Music while gaming poll

thundercles

Just for fun! If you listen to your own, feel free to share your playlist!

Reizla

Mostly the game's soundtrack, unless it's too repetitive or really gets on my nerves.

Loktofeit

Neither. It gets in the way of hearing enemies coming. 

grimal

Usually, I leave the in-game music going on new games.  Then, once I have heard enough of it I will turn it off and switch over to a Pandora channel.

damond5031

I listen to CNN while gaming so I can have fun and get my learnins' at the same time. 

Charlie.Cheswick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsXRiV6yo4

I pretty much listen to this at all times set to repeat on my Zune. Eating, sleeping, gaming, whatever. It's always there. Like a comforting whisper from an angel, it's the ipioid that soothes my savage heart & mind.  

 

P.S. That's right, I said Zune.

 

nbtscan

Need a poll option for "Combination of Both".

Depends on the game really.  Some games have a really good soundtrack while others are forgettable.  When I play FFXIV I tend to play with the music on when a new patch comes out for a bit so I can hear all of the new music, but after a while I'll want to listen to something else.

Reklaw

Only one game (serie) makes me listen to some of my own liked music and that's GTA.

Love listening to many of the radio stations but like in rl I often want to switch to my own music when driving.

Apart from the GTA series it's all ingame music for me with every other game I play.

For the most part ingame music contributes to the immersion factor when playing a game...atleast for me it does. 

Nightbringe1

Originally posted by damond5031
I listen to CNN while gaming so I can have fun and get my learnins' at the same time. 

CNN repeats itself more frequently than the music in most MMO

OhhPaigey

I listen to music whenever I'm on my computer, unless I'm being really nerdy and trying to get into a game randomly, or playing CoD. I'm always listening to music lol.

Here's the best playlist you can find on the internet. For real. 

lugal

I loved Eve's jukebox. It sucked when they took it out. Wish more games had that system.
Generally, I would never play with music unless grinding. In WoW you could hear the swoosh sound of stealthy types moving.

Bitrip

I am all about in-game music. I honestly believe it enhances the experience when it's not generic or too low-budget. Sometimes when I am engaged in an endlessly monotonous task I will turn on my own music for a bit, however I always go back to the in-game stuff.

Phaserlight

Originally posted by OhhPaigey

I listen to music whenever I'm on my computer, unless I'm being really nerdy and trying to get into a game randomly, or playing CoD. I'm always listening to music lol.

Here's the best playlist you can find on the internet. For real. 

Challenge accepted.

Here's a mind-expanding series from Stanford that helped me in ineffable ways.  It's not music, but it falls into the category of 'learning while gaming'.  It touches on everything from neurobiology to the philosophy of science.  Wildebeest trying to cross an alligator infested river to signing apes.  Schizophrenia to language.  Game theory to chaos and complexity.

Here are a couple playlists I made:

Route I is instrumental with very occasional vocalizations and almost no lyrics.  It goes from downtempo to psydub to semi-acoustic.  It includes masterpieces such as Aes Dana's Memory Shell, Ott's Skylon, and Tycho's Past Is Prologue.

Route II is mostly lyrically driven.  It includes ten albums from recent times that are electronic in nature with some jazz, funk, trip-hop, industrial, prog rock, and other misc psychedelia.  I tried to go with a coherent vibe to this, but may have met with mixed results. 

moosecatlol

Most of the time it depends on the region.

The west often opts for a slow ambience for many of it's outdoor areas, a large bombastic brass/strings piece for captial cities.

Actually as I was writing this out I realized how fruitless it would be actually go into analysis over it all, so with that being said. . .

 

Long story short:

West = Live Orchestral Recordings(Rob Brower, Matt Uelmen, etc)   

East = Electronic(3rd party such as Studio EIM, or in house IE: HappyOZ)

 

I generally prefer the East, they can offer immersion and amusement.

rojoArcueid

If the game has an epic soundtrack like WoW then i listen to the games music. Otherwise i play other music in the background.

 

If the game has voice overs then i dont put my own music in the background because i want to hear what they say in the quests without interrupting my music.

Sovrath

It depends. Usually the in game music but if there are annoying tracks I just turn it off.

For lord of the rings online, when I played, I used to listen to the in game music but then it just started getting horrible. Especially the bad synthesizer stuff.

I would then put in the music from the movies and that made it better.

Hokie

Originally posted by Charlie.Cheswick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPsXRiV6yo4

I pretty much listen to this at all times set to repeat on my Zune. Eating, sleeping, gaming, whatever. It's always there. Like a comforting whisper from an angel, it's the ipioid that soothes my savage heart & mind.  

 

P.S. That's right, I said Zune.

 

Wow thanks for the link!

You know what makes him even better? Open up like 3-4 extra windows of that and pick different time points in that video (in You Tube) and have them play over top of each other.

Its amazing!

Haval

When playing a new game, I'll normally go with the background music and when it becomes old, I'll just switch to my own music. So dunno how to vote xD

Dauza

I voted to "listening to the original soundtrack". I feel like it's more comfortable with it and ofc it is on the premise that the BGM is good xD

Legion117

I can't listen to music while gaming. I feel it takes away from the hard work people did matching scores to certain zones or the feel of paying against people 

Jakobmiller

Really depends on what game it is and what music it offers. I usually go with my own music though and in some games no music at all since I need to hear the in-game sounds.

Dragonborn01

In game is just better to me because peopel spent time on it and matched it to fights and in game areas.