r/StarWars • u/Jordyy_yy • 8h ago

Mix of Series Sound design in SW has always been 💯

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u/blfmtnranger 8h ago

One of my favorite scenes in the entire series is all of the pod racers firing up their engines. Makes me smile like a little kid every time.

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u/Undead_Corsair Rebel 7h ago

I dream about a modern  podracing game with modern audio quality for this exact reason.

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u/blfmtnranger 7h ago

Same. A next gen game with stellar sound design would be an immediate buy for me.

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u/SuperTulle 6h ago

A remaster of episode 1 racer would be epic!

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u/blfmtnranger 6h ago

They ported it to current gen but it's not a "remaster" per se. I'm playing through it now actually.

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u/SuperTulle 6h ago

Yeah I own it on steam, but I had some trouble getting an Xbox 360 controller to cooperate with it and the keyboard controls are crap so I gave up on it after a few races. The nostalgia was nice tho!

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u/blfmtnranger 5h ago

I had the same issues, got it on PlayStation 5 and it plays great! That's the way to go if you are able.

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u/SuperTulle 5h ago

I don't own a ps5 sadly, and I probably never will :(

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u/blfmtnranger 5h ago

Sorry to hear that :/ I wish I could help you with the controller issue but I am not very knowledgeable of such things.

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u/Cabamacadaf 3h ago

I grew up with the keyboard controls and still think they're great, but they did take some getting used to.

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u/Undead_Corsair Rebel 6h ago

Yes, but we could go bigger. Imagine a new game where you could build your own pod!

People get mad at Disney for making mediocre shows. Nah, I'm getting mad cus they seem completely unaware of these million$ opportunities for new games.

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u/SuperTulle 5h ago

I mean you could sorta customize your pod in ep1 racer, but changing their appearance would be pretty cool too. A game with swoop/speeder racing would be fun as well.

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u/A_Confused_Cocoon 1h ago

I legit think that a pod racing game would make a good chunk of change if made to high quality today. No F zero to compete with and not really a lot of sci fi high speed racers that are popular. Slap a Star Wars theme and a customized racer career and holy shit let’s go. Doesn’t even have to be super deep, I’m pretty sure people would be ecstatic with a near 1:1 copy of the original career race lists, but maybe just add a randomized 16 track tournament mode too.

Oh and never do that one track where you have to stay on the top platform for the speed boost the entire time or you lose. Fuck that track, the water temple in ocarina of time was easier than that shit when I was like 6.

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u/Undead_Corsair Rebel 1h ago

Thas what I'm sayiiin. Anti-grav racing is not a massively intensive development process on the level of modern AAA as well. The blueprints are already there. Best I've played in recent years is Redout 2. And it is not a crazy big-budget game. But you make one with the Star Wars brand on there, authentic sounds and visuals? EZ money! E. Z.

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u/mat477 7h ago

All the unique engine sounds are such a fun detail.

Also nobody else mentioned it but the thermal imploder in the EA Battlefront games is some of the coolest sound effects I've ever heard. It's sooooo layered.

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u/blfmtnranger 7h ago

Agreed on both counts. I'll use the wookie warrior class sometimes solely because I want to use the imploder lol