Do you guys play music while you play games?

I used to listen to music all the time in WoW, even in Naxx once, when healing. I sometimes do when playing C&C3, NHL 08. Otherwise I don't.

Sometimes, Audiosurf doesn't count. When I play online I listen sometimes (and I don't put it on voice chat either..)ElArab

Bull! Audiosurf counts! It has to count. You can't take it away from me :(.

Nope. When I play games, I focus on no audio except that which natively comes through my speakers from the game itself. I don't listen to or for anything else, be it music not from the game, the phone ringing, my mother talking to me, my dog talking to me, a gang war going down in front of my house, World War III outside my window, the apocalypse realized...

Anyway, yeah, no outside music. I really don't listen for the phone, though, stupid thing's too quiet. For the record, everything from "mother" and on is BS. I listen to my mother. Most of the time. Kind of.

I used to before sound effects in games got so good...

Now i think if you listen to music over the top of games (especially in certain fps) you lose some of the immersion and miss out on gameplay.

I still will listen to music in RTSs like SC and C&C3, it aint like theres anything you really need to hear

I never listen to external music sources while playing games. I also turn the in-game music right down for most games, or off completely if I find it annoying. Having music blaring just breaks the immersion for me, and dynamic music becomes annoying because you know something is about to happen before it happens. Like in Oblivion, when you hear the combat music fire up in spite of the fact you didn't know there was an enemy in the vicinity, let alone that it's trying to fight you.

Sometimes. I do while playing most RTS games, since sound isn't important, but in games such as TF2 I always have the game's sound on.

I used to play UT2k4 with music on because it had that integrated music player. Unfortunately that was one of the features that disappeared from UT3 ;_;

If the game doesn't have any music, then I'll play some of my own -- otherwise I tend to prefer the ingame music, as it normally fits in with the gameplay well.

I like TA though, you could set up your own CD tracks to play when certain conditions happened (e.g. a battle). It also had a kickass orchestral score as well.

On occasions and based on the type of game that i'm playing.

With a really involving game such as The Witcher, which has a lot of dialog i wont listen to music but right now i'm also playing Virtua Tennis 3, so i'll listen to music over the top of that. Its nice listening to metal and jazz when playing tennis! :P

Sometimes yes depends on the game, background music while playing brings me even more into the game, specially on online play.

Sometimes. Mostly I game w/ teammates and that requieres

communication and music gets in the way then. ;)

When playing a racing game, music is a must LOUD AND FAST !

It depends on the game. Some games the soundtrack doesn't play much of a role. Others, it's a very important role in the sense of immesrion. Morrowind, for example, I turn off the music all together, including the games music. I just don't feel that music is fitting for the game. Half-life 2, I don't listen to my own music because although there is rarely music, when a track is played, it does an excellent job at making the game that much more intense. The only games I actually listen to music in are emulators and freeware, unless I like the soundtrack a lot. Jim_bo_bo

Huh? I think MW has one of the best game-soundtracks ever made... It fits perfectly, epic game, epic score.

Depends on the game. RTS games, always. Some RPG games - ones without dialogue. Stuff like Diablo/Hellgate or MMOs.

I only listen to music in FPS games when playing Quake 3 or UT.

Depends on what I'm playing. If I'm playing WoW I almost always have my own music going in the background because after god-only-knows how many millions of hours hearing the same few tracks just gets old.

Depends on what I'm playing. If I'm playing WoW I almost always have my own music going in the background because after god-only-knows how many millions of hours hearing the same few tracks just gets old.

Aizou

I'm with you bud, but I did that with Guild Wars. Can't do that anymore since some guy stole my game...

I dont like to listen to music while I play, it kinda breaks the immersion for me, unless of course its the games own music. filmography

Same here.

Do I play music while gaming? All the time, I can't stand when there's no music around But it's ALWAYS my own music (or from online radio), NEVER ingame music (ingame music always annoys me... with the only exceptions being GTA3+ games, but there I also had a radio station with my own music for the days when I didn't want to listen to the music that shipped with the game)ADG_

Half-Life music RoCKS! But that's just one game and music isn't very frequent... Too bad.

I usually prefer the games own music, unless it's really, really bad.mracoon

I never listen to music while I play. It just becomes background noise after a while and ruins the immersive feeling.weirjf

I agree, but... You can't ruin the immersive feel of games with no immersion like Half-Life Deathmatch