STICKY: Favorite Nightly Screenshot

nice screenshot but also really mean to make this post before people can make screenshots

lol, that's a real funny message. I'm looking forward for any other jokes there might be in the game.

Which actually brings up a question... who did most of the writing?

And the grammer checks? It was a funny message, but that's like the third screenshot I've seen with strangely worded grammer. Not a big deal, but I think it needs to be mentioned for future patches. I know there is a LOT of text, but you know, if Stephen King's editors can do it....

the irony doesn't escape me LMAO!

The universal translater has trouble getting the grammar perfectly right 100% of the time. It WAS made by mitrosoft, you know.

There's only one sentence in there that is rather grammatically "icky". If you want to keep the same sentence structure, better would be: "It's people like you who do this kind of thing to computer players in video games on your planet."

That said, the sentence structure is icky in its own right. Too many consecutive prepositional phrases. I would recommend something more like: "People like you do this to computer players in your planet's video games."

- Ash

Nice call on the grammar, Ash. I hope I can resist the urge to start printing out the text and going over it with a blue editors pencil.

You can always fix it yourself. (Hopefully modding the those files won't effect metaverse games...)

Would it be picky of me to point out the person who complained about the grammar, actually spelled it as grammer

No, it would be right and true. This wouldn't be the internet without it.

What is it with grammar that bugs so many people? Personally I'd rather have the jokes and humor at the expense of some mixed up sentences. A lot of game developers will not add in these kind of screens as it adds to thier clean up time so its not worth it to them.

Hey, I like the jokes. And I'd definitely rather have them messy than not have them all. That said, I'd definitely rather have them clean, than have them messy.

What is the actual "problem" with bad grammar showing up like that? It detracts from the immersion of the gameplay. Rather than being able to smoothly read that screen and move on, my mind is forced to stutter, essentially, reading the text two or three times to decipher the meaning, before proceeding with the game. For those few seconds, mentally I'm no longer playing the game, but deciphering grammar. In the grand scheme of things it's certainly not a big deal, but lots of little things can be as big a problem as a few large things, if there are enough of them.

- Ash

Would it be picky of me to point out the person who complained about the grammar, actually spelled it as grammer

Maybe I was referring to the actor? ever think of that wise-guy? *cough*

Still, I think Citizen Asharak said it best. I wouldn't have even mentioned it, but I too had to read it a couple times to get the meaning accross.

Mmm. At the risk of sounding like a brownnose, occasional slips in grammar don't bother me that much. I mean, dialogue is supposed to be... well... dialogue, and people almost never speak with proper grammar. Add that to having a bunch of aliens speaking through a translator, and, well, you expect a bit of weirdness. As long as it doesn't slip into "All your base are belong to us" badness, I think I can manage.

In fact, I can think of a few screenshots I saw where the grammar was indeed proper and correct, and *that* looked kind of funny to me since it felt like the alien was "writing" the dialogue instead of "speaking" it. (Then again, I think it was the Altarians in the screenies... they do seem like the sort of folk who would talk like your college English professors.)

Peace & Luv, Liz

I agree with Asharak. I really like that there is so much good and fun dialogue in the game but bad grammar always lessens an experience for me, whether it's a book or a game.

Actually.. The Drengin popping up on my screen after taking one of my planets and saying, "All your base are belonged to us now." would break me.

Yeah, but you should be able to spell at least the word "grammar" before you complain about such things....

Guys, good grammar is nice, but when trying to translate from a whole separate alien species, I like the idea that the universal translator isn't grammatically perfect.

Chris.

I accept the team's grammar mistakes as simply an error in translation due to the Universal Translater. Like some one else had mentioned.. it was made by Mitrosoft. What do you expect?

Reminder: The Drengin is supposed to be SPEAKING not writing prose. 

The words are precisely how they were intended.

Also, yes, the Drengin do say "All your base are belong to us" on occasion as well.  You'll see it.

does kats start coming on? does a random officer start saying someone set us up the bomb? (sorry lol im still not over the all ure base phenomenom)

Here's me running it on a Windows on an OS/2 skinned PC:

I'm sorry to say this but those ships colours are ugly! Other wise, they are pretty cool looking

lol, they kinda look like an old pair of shoes i used to have!