The first-person survival parkour game Lost Light 2, developed by Techland, was officially unlocked on February 4, and this apocalyptic game has attracted countless new and old players as soon as it was released. Last week, in the Steam Top 10 sales list, various versions of "Fading Light 2" occupied half of the country. As of press time, the game has been rated as particularly positive on Steam.
Whether Gone with the Wind 2 will be able to catch up with the original 17 million sales is hard to say, but that doesn't stop it from being seen as a good game right now. However, unlike the high ratings of Steam players, there are many bad reviews from Italian players on the Metacritic website.
The reason for the bad reviews is the same as the Chinese players of those years - there is no localized voice.
How well a game that is intended to serve players around the world will greatly affect how players evaluate it. In the early years, because of the lack of attention to the Chinese market, the official versions of many foreign game masterpieces did not Chinese voice and text, which made many domestic players very angry.
Many irrational people angrily brushed bad reviews and shouted "we need Chinese!" After the unremitting efforts of the majority of players (support for the genuine game), all this has changed. More and more foreign game works will give priority to the game experience of Chinese players, and Borderlands 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 are examples of excellent localization completion.
Although the Chinese voice in "Gone With the Light 2" is not yet at the highest level, some of the dialogue will still make people feel dramatic, but it is already a great achievement to liberate the player's eyes from the subtitles and pay more attention to other elements in the screen.
Limited by the inability to adjust the tone to the context (the voice actors only have the text and no plot), players don't have to be critical.
But Italian players who have long enjoyed excellent game localization services have never been so angry. The subtitles alone are not enough for them, and what makes them even more unacceptable is that "Gone with the Wind 2" actually supports Polish! This group of arrogant Italian players could not imagine why they would lose to the Polish players.
Of course, if they wanted to Google it, they would find out that Techland, the developer of Gone With the Wind 2, was originally a Polish game production and distribution company.
Techland didn't respond positively to why it didn't provide an Italian voice for Gone With the Wind 2. And the possibility of subsequent updates to the Italian voice is not too high, after all, this is a huge project. This may add many unknown bugs to the otherwise stable game.
At present, the purchasing power and huge market of Chinese players have made overseas game development teams have to pay attention. In addition to the necessary localization processing, there are also more game works with Chinese culture as the main body. Yesterday, Epic's exclusive Chinese kung fu game "Sifu" was officially released, and well-known media such as IGN and M Station gave high scores.
The game restores the sharp movements and sense of blows in Chinese kung fu, and the action system composed of many elements such as posture bars, martial arts moves, and environmental attacks has made many domestic players praise. The super high attention received by the Chinese market dooms those days of "seeking Sinicization" to be gone.
So what do you think about what happened to Italian players?