Best soundfeel in games

kory

milo I’m so glad I bought the Fez vinyl when I did, prices are through the roof now. In addition to being an amazing soundtrack the actual design and packaging is a work of art.

seasons

milo I had a coworker that would play the soundtrack while we worked in the warehouse. He didn’t even know it was from a video game. He thought the game part was lame as heck when I showed it to him.

antillese

I have been digging playing Control lately with headphones. It is fantastic! Its soundtrack is more atmospheric than melodic, but I really like the work that has been put into the SFX and the voices. Especially the Board of Directors. They have a great unintelligible babble that is subtitled thing going on. Game would not be nearly as fun without the audio component.

whatsarobot

milo Same. Driving along the coast in the summertime with the sun shining high in the sky while listening to the Fez soundtrack on my shitty car’s stereo, on my way to see a special lady. That is a cherished memory of mine. An exquisite real-life SOUNDFEEL.

KennyL

I like this door sound. Heard something similar in TV shows and stuff a lot.

Also like this.

kory

KennyL that’s some door ASMR right there 🚪😌🚪

treefroggy

kory they’re a member of this forum just search petal crash

kory

Just wanted to drop another specific example that was on my mind when I started this thread:

The SoR2 soundtrack is (rightfully!) lauded, but I love the prickly immediacy of the sound effects from the game. I love how the “shivering” menu select sound effect from the opening menu transitions so well into the funky character select screen music. I also have to shout out that heartbeat sound effect when picking up the worlds largest street apple.

treefroggy

kory Did you watch Timothy’s Pac-Man review where he said the yum yum sound in Streets of Rage was plageurized from Pac-Man? Also apparently due to misophonia he wants all eating sounds to be replaced with it.
And yeah, I interpreted this thread as “reverse-misophonia” in games.
I wanna add to my previous posts that didn’t include the two best sounds in Animal Crossing for Gamecube:
-The magical sound effect of changing your clothing
-The joyful cheer/drum beat when you acquire a fish, bug, or buried item

kory

treefroggy Oh wow, I had forgotten that little tidbit!

You are absolutely correct, an alternate title for this thread might be “Philophonia in games” to coin a term

pasquinelli

the sound effect when you pick up something in katamari.

also, the level complete sound from rayman.

treefroggy

pasquinelli glad someone else named these because I was thinking about both of them while trying to think of non-nintendo ones.

milo

There’s something about the voice acting in the Sega CD version of Silpheed. It’s kinda cheesy and over the top but I think it has a lot of charm. And the low quality sound lends to the feeling of listening to comms chatter in a spaceship.

kory

milo I like the samples and comms chatter in the original Starfox for the same reason. That low-fidelity “Emergency. Emergency. Incoming enemy fighters. Prepare for launch.” as you first deploy on Corneria was pretty impressive for the time. The chatter between your wingmen was also great–their unique “voices” had so much personality:

Moon

I cant hear the Mortal Kombat theme song without feeling like I’m running through a smoke filled lazer tag arena wearing a heavy sensor vest.

tomjonjon

The original PlayStation startup sound still has a lot of power after all these years.

Plucking veggies out of the ground in SMB2 sounds great.

Earthbound uses samples and the snes sound hardware to great effect. Pitch bending and warping sounds to create unease.

kory

tomjonjon

Console startup sounds are a rich source of audio nostalgia, and the PS1 startup is way up there. I came across this excellent and very thorough breakdown of how the sound is produced recently:

Not to bleed into the music side of the forum too much, but I also have to shout out its excellent usage in an old Ford and Lopatin track remix from when they were still called Games:

UnparalleledDev

great thread @kory

og Zelda has some of the most satisfying SFXs around.
you press the button to hear that beautiful sword SHICK
connect with an enemy to bask in fulfillment as you hear :

SuperEffective

To me, this is the best soundfeel in all of games

EDIT:
And you know what, I really like this too:

tapevulture

very hard to top this. put it on in another tab and just listen to how the sounds are like insane computer noises and people getting the shit kicked out of them and screaming. the music is one of the best uses of genesis’ awesome nauseating modulation effect

kory

tapevulture Yeah, those crunchy grimy genesis/MD sfx are incredible in the right hands. I wonder if Yuzo Koshiro had a hand in the sound design as well as the soundtrack for these games…he’s pretty active on Twitter, I guess I could just ask him!

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