"somewhsome;c-17718465" wrote:
So, maybe if you play Sims 4 in the Chinese language, it'll have Chinese naming order too?
Not sure about Chinese, but in Japanese, yeah.
In James Turner's video, where he tries to play a game in Japanese, he names his sim James Turner and then it swaps in CAS and become Turner James.
So it makes sense, and it's convenient if you're Japanese and downloading a sim from the gallery. The game will just change naming order for you.
https://youtu.be/fr8xaB_3i4Q
In the real world, both Japanese and Chinese cultures would use the original order for foreign names and native names. A foreign name transliterated in Chinese or Japanese would start with the given name and then the surname; a native name in Chinese or Japanese would start with the surname and then given name.
Realistically, EAxis should have allowed the option to switch the naming order by a player's command instead of automatically switching the naming order based on the language the game is in by default.
In real life, the Sinosphere cultures and Hungarian culture both have the surname first/given name last practice, but for foreign names, they actually use the original order of the foreign name. The West, on the other hand, has come a long way. Westerners started out using Western naming order, but then switched to using the original order; interestingly, in East Asia, some East Asians would actually reverse the naming order but that's usually because they are in a Western setting.
