Bombcast En Español?

Here's an idea I've been kicking around fir a while. Given that Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet, would Giant Bomb be willing to upload content in Spanish, specifically the 'Cast, so as to reach out to that market? I've been trying to produce a mock-up of what a chunk of the podcast would sound like in Spanish, but I have difficulty discerning what the Bomb Squad, especially Jeff, would sound like if they were all speaking Spanish?

How would you even begin to localize the bombcast? 2 and a half hours of unscripted audio?

I wonder if you even realize what you're asking for, and how ludicrous it really is.

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This does not sound like a practical utilization of the staff's time and resources.

what

The GB community could be crowdsourced to localize to dozens of languages, easily!

You'll have to type up the transcripts yourself, though.

...very funny...

i have never heard of someone wanting to localize a podcast before

No. You play video games, you know english. I speak spanish and I think that's a bad idea. You know why there are not many developers and/or fans of video games from latin countries? Because most people in latin countries don't know jack about video games. Yes I'm generalizing but I know even you have noticed it. This is an english speaking board. Speak english. If you want to do the work yourself be my guest but I'm SURE you won't get many listeners.

Or how about Mandarin?

This will not ever happen. Sorry. It's just way too impractical.

That's a pretty dumb idea

I would like to hear the bombcast in English, not that bullshit you try to pass of as Enlgish. Also;

@JustKamToo: Jesus, they were trying to speak english? Damn...

@chrismafuchris said:

Here's an idea I've been kicking around fir a while. Given that Spanish is one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet, would Giant Bomb be willing to upload content in Spanish, specifically the 'Cast, so as to reach out to that market? I've been trying to produce a mock-up of what a chunk of the podcast would sound like in Spanish, but I have difficulty discerning what the Bomb Squad, especially Jeff, would sound like if they were all speaking Spanish?

Well since Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world, what not that first?

@ZombiePie said:

This does not sound like a practical utilization of the staff's time and resources.

haha! Puedo ver el anuncio de la entrada del bombcast dicho en un voz parecido a los commerciales de telemundo. "HOY EN LA BOMBCAST GIGANTE!"

No ( That's Spanish for no.) if you want to go agead and do it yourself then by all meams, but ot would be a huge undertaking.

While I think it'd be possible to do direct translations and readings of the contents of a Bombcast, it'd probably come off as pretty hollow. A lot of the magic comes from the off-the-cuff interplay between the dudes, and without that spontaneous spark I don't think it'd make for a compelling listen.

Unless you got the Spanish equivalent of the dudes who do the Iron Chef voice overs. Those guys are fucking wizards.

                   

No. You play video games, you know english. I speak spanish and I think that's a bad idea. You know why there are not many developers and/or fans of video games from latin countries? Because most people in latin countries don't know jack about video games. Yes I'm generalizing but I know even you have noticed it. This is an english speaking board. Speak english. If you want to do the work yourself be my guest but I'm SURE you won't get many listeners.

                   

               

So you want them to do a bombcast and then do the exact same bombcast again, only now they're saying the exact same stuff in spanish?

what did you smoke?

I want a Russian Bombcast.

@Aetheldod said:

@Deusx said:

No. You play video games, you know english. I speak spanish and I think that's a bad idea. You know why there are not many developers and/or fans of video games from latin countries? Because most people in latin countries don't know jack about video games. Yes I'm generalizing but I know even you have noticed it. This is an english speaking board. Speak english. If you want to do the work yourself be my guest but I'm SURE you won't get many listeners.

Now duder you would be surprised how many people are into videogames in these parts ..... heck even in the most rundown poor town they would have arcades and shit ... and man were they good at street fighter 2 , the problem is that developers think that theres not many people who like games but it is in fact that there is soooooo much piracy that they think that no one buys games :(

As you said, Latin america is the group of countries with the biggest piracy culture in the world my friend. Publishers and other companies don't care about latin america because there are almost 0 latin amercan developers doing new stuff, why? Because video games are not as big here as they are in Asia, Europe, Canada or the US. It's our fault people in these countries don't appreciate video games as we do and it's our responsability to change that in the future. At least that's what I'm planning to do. Maybe instead of translating the bombcast why don't you guys make your own podcast? That would be a lot more interesting and I bet a lot of people would be interested in hearing that.

Muy fantastico!

No (its Spanish for No)

It would make more sense to translate it into Japanese or Chinese than Spanish.....as previously stated Latin America is not very big on video games.

This is a good troll, 8/10.

@chrismafuchris: not as a primary language though.

It's hard enough to understand them sometimes when they all talk over each other, could you imagine that in Spanish?

You're trying just a little too hard to be clever.