2012-12-24, 09:11 PM
Reading the story I recommend using names that are anglicised. Player's eyes will just glaze over if the names don't flow with the text they are reading. You might put the foreign pronunciation in brackets when the character is introduced. I intend to setup a names and places system for Ex for just this kind of thing. Might be better to just put bracketed names in a manual. Since different languages will want to localize different names differently.
A common problem with Skyrim... or a critique I kept reading places anyway... was this kind of thick backstory with new alien proper nouns in every other breath. If makes the whole thing incomprehensible and unpleasant more or less. King's Field (not DS) does a great job of this sort of thing. Play the games if you haven't. Even Lovecraft only uses an alien name once per story and always only to point out the queerness of the tongue.
EDITED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicisation
A common problem with Skyrim... or a critique I kept reading places anyway... was this kind of thick backstory with new alien proper nouns in every other breath. If makes the whole thing incomprehensible and unpleasant more or less. King's Field (not DS) does a great job of this sort of thing. Play the games if you haven't. Even Lovecraft only uses an alien name once per story and always only to point out the queerness of the tongue.
EDITED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicisation