2007-06-10 07:54:10

Maybe she seem to let loose on the information to you guys because she was concentrating so hard on speaking French :)

2007-06-10 10:04:35

sounds great,or should i say reads great,is there any chance u can do english versions,i know its more time consuming,but i bet there are more english speaking people than french,it puts me off when i have to read the text and then rewind the clip to see the footage

2007-06-10 10:26:05

I get the feeling that Jade divulged more info about the game than she had originally intended to! I was wondering, has there been any word on the Limited Edition pre-order availability...?

2007-06-10 11:02:29 In reply to ramiuk1 (2007-06-10 10:04:35)

No, no, no... You should consider yourself lucky that XY is translated in English. :)

There may be more English members but the French community is more active by far though it doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the shows are in French, obviously. As Snoop and Blim already explained, we are French so the natural thing for us is to speak French, not English no matter how international the language is. For once you guys have to deal with subtitles you shouldn't complain.

Among all the ign-gamespot-GT-etc sites I think it's great XY has its own style & the fact that it's a French site is part of it. The job that's been done here for years by Blim² & Snoop is incredible and & I think it's something to be proud of. No reason to forget our French for that matter.

Now sorry if it puts you off so much but it's usually how the French feel about English you know: so you get to see how it feels to be in French-people-who-don't-know-squat-about-english's shoes. ;)

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The Dreadful Unit #7

2007-06-10 12:05:49 In reply to Driftwood (2007-06-10 11:02:29)

Yup, Xboxyde has continuously delivered superior quality content for a long time now. Yea sure I'm English and would prefer if the site was that way, but I always come to this site due to the effort put into everything they do, makes me not mind reading subtitles. I really have a lot of respect for the guys that run the site and put time and effort into not only delivering content in HD, but working to get amazing interviews and content for their show gamersyde.

I'm always surprised at how accurate and consistent the translations are from French to English, I sometimes forget that you guys are french at all, until I watch a new episode of gamersyde :P

2007-06-10 12:25:54

great work guys

2007-06-10 13:10:29

throwing knives would be more like "couteaux de lancer".

What ? I'm late ?

Oh wai..

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2007-06-10 13:35:23

I loved when she sparkled the french with english "throwing knives"

2007-06-10 13:59:59

Considering French is the mother tongue of the interviewers and Jade grew up in Montreal, which means despite being Anglo-Canadian French must be like her second mother tongue, to do the interview in French was fine and comprehensible although reading subtitles can definitely distract from what is happening on the screen. But vice versa in this case, when there is a beautiful young lady on it you forget that there are any subtitles at all and just listen :D

BTW I´m really impressed with Jade Raymond. When I first saw a pic of her and read that she was the producer of a AAA Ubisoft title I thought she was chosen to promote the game with her exterior qualities as there really are hardly any handsome persons in the gaming industry. But those interviews really show that she knows what´s she doing and that she is really involved as the actual producer in the developing process and that she is deservedly in charge of such an important title for Ubisoft.

2007-06-10 14:08:11 In reply to indigo0086 (2007-06-10 13:35:23)

It can be rather tricky to switch from one language to another like she does. She probably had a speech or another interview in english minuts before that. :)

Living in a mixed country (Belgium, where I have to speak French and Dutch almost everyday), I can tell you it's incredibly exhausting to constantly change the way you talk, and you might have words popping in the wrong language (especially if you use that word more often in one language actually).

As far as I know, Jade is english spoken, but as she use to live in Montréal (for the one who asked earlier, a quite large part of Canada "Québec" is french spoken, yet it's not the majority of the country), she has a "close-to-perfect" french.

To get back on topic : the game looks really interesting, and certainly original, I can't wait for it.

2007-06-10 14:20:32

Haha..switching from French to Dutch must indeed be very challenging. It´s hard to think of two languages that differ more in the way they sound.

French sounds like music and Dutch like a mumbled mix of German and English (no offending, for a German it sounds that way)

2007-06-10 14:29:09

I can't wait for this game.
It's also good to hear whenever a developer talks about their game with such enthusiasm as Jade Raymond does here.

2007-06-10 16:22:36

*sigh*

Since WHEN is a friggin PRODUCER more valueable to listen to then say the ACTUAL devs or the creators?

Raymond is a producer nothing more nothing less.... "Acting" like you know tons of stuff doesnt mean that's actually the truth.. however ubisoft sure is a smart company, they have one of the worst community supports out there,, but now they managed to find a sort of cute women who also managed to convience the local teens she's the vice president of ubisoft or w/e

Imagine being a lead programmer or dev for some project.. working your ass off to suddently see a friggin producer talking like he/she/it coded the project on their own....



P.S BTW if you think's she's THAT hot.. you need to get out more often or get better looking girl friends

2007-06-10 16:34:00 In reply to skybox (2007-06-10 16:22:36)

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2007-06-10 16:45:55 In reply to Snoopers (2007-06-10 16:34:00)

2007-06-10 16:50:52

I think everybody's aware that she's not a developer, and I don't see how in hell she "managed to convince she's the vice president of ubisoft or w/e", you're totally talking out of you ass here. Anyway, you should collect some infos on what really is the work of a producer in the game / cinema industry. She communicating about the game to the press is absolutely relevant, and more importantly she knows what she's talking about.

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2007-06-10 17:01:13 In reply to Snoopers (2007-06-10 16:50:52)

2007-06-10 17:16:06 In reply to skybox (2007-06-10 17:01:13)

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The Dreadful Unit #7

2007-06-10 17:32:16

I'm to lazy to read all 4 pages of posts, but seriously can the young ones please keep it in their pants and keep quiet about Jade. She's a decent look girl but dear god it's almost as if non of you guys have ever left your parents basement and ever seen a woman in real life........... o wait... perhaps you havn't ^_^!!!

2007-06-10 18:27:31 In reply to skybox (2007-06-10 17:01:13)

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2007-06-10 18:33:29

She worked as a programmer at Sony a couple of years ago so she knows about DEVELOPING video games and did it herself. For my part I honestly don´t believe that a bunch of programmers would ever get a game together without a producer leading the project, allocating and overlooking the tasks, giving timelines, talking to the company directors/press, managing the production budget etc. The producer is actually involved in all aspects of the project so she probably knows more about the game than anyone else on the team.

2007-06-10 18:51:11

dluv81 that's true.... but she's just another producer... and they can't work without the rest of the team...

BTW you got a link to a source that shows her programing skills?

@snoopers

2007-06-10 19:20:12 In reply to skybox (2007-06-10 18:51:11)

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2007-06-10 19:39:55

Producers have a lot of say in what goes on in a game. If the producer says, "Do this that way" then you better be sure the developers do it that way. Most of the people who are in front of the camera are either reps or producers/directors of the games since they oversee every aspect of the game. It wouldn't make sense to ask say the lead programmer of a certain aspect of the game because they would only be able to give you limited insight of the game.

2007-06-10 20:00:31

Also as a producer she very well could have brought the idea for the game to ubisoft herself. Many producers become such because they want to make their vision happen, but lack the necessary tools (writers, programmers, etc) to do so. So before you jump the gun and say, "She's just a producer" you need to find out why she's a producer.