Poll: Do you listen to inappropriate music while gaming?

[NewGeekPhilosopher]

My brother used to listen to really creepily inappropriate music for what he was playing on his computer. Like "Raindrops are Falling on My Head" while he was carving people up in Postal. I guess this phenomenon is more of a PC gaming thing because of mp3s being on the computer, and consoles not being able to play music and games at the same time. Unless you hook a stereo in.

Am I the only one who listened to the Sweeney Todd soundtrack while playing online Counter-Strike while running with a knife? Have you ever cranked up the Michael Jackson hit Thriller while you play Left 4 Dead, or Jonathan Coulton's Re: Your Brains as an equal substitute?

J-RPGs are a difficult one to listen to inappropriate music for, since half their marketability for their core audience is their original scores, but personally I think Eternal Sonata could have used some Metallica songs to balance out the picturesqueness. Or some Dethklok.

Do you listen to inappropriate music while gaming instead of the prescribed game score just to keep things interesting?

 

[090907]

it happens quite often when the music is on shuffle...

 

[rossatdi]

Most of my gaming is currently online FPSs wherein you would be badly handicapped by not having full attention on the ingame audio.

I used to grind Diablo II whilst listening to everything!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I don't like to have outside music on when i game, it takes me out of the immersion.

The radio in GTA is fitting for the game, as is the one in Fallout ect.. but if I was to put on my own CD collection I would be taking my mind out of the experience a bit.

 

[Avida]

Halo 3 goes through all kinds of crap but the worst example has got to be Project Zero to Tenacious D XD

 

[Horticulture]

I like to listen to cool jazz while playing shooters. I enjoy the surrealism, and for some reason I pay better.

 

[Horticulture]

PS ELO sucks

 

[Fightbulb]

PS ELO sucks

Edit button. Use it.

And yes, I do listen to strange things while gaming, I recently picked up the habit of listening to instrumental hiphop while playing Fallout, works very well.

 

[peachy_keen]

Totally! I think Fallout 3 sort of picked up on this with the song selection 3 dawwgg has.

 

[odBilal]

Yesterday I played Killzone 2 online and listened to Coldplay's Viva la Vida or death and all his friends. Surprisingly it fits to the game perfectly

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I like to listen to cool jazz while playing shooters. I enjoy the surrealism, and for some reason I pay better.

Not strictly cool jazz but fallout 3 has a soundtrack you might enjoy while blasting

 

[SsilverR]

i once listened to "i feel pretty" by julia andrews while brutally murdering people on manhunt... even skipped and danced

also .. i listened to wheels on the bus while playing devil may cry 3

 

[L33tsauce_Marty]

Metal usually boosts most FPS experiances.

 

[Taerdin]

personally I think Eternal Sonata could have used some Metallica songs to balance out the picturesqueness. Or some Dethklok.

Two of the most exposed metal bands? Why? I have not played Eternal Sonata... is it really that bland and generic?

 

[Fraught]

I don't listen to music while playing at all.

 

[Art Axiv]

Music can be inappropriate? D: Since when?

 

[JohnSmith]

Any racing game, I replace their soundtrack with my own after theirs gets boring, this was a surprisingly short time with burnout: Paradise. Also I run my own music whenever an FPS clearly does not require attention to detail, i.e. Headquarters on COD4.

 

[Beetlejooce]

The only one i can really remember was listening to Kaiser Chiefs while hopping around Zangarmarsh on WoW. Seemed funny at the time.

Apart from that a bit of Rasmus while ripping into pedestrians and policemen (or police officers to be politically correct) in Saints Row 2 seems to balance it out.

 

[WittyName]

Bodies by Drowning Pool fits well with Resistance 2