They really did drop the ball on sound design, though

[Laughing With Salad]

Everything is now too muted and not punchy enough. There is like no low end/mid-low end on ANYTHING. Most reimagined monster sounds are just bad. The Exploder just sounds pithy now, not "insane and in agony." So does the Brute, whose roars used to ring out through whatever room you fought it in and you could actually hear it stomping after you. Even large areas no longer SOUND large. They probably had a bunch of intern hipster SJWs do the sound design, because it's clear they're no longer paying actual sound designers to do competent work.

They probably don't even use fmod or wwise anymore, and are probably using some YAASOUNDQWEEN.itch.io hipster garbage or whatever. FIX THIS ♥♥♥♥ BLIZZ!!!

[Bobloblaw]

Originally posted by Junior:

Originally posted by Bobloblaw:

The developers tune the sound on studio monitors and studio grade equipment. Whatever garbage sound profile your TV or speakers are tuned to it is not their fault, that is a you issue. That is how sound design works, it is designed around a reference audio device which is very close something like the Harmon Target. When ♥♥♥♥♥♥ companies build ♥♥♥♥♥♥ speakers they tweak the tuning to have mashed out base, screeching highs and muffled mids, because that's what pop music and garbage TV sounds good on or something.

then whats the perfect settings for equalizer? to get the intended developer sound?
i don't think the dead space remake have bad sound, i just disagre with people wanting userse to tweak the settings without a specific way to get the "intended developer sound" that is different from the color/brightness settings that games/windows help you.

different form brightness and stuff when a game wants you to play at a specific brightness it shows you a in game guides on how to setup contrast/gamma so u can't see the image on the left or image on the left barely visible , so anyone that play seeing it is kinda cheating, even windows help you setup the correct color and various websites as well, but whats the guide for eq? and is is the same setting for any game movie? how i get the developer intended settings? so i should do this on my mobile gaming too? so when i download and go play a mobile game i need Eq settings for that too? ah for my xbox too? ah i guess for my nintendo switch too oh well then, how do i do that on every console that i own then?

i have a good headphone, but ir really dislike the presets that come with it, i only liked using dolby atmos but even then i hated dolby for gaming, i just disagre with this needing to change eq settings, the game should sound good on default settings if the user have a good headphone anyway. if the developer want the user to tweak EQ, it must provide a guide just how they do it when they want you to play at a specific brightness setting. specially because eq settings are not good for everything, the eq you use for music is not the same you will want to use for a movie atleast not for me.

so unless people have the studio quality equipment with perfect eq settings they can't have they own opnion on the game audio quality then? well ok.

I think you're missing the point here. The game probably sounds good on the default sound profile it was tuned to. Problem is every manufacturer of audio devices tunes stuff to some crazy bad stock profile but this can for the most part be fixed through EQ. Game devs can't tune to the stock profile of like some Beats headphones because then it will sound garbage on everything that's not beats, this is why they tune to a reference audio profile, because they can't account for the hundreds of thousands of possible audio devices a user could be using.

What headphones do you have?

Install Equalizer APO and the Peace GUI to handle source level EQ for all your PC's output devices. Then you can find premade EQ settings for your headphones that will bring them back to as close to the Harmon Target as possible.

[CrushingCerberus]

Do not know My FidellioX2 (9 years old headphone) sounds amazing ...even with motherboard sound Realtek 12000..something...turn spatial sound on on the game and it sounds pretty good a lot of jump scares...

[Dead Pixel]

My only issue with the audio is that the music and sound effects are often so loud and overwhelming in the mix that you can't hear dialogue. Characters speaking are sometimes drowned out by the music and ambient background noise. I prefer to play games without subtitles, but with this game they are needed during a few segments of the game just so you can actually hear and understand what is being said.

[Bobloblaw]

Originally posted by Castle Bravo:

My only issue with the audio is that the music and sound effects are often so loud and overwhelming in the mix that you can't hear dialogue. Characters speaking are sometimes drowned out by the music and ambient background noise. I prefer to play games without subtitles, but with this game they are needed during a few segments of the game just so you can actually hear and understand what is being said.

To be fair almost all games are like this now. I wind up setting music and sound effect to like 60-70% and leave dialogue at 100% whenever possible.

[Phobos]

Originally posted by GREW50ME:

Disagree.

1. Turn off the music.
2. Play with surround.
3 Crap your pants with fear
4 ???
5 Profit

ftfy. This is the correct way to play dead space.

[ItsMeVan]

I feel this too, the audio mix is weird, everything just feels way too quiet. I've tried changing the audio settings in the game and nothing seems to fix it. And for people that said to tweak the EQ setting or use a different audio setup or whatever, why would I need to do that when the original 2008 game sounds much better than the remake with my exact same audio setup?

[1290132316]

Same here. The quality of characters' voice is terribly low, maybe lower than that of tape recording.

[Dead Pixel]

Originally posted by 1290132316:

Same here. The quality of characters' voice is terribly low, maybe lower than that of tape recording.

Exactly what I was saying. Can't even hear what people are saying most of the time. You NEED subtitles with this game lol

[Mirress]

Have to disagree on this one

Playing on headphones with 3D audio and a subwoofer.

My God! It's completely Visceral and it shakes the whole room! Mids and highs are crisp and clear!
I'm in love with the sound design. Rarely do I ever hear/feel sound design so good.
10/10 imo