Video Game Localisation : A Francophone Gamers' Perspective on the Quality of PC Video Game Localisation

Diplôme Master Video Game Localisation : A Francophone Gamers' Perspective on the Quality of PC Video Game Localisation eng 2017 author Hernandez Marion 821005 director Morado Vazquez Lucia 0000-0002-0834-0734 792640 Since the 1970's, the video game industry has taken off rapidly, with localisation evolving alongside it, from virtually non-existent to full featuring dubbings. The area has therefore started attracting the attention of Translation Studies. Yet, few scholars and industry organisations have focused on gamers' reception of such localised products, an aspect that is crucial to the matter since they are the primary users of games. This paper therefore sought to gather first-hand data and inquire into francophone gamers' opinion on localised games. An online questionnaire was used in order to assess, among other topics, respondents' level of satisfaction with PC games localised into French, one of the first languages into which games were translated. Data showed that, overall, participants from the sample were more satisfied than dissatisfied with the French localisation, but to a small extent, with participants' discontent mainly stemming from the alleged poor quality of translations and dubbings, which hinder full immersion. Video games Localisation Video game localisation Gamers Satisfaction Translation Culturalisation Dewey 418.02 Dewey 410.2 Maîtrise universitaire en Traduction : mention Technologies de la traduction 112 Département de traitement informatique multilingue 92 false 88de1fd0-fa3f-4d10-bdd6-dfdc5382d1e0 Master thesis Public MarionHernandezMasterThesisFinalVersion.pdf 3155020 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département de traitement informatique multilingue

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