Do you like to play videogames while listening to music? (Not the one in the game obviously)

[Ayirek]

If I'm grinding I'll listen to podcasts more often than not. Occasionally music, but not that often. If its normal gameplay, I can't focus on music or the podcast so I just leave game audio on

 

[quibbler]

I don't. Sometimes I even go as far as muting the game's BGM if it starts getting repetitive or distracting.

 

[Rats]

Music? Never. Podcasts, sometimes, if the game doesn't require engagement from the language center of my brain.

 

[deftones r cool]

I feel like it's weird to not listen to the intended soundtrack like 99% of the time.

My only exception would be sports games where I enjoy turning off the music and listening to Deftones instead. 😎

 

[empo]

All the time when I played WoW but I don't expect anyone to have hundreds of ingame days and still be hyped for the Ironforge theme.

Nowadays I mostly play one and done games so the thought hasn't really come up. Maybe if the music ingame was really bad or something.

 

[Renna Hazel]

I do this when I replay games. First time through, I wanna hear everything.

 

[Mudo]

Most of the time, no.
Music is one of my favorite parts of games so I like hearing the music in game.

For things with limited soundtracks or not great music, very rarely I will put on a Spotify playlist. No podcasts though because I can't play and listen enough to comprehend what they are talking about lol.

 

[Zippedpinhead]

No, I don't.

However, I frequently play switch while the wife watches TV.

 

[Magnus]

Never (not even for my fave game, WoW, except on super rare occasion when I get into a farming/grinding mode for 1h or more and I want to zen out to some kind of instrumental music or something).

I prefer to get engrossed in the music of the game, as devs intended.