Just played a game of AoE2:HD, then fired up AoE2:DE to see some of the differences since it was fresh in my mind. Ahh, nice graphical improvements.
But one thing that jumped out at me in AoE2:DE was the annoyingly loud, boomy sound that occurs when you click the icon to build a villager, or when you click the ‘Build’ icon from a villager, etc. It’s so repetitive, loud, bassy, and just, generally, way overkill. Comparing sounds to AoE2:HD, I definitely prefer the subtler, more precise, more delicate, not-as-in-your-face sounds of AoE2, in general.
I hope audio improvements are being looked into for AoE2:DE, given all the feedback on it. But I wanted to call this one specific sound out, since it’s a sound that occurs a lot. You build hundreds of villagers per game, and build hundreds of things per game, etc. (I don’t want to do an inventory log of everywhere this sound gets used.) But I really feel this loud sound needs to be changed to something wayyy more subtle and delicate.
