But you could...The PUGS Admins seem to have forgotten something…an AnswerGarden for the Ugliest Game Sound Ever! For inspiration, you might want to browse the ugly gamesound example archive on this site. Fill in your own answer or click on an existing one and hit ’submit’! What's the worst sounding game you've ever played?
Game Title: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Your name: Nicky Pelupessy
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: This is an example of having a bad asset in your game. In this case, they didn't notice that this sample wasn't meant to be in the game. You can clearly hear the voice actress say: "wait a minute, let me do that one again".
This clearly takes a whole lot away from the experience, errors like this make you feel like you're actually in something that has been "created", you no longer feel emerged in the universe. Which is a shame, in my opinion.
Oblivion is a large game with many content, however, that is not an excuse for letting such an error to slip by. They should have spent a bit more time in going through all the sounds before they released the game!
Game Title: C&C Generals
Your name: Dennis Haverhals
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description:
[Dutch]
Opzich lijkt de sound design hier vrijwel allemaal goed te kloppen, al mis ik een groot ding (ook uit te voeren in visuals though):
Je merkt pas dat je tijd op is in de eerste 2 stukjes van het level wanneer het ook echt zo is. Hierdoor moet ik steeds kijken naar de tijd en of ik nog tijd heb om te kunnen schieten.
Dit merk je wel aan het eind van het level, maar dus niet tussen de scenes. Dit hadden ze goed op kunnen lossen door het geluidje iets eerder af te spelen..
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Your name: Eveline Albers
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: 'Unfortunate you have fallen so easily'
A nice taunt. Were it not that the Crow master miniboss is still standing at the beginning of the room, while the prince is about to make it to the end without a single fight.
Taunt is time-triggered, and thus very much out of place.
Your name: Bram
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Watch from 1:16 to 1:32. For anyone who has played this game, for some reason all people sound russian in this game. On top of that, the voice acting is downright terrible, and was only done for the first few chapters of the game.
Your name: Joost Blom
Pretty or ugly: (F)ugly!
Description: Operation Wolf finds it's roots somewhere in the late 80's, starting off as an arcade game. Like so many other arcade games from that era Wolf was played by aiming a lightgun at the screen and pulling the trigger. The game would have a moderate range of sound effects, mostly consisting of gunshots, ricocheting bullets and explosions. Sound tracks of decent quality were present, but would only be played while the main menu and level selection screen were displayed.
However in 1989 Operation Wolf was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), but unlike it's predecessor the NES port would only know a tiny range of sounds. The crackling and clicking sounds the port offered were not at all reminiscent of the gunshots and explosions of the original arcade version. To make things worse a very annoying and hard-to-ignore 'beep' would repeat itself several times every second when the player was low on health!
Still Operation Wolf was a great title and unlike many other arcade games of it's time Wolf would follow an actual storyline throughout the entire game. The NES port however, even if being very entertaining, offered terrible sound. This makes Operation Wolf (on the NES) ugly!
Your name: D.Harmsen
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: I love the game, but the constant "swooshswoohswoosh" drives me completelly insane. It ruines the background music as well. No that that is awsome inspiring music, but this is just to much random chaos. And the "oh help!" sound the princess makes at the start sounds very sampled and makes my toes curl.
Your name: Brian Smit
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Although the overall sound of this game is really good, the sound of the car engines and stuff, the sound of the crashes are just not present at all.
When I saw this (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/tgs-09-gran-turismo/56836) video on gametrailers it really anoyed me that I didn't hear any kind of sound after the car hits a wall with like 200 km/h. Even when you hit other cars you hear nothing!
Sorry for the bad video quality by the way, they are cam recordings, but it's still pretty clear that there's a lack of crash sounds.
This game is not yet released but it predecessor didn't have crash sounds as well, so this could be pretty final regarding the sound. But I hope that they add some kind of a sound that let's you know you hit something in the final game because this just doesn't feel/sound right at all.
Game Title: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
Your name: Paul Suurmeijer
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: In my opinion, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War (1) is flawed in audio design. The game is an RTS and as you may or may not be aware a typical RTS player selects and deselects units often.
Units in Dawn of War respond with long 'motivational' sentences such as "For the Emperor" and the like when you select them or order them to attack/move. Some units give the feeling they're holding a speech.
Combined with an unvaried combination of speeches this makes for an annoying audio feedback system while moving and fighting with your army.
Game Title: Deathrow
Your name: Joram Wolters
Pretty or ugly: ugly
Description: Deathrow is a pretty old xbox title, one of the first in fact.. But that doesn't excuse the horrible, horrible soundtrack, the extremely poor voice-acting and the overdone commentator. And don't claim the soundtrack is just a matter of taste, I love just about any kind of electronic music, but this stuff is just really, really poor.