I'm not sure if this has been said and maybe I'm the only one that liked this but I was a big fan of the "chatbox sounds" in CoX.

I liked that there was a difference between the team chat sound and private message sound. Maybe there could be an option to mute certain chatbox sounds while keeping others unmuted (ex. If you want to mute Broadcast and Team chat sounds but not Private Message sounds, etc.)

Serenade wrote:

I'm not sure if this has been said and maybe I'm the only one that liked this but I was a big fan of the "chatbox sounds" in CoX.
I liked that there was a difference between the team chat sound and private message sound. Maybe there could be an option to mute certain chatbox sounds while keeping others unmuted (ex. If you want to mute Broadcast and Team chat sounds but not Private Message sounds, etc.)

Often when I was playing it was easy to miss what was going on in the chat box, those little sound ques were awesome for getting my attention. Such a little thing but a huge QoL item.

On the other hand, I hated when they took away the sounds for my toggles (especially Icicles -- I loved that sound!). I completely understood the request by some to turn the sound off; I just thought they should have made it an option/setting instead of taking it away from those of us who liked it.

Prof.Ravenwood wrote:

Frag isn't going to like this, but I loved the glowie sound. I loved searching for a glowie by ear. I also loved when you leveled up--the sound, the look, everything.

I didn't mind the glowie sound. I really liked that it intensified with proximity which was really helpful on some maps. I remember occasionally turning the volume way up to be able to hear it through walls.

The only time I ever found it annoying, and it was probably something else, was flying over the industrial area on the west side of Atlas Park. Somewhere around the middle I always thought I could hear a glowie, but could never find anything. Pretty quickly, I quit trying, but still it occasionally made me pause.

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I liked the town intro music

I can't remember specifically when the noise occurred. I think after using a nova or being sapped or something like that, but there was a *powering down* type noise that I thought was really great that essentially indicated that your endurance had just dropped through the floor. Not that I took great pleasure at the information it delivered, but I thought it was a good noise nonetheless. Perhaps it was because your toggles all dropped?

The Good:
a) Hasten activation
b) The granite sounds (transforming and walking)
c) I don't know what these were under but the 'science' sounds from certain equipment.
d) Pocket D Dance Floor
e) Electric Armour
f) Teleport Sfx
g) Air superiority

The Bad:
a) Everything PB and WS
b) Super speed activation

The ugly:
a) That ambient humm drove me crazy
b) Portal corp portals
c) The typing sounds

ElevenShots wrote:

c4maniac wrote:
The ugly:
a) That ambient humm drove me crazy
b) Portal corp portals
c) The typing sounds

Those three things you just listed filled me with a sense of nostalgia and a deep desire to play again. Is that bad?

Naw, it's just ugly.

My most hated, repetitive loud noises in short loop.
My most loved, in Rappelz by Horizon there is a small area with a little garden stand up, and birds to kill it's in the NE side lvl 40 area. The beautiful solo flute sound was one of my favorites to listen too it always plays just 2 minutes and it always sounded like it could go on forever, but it's more an intro piece to some really poor flute playing . I would take my level 140 character out there on the edge between zones and play it over and over while waiting for a group, just to listen to the ambient music of that flute solo.
Rondo from Rappelz was one of my other favorites, walking into the town or leaving, the bright golden sound of a few bells ringing in salute before the main theme started just seemed so nice, it's just that little bit of fanfare worthy of a hero's arrival.

My other most loved, Dragonrealms, published by Simutronics was both a soundful and soundless game. It comes with a Macro-Manager program embedded in the Wizard that allowed individual players to program sounds to play from your computer when you encountered specific events. So when bards played music on their instruments I had snippets of bach, mozart, and Rob Zombie's SuperBeast playing, I set a particular sound .wav file up of a beautiful wind chime to activate whenever I touched one of the many wind chimes in game. The titanic song snippet "Our love will go on and on" would play each time someone's character kissed another's, and I had a prophetic doom one from the Star Wars movie, when someone was badly hurt., it would play, "Strike me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine", and I also had "Red Alert, all hands on deck" Siren programmed in for whenever my character was critical.

The Macro Manager also allowed for in game scripting which was considered the primary DM's tool for game improvements but players could use this as well for automating particularly boring tasks on the short term. Like picking up treasures, and cleaning various magical and musical instruments, and collecting water for crafting potions because nobody likes to do that all the time. But they've really clamped down on it in recent years, due to the high levels of crazy abuse some players used it for auto-leveling.

Ooh, ooh wait, going to add to this post! I remembered more favorites.

Final Fantasy 8, Flying around in the Ragnarok on the world map, and the witch song from the same game, Withos, Weca something, I thought it turned out to be part of O Fortuna, Carl Orff.

I also loved a lot of the Legends of the Dragoon OST's, I think because they were dynamic, it wasn't just electronic music, it was something else, listening to it all again, I think it was just a beautifully well done sound mix with well-blended variety and a non-obvious pattern. I didn't like their non-theme music though, and the battle music grates on me. it was usually a tad annoying, sometimes bareable, but not something I wanted to hear for very long.
Legend of the Dragoon OST - 10 - Forest Dennis is still a memorable favorite, and the first one I thought of.
Oh do you know what it is? Many of the songs remind me of other popular jazz hits from the 1980's it's just how the rhythm follows. It's like, like hearing Apocalyptica playing for Whom the bell tolls on string instruments. But they did it with electronic music. The main battle theme though was a definite favorite, listening to it again, yes lots of pattern, the same melody is repeated in different tunes or maybe tones?

Chrono Cross, Island of the Dead theme song, another favorite. Can't explain why. Was it just very different from everything else?

Being mostly healers in city of heroes I always loved the aoe healing noise and missing the old hammy days when we had to form the healing group before entering

Many here seem to disagree with me, but the sounds of the Force Field power set always bothered me and my best friend. We were rarely, if ever, a tech origin character. So, having a natural(think superman), mutation, or magic based character with force fields always broke the immersion. The sound for many of the abilities was very tech-y and sounded like it was being activated by a machine.

At least having a more neutral alternative would've been nice.

Izzy wrote:

.Foresight wrote:
At least having a more neutral alternative would've been nice.

Alternate power Animations... and now Alternate Power SoundFX. ;)

Ok, wow, alternative power sound fx options WOULD be an amazing step forward in customization if doable.

That'd be... awesome.

I loved the music in the various zones, and also the sounds of walking on different surfaces - metal catwalks, sand, snow. I didn't so much care for sonic aspects of mental blasts. I adored the sound of the "Jingle Jetpacks" - or Holiday Rocket Packs, as they were probably more correctly called.

It would be fantastic if there was a way to 'turn off' specific power sounds, or at least seriously reduce them in volume, when customizing powers with colors, etc. Assuming we'll still be able to customize power colors. :-)

Illi wrote:

I loved when you went down in the sewer tunnels, the sounds of insects buzzing about.

Also when near Vahzilok.

I didn't care for constant sounds (when it came to powers), but it didn't break the game for me either.

I agree, the sound of auto-buffs should fade/mute, just like toggles. I enjoyed the continual 'singing' of Peacebringers during 'action sequences', but not when I was standing around, chatting or shopping.

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