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Recommend me a GOOD game with lots of talking in it!

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good luck, my dear friend... German surely isnt the easiest Language out there, so you have my respect!;)
maybe try GTA IV

Is their a LOT of dialogue in GTA IV? From the times I have seen this game (never played it myself) it seems to be mostly running around, stealing cars, shooting people, etc.

DEUS EX, books, datacubes, logs, different questions and answers for NPC's, you name it...

played Deus EX years ago, and I was one of those who never thought all that much of it. Also in games like this, like with Bioshock and others being mentioned, the dialogue is very limited in comparison to the text. Spoken dialogue (with subtitles) is the important thing here

I'll mention Final Fantasy 13, although the main story isn't too hard to follow, the background lore is a bitch. Yes it has subtitles etc.

Do you get FF13 on PC?

Play transaltions of the old classic RGP's. :D

Any suggestions?

I trust your judgment as I remember us agreeing often on what is good/bad about a game.

Hell from what I see you pretty much have every game there is to choose from within your guidelines.. Just listening to German is going to make it hard to learn. If your using a translated text to understand what your seeing, then the text may not actually be in the order you heard it in German.

I wouldn't use english subtitles with german speech. Having worked my way through a couple of german textbooks, I started using computer games to learn around 9 months ago. I got my girlfriend to bring me back the german version of Gothic 2 Gold and I would sit playing that, listening to the speech, and taking screenshots of the subtitles. I would then come out of the game (without saving) and go and translate the whole lot. When I turned the game back on, I would then go and do something else in the game in order to avoid the monotony of continuously repeating the same thing, and so on. At first it was a real hard slog, but gradually I would need to translate less and less. Furthermore, with it being computer game that I hugely enjoyed playing, I would spend hours and hours within a 'german speaking world' and never get bored or feel strained.

Jetzt, wuerde ich sagen, dass ich ein ziemlich gutes Verstaendis von Deutsche habe. Sogar so gut, dass ich mit dir auf diene Mutterssprache unterhalten koennte. Obwohl die Gespraeche ganz langweillig fuer dich waerst....Keine Frage!

Without a doubt, so long as a person is willing at least to start of with at least working through a general grammar textbook to give themselves a foundation in the language, then thier is no better method for learning a language than with a dialogue based computer game (that you really enjoy).
 
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Dragon Age has the most dialog I have ever experienced in a game. It's plenty fun to play as well. Essentially, Bioware games are seriously talky games.

Does Half-Life 2 have a german translation? You could play the Call of Duty games as well.
 

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Dragon Age has the most dialog I have ever experienced in a game. It's plenty fun to play as well. Essentially, Bioware games are seriously talky games.

Yeah...lots of people are recommending that game, but then others state how mind-numbingly boring it is. I suspect that I may fall into the latter category.

For me:

Gothic 2 Gold > Risen >>>.........and then some.........>>> Oblivion, Mass Effect (and probs Dragon Age, etc).

I realise that the critical acclaim and media hype that these games received would paint a very inverted picture to this, which makes me think that either I (and most other people I know), have strange tastes and are unable to appreciate 'great RPG games'; or that critical acclaim these days is greatly influenced by factors outwith how good/original/fun/immersive a game actually is.

It seems that there really isn't a huge amount of RPG's around to choose from.
 
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Over the past year, I have been using computer games to great effect in my german learning efforts.

The games that I have been using have been all the Gothic games and I have just completed Risen (auf Deutsch naturlich). All these games are great for language learning in that there is lots of spoken dialouge, with subtitles, and the games themselves are hugely immersive and enjoyable (even G3 with the 1.73 CP patch was a pretty solid game). Combining learning with having lots of fun seems to me to be the only sensible way to learn a language (an otherwise boring as hell process), therefore, I am on the look-out for other good games with lots of spoken dialogue in them.

The following games are defo off the list, as they are boring as hell (and own retails copies of two of them already...unfortunately):

Mass Effect
Oblivion
Far Cry 2

And of course RPG's like STALKER are no good because all the communication is written, as oppossed to being voice acted.

Natürlich, umlaut.

I'd say any modern RPG or check if they have the classic point and click adventures in German, Lucas Arts and the likes.

You can of course watch your favorite movies in German, I'd rather jump off a cliff than doing that though.
 
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Natürlich, umlaut.

I'd say any modern RPG or check if they have the classic point and click adventures in German, Lucas Arts and the likes.

You can of course watch your favorite movies in German, I'd rather jump off a cliff than doing that though.

Yeah...but I don't have no umlaut on my British keyboard.

Wir koennen es eine Texte nennen.

I wouldn't watch any good movie in German unless it was actually a German film. Besides, computer games are a way better method for learning a language. Computer games are interactive, you don't mind repeating same bits a few times, you can take screen-shots, translate..etc.etc.etc.
 
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Is their a LOT of dialogue in GTA IV? From the times I have seen this game (never played it myself) it seems to be mostly running around, stealing cars, shooting people, etc.


Jetzt, wuerde ich sagen, dass ich ein ziemlich gutes Verstaendis von Deutsche habe. Sogar so gut, dass ich mit dir auf diene Mutterssprache unterhalten koennte. Obwohl die Gespraeche ganz langweillig fuer dich waerst....Keine Frage!
Oh, there is a good amount of dialogue,at least in the cutscenes,which happen quite often if you take missions the whole time!;) just running around,beating and shooting people, surely wouldnt help there, thats right!:laugh:

Was du schreibst,klingt schon ganz gut, ich denke mit ein bisschen mehr Übung wirst du dein Ziel, Deutsch zu lernen in nicht allzu ferner Zukunft, erreichen!;)
Wie gesagt, ich bin beeindruckt, von deinem Willen, die deutsche Sprache zu lernen!:D

Does Half-Life 2 have a german translation? You could play the Call of Duty games as well.
just go to steam -> change language;) it should also change the language for all games you own on that account, so yeah, there is a german Version of HL2!:)
 

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Fallout 2. I also have a thing for Arcanum (even if I haven't played it that much). I'm pretty sure there's a german version of Fallout somewhere, not as sure about Arcanum.

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played Deus EX years ago, and I was one of those who never thought all that much of it.

When I first played it I was totally unimpressed, mostly because I was diving into Thief 2 at the time. I bought the second game around 2004 and thought it was a decent game. Around 2006 or so I actually sat down with the first game and was blown away, and ever since I see it as one of the best games of all time. It's .. art.
 
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