What type of music do you play when your in a game? If I'm playing an FPS I usually go for something like Dragonforce or any hip hop beets, and if I'm in WoW or any type of RPG I play classical.
In FPS's and other action games I usually listen to Nickelback or Linkin Park,in RTS's and other strategy games I play more relaxed music and in RPG's none at all I just listen to the game.
i generally listen to the game audio but if i want something different then usually classical, like vivaldi or beethoven. its not as distrcting as rock.
If I am listening to music while playing, it ranges quite a bit. Some examples are Billy Joel, Megadeth, Angels & Airwaves, Children of Bodom, Maximum The Hormone, Boxcar Racer, Muse, A Day To Remember, Justin Timberlake, Lil Wayne, you get the picture.
I just listen to the audio provided by the game.Doom_HellKnight
Exactly. There's a reason why the developers put audio in a game. Listening to other music might increase the gamer's general performance, but the game wouldn't feel the same without the original audio.
I usually have a nice variety, raning from alot of differnt genres
- Miles Davis
- Sublime
- Mac Dre
- 2Pac
- Bob and Ziggy marley
- Nirvana
- Neil young
- BB King
- Kool Keith
- E40
- Tech9ne
- John Coltrane
- Jimmy Hendrix
Unless of the course the game has a fantastic soundtrack itself or if its an rpg, then i usually always listen to the voices and music provided in the game.
If I am listening to music while playing, it ranges quite a bit. Some examples are Billy Joel, Megadeth, Angels & Airwaves, Children of Bodom, Maximum The Hormone, Boxcar Racer, Muse, A Day To Remember, Justin Timberlake, Lil Wayne, you get the picture.DragonfireXZ95
lol Never thought I would read Children of Bodom and Justin Timberlake in the same sentence.
to the music in the game if its by a great composer... if not i listen to my influences... jeff loomis, nevermore, dream theater, john petrucci, even other game composers music.. etc.
Is it multi-player you're talking about? Because I can't see anyone listening to something else when they're playing BioShock, you'd be insane to miss the game's sound design, one of the best this industry has ever seen. Even when I'm playing something like Grand Theft Auto on the PC, I don't listen to my own radio station simply because the stations that came with the game have this particular vibe that my own library can't capture.
But to answer your question, mostly Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Audioslave, U2, and Led when I'm playing TF2 if I ever decide to play with music on. More often than not, I'd be listening to a podcast while playing TF2.
I usually don't turn down the volume on the game music unless it's crap and/or repetitive - or if I'm playing a game that doesn't have any music -, in which case I put on some oldschool hip hop, dubstep, or a movie soundtrack instead. Depends a bit on the game too.
I don't play music while I'm gaming. If there is in-game music, I listen to that. For the most part, the games I play are online and I'd be a pretty crappy teammate, if I was being too distracted by music instead of team communication.
I've got playlists made for certain games and genres - even if you can play your own music ingame. For example, my playlist "FPSs and hard [(expletive)].m3u"contains:
Rammstein
Rob Zombie
Turmion Katilot
Celldweller
Soulfly
Parkway Drive
Powerman 5000
Threat Signal
Trivium and more...
And then I've got songs that I prefer to have cranking under certain circumstances, like whenever I'm playing CS:S Dust I'll have "Seek and Strike" or "Prophecy" by Soulfly playing on loop over the SFX of the game,
Other times - like in Red Alert 2 or Halo 3 - I will listen to the ingame music because, frankly, it's awesome.
[QUOTE="Doom_HellKnight"]I just listen to the audio provided by the game.YoZbaNaToR
Exactly. There's a reason why the developers put audio in a game. Listening to other music might increase the gamer's general performance, but the game wouldn't feel the same without the original audio.
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