Do you plan to play Vanguard with music on or off?

[Myrrdyn]

Lycrist wrote:
"If I started EQ without the Kelethin music going, I don't think I'd have enjoyed the game as much"

Aww Kelethin .. i remember when i entered there first time with my gnomie .. i was literaly subjuged by the music. The relation between the env and the music was really important in EQ, in riverdalle when you entered it was very cool .. go to the forest at night and the background sounds were scrary lol
I perhaps will disable the sound a bit when crafting cause i prefer background sounds like hammer tinting, forges shuffles, wook craking or chimics explosions but when i will adventure outside .. of course sound ON

Myrr

[Jaeth]

Can't believe I missed this poll... I'm going to play with sound/music/ambience/the whole thing turned ON.

I love TM's music, and the system he has made sounds awesome.

[Daeanor]

Every MMO I have played (and I've been at it for 10 years or more), I started with the music on, got sick of it, then shut it off. I love sound effects and environmental sounds, but the repetative nature of MMO music grates on me after a while - I'm just very sensitive to it. I don't listen to any music over and over ... the more I love it, the more likely I am to loathe it if I hear it too often. So my answer is I will play with sound on and music off, and none of my own instead either, just the world noises.

[Korinth]

I will be listening to in-game music a few times and after that, the only music I will be playing is my own from the stereo I got in the room.

[Doddy Curumehtar]

I'll play with the music on for most of the time. Occasionally I'll use my own music, but my own will always be a nice celtic track or some Enya. Something fitting.

[Medeor]

I like the ambient sounds and being able to hear what I'm doing. For some reason the music gets lost on me because most of the time I'm so intent on the noise of the actions around me that I can't even tell you if the music is on or off. Those times I'm travelling I'll hear the music, but then i'm usually chatting on TS or Vent so I'll miss it anyway. It sounds like they are taking all of this into consideration though, so I'm looking foward to it!

[Grimson SH]

Most of the time I am using TS or Vent so I have the music cut off. Likely I will be doing the same here.

[Arender]

On!

[Taronn Anvilmarr]

i always play with music on but at 50%
environmental at 100%

gotta listen to my talk radio after all

[Hedrif]

Originally Posted by Lycrist

Definitely on; when you associate certain parts of the game with the music that plays there, it brings and even greater memory to your experiences, imo. If I started EQ without the Kelethin music going, I don't think I'd have enjoyed the game as much; ya, it has that big of an impact for me. ~

The Lok theme from SWG had this kind of impact on me.

I look at it this way. I wouldn't watch a movie without the score, so why would I play a game without it? The music is part of the game's story, and I most often it works better than anything I'd bring in, in large part because my own music brings my own set of assocations with it, of friends, family, places I've gone and things I've done, and I'd just as soon forget about those things when I'm playing and immerse myself in that world.

Same for sound effects ... they add so much to the world and I can't imagine turning them off.