- Tai MT
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You face an opponent who has never known defeat, who laughs in foreign tongues at your efforts to survive. This is Reply suicide.
"Oh Molly Connoly ruined my life, I thought the world should know."
Say Anything - Every Man Has A Molly
Something that's never been done before? You mean Aliens we can't understand and have to read subtitles for?
Now... I don't know about you...
But I've watched enough movies in other languages to TIRE of reading subtitles.
ESPECIALLY reading Al Bhed from FFX. (Granted that's a Cipher and not another Language... but to even read the language, you need all the Primers).
It was done before, and it was ANNOYING.
Who wants to listen to alien clicks, buzzes, and crude vocalizations? Who wants to try to figure that out? I'd much rather my aliens speak English in a video game, because it's more understandable.
And if you remember correctly.... In Halo 2... The Prophets speech sounds like music. You don't realize they're actually talking until Cortana Translates it for you. I kept thinking it was just some music or something whenever I walked by the projector.
And we can't understand what the Jackals or Drones are saying.
Bungie HAS done something with Alien speech that we've never seen before.
The Aliens actually TALK during battle. The Grunts spoke in the first one, and it never bothered anyone that they didn't bark or growl (as their native tongue is).
We were given a reason why we can understand the Grunts, but not the OTHER members of the Covenant. We were given reasons why the Covenant could understand US.
And following along the lines of Halo 1, we get an upgrade in tech and translators... So now we can understand most of the speech in Elite tongue as well.
Having low tech translators which have to be upgraded has NOT been done before. All the other games give you an auto-translator so that you can understand EVERYTHING. Bungie didn't go this route. They are keeping in reality, that we'd have trouble figuring out the languages of an alien race, if it showed up, and didn't want to teach us their language.
NEVER. BEEN. DONE. BEFORE.
Now go do some research before you blatently state something as stupid as "It's been done before."
I'll be waiting.