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Here's one I've had for a little while: Say you're playing a sport with your friends. You're yelling at each other.. commands likes, "pass the ball here". Or if

Here's one I've had for a little while: Say you're playing a sport with your friends. You're yelling at each other.. commands likes, "pass the ball here". Or if you're out playing paintball and trying to coordinate an attack - your sound, and your opponent's sound are both pretty important. As far as I know, such use of voice does not exist in any game. Player's voice does not really interact with the environment. So, say someone says, "come to me!" through voice-chat.. you still have to look at the map to see where they actually are.

DanBC 13y ago
It is odd that sound plays very little part in actual gameplay other than rhythm style games. There was "Enemy Zero" for Sega Saturn. I remember being amazed by the pre-rendered scenes, and mostly enjoying the game. But it wasn't great and even in that game sound wasn't super important part of gameplay. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Zero http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Zero Having said all that my ideas for games that use sound as a key part of play are a bit, uhm, not good. == Cat Detective == You play the part of a cat who is also a detective. You are investigating crimes. You use analogue sticks to generate meows and purrs - this is a cat language that you use to question suspects and witnesses. How well you ask the question governs what kind of i formation you get back.
radikalus 13y ago
Dolby Axon had something similar-ish: You and others on voice chat were in a 'virtual' room and the sound was stereo/volume adjusted accordingly. I remember that when people misbehaved on group voice chat we used to "put them in the corner" It didn't map to the game environment but the execution was pretty nice; I fear that, if you use the game's physics, you'll quickly realize why radio-comm became such a thing
- vishaldpatel 13y ago
  Yes for sure.. but one would have to be close to the enemy player and then he'd be dead. And ally players.. well.. maybe there can be a way to mute allies ;).

DanBC 13y ago

It is odd that sound plays very little part in actual gameplay other than rhythm style games. There was "Enemy Zero" for Sega Saturn. I remember being amazed by the pre-rendered scenes, and mostly enjoying the game. But it wasn't great and even in that game sound wasn't super important part of gameplay. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Zero http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Zero Having said all that my ideas for games that use sound as a key part of play are a bit, uhm, not good. == Cat Detective == You play the part of a cat who is also a detective. You are investigating crimes. You use analogue sticks to generate meows and purrs - this is a cat language that you use to question suspects and witnesses. How well you ask the question governs what kind of i formation you get back.

radikalus 13y ago

Dolby Axon had something similar-ish: You and others on voice chat were in a 'virtual' room and the sound was stereo/volume adjusted accordingly. I remember that when people misbehaved on group voice chat we used to "put them in the corner" It didn't map to the game environment but the execution was pretty nice; I fear that, if you use the game's physics, you'll quickly realize why radio-comm became such a thing

vishaldpatel 13y ago
Yes for sure.. but one would have to be close to the enemy player and then he'd be dead. And ally players.. well.. maybe there can be a way to mute allies ;).