Best Ever Albums

Re: Videogames and Music

AlexZangari — Sat, 20 Sep 2014 11:49:58 GMT

Author: AlexZangari

Posted: 09/20/2014 15:49

JMan wrote:

Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life" is excellent for Metroid Prime bosses.

I don't think that song is excellent for anything. 😐 Let alone one of the greatest video game trilogies of all time.

Borve wrote:

I often play chess with a friend (not a videogame but wtf) where there's music going on, and then often he doesn't know the songs but tries to sing along regardless, and especially if it's a song with lots of rap and tough words, his attempts at singing along sounds so dumb that I'm unable to concentrate on chess, and then I fuck up my game and he wins (although it sure doesn't help me that he's like an infinitely better chess player than me (he's probably not very good at chess))

That's nothing. One of the kids I teach dances the whole time he plays.

Re: Videogames and Music

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:59:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/20/2014 00:59

I often play chess with a friend (not a videogame but wtf) where there's music going on, and then often he doesn't know the songs but tries to sing along regardless, and especially if it's a song with lots of rap and tough words, his attempts at singing along sounds so dumb that I'm unable to concentrate on chess, and then I fuck up my game and he wins (although it sure doesn't help me that he's like an infinitely better chess player than me (he's probably not very good at chess))

Re: Videogames and Music

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:00:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/19/2014 20:00

Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life" is excellent for Metroid Prime bosses.

Re: Videogames and Music

denmarkman — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:59:14 GMT

Author: denmarkman

Posted: 09/19/2014 19:59

Hm, not a video game, but I love to watch Blue Planet on silent while listening to stoner metal.

Re: Videogames and Music

benpaco — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 19:28:43 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 09/18/2014 23:28

Done Dragon Age 2 with

Music For 18 Musicians (1998) by Steve Reich

Antichamber with

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Nattvittje by Mikael Karlsson

and Hotline Miami with a few different albums that work alright, but I kind of liked

Stankonia by OutKast

Done a few other similar things time to time but these were some of my favorites.

Re: Videogames and Music

mickilennial — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 08:51:56 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 09/18/2014 12:51

I played TES: Oblivion for 8 hours once with this on loop:

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The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull by Earth

The pretty drone stuff almost made it a haunting kind of dragging experience and I did it with Skyrim recently which worked pretty well. For Fallout I tend to want to spin "50s tag radio/golden oldies, etc." though.

Re: Videogames and Music

SquishypuffDave — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:58:37 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 09/18/2014 11:58

Howling Dogs accompanied by Tim Hecker's Harmony In Ultraviolet.

http://aliendovecote.com/uploads/twine/howlingdogs/howlingdogs.html#2o

Videogames and Music

Defago — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:45:47 GMT

Author: Defago

Posted: 09/18/2014 11:45

Basically, I'm playing through Fallout New Vegas again, and I've already listened to all the built-in radio songs infinite times, so I tried playing music of my own which fit the ambience well. So far, the best fit is F#A# by GYBE, but Acid Mothers Temple and Johnny Cash also work. What other albums you reckon would fit the general theme?

I usually try to listen to the videogame's music when it's important - fitting - part of the experience, but when it's not that relevant I try to find music from my own library which fits the ambience. Any of you do that? Do you have any albums which fit perfectly with certain games? Also, do you do the opposite - take a video game soundtrack and listen to it outside of the game?

I personally love Katamari Fortissimo Damacy, and I also listen to Mario Kart tunes while stuck on traffic.