Everything sounds better in video games. This summer, I became hyper-conscious of the sound of gathering, or looting, or “picking things up.” I was editing a gameplay video from an pre-release build of The Outer Worlds, and I heard this Sound. To be fair, it’s several sounds all played in succession, when the player loots…

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