What music do you listen to while you game?

[Gunstar Hero]

For me it's either Techno music, Dubstep, Metal, or Rock.
Recently my playlist was this:
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Jordan - Buckethead
Ghosts N Stuff - Deadmau5
Moar Ghosts N Stuff - Deadmau5
2011 Dubstep Mix - Various artists
Escape the Fate - all songs I have by them
and a bunch of other songs mostly the genres I listed above.

So what music do you listen to (if any) while you game?

[treismac]

I always listen to the video game's music that I'm playing. For me, it's too much of a part of the experience of the game to replace, and losing the sound effects greatly handicaps my playing as well, since it "takes me out of the game." I will, however, listen to the in-game '80s mix on my PS2's Activision Anthology.

[markusman64ds]

When playing Black Ops, I play these albums:

Folsom Prison and Other Johnny Cash Songs by Dick Nolan
Saturday Night Fever by Bee Gees

This was mostly to try out my new records though. I barely play music with games now.

[Gunstar Hero]

I always listen to the video game's music that I'm playing. For me, it's too much of a part of the experience of the game to replace, and losing the sound effects greatly handicaps my playing as well, since it "takes me out of the game." I will, however, listen to the in-game '80s mix on my PS2's Activision Anthology.

This is why I turn off the music but keep on the sound effects, in games with the option, then try to match the volume of my music with the volume of the sound effects. Games with good music I keep on, but some games have horrendous soundtracks that I feel acceptable to drown out with music. Sometimes I even listen to other video game's music tracks while playing a game with a bad track (I mute the bad track) :). One of my favorite soundtracks is the F-Zero X soundtrack. Also I listen to FamilyJules7x, an artist on Youtube who does rockin' covers of video game soundtracks... Here's one of my favorites;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7LdaodGaVw

[Gunstar Hero]

This was mostly to try out my new records though. I barely play music with games now.

I don't know if I'm the only person who does this (well my friends do too) but I don't know, it just can completely alter the atmosphere and mood to get me in a hardcore mood or a relaxed mood... Anyone who hasn't tried it should :) Oh, and check out the video I posted above of FamilyJules7x... man that's one goooood Pokemon remix \\^_^/

[xelement5x]

I can only play Sonic 2 while listening to Dr. Demento since that's how I always played it as a kid, most everything else I listen to the actual soundtrack.

[SpaceFlea]

I only listen to the in-game score. As stated before, it's part of the experience.

[shertz]

this...

http://www.facebook.com/thevideogamemusicshow

[kupomogli]

Like was already stated, I also only listen to the games original soundtrack. Even if the game has bad or no music.

[Leo_A]

I listen to the music, if there is any, of the game itself.

The only exceptions are games that utilize licensed music. Then, I'll turn the music volume off in a options menu or if it's on a more modern platform that supports the feature, I'll listen to my MP3 library.

For modern racing games (Videogame music is all but extinct in that genre these days, it's dominated by licensed music), I have a collection of music from things like Top Gear on the Super Nintendo and a wide variety of Sega arcade racers that I'll often pull up. Or I'll listen to regular music (Which for me mostly means music from the 1960's like The Beach Boys). That's also what I'll play when playing a GTA game when possible (Or I'll just turn the radio station off if I can't play MP3's).

[o.pwuaioc]

I only listen to the in-game score. As stated before, it's part of the experience.

I'm another one of these. I can't divorce the music from the game, no matter how hard I try.

[RPG_Fanatic]

I listen to the music that the game came with. Hearing Mario, Sonic, Zelda or any game music takes me right back in time when I first played them.

[Genesaturn]

Usually I only listen to music when playing on World of Warcraft, and usually its epic Metal, like Nightwish, Battlelore, Crimfall, Wintersung, Alestorm, etc...

[XYXZYZ]

Back in 1993-1994 or thereabouts I'd turn the game sound off and listen to Primus while I raised levels in Breath of Fire II and Final Fantasy III. Today whenever I hear Tales from the Punchbowl and Sailing the Seas of Cheese I still get a little hit of SNES RPG nostalgia.:rolleyes:

I don't imagine that too many people listen to external music unless they're slogging through the boring parts of a long game, and I don't have the patience/attention span for things like RPGs anymore so I never listen to external music while gaming.

[VideoGameRescue]

If im online playing I usually listen to Killswitch engage to get me pumped lol. But If im just running around playing what ever I listen to my Blink 182 mix.

[Gamevet]

Unless I'm playing a golf game, I'm playing a game with its music.

[retroman]

In game music for me...Dont like anything else.

[Emperor Megas]

I always listen to the in game music unless it's an XBOX game that allows for custom soundtracks, and the one I'd ALWAYS play with a custom soundtrack turned on was my most played XBOX game, Fuzion Frenzy.

The wife and I played the HELL out of this game, man, and we'd always use the Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix soundtrack. It was PERFECT for Fuzion Frenzy, because all of the sounds were about a minute and a half, just like minigames, and it felt like they were made for the game.

[NayusDante]

When you play a game enough, the soundtrack can get annoying. I've developed a few very strong game and album associations, but only after I'd grown tired of the original music.

Final Fantasy VIII - Depeche Mode's "Black Celebration"
Phantasy Star Online - Depeche Mode's "Violator"
Pokemon Fire Red - "We Will Follow: A Tribute to U2 (http://www.amazon.com/We-Will-Follow-Tribute-U2/dp/B00000JISH/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1333022709&sr=8-2)"
Counter-Strike Source - Coheed & Cambria's "Second Stage Turbine Blade"
Final Fantasy XI - The Works of Star Salzman (http://www.starblast.org)

Most of these have pretty repetitive soundtracks or, in the case of CSS, no soudtrack at all.

[Gunstar Hero]

I always listen to the in game music unless it's an XBOX game that allows for custom soundtracks, and the one I'd ALWAYS play with a custom soundtrack turned on was my most played XBOX game, Fuzion Frenzy.

The wife and I played the HELL out of this game, man, and we'd always use the Dance Dance Revolution 4th Mix soundtrack. It was PERFECT for Fuzion Frenzy, because all of the sounds were about a minute and a half, just like minigames, and it felt like they were made for the game.

Man I can't tell you how many hours my brother, my friends, and I spent on that game.. It's so fun!

[Yago]

Always the in game score. The only exception is WoW and if I'm in a BG or instance then I'll throw on some techno over at www.di.fm. Otherwise, can you imagine playing something like Silent Hill without the music? That would be like a blind person going to an air show.

[Rickstilwell1]

It has been a long time since I have listened to external music while playing a game, but usually I would do this when I am playing a game I have already completed plenty of times and just want to mess around rather than really get into it. Sometimes playing music while playing an Atari 2600 game is fun too.

[lazyhoboguy]

I'm another one of these. I can't divorce the music from the game, no matter how hard I try.

Same here. Unless it's something like a racing game where the music is awful to me.

[jammajup]

I prefer not too play music while gaming as i find myself focusing on the music instead of the game,although i admit i used to listen to Digimortal by Fear Factory when i was playing Unreal Tournament on Dreamcast back in the day and even now years later when i hear the album i think of UT or when i see UT i think of Digimortal.