Alpha Prime - WTF?

Post by **Trey** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 8:16 am

Oh my god, are you telling me the developers of this didn't know one native english speaker?! This has to be one of the worst translations since 'All your base are belong to us!', at times it's almost like a Monty Python skit. The voice actors try to work with the material, but you can tell they were just given the script and told, 'Read it!' It's so wooden, and poorly written, at times it's like Japanese 'Engrish'. Did the developers not care about picking up the english audience?

Edit: Wow, finally finished it. You know how people always complain about a game being 'stupid' or it's story being 'stupid'? Usually I just ignore that type of bitching, but this time they were right. It would take a massive rewrite to salvage this game, and I doubt it's really worth it.

Kessler · Post by **Kessler** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:31 am

I heard quite poistive comments from other gamers about this game, and personally I enjoyed the demo version back in the day. Yes, if the translation and voice acting is bad it hurts the atmosphere and maybe the understanding of the story, but that´s not all that counts.

Doomed_Space_Marine · Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:33 pm

I started playing this yesterday, and yeah, I think it is a nice game. Level design feels a bit like Chaser, and some visuals & puzzles reminds one of Doom 3. Use of interaction/physics is better than most of its type.

Post by **Mister_Headcrab** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:21 am

I just tried the US demo, gfx are okay as well as physics, but it was quite buggy (maybe it's because it was the demo).
Anyway, voice acting was really stupid/funny at times but the game itself seems kinda fun to play through... Is it worth getting the full version?

Post by **hfric** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:03 am

yes its worth it

Post by **Trey** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:26 am

The gameplay's not terrible, but... Oh, my god, that voice acting... Just wait till you run into the guy who's supposed to be, what? Spanish, Portigese? Russian maybe? And the story, sheesh.

Post by **hfric** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 7:45 am

Italian ...

Post by **Trey** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:23 pm

hfric wrote:Italian ...

Glomar thanks you...

Post by **Tadrio** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:09 am

I played the demo just recently... and although I grew kind of tired of FPS games I was surprised to find that I enjoyed the demo just because it was so straight forward and didn't try to reinvent the genre like ever damn other shooter out there these days. A refreshing splash of linearity, stereotypes, and trash charm.

I don't remember the voice acting or dialogue as linguistically bad... just the story itself as cheesy, which I really didn't mind. Maybe they chose only the least broken lines for the demo?

freakboy · Post by **freakboy** » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:45 pm

Played the full game long time ago, but in the middle it got messed up so I uninstalled it. Game requires more work on it.