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#1 Jun 26 2015 at 1:48 AM Rating: Decent
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I play on Japanese client, and the new duck minion literally has a description of "This duck insures everything."

Anyway AFLAC is big in Japan, and I am sure it is intentional. I think this is the first parody I notice in FF14. There used to be an enemy called Black Triple Star in FF11 (a Gundam parody), and one of the "Maat" level cap quest is a Madoka Magica parody.
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#2 Jun 26 2015 at 2:30 AM Rating: Good
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I would be interested in knowing more differences between the English and Japanese client as localizing content seems to permanently alter the content. Legends of Localization have a bunch of interesting articles about the differences between the Japanese and English version of FF4 and how the fan translation differed from the US version (FF2).
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I would be interested in knowing more differences between the English and Japanese client as localizing content seems to permanently alter the content. Legends of Localization have a bunch of interesting articles about the differences between the Japanese and English version of FF4 and how the fan translation differed from the US version (FF2).


I think the "most famous" difference is with Titan. That stupid NPC in Limsa Lominsa refers Titan as Takotan. Hence Takotan is often the a nickname of Titan among Japanese players. That isn't a parody, but a play of the Japanese language - Tako = Octopus, Tan = a cute way to refer to young people. The same NPC plays with the name with Leviathan as well (he calls it Levichan - chan = another cute way to refer to young people), but not as funny as in the way for Titan.

As for AFLAC, the joke will only makes sense to Japanese and Americans. If they put that in EU version, no one would understand the joke >_>
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#4 Jun 26 2015 at 3:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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Please enlighten me of why Japanese people use "A cute young octopus" as a nickname for a angry brown hulk.
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Please enlighten me of why Japanese people use "A cute young octopus" as a nickname for a angry brown hulk.


That Galka buffoon NPC started that :P. The fans just loved that name :3

As for the duck, I wonder does it quacks... SE ain't going to hire Gilbert Gottfried to do the minion quack? Wait, he got quack fired because he was telling naughty jokes about Japan!

(All of the above is meant to be humorous, and not meant to be serious or factual :3)


Edited, Jun 26th 2015 7:28am by scchan
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#6 Jun 26 2015 at 5:26 AM Rating: Good
I'm preeetttty sure that only the NA clients got "Leviabeetus" as that's a parody of Wilford Brimley's pronunciation of "diabetes" and it's more or less an Internet-only joke.

The jokes are localized for each client, most definitely. The NA client has the funniest ones to us, but that's because MCK Fox and his team are a bunch of very funny nerds.
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The jokes are localized for each client, most definitely. The NA client has the funniest ones to us, but that's because MCK Fox and his team are a bunch of very funny nerds.


One of the things I liked most about FFXIV -- how ridiculously awesome the localization team is. I'd have to say, it is one of... if not THE... best-translated game from Japan, Ever.

The translation is pretty much spot-on perfect, in fact it gives 110% with all of these jokes that only Americans (and maybe a few Brits) would understand.
#8 Jun 26 2015 at 9:34 AM Rating: Decent
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The jokes are localized for each client, most definitely. The NA client has the funniest ones to us, but that's because MCK Fox and his team are a bunch of very funny nerds.


One of the things I liked most about FFXIV -- how ridiculously awesome the localization team is. I'd have to say, it is one of... if not THE... best-translated game from Japan, Ever.

The translation is pretty much spot-on perfect, in fact it gives 110% with all of these jokes that only Americans (and maybe a few Brits) would understand.


MMO wise it may be, but I wouldn't say in comparison to single player games, especially these days. I tried the English setting this morning and seen how different most things are, to the point it's kind of confusing lol, but it's mostly because of the pop culture that largely doesn't exist in Japan.
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too soon ? Gilbert Gottfried , comedy is hard ...Smiley: disappointed ... Smiley: laugh
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#10 Jun 26 2015 at 10:17 AM Rating: Good
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too soon ? Gilbert Gottfried , comedy is hard ...Smiley: disappointed ... Smiley: laugh


Apparently Gottfried can even make fun of himself getting duck-voice fired by AFLAC. Anyway, he got booed for telling 9/11 jokes right after 9/11. Not the first time he did something similar! Doing schadenfreude in front of victims ain't going to earn you much fans.

Back to the minion, if you go directly to the item's Japanese page on Lodestone. The Japanese players did caught on the joke. All comments except one contain only one word, and you can guess what it is >_>.
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#11 Jun 26 2015 at 10:44 AM Rating: Good
As far as localization, this reminds me of FFXI and many of the NPCs there. I often wondered what the Japanese client was like for many obviously American jokes. For instance, that woman painter in Bastok who talks like a hippie. I'd love to see a list of all the differences like that.
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I would be interested in knowing more differences between the English and Japanese client as localizing content seems to permanently alter the content. Legends of Localization have a bunch of interesting articles about the differences between the Japanese and English version of FF4 and how the fan translation differed from the US version (FF2).


The one that sparked most "controversy" was the one made in the final cutscene of the The Keeper of the Lake. The dialogue was pretty straightforward in the Japanese version, while the localization team decided to obfuscate the meaning of Midgardsorm's dialogue, though in the end it just came out as a confusing scene.
Another "change" is that, at least in the beginning, Haurchefant's mannerism was kept out of dialogue in the US/EU version, when he still didn't have a voice. When they added the voice, the localization became consistent with the Japanese counterpart.

Other fun facts include that the Scholar's abilities in the Japanese version sound like battle tactics.
Other differences include certain abilities names (for example Hollowed Ground is Invincible in Japanese, or Defiance is Defender).
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#13 Jun 27 2015 at 7:24 AM Rating: Good
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I'm not a huge fan of all the flowery language that seems to sift in to the English localization. I'm not fluent in Japanese but I understand enough to know that what is being said is much more straightforward than what's in my subtitles.

There are characters that speak with particular affectations of speech, like Dewlala. For them, absolutely, go nuts. But for everyone else.. come on.. why?
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