Guild Wars 2

.. is horrible. It’s long. it’s loud. It’s disturbing (especially if you’re not the one playing and you hear it) and the amount you have to hear it greatly increases once you get into the level 70+ areas, since good monster AI was replaced with stacking CC.

Is there a way to overload the racial sounds like how you could adjust the Map Fog for exploration in GW1?

I don’t see a way to turn off all the voice status noises, separate from the rest of the voice. It’d be nice if there was a “Useless character grunts” slider or switch you could turn off, like the error message pop-ups in some of the other MMOs. While I don’t really mind constantly hearing “Might Makes Right!”, I wouldn’t be upset if I lost it to get rid of the 14-minute extended death sequence knockdown noise.

Actually, (yes it is disturbing) it’s the most realistic, ‘just got the wind knocked out of you’ sound I’ve heard in a video game.