What music do you game to?

[00exmachina]

Depends on the game,
For driving games, and better scored rpg's it's usually the game's score.
For others, with fighting games, generally it has to be fast and loud.
Metal, or the occasional atari teenage riot (nice to listen to but really just a wall o'noise on some tracks)

Though for some odd reason, adventure games, & flight sims go really well with slower stuff.
Played through sky oddesy listening to a combination of classical music and just odd ball rock.

But for the most part most of my gaming is done in a social environment, so the volume on the game is turned down anyway to make trash talk and conversing easier. The only time I really have something else on while gaming is if it's solo.

 

[gormers]

I don't play music while playing videogames. Nearly every song will have a wrong tone, and of course it wont change when something special happens like many in-game songs do. Even when I played xbox games which supported songs and and uploaded songs there, it still felt wrong but that was mostly because the randomization of the songs was terrible. I may have played some songs in some driving games if the selection sucked, but I don't play a lot of driving games anyway.

Not that I'm that into music, but I like listening to avenged sevenfold, some metallica songs, other metal and rock songs, the white stripes, and Amon Tobin like music, to mention a few (rap and most hip-hop songs suck!). I also often get hooked on songs that are featured in games.

 

[Jack Sheehan]

Well I played the whole of halo 3 to Bruce Springsteen's Magic.

 

[Mr_Vorhias]

Well I played the whole of halo 3 to Bruce Springsteen's Magic.

The game was that short? (Ba-dum-psh.)

 

[Singing Gremlin]

Nightwish/Disturbed depending how action orientated it is, generally. Some Lordi too.

 

[GyroCaptain]

There's nothing like Led and Rush for racing games.

 

[Erana]

*dances in a casual, Euro-(insert appropriate suffix here) manner*


"Everywhere I go, There's always something to remind me...
...Of another place in time."

 

[Hasselbalch]

Whatever I'm the mood for.

Sometimes progressive death metal such as Opeth.
Then going down to some more mellow rock such as Pink Floyd.
And then I usually stop down at Depeche Mode or Pet Shop Boys.

I refuse to go any lower than that.

 

[yeyo1]

Checkout the hottest new ska/punk rock band Dropscience at www. myspace.com/dropsciencefans

 

[Mu74n7]

the game's music that's what its fucking there for!!!...however when that fails me (which it does often) it'd have to depend on the game. For FPSs more violent metal or agressive. if it's...i don't fucking know, a KATAMARI game, Folk metal. To save me a lot of time, METAL. I CAN NOT BLOW SOMEONE'S HEAD OFF TO INDUSTRIAL JESUS CHRIST

 

[birdygirl]

lots and lots of jazz--
I recommend Thelonius Monk, or Count Basie

I especially recommend this music when playing puzzle-type games.

 

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

Nothing enhances a game like throbbing Goa.

Juno Reactor are, of course, the Official Sanctified Beatified God Kings of Goa.

Beyond that, some Gabriel & Dresden is always appreciated, and you can't beat Shpongle's Nothing Lasts for the truly Zen side of grinding your sanity away in MMOs.

 

[Mr_Vorhias]

and you can't beat Shpongle's Nothing Lasts for the truly Zen side of grinding your sanity away in MMOs.

YES. Shpongle is GREAT for atmospheric immersion. They're the kind of group you can get lost in their music, or have really weird fantasies when you're on some kind of narcotic.

 

[axia777]

Industrial EBM Electronic

 

[PersianLlama]

Metal.

 

[comandertrey]

metallica!!!!!!!

 

[Di22y]

I usually only listen to my music when playing race games or Pro Evolution Soccer and its things like:-
Beastie Boys
Stone Roses
Dance Type Stuff
Happy Mondays
Prodigy
You know all the good Shi*