Much like the people who have already posted, when I play a game that isn't really story driven (diablo, an mmo) I'll play my own music/watch TV shows while playing. However, if its a singleplayer game or if important dialogue is being said I'll turn my music off to listen to the game. However, sound effects stay on, even if I were to turn them off, my brain would be making the appropriate sound affects automatically
Thats not to say I don't enjoy the soundtracks of games like Diablo, and there are some pretty awesome soundtracks for some areas in WoW/other MMOs. Its just I like to listen to other things as well, once you've spent a couple hundred hours listening to a game's in game music, it becomes a little stale.
When playing shooters, nothing except in-game sounds are played. Footsteps are quiet and there can't be guitar riffs playing over such things.
Thats not to say I don't enjoy the soundtracks of games like Diablo, and there are some pretty awesome soundtracks for some areas in WoW/other MMOs. Its just I like to listen to other things as well, once you've spent a couple hundred hours listening to a game's in game music, it becomes a little stale.
When playing shooters, nothing except in-game sounds are played. Footsteps are quiet and there can't be guitar riffs playing over such things.