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Compliments to the Sound team for BTTF

MysticalesMysticales
edited December 2010 in Back to the Future
Hey just wanted to say, even when using my netbook with speakers. The music and sound quality sounds super. Not sure what you did there. But its rich, clear and loud even on lower volumes. Speech is VERY fine quality to hear and the music background tracks are crystal clear. If it runs that fine on a netbook. I cant wait till I get home and try it on 5.1!

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  • thesonglessbirdthesonglessbird
    edited December 2010
    Can't say I completely agree... I'm playing with headphones at the moment (Sennheisers) on a Soundblaster X-Fi and the quality of some of the sound (mainly Doc's speech) is pretty poor for me. There was also a moment where Marty was saying something and the volume dipped for a few seconds (the music stayed the same volume so it was definitely the game and not my hardware).

    That said, the voice acting and music are great!
  • MysticalesMysticales
    edited December 2010
    Im on my rig now with 5.1 Sound is great and the background music that resembles that of the movie yet different is awesome.
  • Ash735Ash735
    edited December 2010
    Music and Sound Effects are great, but I have to agree on Speech, that old TellTale curse is back, the Speech is too compressed to the point where it introduces hissing on some sentences, hopefully they'll do a Monkey Island Episode 2 and re-release the download with less compressed speech.
  • ThunderPeel2001ThunderPeel2001
    edited December 2010
    I wonder if you're listening to the same game as me... the speech quality is TERRIBLE :( It's as bad as Sam & Max Season 1.
  • MysticalesMysticales
    edited December 2010
    Well ok maybe on my netbook speech sounds better, but I guess I was more focused on the music and the background music and how its the same.. yet subtle differences to it and thats what im complimenting the most, Its enjoyable to listen to!
  • TromeritusTromeritus
    edited December 2010
    Didn't hear any hiss. At least, nothing noticeable or as absolutely atrocious as early Sam & Max Season 1, though.
  • ThunderPeel2001ThunderPeel2001
    edited December 2010
    Tromeritus wrote: »
    Didn't hear any hiss. At least, nothing noticeable or as absolutely atrocious as early Sam & Max Season 1, though.

    It's easily as bad as that for me, I'm quite shocked... Not sure why it would be different for me :(
  • TromeritusTromeritus
    edited December 2010
    I'll give it another whirl later. I'll complain along with ya if I notice it as well. I did have two random instances of silenced audio with George and Kid Tannen.

    Did you have any resource hogs in the background by any chance?
  • ThunderPeel2001ThunderPeel2001
    edited December 2010
    Tromeritus wrote: »
    I'll give it another whirl later. I'll complain along with ya if I notice it as well. I did have two random instances of silenced audio with George and Kid Tannen.

    Did you have any resource hogs in the background by any chance?

    Nope. Nothing. Let me know what you think.
  • TearitupTearitup
    edited December 2010
    Been playing for an hour and no issues with sound so far. It is of very high quality.

    Windows 7 64 bit
    Asus Xonar DX
    Sennheiser HD-555 headphones
  • neilkaneilka
    edited December 2010
    The speech quality is once again as embarrassingly poor as it was in the ToMI episode that they re-released for that very reason. I genuinely can't understand why they keep doing this - either the person they employ to compress the speech has no ear whatsoever for sound quality, or Telltale just hope that none of their customers are going to care about it.
  • p12tp12t
    edited December 2010
    I have to agree, the speech is definitely compressed too much and it rather spoils an otherwise fine game. It's especially noticeable when I'm using headphones - which is most of the time.
    It has been like this with every telltale game so far and it just seems so unnecessary. I don't know any other more or less recent games with the same issue. If telltale wanted to offer small downloads they could provide a separate pack with high quality speech for the ones that care.
  • neilkaneilka
    edited December 2010
    I've created another thread with the opposing viewpoint to this one :)
    http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21583

    To their credit, last time I and lots of other people complained about this problem they re-released ToMI Episode 2 with much improved voices, and things seemed to stay improved throughout that season and onto S&M S3. Now things have definitely dipped back to pre-ToMI quality :(
  • CyphoxCyphox
    edited December 2010
    music is great, i cant disagreee on that, playing the game on a 5.1 system with a creative xfi and a teufel sound system.

    still, sometimes the voices sound "just not that perfect as they could be", but im okay with that, there are no hisses and stuff (like there were in tomi ep2), it just sounds like it could have been done better, but for me its not worthy to complain, its okay.
  • Masta23Masta23
    edited December 2010
    Ths speach quality is fine.. you are just nitpicking.
  • CyphoxCyphox
    edited December 2010
    i know that, im just saying that "the speech quality sometimes could be better but its still okay for me though"
  • MysticalesMysticales
    edited December 2010
    Well lets hope they keep the music in the next eppies fresh and cool. =D
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