Worst sound to hear in a game?

[Hunde Des Krieg]

The beep of an activating plasma grenade anyone? Mostly because you know it's stuck to you.

 

[ssgt splatter]

This isn't the game's fault really but when playing online and one of your teammates won't turn off his headset and sits right next to the TV. I don't need to hear an echo of what I heard followed by the constant buzzing sound of your mic.

Yeah, no bloody kidding. echo...echo...echo!

 

[whyarecarrots]

The Click of Death.

Otherwise known as your gun running out of ammo in the middle of a firefight. Especially horrible on the Source engine mod Eternal Silence, given that the guns all seem to take at least a second to reload...

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

Poison headcrabs, before I became desensitized to them by way of Garry's Mod.

That little chirp gets your pulse pounding.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Ocarina of Time. "Hey, listen!" It's not annoying at first, but after a while it is.

That ^.
Girl grunts when playing a female character [which is my preference in most games, when given a choice]. I suppose it's a tradeoff..
The vending machines in Bioshock also got a bit old after a few hours.

 

[Shycte]

Footsteps in Theif II

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[Hypochrisy]

Does anyone else hate the voice that says "Resident Evil" on the title screen. It was in 4, not sure about 5.

It just makes me think of some guy sitting in a recording studio thinking,
"Okay, what voice would sound really scary?"

 

[lazy_bum]

an incoming mssg in supreme commander because you just 'know' thats is going to be the guy from high command whinging at you for the umpteenth time to complete the objectives. It's not my fault if i like to make sure i am totally prepared for the assualt rather than running off half-cocked like you want me to you pen pushing, target obssesed, self-rightous twerp.

 

[Skeleon]

Hehe @ lazy_bum, you're right.
Also, not nice: "strategic missile launch detected" when you already built a missile defense but GAAAAH it's not ARMED yet!!

 

[Trivun]

I have to say the most annoying sound for me is 'THUD' and seeing two shoes fly up into the air. Or seeing fried marsupial and an electric fence. Or a giant polar bear laughing. And if anyone can guess what game (series) all these appear in then they will recieve so many internets as a prize they'll be coughing up modems

Quick clue - I've recently began a phase of retro-gaming while my 360 was being repaired.

I'm gonna go ahead and guess crash bandicoot. A similar sound haunted most of my childhood.
The most annoying sounds i can think of must be experienced not described.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhufrnT4818

I'll take my internets in a lump sum.

Crash 2 actually, but yeah. Here's a free voucher for modems at PC World, or your nearest computer store if you aren't in the UK

EDIT: Loved the video by the way, I've had something similar happen on Halo online and also DoW, surprisingly...

 

[S.H.A.R.P.]

Hmm sometimes when I play TF2, the sound of an incoming chat message is two times as loud as the ingame sound (perhaps because I decreased the ingame sound, but regardless), it always scares the shit out of me the first time, and annoys me terribly after that.

 

[Ago Iterum]

The 'click' in CoD when you step on a trip bomb. You have one second where your heart just sinks, you don't even have the willpower to try to run, you just stand there and accept it...

 

[wordsmith]

The tank music in Left 4 Dead on Expert is a feared one.

This.

 

[Aunel]

When using Stealth mode in crysis, running up to a enemy base and when bieng in the open hearing `energy critical`

 

[Moormur]

I always dreaded the sound of trolls in Battle for Middle Earth. 'Twas a sound of doom.

 

[TZer0]

CoD 4: *Click* (claymore)
CoD:WaW: *Fwooosh* (bouncing betty)
Any multiplayer game with Voice-chat: music.
Team Fortress 2: "Alert, our final control-point is being captured" ... while everyone is dead
Unreal Tournament 3: "DENIED!" while using the redeemer -_-

 

[RetiarySword]

*BANG BANG click click*

'FUCK!'

 

[Aptspire]

any voice sound in L4D on expert other than your mates: prepare to get raped

 

[Mayonegg]

I'd say the great title screen of Japanese games (mainly Capcom and Namco) where some grunty-voiced guy will say: 'Time Crisis...2', 'Resident Evil...4', 'Soul Calibur...2' and 'Devil May Cry 3'. I just shake my head and think, "Yeah...I know...I put the disc in."

Also in Silent Hill 2, along with the previously mentionned static, would be the point where you entered a huge dark hall. The only thing in it is a gallows right in the middle but every-so-often you hear what sounds like a bull charging right at you, but there's nothing there!