Quite a few game companies, when looking for a bit of aural atmosphere over the years, have fallen back on just sticking a microphone in their workplace's break-room. Properly edited, the indistinct rustling, clattering and mumbling of a busy cafeteria or lounge can indeed supply a charming everyday-anytown backdrop. Improperly, you end up with too-distinctive noise jogging the listener's attention, like a gaggle of women with southern U.S. accents.
Worse yet when lines can clearly be dinstinguished, like "how're y'all doin'?" sounding more and more like a Blanche DuBois audition.
Worse and worse when another voice clearly states: "I'm from North Carolina"
But worst of all when the game in question is supposed to be The Lord of the Rings Online!
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