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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Mar 31, 2022 23:25:11 GMT
Translator technology. However, this doesn't make any sense within the context of Andromeda. Agreed, except possibly for the kett. We know that SAM was collecting language samples on Habitat 7 and then again on Eos. The kett also may have known whatever was the common language in the MW. The angara were just magicked to understand. Not really. They had months of exposure to the Exiles before we show up. Considering how the Turians and humans could understand each other within the month of the First Contact War, that’s apparently more than enough time. |
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Post by Bann Duncan on Apr 1, 2022 2:50:59 GMT
Agreed, except possibly for the kett. We know that SAM was collecting language samples on Habitat 7 and then again on Eos. The kett also may have known whatever was the common language in the MW. The angara were just magicked to understand. Not really. They had months of exposure to the Exiles before we show up. Considering how the Turians and humans could understand each other within the month of the First Contact War, that’s apparently more than enough time. My point here was upstream of that. My view was is that there was no reason that the angara would have had translator (techno-space magic though it is) technology in the first place. The Milky Way races were constantly dealing with new races and essentially all drawing from the same pool of Prothean tech. Meanwhile, the angara only deal with the angara and with kett attacks. It takes what's already a suspension of disbelief in trilogy ME and pulls it beyond that window.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 1, 2022 4:15:29 GMT
Not really. They had months of exposure to the Exiles before we show up. Considering how the Turians and humans could understand each other within the month of the First Contact War, that’s apparently more than enough time. My point here was upstream of that. My view was is that there was no reason that the angara would have had translator (techno-space magic though it is) technology in the first place. The Milky Way races were constantly dealing with new races and essentially all drawing from the same pool of Prothean tech. Meanwhile, the angara only deal with the angara and with kett attacks. It takes what's already a suspension of disbelief in trilogy ME and pulls it beyond that window. Why wouldn’t the angara have translators? They would have needed them or gotten them for first contact with the Kett. Then of course with them being an engineered race it’s possible it’s built into them. |
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Post by KrrKs on Apr 1, 2022 15:35:08 GMT
The angara themselves also have many languages - with the common Shelesh being their version of a simplified trade language. So they could have developed translators just for translating their existing languages. Or maybe rather the languages of colonies not yet rediscovered after the scourge. Source: ME:A codex entries and masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Angara#Language |
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Post by AnDromedary on Apr 1, 2022 18:34:35 GMT
Just as a point of interest, apparently BioWare did have original language files, for some of the races at least. Remnants of it can still be found in the game files. Maybe at some point in development, they planned to use them together with subtitles (similar to the alien languages in KotOR or the old tongue in Jade Empire). Just my opinion here but I am glad they did opt for simply using voice actors in the end. IMO the VAs add a lot to the characters especially in games that are not meticulously motion captured and especially with the amount of dialogue we have in these games. I do think there is such a thing as too much forced "realism" and in the case of the alien languages, making translation an issue would have lost the games much more than it would have gained 99% of the time. |
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