Saturday, July 14, 2007

Messed up translations, EA?

Ok, So I downloaded the first edition of Fellowship III (made by members of the Prosperity Challenge Group) the other day, put it in my game yesterday and found out the game had translated the names of all the sims, except in two families - the one I created (the Harlords) and the Glissades. Here are six examples of the wrongly translated families. Enjoy or despair.. ;)


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As you can see, the game translate regardless of family connections or gender, it just seems to be random names. I can fix this by using SimPE, opening up each sim and changing their names, but it will take some time (and I need to know their real names before I do so). Sometimes I think it would be easier if I had installed my game in English instead of Swedish, I wouldn't have had this trouble and I wouldn't have to see my sims wanting to become "generell" (general as in without considering specific details) instead of "general" (general as in an officer of very high rank in the army). They had that translation right once, then messed it up in later expansion packs. I also think it would be easier blogging in English if I played in English as well, but then I need to explain Sims stuff in Swedish to members in the club Simsare in the community lunarstorm and it is easier not having to translate everything several times a day, so I guess I'll stick to Swedish (for now, at least).

3 comments:

Roo said...

Wow what a drag Spinn! Funny, but more work for you.. the game didn't even care if it assigned female names to males and vice versa. *shaking head*
Well the Faststien family is mine.
In CAS they had a father so they should have a good mix for recessive genes. Good luck!

Mother:
Patrice, knowledge, Cancer-65626, cologne & vampire / fatness

Son:
Kurtis, Romance, Taurus-46564, brown & blond hair / facial hair

Daughters:
Iris, Child, Aries-58705
Tiffiny, Toddler, Libra-47347

Galena said...

For the Osage family. Bridgette (lighter skinned) is on the right in the picture and Lucille (darker skinned) is on the left.

Bridgette should be Knowledge, Lucille should be Wealth. No idea about their turn ons right now, but I did go with what the randomizer suggested. So if you feel like going back and finding Sheri's post on that.

For the children, the computer almost got them. The male is Radclyffe and the female is Christine.

Spinn said...

Reinstalled my game in English, and reinstalled some of the felloship families as well.. The Elfoffs, Chandlers, Harlords, Faststiens, Breakosis and Weissmanns got wrong names this time around..