What was the BEST sounding game of 2017?
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
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I think your assessment of Zelda is spot on. A lot of game developers are focusing on trying to make their worlds more 'immersive' by stacking a ludicrous amount of layers upon each other, while sometimes the mundane simplicity of reality (especially in games where exploration is core gameplay) can provide a much more meaningful and engaging experience.
"Just use the boom library" lmaooo omfg I love your videos 😂
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Yeah battlefront sounds amazing. All the little details backing up the major sounds we know and love.
You should put your patreon in your description. Not that I'd donate, though; I'm broke.
Great video; love this channel
Love this. Keep it up man ;)
What a lovely series :D
Breath of the Wild is a fascinating game in so many ways. I didn't expect it to live up to the over-the-top critical acclaim for me, but it did.
I think it's also worth considering the audio design in the context of the Switch (and the Wii-U to a lesser degree) as a portable/hybrid system. I wonder how much that influenced their approach. How many players experienced it with headphones? With the system's built-in speakers? Docked and through a home entertainment system? Muted the sound? Played it in loud public spaces? Played it outside (disturbing)?
that was one of the reasons I gave the award to breath of the wild. They were able to give an incredible experience with probably 1/5th of the audio budget (RAM memory and cpu) as any other contemporary AAA title. A game like hellblade places limitations with headphones on how the player can experience the game but botw works within much stricter guidelines to provide a much more fulfilling experience in my opinion.
I also love naturalism (Subnautica also did it really well a lot of the time even if the sounds are a bit buggy), but this year also heralded one of the best music mixing games in NieR: Automata using a matured version of Platinum's mixing from MGR: Revengeance.
Can you talk about the lightsabers please? I could listen to you talk about it for hours.
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OH MY GOD!!!!!! Best intro ever!!!!!!!! jajajajajajajaja
I knew it was going to be BOTW! So have you been able to play the entire game since March and experience the godlike water sound effects? :p
You e probably covered this, but what’s the track at the end? Is it an original?
Binaural mics is what people use on youtube for ASMR.
Thank you
So fun intro
if its about realistic gun sounds then it definitely is squad ;)...but thats for the sounds of that and not really the overal thing but its the same with the battlefront thing so thought id bring it up!
on the other hand i think god of war is excellent!
Horizon Zero Dawn tho
The intro was too long and I would want to hear more examples of sounds from the games you listed.
Love your channel but I think the quality of your videos can improve.
I think the intro could've been longer
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What other games (any genre) incorporate "naturalism"?
Pretty much everything in the dark souls series. Also the witcher 3 does a good job from time to time but I think they have music too much.
Subnautica
This is wrong. You pick Zelda as the winner in a video you titled BEST SOUNDING, not best sound design.
I wouldn't complain except that in the video you say it's not about being the best sounding or most impressive, but eliciting a mood. If a game had no audio other than some moody soundtrack it would still elicit a mood, but I personally don't like to include OST's in game audio since it's basically completely independent outside of a mood or theme.
I disagree
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I just feel like theres a difference between best sound and best sound design. I know you did a little dev interview with Guerrilla games on Horizon Zero Dawn, but after playing through it myself with no music, that game and The Witcher 3 are tied for my "best sound" category, especially in surround sound. The sounds themselves are all fantastic, enveloping, and they transition so smoothly between speakers you can pinpoint sound sources.
You didn't even really mention it.
I haven't played Zelda, but I will agree that it does seem a lot more atmospheric, and you made good points. It's more like... art direction for sound, and I do believe it should be applauded for that, especially since it seemed like fans were disappointed with the essential "lack" of a soundtrack. I think audio should have more "awards" like picture does. Art design, direction, cinematography, etc.. Why limit audio to just one category? Or... I guess two if you separate OST's.
Hellblade isn't AAA, it's AA. It's a middle market game, akin to The Witcher III.
Witcher 3 is AAA wtf what do you mean
@@koniczka2000 witcher 3 pruducing industry is not AAA standard
5:00 those sounds are from the prequels.
For me the winner is Horizon
I just reminded myself that the next Zelda game has been announced, I'm a happy boi.
Marshall McGee, about the "gun tails" that you mention at 02:00: Having both sharp and accurate firing sound attacks and also nice, big tails at the end of firing are not mutually exclusive things! They're not. Tails can be adjusted to play loud only after a tiny delay for example, so the maximum fire rate of a handgun or similar won't let the tails get loud before the player actually takes a pause from shooting. Gunshot tails are a huge part of making the guns sound realistic and loud, especially in an outdoor setting! Listen to Battlefield games for example, at least from 3 onward. Do they sound like "muddied" in their firefights?
I'm sorry, your quick analysis of the matter simply came forth as arrogant to me.
The longer your gun tail, the more time and audio spectrum you are dedicating to the player gunshot. The delay you are talking about is already a given when designing great gun tails, but in AAA game development the gun tail competes much more with the other sounds in the game than just the initial transient of the gunshot. That’s not the issue. For example, I can make a long gun tail sound awesome with the close shot of that gun, but can I make it work with the 45 other sounds playing in the span of that 3 second tail? That’s a much harder task. So my analysis was based on the idea of the mix as a whole not just the single gunshot.
I wish more games used binaural audio capturing
It's not always the capturing itself, but instead of how do you mix the game in Wwise or similar audio engine. You have to take position and distance variables to account and that doesn't always work with a binaural recording technique.
Toivo Kallio that’s fair, good point.
By far for me in the last at least 5 years for me is HORIZON ZERO DAWN which you did not mention at all i dont have a switch so no comment on that
You know I love Bioshock but I don’t understand why people praise the sound design, I really don’t like it
I didn’t like Zelda and I especially didn’t like the audio