Weekly Question (Week 11)

[BumblebeeCody*]

It really depends on the game. Most games I find myself having the music on. Sometimes they're just too freaking good (see everyone who linked a YouTube video). But then you gets those "self progression games" or situations where you turn the music off and put something on.

-I often find that some fighting game's have music that really gets you pumped like Jazzy NYC in Third Strike or Fulgores theme in Killer Instinct.
-Obviously Guitar Hero you need the music.
-In games like Journey and Heavy Rain it enhances the experience by using notes that further pushes certain emotions and scenes.
-Others it just's mandatory to have the music on like the Zelda series.

But other times like when I'm grinding in an MMO or playing Tetris, I find I don't need the in game soundtrack and/or special effects and put on my own music.
It differs from situations to genre.

[Psychospacecow]

World of Warcraft is definitely a choose your own music game for me. You can only hear the Stormwind epic music for 10 years before it gets old.

[Mass Distraction]

Depends on the game and the situation. Back when I used to play Counter Strike and RTS games like Command & Conquer a lot I used to switch the in-game music off and listen to whatever was on my Winamp. Nowadays I always have music on, expect in games where there is none, in which case I just listen to the plain sound effects.

Now, I do sometimes still turn off the music (or most likely just mute the whole game) and listen to streams or Let's Plays in the background. Like, for example, when grinding in Pokémon or some other RPG.

I think the last time I lowered a game's volume so I could listen to other music was back when I bought my first PS3 and downloaded Super Stardust HD on it. Techno tracks during a hectic game feels nice. I should do that again soon.

[gamemaster1991]

I do both, but it's normaly what ever is defalt. When I'm playing a flight game, I normaly do inverted. When I play FPS, I do normal most of the time.

Also to awnser your question Cuccos, It's more of a mind set that you get into when you play alot of FPS and flight games.

[retrolinkx]

Yeah, I stick to the normal controls. Although back in 2005 or so when I used to play Halo 2 a lot, I used to play inverted. No idea why.

[Psychospacecow]

If its a plane game, I might do inverted. If its anything else, I play standard.

[JiraiyaSennin]

I am a very simple man so I always go default. I always have and I always will.

[CosmykTheDolfyn]

Depends. Mostly default, but I always go custom controls in Brawl and I Smash 4 by making Y and X grab and Z jump. Don't ask why. And if I'm PC gaming, you can bet your bottom dollar that I have custom controls set up.

[Kakariko Kid]

Invert. But, it doesn't bother me that I cannot invert the first person view in Legend of Zelda games. I guess because it's not an option and if I need to go into first person view, there's usually not so much going on that I get distracted or get hit by enemies.

EDIT: I was playing Majora's Mask and realized first person is inverted, so...

[Arjahn]

It's always the worst when you have a few friends over to play Halo or Goldeneye or something and one of the bastards has to take the time to go into options, try and navigate the weirdly complicated menu, set it to inverted and fish for the perfect sensitivity. Then the other two guys always pull the whole "OH WHILE WE'RE HERE MESSING WITH OPSHIONS!" thing and we end up in the menu for ten solid minutes before we can actually play the damn game.

[Kakariko Kid]

I try not to go too deep in the options. Just let me get my invert and I'll play with the cards I've been dealt. I just have a hard time to the normal setting. I can also read backwards, upside down and backwards upside down. I guess it's just the way my brain works.

[Mass Distraction]

Default. Inverted is ugly and wrong. The only time I've ever played inverted was with Max Payne 2 on the PS2 when I was a dumb kid and didn't even think you could change it. When I picked the game up again years later and loaded my last save I was shocked that I had actually played inverted. Naturally I changed the aiming to normal.

As a side note, I miss the days when you could actually map your buttons in games.

It's always the worst when you have a few friends over to play Halo or Goldeneye or something and one of the bastards has to take the time to go into options, try and navigate the weirdly complicated menu, set it to inverted and fish for the perfect sensitivity. Then the other two guys always pull the whole "OH WHILE WE'RE HERE MESSING WITH OPSHIONS!" thing and we end up in the menu for ten solid minutes before we can actually play the damn game.

It's especially bad when there are more people than controllers and every time people swap places the menu adventures start again.

[RepentantSky]

The controls in a game are usually set up the way they are for a reason, although I can't ever make sense of Halo's controls. I'm always playing games in standard, even though there are times when I wish I could change certain controls on games with bad ones like say, Watch Dogs.

[SERIOUSLY THOUGH*]

I always have up and down inverted. No idea why but it feels so much more natural to me.
Like flying.

[BumblebeeCody*]

I always have up and down inverted. No idea why but it feels so much more natural to me.
Like flying.

Yeah I think it depends on the genre. If you're playing a game like Ace Combat or Afterburner it makes sense, but in games like GTA I prefer to have them normal. Inverted feels a bit off.