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Earlier I replaced the music in my Morrowind game with something a bit more interesting. It's not that I find the MW music bad, as such, it just becomes extremely repetitive after a while...

Anyway, this got me to thinking about game music in general. I know there is already a thread in here about "best game music," but the focus here is slightly different.
Which games have you played where you have never once turned off or replaced the music?
For me, there are only two: The Witcher and Planescape Torment.
In both cases, I find the music beautifully enhances the atmosphere and it never gets old.

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dragon wench wrote:Which games have you played where you have never once turned off or replaced the music?
None, the first thing I do usually is turn the dreadful musac off! Occasionally I forget, but not for very long, the awful noise soon reminds me. There are some Morrowind mods that I gae up on very quickly because they not only over-rode my settings and turned the musac on, but had the gall toactually crank the volume up high! The modder who made the Fae mods was terrible for that!
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For me it would be much easier to list games in which I have turned down or off the music. Latest ones and the ones I can remember are Oblivion, Demise: Rise of Ku'Tan and WoW. In case of Oblivion and WoW the musics just get too repetive, so I replace them with my own music by using Winamp (in WoW) and XBox's music player (in Oblivion). WIth Demise the sounds are just so loud I have to tune them down if I want to hear something else, and thus I usually end up replacing them with my own music again.

But most of the time I play the game with the game's own musics.
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dragon wench wrote:Which games have you played where you have never once turned off or replaced the music?
Most of the games I've played, including those with music which is pleasant to listen at first but become repetitive later on. I probably got used to listening to them until I couldn't care much about it. ;)
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Very rarely do I ever switch the music off in games. One exception might be the heyday of Diablo II, when some energetic metal would make the Bloody Foothills more intense.

Best in-game music goes to Divine Divinity though. It's one of the few game soundtracks that I listen to independent of the game, it's that good. Second place would probably be the Witcher.

Divinity's Kirill Pokrovsky won some awards for the music (if you never played the game shame on you) and you can download a bunch of tracks from his [url="http://www.kirillpokrovsky.com/"]website[/url]
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I almost never turn off the music in games. I do sometimes in strategy games where the music is uninteresting or repetitive, like in Red Alert 2. I have changed the music in Sins of a Solar Empire, but simply because the games go on for an incredibly long time.

Oh, I did turn down the music on Virmire in Mass Effect, but simply because the music was so loud I couldn't hear the dialogue.
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I do second The Witcher & PS:T.
Icewind Dale has a faboulously good soundtrack. I've gone through hoops just to get it.
BG Saga has a solid track too.
Surprisingly, the music in Titan Quest is very solid. Too bad the soundtrack is so hard to get.
And, of course, last but not least, almost every Final Fantasy.
I listen to all of this music outside of the games.
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I usually play with music on.

I agree with all of the above, especially Icewind Dale. Both of them.

I thought that the soundtracks were amazing.
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I always play with game's own music, except maybe psp games - there's no use for music in the subway where you can't hear it (that's where I play psp most of the time :D )

The only game that I remember now that made me turn it's music off is Pocket Fallout...
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After reading this thread I decided to give the music a chance when I started a new character in Oblivion. I put up with it for several hours but in the end I could tolerate the rubbish no longer and silenced it. Ye gods seldom have I been subjected to such bland, repetetive garbage, did someone actually get payed for producing it?
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I usually turn music of in PC games, at least after a while, since I tend to play a game solidly for a while and it usually gets repetitive. The main exception I can think of is Dominions 3 - it only has a few tracks, but they're very good and a change from the usual epic orchestral dross that goes with most fantasy settings.
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