Do you change the ingame music of Civ3?

[dunk]

The music is good. I just find the modern age music, um, inappropriate. It seems odd to me to roll over towns with modern armor while Kenny G is playing in the background. If I'm building, it's not as bad.

[Flanker]

I seem to be one of the few that actually like the modern age music... Dunk999 has a point, it´s not the best "war" music, but that isn´t Beethoven either. Should be better with Wagner or something more equipped with war if it has to be classical music. However, I enjoy the modern age music while building and managing my civ, it is an easy listening SimCity-type of music.

[Cyclotron]

Well, my new speakers haven't arrived yet so I have no idea what the Civ3 music sounds like, but until then I put on my ever-so-cool Lord of the Rings movie soundtrack.

Edit: Wahoo! enough posts for a custom avatar!

[Grrr]

Someone switched the MP3's around on my computer at school (no I shouldn't be playing Civ at school), so now my armies sing along to Kenny G, I think.

[MyOlde]

I turned the music off when I first loaded the game. I've never understood what music had to do with any game I was playing.

I do have my own music selections playing on my stereo. But not as part of a game.

[Grrr]

A bit like the opening video, that doesn't seem to have anything to do with Civ3 either.

[Inverse Icarus]

i blast MP3s and leave trillian on so i can still talk during the 5 minute periods between moves.

i blast:

• spineshank
• korn
• adema
• metallica
• soundgarden
• nofx
• mxpx
• pennywise
• weezer
• wallflowers
• some techno / house
• 3DD
• 311
• A Perfect Circle
• Alice Cooper
• Alice in Chains
• Alien Ant Farm
• The Ataris
• Atari Teenage Riot
• Beastie Boys
• Black Sabbath
• Blink 182
• Bush
• Gorilliaz
• Linkin Park
• Fear Factory
• Fenx TX
• Eve 6
• Daft Punk
• Deftones
• Crossbreed
• Rammstein
• KMFDM
• Hendrix
• Zeppelin
• Rob Zombie
• Powerman 5000
• System of a Down
• Liquid Gang
• Mudvayne
• New Found Glory
• NIN
• Nickelback
• Nonpoint
• Orgy
• POD
• Puddle of Mudd
• ... etc

[Jethro83]

Originally posted by dunk999
The music is good. I just find the modern age music, um, inappropriate. It seems odd to me to roll over towns with modern armor while Kenny G is playing in the background. If I'm building, it's not as bad.

So, so true. Anyway, its that point of the game when I am most aggressive, so to me its inappropriate all the time.

What I like to do is get music out of other games (especially C&C, Red Alert, etc.) and use that. Now my modern armour rolling into a shelled city with the Red Alert Hell March in the background sure is something else.

[Inverse Icarus]

hell march is a classic. i have soem remixes

[Tuberski]

I play when My girlfriend is sleeping, so I wasn't even aware that Civ3 had sound and music.

[campmajor!]

Originally posted by Tuberski
I play when My girlfriend is sleeping, so I wasn't even aware that Civ3 had sound and music.

Well I have something similar: my baby girl is sleaping next door!

But when I am all alone at home playing civ I leave the original music on. But that rarely happens....

[ahenobarb]

I think the music for the industrial age is good. The piano piece sounds a lot like W.A.Mozart's K. 466. I just started listening to the music included with Civ III, so I haven't reached the modern Era music yet, but the others were good.

As for CDs to listen to: It's a no-brainer Peter Gabriel - Passion, after that Passion Sources, also the Black Hawk Down soundtrack.

[Jethro83]

Originally posted by ahenobarb
I think the music for the industrial age is good. The piano piece sounds a lot like W.A.Mozart's K. 466. I just started listening to the music included with Civ III, so I haven't reached the modern Era music yet, but the others were good.

Personally, I think the Industrial age music is boring, and the piano piece sounds a bit off. Ancient and medieval eras sound nice enough (particularly the Colonial America sort of tune in the middle-ages). But that's just my opinion.

As for modern era music, its actually quite nice. One of the pieces has a Spanish guitar and saxophone, and sounds kind of like a Kenny G piece. But niceness isn't one of my traits when I reach modern era. Since that is when the best technology is available, I tend to raise my aggression to something a lot higher than even Shaka. Kenny G isn't all that appropriate when you have modern armour rolling into a badly shelled city you just pummelled. But again, just my opinion.

[Jawa Jocky]

the soundtrack to "Oh brother where art thou"

[ahenobarb]

Not even the irony is good enough to keep listening to the "kenny G" stuff? (I still haven't heard it yet, I haven't had a chance to play in a few days).

It might be funny. Like listening to the Seasame Street theme while rolling over a couple cities with bombers and tanks.

"Hey, Bert. Why'd you bomb all those cities Bert?"