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[nkarafo]

I was watching this video about System Shock 2 and i remembered how amazing it's sound design is




The way you can hear the enemies from a close distance and the sounds they make as they roam around idly. Especially the Midwife with her mechanical parts and voice.

Honestly, i don't remember the last time a more modern game had this.

 

[ViolentP]

I immediately think of Quake.

 

[nkarafo]

I immediately think of Quake.

It's a somewhat older game but yeah. DOOM also. These early ID FPS games had a lot of idle enemy sounds.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

System Shock 2 is king in this department. I'm in my late 30s and it still creeps me out.

 

[mansoor1980]

forbidden siren

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Nothing comes close to this masterpiece:

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

That weird ass enemy in Bloodborne that sings like a church choir woman when she's in the area......

 

[kvltus lvlzvs]

I was watching this video about System Shock 2 and i remembered how amazing it's sound design is




The way you can hear the enemies from a close distance and the sounds they make as they roam around idly. Especially the Midwife with her mechanical parts and voice.

Honestly, i don't remember the last time a more modern game had this.

I thought system shock 2 before the thread loaded, and then saw it was a ss2 post, lol

 

[Luigi Mario]

 

[Luigi Mario]

 

[Salmon]

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[intbal]

 

[Killer8]

 

[Loke]

The Gill Beasts from Blood always creeped me out with their hissing breathing sound. Doesn't help that they're fast as hell underwater but can also walk on land slowly following you around.

 

[Lupin3]

I remember the sound of being in a room close to a boss in a dungeon in The Legend of Zelda on NES. The heavy breathing/screaming or whatever the hell that was. A rather scary sound back then when the game was new.

 

[MiguelItUp]

DOOM and Quake did this a lot. Hell, Quake 2, too. I think I remember Condemned doing this too. Bioshock a little bit as well? I was always such a big fan of it.

It's something I feel we should never let go of. Especially with games that are lumped into the horror genre, or deal with horror themes. Eventually learning what sound is what enemy is extremely helpful, but also pretty terrifying depending on what it is, lol.

 

[Nvzman]

I am not afraid of the Xenomorph at all and love the Alien movies but the sound of it walking around in Alien Isolation is absolutely terrifying.

It really puts into perspective how intimidating it is, just hearing heavy thumping mixed with slithering. Then it runs at you and it just instantly petrifies you!

 

[nkarafo]

forbidden siren

Amazing. I need to play this, it's in my backlog for ages.

 

[mansoor1980]

Amazing. I need to play this, it's in my backlog for ages.

 

[Salty Popsicle]

The Flood sounds from the Halo series. Sounds like blood curdling or someone choking.

 

[fart town usa]

Lickers from RE2.

 

[RagnarokIV]

Resident Evil Remake on GameCube, the zombies in general had good sounds.

 

[nkarafo]

I know, i'm ashamed.

 

[Comandr]

The Estate of Unrest: the thread.

 

[ThatPolishGuy]

also ghosts in Thief.

Generally speaking Thief has a really good sound design.

Not exactly enemies video


But.. Shalebridge cradle, man. What a level.

 

[docchicken]

Blue and Red eye knights from Demon's Souls (PS3 version only).

 

[The Cockatrice]

Good examples in the thread. Recently replayed both Evil Within games so heres an example

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

 

[DukeOfX]

School boss from the original Silent Hill. Fuck that!

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Inevitably every time I start a new Minecraft world right when I gather enough material to make some iron armor I start hearing a fucking Enderman teleporting around me. Like bro, can you kindly fuck off for a moment, I will kill you after I get some shit accomplished.

 

[existensmaximum]

The imp in Doom does the most classic sound for me.

 

[Mephisto40]

 

[Aces High]

Pretty much anything in this game:

 

[Drizzlehell]

Half-Life series is really great with this:





Just to name a few.

 

[GymWolf]

The clickers sound in tlou is very peculiar.

 

[Starbuck2907]

The Mind Flayer’s bell in Demon’s souls. I didn’t play the remake, but in the original, you keep hearing a chime…and you have no idea what it is, until you encounter one. I’m on my phone and couldn’t find a good clip.

 

[nkarafo]

Half-Life series is really great with this:





Just to name a few.

Valve's sound design was the best.

 

[AV]

I hated these things when I played Fallout 3.

 

[scarlet0pimp]

Try Hunt Showdown, quite a few scary sounds in that game especially if you are playing solo and the map happens to be a night map, though they have brightened up the night time since the game launched, it used to be terrifying pitch black and some hell hounds stalking about.