Would you guys play a game with broken english ?

[forceline0]

Hello
I have some ideas and the will to use the HS2 studio with renpy to make a novel. But, Im not a Native English speaker and even if I can come with understandable sentences sometimes, it would have many mistakes. Would it be a big nuisance for you guys ? Would you play the game with broken english ?

 

[Meaning Less]

My recommendation would be focusing on a gameplay heavy experience, where dialogue is just a minor part then people won't care that much about imperfect lines here and there. Or just make the story more visual, then long dialogues are also less relevant.

Focus on your strengths, simple as that.

 

[baloneysammich]

If your posts are any indication, I think you'll be fine.

 

[Carpe Stultus]

You wouldn't believe how easy it is to find a proof reader once a game is released and well liked so i wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[Lyem]

"Broken English" is fine, some people have experienced things known as MTL.

But even better, if you actively answer people in the thread someone might be able to help and even point out the mistakes, which you can learn from and fix, no need to back down just because it might have a few mistakes, if you have the will to fix it theres nothing to be afraid of.

 

[Rafster]

Go ahead. The users may point you the mistakes for you to fix them, and also, there are online tools like Grammarly that help too.

 

[fyl3toys]

Depends on how incestuous the game is....

 

[Blondie Bear]

Absolutely no problem. Just live with the reviews then

 

[forceline0]

Ok guys, ty for all the replies! I will give it a shot! Im currently finishing the main plot. See you guys soon!

 

[RedPillBlues]

Ok guys, ty for all the replies! I will give it a shot! Im currently finishing the main plot. See you guys soon!

Half the games on this site have worse English then yours, you don't have to worry too much.

 

[Pretentious Goblin]

Generally no, but your OP here reads fine.

 

[Loganfin]

Broken/limited English is completely fine, so long as everything can be understood. The gameplay is the most important. I've played lots of games where the English spelling or grammar were off, but its really no big deal. If you're concerned, I'd just keep the dialogue fairly basic, and not have the characters make long speeches.

Good luck!

 

[Grozar]

Yes if it has an interesting setting

 

[zenshiny]

I have a pretty low tolerance for spelling and grammar errors, especially if the description touts the story as a selling point. In my mind, grammar is one of the easier aspects of writing, and basic errors invariably trip up my eyes and kill immersion--often before any immersion is even established. When the writer can't handle the easy part, I quickly become skeptical of how well they can handle the hard parts and finer points. That's when I either skip through the text to see if the pictures look nice, or just delete the game. I skip/delete a lot of games.

Given the mostly supportive comments in the thread, I guess I'm in the minority. Not that I'd ever tell OP or anyone to stop making a game; I'm just giving my perspective on how I view bad English when I see it.

 

[Tobi/Chaos]

I'm gonna play anything with good Gameplay.
I don't rly care about grammar etc. as for example u can look at all Translate Scripts for many games.

Some korean games have no English Version, but they do have Translate Script
its terrible... and sometimes its hard to guess... anything... but if gameplay is good then why not.

as for example NoR ( Night of Revenge ) have no English Version and it Translate Script is terrible.
But game is rly good and nice Designed

Also, if You make soem mistakes ur Community can always point them for u so u can fix them ...
- Good reason to make Discord Server so u can talk with ur players

 

[Loganfin]

I have a pretty low tolerance for spelling and grammar errors, especially if the description touts the story as a selling point. In my mind, grammar is one of the easier aspects of writing, and basic errors invariably trip up my eyes and kill immersion--often before any immersion is even established. When the writer can't handle the easy part, I quickly become skeptical of how well they can handle the hard parts and finer points. That's when I either skip through the text to see if the pictures look nice, or just delete the game. I skip/delete a lot of games.

Given the mostly supportive comments in the thread, I guess I'm in the minority. Not that I'd ever tell OP or anyone to stop making a game; I'm just giving my perspective on how I view bad English when I see it.

Perhaps the difference in opinion is based partly on how important immersion is for you. Its completely irrevelant to me, personally. I don't ever see myself as the character. I'm the guy playing the game and the character is on the screen.

 

[woody554]

I've never stopped reading because of bad english or bad writing in general. I've stopped a million times when the game veers off from my kinks, I just lose interest. I've also stopped a million times because of unavoidable whores jumping at my dick. when I see an 'millionaire ex-special ops douche' I can rarely make it very far. but I've never stopped because of language.

sometimes bad english even becomes a winning concept. like I just watched zohan again, and the sort of bad "80s tv english" he speaks just cracks me up every time. there's been some heavily russian games that do the same for me. like usually there's some weird wrong idiom they keep repeating and it becomes just hilarious.

 

[zenshiny]

Perhaps the difference in opinion is based partly on how important immersion is for you. Its completely irrevelant to me, personally. I don't ever see myself as the character. I'm the guy playing the game and the character is on the screen.

Nah, I never self-insert into characters, either. "Immersion", in the context of games, is a broader term than that. It could describe how drawn in a player is to the game's setting, mechanics, etc. My point was that grammar errors drastically lower my expectations for any sort of good writing, which effectively kills immersion in a story-based game.

Spelling and punctuation are easy. Writing interesting characters, dialogue and situations is harder. If a dev says their game is "story-focused", they presumably want players to be immersed by the writing--i.e., show that they can do the hard part. All I'm saying is that messing up the easy part generally doesn't bode well for the hard part.

It's like my own version of Old Man Murray's "Start to Crate" metric. If I see grammar errors within the first minutes of playing a game, expectations drop. A lot. If the grammar is good, maybe the game is good.

 

[Dr.Dro]

Hello
I have some ideas and the will to use the HS2 studio with renpy to make a novel. But, Im not a Native English speaker and even if I can come with understandable sentences sometimes, it would have many mistakes. Would it be a big nuisance for you guys ? Would you play the game with broken english ?

engwish coool numbuh wan!

 

[GreenGobbo]

Engrish is like a shitty bottle of 5 dollar wine from a sketchy liquor store. You might hate the flavor at times, but as long as it still gets you get fucked up it doesn't really matter much.