>Localizes FF14
>Dramatically changes multiple aspects of the localization, primarily by adding jokes and western cultural references
>Rewrites dialogue to be ye olde medieval instead of the normal manner of speech in the original
>The developers actually love this, turns out
>Now gets to personally write the lyrics for songs, sometimes BEFORE the JP vocals
>Is best buds with the JP team
>Worked hand in hand with Yoshi-P on 16, a game that was acted in English first
>Went on a press tour with Yoshi-P to promote 16
>Attends fanfest and gets applause and love
Koji Fox is winning at life.
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>Nippon work slave
>Winning at life
KEK
>t. american wagie
>Work sucks in general
>all jobs are slavery just because it's in japan
Yet another loudmouthed moron not knowing what they are talking about.
please god stop spamming threads
I wince that you write these
>>>/vg/
I dunno who is spamming threads but the fact that I posted something similar enough to make people think I’m them is fricking hilarious
FF14 dialogue is genuinely painful to read. It's "well written" but so fricking heavy to read because of the style. It's annoying. FF is supposed to be pop, and always has been, not fricking try hard convoluted poetry.
XIV was styling itself after Ivalice even before Yoshi-P and his Matsuno fetish came on board, so they localized it in the style of FFXII and War of the Lions.
As someone who likes the shitty jokes Koji Fox crams into the game, I totally agree. I get WHY everyone talks like that, because that’s just how the average western player expects people to sound in a medieval fantasy setting. But I still don’t like it.
>t. american
Woah woah woah dont lump us all together Im an American born and raised in Texas but I love this stuff.
Read more books, you fatass amerimutt. Just because your backwards 4th world failed state is illiterate doesn't mean the rest of the developed world is too.
It can get a bit exhausting to read, especially the fricking pirates but it's been a while since we had to deal with them.
This is actually a sign of low iq/shit tier education
Verily, frustration is writ clear 'pon thy lowset brow.
thine*
Games like FFXII and the FFT retranslation break that mold
>You, no less human than we? Ha! Now there's a beastly thought. You've been less than we from the moment your baseborn father fell upon your mother in whatever gutter saw you sired! You've been chattel since you came into the world drenched in common blood!
Granted, Koji is not as good as Alexander O. Smith either, but he's following the same vein, but sometimes he crosses the line from fanciful and theatrical to just plain stupidly old-fashioned
"Buscarron's Druthers" is a crappy name, both for a character and for an bar, and so is all the faux-french of Ishgard.
Thou needs must peruse more tomes
>FF14 dialogue is genuinely painful to read. It's "well written" but so fricking heavy to read because of the style.
Is this the power of American education? If these people would attempt even the more approachable literary classics like Moby Dick, Dracula, or Pride and Prejudice they'd get an aneurism.
Are you Black folk really in this thread acting like this corny ass anime game's story is comparable to classic literature? You XIV players really are a bunch of cultist holy shit.
Are you ok? Did you just post without reading anything in the thread or are you the guy who has lost his mind over people disagreeing with him?
Actually his point was that FFXIV is very easy to read and not comparable at all to classic literature which is why they'd have an aneurysm trying to read something like Moby Dick.
No, I'm laughing at a moron who finds some thee's and thou's and regency vocabulary in tabletop fantasy genre fiction to be "heavy to read", when the actual literature that vocabulary is pulled from is a hundred times denser.
Apparently you don't have any reading comprehension either.
It is a heavy needlessly superfluous read for a fairly average anime story. Just tell the fricking story without pretending it's Shakespeare.
The dialogue (and I guess the music) is like the one thing FF14 has going for it.
Im just glad he's not in charge of the other languages so I don't have to suffer his fanfiction.
>Im just glad he's not in charge of the other languages
He is ever since he got promoted in Shadowbringers LMAO
Nah, its always funny when I read the cringe shit here that happened in the English localisation that didn't appear in my language.
he was better in XI
>The developers actually love this, turns out
They don't.
They smile and say how amazing it is, because it's enforced by their PR departments.
But later on in candid interviews they speak about how much they hate how westerners rewrite their stuff.
Yes, I’m sure Yoshi-P worked closely with Koji Fox on 16, having the entire game mocapped, facial captured, and voice acted in English first because he hates the guy’s work so much.
It’s okay to admit some devs aren’t bothered by localization changes.
Koji was picked for XIV because his background in linguistics was important to the theme they wanted to explore about language barriers. XIV is a rare case of the localization being more faithful to the actual intent of the writers at least the original ones in 1.0, because the whole language thing has been dropped since then because Koji set out recognizable accents and dialects for every country in the setting, and even wrote full languages for each of the beast tribes which the developers intended to have voice acted, though the only one that actually made it in the final product was the dragon language. The Japanese version of the game fails to reflect any of the intended language differences between the various peoples.
The difference is that he adds or changes the script in a way that still respects the original source material and maintains continuity to the context of the game world.
He isn't doing it to push an agenda or to spite incel fans of the game.
>had to stop Yoshi P and Sakaguchi from telling western press about how the partied with young go go girls at a jp event
he single-handedly carries ffxiv
Such a shame it will be his last non mmo thing
Dumbass. he doesn't just localize it. He's the main lore writer of the game.
Bet you feel real smart now.
>the boy is just not buoyant
The English script of this game makes no fricking sense.
>The boy's just not buoyant.
What? Boyant? What the frick does that even mean? He's not boyish because he looks like a girl? What? I shouldn't have to constantly google these archaic bullshit words.
>Meanwhile, pic related
Clear, concise, and honestly... pretty hilarious. Alphinaud can't swim! Everyone from all walks of life, including those without an English major, can understand it. Beautiful. How dare Koji continue to frick with the masterpiece that is the JP script?
Sometimes I forget how many autists, ESLs, and autistic ESLs are on this site until coming across posts like these, where basic English wordplay brings them to a frothing rage.
I was here when the original was made
Ur trolling no one is this stupid
got two, not bad
Dumb shitskin.
He's a homosexual cringelord.
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY SAUSAGE DESCRIPTION YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE GAY JOKES YOU HAVE TO WRITE "THIS IS A SAUSAGE" LIKE THE JP DESCRIPTION
Go to sleep Koji. Your boyfriend waits. You'll always be a failed version of Alexander O'Smith.
>sausage
"Let's Sausage!"
kate
>be talentless fatass with no wit or brevity
>Simply just replaces all the words with ye olde English thinking that will make him look smart
Can't believe idiots actually fall for his act. Just compare how sharp and precise the FF12 translation was compared to the shitfest that is FF14. The latter is below that of fan translation.
It makes midwits think the generic JRPG plot they're reading is high art. I will admit that Koji's work with dragonspeak is pretty cool, and you could have someone much worse in charge of the localization.
The Longhaft questline is kino though, it's literally composed of nothing but dick jokes. Every single line is a dick joke. That's impressive.
>The Longhaft questline is kino though, it's literally composed of nothing but dick jokes. Every single line is a dick joke. That's impressive.
Uh oh he's upset now that someone disagrees with him, maybe he'll start spamming the thread with song lyrics or artbook pages.
>The Longhaft questline is kino though, it's literally composed of nothing but dick jokes. Every single line is a dick joke. That's impressive.
>Uh oh he's upset now that someone disagrees with him, maybe he'll start spamming the thread with song lyrics or artbook pages.
Koji isnt just a translator or localizer. He works with the story and lore team so he is partially responsible for the canon too, which is why his stuff isnt fanfiction like the normal homosexuals do. Maybe we need community notes on Ganker too.
I dislike that he rewrote the original Elidibus line at the end of seat of sacrifice. The original conveys his desperation in that moment much better.
I just press A repeatedly through all dialogue. I'm not reading these boring plots. The lalas always manage to read the most annoyingly, tarutaru were much cuter.