oke, just bought the discounted Persona 3 portable/Persona 4 bundle available on Microsoft. for only 11 euros

After installing the game i set the fps to 120, changed the spoken language to Japanese why are the american subs so bad ??... okay okay... this is the bonus question, anyone who answers (to my liking) wins a 10 euro costing game on GoG

I'm always a bit fearful of high fps and high power load so I also enabled the gpu overlay.
Something is actually preventing the title from running a stable 120 fps. It doesn't drop a lot, only a couple of fps but.... it does feel weird.

What's happening here?

Microshit store is happening I would guess.

I found three possible reasons.
It is either
(a). Power save mode.
(b). Your PC doesn't support 120 FPS.
(c) The workload inside the processor is high due to the game's high settings.

I'm guessing you need to decrease the load on your processor

Japanese PC Ports have nearly always been plagued with problems. The fact that it even goes above 60 and doesn't run in a 1378 x 960 fullscreen is a miracle itself.

What CPU and GPU are you running? How much RAM does your motherboard have installed?

Do you give your internal components a cleaning once in a while or is it full of dust and human skin cells?

Like electricity, you wont have 100% stable flow. If a device says 65w. If you look at the current with a meter, it will fluctuate betwen 59-66 every so often.

On a side note, turn off V-Sync. Look at the difference and come back here with result.

I also agree with the others on here as possible reasons though. Bad ports from Japan. Such as Silent Hill(part 4 is not actually Silent Hill). Plus, people have seen monitors of 144 not getting 120. So, I think it is just typical shit quality, being normal.

It's pretty common for most titles to have variances in FPS, especially when targeting high numbers. Plenty of reasons for it beyond loading stutter - none of which are worth worrying about.

The "feeling weird" issue is what G-Sync is designed to fix - synchronise the refresh rate with the (variable) frame rate and this type of thing becomes imperceptible.

sjeez... well guess that could be expected.... I'll try again somewhere in the next months

Hello P. Zimerickus!

Since the others already mentioned some plausible explanations to your technical question and I do not have personal experience with gaming on higher fps counts anyway, let me give you an answer to your bonus question.

Why are American subs in Japanese (roleplaying) games so bad?

Well, it is first a translation and a cultural issue between east and west, and secondly a marketing/commercial one.

Japanese game developers and writers usually make extensive use of culturally embedded expressions, idioms and references which barely make any sense in other (especially western) languages and their cultural context (such as American English).
It seems that they go even the extra mile in so called JRPGs with all their weird and goofy characters, stuff and so on.
A 'good' translation actually has to rewrite a lot of content in order to make it sensible and appealing to other audiences.

The problem is, if the translaters in their localization efforts stray off to far from the Japanese source material they receive a lot of flags from both sides, the Japanese producer (see for example Konami's / Kojima's History with the translator for the original Metal Gear Soild script which included many American military 'slang' or vocabulary and got kicked out for it although it played a part in its success in the west) and from fans with Japanese as second or third (or whatever but not native) language knowledge (just compare the comments of the vocal community members in almost every JRPG release thread here at GOG.COM).
So, should they stop adapting the script and content for western audiences by sticking to an almost literal (word by word) translation which only a minority of customers will be able to decipher? I do not know!

However there is as well a marketing/commercial issue at hand. With that I am neither talking about the financual cost of experienced translators nor the questionable use of low quality machine translations (also very well known in the west, see for instance Bethesda's 'efforts' with their translation of TES IV Oblivion into German).
No I am speaking of a common phenomen: one company lands a commercial hit with one of their games despite certain flaws in it (in this case with the localization / translation of both or either subtitles and/or dubbing into a non-japanese language) and other companies copying those errors, because they misinterpret what made the competitors game so successful in the first place.

Let's take a look at a specific example: Final Fantasy X (originally released in 2001 for the PS2)!
Does anyone here remember how awkward the localization of that one was?
Tidus and Yuna laughing together - timestamp [03:34:23]
(Or start a little bit earlier to appreciate some of the characters' in-depth conversation that lead to the laughing scene.)

Sure, Final Fantasy X was ground-breaking in many ways including the amount of actual voiced dialogs (thanks to the PS2's utilization of DVDs instead of CD-ROMs), complete realtime 3D environments, etc.
But it also cemented the trend of small corridor-like environments (levels) and over-reliance on fully voiced cut scenes (both prerendered and in-engine) to name just a few.

Maybe, it would be best to offer the option to the player for selecting either an interpreting localization or a more close to the source 'translation'. Although, it would increase the production cost and hence the prize of the game for a release outside of Japan, and if there is no succesful precedence case of a risk-taking Japanese developer / company it might cause even less Japanese games to be localized to western audiences...

Kind regards,
foxgog

Confirm.
Some subtitles are synchronised according to the frame number. For instance: if one doesn't lock the FPS to 60 while playing Beyond Good & Evil™, they desync pretty fast!
And yes, it's often annoying...

Translators are usually bad because the person lacks cultural knowledge. If I say in english "You have a cats tongue". You will not understand the context. It is Japanese. It means, you cannot seem to be able to consume hot food comfortably.

Then there is also poor translation, because the translator is terrible at making a proper sentence. "I is no hot fud bad fer me!". In the latter, who knows....maybe ate to many paint chips as a child lol

is it just me or ?

hi

love your reaction!

You know what i found most intriguing i guess, is the lack of emotional appearance in the western translation the producers do seem to found most appropiate. I mean, hire our all time stars from Vox Machina and let them read those lines.... understand what i mean?

anyways


this little odd occurrence led to a string of events that ended with me refunding Persona and dropping all Japanese games for now.

Something with honor and wrongdoing in the past..... The Dutch in Indonesia, blablabla..... Even had it with my car.... during my time with Toyota i had a great dealer experience... but yea...... only Korea and the smaller nations seem to 'fit' in my oh so Dutch live atm