Dialogue Options: The Languages of Far Cry Primal

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University of Kentucky Professor Andrew Byrd joins me for the first LIVE Dialogue Options, recorded at Ubisoft's Toronto motion capture studio!
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@michaelwilson3991 8 жыл бұрын

This guy's presentation skills are on point

@shaynewaugh2111 8 жыл бұрын

The decision to develop languages for the characters of the game took Primal from a curiosity to a must buy for me. I am really happy you were able to get an interview with one of the people behind making it happen. A truly fascinating interview.

@Robobagpiper 8 жыл бұрын

I've been really excited about this game since I learned they were inventing a proto-PIE for it - only to learn they've made a proto-PIE *and* two dialects of a proto-proto-PIE. I get a little squee every time I hear a cognate of a modern word in the gameplay footage I've seen so far.

@RedLianaK 8 жыл бұрын

It's crazy, isn't it? Like, the amount of care they took is wild!

@Robobagpiper 8 жыл бұрын

+Liana K I'm stunned by the amount of thought that seems to have gone into the world-building, as well as the characterization. The only thing I'm the slightest bit disappointed in so far is what appears to be the lack of early textiles. Speaking of which, this book might appeal to you, both from your history side, your gender studies side, and possibly even your cosplayer side: "Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years - Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times" by Elizabeth Barber. I had it recommended to me by the textiles expert in the living history group I'm in. Very fascinating look at this major thread (pun intended) of technology through the history of civilization almost entirely developed by women.

@RedLianaK 8 жыл бұрын

+Peter Walker Don't count out textiles! We haven't seen much of the Izila and they're the most advanced culture in the game that way.

@Robobagpiper 8 жыл бұрын

Fair enough. I'll keep an eye out!

@KroganCharr 8 жыл бұрын

I never had much interest in Far Cry games, but this convinced me to get Primal. The passion you feel in this video from beginning to finish, that is what gaming feels like! "Gamers are a people of childlike joy." Damn right, Paolo. We are.

@Zannooda 6 жыл бұрын

Glad I found this video, thank you Liana for this great interview. I'm a Far Cry fan and big linguistics and anthropology aficionado, so the subject is really fascinating to me. BUT, historically speaking, there is a big problem... Far Cry Primal story's happening in modern day Slovakia about 8000 BCE, at least 4000 years before first Indo-Europeans came to that region (according to the most accepted Kurgan hypothesis), and at least 1500 years before Archaic Proto-Indo-European language was even formed according to mostly refuted Anatolian hypothesis.

@Anthony19byrne 8 жыл бұрын

This was a really fascinating to listen to. When the game is released I would of played it & just focused completely on the subtitles but I'll be checking out the different sounds & flow in the communication now.

@timogul 8 жыл бұрын

I have to say, I did not go into this as a huge Primal fan, and hadn't played any of the previous Far Cry's (more of an AC player), but after all this well through out coverage, I am sincerely curious and will definitely check it out.

@ISpillMyDrink 8 жыл бұрын

I've never played any Far Cry games before but I'm definitely not skipping this one now.

@jakomioftherose2434 8 жыл бұрын

+ISpillMyDrink It looks really good. A bit gory compared to the other games.

@RedLianaK 8 жыл бұрын

+Jakomi of the Rose Yeah it is more visceral. The previous games were bloody, but not... chunky. This game is chunky.

@jakomioftherose2434 8 жыл бұрын

Liana K Yeah, I saw the Achievment Hunters play it. Debating if I should get it. I Liked 3 and loved 4.

@dapperchap572 8 жыл бұрын

+ISpillMyDrink I would love a game like Banished that focuses on a pre-historic sphere. Empire earth and Spore really don't cut it for me :-(

@ISpillMyDrink 8 жыл бұрын

+Dapper Chap I'm not sure how much you could do with that. But I'm not big on city planning games so I'm probably the wrong person to come up with one.

@teoian30 8 жыл бұрын

Great content as always Liana. This stuff is really really cool and it's almost like a kind of reverse science fiction. where we look at the technology we have now and extrapolate what we will have in the future (ala deux ex games). But for Primal it seems to be going the opposite direction. It's like going what do we speak now? and then we slowly peel away the layers and go back in time.

@rabidslurpy871 4 жыл бұрын

I love learning new languages. I loved this game. I hate that, this man is so much, smarter than me

@iDEATH 8 жыл бұрын

Really cool, Liana, thanks. It's one of the most interesting things about Far Cry Primal for me, the languages and little details they seem to be putting in. Professor Byrd seems great, too, very clear and easy to follow.

@Spino2Earth 6 жыл бұрын

I love these languages!! I think of our great European ancestors when i hear them!!

@Fenristhegreat 8 жыл бұрын

Nice interview, interesting. The subtitles also amused me.

@ikbenstommer 8 жыл бұрын

My cousin is a pro gamer who medalled in shoot em ups at the last 3 Olympic Video Games. He says this guy is full of it.

@Xandermorph 8 жыл бұрын

+Sweetest of Sweethearts I don't understand... what is your cousin basing this assertion on, exactly? Andrew Byrd is a linguist at a university, not a videogame developer - i.e. he's NOT a Ubisoft employee. So unless your cousin majored in historical linguistics before becoming a pro-gamer, I don't see where he's deriving his conclusion. Hell, under what context would he have ever even HEARD of Andrew Byrd before, much less know enough details about his body of work to discern its quality? Actually, if he DID have any understanding of Andrew Byrd's work, he'd be saying quite the opposite. It sounds to me like your cousin has mistaken him for a game developer. If that's the case then I could see why he'd be more than a little skeptical about the claims of historical accuracy regarding the languages made for this game. But it's not bullshit - this is the real deal. In fact, I'm rather shocked at just how scientifically accurate it really is! There aren't very many creative liberties taken, here - this IS a 95% accurate rendition of Pre-Proto-Indo-European as it most plausibly would've sounded during the late-Mesolithic era.

@Renmiou 8 жыл бұрын

I second the request for a DVD about this stuff, I've never played a Far Cry game but this video made me curious!

@fredguy2 8 жыл бұрын

I loved Farcry 3 and will get Farcry 4 and Farcry Primal. Very informative about the structure of languages and how different languages influence each other. I am glad that the languages used in the game are not stereotypical Cave men grunts. This is an area of gaming ie; Language systems that would make for a great documentary. Also as a fellow Torontonian it does feel good knowing this game was made in this city.

@nthavotelcam4112 4 жыл бұрын

We need more games or movies likes these that use reconstructed language rather than English.

@onyx6547 8 жыл бұрын

I want to learn wenja

@thedorku9500 4 жыл бұрын

There’s a website called Speaking Primal where you can learn Wenja and Izila. Here’s the link: speakingprimal.com/far-cry-primal/

@rayray2012 8 жыл бұрын

Great interview and snazzy sportscoat to boot. Two thumbs up!

@stevestrangelove4970 8 жыл бұрын

I'm really interested in the logistic strategies implemented for the game, I mean, its not the same killing animals and gathering plants when you have a grenade launcher and there is a village you can drive to and having to walk with not enough tools and no idea if there is going to be a place to sleep, only to gather plants and stones. Also I hope they have different types of stones to build your tools, it would be a cool way to give better equipment as you progress on the game.

@AndyPanayiotou27 8 жыл бұрын

Great video. I need more interviews like this :)

@jasonpresti2501 8 жыл бұрын

Great video & interview! Very fascinating to watch even for someone not getting the game, at least at launch.

@sayantanm2 8 жыл бұрын

Loved this one. Really interesting interview. Also Liana's hair is sooo pretty.

@JamesBideaux 8 жыл бұрын

A bit different than your other dialogue options (topic wise too), but definitely interesting. I hope you manage to get some more interviews that cover new territory that way.

@dapperchap572 8 жыл бұрын

Loved this, more like this please! :-)

@Spino2Earth 6 жыл бұрын

Izila sound a bit like Klingon!

@liamldob7688 8 жыл бұрын

The character that was showed on the screen was not Sayla, it was Sayma.

@RoyKoopaling 8 жыл бұрын

Less "evolved"? Lol. Sure that wasn't intentional.

@rijiriju 5 жыл бұрын

like africans?

@LucaW. 8 жыл бұрын

This was really interesting. Hearing all the thought that goes into this stuff is really cool. I bet you could cosplay a character from it without darkening your skin. It's clothes and wigs and such that'll probably show what character your portraying.

@RoyKoopaling 8 жыл бұрын

By the way. This was great and what I want game journalism to be.

@RebelCannonClub74 8 жыл бұрын

If you like world building check out my deviant art page at SleepySpecter/ Gallery. I make self-made faction concept art. Enjoy!

@derstreuner4517 3 жыл бұрын

Are there any live action roleplayers (larpers) willing to play the setting of Far Cry Primal? ;)

@meredithwagner989 8 жыл бұрын

That is so cool! Did you get to interview his wife for her perspective and insights?

@RedLianaK 8 жыл бұрын

+Meredith Wagner I tried, but she was back in Kentucky!

@stevestrangelove4970 8 жыл бұрын

+Liana K I read it as "back in the kitch-tucky"

@fignitz 8 жыл бұрын

+Liana K yeah, Toronto was last minute and we have a 3yr old. Maybe we can do a Skype call after the game releases? ;) I feel left out!!

@stevestrangelove4970 8 жыл бұрын

***** plz do Liana

@meredithwagner989 8 жыл бұрын

+Liana K Darned, last minute trips and 3 year old, but, uh, she seems up for Skype? If you can work it out, I will watch multiple times with the ads playing. I will even watch that terrible Wayfarer ad in full.

@abhinavchauhan7864 4 жыл бұрын

Can he translated rig vedic hymes to PIE ?

@alexbeedle6386 8 жыл бұрын

Its skyrim with ears

@ryPish 8 жыл бұрын

Though I do appreciate the effort they put into the game, I'm still not interesting in playing it.

@gilgamesh310 8 жыл бұрын

Why not?

@ryPish 8 жыл бұрын

gilgamesh310 UbiSoft-style open world full of "radio towers".

@Xandermorph 8 жыл бұрын

+Ry P While I have been looking forward to this game for a while now and totally plan on playing it, I don't at all disagree with your assessment of the "Ubisoft Formula", which I also think has become WAAAAY overused. Honestly, I've been holding out a little hope in this case that the game's setting will make the "Formula" too impractical to effectively shoehorn into the era they chose for the game, and might force them to think outside of that box a little bit.

@Xandermorph 8 жыл бұрын

+Dale Moon LOL that makes no sense - if the now-ubiquitous Ubisoft Formula is boring to this guy, why in the mother of fuck would he turn to a Call of Duty game and expect anything but even MORE boring-as-shit cliched formulas? Lol I dunno why, but my mind keeps returning to the (admittedly a little erroneous :P) comparative analogy of someone trying to rid their house of a termite infestation by introducing ants to it.