Comments on: The Sounds of Home

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:16:34 +0000

Wouldn’t it be nice in addition to the music items, we also had a sound machine with sound effects such as rain, thunder, aeroplanes, and other sounds like were available on vinyl recordings and compact discs.

What a grand idea this is!!!!!!

By: Boxer_Lady

Boxer_Lady — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:44:54 +0000

My favorite spaces for sound…two; first would be, I believe it’s called, the Uncharted space or something to that effect. It is a space fashioned by the Uncharted game and many seem to not appreciate the space because it IS mostly furnished already (I’ve had no problem adding some things to make it MY Uncharted PS Home space.) However, it is the space I enjoy going to when I want a reality-check in Home.

To me, it actually feels as if I’m in the game…*fades to my imagination*….Just finished taking out the bad guys and I’ve come back to my South American, sweating and flies buzzing around-with the ceiling fan trying to cool off the 500 square foot non-airconditioned; hole-in-the wall but “homey” space…to swig a finger of Scotch and pat myself on the back for a job well done-space! AND… there are the sounds of traffic and birds and talking….chimes tinkling on the porch… There are trucks passing by downstairs and a fountain in the background gurbiling (this could be my own addition to the space..lol.) VERY realistic space for PS Home..IMO

Secondly…the first new club space that came out with the large room w/bar in the front and the huge pool in the back with chair’s you could lay down on for the FIRST time in PS Home…can’t remember the name of this space (memory is getting harder at 49! lol.) In this space I like to go out by the pool, lay down in a chair and just listen to the sounds….of…silence-nothing!! I can lay there…enjoying just being ABLE to lay there. Enjoying the company of any friend that stops by…to JUST lay there too…and enjoy the sound…of silence in PS Home! : P

Nice job on this article Ted! …….*silence*

By: LostRainbow

LostRainbow — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:50:00 +0000

This is an awesome article. I have always loved listening to the different sounds on Home. I especially love the sounds of the different birds. In Satorini Greece I love the sound of the passing airplane. (Or maybe it’s on the yacht, I can’t remember which). I agree at the Great Edo of Nippon that the music is a little too loud. This is also the same in the Home Journey space. I also love the sounds of Loco Island. I love the music, the muimuis and the laughter of the yellow smiley loco rocos. I also think it is cool about the proximity triggers. I like that in certain areas you will hear a sound and if you walk away from it, it disappears. The only sound I am not crazy about is in the Hub of the overhead train.

But great read and thanks for the tour!!!

By: FEMAELSTROM

FEMAELSTROM — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:42:58 +0000

Good write,Ted! I have far too often turned my volume down because of places like Granzella and the repetitive music, and failed to turn it up again. Because of this goof I never noticed until recently the lush sounds at the Midnight Glade. Any one who has it: go and turn up the volume…LOUD. It’s gloriously peaceful. I don’t know anybody who has the Final Fantasy Vigilarium, but when people hear the lavish music in my Vigilarium, they are impressed as though I had anything to do with it. The sounds on home are great. One last one I get spooked by, the green lit door in Cutter Ridge manor haunted house. Stand close and turn up the volume. Spooky.

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:54:44 +0000

This is so true Ted. I have noticed many sounds all through Home since I started here. Central plaza was full of sounds like insects and birds. The Assassins Creed personal space has some of the most noticeable ones I think with the low chatter of people in the outside streets, a church bell and the creak of the gondola and the water lapping at the edges of the house from the canal it sits on.
You are right in assuming that we don’t always register these things at a conscious level, especially if they are subtle, but they still enrich the experiences we have in Home a great deal.
If we could taste, touch or smell like in real life it would add more of course, but they have taken the two senses we do have and used them very well in Home to create an incredible experience for us.
Nice article, loved it.