Simply Awful Sound Design
By
Aura_Familia,
Posted on: 2010-09-08 16:20 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I should add that one really good addition to this game would be mood music that, rather than being solely tied to terrain, was also tied to combat, with the combat theme overriding the map theme when appropriate. Specifically, I feel it could be tied to the current mission objective (run for your life! type objectives seem like they should trigger a rather frantic sound track), and also tied to when an Archvillian /Giant Monster has been aggroed.
Something I've wanted for a while now is more volume sliders. Dunno how feasible this would be, but as examples:
- Sound FX (already have)
- Music (already have)
- Footsteps (affects only footstep SFX)
- Ambient (affects only ambient sounds such as city noise, cave drips, maybe torch sounds, etc)
- Ambient Music (affects things like boombox emotes, Ouro melody, Mr. Yin's store muzak, passing car beats. Basically music that is supposed to "be there" and isn't simply BGM.)
It would also be nice if the Ghoul Scream would be separated from the music slider and put into SFX(or Ambient if we had that slider) where it belongs.
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YES! Of course, it's even MORE annoying when that jack ALSO has a bright magenta shadowfall gumming everything up :P|
Originally Posted by Lurker Hunter
I cannot stand that sound, especially when some jack has all six of them up in WW while I'm marketing. I thought it was annoying when people had Shadow Fall or whatnot up in WW, but the howling takes the cake.
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Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
Spine's AoE and Tech insp storage, I silenced.
Demon howls, are now the giggles of a 2 year old. Sonic is a combination of chimes and bird sounds. MM Botz as mentioned before, rubber duckie squeak. Didn't really find it annoying, but they do so much clomping around. |
How did you change the sounds? O.o
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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
Taunt though, is a special case, as it's the only power that actually gives your character a voice. Even if you mute it for yourself, everyone else can hear that voice, which may very well be completely unsuited to the character. That bugs me.
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The only sound that truly raises my hackles is Hasten.
I agree that the music in the game is hit or miss. In CoV and GR, it's mostly hit. In CoH it's... well, a bad mid-90s rave with blown speakers is what comes to mind more than a heroic adventure.
Come to think of it though, who do we petition to get more than stations on the boombox? Some new options would be great, even if just played for comedy. I've frequently wanted the ability to play Rap, Country, Polka, etc as part of a character's flavor, but the only options are limited to flat techno beats.