Talk:Nukor/@comment-36630107-20180818141422/@comment-190.74.13.89-20180823151318

Not true, lad. As a professional translator, and as someone who knows the awful mess that Spanish is when used in videogames, the Spanish version can't beat the original. You see, unfortunately for Spanish speakers, there's no standard Spanish. French has Parisian French, and English has American English, those two variaties are the standard for videogames (and usually for any translation, too). But Spanish has none of that. What they do instead is increase the register of the language, making it sound academic, in order to pathetically try to sound neutral because 21 countries use Spanish, and there are many jargon and lexical differences among them. Sure, you can argue that British, Irish, Scottish, Australian and Kiwi English also differ from AmE. There's however one key difference: cultural power. Because American media is highly popular in other English speaking countries, people are used to American English and do not usually complain about its jargon. This is not true for Spanish speakers who love bitching about dubbing or translations that sound too colloquial.

I've played many games in Spanish, they are awful, it's not natural sounding Spanish. It tries to sound neutral, but ends up being not only academic but also unnatural. No one speaks like that.

It is also not true that your native language will always be easier to understand, process or make things more enjoyable. This, of course, depends on each speaker and their level of fluency. Once you've been using a language for years it becomes second nature, you end up processing it better than your native language.