Doom 3 and the teenager noise
So back in the day I played Doom 3 when it came out. Decently cool game at the time, but one thing drove me up the wall. At the end of one of the 7 or so footstep noises for the game, there is a very distinctive "click" noise. So whenever you are walking somewhere, you hear the CLICK-CLICK-CLICK ... CLICK CLICK and it drove me crazy enough that I went in to disable it: unpacked one of the game PAKs, copied one of the "good" footstep sounds over the bad one, and re-assembled it.
Some people claimed they did not hear the clicking, and at the time I assumed it was because their install was somehow different and that footstep noise was not played. I assumed that the obnoxious noise would get patched out, or at least be fixed up in the expansion. But after buying the ID super pack from Steam and giving the Doom 3 expansion a whirl, the clicking was back! I couldn't believe it. As I no longer felt like fiddling around with the game PAK files, I uninstalled.
But a month or so ago I took the teenager audio test. I apparently can very clearly hear high pitched noises that normally only teenagers can hear. Looking back on it, I figure the Doom 3 footstep clicking noise was probably out of the hearing range of the developers of the game!
(edit) Here's a clip of someone playing Doom 3. Can you hear the click while the guy is walking around?
Some people claimed they did not hear the clicking, and at the time I assumed it was because their install was somehow different and that footstep noise was not played. I assumed that the obnoxious noise would get patched out, or at least be fixed up in the expansion. But after buying the ID super pack from Steam and giving the Doom 3 expansion a whirl, the clicking was back! I couldn't believe it. As I no longer felt like fiddling around with the game PAK files, I uninstalled.
But a month or so ago I took the teenager audio test. I apparently can very clearly hear high pitched noises that normally only teenagers can hear. Looking back on it, I figure the Doom 3 footstep clicking noise was probably out of the hearing range of the developers of the game!
(edit) Here's a clip of someone playing Doom 3. Can you hear the click while the guy is walking around?