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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
On May 22 2012 01:18 Demonhunter04 wrote: Generally, everything sounds better in BW, but there's one Zerg track in SC2 that's awesome as well. Starts at 7:29 Isn't 7:29 just a remix from BW zerg music though? | ||
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0neder
United States3733 Posts
On May 22 2012 01:29 eviltomahawk wrote: Blizzard had an interesting segment about their sound department in their collector's edition DVD. Pretty cool stuff in there. Should answer a few questions. Again, this is great and perfect for the campaign, but not competitive spectating. | ||
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hefty
Denmark555 Posts
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Poehalcho
149 Posts
Other than that, BW had much better music and sound effects. ...Especially the sound effects. I miss the zealot lion growl when they hit plasma shields and the powerful bashing sound that zerglings created when they attacked. Zerglings now sound like a credit card stuck between the wheels of a bike :/ Marine guns aren't much better, though they suffered the least. shootin with 5-6 marines somehow still feels relatively rewarding. It feels like Blizzard basically reversed the way they make sounds. They added echo to speech and took it away from gunfire and other special effects. It took the epicness out of action and made the voices sound spiritual for no reason at all :[ - Terrans have high-quality voices over apparently low-quality walkie-talkies with some epic bass. It makes no sense. - Protoss... Well, technically the echo suits them, but they just lost their spunk through the voice acting. The old protoss sounded really aggressive whereas now they sound enlightened or something. - Zergs... I just really pity the Zergs with their farts and lack of hydralisk-rawrs. I feel for every player out there that could speak fluent hydralisk Q_Q on final slightly more positive note: Ravens sound awesome, possibly the only well done unit sounds and quotes. | ||
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ShrikeG
Canada75 Posts
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Gosi
Sweden9072 Posts
What I miss the most is the amazingly smooth and cuteish navigation voice for Terran. It's just wonderful. And the "scary" sounds for Zerg. The overall design and sound of BW zerg made the race so badass while in SC2 they removed the scary badass zerg look and made it more like some kind of cute clay race with the most tame unit sounds ever.  Oh and when I'm at it I don't like how they changed the theme on Terran either like they did with Zerg. In BW Terran had this like junkyard feeling you know? Like if they took what ever piece of metal they could find and made it into their buildings. It had a nice feel with all the metal on their buildings. In SC2 most Terran buildings are just covered in your player colour and the race is more some kind of Transformers race than Humans-fighting-for-freedom-in-space. | ||
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Chargelot
2275 Posts
On May 22 2012 01:41 0neder wrote: Again, this is great and perfect for the campaign, but not competitive spectating. That's a matter of opinion, on which I disagree. | ||
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ovnell
Sweden61 Posts
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hefty
Denmark555 Posts
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
click sound. the blipping sound as he clicks stuff, like rally point or on buliding. | ||
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Apolo
Portugal1259 Posts
Actually having someone play BW in the background is kind of soothing, because the sounds feel good and relaxing. For instance compare de sounds of making pylon in BW with SC2. The SC2 one makes my ears hurt compared to the BW one because of that early bang when you place the pylon. I'm not sure if they hired crappy sound artists, to save a few bucks in development, but that seems to be the case, because the soundtrack of SC2 also sucks. Why hire a good music composer right? music is secondary they say... Everything counts Blizzard  I'm not really sure, but i think that if it wasn't for its brand name and quality games that blizzard made up until some years, these last games that they're putting out (SC2, D3, etc) wouldn't be so successful and popular. | ||
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ddrddrddrddr
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HighLach
United States132 Posts
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Ristaccia
United States25 Posts
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FeyFey
Germany10114 Posts
In starcraft 3 the marines will say when they stim, don't do drugs kids.... Personally i have no idea why they went away from the heavy sounds to soft tunes especially in a war game. | ||
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IGotPlayguuu
Italy660 Posts
For example, Zerg music is creepy in some points, and the sound is more "ferocious": the muta sound is pretty much the best exemple imho: in BW their screech was more "powerful", now the pitch is too high and the sound seems to me too weak compared to BW. The races themes were much better in BW. In WoL the only decent tracks are the terran ones, and while the most iconic theme in BW is the terran's too, still the Zerg one and the toss are amazing. I remember then when i was playing the Protoss campaing as a kid I would actually wait the end of this track to start attacking, because it feels so fucking epic. You could actually feel the ardor of the protoss trying to defend their homeland in a desperate battle. And the same is for terran and zerg: the themes really gave you the idea of the race, the style also. In WoL the only songs that give me the same feelings are the terran ones (even if maybe those were too country). The zerg's and the toss's didn't give me the same feeling. Maybe its also an effect of nostalgia-goggles, but I feel BW did a better job than SC2. I really hope Blizz will implement new themes (as they did in BW) in HotS and LotV | ||
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captainshards
39 Posts
I honestly dont get the gaming industry anymore. It seems like they hire friends and degrees and disregard artistic ability alot of the time. I dont see how in the hell anyone with any remote talent for audio could create the sounds of SC2 when they had a template like BW to go off of. They didnt need to copy the sound exactly but for christs sake 20 sieging tanks SHOULD sound ominous. They made it little more than the sound of breeze blowing through a toy windmill. Sickening. I cross my fingers that the video game industry starts to crash due to inflating budgets and dwindling creative reserves until someone realizes that artistic talent is worth more than a degree and they start hiring some people who know what they are doing. Sorry if this sounds harsh but this is a sore point for me because i loved the sounds in BW and they royally effed it up in SC2 and they dont even realize it and keep hiding behind the whole "nostalgia goggles" argument. I guess with nostalgia goggles off a 50 ton futuristic tank transforming into siege mode sounds like a baseball card flapping in a kids bicycle spokes to blizzards sound guy. | ||
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Existor
Russian Federation4295 Posts
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omk294
England16 Posts
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TeamBanished
United States301 Posts
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