You're right! So Braid has been absolved of all charges and I have made a fool of myself again ... Oh well. Much appreciated though, thanks a lot. :)

Here's another title to add to the "black list": Back to the Future, the Game. The Telltale account lets me choose between English and German before downloading, so I choose English, download and install the game - with the result that I now have the English voiceovers but all text is automatically converted to German, and of course there's no in-game option to switch display languages ...

It's beyond me how anyone can think such a horrible design decision helpful, without realizing how much the concerned players will loathe it. Why would anyone want to e.g. choose their answers in conversations in German, when the voiceovers are in English anyway? And what's so hard about letting players make their own choices by providing a decent options menu? Argh. >:(

Don't rush it. There will probably be discounts for upgrading to 2013... assuming they do it like Win 8, that is. You can upgrade to 8 Pro from XP/Vista/7 for ~70 dollars, afaik.

You probably don't want to hear it, but Steam lets you choose between both languages in that game flawlessly....

Try launching Bastion.exe with this parameter: -lang eng

And for Braid:
http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/14492/what-are-the-command-line-options-for-the-pc-mac-version-of-braid

Well, you already told me, and that's cool for all the lucky Steam customers. :)

I just think it's pretty lame when Steam is the only solution to bad design decisions. I bought the game directly from the developers and get a worse product? DRM and no real choice in game languages? That's messed up. When I bought Sam & Max Season One retail some years ago, I adored this new hope for the adventure game market, but since then, after all the experiences I've made with them and their other games, I'm beginning to lose all my admiration and respect for Telltale as a company.


Thanks for the advice! It's good to know that you can remedy the automatic language recognition with command lines at least, but I still think it's lazy design that they didn't supply a graphical options menu for these matters, in-game or through a launcher window, especially in this time and age.