Discussions and resources for studying or learning about Chinese languages (Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Classical Chinese, etc.).
A lot of switch games have Chinese language options. I recently played through Luigi's mansion in Chinese and also played dragon quest with the voice language set to Japanese with Chinese text (which is how a lot of native Chinese speakers experience games anyway) and had a fun time.
Starcraft 2 also has a great Chinese translation with both mainland and Taiwanese Mandarin dubs.
Nice, thanks for the suggestions! :D
I've been experimenting with this a bit myself. One problem is that people speak strangely in video games. I don't normally run around telling people I'm gonna kick their but and throw lightning bolts at them so it's not obvious that I'm getting much grammar or vocabulary help.
But I do end up listening to a bunch of voice actors speaking Chinese with proper accents. I figure that helps with my pronunciation and speech recognition. I try to repeat whatever they say for a little extra practice.
Some games let you independently set the spoken and written languages. I focus on those since I can still play the game but they speak a bunch of Chinese. I'm thinking of trying to start some new game and setting it entirely in Chinese to see what happens if I try to force myself through it.
For now I've got the following games set to do dialog in Chinese:
Total War: Three Kingdoms
Anno: Mutationem
F.I.S.T.
Warm Snow
Amazing Cultivation Simulator
Word Game: Episode 0 (Warning this is way too hard for me)
The problem I encountered when I started switching the in-game language to Chinese was that descriptions of game mechanics and systems can be quite hard to read, whereas it's relatively straightforward to keep up with the narrative.
I did the same as you initially and just set audio to Chinese for games like Cyberpunk, and I think it did help my listening. Now I've played through a few games with text and audio set to Chinese and it has gotten a bit smoother.
Oh, and I also made a community for discussing donghua, for anyone interested: https://lemmy.world/c/donghua