I love the normal sounds of a game, with the extremely rare exception for when I'm grinding something repetitively, which happens so rarely in ESO. Then I put on some podcasts.

It varies. Sometimes the music is fantastic and I hate playing without it (looking at you Orsinium). Other times audio cues are a pretty critical part of gameplay (i.e. vMA).

I play with it off because the ambiance is very good . I feel more immersed with it off .

While I love the TES Sound Tracks and own most of them on CD, I don't like to hear the music while I am playing the game. It drowns out the other sounds that I like and want to hear, plus the dialogs. Also, I don't like the combat music telling me I am in combat, although this game has other cues for that.

Most of the issue comes from if I turn the music up enough to appreciate it, that is when it drowns out other audio. When I lower it down enough to be able to hear the other audio cues, it becomes an annoying background buzzing that still interferes with what I want to hear. I don't know how movie people who do the audio can balance music and dialog and sound effects so well, probably adjust levels every frame or sequence.

I also got into the habit of turning off music back in the 8 bit days. You think nails on a chalkboard (if anyone remembers those) is annoying, just listen to Super Mario Brothers for 6 or 8 hours while playing that game. And, the Final Fantasy 8 bit was not much better, and don't get me started on the original Zelda games music.

Sound fx on always, but game music usually off while I stream Pandora. I really like the ESO score, but it's been almost 3 years now, I just don't want to listen to it every night anymore.

If I'm doing crafting I'll generally play my own music but for most of the time I listen to the in-game music.

I love the music but sometimes I prefer my own because at times it gets me in the zone to play (no pun intended)

When I used to PVP in the IC sewers though I'd have all sound off except for footsteps so I could hear the banner boss coming. Kind of liked the silent ballet with footsteps hitting grates and such more relaxing

On. I love it. The boss music gets me pumped every time.

I play with it on but at a low level so while I can still hear it, it doesn't interfere or over power all the other sounds.

Jimbullbee85 wrote: »

I love the music. It's timed perfectly. Calm and beautiful for a bit of light wandering around farming materials, dark and haunting in dungeons and powerfully epic in battle. Wouldn't be the same without it

More music selections are needed in the mix but I can't play it without the in game music even though it repeats. Most games I am like that even if the music is not great. I can't listen to a CD or something because it seems out of place.

Love the music but with Teamspeak & game sounds there is just too much going on for my tired ol' brain

always on, but i have it turned down.

i LOVE the music and sounds, but when i am just doing some dungeons or grinding i tend to play my own music, because somehow i just have more feeling to keep going with the grind

Some of the music is fantastic, some is very "meh". I'd love an addon that allows us to assign certain tracks for certain situations. For example:

Battle music 1
Battle music 2
Travel music 1
Travel music 2
Delve music 1

and so on...