Custom Soundtrack?: Music to play with Video Games

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This concept applies to many video games, but for me, especially to Gotcha Force. Don't get me wrong; Gotcha Force has a nice soundtrack, and the sound effects can help with anticipating an opponent's moves. A lot of us, however, like to play this game to a point others would find 'ad nauseum' (I certainly play that much, at least), and sometimes it's nice to hear something different after hours of the same soundtrack.

I think most people here know the settings for music/SE/voice settings in the options menu in Gotcha Force are...well...kind of broken (the SE can decrease by like one notch...maybe), so unfortunately muting the TV is the only way to properly hear another soundtrack. People will have their own preferences of music, so there's no real right or wrong answers here. I have no intention of being obnoxiously opinionated about people's responses, and hope no one else will make people feel bad by doing so. I was just curious about what everyone likes to listen to.

Personally, I'm a big fan of K-pop and J-pop, so I listen to a lot of their music pretty much anywhere, video games included. In J-pop I tend to stick to rock bands, so bands like Girugamesh are fun to listen to when taking on a huge death force army. I'm a bit of a 'shameless fanboy' when it comes to K-pop (really big Boa fan), but for video games I like to listen to songs like Super Junior's Bonamana or Mr Simple, or songs from Shinee, 2PM, SS501, etc. I won't bother posting Youtube links on these; just put it in the search bar and you'll be presented with at least twenty ways to listen to each song. This stuff is insanely popular on the east side of the world.

Apart from that, I find fast-paced metal, electronic, or techno music are the most fun genres to listen to when playing Gotcha Force. There's an abridged Youtube series called 'Code MENT' from 'purpleeyeswt*' (there's an f instead of a star, but I didn't want to upset the mods) that uses fast-paced techno songs for some scenes. He's pretty good about listing those things in the description, and I really want to just list them here now, but I'm at work and the network won't let me on Youtube from here.

Does anyone else do this? What do you guys listen to when playing Gotcha Force, or any other game? Even if you don't, what kind of music would be best suited for it, in your opinion?

[Death Eye]

Metal.
That basically sums up my response to this topic.
I have nearly 5,000 songs on my computer, and at least 3,000 of them are metal. (It's pretty much all in the 2-10 range of the "Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness." Which doesn't really tell you much, other than that I listen to a wide range of stuff, but it's all rock and/or metal.)

What I do when I'm playing a game is just play whatever album I feel like listening to at the time. But I only do that in my room; it doesn't work as well outside of my room.

Oh, and I don't think "WTF" will bug the mods. Emphasis on "think," though...

[Indigo]

Acronyms like that aren't really words to me... It's more like:

wtf - What?!
lol - Haha.
lmao - Dang that's funny.
gtfo - Get lost.

And so on. But I only speak for my own views, here.

But for music, I only listen to Gotcha Force's music. It doesn't feel right to play games with custom music that isn't 'integrated.' Like on my 360, I use custom soundtracks all the time because it feels more real. I mostly have punk rock/ska and S.L.A.I.'s soundtrack. S.L.A.I. is a mech battle game with a huge Burnout style soundtrack of all kinds of genres, from trance to rock, and even some of the most beautiful soft songs you'd ever hear.

[Jay24092]

I only listen to music when i play on racing games because when i was younger and still to this day when i drive around a track i get a song in my head and use the words from the song as a referance to how fast i am going and where on the track i am but for other games i tend to listen to there own soundtracks