MUAHAHAHAHAHA
I just found both expansion packs for download in the apple store. Now there is this slight chance this wont do me any good. But there also is the chance it will just... work. 30 minutes download, 10 minutes dicking around with some files, and maybe, just maybe I can play the game like it's supposed to be.
I mean, seriously. Why the eff are they even bothering with localized speech, when they cant even find a half decent voice actor. Because the german thing is really really really bad. I already said that, did I? but I can say it again, its THAT bad. You can hear the actors .... acting. there is NOTHING natural about their voices, they wrangle the words through their throats, you can almost feel the pain.
I can see why they are localizing games. Everytime I go to the store and browse the budget box, I can hear the kiddies complain about "but this isnt in german". fuckin brats, you learn that friggin language in school, and you should be grateful for every opportunity to train those skills so you have an easier time, but hey, if you want to suffer and actually study instead of learning by playing, go right ahead. Oh wait, no, their kind leaves more money in the store, and thats why the shops decide to only stock up the unholy translated versions, gettin ME to suffer. And so the circle of bitching goes on. If the devs just decided to keep the VOICES original and localize the text, it would be easier for ALL of us. bastards.
And in the end, I sit here, in the middle of the night, going all frankenstein on my (legit) game install, swapping parts on the fly, praying it won't fall apart into a stinking pile of memory allocation errors.
edit:
I jinxed it
the mac versions seems to handle the .bifs differently, it's just one big bif in that data folder, and I dont have the slightest clue how to tickle the language and voice files out of there. Maybe I should just turn off the voices... oh wait, there is still the horribad translation of the text. I could give you some examples, but let me just say, it starts in the options screen.
They looked up the according german words in a dictionary, and picked the first they found, regardless of actual meaning
well, at least I got rid of THAT.