So the internet has a new greatest thing. Earth’s best human, Trase, has created a Half-Life 2 mod where he replaces nearly all the game’s sounds with his own voice. And yes, it’s just as good as that sounds. Every weapon, vehicle, explosion, and enemy sound is now the vocal stylings of this lunatic modder. See below. Please, see below.
He’s nailed the shotgun. It’s spot on. Many sounds are. Others are just hilariously silly. Sadly he stopped short of dubbing over the character and NPC voices, for the remarkable reason that, “it would sound dumb.” Um…
It’s properly awesome, and you can get the mod from here. I’d love it if he’d also replaced the Combine’s squealy-beep noise, but then I want everything and I’m not prepared to pay. So, watch this. Then express amazement. Thanks to radomaj for the awesome tip.
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if your tyring to make a sound video, DONT PUT THE WORST GOD DAMNED MUSIC IN THE WORLD IN THE BACKGROUND OF IT GOD YOU IDIOT
It sure is opinion in here.
I don’t count System of a Down among the bands I listen to, but you might have come off as less of a raving, opining, capitalizing goon if you’d just written “…don’t put music in it.”
Anyway, have to agree about the shotgun noise (spot on) and that doing the voices would have sounded dumb, silly as that statement sounds. Honestly, let’s try and list the number of mods with even passable voice acting.
Thanks Ian
Brilliant.
The Macho Madness L4D mod still takes the cake in my book though.
The mod’s mildly amusing, although I have no intention of actually using it. But what did strike me is how utterly lovely HL2 still looks. Man, that is an engine with legs.
…load of crap.
The only “properly awesome” thing in regards to this spectacle is the incredible amount of sheep it has drawn, all bleating in chorus about how cool it is. This isn’t newsworthy, mate, it’s the kind of rubbish a four-year old does when playing with his toys. Honestly, is there anyone here who doubts their ability to produce such noises when playing, should they desire them? It’s not as though this fool even has a distinctive voice. Sounds like any other prepubescent teen to me.
I’d expect a news-post like this from SomethingAwful or the like, but not the Rock. Color me disappointed.
Looks like someone is FILLED WITH RAGE. I think it’s a hilarious idea.
It’s fine that you don’t like it, of course. But calling us ’sheep’ is a bit rich. I find it amusing because, well, I find it amusing — not because other people do.
Oh piss off, you self important miserable prick.
SHOW ME YOUR RAGE!
Yawn.
As Railick said on page one (not sure if I love the page dividers on comments, by the way), this probably took a lot less work than you make it out to be. A little bit more than a spur of the moment “let’s photoshop a penis onto someone’s face,” but a little bit less than “let’s completely reskin everyone in the game with a penis.” It just requires recording “pew-pew” over a couple hundred 2 second sound clips. Probably a day’s work, if you’re good with the software and motivated.
And your list of achievements is so much more impressive? I doubt it, and if it is, I don’t care. I really like this mod. This has been done exceptionally well. Just because it’s the internet and cynics are “cool” doesn’t mean you have to be a prick. Get over it.
^^^
Most pretentious comment on RPS reward for you
You almost make it sound like RPS usually doesn’t enjoy blogging about utterly un-important mods and maps!
“the incredible amount of sheep”
You mean “the incredible number of sheep”.
You can count sheep.
It sounds like SOMEONE, without saying any names, is envious, because didn’t come up with something so spontaneously silly.
It takes a lot of work, a lot of spare time, and a whole notta lotta life to come up with this. Color me impressed that he was willing to put the work in, and what the heck, it might be worth it for a stupid lowbrow fun laugh.
@Impressive
I, for one, still have an inner 4 year-old that thinks this is hilarious. I’m the type who’s always been disappointed that they don’t make full sized light up sneakers like the ones toddlers always get.
This is rather nifty. That buggy sound effect is pretty much what I do whenever I’m mimicing a car of some sort.
I demand that someone do this for a Star Wars game. It’d be gold with the lightsabers alone.
This reminds me of a TF2 text mod I saw the other day that renamed everything. The RPG man with his missile lawnchair, the sharpshooter with his throwable special sauce, etc.
Also, this: http://butifnot.tripod.com/racecar.html
Star Wars game like this? That’s the brilliantist idea I’ve heard all day. Get on it, Internet!
Excellent!
The video could have been a bit tighter, but that’s quibbling. This is awesome.
Sure you mean the graphics? They look like they could use some tightening up.
Level three did look a bit iffy.
Why must these Americans always populate their youtube videos with dodgy metal?
Oh the mod? It’s fun.
Sigh. He’s Ukrainian.
Two words:
Gauss cannon.
I tried to convince my friends to make a Half-Life 2: Acapella mod before but they weren’t convinced. Oh well this guy actually went out and did it, and it’s as hilarious/stupid as I thought. Well done!
I was just thinking the other day that I needed an excuse to play the game again, and this seems like just the one. I think it’s swell.
Umm…. either The Sarcasm Is Strong In This One, or I’m missing something here… 0_o
I didn’t watch the whole thing, but I kept waiting for him to yell “BANG” for something appropriate, like the revolver or grenades or exploding barrels, like they do for training artillery officers now to save the $$ that real ammo would cost.
Hasn’t this been done for Half-Life (original) already?
lol :D good start for a friday :D
This is how the HL series has alwasy sounded in my head.
haha, funny stuff
It amuses me. bleat
Yeah that was pretty hilarious, specially when he gets people following him..
This is hillarious, I love it. the sounds of the rebels reminded me of the seagulls in Finding Nemo “Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!”. Also the handgun is suitably mocked. “pop!”
Really amusing although it will probably get annoying after a few hours.
I specially liked the gravity gun and the pod.. thingy sounds.. hehe *squish squish*.
I think it is entertaining. I laughed a bit and was amused throughout the video.
And another thing: Say whatever you want, but HL2 has aged incredibly well. A game from 2004 still makes some games from 2009 hide in shame.
It’s not only pretty, but there’s also a very solid feel to the visuals.
Now, just bring me Episode 3 already!
*cries*
To bad he didn’t dub the voices, that would catapult this from merely amusing to divine.
Though who didn’t replace their voice for all the sounds in Doom when they figured out how to edit wads?
Would perhaps be better if it was even original.
Anyone remember Pencil Whipped? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy_tEPkvYhU
That guy did his own sound effects ‘and’ drew all the graphics by hand (I especially liked the guillotine’s “Shing! Shing!” noise)
I liked the “Got It” when picking up items the most.
Good silly fun. Reminds me of the bored, rainy afternoon years ago that my brother and I spent making our own sounds for Quake. Childish, but strangely satisfying.
This story desperately needed to be tagged “pew pew pew”
why is this getting such publicity?
this has been done several times before, with several other games including this one. or is it just because he did a LOLOLSORANDUM video?
Oh yes, I saw this on the official garrysmod news page, but I never thought it would get on RPS! Maby I do have a chance of getting some RPS coverage when I finally get around to release my Gmod/L4D/CSS/HL2/Basicly-Any-Source-game horror-map…
Probably not. But one can hope.
I got a bit of a laugh out of this vid, didn’t download it though. It’s not like he’s talented about making noises with his voice – but I think that was the point because it would just ruin the fun part.
dumb
I used to do this with Resident Evil when it was new on the PC. That must have been… More than 10 years ago. Still, it is fun to do.
This is the sort of thing that makes me fall in love with humanity all over again. It’s completely pointless, just someone seeing something and wanting to add a little something of themselves to it.
This is fucking funny as my ass.
It’s great music.
It’s just pathetically inappropriate for a goddamn comedy video. Use Yakety Sax or something if you’ve just got to put music in everything.