![]() Having chosen the latter, I couldn’t be more pleased. Not only did they expand upon formerly aimless text with context, and fix errant voice assignments, (an ancient woman in Glish used to speak with the voice of a teenager, for example), but they now gave us the option to pick and choose between branching plot paths - the original main quest, a “plot what plot” monster questline focused on fighting, and a third, factional quest focusing on the Venice-esque merchant squabbles of rival houses in Calpheon. While October 2018’s remaster seemed to tout mostly the visual upgrades to the game, less talked-about was the AMAZINGLY NECESSARY AND AWESOME updates to the game’s quest text (in addition to a ton of new voice-acting work, with voices familiar to anyone who watches Critical Role or plays Bioware games). Characters’ literal translated words seemed to make no sense, floating out of a void and then back into it, leaving a player more familiar with tiredold Joseph Campbell-esque tropes somewhat uninterested in a plot that seemed not to exist. A lot of this seemed to stem from extremely literal translations that did not attempt to bridge cultural gaps incurred by a lack of exposure, on this side of the ocean, with folktales and traditional story paths that ring familiar to anyone who grew up with them, and which shape in-game plots. ![]() I’m looking at you, Eve Online) - but it just wasn’t translated in a way that made people like me, with a persistent desire for some kind of lore, feel like we had any hooks to sink into the world at all. The game was certainly pretty enough, and vast - I am always happy with a game vaster, with more complex systems, than I think I will ever have time to master (unless it’s in space - boo, space. Out in Korea in 2015, it debuted its North American servers in 2016, and the translations were…rough. This year, it’s Black Desert Online.īDO was remastered late last year, though I didn’t know at the time. In the past, it was Lord of the Rings Online that fulfilled this need. ![]() Thus, every year I go through another video game farming phase. Which inevitably puts me in the position of desperately wanting springtime, dirt and crops in my life, while still having to wait 1-2 months to realize this dream. It gets warm out, I get excited, buy a bunch of seeds and start planning that year’s garden, and then…it snows.
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