Well, I'm sold now. I was on the fence before, because the series hasn't been evolving much - I like it, it's just too much of the same thing. But add linguistics like this to it, and I'm hooked.
(Not being sarcastic - I'm way too much of a language nerd to not pick this up.)
Blegh, if you have money left over then fine, go crazy with the details, but unless the game is a huge improvement over 3-4 why bother.
At least they're going all the way. I can appreciate that.
It's amazing how the voice acting will all be in this constructed language! I would have expected them to use English with some made-up words and names, and maybe have some nondescript scrawls on the wall here and there. I hope it's developed enough to produce derivative works with it.
However, Oros is obviously supposed to represent central/eastern Europe in the Stone Age, around 12,000 BCE. The speakers of Proto-Indo-European were a Bronze Age culture that arrived in that area from further east around 4,000 BCE and quickly and completely assimilated, displaced and/or outright waged war on the Stone Age inhabitants with little genetic mixing and almost no opportunity for significant linguistic loaning. Of course, what actually happened is a mystery, but there is such a sudden change in the tool industries and other technologies in that period that it is far more likely that the Bronze Age peeps took over the place compared to the Stone Age cultures surviving (and actually, that hypothesis brings up a slew of incredibly unlikely scenarios in itself).
So it would have been more fitting for them to do this for a game set 8,000 or more years later. I wonder if the people they worked with pointed that out.
If there is one thing I will say about Ubisoft, is that I like how they take the time to put in stuff like this.
I love when developers don't cheap out on languages.
Hell, even The Sims had people hired to specifically prevent using real words, but still make noises that sound like they could be.
why does the title have to be "Far Cry Primal's proto-proto-Indo-European language was created specially by linguistics experts"
why not, "Far Cry Primal's Indo-European language was created by linguistics experts".
Are there really people out there that admit to clicking on puffed up titles?
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