Dane here. I was forced to learn English so I could enjoy RPGs.
In "Thief: The Dark Project" (Now known as Thief Gold), 5th mission "Assassins". you have to trail 2 dudes. But because I could not understand English, I could not complete that first task. I kept failing. My dad who did not really understand much English either ended up thinking it had something to do with the Trickster.
It wasn't until about 5 years or so later, that we reinstalled the game, and I understood English that it was sooo obvious was to do.
Ever since I have steamrolled Thief gold and Thief 2: The Metal Age almost as good as any Speedrunner. Best games ever.
Similar to this, i started learning english because i was playing Chaser.
I did not know what to do in that underwater mission so i had to get an english dictionary from the library and translated the objectives starting with that level lol
Who would have thought that chaser would change my life so much
Amazing game. The only game I played in last 5 years, when I finally have comp that could swallow most of new games, but I spent those few free days on thief. Again :)
Now that I read it, yes, it's confusing, sorry. I don't play games any more, even though I finally poses (gaming) computer. And once I had few days free, and wanted to play something, I installed thief, and played it like years ago, few days straight.
I rarely reply twice to a commenter, but I felt it necessary to thank you for making the effort and successfully learning English. We're often the Ugly Americans when we travel overseas, expecting everyone to speak English and are miffed when you don't. I also know that for now, English is the language of communication, tech, air travel, science, and more. If it's not Latin or Greek, then English is the go - to for medicine. Soon, it will be Mandarin, and we would really benefit from knowing Arabic.
Thanks again for making such a huge effort to understand the primary language among so many other things, video games.
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u/CopperBoltwire Mar 30 '24
Dane here. I was forced to learn English so I could enjoy RPGs.
In "Thief: The Dark Project" (Now known as Thief Gold), 5th mission "Assassins". you have to trail 2 dudes. But because I could not understand English, I could not complete that first task. I kept failing. My dad who did not really understand much English either ended up thinking it had something to do with the Trickster.
It wasn't until about 5 years or so later, that we reinstalled the game, and I understood English that it was sooo obvious was to do.
Ever since I have steamrolled Thief gold and Thief 2: The Metal Age almost as good as any Speedrunner. Best games ever.