The Importance of Silence in Games

I think Ryan thought a lot about because we have a trait as well, which is like when you're anxious, the combat music randomly sometimes starts to play. And that's what it feels like. It feels like your body is preparing for a battle. Is it really there? And I think that's absolutely genius. A lot of the sound design was thought about in terms of like what would make you feel like something was urgent or that something is panicked. So I prefer games that actually recognize that the contrast between quiet and loud is very important. But I'm not really looking forward to the show floor because it's always really like loud and just hammers your ear drums.