the skate series is perfect because you can literally listen to anything and it will compliment your playing or inform how you play. i could be talking about skating in real life and that would also apply
i don’t listen to metal ever but i made a metal playlist for shadow of the colossus (edit: like the body and full of hell not norwegian power metal about knights who luv god)
racing games are an excuse to listen to eurodance music sometimes
So I just bought Slay the Spire on the Steam sale and holy shit, you weren’t kidding. I just got off a 2.5 hour binge that kept me up until 3:30AM and I just want to play more. It’s a PERFECT game to listen to music to. It hits all of my criteria. I enjoyed the hell out of albums by Davy Kehoe, Scritti Politti, and Kero Kero Bonito while playing tonight.
This game is top tier for the purposes of this thread, do not miss it!
I’m happy you enjoy the game! I think it’s my favourite game of the year. Also, Davy is a pal of mine and it’s very nice to envision someone somewhere playing slay the spire while listening to his music. I’m going to mention it to him next time I see him!
No way! Small world, eh? I heard about Kehoe from this forum, actually. Someone posted a link to Storm Desmond and I was so impressed with it that I picked up Short Passing Game. It’s such a cool album.
That might have been me! That record is so special and lovely.
kind of stunned nobody’s mentioned diablo 2 or 3
against Natural Law to mute d1 tho
Diablo 2 has a good soundtrack tho
But also the game is ignorable so it makes sense
oh totally, but if you get Really Into Diablo 2 & it’s 2004 you put on some lightning bolt, smoke dirt weed, and kill baal 30 times
Also they would fade out for cutscenes and fade back in afterwards and whatnot. That was some amazing MS-enforced implementation we’ll probably never see again.
When I was a lot younger I would combine the stereo a/v cables from a game console with the stereo a/v cables from my CD player using an RCA splitter as a combiner into a receiver and play stuff like Doom64 with Beethoven’s 9th in the background.
space giraffe and polybius!
like i dont know anyone who ISN’T way better at these games with a custom soundtrack
also like, all shootmans for me… especially destiny
unless its the taniks strike i would always pause for taniks theme
Doom obvioulsy has a killer soundtrack but after dozens of hours anything gets boring. Throw on Ride the Lightning
I am STILL using Slay the Spire as my primary game for listening to music to, over a year later! But I’m starting to feel like I need a new one… No solid contenders so far though. I think another deckbuilding card game might do the job, but I can’t get into Dream Quest and I don’t know what else is good.
Well I think you mentioned the only two good deck building card games.
Now you’re fucked and have to get into traditional roguelikes.
My top three, in order of approachability:
today i listened to goth french canadian synth minimal wave shit and played warriors orochi 4. musou games are top tier for listening to music and having a good time
Another answer from my broken brain: get into an Autochess.
Hearthstone has one in the form of a mode called “Battlegrounds”. The free version only lets you pick from a pool of two random characters at the start instead of four, but is otherwise identical.
I think the Valve one “Dota Underlords” is pretty fun too, or at least it was when I played it 6 months ago. Also free, where paying mostly gets you cosmetics?
They both take a bit to understand and get into. Hearthstone’s will probably make more immediate sense if you’re used to cards.
A few that I’ve listened to external music while playing:
I still like Audiosurf, and I still open it up sometimes to play through a few songs. And I still get occasional e-mail messages saying that I have been “dethroned” for one song or another.
i really like the spotify plugin thing on ps4 except when games block it and the games that block it are the games i need custom soundtracks in most!! (fuck you dragon quest xi!)
ive been getting a lot of music time in when i play final fantasy xiv, unless im doing hard content cuz the music is always good when the game is really hard
ugh i’m so bad at listening to music when i play games because i don’t want to miss the game’s original music aaaaaaaaaaaaaa
The only downside of this is that if i had always done this, i would never have developed the “oh my god dude you fucking suuuuuck” lyrics for when the DW5 game over screen was taunting me.
I miss Wipeout HD’s music player that just let you access music files directly from the PS3 harddrive. I’ve not tried Omega Collection’s compatibility with Spotify but Wipeout is an excellent series to try making mixtapes for. Uptempo for races and ambient for Zone was excellent, especially if you can find a sound that complements the sterile computer voice constantly announcing pickups.