So, today I started playing Heretic with the sound effects on for the first time. I was going through a level in the domes when I heard a familiar sound. Turns out that the sound from the sabreclaws is the same sound from a weird monster in TR4. Additionally, the sound from when the ethereal arrows hit something is used for a projectile crash in TR3.

If you'd have played Warcraft II, you'd know the sabreclaw "challenge cry" as the "dragon cry". AFAIK sound studios create sound libraries and sell these to game makers - I've heard quite a couple of game sounds in several games.

[quote="RambOrc":13jrnwn7]AFAIK sound studios create sound libraries and sell these to game makers - I've heard quite a couple of game sounds in several games.

What's your point?

That I agree with you word for word, silly! <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> (In other forums I've seen people state they agree with somebody by simply quoting them without any comments.)

[quote="The 4th Class":3o8yfy94](In other forums I've seen people state they agree with somebody by simply quoting them without any comments.) Yep, the morons. <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> Quoting text just for quoting is waste of screen space and bandwidth IMO.

Well I think it's efficient: saves me time too cause I don't have to come up with any creative prose and shit. <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->

[quote="The 4th Class":33706czz]Well I think it's efficient: saves me time too cause I don't have to come up with any creative prose and shit. <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt=":roll:" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: --> I've heard other sounds reused in different games, the ettin's sounds are also used in Duke Nukem 3d for monster sounds, deaths from the doom zombies are also used in other games too <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->. I think it's as Ramborc said <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->.

Ok, that quite explains it.

[quote="Firebrand":32zl3kr5] I've heard other sounds reused in different games, the ettin's sounds are also used in Duke Nukem 3d for monster sounds, deaths from the doom zombies are also used in other games too <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->. I think it's as Ramborc said <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->. And I thought I was a fan of Duke 3D <!-- s;) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" title="Wink" /><!-- s;) --> I rarely notice the same sounds being used in games, but I definitely noticed MANY sound effects from computer games (especially the Doom engine games) used in SCI-FI movies. The most obvious sounds being the opening and closing sfx of metal doors, like in the Alien movies.

Well, when I open doors in my apartment, they all sound a bit like ones in my friends' apartment, I wonder what could it mean... lazy sound designers maybe.

lol i occasionally hear the doom door open and close sound on a tv show, maybe the sound designers wanted to go 'old school'

[quote="Crimson Wizard":3sjogjid]Well, when I open doors in my apartment, they all sound a bit like ones in my friends' apartment, I wonder what could it mean... lazy sound designers maybe. ROFL!!! <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->

[quote="Crimson Wizard":yqtv3fw7]Well, when I open doors in my apartment, they all sound a bit like ones in my friends' apartment, I wonder what could it mean... lazy sound designers maybe. Of course not... there's not enough memory to load random sounds!!! <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" /><!-- s:lol: -->

There are alot of freeware sounds available all over the place, that just be one of them, there are a storm of sound effects from Dungeon Keeper that people rip off and put them in movies. <!-- s:wink: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt=":wink:" title="Wink" /><!-- s:wink: -->