I immediately noticed the difference in the sounds between the two games, and I have to say I was just disgusting at how shitty the sc2 unit sounds were with all 3 races. They lack creativity, variety, and emotion. I can barely tell the difference between a sc2 stalker, dark templar, and high templar,(btw it pained me deeply at how hard they butchered the dt and ht voices among with others). and for me, being a zerg player, was completely disappointed the units... it's just so boring. I was just thinking of playing the game with mute, because I can't stand that god awful zerg advisor. But I'm glad at least they kept the toss advisor and probe sounds the same from what I can tell, also the zealot doesn't sound as intimidating anymore. I love the sc1 sounds so much that I even put it to where whenever I receive an IM from AIM I get the sound of a hydralisk being born, yeah it's nerdy but I love it and it makes me hard.

MrGreyness

Australia35 Posts

March 21 2010 13:27 GMT

#62

Yeah the sound isn't really the strongest part of SC2. I liked it when the game told you when you were fighting enemies with a simple 'Your forces have engaged the enemy' rather than having your unit say something like 'We cannot hold.' 'Prismatic core failing.' Which causes you to go oh crap! and madly rush to check out whats happening and see 5 void rays and an army of zealot fighting 2 marines or something.

tancor

Barbados55 Posts

March 21 2010 13:39 GMT

#63

I agree currently sounds sucks, the old voice(starcraft2.com) was great.why they needs to change ..come on blizzz turn back to old sounds...

Topazas

Lithuania86 Posts

March 21 2010 13:48 GMT

#64

I don't think Zerg sounds are boring.

We love old sounds becouse some of us heard it like 100.000 times.

I'm sure that after first year of playing we all could repeat all those sneezes and other Zerg sounds, so I really don't see a problem here.

lololol

5198 Posts

March 21 2010 14:01 GMT

#65

The new voicing is terrible when compared to BW T_T

yomi

United States773 Posts

March 21 2010 14:06 GMT

#66

Can't be that hard to have an option for the classic sounds can it?

EchOne

United States2906 Posts

March 21 2010 14:09 GMT

#67

As strong as the BW sounds were, we can't simply replace SC2's sounds with them since SC2 features a bevy of new units. Essentially if the community wanted to make a sound replacement mod, they'd have to assemble a sound team and create the sounds from scratch. I wouldn't put it past our kickass community though.

iounas

409 Posts

March 21 2010 14:18 GMT

#68

At least new immortals sound badass.

old: http://www.starcraft2.com/features/protoss/immortal.xml

new immortal at 2.40-- I like "there can be only one" sound especially.. They should make all his sounds sound like that..

Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

March 21 2010 14:21 GMT

#69

This reminds me of some sounds from WC3...and all I remember was that the sounds in WC3 really bored the crap put of me.

DannyJ

United States5110 Posts

March 21 2010 14:44 GMT

#70

I agree overall with you all about the less memorable units sounds. However, im reluctant to really feel that passionate about it because im sure 10 years of hearing the old sounds have made me pretty biased.

The only unit voice i truly officially hate is the new High Templar. Much much worse than old.

Oh and i want Overlord screaming back

DwmC_Foefen

Belgium2186 Posts

March 21 2010 14:46 GMT

#71

LOOOOOOOOL I didn't know sc2 zerglings farted lolol :p

THat said, I like actually like the terran voices en most of the toss's voices. (zealot is awesome... as long as he isn't getting attacked lol we cannot hold my ass there's 20 of you against 5lings wtf)

But yeah zerg...

uhg

KungKras

Sweden484 Posts

March 21 2010 19:01 GMT

#72

I'm pretty dissapointed by the sound as well. Especially Terran 1 not being in there somewhere.

I made a thread about it on the Battle.net forums.

http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=23767542739&sid=5010

gngfn

United States1726 Posts

March 21 2010 19:20 GMT

#73

The new HT sounds extremely similar to roughly 1/4 of all the bosses in WoW. Seriously, listen to Algalon's voice and tell me it's not nearly identical. This is what happens when you get used to stuff like voicing being a secondary, polish-related consideration rather than integral to the game.

I also agree with basically everything that's been said in this thread about how sound effect quality seems to have suffered overall, particularly with respect to how "weak" the marine and siege tank attack sounds have become. Blizzard's creative direction in the post-WoW era has really suffered.

Spawkuring

United States755 Posts

March 21 2010 19:22 GMT

#74

The High Templar, Dark Templar, Archon, and Zerg Announcer are the only voices I would say are genuinely bad from an objective standpoint.

My main problem with the voices is that a lot of them don't act as enthusiastic as the ones in SC1. Compare the SC1 siege tank with the SC2 siege tank and you'll definitely see the difference even though it appears to be the same voice actor. The Zealot is another good example. The voice itself is perfectly fine in SC2, but the acting is weaker. Just compare the SC1 "MY LIFE FOR AIUR" with the SC2 "MylifeforAiur" where it sounds like the SC2 zealot is rushing his phrase instead of emphasizing on every syllable.

I know it might sound less realistic, but I really think that Blizzard needs to increase on the "hamminess" of the acting, and by that I mean more enthusiasm and bombastic acting overall. Just look at the Thor. It's probably the only hammy voice in SC2, and guess what? It's also one of the most popular voices. The Protoss sound filters are also a lot weaker in SC2. They all sound "airy", which is fine in some cases, but I really don't want units like the carrier to sound airy. Everything about the carrier's voice should scream POWER, and I don't really get that feeling in this new one. Maybe it made some Protoss units hard to understand, but damn it sounded awesome. And I'm not just talking nostalgia here. Even when I first played the game, I still found the High Templar and Archon voices awesome despite the fact that they were sometimes hard to understand. So far the Immortal is the only voice that really carries any power.

It's a shame that Blizzard seems satisfied with their work right now, but I really feel that they can do better, and it's obvious that many others feel the same way just going by the multiple threads on it. It seems like every fansite and forum has a strong consensus that the sound could use improvement, so I hope Blizzard swallows their pride and improves on it. I wouldn't mind a delay either, it's not like I was expecting SC2 any earlier than the fall/winter anyway.

pzea469

United States1520 Posts

March 22 2010 06:02 GMT

#75

Some are saying that the toss voices aren't that bad, but i really think they need to be reworked. Not only do they need to sound a lot less human, but i would also like to hear a lot more of their native language. Hell, i wouldnt mind complete replacement of english into their native language. I'm also kind of hoping to have the option to go full toss language with english subtitles on the toss campaign.