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ESO Music on or off?
babedenny
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Do you play ESO with the music on or off?
Edited by babedenny on November 15, 2016 10:35PM ESO Music on or off? 184 votes
On
47%
87 votes
Off
23%
43 votes
Sometime on, sometimes off
21%
40 votes
I play my own music
7%
14 votes
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Recremen✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭OnI 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.Men'Do PC NA AD Khajiit
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babedenny✭✭✭✭Sometime on, sometimes offI love the music, but sometimes I just want to hear the environmental sounds better. I was just curious what others do.
Edited by babedenny on November 15, 2016 10:46PM0 -
wayfarerx✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Sometime on, sometimes offIt 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).Edited by wayfarerx on November 15, 2016 10:42PM@wayfarerx - PC / North America / Aldmeri Dominion0 -
DRXHarbinger✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭OnPlaying with it off would be like watching jaws or star wars on mute. The sound tracks without question makes TES games what they are. They are a huge part of it.PC Master Race
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Rohamad_Ali✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭OffI play with it off because the ambiance is very good . I feel more immersed with it off .3 -
mb10✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Offgot sick of hearing the same audio because i was usually in the same zones before 1 tamriel so turned mine off ages ago0 -
Nestor✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭OffWhile 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.Enjoy the game, life is what you really want to be worried about.
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✭✭✭✭✭OffI would 100% keep the music on, if there was a way to turn the battle music off. When you're constantly fending off mobs wherever you step, it gets really annoying to have the battle music interrupt the ambiance every ten seconds.
So I just turn the music off and launch Pandora instead.CP2,100 Master Explorer - AvA Two Star Warlord - Console Peasant - Khajiiti Aficionado - The Clan
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Reverb✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I play my own musicSound 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.Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ~Friedrich Nietzsche0 -
Kram8ion✭✭✭✭✭
✭OnYes it breaks up the monotony of trebs and balistas in pvp
I've even swapped my mount to doom wolf coz he's very quiet and stealthyAussie lag is real!0 -
mildlylucid✭✭✭Sometime on, sometimes offIf I'm doing crafting I'll generally play my own music but for most of the time I listen to the in-game music.Another day, another deathtrap.
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Sometime on, sometimes offI 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
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MattT1988✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Sometime on, sometimes offOne thing that Elder Scrolls games do right is the music, it's always top notch, I'll have it on unless I've either got my music going or I'm doing something with a group that requires me to actually listen and coordinate.Edited by MattT1988 on November 16, 2016 3:19AM2 -
Slylok✭✭✭OnOn. I love it. The boss music gets me pumped every time.Youtube ESO First Person Gameplay - http://tinyurl.com/o6evusk
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Jimbullbee85✭✭✭✭OnI 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 Jimbullbee, Templar healer battlemage0 -
Sigma957✭✭✭✭✭OnI 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.0 -
RebornV3x✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Sometime on, sometimes offdepends the music in this game is pretty bland and uninteresting I wish I could go into the sound files and replace the combat music with something more amped or have the normal idle music more soothing and elegantEdited by RebornV3x on November 16, 2016 4:25AMXbox One - NA GT: RebornV3x
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CapnPhoton✭✭✭✭✭OnJimbullbee85 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.Xbox One NA Aldmeri Dominion0 -
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✭Sometime on, sometimes offOn when I'm BSing and not doing anything serious.
Off, and sometimes replaced with other music, when I need to get my mind right.Wake up, we're here. Why are you shaking? Are you ok? Wake up...0 -
dem0n1k✭✭✭✭✭
✭OffLove the music but with Teamspeak & game sounds there is just too much going on for my tired ol' brain
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Abeille✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Sometime on, sometimes offI keep it off when I'm exploring because I find it more immersive to hear just the voices and the ambiance sounds.
But I turn it on for epic boss fights. I especially like the music on the Minotaur Boss fight in the Gold Coast.Just so that everyone knows, my Altmer still can't have black hair. About a dozen of Altmer NPCs in the game have black hair. Just saying.
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Alucardo✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭OffI used to have it on, but not anymore as it got a bit annoying. Beautiful soundtrack, just not into music when playing MMOs because I like to hear everything around me in game.0 -
RiddleDiddle✭✭Sometime on, sometimes offi 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( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ My Copying Skills Are Great ヽ(ﾟｰﾟヽ)
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Alucardo✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭OffIt bugs me that On is red and Off is blue. Can a moderator fix this please?0 -
agegarton✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭OnOn. Surely it's not music or sfx, surely it's the sound of Tamriel.............? Immerse yourself man!0 -
hrothbern✭✭✭✭✭
✭Offdwemer_paleologist wrote: »
+1
When roaming Overland
Morrowind gives me more immersion.
Baldurs Gate music was also great for immersion.
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ItsGlaive✭✭✭✭✭
✭Sometime on, sometimes offSome 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...Allow cross-platform transfers and merges0 -
Flameheart✭✭✭✭✭OnThe normal game sound, because it's pretty atmospherical and well made and it just suits to Tamriel.
If I am in the right mood or maybe play PvP (rarely), I listen to http://www.twostepsfromhell.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJj2EpC8vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ-QLl5qjLg
and here a personal favorite of the newer album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDMFwG8A5SU
Two Steps from Hell is definitely my most favored music I abuse as a personal sound track for gaming backgrounds or just daydreaming while I go home by train from work. There is some other stuff I hear occasionally like true classical music or some other movie sound tracks (LotR sound tracks are pretty nice for example).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xULTMMgwLuo
