How do you ROCK to Guild Wars?

Bryant Again

Bryant Again

Hall Hero

Join Date: Feb 2006

Simple: What music do you listen to while playing the game? Is it different for PvE and PvP? Or do you prefer the nostalgic feel of the game's soundtrack?

For me, I've been listening to these new guys, Emarosa, while I've been going through PvE. For PvP it's the Misfits; I've just been Balth farming with my annoying Tiger Sin while having "Where Eagles Dare" play in the background...Never found a more fitting tune : )

Edgar The Crosseyed

Edgar The Crosseyed

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2006

Groningen, The Netherlands

Glob Of Ectospasm [GoE]

E/

Mostly dance hits

Niels de vries - sueno
Till west & dj delicious - same man

Those kinda tunes

Really relaxing and upbeat

Chicken Ftw

Chicken Ftw

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: May 2006

If I'm screwing around, it's usually Tool (generally anything from Aenima or Lateralus) or something similar. If it's game on time, Vent rage is the best thing to listen to. <3

GW's music has been off since the day after I bought the game, sound effects still on occasionally, depending on what I'm doing.

Elementer Masta

Elementer Masta

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Texas

Leet Pwnzorxz of Pwnington [PWND]

P/

Hmm, I usually listen to Opeth, Dream Theater, Symphony X. Prog Metal = Sex.

Diablo???

Diablo???

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2005

Seattle

SPQR

N/R

The soundtrack itself is fine for me, but whenever I'm in Cantha, I do need to turn on something... more vibrant and less depressing. Mostly Industrial stuff... etc.

ChyldeOfTheLotus

ChyldeOfTheLotus

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2007

N/Mo

GVG, HA, and AB = Death Metal
Anyhting else = random songs from my playlist

VitisVinifera

VitisVinifera

Banned

Join Date: Nov 2005

Northern California

HoTR

N/Me

more death metal from me too

Slayer, Cradle of Filth, Immortal, Samael, Six Feet Under, etc

Tactical-Dillusions

Tactical-Dillusions

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2005

Grimsby, UK

R/

Enya, George Michael, Queen, Ricky Martin, Huey Lewis and the News (always imagine my ranger going "back in time" and dancing with Gwen in presearing for some reason, lol).
Others i like are Hans Zimmer themes, especially when in farming mode.

Sometimes i'll be in the mood for some oldies which rang out at home on my mothers stereo while i was knee-high. Brings back memories.

Just recently i've been listening to radio stations such as Virgin, Radio 1 and Galaxy.
Pretty sweet what a PC can do aint it? A few more years and computers will be making my coffee too with a bit of luck. I know it's possible for the mega rich folk but someday....

Shadis

Shadis

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

Bel Biv Devoe.

Retribution X

Retribution X

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Check behind you again.

N/

Weird Al Yankovic.

Heh. gotta love him singing trigger happy when you are playing a machine-gun assassin in AB.

ANTICANCER

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

[KSA]

N/Me

for me Marilyn Manson, Cradle of Filth, Slipknot, Rammstein, Slayer, MuDvAyNe, DevilDriver, Dope, Korn, Otep, NightWish, etc.

X Cytherea X

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

A/Mo

I listen to SYMPHONIC METAL bands! Within Temptation, Nightwish, Epica, After Forever!!! ...I also listen to EMO/PUNK bands sometimes like My Chemical Romance and The Used!

Dr Strangelove

Dr Strangelove

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2005

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

[HOTR]

My top ten according to itunes:

Beer - Reel Big Fish
Bodies - Drowing Pool
Thriller - Michael Jackson
Lump - Presidents of the United States of America
Roby Soho - Rancid
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - Eddie Vedder
Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangsta - Ghetto Boys
**** her Gently - Tenacious D
Sometimes I Don't Mind - Suicide Machines
Stray Cat Strut - The Brain Setzer Orchestra
Love Shack - The B-52's

I think it's safe to say that my music tastes are eclectic.

EDIT: Yes, I realize I just put eleven songs. Go away.

-Loki-

-Loki-

Forge Runner

Join Date: Oct 2005

I listen to guildies horrible mics on vent when I'm playing.

Pariah Hellfire

Pariah Hellfire

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

N/Mo

Music I rock to while farming..

Tenacious D:

Kyle Quit the Band
Dio
Car Chase City
Explosivo
Master Exploder
Break in City

Janes Addiction:

Stop
Been caught stealing
Jane said

Red Hot Chilli Peppers:

Hey Oh
Higher Ground
etc....

Metallica:
everything before the Black album..

mr_groovy

mr_groovy

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2006

Netherlands

No Inherent Effect [NiE]

We have ts on the background .
But when i am soling give me good dose of Hard Style, or Schranz. That music really wanna make me pound foes :P

dbcoder

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Jun 2006

Hardcore Evonauts

Mo/

Post Rock and Metal here:

Post-Rock like:
Red Sparowes
Mogwai
Yndi Halda

Metal like:
Lamb of God
Killswitch
Arsis

ShadowsRequiem

ShadowsRequiem

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Inde is Smoking [Hawt] *ToA*

W/E

wintersun
children of bodom
the beat crusaders
camille jones
bloc party
foo fighters
High and mighty color
KMFDM
Sonata Arctica
Rammstein
To-Mera

list goes on................

Curse You

Curse You

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Apr 2006

South Pole

The Magus Order

N/Mo

I tend to just have the radio on. Yes, I said radio. The station I keep it on plays rock from the 70s to modern. They have a playlist of something like 10,000 songs, many of which are extremely random. They use a format known as Jack FM

When I'm not listening to the radio, I turn on Queen (I have all 3 Greatest Hits albums), Guns n' Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Tenacious D, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others that I might just randomly turn on.

Shadis

Shadis

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Oct 2006

Since we're on the subject of music choices and Guild Wars, can anyone tell me why everyone feels the need to put hard rock soundtracks to every Guild Wars video they make?

william1975

william1975

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Aug 2006

Scotland

Dragons of Torment (DOA)

Me/

normally i have a range of music from the various eras, covereing various styles

Mostly The Doors, The Zutons, Air, Muse, Goerge Harrison, My chemical Romance, Greig, Mozart, John Williams, and Tchiakovsky

Does-it-Matter

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2005

N/

Nickleback
Disturbed
Shinedown
Three Doors Down
Three Days Grace
Godsmack
etc.

Shadis,

Probably the same reason every military video has Godsmack, Disturbed or Drowning Pool set to it People want adrenaline-pumping, heart-pounding, get-up-and-go music to make stuff seem cool I guess.

The Hand Of Death

The Hand Of Death

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Cavalon

The Last Pirates (SaVY)

N/

-Drowning Pool
-Disturbed
-Godsmack
-Stone Temple Pilots
-The Finalist
-Avenged Sevenfold
-Dogfight
-Breaking Benjamin
-In Flames
-Slipknot
-Metallica

and of course Bullet For My Valentine!!!

^^best band right there ^^

Midntye207

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Apr 2007

The Hammers of Grimjaws [GRIM]

W/Mo

a little bit of everthing in the metal genre except for hair metal, but lately its been nothing but DragonForce

Pwny Ride

Pwny Ride

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Oct 2006

Aussieland

Prime Players Of [OSHA] ~ [dth] alliance. <3

Me/E

Shiny Toy Guns
New Young Pony Club
The Butterfly Effect
Kelly Roland
Rogue Traders
Little Birdy
Camille Jones
Franz Ferdinand
Bernard Fanning

My music is a little bit on the 'alternative' side. Especially with New Young Pony Club. Best. Band. Ever.

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

Whatever metal I can get my hands on. Right now my band of choice has been Immortal \m/

HardWonFame

HardWonFame

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2007

Purdue University, West Lafayette IN

Seven Samurai [SvnS]

N/Me

Alexisonfire
Pendulum
Sum41
Queen
Lucky Boys Confusion
Gladiator OST
Paul Van Dyke Trance

I like to listen to music while I am running people, helps keep me focused. But for normal mission play I like to listen to the normal soundtrack.

Charlotte the Harlot

Charlotte the Harlot

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

Bay Area

none

R/

My current favorites are: Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Thin Lizzy, and, Black Sabbath w/ Dio.

Hyper.nl

Hyper.nl

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2006

Defending Fort Aspenwood

E/

Usually the GW soundtrack. I especially like the Factions soundtrack, but the Prophecies one is good as well. Nightfall does a bit underperform in the music.

Or I turn GW's sound off and put on some selected music from my digital audio collection.

Perth68

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2005

Sacred Blood

R/

Trance, Indie Rock (the strokes, the stills, radiohead, etc.), the occasional gaming podcast

The Defiled Knight

The Defiled Knight

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

I probably would listen to the game music if it worked for me but it isn't so i'm listening to my heavier music haha pretty much anything ranging from Korn to Slipknot to Wednesday 13 to Trivium, anything like those sorta bands suits me and I have 5000 songs to choose from.... lol



By the way i've tried everything to fix my games music like buying new soundcards, made every possible combination out of my sound settings but the music wont run for guild wars but..... my music runs from any other application whether it be playing fable or listening to my music from winamp so nayone got osme advice on how i can get it working again?

The Defiled Knight

The Defiled Knight

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2007

I probably would listen to the game music if it worked for me but it isn't so i'm listening to my heavier music haha pretty much anything ranging from Korn to Slipknot to Wednesday 13 to Trivium, anything like those sorta bands suits me and I have 5000 songs to choose from.... lol



By the way i've tried everything to fix my games music like buying new soundcards, made every possible combination out of my sound settings but the music wont run for guild wars but..... my music runs from any other application whether it be playing fable or listening to my music from winamp so nayone got osme advice on how i can get it working again?

Etta

Etta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Mancland, British Empire

The Ramones, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Interpol, The Strokes, The Libertine. I've been listen to the Smiths a lot lately both while at work and playing.

X89

X89

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

Vancouver, WA

[iBoT]

Mo/A

NOFX, Sum 41, Quarashi, Pulley, The Offspring, System of a Down, Beck, Ludacris, Gorillaz, Guns N' Roses, KoRn, Outkast, Atreyu, Autopilot Off, Bad Religion, The B-52's, The Beatles, Black Eyed Peas, Black Sabbath, Bloodhound Gang, Brand X Savior, Cake, The Chemical Brothers, cKy, The Crystal Method, Danny Elfman, Dead Kennedys, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Descendents, Devo, DJ Assault, DMX, Dub Pistols, Dropkick Murphys, Eminem, The F**k-Ups, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Franz Ferdinand, Freezepop, Garbage, Gnarkill, Goldfinger, Grandmaster Flash, Group X, HIM, Herbie Hancock, Iggy Pop, Junior Senior, The Killers, Methods of Mayhem, Michael Jackson, Millencollin, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mudvayne, MXPX, NWA, Nine Inch Nails, Orgy, Pennywise, The Pixies, Powerman 5000, Primus, The Prodigy, Public Enemy, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, The Ramones, Rancid, Reel Big Fish, Richard Cheese, Rick James, Rise Against, Rob Zombie, White Zombie, Rolling Stones, Run DMC, Shocore, Slipknot, Smashmouth, Snoop Dogg, Soul Hooligan, Soundgarden, Spineshank, Static-X, Strung Out, Styles of Beyond, Sublime, Team Sleep, They Might Be Giants, Third Eye Blind, This is me Smiling, Usher, The Vandals, Weird Al Yankovic, White Stripes, X-Ecutioners, Yin-Yang Twins, Avenged Sevenfold, The Coup Yeah.

All that and more, and I don't have a preference for either pve or pvp.

Spazzer

Spazzer

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2006

USA

Team Asshat [Hat]

Mo/E

I'm pushing an elephant up the stairs
I'm tossing up punchlines that were never there
over my shoulder a piano falls
crashing to the ground

I'm breaking through I'm bending spoons
I'm keeping flowers in full bloom
I'm looking for answers from the great beyond

Maximumraver

Maximumraver

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

The Netherlands

Twisted Revenge [TR]

E/

Mostly my own mixes of hardcore (gabber), hardstyle & trance

NeHoMaR

NeHoMaR

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

None. Yes NONE. 0% music volume. Just in-game sound effects.

NiukNiuk

NiukNiuk

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

France

P/

Mostly Queens of the Stone age and a lot of Nirvana bootlegs.
But sometimes I'm listening to some electro music (Hybrid, the prodigy, chemical brothers etc etc) and some weird stuff ^^

Jamison0071

Jamison0071

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Melbourne, Australia

Morporkian Mercenaries

N/Me

Hey Big Spender - Shirley Bassey

Dreikki

Dreikki

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Kemi, Finland.

Pirates of the Searing [YoHo]

Mo/

Iron Maiden
Black Sabbath
The Who

(y)