a few exceptions, naturally. While neither Okami or Katamari Damacy use voice acting, the writing is pretty strong.

UpInFlames

Ya, but Nintendo actually has great English writers doing the translations now. They don't put out too many dialogue-heavy games anymore, but stuff like Bowser's Inside Story has fantastic writing.

It's not always like that and many times when it is it is because of poor translating.

Anyway maybe i just don't like anything from Japan. I have watched "Advent Children" and "Paranoia Agent" with subtitles, and i still didn't get it.

...Have you thought about trying to watch something good? Try some of these suggestions or these