This is the most difficult decision ever
Usually I buy my Xbox games “Asia” encoded which is a weird, blanket release for all of Asia, where the games come dubbed entirely in English. This is great for expats like me who have an Asian-encoded Xbox and who prefer to play games in our native language, but probably not so great for, you know, the 99% of other people living in Asia who don’t actually give a peanut about English.
Anyway, the unstoppable, fifteen bazillion dollar marketing and hype machine behind Halo 3 (and deservedly so, because it is TEH AWESOME, and I know this despite not ACTUALLY PLAYING IT YET IN ANY WAY) has seen fit to rectify this and has lovingly dubbed Halo 3 into Mandarin for the Asia release. This leaves me with a conundrum:
I’ve pretty much accepted that I’m not going to be able to play the English dub of Halo 3.
So, which version should I get - the local Japanese one or the Mandarin dub? Or rather, which version is going to sound more BADASS? Whenever I think of Japanese video game dubs I think of Metal Gear Solid, which was pure baddassery in every iteration of the game. If there was some kind of dimensional shift (you know, by reversing the polarity) and English dub Solid Snake faced off against Japanese dub Solid Snake, there would be a flash of light and then a pause and then English dub Solid Snake’s torso would slide gently away from his legs - all while Japanese dub Solid Snake stands there looking totally badass holding nothing but a plastic spork, dripping blood.
Hmm perhaps I’ve already made my choice.
Oh and…more Halo 3 love…these adverts are brilliantly emotive, and really help put a palpable veil of triumph and righteousness over an activity that essentially sees me sitting infront of the TV, eating junk food, blasting aliens to little bits and scratching my balls for hours and hours.
UPDATE 27/09/2007 @ 1:28pm - SWEET GRANDMOTHER’S SPATULA look what I bought!
If anyone wants to kill me online my gamertag is, unsurprisingly, yongfook.
