
We know that you MMO playing folks
tend not to listen to the in-game music (which this blogger thinks is a real shame), but you have to be listening to something while you play. Dead silence is pretty darn boring. So, we're wondering what you do to amuse yourself while you're in-game. This blogger splits his time pretty evenly between podcasts and shows from Hulu.com when he does his daily quests.
The Daily Show and
the Isle of Quel'Danas go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly.
Do you listen to nerd-core? Maybe some nice acapella? What do you listen to when you're doing your questing thing? What's blaring over the guild chat when you take down raid bosses? What is your personal MMO soundtrack?
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9-05-2008 @ 8:25AM
MrGutts said...
I tend to listen to the in game music the first month when the game first comes out, or a major update has happened to it. Also I listen to it when I am in a raid type environment or a big instance so I can hear the epic type music.
Aside from all that crap I just said, I listen to my Zune music list.
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9-05-2008 @ 9:16AM
Tony said...
I listen to in-game music most of the time. In the bigger ones it's usually quite good and I've found they've set it up so it's more of a background noise than anything.
I run a player in the background sometimes, though. Usually it's just stuff without words... anything with words really just distracts me and I start paying more attention to that than the game.
So stuff like Ratatat or jazz or something works out well.
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9-05-2008 @ 9:42AM
Barth said...
I get on my undead rogue or undead priest or undead mage or undead warrior and listen to Down with the Sickness on loop for hours. Then I go outside and feel tough.
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9-05-2008 @ 11:21AM
Syme said...
I listen to the in-game music in WoW.
The only thing that will change that will be if Blizzard continues its trend of adding more "shouting chorus" to the newer music. I was pretty irritable after half an hour in Sunwell.
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9-05-2008 @ 1:08PM
Heraclea said...
I have a classical music playlist that I listen to when I get tired of the in-game soundtracks.
Almost all of the Russians are golden here: Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Khachaturian, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev. Almost all but Tchaikowsky, although "Marche Slave" works very nicely.
Add some Rossini and Verdi overtures, Brahms's "Tragic Overture", a bunch of Dvorak and Smetana. Bartok can work well here too.
This is the time when my classical tastes actually move me towards the nineteeth century chestnuts, in fact. Usually I am listening to heavy pre-galant Baroque or earlier music.
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9-05-2008 @ 2:25PM
Aaron said...
Dragonforce. Epic.
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9-05-2008 @ 2:55PM
spiral-soldier said...
ELO, David Bowie and Billy Joel.
With a few miscellaneous tracks mixed in.
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9-05-2008 @ 6:11PM
brakar said...
i usually listen to the ingame music as well until it gets annoying or boring and then i'll listen to instrumental stuff most of the time... mogwai, do make say think, explosions in the sky, don caballero, mum, pelican, or dragonforce never fails either.
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9-05-2008 @ 7:25PM
velzak said...
I usually listen to techno/dance music while i play. Usually Daft punk, Girl talk, Justice, and Mylo. Also sometimesi listen to led zepplin, the who and Red hot Chili peppers. Many more too i just cant name them off the top of my head.
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9-05-2008 @ 10:20PM
WoahWoah12 said...
Puscifer!
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9-06-2008 @ 3:50PM
Lear said...
Nerdcore
Conan Soundtrack (The movie)
Enigma
Pandora Radio Stations (David Bowie, Massive Attack and Imogen Heap)
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9-09-2008 @ 5:50PM
Cyron said...
I listen to the ingame voice comms to allow me to talk to other players or iTunes to play my own music collection behind the scenes if no one is talking
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