ETWs in game languages

[Barkhorn1x]

Looks like CA is attempting to do some cool things here with Language - but - given the many factions and dialect possibilities, they are bound to disappoint.

For example - although the troops will shout out commands in the most common native tongues (Engish, French, German, Spanish, Russian??) I doubt that there will be Magyar or native american languages included.

And, there is really no getting away from the "movie language" issue as we all don't speak these languages and the - admittedly cheesy -"flavor" is better than no accent at all.

[Vuk]

Looks like CA is attempting to do some cool things here with Language - but - given the many factions and dialect possibilities, they are bound to disappoint.

For example - although the troops will shout out commands in the most common native tongues (Engish, French, German, Spanish, Russian??) I doubt that there will be Magyar or native american languages included.

And, there is really no getting away from the "movie language" issue as we all don't speak these languages and the - admittedly cheesy - flavor is better than no accent at all.

Magyar is no small, out of the way language, so I do not see why it should not be represented. The Magyar were some of the most influencial people of the time (not as much as Germans or French, granted, but VERY influencial none the less). They were extremely powerful, extremely wealthy, and culturally rich. If you would include Swedish, I do not see how you could not include Magyar. It is not like they will have a problem finding Magyar speakers to do the voices. I will be severely disappointed if they have Hungarian troops speaking German. Actually, I know quite a few Hungarians who play Total War, and it is them who raised this concern. The Hungarians (There are about 10million national Hungarians alone today) are VERY proud of their identity, and I think that CA not thinking them important enough (during a period when the Magyar people were extremely influencial throughout Europe) to represent their language in the game would be a recipe for a lot of disgruntled Hungarians. It is not like CA would have a hard time finding Hungarian voice actors (heck, my Magyar language teachers are linguistic experts and would probably be happy to record their voices) and it would not add much to the game size. I think that there is a very strong case for including Magyar (which if you have never heard it, is a very unique and beautiful language).