Dude replaces Half-Life 2 sound effects with own voice

by Justin McElroy on Sep 22nd 2009 12:30AM

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So, after the break, you'll find a video of a guy who made a mod that replaces the sound effects of Half-Life 2 with ones he made with his own voice. It's completely unimportant and utterly magical.

[Via Giant Bomb]

Tags: fps, hacks, half-life-2, mods, valve

Reader Comments (71)

farting sound = win

LOL WUT

how about you sort thos fucking 'point to add on right to make $350 a month bullshit'and the links don't even exist.

ffs joystiq, i know u gotta make a living but seriously.

I thought adding your own sound FX was how everyone was suppose to play. Or was I doing it wrong my entire gaming life?

doesnt this remind you of that guy from the police academy movies?

I'd certainly agree that Natepack is funnier/more entertaining, but I'd imagine it would get irritating more quickly, as well. This one feels less like it's meant to be funny and more like it's meant to recreate (in most cases) the sounds with a human voice.

I'd like to see a mod that uses the sounds from this one and makes all weapon models invisible, so you could totally have a kids playing guns out in the back yard kind of feel, except for all the bleeding and the killing.

You can disable weapon drawing through a console command.

I think I just met 'the one'. Will you marry me and/or save the Matrix?

I think Natepack just goes about it a bit differently than this. Natepack is a lot sillier than this, and can provide more laughs, but I find this to be a far more impressive display of a human's ability to recreate sound effects. Just about every noise has it's own sound (Natepack rehashes some, I noticed from the videos posted earlier) and it's really not all silly. Sure, recreating the sounds in a serious FPS like this with your own voice is silly no matter how you slice it, but this guy seems more "professional" and more interesting than Natepack, although it lacks "lolz."

Very charming. I need to go back and finish The Orange Box.

I've been doing stuff like this since HL1...

I remember a version of the golf game Links where you could add your own commentary sounds so I added a bunch of quotes from 'Happy Gilmore'. Nothing like missing a putt and hearing "suck my white ass, ball!"