Author: John Merlino
Date: 14:26:56 09/07/00
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On September 07, 2000 at 17:20:09, Fernando Villegas wrote: >On September 07, 2000 at 14:49:09, John Merlino wrote: > >>On September 07, 2000 at 14:21:33, Fernando Villegas wrote: >> >>>Hi John: >>>Probably is too late, but if there is some time it would be very appreciated by >>>non speaking english people all around the world if the guys that talks, like >>>Josh, Pandolfini or any other, do the utmost effort to speak real english >>>instead of that quack quack or maybe guau guau style of talking of american >>>people. I do not expect they will talk that the nice guy that announce the >>>moves, but maybe they can get close... >>>Fernando >> >>Sorry, but Josh (the only voice other than the "nice guy that announces the >>moves") has his own "delivery" that most people (but, admittedly, not all) seem >>to enjoy/prefer because it is more "human" and not forced. Unfortunately, that's >>the way it's going to be, even in the new games that he has done for CM8000. Of >>course, all of his older games are still there, and have not been re-recorded >>for CM8000. >> >>jm > OK, so it will be , but let me tell you that for an international company with >a world market the issue should be taken into acccount a little bit. Maybe the >"delivery" of Josh sound great for Brooklyn kind of guys, but not so much for >french, spanish, german or any other people in the world. Well, maybe mattel >does not care about that part of the market. And nevertheless it would be so >easy: just tell the guy to try to talk as he was taught in his own school. >Regards >fernando Well, THAT wouldn't work either, because he's FROM New York! ;-) Actually, from what I've heard, there is almost certainly going to be a French version of CM8000. I have no idea about any other versions, but I suspect that a German version might also be overdue. From what I've heard, those two versions where the only international versions that even came CLOSE to justifying the amount of money spent on them (re-recording ALL of the audio, translating all of the text and artwork -- a huge job). jm
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