Voices and Sounds
Sound is an excellent way of reinforcing visual clues that something is going on in the game. Left4Dead does this amazingly with the four characters each having their own way of dealing with the events around them, indirectly providing the player with clues to what is happening, like
“Pills here”
“There’s a Boomer around here”
Left4DoD needs the same thing to reduce the WTF moments. The experienced players know about the Emo and the Grey Dude but they need audio cues as well. The Emo surprise bombs people so much that he is probably the most hated Zombie! So to counter that, I’m looking for voice actors (from the venerated ranks of TheVille of course) who will provide the necessary dialog…such as “Watch out! I see an Emo coming” or “Emoooooooooo”!!
The Witch and the Infected One provide small audio clues when they teleport behind someone but maybe nearby players will be able to add commentary…
This Mod has become much bigger than I originally thought.
It started purely as a concept to see if I could make bots work in DoDS.
Now it has evolved into something else.
By Dog, Thursday December 31, 2009 @ 4:21 pm
I should also mention that Stevo really wants to do an “Elmo coming” voice for the game….Funny but would be as confusing as hell for most people…lol
By Patrick Fisher, Sunday January 3, 2010 @ 7:37 pm
Dammit….that was me who wanted that sound!