Video game soundtracks
 

Has anyone ever made a video game soundtrack to play along to your games. Sometimes game music blows, or another song would better fit the level.

Example: Whenever I play any Sonic game, I always have some metal playing, like Painkiller by Judas Priest

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When i dont like the sound of games, i just pop in a CD i dont really listen to all too often. Then i start listening to that one CD alot.



But back when i didnt have speakers for my computer i used to listen to my CD player. And i always used to listen to Hybrid theory, by Linkin Park when i was playing Rollercoaster Tycoon. So now whenever i hear a song from that CD i want to play the game, and i cant play the game without listening to the CD.

BUT: i dont have to listen to it to play RT2. And if i hear a song from Meteora, i get no such feelings or urges to play it. Weird.

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Whenever I play a game where what the characters say isnt important (Sports games, Fighting games, RTS, and redoing RPG's and FPS) I just put my headphones on and either listen to a CD or the music thats on my PC. I usually acquire like 5+ CDs every week so I'm always listening to new stuff. I never stay with one genre for more than a couple of weeks too. Right now I'm listening to Coldplays Album, "A Rush Of Blood To The Head" and before that it was Brother Ali's Album, "Shadows On The Sun".

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I've only ever used it for DOAX. Though.. I did turn down the music in PSO3 once and put on Daft Punk. Only because the music gets repetitive.

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This is totally unrelated, but is that a good album? I've been wanting to get into some Brother Ali but wasn't sure where to start.

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Oh most definently dude. Shadows on the Sun is much better than Rites Of Passage and it has some really great songs on it like "Room With A View", "Win Some Lose Some", "Shadows On The Sun", "Dorian", "Champion", "Star Quality", "Prince Charming", and a little up beat and funny tune with Slug called "Blah Blah Blah". It's really worth checkin out. He's got a lot of collabs off this album with Atmosphere too.

He's not like Gab in material, but he's got very good skills and a nice flow too.

Oh, and can you recommend me some other artists or tell me your favorite rappers so I can give you the names of some other CDs to check out?

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Favorite rappers/groups/

MF Doom/Viktor Vaughn/King Geedorah, MC Paul Barman, Princess Superstar, Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien/Deltron 3030, Aesop Rock, Vast Aire, Sage Francis, Mr. Lif, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Madlib/Quasimoto, Wildchild, entire Lootpack crew, enitre Hieroglyphics crew, El-P, Blackilicious homeboys, Nas, Biggie, Kanye West, Fatlip, Pharcyde, Public Enemy, Eric B. and Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, Diverse.

I know I'm missing some, but that was the list off the top of my head. I'd reccomend any of those if ya haven't heard of em.

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Yeah I do that. But it all depends on what games I'm playing. Whenever I play GTA3 I like to just put on my cds. Doesn't really matter which ones.

I remeber one time at my friends I was playing wind waker and listening to a little NOFX and now when ever I hear that song I think of wind waker.

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I used to run iTunes when I was playing Morrowind. :)

Some games just have boring music... :(

I wanted to make a thread about GOOD soundtracks!

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I never listen too ther music while playing games, especially when it's an RPG that has an awesome soundtrack of it's own (which a lot of good RPGs do).

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Sometime's if the game's music is boring me, I pop the game's soundtrack into the CD player...

:hmm:

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I've sort of done that before. I turned down Ocarina of Time's music and put on the orchestrated soundtrack of Ocarina of Time...Fun for everyone.