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Announcements => Other Announcements => Topic started by: Chex Warrior on April 15, 2010, 10:51:01 AM
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What kind of music do you listen to when playing roguelikes (if any)?
Personally I listen to dark ambient as it gets across the hopelessness and futility of most of my characters short lives (i.e. Crawl and ADOM).
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Sometimes, but usually get too distracted by the random shuffling playlist not hitting a solid selection/streak of selections for the mood.
That said, generally some mix of Metal/classical/Instrumental/Misc Asian/Videogame compositions.
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Metal, man. The heavier the better. Slayer, Sepultura, Ministry. Sometimes Megadeth.
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http://www.music-marks.com/
The complete sound track to Knights of Honor, with my favorites being Lost Battle, Bard's Tale, Handful of Sorrow, and Where My Heart Is. I listen to these all of the time, playing roguelikes or no.
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http://www.music-marks.com/
The complete sound track to Knights of Honor, with my favorites being Lost Battle, Bard's Tale, Handful of Sorrow, and Where My Heart Is. I listen to these all of the time, playing roguelikes or no.
I love it, thanks!
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I love it, thanks!
Not a problem! You can download the entire soundtrack on the "Projects" page.
I wish I could find more like this, but I don't think it exists outside of video games. "Medieval ambient" isn't a musical genre to my knowledge.
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"Certain Death (http://www.bradsucks.net/music/certain-death/)" and other songs by Brad Sucks. The atmosphere of slightly humorous despair is a good fit for the Roguelike genre.
Also a recording of H. P. Lovecraft's "Fungi from Yuggoth". A background of vague dread punctuated by moments of panic is also fitting for playing roguelikes.
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Great question. I've collected alot of Thunderstorm, Wilderness, Dripping water (cave ambient), and many Resident Evil type music clips for playing my roguelikes. The main floor, and top floor police station themes from RE2 are particularly good for dungeon exploring. Maybe I'll compile a list of all the tracks I use if anyone is interested in someone elses tastes. I'd be interested in seeing others people lists.
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I'd be very interested in that list, I listen to the PSX Doom and Doom 64 dark ambient tracks that were available at the Doom Depot... It seems to be down for some reason, I'll upload a torrent of it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv_CSUhtJeQ&feature=related
I find it very tricky to build the right selection of music. Sometimes a track seems perfect, but when it pops up randomly, doesn't fit the mood at all. If I get time later today, I'll dig up my ipod and list them. Maybe do a torrent each for the Wilderness, Cave, Dungeon, and Castle/Town themes I use. Just wish I could have the themes switch automatically.
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What kind of music do you listen to when playing roguelikes (if any)?
Personally I listen to dark ambient as it gets across the hopelessness and futility of most of my characters short lives (i.e. Crawl and ADOM).
That's awesome. I love me some dark ambient ;D
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I always put Jethro Tulls' hits when I play Crawl
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http://www.doom2.net/~doomdepot/music.html
Get the music from this site tjg92.
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No, but I could listen to Joe Satriani's Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards. It's so cool. The way Satriani plays guitar with such dynamic touch. And the songs aren't bad either.
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I find the hellraiser soundtracks including the unreleased one from Coil and the Quake soundtrack are my favorite music to listen to when playing rogue-likes. Nice dark, ambient atmosphere to them.
I'm a huge classic metal and heavy rock n roll fan but find ambient and instrumental music best for playing rogue-likes. The zork ps1 soundtrack is also pretty good to play to.
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hard electronic stuff, gabber, breakcore, stuff like that.
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The Rogue Bard has a few nice songs that fit well with playing roguelikes.
http://roguebard.eptalys.net/# (http://roguebard.eptalys.net/#)
I also second the original Doom soundtrack for games other than doomrl.
The main theme and dungeon songs for Mordor Depths of Dejenol is also nice as well as a few others like the Theme to Puppet Master and and this awesome instrumental cover of W.A.S.P.'s Animal (I F*ck Like A Beast):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWL2FbqPxtc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWL2FbqPxtc&feature=related)
Some of those 8-bit remixes and midi versions of metal songs also work well.
The hard to fid Wizardry soundtracks are ok too. Some tracks are hit and miss though.
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I can't play video games without music.
If the game has music itself and it isn't incredibly bad I usually listen to the game's music. If the game has no music itself I just put in my favorite music CDs.
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I'm thinking of listening to "Crazy" from MadWorld when playing NetHack. Its first verse and its chorus fits NetHack quite well, in my opinion:
See the day turn into night.
See the blackness, where's the white?
Through the darkness there's the light.
Full moon, you're consumed, now you're terrified.
Hear the cries from the castle,
Cold stones ache and the moans start to grab you.
You can feel ‘em shake, you can feel ‘em bash you.
Bones start to break and your heart starts to craaaaaaaaaaaaash.
Will it be your last breath?
Will it be your last move?
Will it be your last step? (Step)
Don't step too close.
Or else it’s gonna make a mess when your chest explodes
Yea don't the full moon make you go Crazy? (crazy crazy crazy)
Caught up in a maze, dark and twisted,
Let's see who the craziest is!
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I have started a playlist for roguelike music if anyone is interested https://soundcloud.com/groups/music-for-roguelikes or else The Cure albums 'faith', and '17 seconds' are good. Also Vangelis album 'El Greco'
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GWAR. Good music for all situations. All games.
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I like listening to Megaman themes or Cave Story themes. Sometimes I pull up DF and listen to the main theme while playing other RLs
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I like to listen to video game music when playing roguelikes. For instance, I like this radio station (old-school game music): http://www.kohina.com/
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There's a lot of Vangelis on Ultima Thule, and IMHO it goes well with roguelikes. http://ultimathule.info/ (http://ultimathule.info/)
-Ben