What songs to listen too when playing certain games.

[unozero]

pretty good thread Idea me thinks.



Fallout3- Terminator Theme. :sniper:

 

[ktimekiller]

di.fm vocal trance

 

[Acepilotf14]

Every game - Touhou music

 

[Vegeta897]

I rarely listen to outside music while gaming. I remember doing it during intense HL2: Deathmatch sessions though. And some CSS.

 

[Sedako]

All games - the actual game music

 

[Warped]

Itunes shuffle mix, all 11,209 songs. mostly rock music and a lot of game music. also the Grand Theft Auto 4 commercials are hilarious.....also love this song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ6ZW5wv13A

 

[Krynn72]

Morrowind theme for every rpg/adventure game. Battlefield 2 theme for action/fps games.

 

[JFry]

omega boost with its own soundtrack.

 

[knut]

I cannot listen to music on my laptop whilst gaming. In online games, I need to hear every ambient noise from the sound of feet crossing grass a few metres away to the jingling of equipment and baggage in a room in front of me. In single player games it's kind of the same, though not as important to be so acute, but I like the atmosphere of hearing the world around me more than I do my iTunes.

 

[Ennui]

I don't often listen to music while playing FPS because it's a handicap (like Antipop said, you need to listen to enemy movements and whatnot) but when I'm just trying to mess around I do sometimes. My absolute favorite combination is playing The Specialists (HL1 mod) while blasting Aphex Twin, specifically Windowlicker. Especially on the lobby map. It's pure gold.

 

[swan_song1973]

when rooster teeth releases their drunk tank podcasts, i listen to them while playing battlefield 1943, but other than that i dont really listen to music while im playing anything.

 

[knut]

when rooster teeth releases their drunk tank podcasts, i listen to them while playing battlefield 1943, but other than that i dont really listen to music while im playing anything.

I listen to them, too. :cheers: About to listen to the latest one before I go to bed.

 

[nipples]

I don't understand how people can't listen to music while playing games, even in online games. I can listen to music and still hear footsteps and spies decloaking perfectly.

I'll listen to Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Led Zeppelin, Soundgarden, Dream Theater, Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss.

 

[knut]

I don't understand how people can't listen to music while playing games, even in online games. I can listen to music and still hear footsteps and spies decloaking perfectly.

Music is a whole other experience to me, something I often find myself dropping everything else I am doing and devoting my entire attention towards. It's not that I can't hear these things happening, I'm just the sort of person that prefers the atmosphere of a battlefield or desolate apocalyptic wasteland when the only sounds I can hear are armed bastards hunting me down, not something totally immersion breaking that's popped up on shuffle. There are some things I can combine - such as drawing and music, for one - but there are far too many lulls and tiny segments of nothingness in gameplay where I would find myself wavering to listen to music when really, I'd rather seperate the two and enjoy them fully by themselves.

That's all just me, though. I can see why people listen to music when playing and respect it completely. On the flipside, it's also ****ing infuriating hearing someone blare out music whilst transmitting their mics to the rest of the lobby, but that's certain select folk.

 

[mikeecm]

günther.

 

[VirusType2]

I like to play music when playing classic Arcade games like Galaxian and Galaga, and during fighting and beat 'em up games is cool sometimes, but I don't like to listen to it otherwise. In fact, playing music while playing a deep strategy game really irritates me. It's distracting.

I don't listen to anything specific for certain games, though certain genres go better with certain games. Metal with fighting or racing, perhaps, and trance with space shooters.

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

Listen to the game music.Outside music distracts me. Plus its more fitting

 

[Paulaner]

I listen to New Age music when playing first person shooters. You should try.

 

[Danimal]

Every game - Touhou music

God damn it.

pretty good thread Idea me thinks.



Fallout3- Terminator Theme. :sniper:

Whitechapel - The Somatic Defilement album

Thier other album, This is Exile, is pretty rockin' for L4D.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

any FPS - blood on the dance floor by Michael Jackson

j/k

 

[unozero]

I listen to New Age music when playing first person shooters. You should try.

Midori? lol

 

[Bob_Marley]

I only really listen to outside music while playing CoD 4, Sabaton if I'm doing close quaters, smooth latin jazz if I'm sniping. Theres usually so many gun blasts and explosions going on that its not that much of a disadvantage.

 

[Unfocused]

In-game music 95% of the time.

As previously said, it's more immersive in SP and doesn't put you at a disadvantage in MP.

Also, I can't unbind my laptop's media function keys from starting Windows Media Player when I press them. My player of choice is Winamp, but everytime I press "play", WMP pops up, even if Winamp is on. :|

 

[VirusType2]

if you have the keyboard driver you can probably set the default media player.

you can also try right click a music file and select open with... and then select always open this type of file with this program, thought that probably won't work.

there are other things you can do, like opening the keyboard and physically disabling the key, though opening keyboards should be a last resort since they tend to poop out the keys all over the place, making re-assembly a ****ing bitch.

I don't think using winamp agent will help, but it might be worth a shot.

A good option might be to uninstall Windows Media Player.

 

[FrostedxB]

In-game music

Call of Duty:World @ War - Nazi Zombie theme songs.

 

[Laivasse]

@Virus and Unfocused - Uninstalling WMP isn't always a good idea no matter how much you hate it. MP3 players often need it installed for their drive recognition features to work, and I once had a game that required WMP10 to be installed despite the fact that the game had no movies or cut scenes. You can go to File and Folder Options in XP, or Control Panel>Default Programs in Vista, and try reassociating your media files that way (in XP sometimes it's good to delete a file format from the list entirely in order to break a program's association with it). If you can't do it with that or your keyboard software, you're probably SOL.

on topic: Eih, music... There was a time when I wouldn't even listen to in-game music, for FPSes at least. I would turn the music volume to nothing or leave the CD out of the drive so no music would play. Having gone through a period of playing console games on a broken TV, I got accustomed to silence while playing.

Nowadays I'm more flexible. HL2 wouldn't have been the same without the music. In retrospect, Oblivion's music probably kept me playing that game well past its use-by date. I still don't like listening to non-game music and certainly not when playing online. Maybe some metal at a modest volume on the stereo if I'm gaming drunk, but otherwise no.

 

[Murray]

Every game - Touhou music

I think you need to lay town on the Touhou games.

 

[nipples]

Music is a whole other experience to me, something I often find myself dropping everything else I am doing and devoting my entire attention towards. It's not that I can't hear these things happening, I'm just the sort of person that prefers the atmosphere of a battlefield or desolate apocalyptic wasteland when the only sounds I can hear are armed bastards hunting me down, not something totally immersion breaking that's popped up on shuffle. There are some things I can combine - such as drawing and music, for one - but there are far too many lulls and tiny segments of nothingness in gameplay where I would find myself wavering to listen to music when really, I'd rather seperate the two and enjoy them fully by themselves.

I understand. Gaming while listening to music is different than any other time I listen to music. I give the game my 100% attention and the music just sort of acts as a soothing background noise.

 

[Remus]

For me the music in a single player game is very important for creating atmosphere. A well crafted ambient soundtrack can really help me get immersed I the game world.

 

[Dalamari]

Every game - The Virus channel 202 on Sirius/XM

 

[Hurricane]

The only games I can listen to music while playing are shooters, since I just shoot anything that moves in the first place. Usually Beastie Boys.

 

[Letters]

For singleplayer stuff I don't listen to outside music, but I will online. Shooters are just sometimes but for MMO's and the like ouside music is pretty much required.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I think you need to lay town on the Touhou games.

no
go away

 

[nipples]

Every game - The Virus channel 202 on Sirius/XM

I'm partial to Lithium myself.