Why do sims speak Simlish but have English names?

Because they would be unreadable otherwise?

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Akira Kibo, Baako Jang, Alika Kahananui, etc.

"OEII1001;c-17278533" wrote:
Akira Kibo, Baako Jang, Alika Kahananui, etc.

Oh. I guess by her name, Venessa Jeong born at San Myshuno and when YA traveled to Del Sol Valley

to me would of been better if sims spoke in english or french depending on what language the game is install

"friendlysimmers;c-17278644" wrote:
to me would of been better if sims spoke in english or french depending on what language the game is install

You do realize this game is available in more than two languages, right? The amount of dialogue writing/translating and recording would be monumental even if it was only available in two languages.

"friendlysimmers;c-17278644" wrote:
to me would of been better if sims spoke in english or french depending on what language the game is install

How long until conversations repeat themselves and get annoying? I think simlish was invented so such a level of repetition wouldn't occur. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of lines that would have to be localized for every bit of dialogue in every language the game supports.

What would be better is simlish accents. I'm not a game designer so I have no clue how that would work though.

The player is pretty much a god or a force of destiny in the sims so we'd need some way of knowing what's going on without it getting too repetitive. So the stuff we need to know is in whatever language the game is set to while everything else is simlish.

"Dragonfire2lm;c-17278680" wrote:

"friendlysimmers;c-17278644" wrote:
to me would of been better if sims spoke in english or french depending on what language the game is install

How long until conversations repeat themselves and get annoying? I think simlish was invented so such a level of repetition wouldn't occur. Not to mention the ridiculous amount of lines that would have to be localized for every bit of dialogue in every language the game supports.

What would be better is simlish accents. I'm not a game designer so I have no clue how that would work though.

The player is pretty much a god or a force of destiny in the sims so we'd need some way of knowing what's going on without it getting too repetitive. So the stuff we need to know is in whatever language the game is set to while everything else is simlish.

That too. And imagine how annoying hearing sims talk at speed 2 or 3 would be.

"friendlysimmers;c-17278644" wrote:
to me would of been better if sims spoke in english or french depending on what language the game is install

I am happy I don't understand what they are saying. That way I can imagine what they are talking about.

My hubby has a game where they speak in English and boy does it get repetitive!

With simlish I don't tend to listen to exact wording so it never feels repetitive to me.

I guess we could also give our sims simlish names but I think I'll stick with multi cultural for those.