As much of a curiosity :tomato: , what music do you listen when you play a game (and here I don't reffer to to the game's music) and why ?. I for example listen very much to rock when I play Action games or Quake II, and when playing strategies I listen something more ambiental like Vangelis or classical music... like Wagner (it fits perferctly with Warcraft and Medieval: Total War, oh no I love the in-game music from MTW)

If I'm not listening to the in-game music I usally listen to what I would listen to any other time...

If i listen to music while playing games, i loose my concentration and screw up.

i play diablo 2 with music... usually bathory, helheim, finntroll and some others :D

Depends. I sometimes listened to heavy metal when playing Diablo - like Hammerfall and their awesome Way of the Warrior.
Quake for me is Heavy Metal + Viking Metal + Death Metal.
Most of the time I just go with the standard in-game music, though.

I once played the Exploited while playing Doom. It made me laugh so hard I didn't stand a chance against the monsters. But mostly I turn off all music.

I mostly listen to the ingame music if it isn't a completely annoying soundtrack, like that techno stuff in the Need for Speed series or something. Then I like to put on something fitting like grind/deathmetal for fast fps games (especially when playing things like Quake I :P, grind + zombies is TEH killer combo. Anyone ever played Zombiegrinder 60000? http://www.viceland.com/se/v2n2/htdocs/game.php ), or something a bit more mellow for rts games. Really dramatic classical music works for almost anything. It's really hilarious to make total smeggin' armageddon in GTA to something like Wagner or Dvôrak.

(And totally offtopic... :P I love your sig, Mighty Midget )

It depends. If I play games that require careful listening, I don't listen any, but usually I have radio (Radio City in Finland) open or then I play my over 19h list of heavy in winamp.

Hmmm when I play Diablo 2, then I usually play every kind of music, but once me and played a whole bunch of music, both Danish ones, and English ones, and suddenly we heard the Danish version of Moonshiner (an Irish drinking song), and we laughed our arses off , but Diablo still died, even though we laughed.

I like to listen to the classic rock n roll stuff. I think it gives me better concertration on my racing games.

I listen to whatever i havent listened to in a while... Im not fussy

Most games I play have voice acting so I wouldn't listen to any.

If I do listen to music when I play games it's the game's music itself. Like San Andreas has all its radio stations and stuff.

GTA Vice City has one of the best soundracks around, at least being apporpriate for the game. Same goes for San Andreas, although the tunes in VC are more varied and I like them better.

Mmm, I thought San Andreas' soundtrack was more varied while Vice City was more suitable.

Vice City just had a wealth of pop and old hip hop hits.
San Andreas had country, techno, pop, oldies, rap, hip hop, metal, rock, and Jamaican reggea even.

Well, VC had also latin american music, "Radio Espantoso", I liked that. I played VC more -both at a friend's-, but my impression must be because in SA I favoured rap, I like country but it just didn't fit there, less suitable as you said.

Yesterday I was playing HalfLife and didn't notice 'Music for the gilted generation' from the Prodigy was in the drive. It was good music :)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Japofran @ Jun 25 2006, 09:12 PM) [snapback]239644[/snapback]</div>It actually fits very well, I'm not sure if you know, but there's an entire area of the map that's just open country, it fits there well.

I played SA very little compared to VC. Man that mission about stealing from the Army was damn hard. :wallbash:

In VC or San Andreas?
The army stealing ones in San Andreas are really easy!

In SA. I didn't try that hard, I had no further occasion to play at my friend's...

I always listen to music while I play (WoW).
The only game I don't play with music is Splinter Cell :max:

Splinter Cell is best played at midnight in complete silence anyways. Much better atmosphere. :)

It's better if you got headphones.

Headphones squish my ears and irritate them for ages after i take them off. Ill be right.

I found playing '3d sound' games using headphones was better than using speakers. Not only did I get the directions right, but it all became much more intense. In Thief 2 the headphones made a totally different game out of it.

Blakh0le: Get yourself some decent headphones then, not those cheapo Torquemada-de-luxe ones :D

Maybe he's allergic. A pair of those which you don't actually have to put into your ears, which are supported by some plastic thingy over your head? If you're allergic maybe they'll also be a problem... Dependind on the stuff they're made of... Anyway you can get directions right with normal speakers.

The speakers won't do the trick when you live in a 1 sq.m. flat. :(

About reasons for uncomfortable headphones, I think I covered all possibilities... I didn't mention any reason in particular.

I'm not very demanding, my speakers are the most tiny cheap ones and they're on my table at both sides of the screen, and I still hear the side a tank's approaching from in Operation Flashpoint. :D Plus I encountered problems adjusting the volume with headphones in that same game.

Considering speakers connects to the line out and headphones to the yes, headphones, it sounds plausible if the game doesn't have an in-game volume control. But with the games that have that, I don't remember any problems.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mighty Midget @ Jun 29 2006, 01:49 PM) [snapback]240365[/snapback]</div>Haha funny you should say that our earphones are falling to peices anyways, cept i just cant find the time to go and buy some new ones. Ill get some oneday...

Poo on headphones, Surround Sound is better, you instantly know where a sound is coming from.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Blood-Pigggy @ Jun 30 2006, 10:04 AM) [snapback]240690[/snapback]</div>Allow me to rephrase that: If I knew where the money would come from, I would instantly get me a surround sound system :(

Amen <_<

Well I don't have particular musics I like to hear while playing I just hear what I want to at that moment.
But if I regurally listen to some music while playing a game out of sheer coincidence I will always like to hear that music while playing in that game and when I hear this music I'll always think of that game!

For example:
Lost Vikings- Bowie
Prehistoric 2- Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Here are MIDIs I found in Net when I was searching for something about drow elves. I liked them, so I copied them to my hard drive. They are very for games IMO.

The only games I ever really listen to music while playing are roguelikes.

When I'm playing ToME I like to have Blind Guardian's 'Nightfall in Middle Earth' album on ^_^ but another band who'se music seems to fit well with the game is Finntroll, who are very mighty.