I am constantly amazed by the sound quality, texture, depth and detail that sounds have in the Battlefield video game saga, so I was wondering which other video games have that immersive, outstanding audio quality that you guys might enjoy.

Other notable mentions for me are:

Metro: Last Light and Exodus (including DLCs): Although they are poorly balanced, sound-wise they are impressive. Everything sounds in context; the FX fit the density of the scenarios, weapons, and objects. Some of them fail in the process, but they're in the minority.


Far Cry 4 and Primal: Ubisoft screws up badly every time they try to do something remotely good, at least since a couple of years ago, but man, playing Ajay's story and experiencing the Neolithic era in Primal was otherworldly. I must say that there's a clear bump in the mids and high-mids (normal, given that "cinematic" Hollywood tonal profile that most companies aim to replicate).


Doom 3, 2016, and Eternal: Mick Gordon does Mick Gordon-ish things and creates Mick Gordon-ish results, making it a Mick Gordon experience. That wraps it up.

 

We both live on Earth, but we live in different worlds.

The GWave software FM synthesizer written by Eugene Jarvis.

https://youtube.com/shorts/NVzMNcuCLd8?si=Dy1TRB1FGm7vcoNX

 

growing up playing the snes I loved all of the attack and spell sounds in chrono trigger and FF6. Dragons Dogma 2 has some pretty sick environmental fx.

 

Try PONG

Sounds OK ?

 

Luckily we don't, to this day i still find it awesome. I remember being a kiddo and having so much fun with this, then a couple years after a relative showed me GTA: Vice City, the rest is history haha

 

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Sure, doing more with less is the best part of sound design

 

Agreed, even Nintendo's consoles at the time had amazing UI sound effects, SEGA also had an incredible sound design philosophy, Sonic games are a treasure's worth of iconic audio elements

 

i think this one

 

Thief III Deadly Shadows,
for its era, sound design and spatial THX were revolutionary

 

Arc raiders, the 360 spatial position isn't always perfect sometimes but OMG the way they actually created a distance and reflection system utilising real recordings of sound indoors and outdoors works incredibly well.

This is mixed in with their lovely environmental work where things like rain acoustically changes as you move in and out of cover etc.

Its a three dimensional alive world where acoustic space and object location is palpable. Sounds change their spatial properties as you move around in a way i've never heard before.

Best outdoor gunfire, explosions and the sound of giant machines ive ever heard (game or film). Its so evocative running towards a battle and the sound reflects your distance from it beautifully.

Skip to about 2 mins in for a few examples of the robots, but this whole clip is amazing work:

 

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Hunt: Showdown has crazy good atmospheric spatial sound design

 

The Legend of Zelda - Koji Kondo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji_Kondo

 

Old but gold

 

SILENT HILL's soundtracks...

 

WC3 and WoW, anyone who's played these games will remember and recognize sounds and music from it for the rest of their lives probably.

 

the sounds are great. does anybody have tutorials of video or text on how to make the sounds?

 

A lot of related videos on YT
You could start here...

 

A Guide to Making Video Game Music

Soundfonts: https://musical-artifacts.com/
Free Plugins: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...DUI2Z95R9U/edit?gid=1290323142#gid=1290323142
Toby Fox Sample Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...0pcXSiz6xs5E/edit?gid=676961136#gid=676961136
Chord Player: https://www.onemotion.com/chord-player/
Role of the Bass: https://www.studybass.com/lessons/basics/the-role-of-the-bass/
Game Jams: https://itch.io/jams