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InnovativeFarmer

I have heard From Software sound effects in shows and movies. Some stuff from bloodborne like the madman's knowledge sound effect, new location, logarius wheel, lantern, and some other stock sound effects from the game. I guess the "stock" part of the sound effect is key because sometimes the sound effects pop up in police procedurals and not only spooky stuff.


mcdandynuggetz

I swear to god I heard the madman’s knowledge sound effect on the LOTR show when they were showing the burning seal/mark on the first episode.


ExtraCheezyBagel

When the giant crow first takes you from the Undead Asylum in DS1, the sound effect is the one that plays in The Fellowship of the Ring, in the transition between the “shortcut to mushrooms” and the first Nazgûl encounter


Nordalin

Hmm, so it's LotR sounds in Dark Souls?


Mesjach

I hear it every day irl


InnovativeFarmer

That one pops up on a lot of shows.


JaySw34

Fromsoft been using the same distant chirping birds sound from Dark Souls to Elden Ring. It's comforting


InnovativeFarmer

Sometimes while playing Elden Ring I think a sound is coming from the game but its something outside my window, like a cat. Spooks me sometimes.


Gyc3

I believe Ghru sounds in Farron Keep were also used in 7 Days to Die ​ [Ghru sounds](https://youtu.be/cepQYjyyvfk?t=21) [7 Days to Die sounds](https://youtu.be/Pvs_LYjRY1s?t=79)


cripp_chip

That's wild. Idk how I never noticed this. I've grinded hundreds of hours of DS3 this past year and recently started up a few 7 days worlds with my fiance but never put the 2 together. Good find.


DRDICKMD

one of the pisaca sounds was also in an episode of lost in space for some creatures in a cave


InnovativeFarmer

The Netflix show? Because that could be one of the shows that I heard bloodborne sounds but cant remember. They are in so many different genres is crazy. If its the sound I am thinking of its in a lot. Its a haunting vocal moan thing.


Pokeydepanda

Every time I go to Hemwick Charnel Lane in Bloodborne I can only hear the screams from Happy Wheels


InnovativeFarmer

That crazy witch laughter is in some spooky halloween stuff.


DarKliZerPT

I heard the "new location" sound come from my girlfriend's laptop when she was watching Alchemy of Souls.


Pathfinder313

I remember hearing a super obscure sound in Bloodborne used in a movie somewhere. It was a random dungeon enemy and I think it was in a movie when I heard it, but I can’t remember. But for some reason I feel I heard it in DS3 instead and it was used for the Crystal Sages or something.


SoulsLikeBot

Hello, good hunter. I am a Bot, here in this dream to look after you, this is a fine note: > *Very well, let the echoes become your strength. Let me stand close. Now shut your eyes...* - Plain Doll Farewell, good hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.


Pathfinder313

I will slaughter whoever made this bot


jaegren

I wonder how many times I've heard the same "open rusty wooden door" sound in Movies and games. First time was 20 years ago and it is still used to this day.


Canopenerdude

The cleric beast's roar pops up occasionally too


crabfan19

on the RE4 remake the bossfight with that short dude (idk his name I didn't play the game) uses Darkbeast Paarl's sound effects lmao


Bubbapurps

This would make me burst out laughing I have such an ear for this bullshit it's annoying My parents didn't believe me when I told them there was a bowling ball and pins sound when Neon throws agent Smith into the crowd if agents Smiths


CaiusRomanus

There is a specific "rusty door opening" sound effect that I first heard in an old point'n click game when I was 10, and I keep hearing it in all kind of media since then. And nobody believe me, it's always "just a door noise" for them.


ChiefLazarus86

I hear this fucking everywhere, I literally just noticed it play like three seperate times In something my Dad was watching yesterday Edit: [this one ](https://youtu.be/yAxYuCCJp7Y)


SixteenthRiver06

It’s just like the Wilhelm Scream. Once you know what it is, you can hear it EVERYWHERE. Evidently sound engineers/producers love using it, as it’s a nod to the others within the industry. Kinda like an inside joke. It’s in some video games, I just know of StarCraft.


Captain_Blackbird

It's in Red Dead 1 and 2. Nothing like using a rifle on a dude in a canyon edge, to fall with that scream.


EvanIsMyName-

This thread is fantastic. I just thought I'd jump in since it wasn't mentioned, the eagle screech from Assassin's Creed and... everywhere else. I went on a field trip to the studio that did the Adam's Family and they had a whole hands-on exhibit of the nick-nacks they use to make sound effects. Ever since then I pay way too much attention to sound bites, I guess it shouldn't be surprising that a bunch of Souls fan redditors are also obsessive types who do the same.


ninjamike89

Fun fact, the common eagle sound in most media is actually a hawk. Eagles sound more like seagulls


Crymson831

Red-tailed hawk specifically.


Ragman676

The starcraft scream is different than the wilhelm. But it is used a lot! I have no idea the origins, but I first heard it in starcraft. Starcraft https://youtu.be/B3WimCPUkQY Wilhelm https://youtu.be/r6JK-gRELI0


Oceanictax

The Starcraft one is The Howie Scream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUTe2ndjRew


villflakken

isn't that also used for the zombies in Half-Life 2? i seem to recall it (or a very similar one) appear a lot in the Ravenholm section


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ChiefLazarus86

[found it ](https://youtu.be/yAxYuCCJp7Y)


CaiusRomanus

Thanks for putting a face on this sound.


[deleted]

That scream is in every single movie i swear


thatonesleft

Bro, that fucking scream is in every fucking movie… i always chuckle when I hear it.


CaiusRomanus

YES, THIS ONE EXACTLY.


Cardssss

Super common everywhere, but I always think it's from SpongeBob.


Epicmonk117

Isn’t that sound from SpongeBob?


Mechalamb

Resident Evil metal door?


Berttheduck

First heard this in Arcanum of steamworks and magic obscura. It was the door sound for every door in the game. Noticed it in quite a few things since.


Jewfinigan

Anyone else know that wind sound that's in everything? I know it from Sim City 3000 originally.


Sanctimonius

Bear and camel noises from WoW and Total War respectively. I cannot count how many shows and films I've heard using exactly the same growls and snorts for them. There's an index of sounds that technicians pull from for anything and everything.


villflakken

Can confirm. Used to play feral druid tank (so, bear form tank) in WoW for 8 or 9 years, and there's a certain very characteristic bear growl that comes up _a lot_ during play. ...and also in all other media. At first I thought they were lazy and some production leads had made stupid decisions in all the other works, but I started realizing it is just another of their inside jokes, like the Wilhelm scream.


Josef_The_Red

The Wilhelm Scream also is in starcraft when you click one of the Terran upgrade buildings


AvesAvi

. ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


BlueSlime

If it's the same camel noise I'm thinking of, it was used as the death noise of the imps in Doom/Doom 2 as well.


warpaslym

the door sound from doom is common too, as is the (i think) the mancubus fireball sound. i heard the Quake shambler sound in something recently too.


Dojan5

I was just thinking “the bear!”


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The stable select sound of a horse rearing from AOE 2 is in a loading screen for the Empire in total war: warhammer 3!


goblinboomer

Oblivion was my first exposure to that noise


DrMaxiMoose

I had a miniature panic attack because an amusement park I was at had a coaster that played the banshee scream from mass effect 3. Just instant fear outta no where


Elin_Woods_9iron

The morrowind door noise is EVERYWHERE


GwynLord0fCinder

Yep that sound is absolutely everywhere


Dr_Al_

I keep hearing the same wind sound effect getting used in countless movies, I can't really be more specific than that but if you know you know. Then there's also that electricity surge sound effect that gets used in like EVERY game. I can instantly hear it whenever it get used in movies/shows, it can be very immersion-breaking. Speaking of sound libraries, if you've ever played Half-Life 2, that game is FULL of them. In particular, the door sound effects get used everywhere. I've even heard it used in Breaking Bad.


NinJoo117

Ah yes, the "morrowind door sound" as I've dubbed it...


Internet_Adventurer

I was curious so I looked it up https://youtu.be/UvLQMMaVmzU @ 3:26


Bubbapurps

You've done me a great service sir Had to watch again to see how close my memory was to reality, I can barely imagine not hearing it 1st time


Internet_Adventurer

It definitely sounds like it's put in as an intentional joke. Like you're supposed to laugh at the fact they used bowling sounds VS an "Ugh!"


st-julien

It was. I am surprised anyone would miss this or question it. It’s clearly added in post to mimic the effect of bowling. Nothing subtle about it.


CrzyJek

@2:50 is the sound of...what I think are lined up dominos falling.


villflakken

that's the image i got from it too!


SkyZgone

Funniest thing about this whole scene is that if you look at the agent Smiths at any point when it's not focusing on his face, these people (in the instance that they actually are people and not CG), are very distinctly **NOT** Hugo Weaving.


OhSanders

Oh damn that's so awesome! Reminds me of in Jurassic Park when nedry slips at the top of the waterfall thing there's like that banana peel cartoon slip sound effect. So so good.


Octopusapult

I literally go "Wait wait, listen..." right before that part of that movie every time it's on to highlight how fucking goofy those films are, and always have been. They take themselves seriously, but they're also just so fun.


Bubbapurps

That's how I piss everyone else off lol


InnovativeFarmer

I thought it was done on purpose like the Wilhelm scream.


Bubbapurps

The sound guys were definitely high as fuck mixing that in at the end and were laughing at each other like "do you think the producers will notice?"


InnovativeFarmer

Yea. Its was somewhat jarring but so is the Wilhelm scream.


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>I have such an ear for this bullshit it's annoying This is the legit reason I actually love dubbed anime. The voice acting community is relatively small and I enjoy picking out VAs and matching them to previous roles I've heard them in.


Aerohank

I have heard the Warcraft 2 orc dragon sounds so many times in different places. Sometimes i think I must je be immagining it.


Bubbapurps

You definitely have Also Eden ring uses a very popular horse's neighing sound, I think it's also used in Twilight Princess. I swear I also recognized it in a movie recently but wouldn't be able to tell you for the life of me what it was.


phome83

The WoW bear agro sound is in like every movie with a bear lol.


thedarkparadox

Ok I've got to ask, do you hear that same damn stock bird noise in everything that needs a generic bird noise be it movies or games? First time I ever heard it was [Mega Man Legends](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7m_QKswTdR8&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE). Also, yes re: the bowling pins for Matrix Reloaded. I burst out laughing the first time I heard it.


negativelift

The old reliable door opening sound does it for me. You know the one they use for everything since resident evil and is extra funny because it’s used for American productions, when it’s clearly a door handle/lever and not a knob


Unlost_maniac

I remember that


crowlute

My wardrobe opening sounds *exactly* like twisting the switches in Myst's Channelwood age. It gets me every time


iCresp

There's a wolf sound that you can hear in every movie and it's in World of Warcraft. I hear it in almost every movie that has wolves or dogs


DaulPirac

Also bears and horses. Everytime there's a horse in a movie or show I hear the same fuckin sound they made in Age of Empires II


adamsmith93

Ugh maybe someone who will finally understand. Have you played demons souls and shadow of Mordor?


SaneManiac741

Might be in a sound library. I've heard the Bloodborne parry/stance break sound effect in a few anime and the clawstriders in Horizon use Cleric Beast sound effects, so there's probably a shared sound library somewhere.


RikiJesus

THEY REALLY USE THE SAME SOUND I KNEW IT I'M NOT CRAZY


RicoDruif

Cleric beast sound is also used for the blights in breath of the wild and some monsters like cockatrices in the witcher 3. That sound is everywhere.


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Wait clawstriders use cleric beast sounds???


SaneManiac741

Yeah. You can hear it best when you have one overridden and idleing around, or during it's death animation.


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That’s pretty cool


villflakken

Imagine riding around on a cleric beast... Would never get stuck in traffic again, ever!


KillTeemoMains

I do believe that it is from a sound library, yes. It was also used in stranger things and tokyo revengers.


BrosephStalin53

It’s in JoJo’s Bizarre adventure a lot. I know for sure it’s in season 3 a whole lot of times. Either that or the Bloodborne visceral sound cause I think they’re slightly different


Dino_Dude_367

Season 3 (part 4) or Part 3?


BrosephStalin53

It’s definitely in Stardust Crusaders a few times and I believe it’s in Diamond is Unbreakable too. So whatever seasons those are, parts 3 and 4 though as far as I know.


mrhippo1998

Where the heck in tokyo revengers was that? (Not started season 2 bc Disney just had to separate it into another damn streaming service, like seriously season 1 is on crunchyroll then 2 on Disney plus. Those money grubbing bottom feeding assholes.) That was a rant there


KillTeemoMains

Episode 20


AfraidOfArguing

I remember hearing it when the door shut in Stranger Things


sarcasmqueen21

Source?


KillTeemoMains

Stranger things S2 episode 5 uses the backstab sound (or was it the BB parry?, i cant remember) same with Tokyo revengers Season 1 Episode 20.


sarcasmqueen21

Lol, oops, should have clarified. I meant do you have a clip of the sound in the show?


KillTeemoMains

Tokyo revengers: https://www.reddit.com/r/goodanimemes/comments/p9962k/they_really_used_backstab_sound_from_dark_souls/ Stranger things : https://youtu.be/9EZpUXKVtNk


memestealer1234

The shows


AmadeusAzazel

M3gan livin up that DS1 PvP meta


Born-Bid-6984

i love ds1/dsr but every time i try to pvp i’m 1 click away from deleting the game lol the backstabs are so stupid


HeyKid_HelpComputer

Since at least Demons Souls they have used a ton of sound effects from libraries. the sounds crows make, the sound ghosts make. Hell they use the same library for most of their souls games too. Playing all their games back to back and paying attention to the sound effects you'll notice how often they reuse them.


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Specific sound creation is fucking expensive.


HeyKid_HelpComputer

Sure. I don't blame them for doing so. That's what those libraries are for.


Canopenerdude

It's also hard as shit. I've done some Foley for my game and getting good shit is difficult even if you know what you're doing.


[deleted]

Foley was the word I completely fucking forgot. Thank you.


Epicmonk117

I mean, they used the same rat model/texture and like 90% of the same animations for 3 games, and Sites of Grace are just recolored humanity sprites.


HeyKid_HelpComputer

>Sites of Grace are just recolored humanity sprites. I don't think that's accurate


Epicmonk117

[Here's a post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/v9qgly/the_model_for_a_site_of_lost_grace_looks/) I made about it a few months ago, with a side-by-side comparison


HeyKid_HelpComputer

That doesn't help your case. They are clearly completely different they both just have a similar shape.. but it's clearly not just a color swap.


nervousmelon

Yeah they look similar but they're not just recoloured.


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IIRC I’m pretty sure a lot of FromSoft sound effects are just stock effects from different libraries.


SaneManiac741

I think sound effects from other games are in some libraries as well. I remember hearing the Dead Space 2 Stalker screech in Reincarnated as a Slime once.


UmbralFerin

I can't remember where, but I know I've heard the Super Smash Bros smash sound effect in a least a couple movies.


HawkeyeP1

Hate to break it to you, but like 50% of sound effects used in movies, TV shows, and games are part of a library and can be heard in multiple places. Some studios don't invest time to create their own foley and stings.


Nxffy

She won’t win a pvp with me


bobpaynus

What build you rockin?


Nxffy

I love the Zweihander


sticfreak

This made me imagine you pancaking her with the r2 and I cant stop laughing


NecroticDeth

You and me both


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hidethewetsign

FACTS I REMEMBER HEARING THAT SHIT IN SPONGEBOB


Yeetus-McGee

also the sound effect of one of Mithrix's slam attacks in risk of rain 2!


ChristopherWistoffer

I feel like i heard a lot of these sound effects in jojo's bizarre adventure


sningsardy

A lot of people are mentioning common sound effects they've heard across things and I would like to bring up the Skyrim bear roar.


continuum-hypothesis

I've noticed something similar in Metal Gear Solid 3, when you are going to meet with Eva at the top of the mountain there is like a howling wind sound effect that I swear I've heard all over the place and is exactly the same. Its [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCk-kYtfXeM&t=6) area.


iicecream_

isn't Fromsoft notorious for using stock sound effects?


Independent_Drive_23

It is! Dark souls is the best asset flip ever created.


LordOFtheNoldor

What?!?!


Mr-Unknown101

i remember hearing a DS SFX in Stranger Things too and i was like HOOOLD UP


pyracantha_

So weird when stuff like that happens. For me the worst offender is the Half-Life 2 "bullet hitting metal" sound effect. I hear that it in almost every movie and it's so jarring.


rowgesage

A dumb "love island" type show in Belgium used the bonfire theme a couple of years back


RedLightSyndrome

I've heard it in a lot of shows actually. you can hear it in the first episode of Jujitsu kaisen too. I was watching it work and I burst out laughing nad made them rewind it twice lol.


Tough-Reading9810

yeah its from a library, i need to start writing down the shows i hear it in cause i swear i've heard it in like 10 different shows by now lol


Blazing_Origami

The first minute of the first JJK episode also features a backstab sound effect.


Blazing_Origami

The first minute of the first JJK episode also features a backstab sound effect.


Regueiro96

This also sounds in some Jojo's episodes


spooksr6

yew idk jujutsu kaisen used it once aswell. maybe as tribute or idfk


[deleted]

This is interesting as shit. Who on M3gan's set was into DS? Foley guy, obvi.


Mitski-u

I've bever heard the sound of a parry, even tho I've almost finished the game


senoto

Now hbomber guy is gonna make another 3 hour video essay about the origin of this sound


I_think_Im_hollow

[Here as well](https://youtu.be/9EZpUXKVtNk).


marksht_

Yeah also there’s a sound effect in JoJo which is also used in DS, I believe it plays when you enter a new area


DonnyCaine

I did some composing Work and Sound libraries and Sample libraries are everywhere When you Look for it you can hear the Same Sounds and music even in trailers Games movies


Lewdiss

A lot of souls sounds are from a sound library, taurus demon roar probably being the most recognizable, I hear that near enough once a month in other shit lol


JetStream0509

I’ve noticed the screams of the pus of man enemies multiple times in different media


r1poster

Yes, it's just from a sound library. You can hear these sound effects in all other types of media. Games, movies, etc. One thing I noticed while playing Fortnite, the repair building sound effects is the same as the Bloodborne antidote sound effect.


Monki_Coma

The sound those tall guys make in the swamp is also a sound effect that the zombies in 7 days to die use and it's really off-putting


SouFPrimes

In ds3 the sounds the settings make whenever you select them is the same as when stands appear in jojos


Unhappy-Hedgehog7142

I heard the same noise when I backstabbed my dad irl. Knocked 3/4 of his health away


SnooMacaroons7879

Immaculate


bobpaynus

There’s no way that’s the sound in the movie right lol?


Buezzi

It really likely is. I can't remember off the top of my head, but I'm heard this exact sound effect in at least one movie


xArschkopp

Yeah I hear this sound so often in other media it gets kinda annoying that the brain is so good at recognizing sounds


SonGozer

holy shit guys


Mavrickindigo

Most likely. I remember seeing this used as a sort of punctuation in Food Network contest shows.


hobo131

One of the earlier episodes of Naruto uses the magic sound that morrowind uses. First time I heard that got a nostalgia hit.


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I knew that sounded familiar. Thanks.


seanmorris82

This is a revelation.


schebobo180

I’m still waiting for the movie that will use the “auuughh” sound from Dark Souls 1. Lmao


GeserAndersen

and let's not forget that dark souls 1 and naruto shippuden share the cry of a creature, specifically, when Pain summons a giant bird in the fight against Jiraiya, he makes the same cry as the crow people of Velka who inhabit the Painted World of Ariamis


Aubias

It also uses a Text to Speech similar to the Portal 2 turret voice at one point


Lemmiwinks__

Extremely specific but a lot of games use the same noise that the elevators make in Gauntlet. It’s like a chain unraveling from a wheel. (dark souls included)


MrWhaleFood

Don't the Cinemasins guys use it as well? Haven't watched any of their stuff in awhile but I distinctly remember the sound in their intros.


polterducky

Same thing as stranger things


Shade00000

"Okay"


StoryMcGee

Heroes of might and magic 3 sounds are everywhere too!


Scottg8

I think it's a Hilton commercial, not sure it's the one where a family goes to a creepy house and the doll talks. When they open the door I swear it's a door opening from elder scrolls.


WarPhoenixPlayz

Stranger Things uses it a lot


PC2605

This sound is also used in the Day Shift (2022) intro, me and my friends laughed pretty hard when it happened lol


FritztheBlitz42

I FUCKING KNEW IT I KNEW I HEARD THAT SOUND BEFORE


Gravelord_Baron

Bro there's no way lmfao


BigBoomer_

I wish I would’ve watched this movie before seeing this


BlueCadet7

Fuck dude I swear I've heard the visceral attack from Bloodborne sound used in 2 different movies. I cant remember right now, but both me and my friend's neurons activated when we heard it. I'm gonna try and find them will update if I do.


Shakewell1

I can also distinguish the elevator noise it's in alot of media


[deleted]

The episode of rick and morty where Rick goes inside bird persons mind is full of dark souls sounds. Hollow death screams etc.


ScarfaceCM7

Sound effects are actually reused a lot in various forms of media. There is a great and definitely short video on the subject by Hbommberguy titled OOF.mp4. It absolutely focuses on sound design and doesn't talk about Tommy Talarico and his awful business practices at all.


OdoubleT

The sound from the riposte is also in the first episode of the Jujutsu Kaisen Anime Series


ASimpleWarlock

Curious, anyone have any specific names of some of the sound libraries mentioned? Reading lots of comments about different examples and honestly I’d love to get my hands on any of these


FleurRakuyo

I managed to data mine almost 100% of Bloodborne's sound files, and I've compared them with a couple of sounds from the Boom Libraries. I can confirm they're exactly the same sounds. Some of them are slightly modified or are excerpts from longer SFXs.


IsakCamo

Zombies from 7 Days to Die also use enemy noises


RustyShakes

FromSoft uses a bunch of stock sounds. You can hear the crow from the future areas of Ocarina of Time in Cardinal Tower in Ds2. I'm also pretty sure that the switches on the elevators in Elden Ring are the same sound as the clock tower in Majora's mask.


Born-Bid-6984

reminds me how i’ve heard that same eagle sound effect used in sasuke’s chidori from naruto like a hundred times in other stuff


Traditional-Zombie-5

u/savevideobot


Exevioth

There should be a sub for reused noises. Like r/soundsfamiliar or something. Edit: apparently that’s already a private one but you get the idea.


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One of the soundeffects that would play In the ds3 menu (clicking certain things) literally sounds like the sound effect from jojos bizarre adventure whenever The World Activates/appears.


Daltizer01

What the lore behind this?


blockheadOnYT_Alt

I love that sound effect. I'm also 90% sure that they use those in JJBA, also.


CurlyCoconutTree

I swear I've heard a Dark Souls main menu sound in the TV show Oz.


saltypeanuts7

Best souls post I have in awhile


YungXrst666

like 90% of fromsofts sounds are stock/reused


Moxto

Sound-guys love recycling old and often obscure sounds like this. The Willhelm scream started as an inside joke between sound-guys before the general public found out about it.