Which games would you most like to see translated to your preferred language?

[dhaabi]

Unfortunately, there are thousands of games created that are inaccessible to players all around the world, and it's due to a lack of language support. In some circumstances—and especially true for older games—this language exclusivity has caused games to become obscured or even outright forgotten.

Translation apps, dictionaries, or other language tools are sometimes able to help assist those lacking skill in a certain language or who are even studying that language as they play games, but this isn't always ideal. For instance, these sorts of tools are definitely available, though are still with their own issues, during times when on-screen text advances via player-determined button prompts but are even less effective when text auto-advances. At the same time, they're certainly most inaccessible when games have no on-screen text at all and are instead fully voiced without subtitles. So, obviously, a complete in-game translation is the most optimal way to play a game.

With that said, what are some of the games you'd most like to have the opportunity to play without issue and in your preferred language that you otherwise haven't been able to experience?

[bikingjahuty]

A lot of these have fan translations patches out there, but nothing official. Also, most of these are still very playable even without being translated, but it would be nice to know what's going on as I'm playing.


-Psychic Assassin Taromaru (Saturn)
-Samurai Shodown RPG (Saturn)
-Bulk Slash (Saturn)
-Dodonpachi (Saturn)
-What is Shenmue? (Dreamcast)
-Typing of the Dead 2 (PC)


There are probably more I'm not thinking of, but the games above getting an official English translation and release would make my day.

[redblaze57]

Sakura wars series

[chamemo]

I would like to revisit the older generation of consoles (e.g. the PS2, GCN, N64) with the games in my native language (Spanish), but the vast majority of NTSC games weren't in that language. And even to the present day some companies refuse to localise the games in Latin American Spanish or Mexican Spanish, though. That being said, I would like to play these games series in my native language:

• Yakuza / Like a Dragon series
• The older Grand Theft Auto games (e.g. IV, Chinatown Wars, Vice City Stories)
• The entire Burnout series
• Some Need for Speed games (e.g. Most Wanted 2005, Underground, Underground 2, Hot Pursuit 2010)
• Persona 3, 4 and 5
• The vast majority of the Nintendo games catalogue from ~2007 and older.
• The vast majority of the Sony games catalogue from ~2010 and older.

I grew up playing with the N64, and well, the 95% of the games from that console were in English. That helped me to improve my English from an early age. But, I noticed some games (Need for Speed series) had some entries in my language, like Carbon, ProStreet, Undercover and The Run, but the remaining games aren't in LATAM/MX Spanish, they are in Castilian Spanish, though. And some other companies don't localise the games at all (SEGA/Atlus, they started localising the games earlier this year, but slowly).

[dhaabi]

There are a lot of games that interest me that were never officially translated into English, but I'm deciding to mention only one game after specifying these criteria: the game must be text-heavy and have no quality fan translation. So for games that personally interest me, this means they're mostly adventure or visual novel games but also some RPG or strategy games too. For the former two, many across the PlayStation's library are horror-themed experiences that I'd like to one day, and somehow, play.

So, I think the game I'd most want to see translated right now is Dark Tales: From the Lost Soul. It's one of the few games for the platform inspired by Twin Peaks, and it's the only one without a proper translation of some kind. Unfortunately, I believe all dialogue and text is voiced and without in-game subtitles, so there's not an ideal way to play it even without translation tools. From what I've seen, it has a fantastic atmosphere and presentation, complete with a kind of choose-your-own adventure type gameplay that's not so unfamiliar to more modern graphic adventure games.

[dhaabi]

• The entire Burnout series
• Some Need for Speed games (e.g. Most Wanted 2005, Underground, Underground 2, Hot Pursuit 2010)

Would there really be that much of an added benefit for these games to be translated into Spanish? Apart from in-game menus, I can't think of anything that's crucial to understand. But perhaps those menus are important enough in games like Underground where there are robust customization features.

[wartoy]

I would love for Shining Force 3B and 3C for Saturn to be translated they never made it out of Japan unfortunately. Also Culdacept for the Saturn also.