Most annoying sound in a game?
What ingame sound unnerves/annoys you the most? I'd go with the sound of the soliders issuing commands to eachother in Half-Life I, not because it was scary, but becasue it meant that you we're going to spend 10 minutes trying to out maneuver 5 commandos(The AI in Half-Life I was amazing, considering that it the game is like 6 years old)
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Re: Most annoying sound in a game?
can i nominate.....
"Mr sandman" on the NES. Laughing after he beat you.
Always hatd the efect of making me kick the nes across the room, "very robust things"
And whilst am at it.
can I nominate the lady from AOhell Saying...
Hello, Welcome to AOHell... Goodbye.
"had aol for all of 24 hours, and that woman kept saying that. verry annoying when you cant stayonline dur to aohell"
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Caesar II : 'Plebs are needed'
Any time the standard windows error noise pops up.
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The villagers from Black and White.
Killed them all...can't...make...it...stop...
*curls up shaking in the corner*
Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.
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The music in pretty much every game except Star Wars games.
The occasional sound "YEEEEAAAARRRRGGHHHH" in Starcraft (+ same sample is used in a zillion radio/TV ads, many songs and even some movies, seems to be some kind of a running gag between sound mixers)
maybe those guys should be doing something more useful...
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The Terran Academy sound (in Starcraft) was particularly grating.
Some of the Zerg units, too.
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I think I'll add the voice acting for the Chinese in C&C...ugh!
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"The day is oooooooooouuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrssssss!" from RTW.
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I tend to hate the constipation sounds that play in almost 100% of games when your male character is performing any sort of jump.
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Dammit, all this time I assumed you were a pacifist...Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
Morrowind's music can get tiresome after a while.
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Ah man! I remeber that! First time I played I didn't bother to read the manual and after about a minute it start going off and it took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to allocate plebs to my various projects.
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Second for "The day is oooooooooouuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrssssss!" from RTW. Scooby Snack, anyone?
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That baby sound in MTW.
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lets try again. and nominate.
"No wait dont open that door"
in resident evil 1. as you enter the mansion.
not really a big problem unless your like me and play the resident evil games all the way through without saving.
if you do play without saving.
"No wait Dont open that door" is the last thing you want to hear. Becous that mean's you just died and start again :(
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I think units saying their name when selected in RTW, or RTS character saying "yes sir!", "on your command!" and so on... Oh, and those 60 minute missions in FPS games where the alarm is on during the entire mission...
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I hate those generic laughing sounds, in movies and in games.
You hear them a lot in tycoon games, those irritating sounds are the reason I stopped playing them.
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Got to agree with nearly all of these.Extra hatred points for "Plebs are needed!" and Black and White's whinging villagers.
I hated the crappy fake trumpet noise generated by the interface link to the court screen in Crusader Kings. I once saw it called "electronic fart trumpets". One of the few sound effects I have physically ripped out of a game, deleted entirely from my PC, and then replaced with something more tasteful.
Any game which features any sort of audio alarm for when you are down to a certain tiny portion of your health. Gah! Repeat after the frog: Annoying noises are distracting. Distraction is not a good thing when you are nearly out of health. Including such sound effects should be punishable by being beaten with large sticks. Repeatedly. While the accursed sound effect plays endlessly.
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I hope it's not in the actual game, but the 'screaming in the distance' in Sniper Elite demo got beyond unnerving, and moved quickly into froggy's "rip it out" therapy.
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The civil unrest noises in STW and MTW when you got late into a campaign. You knew they would happen every turn, and sure enough, you get "murmur murmur HAAAEGGHHHHHHHH!!" a half-dozen times in a row. This was a constant annoyance.
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I like all game sounds.... At least I don`t dislike/haven`t any of the ones mentioned in this thread.
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The hissing noise when you overheat a machine gun in BF2 is pretty annoying, usually becausei t means you've got about 5 seconds to go...
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Those are so annoying. Especially if the game has a huge easy to see "health meter" that flashes and turns red. What's the point?Any game which features any sort of audio alarm for when you are down to a certain tiny portion of your health. Gah! Repeat after the frog: Annoying noises are distracting. Distraction is not a good thing when you are nearly out of health. Including such sound effects should be punishable by being beaten with large sticks. Repeatedly. While the accursed sound effect plays endlessly.
I think that I'll add pretty much all of the sounds in HomeWorld 2. The fact that you hear them constantly doesn't help...I don't need to hear a little voice everytime one of my fighters gets shot at, espically half way through the game when you hear it every several seconds.
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Almost forgot - the "assasin captured" in MTW was really annoying, especially later in the game when there was 12 in a row.
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When you are victorious as the Romans in RTW at the post battle screen and you have the guy that sounds like he got kicked in the nuts "...the daaaaayyy is oooouuuuurrrrsssss!!!!"
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Enseric the longsword in NWN HotU.
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
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The woman peering in though the door behind me while I'm flying IL2.
"Are you still playing that?"
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The LockOn background "music". I thought it was a bug or my speakers stopped workin correctly when I heard it the first time.
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My wife asking me "Are you just about done?" for the 5th time.
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I actually hated the vanilla RTW music in the background. Annoyed me. And the sound of italian soldiers in Codename Panzers 2. Just awful.
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Sounds familiar.
I would have to say all in game music, I always turn it off.
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