The music - it burns!

[Chinghis]

Made the mistake, last night, of turning on the music while playing. Don't know what came over me... hadn't heard it for a while. Now, of course, I remember why I turned it off. It's stuck in my head, replaying the same insidious loop as in the game.. Jules Verne, Native Americans, Post-Apocalypse... Gahhhhh!

I'm assuming NO ONE else plays with the music turned on, right?

 

[Ace]

I turn it on once in a while just for fun but only for one or two passes through the loop. I like to have a Kingston Trio tape playing in the background. (I guess that dates me!)

 

[The Person]

I always have Winamp in the background, and having the Civ2 music on at the same time won't do very well.

 

[funxus]

I use WMP or a CD-player. It's not that I hate the Civ2 music, I listened to it for quite a long time and think it's a bit part of the spirit, it's just that there's so much better music you can listen to instead.

 

[ElephantU]

I first started playing Civ2 on a low horsepower PC. Killing all sounds helped things move faster, though I missed the fight sounds. The Wonders were decent too, but the background music was no loss.

 

[BlackAdder60]

I dont get to listen to the Civ2 music as much as I would like because I dont like to have CDs in my drives, they make to much noise and are subject to wear.

So I always patch my games with a NoCD patch (legal or not) and run the game from a CD image via Daemon tools (and *YES* I *DO* own an *ORIGINAL* copy of the games that I play... sooner or later .

Unfortunately Civ2 is dumb enough to run WITHOUT a patch but smart enough not to play so I have been thinking of a work around but it havent been a priority to me.

Anyway I do think the music to Civ 2 is soothing and relaxing (almost as much as those injections given me by those nice people dressed all in white... the ones that also brings me my nice shirt with those looong sleves and buttons in the back...

 

[The Last Conformist]

I used always to have the CivII music on, then one day I turned it off and turned on WinAmp. I've only looked back a couple of occasions to hear the CivIII and Conquests music.

 

[LoughlinNR]

am i the only person who likes the music? its a differant situation for me because i started playing CIV II when i was 6 so it reminds me of when i was just a little lad, i still play it from time to time, for me the game never ages

 

[Theben]

If you were 6 when you 1st started playing you can't be too old yet, lad.

When it 1st came out I chucked the music and CD and put in the Warcraft CD. That music suited my warlike style...

Now I either have a music CD of my own in there or am listening to something on the net.

 

[LoughlinNR]

If you were 6 when you 1st started playing you can't be too old yet, lad.

When it 1st came out I chucked the music and CD and put in the Warcraft CD. That music suited my warlike style...

Now I either have a music CD of my own in there or am listening to something on the net.

Im a big boy now see my avatar thats a recent picture of me honest mister

Hw can nobody like the CIVII music its some of the best music EVER not just in a game but through all time.
Satan himself couldnt do better

 

[Specialist290]

I like the music pretty well. I just don't like sitting through 2-3 hours of the same songs playing over and over and over...

I generally run the game w/o the CD, so I never hear the music anyway.

(Of course, for those of you who want to listen to the music every now and then without starting the game up, I did make the discovery that it will play in a regular music CD player. Don't play the first track, though--that's the game data.)

 

[Conrino]

Cool. Except the music is way to short. I listen to LotR when I play.

 

[MikeLynch]

When it 1st came out I chucked the music and CD and put in the Warcraft CD.

Heh heh heh! "Bum- ba dumdum- dum- dadadadum..."

I'd do that, except that I try to avoid using music for one video game when playing another. It gives me cognitive dissonance.

I have actually assembled my own idealized Civ soundtrack over the years. It contains songs that are pompous and/or warlike in sound ("Ride of the Valkyries"), historically relevant ("1812 Overture"), or lyrically appropriate ("World Leader Pretend" by REM). Currently the soundtrack is around 500 MB in size (mp3s) and I never, ever get through the whole thing in one sitting.

 

[midiostri]

I find Civ's music to be very melancholic; it gives a feeling of solitude, of infinite loneliness as the millennia pass by. I like it, though. It is part of the game. And of course, like anyone else here, at some point I've turned it off.

Playing Civ takes time and this is a great chance to listen to anything. Maybe longer tracks suit better, though. Like Pink Floyd etc.

Try Tangerine Dream's "Encore". Perfect!

Greetings,
Dimitris

 

[Barthax]

Currently my CD is stuck in the defunct DVD-R drive, so I don't have much of a choice! I'm just too lazy to get it out.

Normally I don't play with any sound as the wife's usually watching TV anyway.

 

[The Person]

I have actually assembled my own idealized Civ soundtrack over the years. It contains songs that are pompous and/or warlike in sound ("Ride of the Valkyries"), historically relevant ("1812 Overture"), or lyrically appropriate ("World Leader Pretend" by REM). Currently the soundtrack is around 500 MB in size (mp3s) and I never, ever get through the whole thing in one sitting.

Maybe I should do that as well. I have a few epic-sounding tracks I could use...

 

[MikeLynch]

I also use Floyd. Lots of Floyd. In fact, that's the one thing I should add more of, to push that folder up past 600 MB -- more Floyd.

 

[Joeb WK]

I always have the orgional music It helps me concentrate and I have had it for so long I barely notice it when I play.

 

[BlackAdder60]

I also use Floyd. Lots of Floyd. In fact, that's the one thing I should add more of, to push that folder up past 600 MB -- more Floyd.

Is that *PINK* Floyd?

 

[NaiveFairy]

i like some of the tracks......there are some different tracks depending which civ2 you play,to have all the tracks would be cool.

i made al ist but its not the same way, for instance, after contact when someoen declares war, and the mongol drums come on, that is kewl