Do you play a lot of games without sound too?

[Lady Error]

So it leads me to believe you just trend towards games with shit music more than anything.

Yes, I specifically search for games with shit music - you got me. Or maybe your idea of what qualifies as good music is slightly different than mine.

 

[Iucounu]

I never understood people who turn of part of a game's sound or music until full voice acting for isometric CRPGs became the norm.

I had to turn the volume of the narrators down to 0 in both Pillars of Eternity 2 and Divinity Original Sin 2.

Good idea! I couldn't stand Skyrim's voice acting, but blocking it never occurred to me even though I had already blocked the music.

I hate full voice acting, I want to read the dialogs at my own pace not have them read out to me like it's an audiobook.

Once upon a time literacy was considered progress, inventions like radio broadcasts or audio records didn't change that. But for some reason recorded voice audio in games is now considered cutting edge technology?

 

[Vic]

on the subject of JRPGs, this one is pretty chill to just fly around in DQ8 and listen to this track



I definitely mute the volume when grinding in this game tho

 

[Ladonna]

I used to listen to music on my walkman when playing some old games that didn't have any sound, or hardly any sound (and with the PC, those with PC speaker).

 

[flyingjohn]

on the subject of JRPGs, this one is pretty chill to just fly around in DQ8 and listen to this track

Prefer the boat music:

 

[VerSacrum]

I like to fire up a "dungeon synth" playlist for retro RPG's after a while because the ingame tracks tend to get repetitive. Sound effects still enabled, of course.

 

[911 Jumper]

If I were ever forced to play the Tomb Raider reboot games, I would have to play them with little to no sound. Imagine having to hear this coming out your speakers:




Imagine what the neighbours would think. I really can't stand these kinds of female noises.