Acoustic Satisfaction

Why does landing a shot in a modern first-person shooter feel so inherently satisfying? It's not the visual explosion or the point tally; it is the instantaneous, micro-engineered acoustic "e;thwip"e; of the hit marker. This tiny interface element revolutionized competitive gaming by hacking our brains. Before the hit marker, players fired blindly into pixelated smoke, unsure if their weapons we...