Comments on: Visiting the Village: Episode 36 http://www.mode7games.com/blog/2009/12/17/visiting-the-village-episode-36/ The gaming podcast with intelligence. Each week, we don our utterly metaphorical armour and confront the most intriguing mainstream gaming issues, as well as venturing to the arcane depths of the indie games scene. PC or console games: whatever your favourite species of electronic entertainment, we drag it screaming from the dungeon all the way back to the village. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://www.mode7games.com/blog/2009/12/17/visiting-the-village-episode-36/comment-page-1/#comment-19585 Paul Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:54:09 +0000 http://www.mode7games.com/blog/?p=1801#comment-19585 Ha ha, the regular Herr Alien deconstruction! Love it! 1. Ooh, so you're calling fad? I'm going to have to say you're wrong on that one - we'll see music games for the next...forever. Music games will never go away now - fact. 2. That would be Ian. Yep, I'm with both of you on that. 3. I have no brain electrodes left. 4. Yep, where's the ball? They don't have it. 5. It's really not. Translators who wouldn't make that kind of error are not hard to come by - yes, good naturalistic translators are less common. But that's what the localisation agent is for. 6. I just want to see how it works in practise - I think it could be HILARIOUS. 7. That is a distinction you could make between two kinds of business failure, granted. I'm not sure that distinction is directly implied by the use of the term "strategic failure" though. Ha ha, the regular Herr Alien deconstruction! Love it!

1. Ooh, so you’re calling fad? I’m going to have to say you’re wrong on that one – we’ll see music games for the next…forever. Music games will never go away now – fact.

2. That would be Ian. Yep, I’m with both of you on that.

3. I have no brain electrodes left.

4. Yep, where’s the ball? They don’t have it.

5. It’s really not. Translators who wouldn’t make that kind of error are not hard to come by – yes, good naturalistic translators are less common. But that’s what the localisation agent is for.

6. I just want to see how it works in practise – I think it could be HILARIOUS.

7. That is a distinction you could make between two kinds of business failure, granted. I’m not sure that distinction is directly implied by the use of the term “strategic failure” though.

]]> By: Herr_Alien http://www.mode7games.com/blog/2009/12/17/visiting-the-village-episode-36/comment-page-1/#comment-19582 Herr_Alien Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:27:43 +0000 http://www.mode7games.com/blog/?p=1801#comment-19582 Ok, here we go: - music game industry: no, it doesn't need rescuing. As far as I am concerned it can die in peace. To me it looked like a fad. As for DJ hero, just another way to squeeze more money while this game genre is still popular. - AppStore: one of you (I think it was Ian?) made a very ... interesting statement on the blog regarding Apple and Microsoft :D. I second it. - @beta testing: lol, that what happens when you run out of brain electrodes ... - I consider myself a harcore PC gamer, and I don't have a PC in the living room (laptops do not count). As for throwing it around ... I don't plan to break anything in my house, so no thanks. So yes, I do think they dropped the ball. - translations: well, I guess finding good translators is the hardest part. Some people ask fans to translate their products. Obviously, french fans doing the french translation, italian fans doing the italian translations etc. The advantage of asking fans is that they WILL KNOW EVERYTHING about the game. They're fans. That rules out errors like "No russians". - I like the PC people vs. Console people MMO :) - there's a difference between financial failure and strategy failure. In a financial failure you only lose money, but not market share. In a strategy failure, you lose your place in the market. Ok, here we go:
- music game industry: no, it doesn’t need rescuing. As far as I am concerned it can die in peace. To me it looked like a fad.
As for DJ hero, just another way to squeeze more money while this game genre is still popular.
- AppStore: one of you (I think it was Ian?) made a very … interesting statement on the blog regarding Apple and Microsoft :D . I second it.
- @beta testing: lol, that what happens when you run out of brain electrodes …
- I consider myself a harcore PC gamer, and I don’t have a PC in the living room (laptops do not count). As for throwing it around … I don’t plan to break anything in my house, so no thanks. So yes, I do think they dropped the ball.
- translations: well, I guess finding good translators is the hardest part.
Some people ask fans to translate their products. Obviously, french fans doing the french translation, italian fans doing the italian translations etc.
The advantage of asking fans is that they WILL KNOW EVERYTHING about the game. They’re fans. That rules out errors like “No russians”.
- I like the PC people vs. Console people MMO :)
- there’s a difference between financial failure and strategy failure. In a financial failure you only lose money, but not market share. In a strategy failure, you lose your place in the market.

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