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Half Life 1, break a leg

Game Title: Half Life 1, break a leg
Your name: Guus Hoeve
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Fast forward to exactly 3.00 minutes in this movie. This is exceptionally bad game audio. It tries to tell you that you suffered a great injury, but in the game it doesn't show. "major fracture detected". I would at least expect to walk slowly or something since I just dropped from a great hight. The feedback is good but comon, don't tell me I just broke my leg when I seem to be jumping and climbing with ease, albeit the suit.

Written by admin on October 6, 2009
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GTA – San Andreas

Game Title: GTA – San Andreas
Your name: Marvin Nooitgedacht
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: GTA sound glitch. Found the sounds tacky as well, not that realistic.

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Eternal Sonata

Game Title: Eternal Sonata
Your name: Rami Ismail
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Sadly, while Eternal Sonata focusses completely on music, the voice acting is lacking in many parts. Polka's voice, for example, as illustrated in this video, can't be described with anything but 'annoying' – and one-liners are included so scarcely they might as well repeat the same line. Twice. Per second.

Written by admin on October 5, 2009
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Deathrow

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.

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Runes of Magic

Game Title: Runes of Magic
Your name: Dennis Kloos
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: The free-to-play MMORPG "Runes of Magic" an overall good game, but there is no music most of the time! The only thing you hear are the rather minimalistic sound effects and sadly, this is not aiding in improving the feeling of the game at all.

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Ocarina of Time

Game Title: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Your name: Nicodemus
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: While the other sounds in Zelda: OOT are quite good, there is one sound in the game which is VERY irritating. It is Navi the Fairy.

Whenever there is info to display in-game, Navi wil tell you. This will happen very sudden while Navi yells "Hey!" or "Listen!".

Considering the fact that on some moments in-game, you don't want to read any info, Navi will get irritating VERY quickly. (The movie exaggerates this a little ;) )

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Tomb Raider 2

Game Title: Tomb Raider 2
Your name: That One
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: while not to bad considering the age of the game I find this one of the weirdest pieces of music in the game

The background consists of a heartbeat, or actually the engine of the ship your on. Except that you're on a sunken ship, one that had been lying on the bottom of the sea for quite some while, why would the engine be on.

There is also sound of metals clashing, water drops leaking and the voosh of a fan, all which make a bit more sense, but are still accompanied by the ever present heartbeat.

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Castlevania – Symphony of the Night

Game Title: Castlevania – Symphony of the Night
Your name: Jan Willem Nijman
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: Skip to the voice acting. About one third. Ruins it really.

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The Longest Journey

Game Title: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Your name: Peter van de Kuijt
Pretty or ugly: ugly
Description: Dreamfall is the sequel to the Longest Journey. It's a narrative game; it tells a story.

This is why it's important for the main character to NOT have an irritating accent, that makes her sound stupid. They failed on this part.

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Halo 3 ODST

Game Title: Halo 3 ODST
Your name: Laurens de Gier
Pretty or ugly: Ugly
Description: My example of bad sound design. Don't mind the narrator, that's not important. I just couldn't make this video by myself. Also sorry that it's a bad quality

In this video you'll here two examples of bad sound design. The first is that you'll here two voices talking at the same time (not including the narrator). The second is that you'll here a guy talking about a weak spot on the back of the wraith when the wraith is already destroyed. Although in this movie the second wraith appears at that time, but if you play the scene on your own you can see for yourself that they're not talking about the second one.

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