What you listen to when playing?

[Lagamuffin]

I love to listen to music, especially when playing a game, is there any specific genre of music you listen to when playing a certain game maybe?
For me, I love to listen to 90's Alternative/Grunge music like Soundgarden, Nirvana ect.

How bout you guys?

[sushi13]

I usually listen to the game music but if I put something else on it would fall into either metal/rock, classical or jazz depending on my mood.

[YouLostTheGame]

Metal Gear soundtrack no matter what I'm playing. xD

[whitewolfer]

I just put shuffle on and skip a song if i don't like it.

[xWilson]

metal.

[Spade422]

listen to megadeth while playing gears 2

its fucking amazing

[b-rod]

Mastodon all the time.

[Fezz]

I don't listen to music while playing, distracts me from the game too much.

[Matt2358]

Back when I played WoW I listened to music while I played, It's weird because I can remember specific random things I did while levelling when I think of certain songs.

Usually I listened to Gorillaz, or the RHCP.

[H-A-X-O-R-Z]

Fuck yeah grunge.

[kofdadday]

some rap and some rock mostly at the same time

[SomaGuye]

At 7/19/09 02:17 AM, b-rod wrote: Mastodon all the time.

This.

[jake-thesnake]

Lately I've been listening to the too legit to quit song

[PaperBagMask]

I just listen to the music I normally listen too.
noise rock, math rock, post rock, prog, house, electronic stufffffffffffffffffffffffffff.

[Eclipse914]

At 7/19/09 12:27 AM, Lagamuffin wrote: I love to listen to music, especially when playing a game, is there any specific genre of music you listen to when playing a certain game maybe?
For me, I love to listen to 90's Alternative/Grunge music like Soundgarden, Nirvana ect.

How bout you guys?

On any game Il be listening to
Slipknot
Opeth
As I Lay Dying
Disturbed
or NG heavy metal

[CapnCrunchDaPimp]

It varies, anything that's on my iPod, from stoner metal to 90's grunge to hip-hop.

[Makeshift]

I listen to the sounds of the game!

[Kagoe]

Donna Summer : she works hard for the money.

over and over again.

[GodsBitch]

At 7/19/09 02:18 AM, Fezz wrote: I don't listen to music while playing, distracts me from the game too much.

Yup, I agree. I never listen to music when playing games. I like to be able to hear what is going on round about me.

[ParadoxVoid]

I mainly only do this for one game - Oblivion. I turn off the in-game music (makes the game run slightly faster too... though I really shouldn't need to, but Vista means that my specs mean shit to Oblivion) and listen to most of my metal stuff - Metallica, Disturbed, etc, and even some Progressive Rock like Dream Theater and Tool if I feel like something different.

[SpeedMetalSandwich]

Metal most of the time, otherwise im listening to the in-game music. Or a new cd i purchased.

[YeOldeSierra]

I have my laptop beside me, so I just open up iTunes and put it on Shuffle. Although, I tend to skip to the rock / metal music. I'm not playing a game at the moment, but I have Breathe into Me by Red on.

[warshark]

Usually just the game soundtrack.

Although if not, i'll pick an album randomly and choose to play it.

[SteelDogX]

I'm a bit of a multiplayer addict so I tend to listen to stuff that tells you to never give up and stuff.
Right now im listening to Rise against - give it all and playing cod4.

[malachi117]

I don't often play music while I play games, Don't want to be distracted and such.

But if it's something that I don't need to pay attention to I play Hair Metal, Power Ballads, and Michael Jackson.

[DeIirium]

I´m listening to the game music with every game except for World of warcraft, because the soundtrack is pretty ambient and i like some more energetic music when i´m doing a long instance or something.

[AlkaSeltzer]

Unless it is a racing game or a game where I am grinding, I don't listen to music besides what is implemented in the game. It kills the mood.

When listening to music, in game sound effects are either drowned, therefore you can get screwed over by enemies/obstacles, or they are not drowned, in which case there is no point listening to the music in the first place because you cannot enjoy it.

It's like vacuum cleaning when you are trying to watch a movie.

[Skulsta]

I rarely listen to music because it makes it harder to concentrate on the game. But sometimes in online games like Halo 3 or COD4 I'll whisper "Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor..." he other players find it hilarious.

For those who don't know, that's from a song called Bodies by Drowning Pool.

[Viridis]

White Stripes or the Raconteurs. I always end up playing to the rhythm of the music though :P

[mercyfire]

I dont usually listen to music. I remember once when I had a really fun CoD4 match, when I was respawning I put on some epic battle music and I wish I could remember what it was..