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General discussion (archive)Games that automatically recognize your "preferred" language(4 posts)(4 posts)
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Posted October 25, 2014
That's one reason why I like how we handle our games with multiple languages: one installer per language, if possible :)
Posted October 25, 2014
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JudasIscariot: That's one reason why I like how we handle our games with multiple languages: one installer per language, if possible :)
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PaterAlf: Maybe you should take a closer look at Superfog HD (that uses exactly that kind of annoying automatic "preferred" language). ;)

Edit: Ninja-Frog was faster than me.
That's why I said "if possible" :) If all the languages are set in the executable or elsewhere that doesn't involve separate language files then there's not much we can do :(
Posted October 26, 2014
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JudasIscariot: That's one reason why I like how we handle our games with multiple languages: one installer per language, if possible :)
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toxicTom: That's one thing Iike about GOG. The only problem is that it's often not obvious if the installer is for a single language (like Race Driver Grid), or the game is multilingual and just the installer language is different (like Edna and Harvey IIRC). In the first case I would like to keep English and German installers (in case the kids or none-English speaking guest want to try it). In the second case keeping one installer is enough, since the language can be switched (by config tool or sometimes even in-game).
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Erich_Zann: Bottom line : developers, if it's too hard for you to have this kind of fucking screen on startup, you should probably go flip burgers instead.

It's like having a bookstore forcing you to buy a local translation of the book you want, because it should be "your preferred language" anyway.
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toxicTom: Well it isn't that easy. X-Com just switched out the text that doesn't take up a whole lot of space. Nowadays there are tons of speech files to consider and some games even switch out textures. If all possible languages would be kept ready people would complain that the game wastes Gigabytes of space for maybe five languages while they need only one.
If you don't see the word "german" or any word denoting a given language in the file name of an installer then it's an all-in-one installer :)
Posted October 26, 2014
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JudasIscariot: If you don't see the word "german" or any word denoting a given language in the file name of an installer then it's an all-in-one installer :)
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toxicTom: First of all - I don't see the file names in my account. So I can't really be sure if I need only one (Edna and Harvey) or both (Race Driver). Both offer a "preferred installer" in the account.
Furthermore with the file names it's not obvious if I have the English version or a multilingual one, since English (as the default) is not denoted in the filename.

But thanks for the reply anyway.
You can check the file names by startting a browser download where it shows you the file name before you start downloading and close the pop up window. You can easily check this with Darklands. I know our solution as we have it at the moment is not the best one right now so if you have any suggestions on how to make it better let us know :)
Post edited October 26, 2014 by JudasIscariot
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