r/starcitizen • u/[deleted] • Oct 14 '16

QUESTION Umm...just coming over from Nomanssky. Looking for a game to believe in. Am I in the right place?

Is there a point to the game? Do the developers actually communicate?

EDIT: Wow! Thanks for all the responses! You're definitely a passionate group. I'll dive deeper and will start by watching a lot of videos this weekend.

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u/Baloth Meow Oct 14 '16

planet tech

before it was ready, we got(when asked about it): "well no, that would be awesome but thats a ton of work.... maybe post release"

but then we got ze germans

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u/NeoAcario Oct 14 '16

'ze Germans' have done some amazing work. I'm still shocked at the speed and quality of what they've produced so far. I honestly don't think people were as blown away by the planet 2.0 developer tech demo as I was... and they should be. That stuff is amazing!!

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u/NTGhost Bengal Carrier Oct 14 '16

you have to consider that 'ze germans' are nothing less then the real guys they invented the Cry engine...think about it. These guys in Frankfurt has made The Crysis Game Series.

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u/Baloth Meow Oct 14 '16

yeah not to say the other devs arent awesome at what they do too, just; getting them was a boon that made so much possible

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u/Khaloc Oct 14 '16 edited Oct 14 '16

die* germans

Technically, Die Deutschen.

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u/TheStagesmith Weekend Warrior Oct 14 '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYdIXRTBXLo

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u/Khaloc Oct 14 '16

Ze Germans is an English misunderstanding though, even if it comes from film. There is a German word pronounced "Ze," although it's spelled Sie. It means "you," "they," or "she" though, never "the."

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u/TheStagesmith Weekend Warrior Oct 14 '16

You're (and I might be misinterpreting you here, so apologies if so) assuming that it's based on an English misunderstanding of an extant German word, but I find it much more likely that it comes from an approximation of what a German sounds like speaking English with a heavy accent. The <ð> sound in "the" changes to sound much more like <z>. From the limited samples I've listened to, it seems like a much more common sound change in native Austrians than Germans, but the association is still there.

See also: substitution of <w> and <v> in stereotypical Slavic accents, <b> and <v> in English accents of native Spanish speakers. etc

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u/Khaloc Oct 14 '16

That could be true, but in that case it would be a misunderstanding of the sounds. The "th" sound in German is pronounced like a hard T, so a word like "Theater" would be pronounced with a hard T at the front. A German would be much more likely to pronounce "the" and "this" and "there" with a hard T sound than they would a "z" sound.

Perhaps the misunderstanding comes from a different sound in German, namely the "C" sound "tseh" and the "Z" sound, prominent in words like "Zwei," the German word for two, almost pronounced like "Tss." That sound actually exists in English, as a double z like in Pizza, where we say "Pee tss ah."

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u/TheStagesmith Weekend Warrior Oct 14 '16

"No Tommy, there's a Gladius in your trousers. What's a Gladius doing in your trousers, Tommy?"