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beetlelisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Poland2276 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 00:23:12
August 18 2010 23:10 GMT
#1
I've tried to search for similar thread, couldn't find any.
Everybody knows about BW probes saying "NOO" but it never occured to me they talk so much until my friend told me
It's not as clear with BW probe so most of it's quotes are debatable but SC2 probe is pretty clear to me.
What can you hear?



BW probe quotes

0:03 / 0:08 "What?"

0:15 sounds kind of like "you're nuts" but I don't think that is it...

0:18 "Can do"

0:27-28 "What?"

0:30-31 "What is your name?" o_o??
On August 19 2010 08:19 TwilightStar wrote:
:30 sounds like "What do you mean" or, "What do you need?" to me.

pretty interesting stuff xD

On August 19 2010 09:05 GreatFall wrote:
I always thought 'your nuts' was 'protoss!'



0:33 "NO" known by most of us...

0:37-38 "Yeah OK"




SC2 probe quotes

0:08 "Whaat?"

0:11-12 "Yessir?"

0:13-14 "No-o" ? not sure

0:16-17 "Can't do that at all"

0:23-24 "Can't do that"


On August 19 2010 08:45 jasp wrote:
Both of them have one line that sounds like "commuting."
And I cant be the only one who perked up when I heard the 'probe finished' sound.


*
wwww
Kinky
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States4126 Posts
August 18 2010 23:12 GMT
#2
I always heard the BW probes meowing :/ My friends thought I was crazy until they started hearing it too.
phosphorylation
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2935 Posts
August 18 2010 23:12 GMT
#3
sc1 pwns sc2 in every way imaginable
here the sc1 probe sounds sooo much better
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jackofclubs81
Profile Joined January 2010
United States196 Posts
August 18 2010 23:18 GMT
#4
On August 19 2010 08:12 phosphorylation wrote:
sc1 pwns sc2 in every way imaginable
here the sc1 probe sounds sooo much better

DEFINITELY!
The sound in SC2 is nothing like the epic manliness of Brood War. Nothing will ever be as badass as good archons screaming "POWER OVERWHELMING!!!"
Long live the real starcraft!. (and the protoss)
sLiniss
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States849 Posts
August 18 2010 23:19 GMT
#5
What the... I can speak Protoss? It's like parseltongue, cept better.
TwilightStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States649 Posts
August 18 2010 23:19 GMT
#6
:30 sounds like "What do you mean" or, "What do you need?" to me.

pretty interesting stuff xD
(5)Twilight Star.scx --------- AdmiralHoth: There was one week when I didn't shave for a month.
Bash
Profile Joined August 2007
Finland1533 Posts
August 18 2010 23:27 GMT
#7
Someone should do this same thing for BW vs SC2 zerg units, like for example how in BW the hydralisk clearly goes "yeeeeeaaahhh?" on select and "rriiiiiiiiighht" on move and in SC2... oh wait in SC2 all the zerg sounds are some generic spacebug chirping that might as well be from a B sci-fi movie and have no memorable characteristics or personality in them.

How they could fuck up the throaty wheeze of the mutalisk so bad is just unfathomable. Reference.
I can't sing and I can't dance, but still I know how to clap my hands.
SageFantasma
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States383 Posts
August 18 2010 23:30 GMT
#8
heh, I never noticed this before. O.O Neat find, I probably will spend more time focusing on what the probe is saying than playing from now on. >.<
Tazza
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Korea (South)1678 Posts
August 18 2010 23:36 GMT
#9
On August 19 2010 08:18 jackofclubs81 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2010 08:12 phosphorylation wrote:
sc1 pwns sc2 in every way imaginable
here the sc1 probe sounds sooo much better

DEFINITELY!
The sound in SC2 is nothing like the epic manliness of Brood War. Nothing will ever be as badass as good archons screaming "POWER OVERWHELMING!!!"
Long live the real starcraft!. (and the protoss)

Especially zerg, they were way scarier and awesomer in SC1
beetlelisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Poland2276 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-18 23:41:05
August 18 2010 23:39 GMT
#10
Yeah I like what I feel when I listen to BW Zerg sounds.
I can stop hearing SC2 Zerg sounds at all at some point during games.

Also Pheonix quotes are so awfully weak when compared to Corsair's.
wwww
Rinrun
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada3509 Posts
August 18 2010 23:41 GMT
#11
Long live Proberto. It would make sense that they'd speak english cause the other units speak it.
"Good to go" :3
MBC/Liquid/TSM always.
jasp
Profile Joined April 2010
United States49 Posts
August 18 2010 23:45 GMT
#12
Both of them have one line that sounds like "commuting."
And I cant be the only one who perked up when I heard the 'probe finished' sound.
RisingTide
Profile Joined December 2008
Australia769 Posts
August 19 2010 00:03 GMT
#13
Wow. I've played BW for over a decade and I've never once realised that probes make people sounds. It's always been a combination of machine noise/gibberish and meows to me.
GreatFall
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1061 Posts
August 19 2010 00:05 GMT
#14
I always thought 'your nuts' was 'protoss!'
Inventor of the 'Burning Tide' technique to quickly getting Outmatched Crusher achivement :D
SC2Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2814 Posts
August 19 2010 00:08 GMT
#15
I always enjoyed the probe sounds compared to the drones and SCVs
Who the fuck has a family of fucking trees? This song is so god damn stupid. Fuck you song, fuck you and your stupid trees. -itmeJP
SubtleArt
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
2710 Posts
August 19 2010 00:09 GMT
#16
On August 19 2010 08:18 jackofclubs81 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2010 08:12 phosphorylation wrote:
sc1 pwns sc2 in every way imaginable
here the sc1 probe sounds sooo much better

DEFINITELY!
The sound in SC2 is nothing like the epic manliness of Brood War. Nothing will ever be as badass as good archons screaming "POWER OVERWHELMING!!!"
Long live the real starcraft!. (and the protoss)


Nor will anything be as badass as "you must contruct additional pylons". When I heard that in Sc1, it was time to make some additional fucking pylons. When I hear it in Sc2, its like "blah, go away asshole im doing something"
Morrow on ZvP: "I'm not very confident in general vs Protoss because of the imbalance (Yes its imbalanced, get over it)."
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
August 19 2010 00:42 GMT
#17
On August 19 2010 08:10 beetlelisk wrote:
Everybody knows about BW probes saying "NOO"

I have played protoss exclusively for years and never once heard that.
iNCuBuS_
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States905 Posts
August 19 2010 01:27 GMT
#18
at :21 in the sc1 probe video it sounds like 'you called me?'
CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11598 Posts
August 19 2010 01:41 GMT
#19
in sc1 the last one sounds like "oh boy"
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Aquafresh
Profile Joined May 2007
United States824 Posts
August 19 2010 01:45 GMT
#20
Last Sc2 probe quote sounds like in-con-trol. Hmm....
hellokitty[hk]
Profile Joined June 2009
United States1309 Posts
August 19 2010 01:55 GMT
#21
I always heard the BW probes meowing

Me too.
People are imbeciles, lucky thing god made cats.
Kibibit
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States1551 Posts
August 19 2010 01:57 GMT
#22
Even though I haven't touched brood war heavily in a bit, the many, many years I've been with the game constantly gives me a twitch that equates to "moving the worker to the mineral patch"
R.I.P. 우정호 || Do probes dream of psionic sheep?
JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
August 19 2010 02:29 GMT
#23
~0 BW probe says "meow" or "what now"
~0:12 it says "come baby"
If you have to ask, you don't know.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
August 19 2010 02:40 GMT
#24
i've always thought that the probe sounds sound a lot like random references to war2. i remember there being a hero named cho'gall in war2, could be that. and a lot of the sounds are similar to orc peons kind of...
boomer hands
CheAse
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada919 Posts
August 19 2010 03:07 GMT
#25
I tried as hard as i could for something but i couldnt hear any english
SCV good to go sir
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 19 2010 03:10 GMT
#26
Oh my god they do speak english!
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
August 19 2010 05:08 GMT
#27
On August 19 2010 09:09 SubtleArt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 19 2010 08:18 jackofclubs81 wrote:
On August 19 2010 08:12 phosphorylation wrote:
sc1 pwns sc2 in every way imaginable
here the sc1 probe sounds sooo much better

DEFINITELY!
The sound in SC2 is nothing like the epic manliness of Brood War. Nothing will ever be as badass as good archons screaming "POWER OVERWHELMING!!!"
Long live the real starcraft!. (and the protoss)


Nor will anything be as badass as "you must contruct additional pylons". When I heard that in Sc1, it was time to make some additional fucking pylons. When I hear it in Sc2, its like "blah, go away asshole im doing something"



HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA epic
EffectS
Profile Joined May 2010
Belgium795 Posts
August 19 2010 09:11 GMT
#28
On August 19 2010 08:12 phosphorylation wrote:
sc1 pwns sc2 in every way imaginable
here the sc1 probe sounds sooo much better


Die kittycat, DIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I think it's stuff they recorded with a voice actor and just modified it completely.
Might be totally off. Probably.
TEEHEE
Skvid
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Lithuania751 Posts
August 19 2010 10:48 GMT
#29
in first video at 0:12 it sounds like hes saying "Suck a dick"
...
...too bad he says it in lithuanian lol :|
EatCrow
Profile Joined April 2010
Estonia333 Posts
August 19 2010 11:03 GMT
#30
I hear Chewy and Kudos.
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