It depends a lot on how much focus is required by the game. I used to be way into mmos and spending your daily autopilot grind with a podcast is a much more enjoyable experience.
The same can be said about games like Minecraft where you decide what to do. If you know what you want to build or accomplish you can do so while focusing on music or a podcast.
That being said I probably wouldn’t have music on while playing a story heavy game or something like that.
On top of what @Truly has pointed out, there’s also something to think about on the receiving end.
When @Eidos and I are discussing Carmen, we both know which piece we are thinking about. If we had to “hear” Carmen over a busy coffee shop on a Friday afternoon, we could. Plus, due to how iconic the piece is and how familiar both of us are with it, I’m pretty positive we’d identify it in only a few hearbeats.
That effect doesn’t happen when I’m browsing our recently released music thread and check out some of the things you guys have been sharing.
In that exact same coffee shop, I’d be unable to fill in the blanks of a new song or a piece I had only heard once.
Which is to say it’s entirely different to play Tetris with my usual Lofi YouTube channel in the background versus playing Life is Strange 2 listening to Glass Animals’ newest track I only listened to twice.
Spotify. Pandora. iTunes. YouTube. We are constantly bombarded with a seemingly limitless amount of new music in our daily lives. But why do we keep coming back to that one song or album we couldn’t get enough of in college? New research shows that although consumers say they prefer to listen to unfamiliar music, their choices actually belie that preference.
You can read more into this by looking for things like “How our brains react to familiar and unfamiliar music”; “brain MRI while listening to music”; etc etc in Google Scholar and similar platforms.
TL;DR: What we do when we listen to music is half the equation; the other half is how familiar we are with the track we are listening to.
I don’t hear for the first time, or pieces I’m not familiar with, so, no, I can follow them easily. There was a time when I was able to follow them in my head with no sound or input at all. I could try to reclaim that old habit, it’s very pleasant while walking.
Yes, but the same way I die/fail/whatever when I’m joking and having a good laugh with friends I just don’t care. In some tournament here and there I did adopted a serious stance but that’s it.
You also have to understand that if the videogame has a wonderful music, I’m often not using anything on top of it.
I prefer to listen to political debates or any news program (serious, I know it sounds weird, but I don’t like music)
While listening debates of news it’s perfectly understable and good for several reasons, I’m afraid the sentence
It’s not computable by me. Well, maybe if you tell me wich types of art expression you really enjoy, and don’t dare you say you don’t enjoy anything specially because you’re in a forum of videogames! xP
We are all different…That’s what makes this forum cool…
Thank you Delenn!
#“Yoshi Rules!”
Lately i haven’t listen to music that is not in-game music while playing games, but If I’m playing Euro Truck or American Truck i will listen to TruckersFM or one of my local radio stations. and when i do listen to music that not in-game music it’s usually chillstep playlist like this,
So, what you are saying, it’s that me, not being able to understand something fairly simple, it’s quite odd, and by extension, I AM COOL, right? RIGHT?! I knew it, I knew I was cool.
Yep…Different and cool…
So… I found this.
I guess… new music to play games? 
OK…Now you are cooking with gas…
I got this in a download…I know…You don’t like Artifex Mundi but listen to this music.
Guys, here’s a really interesting video analyzing the difficulties of creating in-game music.
I think @xist, @YQMaoski, @Fraggles and @Truly may like it especially (:
I listen to audiobooks, usually deep dark True Crime borrowed from the library or from Audible.
But it does depend on the game. Sometimes its Gunners, sometimes its a personal mix I’ve made for myself of 80’s hair bands with heavy metal screaming into the night.
Most of what is in game isn’t worth it, in my opinion. But there is the fact that I’m a survivor of childhood PTSD, and other forms of PTSD and hey, whatever gets you through the night honey.
Hey I made it. Thank for the info. First day I’ve been able to sit up.
Probably won’t be up for long - still really weak.
But I’ll be here, this is a nice looking community and I really like what I see.
Link is expired, but that’s fine. NP at all.
TTFN as Tigger says.
Glad to see you made it. I hope you get to feeling better soon. Make sure you add your profile here too. So we can all Stalk, I mean, make friends on Steam too.
https://206.81.1.216/t/steam-friends/7499/
Yea, I knew that link would expire…But at least I tried.
Hey EVERYONE!!! This is my friend from GGOTD. Be nice!
