Even if that language has a bunch of made up grammatical rules and syntaxes?

Serious question because I'm stupid, but what does that mean?

Every language has those, so...yeah.

Trying to smoothly take Japanese games to English, for example. Sometimes you get Ted Woolsey who was a master of his craft, sometimes you get Y-Burn instead of Wyvern.

Well, small typos happen - you'll never catch them all.

What's really immersion breaking is the typical german translation of video games, including voice actors who clearly never watched the scene they were actually voicing (therefore putting emphasis on the wrong words), silly translations out of context ( military "power" became "electricity" in Civilization 4, because - you know - the english word "power" can mean both) or just plain wrong and nonsensical machine translations, which barely follow any resemblance of grammar.

A dragon slams (its) tail into the ground...not reading anything else, it's more than enough for me and my party xD

OHHHH!!!! :D

Thank you. :D

no

Pfft. My bigger problem is people throwing around words like "immersion" when talking about games today to begin with. Do I give a shit about how "immersive" a game is? Fuck no. The only question a game needs to answer is: Is it fun?

Speaking of overused choice of words, the next person telling me how their product is "hand-crafted" is going to get choked out. That's some extreme mainstream hipster crap right there.

Sometimes a translation mistake can be far more serious. For example, suppose somebody says, in the original, "go up, left, up, right" (giving the solution to a "lost woods"-type area, for example), but the translator mixed up left and right, so the clue reads "go up, right, up, left". In this case, somebody playing the translated version will find that the clue doesn't work, and will be unable to progress the game at that point without looking up the answer online. (If you encounter this sort of thing in a modern game that's still getting patches, I would report it as a bug.)

Final Fantasy 5 (PlayStation version), I believe, had a translation error of this sort. (There's one dungeon that's split into two halves: one where magic shouldn't be used, and another where non-magic attacks shouldn't be used (or else you'll face extremely harsh counter-attacks), but the mistranslated clue points to the same tower twice, which is no help at all.)

Not the worst bug a game could have (especially in the days of the Internet), but still annoying nevertheless when it happens.

Oh please, it's not that bad. The plural of mouse is mice. The plural of house is hice. See, the rules are easy to figure out :p

[EDIT] Somebody is gonna take me seriously so... The plural of house is not hice - it's neighborhood! ;)

Obligatory link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WohoByqXWY


Explaination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwo4kgRkVgQ

I meant "rules" like the split infinitive or I before E. (Which is bullhonky.)