Familiar Sound Effect

[nokori3byo]

I noticed something interesting while watching this Futurama clip on Youtube:

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=MX5OOZJABCM

Go to the 4:21 mark and listen carefully. Fans of Half-Life 2 will no doubt recognized the sound made when Bender is kicked in the face.

 

[Kevin]

You mean the metal clank?
If so then i think it's the sound cars make when they hit something in HL2.

 

[nokori3byo]

Yeah, it's displayed in the captions as "metal destroyed." I think it's also heard when a berrel explodes and when an antlion thumps a car from below in Ep. 1.

 

[Rapstah]

The sound effect that's played when you encounter the "freak" zombie sitting in a chair in HL1 and see the Metrocops bashing the hell out of a guy in the beginning of Route Kanal is also used occationally over the nets.

 

[-Psy-]

"Good news everyone! Several years ago I tried to log onto AOL and it just went through!".



Yeah, I recognise the sound. A lot of companies use the same sound libary sometimes.

 

[nokori3byo]

Yup. Kelly Bailey has said he makes use of both original sounds and "library" sound effects. I think that metal collision effect is just one of those things like "Castle Thunder" and the infamous "Wilhelm Scream" that shows up here there and everywhere.

 

[losttheskyagain]

Man, I love Futurama.

 

[Rapstah]

Ravenholm is supposed to have a Wilhelm in it.

 

[nokori3byo]

Ravenholm is supposed to have a Wilhelm in it.

I think the consensus is currently that it does not. The Wikipedia entry for Ravenholm used to make this claim, but it was later corrected.

There is supposedly a very disitinctive woman's scream which can be heard at some point in the level, but I've never noticed it.

 

[ríomhaire]

Related:
While watching Hot Fuzz I noticed a sound effect that is from one of HL2's tracks (Radio I think).

 

[DESSTROYER]

I think the consensus is currently that it does not. The Wikipedia entry for Ravenholm used to make this claim, but it was later corrected.

There is supposedly a very disitinctive woman's scream which can be heard at some point in the level, but I've never noticed it.

town_child_scream1.wav

the wilhelm scream is heard in the TF2 videos as the death scream

 

[McGooTheWise]

town_child_scream1.wav

the wilhelm scream is heard in the TF2 videos as the death scream

Is there a link to that?

 

[DESSTROYER]

link to which one?

 

[nokori3byo]

I think he wants a link to the child's scream.

And what was a child doing in HL2? Odd, don't you think?

 

[McGooTheWise]

yeah, i want to hear the child scream. That program is too much of a bitch for me to run it on my computer, so I don't have it. :|

 

[DESSTROYER]

http://media.putfile.com/hl2-scream

*edit* doesn't work :|

 

[Iron_cube]

Isn't the Wilhelm sound the "yeeeewaaaaaAAAAHHH" stuff, like when Kyle Katarn falls for too long in Dark Forces?

If so, yeah it's used in 90% of shows and games.

 

[Planetary]

Speaking of strange sounds, what's that odd noise you hear from Ravenholm all the way to Shorepoint? Sort of a long metal whine, almost like a train or some mining equipment. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

 

[McGooTheWise]

http://media.putfile.com/hl2-scream

*edit* doesn't work :|

Worked for me!

Yeah, I've heard that countless times in the sound atmosphere of Ravenholm... i wondered if it was a poison headcrab, or a fast zombie (Mostly the poison cause it's the closest thing to make that sound) but I've always wondered about that. Thanks for enlightening me.

Btw, the first time I heard that I spun around so fast I probably broke Gordon's neck, and my own. I turned around first, then turned Gordon around to make sure nothing was attacking him.

 

[Naudian]

Isn't the Wilhelm sound the "yeeeewaaaaaAAAAHHH" stuff, like when Kyle Katarn falls for too long in Dark Forces?

If so, yeah it's used in 90% of shows and games.

this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

 

[Acepilotf14]

God, George Lucas used that a lot.

 

[Iron_cube]

this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio

Yeah it probably was a slowed-down version of it in the game, lmao.

 

[nokori3byo]

Does anyone know where this scream is heard in the level? For some reason, I'm thinking it was near the area where the player actually sees Grigori for the first time, but I really don't know.

 

[DESSTROYER]

Does anyone know where this scream is heard in the level? For some reason, I'm thinking it was near the area where the player actually sees Grigori for the first time, but I really don't know.

it's a random background noise, i've never actually heard it that many times in the game, but you can hear it in the ravenholm e3 2004 presentation.

 

[nokori3byo]

Cool. Thank you for the clarification. Do you know if "town_child_scream1.wav" is the actual name of the file within the game?

 

[DESSTROYER]

Cool. Thank you for the clarification. Do you know if "town_child_scream1.wav" is the actual name of the file within the game?

yeah, i got it out of the GCF file

 

[McGooTheWise]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTYK6oSjo90
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-6umxGqL0&mode=related&search=

Just had to post this in honor of george lucas. XD

Btw, the scream haunted my dreams last night.

 

[Stene]

Well most of metal effects are in many movies. That one metal collision sound can be heard in many movies and series. I heard it on one episode of Lost and on Transformers movie.