I can't play without music, too hard to focus because I hear the keyboard and it messes up with my keyboard/mouse coordination (stutter step becomes shitty). I listen mostly to house I think (fusion radio), I tried kpop on seoulfm but most of the songs are too boring/slow for my taste thus I stopped it. I'd like to listen to MKP radio station (seems like korean rap) because it felt nice for playing but I cant finf it. I have to lower the sound quite a lot however, because it's bothering if the music is too loud. I really think that listening to music can help your gameplay, when I was playing Super smash bros melee (quite competitive fighting game), listening to high bpm songs was helping a lot.
I like to have some epic song playing, so as to make me feel better, when i ladder (Knights of Cydonia <3) For serious games, and in situations when I have to think a lot, I've always felt Radiohead made me cleverer.
I'm pretty sure this is just me being superstitious, but I haven't lost a game since I started beginning my ladder session with a particular song in my playlist. I've won six straight on my main and five straight on my alt (with equivalent MMR).
I dont think they type of music effects the way I play but I have to have some music otherwise its just weird.... I would say that without music I play worse cause its kinda like a distraction now that Im used to it.
That being said, if someone came in and changed my metal or electronica to something like country or some mainstream BS then I would probably end up losing as well! :p
I play Zerg, and when I do play it i mostly listen to metal (thrash and death to be more precise). It just gives me tempo and keeps me on my toes and in a way "forces" me to frantically do things
On January 10 2012 23:29 ManTrain wrote: Does pro's listen to music in tournaments? I have always been wondering...
Thats a good question...
White-ra showed me the positive effects of dance music. Upbeat and fast paced. I like to think that it increases my heart rate which inturn makes me more alert and aware... Just my opinion.
there is no certain music for a race ... its yust if u listen to music that you like your concentration improves a bit.( some scientists checked that)
and thats all .. for me so far i could never listen to k-pop or other pop "crap" while playing, because i simply dislike this kind of music and it would have a terrible effect on my game.
For me it's always been either K-pop, whenever I'm playing a little more casual or I'm in a bad mood etc, otherwise when I'm in serious ladder mode or similar, I'll go with more epic music, most commonly Two Steps From Hell, I've got an about 5 hour playlist with them on my harddrive, about 130 soundtracks
Edit: Not quite sure why you would vote differently for different races in SC2 though
Meh, Am I the only one that, after trying to put some custom music, realised to go so much into the game, that sometimes I am not even able to hear\listen to music while it is playing?
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