enzo22 Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Hey guys! I'm planning on going into game audio design and I'm looking for some games to study. I'd appreciate some recommendations! On a side note, are there any video game websites that offer an advanced search that includes searching by critics' or users' ratings on a certain aspect of a game? If I'm not mistaken, IGN used to have a rating system where a user's rating was based on an average of ratings on specific aspects and it would have been great if you could search by those criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secant Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 For your former point, here are a list of games which (I think, anyway) make incredible use of audio to enhance the feel of the game: BIT.TRIP: Runner (for extremely obvious reasons, if you've played it) Bastion (mainly for the narrator, though Darren Korb is one hell of a composer) Beat Hazard Ultra (essentially a mashup of Audiosurf and Asteroids) Amnesia: The Dark Descent (point source audio helps immensely for immersion purposes) Of those, BIT.TRIP is probably the best for its use of audio, which I'd say is relied on even more heavily than the graphics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alphaheiti Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 I absolutely loved the audio design of Bioshock infinite. I don´t wonna say it was perfect, but pretty damn close. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xdaniel Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Not an in-game example, but a demonstration of what I wish more games, especially in the series in question, did: Make sure annotations are on, maybe watch it on YouTube proper too, instead of embedded like this. (Also, YT seems to have messed up the sync between audio and video since it was uploaded -.-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omnai Blackwind Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 I couple of good games with wonderful Audio on my list would have to be: Journey The Last of Us The Elder Scroll Series I would think of more, but I'm trying to get my sleep schedule back on track so I haven't slept yet xD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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