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Real Language In Jade Empire

Posted by Zonk on from the great-jobs dept.

HamOperator writes "Tho Fan is a made-up language spoken by unreal people in the XBox game Jade Empire. The New York Times has an interview with the creator of the language." From the article: "...they wanted to avoid using Chinese or any other Asian language that might shackle their invented universe to actual historical events. At the same time, they did not want to resort to unintelligible nonsense."

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  1. OMG someone actually got paid to make it by Jumbles · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    definutely sounded like unintelligible nonsense to me someone actually got paid to make it up ouch!, why go through all the trouble of making a game based on Ancient China then use a made up jibberish language instead of Chinese??? not to mention using voice overs by people who sound like they are from California.

  2. Languages! by segal_loves_pandas · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And next generation games are rumored to be £50 because of "production cost"?!

    Maybe if they spent less time inventing languages and more time making fun games they would have that problem!!!!

  3. Re:A hypothetical situation by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Or like this ? :D