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[steady ether]

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[tender vapor]

Dying Light! Skyrim is supposed to be pretty good too

Zelda BotW & TotK both have good dubs but the speaking portions are few and far between

[open spruce]

The original Oblivion has a French dub, though Remastered does not, for some reason. There are mods that re-add it.

[open spruce]

I second Skyrim.

The Dishonored series is both great fun to play and also fully dubbed, starting from the first one:

[twilit helm]

I mean any high budget game should be fine

(i don't use French dub so i can't tell you)

[open spruce]

If in doubt, check the Steam page. It'll show which languages are available, and in what capacity.

Sadly, Elden Ring has everything but dubs.

[long abyss]

That was not the question

I'm interested in the game being made with initial french high quality work linguistically speaking. Something that couldn't be said in english, sounding fluent

[open spruce]

The dubs for most large titles are professionally done and linguistically accurate.

[long abyss]

It's not about accuracy, it's about authenticity. E.g:
A good example of russian localised game are Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader and The Witcher 3. They are not originally that way, but as a native I can confirm the work is tremendous - they adapted religion related matters and various phrases
Good german ones are Gothic series and Wolfenstein (from Bethesda at least)
French as I have found so far are Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, AC: Unity, Jusant and Dordogne

And for instance, various languages are present in good condition in Helldivers 2 too, but... Hearing so many times "Freireit" in german localisation and other phrases that are just obviously somewhat made up is... Off. You hardly would hear such phrases from a german speaking person, however hearing about "Give me liberty or give me death" is perfectly normal from an american and is on point

[open spruce]

I have yet to experience anything sounding 'made up'. The games I mentioned are authentic. Meanings, nuance, and expressions are all translated instead of kept the same.

[long abyss]

Well, we hadn't found a common ground on this matter then

I played dishonored 1-2 and TES Oblivion-Skyrim on russian, german and english languages, and truth be told - they are almost identical one-to-one translations made by corporate request, no spark of interest from translators or creativity

[long abyss]

Truth be told, I disagree on that as well
I have noticed that of recent indie games are made with much more investment and passion rather than Ubisoft or majority of EA releases

[twilit helm]

Yeah but they don't offer as many languages right?

[long abyss]

It's true. But I'm not looking just for simple translation, all of them support english regardless

[tender vapor]

I've been told by French native speakers that the skyrim & dying light dub were done incredibly well, and french people are pretty well known for critiquing things

[twilit helm]

Oh yeah i did play Skyrim in French at first and when i switched to English i almost liked it less

[tender vapor]

Same for dying light lol i prefer the french dub to english

[twilit helm]

And it's a very accessible game if you don't crank the difficulty, very chill

[tender vapor]

The second dying light does have a translation issue but it's in the text not the dub

[twilit helm]

Je crois que j'en ai un autre en tête mais je le retrouve pas

[tender vapor]

Not a game but the dub for vinland saga was top notch, another one I prefer to the english dub