The Quirks of German Portal - Retrospective

[@vojtechkubinek6650]

I think it is great that in both Czech and German, GLaDOS uses a formal way of adressing you. It really emphasizes the "uncaring corporate atmosphere".

[@ВалерийИнжеватов]

In russian too!

[@kmesh9]

​​@@ВалерийИнжеватов Weirdly enough in russian GLaDOS actually uses informal way

[@almas4663]

@@kmesh9 No, at first - During the first two acts of Portal 1 she uses the formal way, up to the point where she no longer needs to find her true intensions (Although she mistakenly refers to player with male pronounce, since the localization team didn't had the context of what gender the player's character is.

[@kebab2275]

There is Czech dabing?

[@vojtechkubinek6650]

@@kebab2275 Sadly no, but there are subtitles which are translated perfectly.

[@thatanimeweirdo]

The two portal games are by far the best translated videogames by Valve. One of my bucket list items is to one day meet Gertrude Thoma and tell her, how much her work on this game influenced me.

[@GermanPeter]

Make that two of us!

[@C.A._Old]

@@GermanPeter Hey ! Enough your bull sh*t german videos and crap Valve german versions!

[@itsnotdomsmainchannel]

The Oracle Turret explained exactly why she wasn't dubbed and spoke English compared to other turrets. "I'm different."

[@thatanimeweirdo]

Since neither Wikipedia nor the game nor the internet holds the entire casting list of Portal 2, I've went ahead and researched them and compared voice demos to get a "definitive list". Thought it would be a neat thing to drop in here: GLaDOS - Gertrude Thoma Wheatley - Tobias Meister Cave Johnson - Rüdiger Schulzki Announcer - Mark Bremer Adventure Core - Erik Schäffler Fact Core - Oliver Bötcher Space Core - Tim Knauer Turrets - Gertrude Thoma

[@thatanimeweirdo]

I'm working with the German dubbing industry and was able to personally verify most of these roles already, so I'm pretty confident in it.

[@GermanPeter]

Oh wow, the Announcer and Space Core aren't one and the same? That's interesting! Also thanks for actually telling who was who instead of going "Hee hee we don't wanna spoil anything so we won't tell ;)"

[@dantubehds]

Fact Core wurde vom Tim Knauer gesprochen, nicht vom Oliver Bötcher. Oliver hat die kaputten Turrets gesprochen.

[@thatanimeweirdo]

@@GermanPeter I think the problem back then was, that Valve did not compile a casting list for their credits and media, so the article you found could only go off from the general press message from EA, who published the games in Europe and listed off some of the cast.

[@thatanimeweirdo]

@@dantubehds Are you sure? I've been in contact of both managements and Bötchers management confirmed to me that he spoke the Fact Core. The recordings (compared to audio demos from 2010) also sound fitting.

[@Kirbman]

A fun thing about the accent scene is that every language uses a unique accent. For instance, in French he speaks with a Quebec accent, and in Spanish it's Mexican.

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

The Spanish dub is actually in an Argentine accent and German dub uses either a swiss/Austrian or Bavarian accent.

[@Kirbman]

@@NisarKhan-jm1uh Ah my bad.

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

​@@Kirbman No problem and your welcome.

[@criminalbird9138]

It's not the case with Russian. The only foreigners average Russian citizen sees every day are from post-Soviet states like Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan etc. Imitating their accents can be considered racist because Russia has very serious problems with migrants (in 2022 there was 12,78 millions official migrant workers). If you want to know more, there is the Wiki article about working migrants in Russia, although it is only available in Russian: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Трудовые_мигранты_в_России Accents of Caucasus region and Southern countries don't fit either since imitating them is also could be seen as mockering due to past (and current) violence and terrorism problems (e.g. Second Chechen War). Accent of Mongolic languages from regions like Buryatia doesn't really work with Russian to create a comedic effect, and many of these people can speak Russian without accent anyway. People from Slavic countries like Ukraine and Belarus also can speak Russian without accent. And Ukrainian accent was mostly a part of racist anecdotes long before the war. So, there is only one way: use Russian regional accents. The problem is… they either too subtle to make a difference (and often the only difference is the lexicon, not a pronunciation) or would sound strange, like Vologda accent. But maybe the dubbers could have used some regional accent with significant pronunciation changes from average Russian since this speech of Wheatley is a very small part of the game

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

@@criminalbird9138 It seems that Russians are pretty sensitive in mocking people of certain backgrounds or accents in a unflattering way.

[@GliYch]

15:43 Damn, you got me there. Love the fake voicelines though. I somehow immediately fell in love with them- lmfao

[@GermanPeter]

Good! Because that's my voice.

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

@DeificTable6933 yeah, thats what it gave it away

[@kirill9064]

@@GermanPeter In russian dub they completely dropped Aperture.

[@SuperGamersgames]

@@GermanPeter A side note, there were actually going to be human test subjects for COOP. This would've been Chell and an additional character named "Mel" (who is actually the main character for the mod "Portal Stories: Mel", which pretty darn cool). Off the top of my head, I can't remember the exact reason why they changed it to robots, but I'm 99% sure it's because players actually felt bad if they accidentally killed their "Partner in Science." Quite frankly, knowing this fact made me believe this for a few seconds, so good job, ya got me!

[@cj-3810]

@@SuperGamersgames Mel and Chell gamemodes were made not for cooperative testing, but for a cut sport type gamemode using portals and a sphere like volleyball. The Cooperative Testing Initiative was conceptualized post Core-Hub Era of development (in fact the Coop hub is the direct evolution of the core hub) which is way after the Mel/Chell Gamemode was cut (do correct me if I am wrong)

[@estlin2001]

I'm still impressed Thoma straight up does just sound like "GladOS but German". Though honestly I actually quite enjoy when dubs diverge from the source material, putting their own little spin on a character.

[@mrscruffles801]

Man, I wouldn't mind learning German from this glados

[@dangerousbeans]

​@Jaypix ok let him cook

[@mrscruffles801]

@Jaypix ok What?!

[@Actvontact]

That voice is doing things to me

[@rensartpark]

Duolingo? No. Neurotoxin.

[@alex.g7317]

Y?

[@sonicfan1693]

45:17 I actually like the fact that every instance of "The part where he kills you" is written in a different way. It makes use of the many ways you can say something and i love how the Achievement and Chapter name sound more like the game telling you that you die. For those wondering the achivement name is "Hier werden sie getötet" which would translate to "Here is where you will be killed" or "You will be killed here". Also the achivements all use the formal version of you.

[@ch7639]

GLADoS was some massive shoes to fill and, honestly?... Thoma smashed it! Definitely a different performance than the original, but incredibly well done

[@SuperFlomm]

"Defense Grid" also has GlaDOS with German voice acting! The mission where she appears is called Divided Attention, "Geteilte Aufmerksamkeit".

[@GermanPeter]

Not aware of that, that's cool!

[@kartoffelbiene]

Having GLaDOS' German actress redo the lines just shows how much CDPR cares about properly localizing their games. BTW she also voiced the fixer portrayed by Nina Kravitz in Cyberpunk. Also about Cave Johnson in Lego Dimensions, to me he sounds like the same voice actor as in Portal 2? His voice is a bit different but it still seems to be the same actor.

[@GermanPeter]

Oh, the Nina fact would have been interesting to include. Also no, it can't be the same Cave. I thought the same at first but he sounds too different and pronounces all the words differently too. Going from "Apertshure" to "Apertiure" is too big of a leap, in my opinion.

[@kartoffelbiene]

@@GermanPeter Hm I've been going back an forth in your video comparing them and to me they really sound like the same person. And as you pointed out everyone is pronouncing Aperture like this in the Lego version so I wouldn't count this as evidence imo.

[@scoundrel8440]

CDPR cares so much about properly localizing their games, but doesn't care enough to actually finish Cyberpunk 2077.

[@SnrubSource]

i wish they cared about gameplay and open world immersion/details as much as they care about graphics and localization

[@GreenScrapBot]

@@scoundrel8440 You do realize CP2077 had a major comeback last year and it has been in a pretty finished state since then?

[@thehoodedman4271]

55:55 - 56:09 I actually kinda like this, in a sort of weird way. It feels like either GLADOS is less concerned about everyone else and focused on Chell, since she's the main test subject of the Portal games and a bit of a high priority, or she's talking to you. As in the player. It gives that weird eerie vibe to her that is pretty interesting to listen to.

[@GermanPeter]

That could actually be the case, since the chambers are almost definitely designed around using different abilities that logically should not exist in the world of Portal. So maybe she's breaking the forth wall when she says "I believe you cheated".

[@N3Selina]

ahhh yes! chell. obviously her german counterpart is superior. EDIT: Portal 2 might have the best german dub out of all the valve games. great video!

[@mr.markstar]

As an english speaker, hearing 43:41 just feels so surreal.

[@Twisted_Logic]

Portal 1 came out when I was taking German classes in high school and I played through it a couple times with the language set to German and the delivery/voice was so spot-on to the English version that it was almost invisible to me, and I actually thought it was the same VA. I didn't pick up any subtle changes between the two versions, but my German was good enough that I could tell that is was basically the exact same lines said in German, which was pretty validating at the time as a new learner

[@d-os1.883]

The russian dub for portal 2 is AMAZING It's one-to-one in terms of voices, and it's ***perfect***

[@GermanPeter]

Go make a video about it!

[@fosforum1]

​@@GermanPeterthat was a bit rude

[@dodgeman777]

@@fosforum1 How?

[@OpheliaTerat]

@@fosforum1 I know that tones difficult to convey through text, but how did that sound rude?

[@fosforum1]

@@OpheliaTerat "go make a video," Peter seems to be saying "so make a video better than mine, that the Russian dub is great." Although I found couple videos where you can hear the difference in voice acting in different languages in some episodes, including in Russian

[@DeepWeeb]

There are some quirks in the Spanish dub of Portal 2: - Similar to the German dub, there seems to have been an error with the Oracle Turrent lines, but instead of using the english voice clips they use all the generic Turrent phrases (even though the subtitles display the correct dialogue) - Cave's "life give you lemons" phrase was changed to "to bad weather, good face" which works better idiomatically but really breaks the whole "combustible lemon" rant later on, instead saying he's going to "burn the forecast map" and make "isobar-based fuel" (which makes no sense) - None of the Perpetual Test Innitiative lines were dubbed - Wheatley is voiced by the same actor as TF2 Spy, which is a big coincidence when you remember the Ap-Sap! (sadly, undubbed), and Cave Johnson is the Medic and the Heavy - Both GLaDOS and Cave's VAs do reprise their roles in LEGO Dimensions and Cyberpunk, but not Wheatley

[@cmb9173]

i just adore how incredibly sarcastic and condescending Thoma's GLaDOS sounds, it's like a perfect mix of seething hatred and fake politeness also 33:33, strangely fitting analogy. now i kinda wish for a dub where the turrets are voiced by Julia Stoepel

[@ThatWildcard]

If a german uses the formal you they either really respect you or they hate your guts

[@p3chv0gel22]

I always thought that the "Oh no, i'm one of the bad guys" line from the turret was a fourth wall breaking joke. As in the turret was so broken, i realised it was designed to help the antagonist of the Game

[@toakovika]

I’m a Swiss-Texan, and I laughed a little too hard at 44 minutes. Danke Peter!

[@ZontarDow]

"I wouldn't do it with a robot, would you?" Don't judge me!

[@GermanPeter]

I'd be a hypocrite if I judged you 😔

[@ThatWildcard]

📸

[@Joshinken]

I actually really want that soldier coop now. That seems like such a fun idea. Just these two hecu grunts forced to solve puzzles and getting progressively more angry that they can’t just shoot the problem.

[@Winasaurus]

"Yeah, maybe. All I know for sure is she's been testing my buddies. >:("

[@YannickJur]

33:20 Fun Fact: The subtitles from that poethic turret are translated, but the voice is not. So the script must've been there but somehow they have overseen it to be voice acted. Seen that in an old Domtendo let's play.

[@cleversmart0303]

Seems to be the case for the added unused voice lines in L4D2 as well. There are subtitles, but they have never been dubbed, which is why you will still hear a lot of english when playing L4D2 in other languages besides it. In this case, it does make sense, as they were not going to be used anyway.

[@NARbluebear]

If I had to guess, the reason the "blood" in the German version of Portal is gray and not just removed in the Orange Box version is because Portal 1 shares quite a fair bit of Half-Life 2's assets. You can especially see this if you go into the developer console, enable sv_cheats, and type "impulse 101", you'll gain all of the weapons Gordon Freeman has access to in HL2. The shotgun, revolver, crowbar, and even the gravity gun. This is also why the turrets in Portal have nearly the same AI as they do in Half-Life 2's Nova Prospekt, only the ones in Portal die for good once they shut down.

[@ChikunVA]

Finally, some love for the German localization! (Also, based on my SPECTACULAR knowledge of German voice actors, I think Tim Knauer to be the most likely to have voiced the Announcer. He does sound a bit different than what I'm used to, but it sounds most like him, and ESPECIALLY the Space and Fact Cores sound a lot like Knauer)

[@KeesekuchenLP]

Tim Knauer also voiced characters in both Left 4 Dead games, so it'd make sense for him to be in another Valve game.

[@CaptainTak]

41:46 i felt that viscerally, just that little shake of the mouse

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

I’ve played portal 1 so many times. I never knew you could flush the toilet in the beginning room.

[@terry2295]

Man I'm right on time. Fun fact I never played German Portal in my life. The reason for that is that my sister brought it back from Brittian after an exchange month I didn't understand you could change the language.

[@baalrog887]

The character development shown by the uses of Sie and Du is amazing and a kind of subtlety you just don't get in English

[@Mj1343_]

22:18 Wheatlys turn is so impressive in this language. The laugh. oh my god the laugh. Thats REALLY good. Also, you absolutely got me with the co-op soldiers. I was getting ready to write a message to my server about it. Hats off to you.

[@Bronyboiiiii]

33:33 Soundling like Fluttershy in a metal shell. I have never thought of this. now I will never be able to get it out of my head.

[@tinycatfriend]

an hour long video about portal?! by the great germanpeter?! this just made my whole week, can't wait to watch it!

[@mrscruffles801]

Meow

[@lustsoul69]

Meow

[@jasperfox6821]

Woof

[@lustsoul69]

@@jasperfox6821 aaaa barking fox

[@GermanPeter]

*Edit from 17.06.23:* a lot of people have mentioned that the GLaDOS easter egg in Cyberpunk IS the same lines as from Portal 1 & 2, just with a different voice filter. I can absolutely hear that, and I suppose they're right. It's still impressive they went through the effort of contacting Valve to get the original (unedited) lines, when they could have easily dubbed it themselves. Here's the other "Quirks of German X"-videos I mentioned in the video: *The Quirks of German Half-Life* kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaKalGyDi9uopqs *The Quirks of German Blue Shift and Opposing Force* kzbin.info/www/bejne/apevpmSnhcSXg80 *The Quirks of German Half-Life 2* kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXO8aHmfir-pmJY Enjoy!

[@helliru]

Another great video, good to see!

[@linusdickens4767]

YES PLEASE DO WOLFENSTEIN

[@alchemispark7751]

Quirks of German Beaurocracy next please

[@kirill9064]

There are no german glados voice lines for portal 1 on theportalwiki

[@SONGOKU02]

Hmm. Dude. As fellow german, wasn't the "Hero Turtles" thing not from the uk and we just took that in germany?

[@DerFinder]

Tobias Meister (Wheatly) is a fucking beast. He is so good in transforming his voice to a certain role.

[@Drag0nmaster]

44:42 In the english version, she quotes moby dick. "Methodically knocking people's hats off and setting to sea" or something like that.

[@hyenatown]

Gonna rank the cast right quick. GlaDOS/Caroline: A - A solid substitute for Ellen, however, to me, it feels like a translation more than a localization. Wheatley: B - Not as stellar as Stephen, but I do get something out of the Swiss accent that actually got a chuckle out of me. Cave Johnson: S - Being a disembodied voice, it's nice that the team working on the translation got to stretch their legs a little and do something different with Cave. I'd even give merit for it being an unintended effect of rewriting lines. Turrets: C - Perfection it may be, but somehow I feel like a new game would have meant new opportunity. Especially with the Prometheus dialogue. Announcer/Emergency AI/Defective Turrets: C - I haven't played Portal 2 in a long time, so I can't say much. I think it's technically better than the original since none of the dialogue comes to mind other than the 'smooth jazz' line. Chell: ß - No kidding? I think they did better than they did with both Gordon Freeman (specifically in Episode 2) and Adrian Sheppard. A vocal range like that is just unheard of and I'm happy to see how much they improved since the 90s.

[@blacky_Ninja]

31:41 A little death fight brings people closer together.

[@janick8262]

When I first played Portal 1 and 2, I played the German dub and really was surprised about how natural it feels. Even without lissening to the original voices, I knew that this was a quality dub.

[@Haou1828]

Another weird translation thing I noticed is right after the part where he kills you. When you go back after Wheatley kindly asked you to, he talks about all the stuff that''s waiting for Chell down the pit. Glados then says in the English dub "I can't believe you came back!". In the German dub she says "Unglaublich, du bist zurück" which just doesn't really fit the situation. I feel like the translator didn't have the full context for all the scenes, thus they came up with this? Same with the "Dort!" thing you mentioned. It doesn't make any sense in context. But maybe they thought Glados wanted you to look somewhere (since she says "Look...") and turned it into this "Dort! Sieh nur!" thing instead of a "Hör mal,..." or something. Anyway, really enjoyed your video!! I love the German Portal dub (not just because I'm German but also because it's really well done) and like how you showed differences or things the German dub did better.

[@annelooney1090]

Great video! In the French dub of Portal 1, instead of saying "weeeeeeeee" French Glados says "Noooooous", like "we" as in "all of us".

[@philardo]

I played the portal games when I was 11, which was in like 2014. I still remember exactly how shocked I was to see blood in a game, since that usually shocked my parents and they didn't care much anymore xd But both games are master pieces to this day and I gotta say, as great as the english voices are, which inevitably I grew to love ofc, since I interacted with the fandom, this game would have never been the same for me without the german voice actors. Be it smaller roles like the cores in both games, or main characters such as GLaDOS, I thought the voice acting was amazing Also I love that GLaDOS goes from refering to Chell with "Sie" to "Du" between the games, showing they're much more personal now and she doesn't feel the need to respect Chell anymore. I don't see this used often, the only other example I know being titanic and honestly I think it's something that really makes the experience that slight bit better. Thanks a lot for making this. It's been like 5 years since I last touched portal and 8 years since I even cared and you really sent me back in time with this

[@dantubehds]

The german space/fact core is also the same german voice of Ellis from left 4 dead 2 and adventure core 'rick' is Nick

[@realnickhiro]

nice to see you here

[@GermanPeter]

That's great to know, thanks!

[@mutanttepig4759]

I do find it very strange and interesting that the Oracle Turret(the one who talks about Prometheus) doesn't have her/their lines translated into German. I guess that they didn't have time to translate those lines even though they are something that foreshadows future events in the story.

[@maxl_2034]

59:01 Nice little detail with the subtitles! ;)

[@MrIncogwastaken]

Du machst immer die besten Videos!

[@mikestion4629]

"...no, I wouldn't do it with a robot, would you???" *YES.* *I. FUCKING. WOULD.* GHEHEHEHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@neptuneplaneptune3367]

To be fair it my eyes it makes sense that a post Portal 2 Whietley sounds more reserved

[@danielmarr290]

Another great video! I hope you do a video on the quirks of German Left 4 Dead next, especially knowing how heavily censored Left 4 Dead 2 was. Also, Wheatley in the thumbnail with the German hat is honestly adorable!

[@stargost2338]

Another fun fact about Portal 1 translations: On the spanish version they literally just use a Text To Speech software for Glados (They used "Loquendo")

[@ZuoKalp]

Voz de Jorge y todo? Nunca lo jugué en Español.

[@TRIN_VOCALOID]

Glados in german: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA glados in english: AEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAE

[@TRIN_VOCALOID]

OOF L O U D AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@ecco710]

did germanpeter just open his video with "TW: German" 💀

[@Gaming32i]

Geeze, the Announcer sounds even _more_ like an airport announcer.

[@Wingman-69]

11:31 chell makes an "augh" noise when she gets hit by a cube.

[@Wingman-69]

I think its a nice thought that weatleys voice actor is also MCU's Tony starks voice actor. (The german voice actor of course)

[@ch7639]

The grey blood in the original Portal is such a weird choice. Black? Sure, you can re-contextualize it as like, oil for the robots. Grey though? It just looks like grey blood.

[@GermanPeter]

Just a leftover from the Half-Life games on the same disk, I suppose.

[@Supershadow301]

Interesting vid! Although I can't understand a word of German, the voices seem to fit. It's interesting how GLaDOS switches between formal and informal pronouns in German. In my native tongue French, she always uses "vous" when adressing you (as about everyone else does), being the formal (or plural) version of "you". Want some fun trivia about the french dub of Portal 2? Cave Johnson's whole "combustible lemons" rant was entirely changed, as the idiom "When life gives you lemon, make lemonade" doesn't really have a french equivalent. Instead it was translated to "When life knocks you down, you've got to get back up", which kind of fits the vibe. Here's the full french rant translated: Cave Johnson: "Welp, I've thought about it a bit... When life knocks you down, it's not enough to get back up..." PotatOS: "Yeees..." CJ: "You've gotta smash this old hag's kneecaps! An eye for an eye and A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH! Try to get back up NOW, YOU TRAMP!!" P-OS: "Yes! Yes! Come on, smash its kneecaps!" CJ: "I swear, Life will rue the day it tripped Cave Johnson! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? I'm the Big Bad Wolf who's going to knock your house DOWN!!" P-OS: "Do what you want!" CJ: "I'll have my engineers build kneecaps to YOUR HOUSE, JUST SO I CAN *SMASH THEM!!!* " _Coughes his lungs out._ P-OS: "Break a leg!! He's saying out loud what everyone else is thinking!" PotatOS has such a giddy voice during the rant too! It's so funny when she happily cheers Cave to smash Life's kneecaps XD

[@cleversmart0303]

That actually sounds hilarious and perfectly fitting for the characters! The voice acting was really good too after watching it.

[@anxietyassistance]

If I recall correctly, the German VA of the Adventure Core is the same that dubs Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear. Maybe that is something?

[@GermanPeter]

Go watch my German Left 4 Dead video ;)

[@tikimillie]

GladOS sounds like one of those people who read out safety instructions on the plane… I love it

[@Autissima]

Honestly with your presentation and all I'm always surprised you have so few subscribers, great video as always

[@The-Urban-Goose]

Hearing German Wheatly after watching the german dub for Bullet train, I can't help but see Brad Pitt. (They're voiced by the same guy in the german dub, and they sound pretty much exactly alike, the characters are kinda similar too, in terms of speech patterns)

[@TTHBLOX_]

Portal is what got me into gaming properly. And hearing it in german now is so funny to me as a dutch person. Love this video

[@inkmime]

You honestly could have convinced me with the soldiers in Portal 2 bit cause Valve as a whole seems like they were having a bit of a "moment" the whole time during around 2008 to 2011

[@Piki2006]

17:09 It should be Mark Bremer. I heard his Voice on "Wer weiß den sowas?"

[@CatsT.M]

This series has now become part of the long-videos-I-watch-while-on-a-roadtrip list, formerly only housing Ross's Game Dungeon videos because they are eternally rewatch-able .

[@Lolks]

I'm not going to lie, i don't understand German, except for basic things, like nien and ich, (no clue if those are spelled right) but this was still a great video! Thanks!

[@zhascha]

"Nein nicht nur ein Auto" VOLKSWAGEN Das Auto 36:27

[@Dostoron]

the german pronunciation of aperture is perfectly fine though, we don't shush the TU part of the word in this country. in our language all Ts have a little i behind them. especially when the original word is english, curious little quirk now that i think of it.

[@wolfer1000]

I don't know if you have any experience with those games, but a "Quirks of German Command And Conqiuer Generals" video would be fun.

[@derpysponge43]

For the Chell part at 11:27 , I thought you were going to show gameplay of Chell damaging herself and emitting the same hurt noises as the HL2 female citizen, revealing either it’s still English HL2 or carried over from German HL2. If you didn’t know about that fact before hand, well now you know. I’m still curious about that.

[@FemboyTrain]

I would love to see a Wolfenstein Dub analysis

[@mogy302]

Bro literally warned us about translated german lol

[@GermanPeter]

Someone might go into this video thinking that the German isn't translated and they're not going to understand a single word. The disclaimer was warranted.

[@dasunguy]

The best voice talent isn't worth much if the voice directing lacks. Take that "minor brain damage" bit for example: the original english V.O. puts a lot of emphasis on the "miiiiinor brain damage" part for great comedic effect. The german V.O. just rushed through these lines as if they had to squeeze the localization into a 5 second clip. Little to no emphasis. There are positve exceptions in gaming though: the german V.O. in Overwatch 1/2 are top notch and sometimes even better than the original acting. It's all about the director to make it work (and the budget to have time for proper directing).

[@drawbyyourselve]

The best "mistranslation" is when you slide down the chute in the beginning of portal 1 and instead of saying "WEEEEE!" as in an exclamation of fun for the activity, glados goes "Wiiiiiiiiiiir" as in the personal pronoun. Someone used a translator for that, I cannot imagine otherwise.

[@SpaceCoreGamingLol]

GRÜZI ICH SPRECHE IN EIN AKZENT DEN SIE NICHT VERSTEHEN KANN I loved when he spoke Schweizerdeutsch

[@mothtypemen]

The no blood removal change makes sense since then you woundn't have to make as many engine changes if you did a soft reset to other games k'now

[@Rainquack]

Oh wow, I really didn't notice they actually rerecorded the lines for Cyberpunk with the original actors. I really was disappointed cause I also always thought they just ripped the original WAVs from Portal. ...and now I'm honestly extra disappointed, cause I have no idea why they didn't write... original, more fitting/interesting lines, that would've improved that cameo 10x for me and apparently lots of others, that also thought they just got pretty awkward, fake one with lazy, canned lines.

[@NanoBotSigma]

I love your videos, they just have a certain honest charm others don't capture.

[@punkagumon4165]

The GLaDOS "cameo" in cyberpunk rly took me by surprise and got a good laugh out of me! ^^

[@wizzy8447]

Great video as always petes

[@sonicfan1693]

I usually tend to play games in english with rare exceptions even though i myself am german. Portal 2 is one of these exceptions simply because the german dub is so incredibly good. Sure there are a couple oddities that do bother me like the fact that they found a way to mess up lip synching with robots that dont have mouths and the ocasional translation slip up but i really love the performances and the choosen voices so much.

[@YannickJur]

Hallo Bruder. So cool how you perfectly explain the quirks of German voices in English. I love all of them! Been stuck in my head since I'm smol. And I also think they sound more serious, and in English more exaggerated. It's pretty much the case in most German dubs when I hear them. Maybe it's how our language sounds or maybe it just sounds more serious to me because it's my native.

[@PauperPeccator]

You Cheeky Germ, you! you really know your audience here pal

[@JoBot__]

6:23 "Well, I wouldn't do it with a robot, would you?" Umm... Actually... 😳

[@___aZa___]

That the voice of wheatley is also the german voice of Jack Black is just beautiful!

[@zoro4661WasTaken]

I believe a possible reason as for why the blood was turned gray instead of removed is that the games included in the Orange Box share their assets, at least on the Xbox 360 version. This is one of the reasons why, for example, people have been able to spawn Vortigaunts into Team Fortress 2 on the Xbox. Since Half-Life 2 is on the Orange Box, and Half Life 2's blood was turned gray, it's possible that they either share the same blood splatters or that the developers just turned them all gray, without really paying attention as to what was in what game. On another note - 6:23. Yes. Yes, I would. GLaDOS ist die beste Roboter Waifu. Looking forward to your next video! Always a joy.

[@GermanPeter]

Yes, that's what I figured too. I just thought they might as well remove blood entirely, it doesn't really add anything.

[@zoro4661WasTaken]

@@GermanPeter Agreed!

[@guppiapfeljustleopardthing8756]

The turrets "Auwauwauwauwaueauwau" always gets me smiling.

[@Juno101]

36:16 Lol, ist mir nie aufgefallen das der auch Karr spricht, voll der nostalgie flashbang

[@liatrisblossomheart4013]

did not know that they changed the Babe Ruth fact to a Michael Schumacher fact but as a fan of Formula1 racing I kinda wish that was the fact we got over here. Michael was my favorite lol

[@Habijob]

54:19 I am gonna lean here out of the window with this one, but the voice reminds me of "Krähe" from The longest Journey and that character was voiced by Robert Missler. He retired in 2017, but Lego Dimensions Portal came out in 2015 from my quick google search, so it could be him. Maybe.

[@OmegaEnvych]

This man is slaying people on multinational level that easily! tbh, I think that missing context is primary issue of many translational errors. "This is the part where he kills us" is a prime example of that. I cannot really speak for German (because I have no idea about German) and Ukrainian translation scene is incredibly small so I will put my point that there was a russian-made youtube show that could be translated as "Translation difficulties" where dude could spent hours on tearing up a new one to some of the russian translations of popular games from English - with some big releases having full course meal on issues - voice actors not knowing context for the lines they are speaking, miscasting, bad direction etc. etc. But most of the issues with both translation and voice delivery share common source - generally translators had limited time and didn't really had much of context for their work. Unfortunately until recently not many games were translated into Ukrainian, which is unfortunate - most games that had translations were mostly domestically made - Cossacks, STALKER and Metro series etc. But it seems that more companies got interest into translating games to Ukrainian. Valve, for example, has put official translations (well, text ones for now) for all of their games, including Half Life Alyx, which was unexpected, but pleasant surprise, original Baldur's Gate got translation as well, upcoming Lords of the Fallen will receive translation and more games seem to get them in the future, which is something that I am truly excited about. Regarding quality of said translations... It varies heavily. Metro 2033 and Last Light were translated to Ukrainian by 3rd party, but by Metro Exodus developers themselves made translation and voiced lines. Which made some scenes a bit funny because it implies that in post-apocalyptic Russia only Ukrainians and Kazakh people are the ones that left, since entire game is translated to Ukrainian. Which kinda makes Stalker games feel bit more realistic where some characters speak Ukrainian and some - Russian, this is more indicative of real situation in ~2012 Ukraine, and even partially fits modern-day situation, even considering what is going on right now in 2023. But even then quality of translations can be really inconsistant, with some translations being really top-notch and some - subpar, because, unfortunately, it depends on the people, who were doing translation, which in our case is almost always third party that was doing it way after game's release.

[@ukraccoon7217]

With Germany's censorship on anything in games that even slightly resembles a certain historical military, it is kind of weird that the game could make it over with the neurotoxins used by GLaDOS in game.

[@Gastell0]

59:21 - "Links under description" - Made me pause with "left what?" and replay that part xD

[@CocoTheMii]

40:00 Man... this guy is incredible as Cave Johnson, but I can't help thinking about how PHENOMENAL he would have been as Father Grigori.

[@marvj13]

I genuinely love the German Portal Dubs, not only because I'm all in all a huge fan of German dubs and even prefer them often but the way it was produced just fits perfectly to the games. There where even a few parts, where I liked Gertrudes takes more than Ellens, but the reason for this could also be, that I met the game with German actors for a long time before I listened the English Dub for the first time

[@thinkublu]

Definitely gonna watch this whole thing hell yeah

[@austinblack7991]

As I only played portal when it was released on switch I didn’t know what the game on Germany thanks Peter!

[@TheAdski98]

Having recently learned about how Bavaria and "proper" Germany get along, your bit at 44:33 was brilliant. And people say Germans have no sense of humour!

[@lightinabox6931]

For some reason that intro sequence really felt like it's straight out of the Traveller's Tales LEGO games

[@Nevernamed]

I want German GLaDOS to crush me.

[@caoistico669]

How did i mis this in 2 weeks