Music you listen to while playing games?

[verdant monkai]

The Police (I love/ want to be Sting)

Assorted songs from Kill la Kill like till my body is dry WITH the rapper as it is half the song, Blumenkranz and life fibres engage.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Why would you do that? They put a lot of effort into that soundtrack, ya know!

I hate Minecraft's music, CoD and Halo multiplayer is silent, and I'm not too fond of the battle music in Pokemon X/Y

 

[Kinitawowi]

The only game I ever put music on to play is usually Nethack. And that's only because it doesn't have any music of its own. (It'll normally be something quiet and ambient for that - you don't want to gee yourself up into making a mistake.)

Otherwise I'm more than happy to listen to the music the game came with; I'm not a developer or a sound engineer and I'm not arrogant enough to think that I could do better when it comes to setting music to a game.

 

[Bertylicious]

I never really understood this behaviour.

I generally do it when playing MMO's, where it's just a repetitive action, usually without voice dialogue, and just the combat sounds and grunts over and over and over....and over....and over.....and over and over and over, for hours on end.

I was going to aggree with Shinji but you reminded me that when I played through The Secret World I ended up listening to this on repeat:

Spoiler

I'd heard it recently so it was in my head, but it just seemed to feel right with that game somehow.

 

[Caiphus]

It depends. Sometimes I'll start listening to podcasts (Rooster Teeth, Penny Arcade, or Dismal Jesters). Or I'll put some electronic music on

Can range from relatively mellow, if I want to zone out:

Spoiler: Jaymes Young - Moondust (Celani Remix)

To something more heavy:

Spoiler: Au5 - Metronic

Video game soundtracks can tend to start sounding repetitive after a while. To me, at least. I'm sure people could say the same about dubstep. Either way, I get to choose my mood while playing. And that's my rationale.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I only listen to music when I play something like League or Dota 2, where the music gets grating after a while.

Usually, I just YouTube Miracle of Sound and play it in the background. I also enjoy listening to the Metal Gear Rising Revengeance soundtrack, as it gets you in the mood for something as reaction-dependant as a MOBA.

 

[BoogieManFL]

I rarely listen to music while gaming. Someone spent time making the music in the game and I'll listen to that instead.

 

[Artina89]

I tend to listen to the games original soundtrack, it doesn't feel right to listen to anything else, at least to me.

 

[Buckshaft]

Depends on the game and it's pace. Sometimes I'll listen to podcasts, too. Unless it's Metal Gear Rising. In which case, I will put the surround on maximum and revel in the stupid, early-2000s goth-boy J-Rock atmosphere.