RPG fans may sympathize with me on this one, tedious leveling usually needs some help or else the game's song could get so ingrained in your head you hear it when nothing is on.

Do you ever turn off the game noises and play to music alone? Do you have some songs that you know work with certain games? Do you take it as far as me and swear your performance was effected by the wrong kind of music? Was it effected by that shitty Peter Gabriel song In Your Eyes that is on my iTunes for some reason or another?

Honestly, who could play Gears to In Your Eyes? Solsburry Hill maybe.

I used to get my electronics in a single mall sweep back when a Sam Goodie was actually at my mall, and would end up with a game and a new CD. Being the eager consumer I was I would play the game and listen to the CD at the same time. Some games instantly come into my head in relation to these albums, because while a game slowly fades some albums never get boring. But the music can somewhat trigger a Pavlovian response if your first/ only memories of a game also include your first memories of an album you love.

For example:

I cannot listen to Abbey Road by The Beatles without thinking of the city of San D'Oria and Final Fantasy XI, but not even The Beatles could keep me interested in that tedious piece of crap. I'm sure I am not alone.Some people must have some music that reminds them of a game. I'm sure nobody else can fathom associating The Beatles with FFXI but I'm sure something equally as weird is out there.

Other times though certain games need me to play a song or artist or album to truly kick ass, certain music will unleash the inner abilities and allow a higher capability of gaming. A sort of zen or some mentally sound sounding shit. It may sound retarded that way, but I'll say it right now: if I kick your ass at Puzzle Fighter I'm listening to Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, and Ghost Recon Requires that I listen to some epic rock like Dio or Domain, but not too epic, Dragonforce will fuck up your game, it's too fast and causes you to make fast decisions and sloppy mistakes.

This is a touchy subject for me, will agree that the music can really make the game...flow correctly. If they are playing a fighting game the song has to be rhythmic, have a beat, but be aggressive at the same time. For Dead or Alive battles I use Hella or Infected Mushroom (which if you haven't heard of either you should check out). For a game like Dynasty Warriors you need pure murder music, but not too fast or else you really notice how slow the character is. Primus, Nirvana, Pearl Jam anything along the grunge line, and usually they throw in a slower calm track to have an epic battle to.

I know how neurotic this sounds.

But someone reacting like this could be a sign of a sub par, underplayed or nonexistent soundtrack, because some games have that command that requires you listen to the soundtrack, either for your survival or because of the quality of the music. You wouldn't listen to music while playing Mercenaries Mode on Resident Evil 4, nor would you want to drown out the sounds of Bioshock.

The only games I find myself compelled to listen to are Guilty Gear, Disgaea 1&2, Okami (it makes pretty noises and I like the attack bark) and Guitar Hero. I'm sure a few others, but those are just from recently played games. Other games need a personal touch to get the true potential, also cocks.


i dont know where this cereal post came from.