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What music do you listen to while you wargame, if any? I'm looking to make a gaming playlist and am looking for ideas. I need epic war music! A friend of mine I used to play with used the Gladiator soundtrack.
"Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! ... It’s become the promotions department of a toy company." -- Rick Priestly
I agree with metal music while dealing with the internet, but I'm talking about while you are tabletop gaming. Not all opponents are down for speed metal while playing their wood elves!
"Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! ... It’s become the promotions department of a toy company." -- Rick Priestly
Aerethan wrote:I agree with metal music while dealing with the internet, but I'm talking about while you are tabletop gaming. Not all opponents are down for speed metal while playing their wood elves!
For wood elves I would pick Dan Fogelberg or Styx *ba dum tss*
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I used to like to listen to the Audio books by BL: when playing GW games. But since I have given them up...-shrugs- Right now I am playing in vietnam and the cold war era, so I have made period cd's.
For The 'Nam, its' 1968 so I have perod music including a bunch of protest songs. What I intend to do for the cold war era is depending on what year I decide to play. If it's 1986, I will go through all the music upto that time and make a CD or a playlist of the music I like the best.
Personally I love speed metal, old metallica, anthrax, judas priest, bomb threat, inquisition, then I can go to anime intro songs, to dance music to classical music....yeah I am really all over the place in my musical tasts. =o] Hope I helped a little.
Power Metal is preferred for pseudo-ironic reasons in my group. Techno, Dance, Trance, and Aggrotech also find their way to the table thanks to their "high energy" nature.
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I would like to second the Mass Effect 2 soundtrack. This song in particular fits "epic" to a T http://youtu.be/VTsD2FjmLsw
Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds can also be pretty awesome, especially when things miraculously sync with the music, such as someone firing a melta just as the song describes a Martian heat ray.
Final Fantasy soundtracks (especially VII and VIII for 40K) can make awesome background music. Grab the battle, boss battle, Jenova battle and Jenova Absolute battle music from FF7 and Liberi Fatali, The Landing and Force Your Way from FF8. Alternatively just get The Black Mages stuff, which is Final Fantasy music arranged into power metal form.
Metal is always an option with favourites being Megadeth (songs like Holy Wars, Take No Prisoners and Set The World Afire are particular favourites), Metallica, Iron Maiden and Dethklok.
Holst's The Planets is also good. Put Mars on and you have the perfect background music http://youtu.be/L0bcRCCg01I
EDIT: Also just have to say, ph34r, System Shock 2 is an awesome game
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Yeah I downloaded the 300, ME2 and Gladiator soundtracks. Couldn't find the Dawn of War 2 tracks, so I'll have to rip them individually from youtube.
"Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! ... It’s become the promotions department of a toy company." -- Rick Priestly
Um...Trance when I'm a bit down to try to cheer me up.
Metal when I'm in a good mood...things like Iron maiden, Disturbed, Dethklock.
Then it's pretty much anything else XD
Also, anything by Two Steps From Hell. I also enjoy Bond for some epic orchestral stuff. The orchestral soundtracks from the Transformers movies are pretty good too.
I know most wargamers/gamers are really into speed-metal and heavy metal, but (not to sound too pretentious), I feel that I've outgrown it a bit. Symphonic Metal is still a genre that my friends usually refer to as "that awesome epic gak you play in your car".
Personally, I'm not a fan of music with lyrics as "background music". But if you're all into this stuff:
OOOh. I hadn't thought about ripping the soundtrack files from WoW. MPQ editor here I come!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Done and done, there's 1gig of mp3's lol. Love it.
Automatically Appended Next Post: nvm, that was 1gig in just 1 of the mpq's! so much more to go
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"Bryan always said that if the studio ever had to mix with the manufacturing and sales part of the business it would destroy the studio. And I have to say – he wasn’t wrong there! ... It’s become the promotions department of a toy company." -- Rick Priestly
I've always wanted to listen to Celldweller's Soundtrack to the Voices in my Head albums/chapters/stuff. They're pretty landscapey and he mainly releases the albums as music that would fit into a lot of video games and movies.
For the sake of variety, I usually stream web radio stations while painting/modeling/putzing around Dakka. Since gaming is almost exclusively my girlfriend and I, she usually tosses on whatever she's most in the mood for out of our shared tastes. Lately, it's been mostly lighter (as opposed to heavier, not darker) industrial/synthpop and symphonic metal (last game of Dwarf King's Hold was played to Anders Manga). For me/us, it's more about listening to what we like than looking for something appropriate to the in-game atmosphere.
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