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Do you like to play videogames while listening to music? (Not the one in the game obviously)
- Thread starter lunanto
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Music not really, I sometimes let video run on my second screen. Depends on the game tho, I do that with mindless games like Borderlands or when grinding locations in Assassin's Creed
I do that with casual games like Stardrew Valley or more recently Animal Crossing. I pop music when I have no podcasts to listen to.
never. Either its a game i want to pay attention to so i have nothing else on. Or its a game like Destiny where u dont have to focus on story things, so i have a podcast on. Usually youtube
I like to do it when hanging with friends (much more casual experience) or playing my GaaSes like Monster Hunter, Overwatch, and Destiny (it's mindless and I've played enough to not really make it a requirement). If I'm not it's either because I desperately need to hear every sound or just want to experience the plot/soundtrack of the game.
Only in Minecraft, and it's mostly because I've switched to playing the W10 version instead of Java and you can barely hear the soundtrack in that version for some reason.
No, external music always takes me out of the experience, even when I'm just grinding away in a game like Diablo.
Depends on the game, if it has a terrible soundtrack I tend to just put my ow stuff on. I'm not gonna make friends on here saying this but I think the Doom Eternal soundtrack is complete ass (completely the wrong kind of metal imo) so I'm listening to G.B.H. instead, makes it much better.
Sure. If a game has music I've heard six trillion times before I will ABSOLUTELY drown it out with other music to stay sane.
Other times I just stick to game audio,
Other times I just stick to game audio,
Not really, unless I'm doing something repetitive (like running Castrum or Praetorium at the end of FF14 2.0, ugh). In those cases, sometimes I'll watch chunks of shows/movies during the unskippable cutscenes. But yeah, in general, I like having in-game audio.
Yes, I love it. Finding my own music used to be one of my favorite pastimes. The 360 spoiled me so much that I don't do it much any more, but it used to be a huge part of gaming for me.
Depends on the game and the soundtrack. I played the hell out of Burnout 3 back in the day listening to the Prodigy's "Music for the Jilted Generation" as the in game music sucked IMO. This last month I beat Voxelgram while listening to the J-pop group Perfume.
All the time. I have all my consoles connected to an HDMI switch. The monitor to which it is connected is, in turn, connected via a long 3.5mm audio cable to the line-in port of my PC, which is set to listen.
So I can listen to both my PC and any of my consoles at the same time through one pair of headphones. It's pretty rad.
So I can listen to both my PC and any of my consoles at the same time through one pair of headphones. It's pretty rad.
Only if I'm grinding in an RPG, or looking for collectibles/100% completion, eg. points of interest in Skellige's ocean in TW3.
As a suggestion for people who don't like playing other music during a game, playing other music related to a game works pretty well. Two examples would be playing music from previews games in the series and playing music from the TV show and/or movies the game is based on. Playing other genera appropriate music works well too, sci-fi music for a sci-fi game or something more specific like tropical music for a tropical game.
The recent fan translation effort for Gihren's Greed: The Menace of Axis V has got me playing the sound tracks of every UC Gundam show and movie made since 1979. That works a lot better for a long strategy game than the same few tracks over and over again.
The recent fan translation effort for Gihren's Greed: The Menace of Axis V has got me playing the sound tracks of every UC Gundam show and movie made since 1979. That works a lot better for a long strategy game than the same few tracks over and over again.
only if there's no story/dialog, or if in games like platformers i've already finished the game and i'm going back to 100% them.
in puzzle games like picross, i prefer listening to podcasts, not music.
in puzzle games like picross, i prefer listening to podcasts, not music.
Not generally -- I feel that music is part of the experience, and I want to have that whole-assed intentional experience that these people made. I'm also pretty interested in game music.
But if I'm grinding repetitious content with my Switch in handheld mode, I'll mute the Switch and put on a podcast or the news or music, which is especially nice in retro RPGs that offer a fast-forward option (been playing through the whole Phantasy Star series and it's great for that).
But if I'm grinding repetitious content with my Switch in handheld mode, I'll mute the Switch and put on a podcast or the news or music, which is especially nice in retro RPGs that offer a fast-forward option (been playing through the whole Phantasy Star series and it's great for that).
When I was younger I used to always listen to my own music when playing anything handheld. Nowadays since I have the internet I don't so much listen to music when playing games but I pretty much always have a video or something playing while I also play games
Podcasts for grinding yeah but I always prefer listening to the game's audio the way the developers intended otherwise
Nope. But for multi-player games/grinding, I put my right AirPod on and listen to YouTube videos or podcasts.
Only when it's a game I'm grinding/replaying/trophy hunting in, but I prefer to tackle my podcast backlog at the same time.
Only when grinding if at that. Like getting a super rare material that you know requires time. Or an online trophy like KZ2's 1% trophy, where you just gotta put in time and need some background noise.
The only time I did this was during Ridge Racer on the original PS1. I prefer the default game soundtrack for all my games.
Depends on the game. Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy, no. Devil May Cry, yes. Swapping in some gangsta rap while you demolish some demons actually works.