Favorite piece of bad English

RoboBlue · Post by **RoboBlue** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 7:32

What's your favorite piece of bad english/engrish in a game?

For me it's a toss-up between:

I AM ERROR. - Zelda 2

PRESS START TO RICH - Mario Lottery (a terrible unlicensed Mario game starring Fortran, a guy who uses pig's blood for mouthwash.)

Grimson · Post by **Grimson** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:02

Do I even have to mention the best of all?

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning
What happen?
Someone set us up the bomb
We get signal
What?
Main screen turn on
It's you
How are you gentlemen
All your base are belong to us
You are on your way to destruction
What you say
You have no chance to survive make your time
HAHAHA
- Zero Wing (the entire intro scene is full of engrish)

Post by **Levellass** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:12

Full? How many examples? Over NIII-

Ok! Ok! I'll stop.

Fucl. There is nothing else that comes close.

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:48

"Master using it and you can have this."
"It is a secret to everyone." - Zelda

"CONGLATURATION" Ghostbusters

TerminILL · Post by **TerminILL** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:25

shaking it up a little.

"You Spoony Bard!" - Final Fantasy II (US)/IV (Japan, and US re-releases)

Every re-release has been translated far better than the comically bad original US localisation. Every re-release has, by popular demand, included this line anyways.

of course, some classics such as "A WINNER IS YOU" and "THIS STORY IS HAPPY END" are always great.

VikingBoyBilly · Post by **VikingBoyBilly** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:34

I think bugs bunny's crazy castle ended with "YOU AM GOOD PLAYER" or something like that.

Sword of Mana (Final Fantasy Adventure)'s re-release was ridiculously oversaturated with text. Every dialogue was like a 20 minute cutscene I swear. And they even did the dastardly deed of putting the longest, unskippable dialogue before the torturously difficult final boss. Those translators really have to draw a line somewhere between engrish laziness and trying too hard to be "epic" or whatever that filler bulcrapfucl is.

Post by **Flaose** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 13:55

I AM ERROR wasn't actually a bad translation, it was a joke name. There's another guy named Bagu (as in, I AM BAGU) which IS an error because his name's supposed to be BUG. ERROR, BUG, get it? Get it? Hilarious!

Anyways, my favorite engrish can be encountered at the very beginning of Metal Gear for the NES:

"I FEEL ASLEEP!"

Mink · Post by **Mink** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 14:09

Edit: Argh, how did you sneak in there, Flaose!? Sigh, I guess that's what I get for hitting reply and not submitting immediately.

Bonevelous · Post by **Bonevelous** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 18:16

This. Which was turned into this.

"Whait oh no where id isotop?"
"UIt is been stoled!"

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 22:15

Flaose wrote:I AM ERROR wasn't actually a bad translation, it was a joke name. There's another guy named Bagu (as in, I AM BAGU) which IS an error because his name's supposed to be BUG. ERROR, BUG, get it? Get it? Hilarious!

Actually, it's a translation error (heh) where his name was supposed to be Errol.

EDIT: apparently, both are theories.

Toomuchsparetime · Post by **Toomuchsparetime** » Thu May 13, 2010 23:27

Gotta go with "all your base are belong to us" on this one.

Here's why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE6emvdmg-M

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Fri May 14, 2010 12:15

YOU WILL BE KILL BY DEMONS

Toomuchsparetime · Post by **Toomuchsparetime** » Fri May 14, 2010 20:11

The first major engrish I saw in a computer game was in a monochrome hang-man type of game, where the Game Over screen read "Dont sad, try again" and the Winning screen said "Congulations".

kuliwil · Post by **kuliwil** » Sat May 15, 2010 5:07

Mink wrote:

Edit: Argh, how did you sneak in there, Flaose!? Sigh, I guess that's what I get for hitting reply and not submitting immediately.

It took me a while to notice that

Post by **KeenRush** » Sat May 15, 2010 7:49

I was aware there were many horrible translations in games but since I haven't played almost any of them (literally none of the ones mentioned here) I had only seen (in screenshots) All Your Base.

I did a search and here's one rather ironic.

Edit: This one cracked me up...