Sure, you can have the nicest looking game out there, but if you don’t have any sound, it will lack when compared to others. It might be the simplest concept when it comes to making games, but many people look past it and only want to make a visually stunning landscape. Have you ever seen those game trailers that have the thunderous music added to them? Try watching this video, about the upcoming game Elder Scrolls: Skyrim.
How does it make you feel? If you were to mute the audio, and just look at the video itself, I bet it would feel a whole lot different. As developers are getting more experience and a bigger budget, games will become a lot more detailed, such as that one.
Sounds are very important to a game, almost as much as the visuals. They can induce feelings of raw emotion, and can help the player go deeper into the storyline, or express emotions of characters that would be otherwise impossible due to game limitations. How would you like to play a baseball game that has no crack as the ball hits the bat? What about a racing game without a screech from the brakes of a sports car? You just can’t have a good game without it.
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