Music and games?

[Adagio]

Does anyone else have it the same way, I have? Sometimes I set a special song, belonging to a special game (and I'm talking about songs from the radio, not from the game itself). I know I have several songs, which I only remember when I hear them... but then, when I hear them, I get a picture of the game in my head... to be more exact I actually remembers a special map, at a special time in the game, whenever I hear the song, even though the song doesn't have anything to do with the game

[Jamski]

BORIS!!!!

There's a thread about music needs your attention here.
Come and tell us about synaethesia.

-Jam

[Alex]

I usually don't associate songs and games, I like to stick with the game's music, unless it is too unbearable.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Alexnm
I usually don't associate songs and games, I like to stick with the game's music, unless it is too unbearable.

I have yet to hear some game-music that is bearable...

[Maquiladora]

Game music sometimes lags the game as it changes track so i dont play it. I dont play from music cds either when im playing FPS's or where sound is important but i usually do with civ and other lazy games.

Even when theres no song playing you notice something familiar to a song on screen, like a certain civ you started conquering the day before reminds you of the song that was playing when you see their cities or units.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Maquiladora
Even when theres no song playing you notice something familiar to a song on screen, like a certain civ you started conquering the day before reminds you of the song that was playing when you see their cities or units.

Yeah, it's something like that... though in my case (which I was thinking about, as I started this thread), is the classic game Syndicate... And The song is pretty unknown (I don't even know the name of the song, I just recognize it, when it's playing).. And back then as I played that game, this map, nothing special happened... so I have no reason to actually have to remember it, but I still remembers it

[Nikolai]

Originally posted by ADG


I have yet to hear some game-music that is bearable...

The music in Eu2 and HoI is mostly very good, IMHO.

[Adagio]

Haven't played EU2, and I have no clue what HoI is...

...but even if I had played Eu2, I wouldn't have heard the music anyway... whenever I install a new game, the first thing I do is turning off the music (Many games have very annoying "music" in the menu, so I try to get rid of it ASAP)

[Static Universe]

I think I stopped listening to game music completely after I started playing Transport Tycoon. It's a habit I never broke and I always turn the music off.

[Alex]

I liked the music in RRT2 and Tropico... Also the music in Icewind Dale and Dungeon Siege...

[Nikolai]

ADG, EU2 has music from the era it's covering(that will say 1400s to 1800s), a few from each of them. For example the Four Seasons by Vivaldi.

HoI(Hearts of Iron) is a game covering 1936-1948, and the music there is more modern, mostly from the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s. Like Tjaikovsky(very bad spelled I guess... ) and Grieg.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Nikolai
ADG, EU2 has music from the era it's covering(that will say 1400s to 1800s), a few from each of them. For example the Four Seasons by Vivaldi.

Arrrrrggggg....!!!

Originally posted by Nikolai
HoI(Hearts of Iron) is a game covering 1936-1948, and the music there is more modern, mostly from the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s. Like Tjaikovsky(very bad spelled I guess... ) and Grieg.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggggg ...!!!!!!!!!


Thank God, I haven't listened to any of those games then...

[Mr. President]

Originally posted by ADG


I have yet to hear some game-music that is bearable...

Donkey Kong Country.

[Skanky Burns]

Command and Conquer is a great soundtrack, as does Deus Ex (although not quite as good).

For me though, I usually play new games a lot while playing new albums a lot. The feeling as ADG describes it is exactly what happens to me. The songs I relate to a particular game I only remember because I played the song so many times while playing the game.

[DrSpike]

ADG I used to get this all the time back in the days when music/sound sucked in games. To this day I cannot play a Monkey Island game without triggering the memory of the 2 albums I was playing incessantly when completing MI1. The last game it happened with would be Screamer Rally for the PC, with the associated album being Sheryl Crow's excellent 'Sheryl Crow'.