Sims Talk Human Languages Please. «12...Next Go

dbaa

Seriously, when do the Sims get to speak English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, ...? 8)

CuddlyBun

I'm pretty sure they speak simlish because of how often they repeat phrases.

FosoSam

dbaa wrote:

Seriously, when do the Sims get to speak English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, ...? 8)

The reason they don't talk English or anything else is because if it were a real language with real meaning, they would be saying the same phrases over and over again, making everything sound extremely repetitive.

If they do a completely nonsensical language and put speech bubbles, they can be talking about anything, and it will have infinite meaning.

overcookedburger

Nope. I really would HATE that, they are not going to do that anyway.

dbaa

I'm sure human creativity can program a good algorithm to do this. :thumbup:

FosoSam

dbaa wrote:

I'm sure human creativity can program a good algorithm to do this. :thumbup:

I would love to have something like that.

But first, I would want to have something that can understand and interpret written word into processes in the game.

IE: You could explain, by typing, what things were (like, for example, explain how weather works to the game) and it was able to translate it into coding and features of the game.
Then I would be impressed. (if it could do that, then you would be able to explain to it how to speak human languages, if you wanted)


This is my vision for a perfect Sims game.
Instead of distributing sims, you could distribute 'lessons' (of course, if you were to explain to it to make a Sim to your specifications, then you could package that to an exchange)

And I'm rambling again.


Also, computer generated voices are creepy.
Even the good ones. (I've played Façade)

anettesb

I think the game would be really expensive if they did that. Think about how many difrent laungiuse there is! Half of the written translation is of any way, my male sims is allways becomming a mom! I guees it says parent in english, but stil no way my males are the mom! picture that (and worse mistakes) being said! I would hate it.

Na I like them speaking simlish... it's fun

munchiepoo

No,I don't think they should change what they have done since sim city.

dbaa

FosoSam wrote:

dbaa wrote:

I'm sure human creativity can program a good algorithm to do this. :thumbup:

I would love to have something like that.

But first, I would want to have something that can understand and interpret written word into processes in the game.

IE: You could explain, by typing, what things were (like, for example, explain how weather works to the game) and it was able to translate it into coding and features of the game.
Then I would be impressed. (if it could do that, then you would be able to explain to it how to speak human languages, if you wanted)


This is my vision for a perfect Sims game.
Instead of distributing sims, you could distribute 'lessons' (of course, if you were to explain to it to make a Sim to your specifications, then you could package that to an exchange)

And I'm rambling again.


Also, computer generated voices are creepy.
Even the good ones. (I've played Façade)

FosoSam has got a good idea already. Brainstorming is underway here. Excellent! :thumbup:

Sucom

At least if the sims speak in simlish, it is then up to the player to use their imagination to understand what the sims might be saying. The good thing about this is that it allows a variety of possibilities. If the sims repeated the very same sentences in our own language, it would soon become extremely boring!

Having said this, I play the game so often that I can remember quite a few of the simlish phrases so even some of those have become a little repetitive ...... especially the 'talk about gardening' one! lol. My sims are always gardeners

munchiepoo

Avasch a mosh, a bini naba naba a sumbi eee--- avasch a mosh.

Court3007

i love simlish, the sims wouldn't be the same without it

blunote00

Court3007 wrote:

i love simlish, the sims wouldn't be the same without it

This...

randompersonage

Court3007 wrote:

i love simlish, the sims wouldn't be the same without it

I agree

CatLand

I'm a fan of the Simlish, it's funny to listen to (My non-Sims playing friend started crying she was laughing so much at it when she heard it ).

However I think it would be cool if you could learn Simlish-French/Arabic/Chinese in World Adventures. It could help you make relationships with locals faster and get Visas quicker, something like that...

schmezzle

Court3007 wrote:

i love simlish, the sims wouldn't be the same without it

Definitely this.

DeathNoteSim

overcookedburger wrote:

Nope. I really would HATE that, they are not going to do that anyway.

Agree, the game will loose it simming charm anyway if sims start talking real languages.

DeathNoteSim

schmezzle wrote:

Court3007 wrote:

i love simlish, the sims wouldn't be the same without it

Definitely this.

:thumbup:

LuckySky

I love simlish! I couldn't imagine a Sims game without it!

krimsonnox

Sims speak Simlish, this is like asking for fish to grown skis and do crosscountry through the desert!

Sims cant speak those other languages cuz they arnt in our world, they are in sim world. they dont know what English or Spanish or any of that is. I have always thought of sims existing on another planet or plane or dimensional rift or something! i hate when they sneak in branding for instance that isn't translated to simlish.

yes as soemone said its been this way since simcity, since ive been with sims since the First simcity if they chnaged this core element of the series i would feel betrayed and devastated!

im still in shock you would even ask for this, that you could contemplate it..sims speak simlish!! a talking sim dog would speak simlish! lol

could you speak martian?

lol sorry im in shock...sims speaking english!!! DEVASTATING!!! when they released pets trailer with an english song i had a conniption!!

ThisSIMisCrazed

That would be creepy. :shock:

krimsonnox

ThisSIMisCrazed wrote:

That would be creepy. :shock:

i generally hate the flashy sig things people have but yours just made me laugh my patoot off thanks!

clubers

They didn't do that because of the time it would take to make each language.

Plus the phrases would be repetitive.

SIMplified

It being a universal game they need a language we universally can't understand so to keep it from getting boring or leaving a language out. Besides that sims aren't human, they're sims so they speak simlish but I'm half certain you can find a mod or something that has a human language in it o.o

Erpe

dbaa wrote:

Seriously, when do the Sims get to speak English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, ...? 8)

I don't think that the Sims series will continue that long. But if it does then my guess will be about 30 years from now.

We need much stronger computers if the Sims shall be able to have interesting discussions which aren't so repetitive that we would turn the sound off to avoid hearing them after less than an hour.

ladynaava

I think it might raise the rating if for example- some of the romantic convos were actual words.

I would like the opportunity to add my own 'voicesets' to the game though. This way, we could get a coded list of items say:

Disaproving coment
Romantic talk:

And they could be recorded in either simlish or english or whatever suits the players fancy. I've seen voicesets done by fans, and some can be quite good.

I'd also like the ability for a sim to call another sim's name. IT seems kind of strange that they can't.