Diablo 4 Sounds

Yeah, it’s picky but give us the iconic Diablo menu sounds back :stuck_out_tongue: That heavy iron sound when selecting an option foes right back to the first Diablo.

It’s the little things that make the franchise stand out from their other games. I noticed so many iconic things missing from D3 and I just don’t understand the reasoning. Diablo 1 and 2 just seemed to have a little bit of care around every little thing, right down to menu sound. Do it right :slight_smile:

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Let’s go! Give the menu sounds some heft, If we spend so much time in the menus that the sounds become annoying the menu system needs an overhaul anyway.

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Not only menu sound.
Every different kind of Item placement in inventory/stash and dropped into the ground, detailed sound of any single items, sound of dropped gold, opening doors, opening stashes, destroying barrels, traps, classic arrow sound of diablo1/2, “holy” shrine buffs sound etc.
Basically every sound did not sound generic at least.

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I can see the point here as I also found a lot of the theme missing from Diablo III. All the little things amount to a game feeling off or like something’s missing; an ingredient we didn’t know was in the :stew:. Of course menu sounds are nitpicking, yet the more I think about it the more I can see how the devs from the first games tried to keep the theme//mood consistent. :dagger: :shield: :fire:

You can barely hear the sound in your video, this one’s better:

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I dunno, I found most I’d the in game(not menu ,couldn’t care less about those sounds) sounds in D3 more realistic/representative that those in D1/2. I get the nostalgia aspects drives a lot of this because most of those sounds are muffled and primitive IMO.

The sounds should be primitive as we’re supposed to be in a medieval world. I don’t hear any muffle, but I’ll assume it’s there. Easy to clear it up and make it sound “new”. Just put a little mroe effort into the game as a whole, I guess. They don’t need to be exactly these sounds, but something that continually reminds us we’re playing Diablo whether you’re in a menu screen or a chat channel. I and many other care about the little details

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I love D1 sounds, they are perfect.
D2/D3 are mediocre at best.
D4 demo sounds, I hope, are just placeholders.

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