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Roboknee

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More for i12! Visual Sounds!

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City Of Heroes Announces Visual Sounds!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
NCsoft NorCal is proud to announce a new feature for the City of Heroes® and City of Villains® games; that of Visual Sounds. Visual Sounds are based on the comic book staple of onomatopoeia, or the use of a word to replace a sound. Classic comic book examples are “Pow” and “Ka-Boom!” in colorful bubbles while heroes and villains are slugging it out. City of Heroes takes a huge stride forward by replacing simple sounds with the exciting new visual medium of Visual Sounds.

“I know it sounds crazy,” said Brian Clayton, the Executive Producer and head of the NC NorCal office, “but our research shows that a lot of people are building their own computers nowadays, and sometimes you forget to purchase speakers or headphones. Our market is those gamers who want a full gaming experience without having to listen to the game.” Visual Sounds will be included in the upcoming Issue 12, which is being re-christened “Issue 12: Pow, Biff, Boom, Bam!” in honor of this new system.

“I have always been an advocate of using the theater of the mind,” said Matt “Positron” Miller, Lead Designer on the titles. “When you read a book, you give the characters their own voices, and when you watch a movie based on that book you can’t help but be disappointed when what your mind came up with was better. That’s the way this system works. Whatever sounds we put into the game can’t compare to what you can imagine with your own mind, so why even try?”

Ken Morse, the Lead Artist on the title was excited. “It’s going to be a lot more work for our department, but I think the end results are totally worth it.” He said. Players can optionally disable the Visual Sounds in the options menu, but are encouraged to keep them on, as all the sounds in the game are being removed to make room on the players’ hard drives for the new Visual Sound graphics.

This sounds awesome! The official word is here:

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/archives/..._heroes_47.html

04/01/08 13:14

Electro

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

Also sounds like an April Fool's prank.

04/01/08 13:34

Roboknee

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

That's today!?!

;) *wink*

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04/01/08 13:45

Darkdragon405

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

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Also sounds like an April Fool's prank.

Well seeing this excerpt from the article:

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Players can optionally disable the Visual Sounds in the options menu, but are encouraged to keep them on, as all the sounds in the game are being removed to make room on the players’ hard drives for the new Visual Sound graphics.

I'm gonna have to say April Fools ! ^_^

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04/01/08 13:56

Thundarpants

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

Too bad that isn't a real option. I know a lot of folks that play the game with the sound off, and I have a mod called COMIX loaded on my WoW game that does just that.

I get the big ole late 60's Batman TV show graphics pop up when I get a crit.

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04/01/08 14:11

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

Ampy fools day, methinks. Although I would love being retro'd back to my childhood days of watching Batman *POW* *ZONK* that would be frikken' awesome! Holy Holidays Batman! Looks like the Devs got us again!

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04/01/08 14:17

Roboknee

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

I knew perfectly well this was an April Fool's prank when I posted it. But man, it would be a cool option.

Almost reminds me of the patch my friend had for the original Doom back in the day that made everything sound like quips, quotes and sounds from Monty Python.

04/01/08 14:22

Perceptor II

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

"Visual Sounds" would actually be a cool option every once in a while. But I'd hate for it to be the only option. It would get annoying very quickly.

You know what would also be cool every once in a while? If we could see the action only one frame at a time, just like a comic book. Oh wait, we already have that. It's called a Rikti invasion.

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04/01/08 16:17

robot mind

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

Lol...my avatar...

I'm not a altoholic...no really i only have 1000+ toons...thats not..really...never mind.

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04/01/08 20:52

Randy7

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RE: More for i12! Visual Sounds!

Sorry, I grew up with the batman tv show. While I loved to watch it on Saturday mornings I don't think I could handle that as a part of CoH. If they go with that option then they need to allow heroes in not so good physical shape wearing tights. Now that would be horrid.

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04/01/08 21:29

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