Do you change the ingame music of Civ3?

Jethro83 · April 15, 2002, 23:31

The ingame music of Civ 3 can be at times annoying, or inappropriate (at least in the Industrial and Modern eras anyway), and so the easy solution to this is to change it.

How many of you like to change your ingame music? (and to what?) And how many actually don't care?

ixnay · April 15, 2002, 23:41

I actually like most of the music...if it's something that's bad I'll usually tune it out, so there's no need for me to do it.

Il Duce · April 15, 2002, 23:59

It may just be me but I play better while listening to some modern classical.

Ninot · April 16, 2002, 00:03

i was planning something extravagant for my 100th post... but this will suffice

i dont listen to my Civ3 music anymore... ever since about when 1.16 came out, ive just shut the music off on...well, most of my games, and listened to CD's and the radio

woo! warlord!

Ethelred · April 16, 2002, 00:37

Yes I change it.

I change it to OFF.

Mostly I have the television on at the same time. The History Channel is a good choice to go with the game. Have the Laker game on at the moment.

Grrr · April 16, 2002, 01:18

Off. I usually have a CD playing in the background (no, not the Civ3 CD

).

Sabre2th · April 16, 2002, 01:26

Occasionally, I play something else if I get tired of the game music, but usually it doesn't bother me.

Theodrik · April 16, 2002, 01:33

Most of the tunes aren't as bad as Civ II, but It annoys me that I have to have the CIV III disc in the drive. With Civ II, I'd start the game with a music CD in and listen to most of those tunes instead of the continual thump-thump.

TechWins · April 16, 2002, 02:22

Theodrik, go to gamecopyworld.com and you can get the hacked exe for Civ3 so you don't have to have the game in the CD Rom at any point in time. *You must have winace in order to exract the file, jus to let you know.

To the question, I almost never listen to the in-game music. I typically use winamp or listen to a CD. The bands that I have listend to most while playing Civ3 have been Metallica, Jimmy Eat World, Blink 182, and Puddle of Mudd. Also, cheers to JEW (a local Arizona band)

For me a lot of bands reprsent the game I was playing while listening to the music, such as Linkin Park represents EU.

So whenever I hear Linkin Park I typically think of EU.

Skanky Burns · April 16, 2002, 02:54

I find that winamp has a much better selection of songs that suit my taste...

@ TechWins

Thats similar to me, most games I remember based on the songs I continuously played at the time. I hear a song on the radio, and suddenly I'm playing that game in my head again, even if the last time I played that game was over a decade ago (I started early).

Grrr · April 16, 2002, 02:58

What like Rammstein - Du Hast = Hexen II.

Damn, I sold both of those CDs

.

Flanker · April 16, 2002, 04:17

I think the ingame music is really nice, and I never change it. However, it could get a little annoying when you hear the same tune for the 100th time in a game...
Speaking about music, one melody that I really miss is the intro to the first Civ! You know, the panning through space and finally the great title "Sid Meier's Civilization" comes up with the classic "ta-da-da" melody at loud volume! I'd hope someone could piff up that old melody a little bit, cause I think that intro was much better than both the one in Civ II and Civ III. Any comments?

Unspeakable Horror · April 16, 2002, 08:18

I use winamp to play it, but i added the music from Civ2, TOT Imperialism, AOE, and others...

Btw i want to make a request, i lost my "Civ2 Scenarios" CD (an old expansion pack) and i don´t remember if it´s music was different from Civ2, if it is, can somebody please send me a big zip (with the music only) via ICQ or post it somewhere? Thanks.

Spec · April 16, 2002, 09:37

I turn the music off and turn winamp on. Because I have Windows2000 I can get both sounds at the same time. And that with any program. Nothing beats playin CS with heavy metal, imo.

Spec.

tishco · April 16, 2002, 10:00

i find the civ3 music good on ancient, medieval boring but ok, industrial good, but the modern is the most cheesy rubbishi have heard
i prefer civ 2 music to be honest, but i leant the cd to someone who has lost it and i have unistalled the game

dunk · April 16, 2002, 10:10

The music is good. I just find the modern age music, um, inappropriate. It seems odd to me to roll over towns with modern armor while Kenny G is playing in the background. If I'm building, it's not as bad.

Flanker · April 16, 2002, 10:30

I seem to be one of the few that actually like the modern age music... Dunk999 has a point, it´s not the best "war" music, but that isn´t Beethoven either. Should be better with Wagner or something more equipped with war if it has to be classical music. However, I enjoy the modern age music while building and managing my civ, it is an easy listening SimCity-type of music.

Cyclotron · April 16, 2002, 12:49

Well, my new speakers haven't arrived yet so I have no idea what the Civ3 music sounds like, but until then I put on my ever-so-cool Lord of the Rings movie soundtrack.

Edit: Wahoo! enough posts for a custom avatar!

Grrr · April 16, 2002, 15:37

Someone switched the MP3's around on my computer at school (no I shouldn't be playing Civ at school), so now my armies sing along to Kenny G, I think.

MyOlde · April 16, 2002, 15:59

I turned the music off when I first loaded the game. I've never understood what music had to do with any game I was playing.

I do have my own music selections playing on my stereo. But not as part of a game.

Grrr · April 16, 2002, 16:17

A bit like the opening video, that doesn't seem to have anything to do with Civ3 either.

Inverse Icarus · April 16, 2002, 16:55

i blast MP3s and leave trillian on so i can still talk during the 5 minute periods between moves.

i blast:

spineshank
korn
adema
metallica
soundgarden
nofx
mxpx
pennywise
weezer
wallflowers
some techno / house
3DD
311
A Perfect Circle
Alice Cooper
Alice in Chains
Alien Ant Farm
The Ataris
Atari Teenage Riot
Beastie Boys
Black Sabbath
Blink 182
Bush
Gorilliaz
Linkin Park
Fear Factory
Fenx TX
Eve 6
Daft Punk
Deftones
Crossbreed
Rammstein
KMFDM
Hendrix
Zeppelin
Rob Zombie
Powerman 5000
System of a Down
Liquid Gang
Mudvayne
New Found Glory
NIN
Nickelback
Nonpoint
Orgy
POD
Puddle of Mudd
... etc

Jethro83 · April 16, 2002, 19:58

Quote:

Originally posted by dunk999
The music is good. I just find the modern age music, um, inappropriate. It seems odd to me to roll over towns with modern armor while Kenny G is playing in the background. If I'm building, it's not as bad.

So, so true. Anyway, its that point of the game when I am most aggressive, so to me its inappropriate all the time.

What I like to do is get music out of other games (especially C&C, Red Alert, etc.) and use that. Now my modern armour rolling into a shelled city with the Red Alert Hell March in the background sure is something else.

Inverse Icarus · April 16, 2002, 20:09

hell march is a classic. i have soem remixes

Tuberski · April 16, 2002, 20:24

I play when My girlfriend is sleeping, so I wasn't even aware that Civ3 had sound and music.

campmajor! · April 17, 2002, 07:02

Quote:

Originally posted by Tuberski
I play when My girlfriend is sleeping, so I wasn't even aware that Civ3 had sound and music.

Well I have something similar: my baby girl is sleaping next door!

But when I am all alone at home playing civ

I leave the original music on. But that rarely happens....

ahenobarb · April 17, 2002, 11:47

I think the music for the industrial age is good. The piano piece sounds a lot like W.A.Mozart's K. 466. I just started listening to the music included with Civ III, so I haven't reached the modern Era music yet, but the others were good.

As for CDs to listen to: It's a no-brainer Peter Gabriel - Passion, after that Passion Sources, also the Black Hawk Down soundtrack.

Jethro83 · April 17, 2002, 19:31

Quote:

Originally posted by ahenobarb
I think the music for the industrial age is good. The piano piece sounds a lot like W.A.Mozart's K. 466. I just started listening to the music included with Civ III, so I haven't reached the modern Era music yet, but the others were good.

Personally, I think the Industrial age music is boring, and the piano piece sounds a bit off. Ancient and medieval eras sound nice enough (particularly the Colonial America sort of tune in the middle-ages). But that's just my opinion.

As for modern era music, its actually quite nice. One of the pieces has a Spanish guitar and saxophone, and sounds kind of like a Kenny G piece. But niceness isn't one of my traits when I reach modern era. Since that is when the best technology is available, I tend to raise my aggression to something a lot higher than even Shaka. Kenny G isn't all that appropriate when you have modern armour rolling into a badly shelled city you just pummelled. But again, just my opinion.

Jawa Jocky · April 17, 2002, 20:30

the soundtrack to "Oh brother where art thou"

ahenobarb · April 19, 2002, 09:23

Not even the irony is good enough to keep listening to the "kenny G" stuff? (I still haven't heard it yet, I haven't had a chance to play in a few days).

It might be funny. Like listening to the Seasame Street theme while rolling over a couple cities with bombers and tanks.

"Hey, Bert. Why'd you bomb all those cities Bert?"