Well I actually would like to hear my sims speaking english french and german would be quite amusing.
I work in a service industry and overhear a great many conversations everyday and yes they are repetative in real life lol.
I have been playing the sims since they were first released and even conversations in simlish are repetative LOL my sims say the same things all the time LOL
Well I actually would like to hear my sims speaking english french and german would be quite amusing.
I work in a service industry and overhear a great many conversations everyday and yes they are repetative in real life lol.
I have been playing the sims since they were first released and even conversations in simlish are repetative LOL my sims say the same things all the time LOL
That's because the Sims actually have a very limited vocabulary. When you stop to think about it, they use the same words to express different things.
I always have to shake my head at the people who want EA to make the Sims speak English, though. And it's always Americans who ask for this. They're the only ones I know who are uncomfortable with the idea of anyone speaking anything *but* English, whereas Europeans, in general, aren't bothered by anyone speaking more than one language; in fact, I have heard that in some countries children learn two or three during the course of their growing up years.
I vote no for this idea. Being bilingual myself (English/Spanish, I'm quite comfy with the idea of my Sims speaking in their own unique language.
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No, It would be like a doll where you pull the string and listen to it talk. You would get tired of the same thing over and over again. I had rather have simlish. You don't really pay that much attention to what they say so it doesn't really sound like they are repeating the same thing when the carry on a conversation.
I think if the sims were speaking to where you could understand them many would runaway screaming from the game. I would anyway, I can't imagine the same conversation lines over and over and over and over. There would be no replay value to it for me no matter what all sims could do otherwise. With the thought bubbles and gibberish you can atleast have some inagination as to what how their conversation is going instead of the same words repeated again and again and again.
It would be cool to see what their always saying but they would never do that because then they couldn't release it worldwide without making a Japanese or Chinese version.
This is not the problem at all because if EA made sound files for the game so the Sims could speak English then it wouldn't be any big problem to translate those sound files to a lot of other languages. The sound files would be big files however. But they didn't all have to be distributed with the game because EA could just make all other language versions of the sound files available as downloads.
No, the problem is to make the original English version of those sound files. In real life we repeat many words but we are still able to vary the way we use all those words almost infinitely. The Sims could not do that without making a lot of meaningless random sentences which wouldn't give any meaning. To avoid this EA would have to save all possible exact sentences in the sound files and just let the Sims pick random sentences from the files. But this would never give meaningful conversations anyway. Just sentences without context or a lot of irritating repetitions. There is no way to make such conversations interesting for us to hear except for the first few hours. After that we would just be forced to play the game without sound because we just couldn't stand to hear those monotone repeating "conversations" anymore.
Look at it this way: What if somebody got rid of your native language and forced you to learn nearly every single language from around the world? Don't put these poor sims through that. It's like school for the rest of your life.
I think that if we could understand them, it would be too distracting. Like can you imagine having two or more sets of sims having conversations at a party or something? You'll lose your mind if you try to listen to what everyone says...even if you don't try, you'll still be listening. Personally, this would drive me nuts.
The reason for using Simlish is to convey emotions without using a specific language. The makers thought the emotion behind the words was important not the words themselves. And I agree.
However I wouldn't mind smilish but with accents. I've always wanted to make a Jamacian or Texan, or english sim, and even if I can get them to look the park they don't sound right.
I was a little disappointed that you can get your sims to go to France and China and Egypt but the sims that live there don't have french of chinese or Egyption accents
But the essence of the game really is the emotion, not the words.
Its a little early to start talking about the sims four, plus, do you realize how much more expensive and time consuming it would be for them to do it in English, and French, and German, and Japanese and Chinese, and well over two dozen other languages? It might be nice for people who speak English to hear them in English, but people speak foreign tongues would want to hear them in their language as well. Plus it would get kind of repetitive, since they would be still saying the same things over and over again. That's why they created Simlish in the first place.
People really should stop raising dead threads. I bet this poor Simmer (the OP) has gone off somewhere with his/her tail tucked between his/her legs because of all the negative feedback to his/her idea.
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youre funny! you act like this would ever happen! The creators wouldnt change ANYTHING that is huge in the Sims. If the Sims 4 comes out probably in like 4-5 years, I will know it will have simlish and no sim will say "Hello! I like spagetti! Also if someone talked to how would they say your name? What if you made a stupid name like Tdjhfahgfygbduy Bhvbfhwqnfxp? would the creators have to record all names. Maybe they'd have arranged names you pick. NOBODY WOULD WANT THAT.
@TheJohnnyMan, don't know if you're talking to me or the original poster, but you do realize that this thread was made about 3 days after the release of the Sims 3? Back in June of 2009, in fact.
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I work in a service industry and overhear a great many conversations everyday and yes they are repetative in real life lol.
I have been playing the sims since they were first released and even conversations in simlish are repetative LOL my sims say the same things all the time LOL
That's because the Sims actually have a very limited vocabulary. When you stop to think about it, they use the same words to express different things.
I always have to shake my head at the people who want EA to make the Sims speak English, though. And it's always Americans who ask for this. They're the only ones I know who are uncomfortable with the idea of anyone speaking anything *but* English, whereas Europeans, in general, aren't bothered by anyone speaking more than one language; in fact, I have heard that in some countries children learn two or three during the course of their growing up years.
I vote no for this idea. Being bilingual myself (English/Spanish, I'm quite comfy with the idea of my Sims speaking in their own unique language.
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Simlish rules. Simlish forever.
No, the problem is to make the original English version of those sound files. In real life we repeat many words but we are still able to vary the way we use all those words almost infinitely. The Sims could not do that without making a lot of meaningless random sentences which wouldn't give any meaning. To avoid this EA would have to save all possible exact sentences in the sound files and just let the Sims pick random sentences from the files. But this would never give meaningful conversations anyway. Just sentences without context or a lot of irritating repetitions. There is no way to make such conversations interesting for us to hear except for the first few hours. After that we would just be forced to play the game without sound because we just couldn't stand to hear those monotone repeating "conversations" anymore.
WE LOVE SIMLISH!!!!!!!!!
LEAVE THEM BE!!!!!!!!!
Let there be SIMLISH!!!
HAIL THE SIMLISH!!!!!!!
And why are we talking about sims 4....???
Sims 3 is still on the start.......
There will be a lot of time till sims 4......
However I wouldn't mind smilish but with accents. I've always wanted to make a Jamacian or Texan, or english sim, and even if I can get them to look the park they don't sound right.
I was a little disappointed that you can get your sims to go to France and China and Egypt but the sims that live there don't have french of chinese or Egyption accents
But the essence of the game really is the emotion, not the words.
Its a little early to start talking about the sims four, plus, do you realize how much more expensive and time consuming it would be for them to do it in English, and French, and German, and Japanese and Chinese, and well over two dozen other languages? It might be nice for people who speak English to hear them in English, but people speak foreign tongues would want to hear them in their language as well. Plus it would get kind of repetitive, since they would be still saying the same things over and over again. That's why they created Simlish in the first place.
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