Music in Oblivion

[Germandeathkittiez]

In video games I always use the in-game music turned down a couple of notches. The score was put there for a reason, just like you should play a game through fully before modding it you should also listen to said game's vanilla music the first time through. The money, time, effort, imagination, and brainpower it took to create the score in almost any video game (Especially in orchestral pieces) is astounding (Anyone out there who knows any little bit about Music Theory can tell you that). If you don't play the game with the intended music at least once through, you're missing out on the full experience.

 

Hmmm...got on a bit of a soapbox there. Anyways, I can't listen to anything other than the intended music for the game otherwise my gameplay gets so bad...the music breaks me out of the immersion of the game to the point of almost tripling my death rates, no matter what the game. For Oblivion, however, I turn all music off now that I'm on my second and third playthroughs (making them simultaneous, I am)

 

I think you're right about that, the music is just too emotional... especially the random combinations of black metal / Gangsta rap I listen to. I often find myself getting quite more angry and frustrated, thus dying more often, and dismayingly to say it breaks immersion, as I've recently been playing without music. A good band with one style of music might add something to some parts of the game, such as the Shivering Isles. I feel like the strangeness of that place just requires some music to complement it.

[Dimmu666]

Well I turned off music in Oblivion and just listen to bands I like. Metal and rock mostly. :)

[GoldenDragon66]

The vast majority of the music I listen to while playing oblivion is from Two Steps From Hell, I basically replaced all of the stock TES4 music with songs from them. The greatest moment i've had with this is stepping out of the sewers for the first time on a playthrough and hearing this:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQCXfOHlt_k