Close to 1 million words in BGEE? Well... a printout looks exactly like this. [Image]

kangaxx

German translation | 1,285,605 words (font size 10); 1,865 pages (in A4 format); ~9.5kg

How in the Nine Hells is it possible to master such a monstrosity in less than four months...?
Personally, I was blessed to meet Mr. 3AM on a regular basis.

It is quite interesting how a visualisation like this alters your perception of the sheer amount of text in this awesome game, isn't it?!

(Of course, I never wasted that much paper! However, the pile has exactly the proper height.)

Shin

Impressive visualization there.

Abel

Wow!
What do you mean master such a monstrosity? Did someone had to go through all this?!

Shin

I'd expect the translation teams had to.

Drugar

I think you got your Nanowrimo riiiight there.

kangaxx

@Abel Yes, of course ;-) All translation teams had to go through it. We even paralysed our translation tool because we used more than 400,000 data cells...

Tanthalas

Omg, you tree murderer!

Abel

@kangaxx kudos to you then! All BG:EE in there or just a part?

SirCumference

Is that stack of paper duplexed?

kangaxx

@Abel This is all BGEE. 20cm high.

Przemkas

Have you counted the pages one by one and there are exactly 1,865 pages in the picture as stated?

kangaxx

SirCumference said:

Is that stack of paper duplexed?

No, it's single-sided.

Przemkas said:

Have you counted the pages one by one and there are exactly 1,865 pages in the picture as stated?

Yes, there are exactly 1,865 pages in the picture. However, I was too lazy to count them. I just put 3x500 sheets and added 1,825g on top (as one sheet weighs exactly 5.0 g).

Abel

I will not be ashamed anymore playing BG instead of reading books!

Tanthalas

kangaxx said:

No, it's single-sided.

Omg, you 2x tree murderer!

kangaxx

@Tanthalas

Actually, I trashed the first printout. I wasn't pleased with Comic Sans MS.

reedmilfam

Tanthalas said:

kangaxx said:

No, it's single-sided.

Omg, you 2x tree murderer!

There's probably a dryad outside his door, right now, begging your party to deal with the slaughter. It gives a miniquest to a small area in the game, but nets a few XP at a time when (in the game) XP is a valuable commodity!

Cheesebelly

^
"Hey there, I'm Caldo and this here is my brother Krumm... and @kangaxx joined us too!"

Medillen

Now, let us all imagine that this has been translated in several langages ! How many forest have we murdered, @kangaxx, just how many ? :(

Cheesebelly

And how many octopi have been killed to take all of that ink? HUH?! D;

Candramelekh

kangaxx said:

How in the Nine Hells is it possible to master such a monstrosity in less than four months...

Easy. Most of the text is copypasted words. Am i right?

kangaxx

@Candramelekh

No, I think this is incorrect. "Most" implies more than 50%. My gut feeling reckons out less redundancy.

Heinrich

Well, on the positive side at least this proves that BG has a more comprehensive story than most other RPG games, Eh?

VikingR

Ring of Translation + 100

lordkim

Sehr gut !!!!

kangaxx

I am wondering if @Tr_ond manages to create a MEME out of it ;)

Wolk

Tree Murderer!!! rip his head, his arms and his legs and hide all the parts across the world/city!!!!

xxxsmb1987xxx

WOW!

cherrycoke2l

This is indeed incredible. Now imagine BG2 strings – about 80000. BG1 had around 28 000.

Wonderboy2402

That is both amazing and horrifyingly beautiful.

Wanderon

145 pages of:

You must gather your party before venturing forth....

reedmilfam

just hopes most of those pages are already translated!