I mean songs that fit the current scenario in which your character is involved.
For example, when I fight for the Companions and am on Purity of Revenge, the multiball theme from Attack Mars pinball comes to mind.
When I work my way through the College, the Harry Potter theme song comes to mind.
If I am RP'ing a stealth character, Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson is what is in my mental playlist.
Strength Of A Thousand Men for dragon fights.
To Glory for the walk through Skuldafn and Sovngarde and Miraak's black book, or just any other badass situation.
The Shire theme whenever I'm exploring. It's a masterpiece and fits walking through forests like Falkreath so well.
Rogue said:I never do. I've tried playing my favorite music and it just doesn't go with the feel and immersion Skyrim has to offer. I do like the look of these suggestions, though. May have to try them out.
Exactly my thinking. Sometimes its nice to crank up the tunes when you're just pissing about killing bandits and stuff, but if I wanna get really immersed (which is most the time, given that RP is my shiz) then often I don't even have the in game music on. There ain't no pop or rock in Tamriel, so there ain't none in my game.
Actually, most of the playing I do is very early in the morning before the kids start getting up, so I keep the volume almost off xD
BUT I do occassionally get to crank things up a bit, and I've let my playlist play a few times while I've played the game. Sometimes the results have been staggeringly awesome, and sometimes they are considerably less so (and sometimes they are downright humorous). I think, though, that I'm like many here: I prefer to listen to Bethesda's background music and ambient noises (and me blasting and hacking away at evil ;D).
Great conversation thread! It's made its way to the site's Twitter page :D
Not sure if this QUITE correlates with this but I have two instances in which outside music played a part in my Skyrim adventures:
I was playing an Argonian Berserker type character and was getting a little bit bored of doing quests and looting and all that monotonous stuff so I found a couple favorites of mine from some "Best Dubstep Drop Mix 20--" and whatnot and just blasted some heavy dubstep while literally sprinting across Skyrim using slow time and dual wield as I just hacked away at everything in sight. It was glorious
Second instance is when I was playing my slight variation of the Songbird character build (forgot who created that, I apologize!) so to add to that kind of "wandering adventurer" feel as well as the fact that the character obviously has some roots in music, I played "Far Over the Misty Mountains" because it really helped accentuate Skyrim's environment and it'd even be fun to imagine my character was simply singing the song as he trotted along on his pony :)