Does anyone else play with music off?

[RellTyr]

I've found it to be quite beautiful listening to the ship sounds and PA over the station ambience, without being distracted by what the game thinks it wants me to feel. I tried it once and didn't look back.

Has anyone else tried this, or is it just me?

 

[Linnunrata]

I do too.
I either enjoy the ambience or in some tasks, play my own music/podcasts/audiobooks.

 

[wenkman]

music is always off in my games. sometimes i listen to radios (yes) while playing.

but yes, i believe there are 2 people in this world who turn off music.

edit:3

 

[here_it_comes]

Yup. I have no desire to feel like I'm in star trek.

 

[znôrt]

first tweak on any game is usually getting rid of music. usually after having listened to it once, which is enough.

sounds in elite are just sensational and a big part of the experience, and i have seldom need of music, not even my own selection. i just spice them up with a buttkicker that rocks my ... chair.

 

[Riverside]

I switched off all music except the blue danube autodock (which I don't use on most ships) in 2016. I found the stuff that fades in & out on planets pretty annoying & the rest was nice but after a while I'd just had enough of it

 

[Rock Hunter]

I enjoyed the music when I first started playing but once I’d heard each situation it went off. As we all know the sounds are fantastic, so give them free reign I say.

 

[GraphiteGB]

Yep Default now on "nearly" every game on every platform, Music to zero in the menu...
Enable my own...
Smplayer/spotify for Computer...
Media player/spotify on Consoles...

And any thing uploaded to YouTube can have custom music as I don't care abut getting paid. its free hosting, not a channel to make money...

 

[RellTyr]

I thought everyone played with music on?

Yep Default now on "nearly" every game on every platform, Music to zero in the menu...
Enable my own...
Smplayer/spotify for Computer...
Media player/spotify on Consoles...

And any thing uploaed to youtube will have custom music as I dont care abut getting paid its free hosting not a channel to make money...

I haven't tried the Mass Effect Map music when hunting Pirates before, good idea...

 

[DragonIV]

Swapped for my own music a few years ago.

 

[NomadRomeo]

Yep, music off on Elite and every other game.

Edit: Every game but Mass Effect.

 

[Semivivus]

All music's off except for the SC music. When I'm travelling to a distant starport it gives me the impression that I'm going somewhere new and unknown.

 

[WR3ND]

I got in the habit of it while traveling and exploring, because the music would keep cutting off and starting up again. Sometimes I'll even just play the Elite: Dangerous soundtrack in the background while I play the game though.

I really like a few of the tracks and enjoy hearing them in the game. They seem to fit the setting well and make for nice ambiance.

 

[Random Player]

I turn music off in every game I've ever played, well except Guitar Hero and Rocksmith of course. Ha! I wanna hear the game sounds and nothing else!

 

[HAMM3R]

Has anyone else tried this, or is it just me?

Yep.

Pretty much the first thing I do with any game is turning off the music.

 

[Chrystoph]

Music is almost always off.

 

[here_it_comes]

Now that I think of it, the only game I keep music on in is X-Com. The true X-Com, that is.

 

[Dommarraa]

Not off, but REALLY low

 

[Random Player]

Another questions, is how may people turn OFF some of the voice stuff, like the hyper jump countdown? After 6 years, just couldn't take the 3,2,1... Engage anymore! There's a lot of options for all these ED gives you, which is pretty cool! Like, why do I need to hear "Docking Successful"? I know it was successful, I am DOCKED and still alive! I made it, I get it!

 

[BradHann]

I turn the music off in almost every game I play.