Most annoying sound in a game?

**Beirut** · 03-20-2006, 12:27

The woman peering in though the door behind me while I'm flying IL2.

"Are you still playing that?"

**cunctator** · 03-20-2006, 13:56

The LockOn background "music". I thought it was a bug or my speakers stopped workin correctly when I heard it the first time.

**Eternal Champion** · 03-20-2006, 14:02

My wife asking me "Are you just about done?" for the 5th time.

**BelgradeWar** · 03-20-2006, 15:13

I actually hated the vanilla RTW music in the background. Annoyed me. And the sound of italian soldiers in Codename Panzers 2. Just awful.

**Ja'chyra** · 03-20-2006, 15:35

Originally Posted by Beirut

The woman peering in though the door behind me while I'm flying IL2.

"Are you still playing that?"

Sounds familiar.

I would have to say all in game music, I always turn it off.

**Butcher** · 03-20-2006, 15:49

Another vote for 'the day is ouuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssssssss!'.

Eagles may soar but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. - David Brent

It is actually from Terry Pratchett.

**Kongamato** · 03-30-2006, 20:29

I recently played SW:KOTOR, and the "box opening" and "body searching" sounds really got annoying after a while, especially after having to wait to get the items. Being new to CRPGs, I've just recently realized what this was all about. The items would not appear until the sound had completed playing, or until the box had fully opened. Cumulatively, this could add several minutes, even an hour on to total game time. Adding more "gameplay hours" is a good way to advertise your game.

**econ21** · 03-30-2006, 21:15

Originally Posted by Kongamato

I recently played SW:KOTOR, and the "box opening" and "body searching" sounds really got annoying after a while, especially after having to wait to get the items. Being new to CRPGs, ...

Well, it would not be a CRPG without having to search crates. KOTOR was guilty of that, but to be honest the inventory management system in that game was rather nice, IMO. You could quickly cycle through all the potentially lootable objects in the area and carry as much as you wanted. I hate these "realistic" systems, where you have constraints on how much you can carry and dislike having to go pixel hunting to find the good stuff. The time and frustration spent on managing your inventory in those games (even the superlative ones like the BGs, FOs, MWs, JA2s etc) dwarf any time spent waiting in KOTOR for crates to open.