The atmosphere of Wanting Glass Studios’ Thief video games was with out evaluate. Eric Brosius and everybody else who contributed to their soundscapes knocked it out of the park. The echoing tunnels, the non secular chants, the distant buzz of business, the whine of electrical coils, the inexplicable all-permeating hum within the darkness, and that one banging DJ Shadow-esque tune that blares while you enter the Downwind Guild. It is all excellent.
And now I’ve found it is all on YouTube, and has been looped. A few of the movies are shorter, like one which takes the cutscene music from the intro to the Assassins stage (opens in new tab) of Thief: The Darkish Challenge, which Garrett usually narrates over, and loops it earlier than that half so we are able to hear it separate from the voiceover. That solely goes for two-and-a-half minutes. When you want the atmosphere of Thief 2, this is two of its atmospheric audio recordsdata, s01mel1.wav and s01mel2.wav, looped for an hour (opens in new tab).
YouTubers have gone additional than that, after all. Which is why I’ve spent a big chunk of in the present day listening to a somber 10-hour loop of the Horn of Quintus (opens in new tab) from Down within the Bonehoard.
When you’re not aware of the 10-hour development, again in 2011 when YouTube first expanded its video-duration restrict the web briefly went wild for a 10-hour loop of Nyan Cat. Now you’ll be able to take heed to hours and hours of something, together with the tinny Portal radio model of Nonetheless Alive (opens in new tab), and the Tristram theme from Diablo (opens in new tab).
As a result of I am simply distracted and have tinnitus, I usually play instrumental music whereas I work. Right now, my copy of Mogwai’s rating for Les Revenants has gone unheard. As a substitute, I have been listening to an hour-long loop of loloop2.wav (opens in new tab), which I imagine is the noise of these Tesla-coil electrical generator issues within the haunted mines below Cragscleft Jail, and a 10-hour loop of the ambient sounds and muttering guard (opens in new tab) from Thief 2’s Operating Interference mission.
I am a little bit involved concerning the potential long-term unwanted side effects of this. What if I begin reciting cynical monologues to myself or crouch-walking in all places I’m going?
If you would like to know one thing extra sensible about Thief’s audio, YouTube may help there as effectively. The Python Blue channel has been excavating a few of its sources, discovering the origin of varied noises sampled in Thief: The Darkish Challenge among the many presets of the Korg M1 synthesizer’s Digital Studio Expertise software program (opens in new tab), in addition to the Earshot SFX sound impact library and different sources (opens in new tab), together with Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki’s Stabat Mater (opens in new tab), which supplied a number of the choral chanting, and a haunting monitor from 2001: A Area Odyssey known as Lux Aeterna. Which, naturally sufficient, yow will discover an hour-long loop of on YouTube.
