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• • Where are the Asians?

  • Originally posted by IShootBlanks
    

    Yea as an Asian, sadly I often feel discriminated be it in game or real life.

    Gaming aside.

    I love how people always sterotype us Asians as non-english speaking or  literate. I once had this european tourist couple from another country approach me to ask for directions. They were speaking really slowly as if i was a R.tard. Their first sentances were

    " D-O YOO-O-U-UU S-P-EE-E-AK-KKK EN-NN-GGG-LLLII-SHHHH?"

    Being the good citizen that I am and wanting to leave a good impression of my country, I replied as politely as I could only to be hit by a freight train from the back when they told me they were really surprised that I could converse in their languange.

    Seriously...WTF?!?!??! Times are changing. Aside from being able to converse in our native "Alien" language, most of us have english as our second language, and in some countries, as their first language. We may not excel, but most of us are able to string a coherent sentance.

    I also like how I am automatically related to Kung fu and Martials arts just because I'm chinese. I have had people walk up to me and ask me to display some Kung Fu moves. You know how people like to mimic Kung Fu as "animal fighting style". Keep doing that. You continously think you mock our culture but that is not the case. You are the one being laughed at because its funny to us to see a grown man act like a baboon for the sake gaining a few pitiful laughters from his audience.

    Most Asian feel the discrimination and they want to stop being "Asian". I have had people I know for years and they converse to me in broken-english most of the time. But when they get on vent, they start to fake that aussies accent or try to imitate that American accent so that nobody can tell where they are from. It sounds so weird, so wrong. They are so afraid of being discriminated they would betray their inner self and adopt a fake personna. 

     

    Ouch, that's a bad experience. I bet that couple came from the countrysides, lol.

    Unfortunately, it can work both ways, too, for those who have English as their first language. In places I know, some conservative Chinese hate dealing with "bananas", in theory those who are white on the inside, but yellow on the outside. These guys, in return, are seen as the ones enforcing the stereotype of the illiterate Chinese who makes makes terrible translation in MMOs. But of course, games need to be translated from Japanese and Korean as well, so there's more to that too.

    I don't see how it is that amazingly difficult for Asian grindfests to be properly translated. Is it that hard to put "restores 20 HP" rather than "bring back 20 life"? And crazy stuff like "please to help save village", etc.

    "Asians" hate bad translations too, 'cause it makes "us" want to hide "our" head inside a foot-deep hole in the ground reading those written abominations. Seriously, if no one in any game company can even make a decent translation, they shouldn't even set the game on closed or open beta.

    Failing native check is the biggest cross-cultural sin ever.

  • Posted: 5/10/08 12:53 AM
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• • Where are the Asians?

  • I'm a Malaysian Chinese, and a frequent lurker 'round here.

    Yes, I dunno why MMORPG.com-ers talk about Asians as if it's like races from another dimension or something, lol. (Hell, Asia is so big. What's with the silly pan-Asian thing?) It's easy to blame "us" just because you played a bad Asian grindfest, but of course we all hate them stupid MMOs with boring droning gameplay. Come on, who doesn't?

    I don't feel mistreated, I feel isolated. Like how half-baked medieval MMOs would get featured here over the non-translated titles (Uncharted Waters Online, Emil Chronicle Online and Shin Megami Tensei: IMAGINE, anyone?). It would be nice if the "Asian" side of the community here is more than just digging around in the Open Beta forum for "rare Asian titles".

    Fun info: Just like high fantasy is being abused as a subject in MMORPGs, so is Chinese wuxia fantasy. Wish they would go further than that.

    ... more Steampunk MMOs plx!

  • Posted: 5/08/08 6:37 PM
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• • Is this the best MMO site?

  • www.mmosite.com

    Updated way often than this place. :P

  • Posted: 4/09/08 9:53 AM
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• • Monster Rancher Online

  • Onrpg boards has a small community of MFO open beta players, one can find the registration guide there. It's a decent game.

    Pros: Frankly, the game has a real unique battle system. Monster Rancher players should remember the 3-range attack list and the Guts bar. But that doesn't change the fact that the game still suffers from the common MMORPG complaints.

    Cons: The primary method to get cash is to grind fetch quest missions. You level you monster by feeding, and food needs cash.

  • Posted: 3/26/08 9:50 AM
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• • Swedish dev making a 'small' MMO game

  • Yeap, the one with the impressionist BG shots, Love. Still too early to say anything, really.

  • Posted: 3/20/08 3:00 PM
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