Guild Wars 2

As the title says, I wanna hear (huehue) what you all have to say with what kinda music you listen to while playing GW2 (if any). If you wanna list genre, band, when you like to listen to it, even favorite song to listen to, whatever you want! Just curious as to people’s preferences I’ll kick it off!

Genre: I honestly don’t know what genre this would classify as haha
Band: Hammock
Album/Song: Oblivion Hymns / Like a Valley With No Echo
When: Really goes well with exploring places (like if you’re getting map completion).

Looking forward to everyone’s response!

The game’s music, of course. Never understood people not doing that, especially when videos get uploaded with trash metal or screamo in the background…

The music was made to fit the game, the music is a part of the game like the graphics and mechanics – experience it at its fullest.

Pandora – mix of 80’s MTV rock, alternative music, comedy/parody songs and a touch of punk J-pop.

So music from college and my 20s, music I listen to now, music I’ve listen to forever (Weird Al) and Shonen Knife, Gitogito Hustler, etc.

With virtually every game I listen to whatever comes with it. If I love the game, then 5-10 years later when I hear the music again I have a nostalgia attack. Best feeling ever.

28297 random songs of random genres from my collection.

http://www.last.fm/user/Asm0deoos pretty much this

Chameleon Dude.1564:

The game’s music, of course. Never understood people not doing that, especially when videos get uploaded with trash metal or screamo in the background…

The music was made to fit the game, the music is a part of the game like the graphics and mechanics – experience it at its fullest.

My brother..

for general in town, zone exploring and such I built a playlist from Taylor Davis renditions of classic video game music on the violin.

In combat I made a playlist of mostly Celtic punk. Bollox, Pogues, Dropkick Murphies.

I listened to the built in music for a while, but got a bit bored with it after the first 6 months. It’s about time I changed up my current playlists now.

Chameleon, but the soundtrack seems simply too short after a year of playing. There’s too much good music around to ignore it for those few hours a day. ;D

It varies a lot.

Sometimes I’ll listen to the game music (and sound effects), sometimes I listen to my own music which could be everything from heavy metal to acoustic indie singer-songwriters or the Lord of the Rings soundtracks.

Right now I’m listening to a discussion on entertainment in ancient Rome which my husband is watching for his degree.

I use the custom soundtrack feature and there’s a ton of different songs I use.

Lots of stuff from the Chrono Cross soundtrack and FFVII Advent Children soundtrack.

When I’m not listening to the music I have netflix on the second screen

Touhou remixes, the songs I write, and the Touhou remixes I write.

None . I listen to Audio books . been listen to The wheel of time for the 3rd time in 5-4 years over 400hrs of audio -14 books it’s the only way to play grinding games imo

GW Factions OST
GW Eye of the North OST
GW Nightfall OST
Fallout 3 ambient soundtrack
Fallout 3 GNR soundtrack
Sometimes fallout and fallout 2 soundtracks
and the in-game music, but when working in one map for a long time, hearing the same tune over and over again gets old fast

Deep House mixes for dungeons. Only way to do them imo.

Lately I’ve found myself simply muting ingame music and listening to movie/game soundtracks. What I am listening to depends highly on the situation.

I.e. if I am supposed to do Mystic Forge related I am usually listening to “Inception – The Dream is Collapsing” >:D

Chameleon Dude.1564:

The game’s music, of course. Never understood people not doing that, especially when videos get uploaded with trash metal or screamo in the background…

The music was made to fit the game, the music is a part of the game like the graphics and mechanics – experience it at its fullest.

GW2’s soundtrack is wonderful, but many of us have been playing this game for a very long time now and have heard the game’s music over and over. We know how it goes. We’ve heard it for hundreds of hours.
If I’m doing a story chapter or something important, I will go with the game’s soundtrack. But if I’m just doing some random farming, PvP, leveling an alt, or whatever, I tend to put on my own music or a podcast for a nice change. I mean, I have my own music I want to listen to anyway — but I also want to play some GW2 — what is wrong with doing both?

For the sake of argument, the game’s music is important to the experience but it is not as crucial as graphics or mechanics. You can play the game without music. You can’t play it without graphics or mechanics.

I’m with you on those gameplay videos people upload, though. They always have the worst music ever. If it’s an imaginative or clever choice for what they’re portraying, then it can make the video better — but more often than not it’s just “This is my favourite song right now, and I think everybody should have to listen to it. I’m going to play it real loud, even if it drowns out my voice.”

PSYTRANCE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3VFeMSC-2c

The only time I’ll ever listen to external music is when I’m running a dungeon, or in a zerg in WvW. I usually play something silly like Dragonforce, or if I’m in the mood, some darker metal.

Guess I may as well post the playlist I’d always use while streaming. It’s too bad, Twitch was so wonderful before Google bought them.

http://puu.sh/aGmNF.txt

Chameleon Dude.1564:

The game’s music, of course. Never understood people not doing that

You spend much time in Lion’s Arch these days?

Chameleon Dude.1564:

The game’s music, of course. Never understood people not doing that, especially when videos get uploaded with trash metal or screamo in the background…

The music was made to fit the game, the music is a part of the game like the graphics and mechanics – experience it at its fullest.

Yeah when I come across a gameplay video where they put some random kitten music to it, the video’s already been half ruined for me.

All day long

Edit: wtf forum bugged as kitten as i posted

General PvE = Game soundtrack, there is some awesome ambient music in the different zones.
Dungeons/Fractals = My own music, currently on Playlist C, which is The Doors, Led Zeppelin, The Cult & Pearl Jam.

Fyrebrand.4859:

Chameleon Dude.1564:

The game’s music, of course. Never understood people not doing that, especially when videos get uploaded with trash metal or screamo in the background…

The music was made to fit the game, the music is a part of the game like the graphics and mechanics – experience it at its fullest.

GW2’s soundtrack is wonderful, but many of us have been playing this game for a very long time now and have heard the game’s music over and over. We know how it goes. We’ve heard it for hundreds of hours.
If I’m doing a story chapter or something important, I will go with the game’s soundtrack. But if I’m just doing some random farming, PvP, leveling an alt, or whatever, I tend to put on my own music or a podcast for a nice change. I mean, I have my own music I want to listen to anyway — but I also want to play some GW2 — what is wrong with doing both?

For the sake of argument, the game’s music is important to the experience but it is not as crucial as graphics or mechanics. You can play the game without music. You can’t play it without graphics or mechanics.

I’m with you on those gameplay videos people upload, though. They always have the worst music ever. If it’s an imaginative or clever choice for what they’re portraying, then it can make the video better — but more often than not it’s just “This is my favourite song right now, and I think everybody should have to listen to it. I’m going to play it real loud, even if it drowns out my voice.”

I couldn’t agree more. I do love the original soundtrack, but I have heard it over and over again so I like to mix it up For new areas like Dry Top however where there’s a whole new soundtrack, I 100% listen to that instead of my own music.

I changed the in-game music to be a compilation of other classical pieces and some symphonic works of the modern era – mostly stuff from this game, other games and movies. I enjoy listening to this when I’m doing the story, it makes me feel immersed.

When I’m not doing the story and just running around catching up on achievements, I mute my music and listen to grunge/punk or something.

Chameleon Dude.1564:

The game’s music, of course. Never understood people not doing that, especially when videos get uploaded with trash metal or screamo in the background…

The music was made to fit the game, the music is a part of the game like the graphics and mechanics – experience it at its fullest.

Completely agreed!

In all my years of gaming, I’ve never played any outside music while playing games… ever.

I listen to this during Boss fights

Torvic.8256:

Chameleon Dude.1564:

The game’s music, of course. Never understood people not doing that, especially when videos get uploaded with trash metal or screamo in the background…

The music was made to fit the game, the music is a part of the game like the graphics and mechanics – experience it at its fullest.

Completely agreed!

In all my years of gaming, I’ve never played any outside music while playing games… ever.

One time, super late at night, it was Jade Quarry weekend. So I put on Moves Like Jagger and even typed some of the lyrics in-game.

I listen to a range of metal to dream trance
I don’t care for gw2 ingame music

Holly Henry – Seven Nation Army

Track of the year~

I listen to Two Steps From Hell. Pretty much all the time. If I’m not, it’s probably Puccini or Verdi.

Good music.

THE good music.

If a piece of music is good, chances are I’ve listened to it.

But when playing story, I just go with the game’s music.

When I get tired of the game’s music, I play me some Blind Guardian.

Xander.9024:

I listen to this during Boss fights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pm4kio_zU

Hell yeah. That was awesome