What music do you like when you're gaming?

[DarkBanishing]

I like gaming on metal.

My best moments:

1   Playing Neverwinter Nights (I + II) as a paladin during Nightwish or as a Blackguard during Dimmu Borgir.

2   Finishing all dead space games. The music in the credits is, breathtaking. I really had goosebumps afterwards

3   Playing Race games on PANTERA. The music goes faster then your car! Lol

4   Slayer during Doom and Quake.

[ivrognard]

1.Old heavy-metal/hard rock (lots of bands, so won't list) for my racing games.

2.Sabaton when i get in a World of Tanks game session

3.Blackmoore Nights for fantasy RPG's (i can go with Dead Can Dance, Loreena McKennitt and a few others, too)

4.Ghost in the Shell soundtrack for cyberpunk games

Just a bit of the music i listen when playing.

[spitfiresiemion]

Depends on day and game. When I play FPS, I tend to turn music off, as I depend on my ears a lot. In less hearing-dependent games, I will usually go for one of the following:

a) Gorillaz

b) Old NFS (II, III, High Stakes) soundtracks

c) Mix of gaming music, which doesn't really stick to any genre

[EA_Alex]

For me, whatever music the game provides.  Ideally with headphones in a dark room.  I like to experience games the way the devs intended.

[ivrognard]

@EA_Alex For the first playthroughs, i do the same. But when you replay them for the n-th time, i would rather use my own music

[DarkBanishing]

Haha, You're right, @ivrognard. Are you also such a player?

For some games, I lost count. Lol, I feel a new topic rising.

[Straatford87]

@DarkBanishing @ivrognard @EA_Alex @spitfiresiemion

For me it really depends on the game and my mood.

If it's a first playthrough then I definitely want to get the full game experience. If it's just grinding in World of Warcraft, then it can range from the Beatles to Daft Punk..

[ivrognard]

@DarkBanishing yeah, i like to replay my favorite games a lot.

[Nyerguds]

Well, game music often provides a large part of the game's atmosphere, and thus, it usually contributes to me liking a game.

So overall I just play games with their original music.

There's one somewhat-exception, and that's when I played Little Big Adventure 2. the LBA games have very little music; just a bit of an intro tune for each area. So in the second game, where the music turned out not to be too different from the fitst game, I put on my own music instead. I remember I was on a huge J-Pop binge back then, lol. I still associate LBA with Ayumi Hamasaki 

[Fred_vdp]

With very few exceptions I prefer the game's music. I only overlay custom playlists when playing games that don't rely too much on audio, like certain simulation and strategy games.

I played Zero 7 and Norah Jones while playing Cities: Skylines and Planet Coaster. Very relaxing tracks for a lazy Sunday.