The Fall English Version Negotiated?

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Tayl, a moderator on the SSE forum, posted this bit:<blockquote>First off, you are right that the game seems to be taking a while to get out to the english market. Everything you said rings true. But rest assured that SSE is indeed talking with publishers and ironing out details. SSE's previous english release was a game called 'Soldiers of Anarchy'. It was pretty fun, but the english publisher for that game(Simon and Schuster) did a really poor job of localization and advertisement. Most of the english gaming public has never heard of it, and it's really a fun game. I'm thinking that SSE really wants to make sure they get the english release down right. I know it's hard to wait. Trust me, I've been waiting over a year and a half. Rest assured, though, that SSE is working on getting us the english release. They aren't just concentrating on fixing the bugs and stuff, negotiations are going on as we speak. </blockquote>
Come on, already!

Link: Silver Style Forum thread

EDIT from Kharn:

The line "But rest assured that SSE is indeed talking with publishers and ironing out details." seem to hint that SSE is still in negotation stages when it comes to translation and publishing. As far as we know, this is not true. From Carsten Strehse, highlight in the original:<blockquote>You don't need to worry about the English translation. It was done by very experienced natives. Same for the speech. Our US partner spent a lot of money for it...</blockquote>This rather blatant hint is more hopeful when it comes to SSE's possible release than Tayl's post

Link: Source thread on SSE fora
 
To be honest, I could care less if it ever hits the english speaking market. Seeing how the Germans were forced to beta, and their seeming inability to get an English publisher, I've lost any interest.

Especially after Carsten tried to whore the FO name.

Meh.
 
Bah, I forgave Epic for UT2k3, I used Windows 95. The only relevant question is if the eventual result is worth it. I dunno.
 
Claw said:
The only relevant question is if the eventual result is worth it.
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That's the same question i'm asking. If they don't have the bugs ironed out by the time the English release does come out, i'll just give up on it. They've had all this time "beta testing" in Germany, and i've been watching the patches role out, so if it's not finished by the time it's over here, well, it's really kind of ridiculous.

That will remain to be seen though, and hopefully it'll be worth the wait. I've heard that it used a real time combat system which i'm not enthused about, but we'll see. It could still be a fun game, and something to hold us over until F3.
 
mettalhed said:
If they don't have the bugs ironed out by the time the English release does come out, i'll just give up on it.
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Most bugs have been ironed out for the Extended Version. Some complaints, but nothing shocking. Since the English version will probably BE the extended version, I guess it'll have a low level of bugs.

Plus on of the SSE guys said some time ago that the publisher is putting a lot of money into localisation and translation of the game
 
Pope_Viper said:
Seeing how the Germans were forced to beta, and their seeming inability to get an English publisher.
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Bah, but from Carsten's post it seems they've got a publisher. Any idea who is it?
 
I'm very sceptical. For what's it worth, good luck to them.
Words are just words. So, on another thread Carsten keeps it up:

Some more patience, please. It's worth waiting, because the US build will include some new great features. Smile

As you know we got very good reviews here. However, there're always some little things one can criticize. We go through every review and revise what the testers didn't like. So, the US build will be absolutly polished.
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Time will tell, as always.
http://www.silver-style.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5827
 
My first message on here, mew =^_^=. I live in Germany, and I bought the Fall a couple of days ago. I returned it to the store two days later.

Had nothing but stress trying to run the game properly. From what I've learned on the Silver forums - the 3D Engine written or utilised works a lot better if you do not have an ATI graphics card.
I could sum it up to: this is not a very pretty sight. I had to readjust the detail settings to a very low resolution, and disable all filtering, and also switched to DirectX 7 shaders even though DirectX 9 would seem to be a natural choice today.

You might be better off not seeing it in realtime. LOD switching is clearly visible on all textures - it's like they snap highres when you come close.

Enough about graphics. The substandard voice acting isn't interesting to you folks so no futher comments on that.

All I wanted was a good game. Fallout is a great game, and I bought The Fall thinking 'spiritual successor' or something like it. But it turns out to be a disappointment. While bragging on the package that this game ought to push Gothic II of it's throne it doesn't hold a candle to Gothic I, apples and oranges aside.

To be blunt, I failed to see the complex NPC interactivity I was looking for. Characters were flat, nobody on your team is getting a proper introduction. This is like you're going on an adventure with stock marines from a realtime strategy game, each with a different name and face - and that's it.

They do level. You can equip stuff. You walk around with rightclicks on the minimap or terrain. Entering buildings can sometimes be tricky, pathfinding is okay in version 1.8 though. The title music is fantastic by the way. Kinda like Depeche Mode.

This thread probably isn't even asking for a thorough review, so I'll cut it short from here. The experience was a big waste of time.

The store wouldn't just give me my money back - but I was allowed to pick up some other item worth the same sum or more, and I would only have to pay the difference from the game's original price up. So - I ended up buying a 256 MB Memory stick thing for the Playstation as I found no other game that day I was interested in.
 
You know, I can imagine some guy at the company looking over the sale reports: "w00t, someone bought our game today!". And after two days: "Oh, bummer! We need to glue another box."



Sad.
 
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