What genres / albums / artists do you listen to while gaming?

[Trestkon]

The title says it all.

Sometimes the in-game soundtrack doesn't do it for me, so I'll put on another game's soundtrack, to keep my attenion focused on the game I'm playing, whenever it gets a little boring.

So what do you listen to other than the game's built-in soundtrack?

 

[OsaX Nymloth]

Usually I just listen to soundtrack, even in "ambient mostly" games like Dark Souls.

There are few exceptions through. I remember while playing Kohan games I put on the Summoning or Caladan Brood. Atmospheric epic black metal works really well with them.

When laddering in StarCraft II I usually put my Foobar2000 on "random", just lowering the volume so I can hear in-game alerts. What music? Metal in most of it's forms, mostly death/black.

 

[I Will Haunt You]

I generally don't listen to any outside audio (music, TV, whatever) while gaming. However, just a handful of days ago I did just that with Skyrim. I was making a hardcore effort to level my smithing to max so I could, for my first time ever, make dragon armor and weapons. I got sick of the banter in towns while grinding so I muted the game and went to my default background music for when I read stuff on the net and that's a YouTube channel called MixHound.

I prefer their continuous streaming station called Chillstep which they describe as Chill, ambient, study music. Basically just easy listening electronica. Unintrusive music for the background.

 

[Slasken]

Depends on the game, but I generally listen to old school metal from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, and some newer music, but the bands are generally old.

 

[Dand]

Usually in games that do not require listening carefully to the environment, I put a list of power metal bands, instruments of metal bands.

 

[IndecentLouie]

I never listen to music while gaming (unless its the game sountrack), i tend to listen to podcasts or have a discussion/documentary playing in the background that I don't have to see to understand.

 

[Zloth]

I keep the music on most of the time unless it repeats so much it gets annoying. If it does get to that stage (and I can't mod in my own music), then I simply have no music.

 

[randyl]

Usually I listen to the background music in the game or nothing at all. No Man's Sky has a nice ambient electronica soundtrack.

 

[Zoid]

If I'm doing something mindless like doing a long endurance race in Forza, working on my settlements in Fallout 4, or digging out the interior of a mountain in Minecraft, then I will sometimes put on a podcast just to pass the time in a more interesting way.

The one time I've actually listen to other music in place of a game's soundtrack was back in the original Halo Wars. The game had fine music, don't get me wrong, but whenever I played online I would listen to '50s big band music. Don't know why, it just felt right.

 

[OsaX Nymloth]

Ah yes, that reminded me of something.

Football Manager. Yes, I am guilty of playing this even tho I am horrified to even start thinking how many hours I've put into this series. But yeah, when doing some "managing" I would usually.... listen to/watch some let's plays of the very few people I enjoy. Actually whenever I am active in FM again is the time my YT watch hours are rising. I am sure I am not alone in this ;P

 

[Doomed_User]

I feel a bit wrong playing music over a game which has it's own soundtrack, unless it's a racing game or something that doesn't really need ambient/songs for immersion. I don't know why, but I can't bring my self to do it. Between lobbies of multiplayer games I crank whatever I am listening to on Spotify at the moment, which lately has been Boards of Canada, Tame Impala, Tool (you wouldn't have guessed from my avatar I know!).