Guild Wars 2

First I want to say that GW2 has great sounds all around, and I love a lot of them! But then, there are the few things about it that are just wrong. And this is one of them…

When in a battle, especially bigger ones where more people are attacking the same target, most of the time the whole fight consists of nonstop sounds the foes make. It’s like they cry out in pain for every single hit they receive (uhh, ohh, argh…) And it only gets worse when they have conditions that do damage to them!

It gets irritating very fast, and even more so on certain types of enemies, like centaurs or female bandits for example. I can literally feel their pain in my head by now.

I hate playing games with no sound but this and the other maddening sound issues mentioned in other posts already (like looping NPC banter near vendors and crafting stations, and some people constantly spamming “For great justice!”) will in fact drive me crazy.

So please fix this issue, it is rather important!

I came to the realization pretty fast how important sounds are in a game you might play for hundreds of hours. And more so if they are not done correctly or are glitchy in any way. There is a reason after all why people have resorted to using sound as an effective way of torture as well. Of course I’m exaggerating, but I got the feeling that if this keeps up, a few more months and I won’t be.

I do HotW a lot and it is even worse since all the Svanir/Icebrood enemies seem to only have ONE sound effect for when they get hit. So it is not

“Uhh, ohh, argh!”

It is

“Uh-huh! Uh-huh! Uh-huh!”

Maddening to say the least.

Man I almost forgot about that, I haven’t played too much in norn areas yet, luckily I guess, but I recall it from dungeons and fractals too of course. It’s exactly as you describe it, and it is in fact mind-numbingly annoying!