Art th're any rpg games yond useth fusty medieval shakespearean dialogue liketh the ultima games?

[Gregz]

No.

Thank God.

I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands.

We live in an age where illness and deformity are commonplace and yet, Gregz , you are without a doubt the most repulsive individual I have ever met. I would shake your hand but I fear it would come off.

Away, you three-inch fool!

 

[udm]

Heathen! Didst thou really just say 'rpg games', knave? Away with thy head!

 

[Iznaliu]

stuff like liketh is 3rd person singular numbnuts, so "I knoweth" is bull

I don't think most faux-medieval speech has proper personal agreement.

 

[Leechmonger]

Thou seeketh soul power, dost thou not?

Pretty sure the game should have used "seekest" here.

 

[ilitarist]

Dragon's Dogma is exactly like that. You may be tricked into thinking it's an action-RPG like Dark Souls but it's more like a traditional RPG where your reflexes are not as important as preparation and choosing your battles. Thus it's an RPG.

And this olden English gets annoying very soon. Even gameplay is full of it. You don't have classes, you have vocations.

"Him who knows that I know what he seeks to know, knows it well, while he who knows not, knows not what I know or know not." "Are you come to lead the pawns on a quest to slay the Dragon? Those equivocal husks? Will or nil, the Arisen is always drawn to the Dragon, as puppets strung in Fate's own thread."

 

[anvi]

Forsooth Two Worlds 1 is verily unbeaten in matters such as thine.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

We live in an age where illness and deformity are commonplace and yet, Gregz , you are without a doubt the most repulsive individual I have ever met. I would shake your hand but I fear it would come off.

Art thou now, so dull of wit and limp of dick, that such wordings be a bother to thee? Marry, but thou'rt a faggot.

 

[Neanderthal]

NWN OC had it if i member right, not as well done as Ultima though, SCA speak it really ought to be called.

Thus swyved was this carpenteris wyf, for al his kepying and his jalousye.
And Absolon hath kist hir nether ye, and Nicholas is scalded in the towte.
This tale is doon, and god save all the rowte.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

NWN OC had it if i member right,

Nay, brother. Thou hast the wrong of it.

 

[Neanderthal]

Bugger.

 

[Iznaliu]

Even gameplay is full of it. You don't have classes, you have vocations

That doesn't sound that "olden" to me.

 

[ilitarist]

English is not my native language so Dragon's Dogma makes me suffer. It's worse than Dark Souls in that regard, at least in DS they only talk about prophecies and mythical beasts in this manner, in DD they discuss going for a beer in the same arcane terms. I don't recall seeing words like vocation (or half of other words in this game) in regular English texts.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

English is not my native language so Dragon's Dogma makes me suffer. It's worse than Dark Souls in that regard, at least in DS they only talk about prophecies and mythical beasts in this manner, in DD they discuss going for a beer in the same arcane terms. I don't recall seeing words like vocation (or half of other words in this game) in regular English texts.

Vocation is a fairly common word in contemporary English usage (and is merely being used as a substitute for D&D's "class", which itself is an odd use of a common word).

The most annoying feature of speech in Dragon's Dogma is their replacement of "something" and "anything" with "aught", e.g. "A merchant's paid me to mine here and send word if I find aught of value" or "I don't know aught of dragons and such, I just do as I'm told." or "Truly, I must do aught to repay this kindness".

 

[Iznaliu]

Vocation is a fairly common word in contemporary English usage.

Not really outside of formal speech and writing.