[ToecrusherHammerjaw]

Here's a thought:  Other than the original soundtrack, does anyone here prefer to listen to other music while playing FS2?  If so, what?  My current preference is Iron Savior.  Listen to them and you'll see why.

[Charismatic]

Well if im in the mood for Hard Rock i listen to it. Regardles of fs2 or not.

But i perfer fs2 stuff. Cauze FS2 is also the music that comes with it.
The whole feeling or sence of it. Big factor in makeing FS2 great.

[Nuclear1]

Mixture of stuff. Movie soundtracks, mostly, since I'm not distracted by lyrics or anything like that. The Rock, Revenge of the Sith, Requiem for a Dream, and Alexander happen to be the ones I've got on my playlist at the moment.

[achtung]

Yea pretty much anything without lyrics.  Classical sounds awesome when your on one of those kill em' all missions.

[NeoBasilisk]

Battle of Endor music goes quite well with some of the larger battles.

[pyro-manic]

Orion by Metallica, The Reflecting Pool by Twisted Tower Dire, Kick The Chair by Megadeth, Stravinsky's Firebird, etc. etc. Loads of stuff...

[NGTM-1R]

Flipside's music. The soundtrack for Freelancer (danger and combat tracks for Bretonia, Omega, Sigma, and Tau systems, music_lair_battle.wav, music_dangerous_chase.wav, music_friendly_encourage.wav, and the Race Start and Race Loop tracks.), EVE Online's soundtrack (the drummix versions of It's Full of Stars and Do You Know Where You Are?, most of the Gallente combat tracks, I Saw Your Ship, ...But Still We Go On, Lost Wormhole, Amongst Allies, Red Glowing Dust), Halo (Covenant Dance, On A Pale Horse, Perilous Journey, the Maw), the soundtrack for the never-released B5 flight sim Into The Fire (Battle Sequences A, B, D, and F), MSX Mix B from Grand Theft Auto 3, Paul Oakenfold (Mona Lisa Overdrive and Right Here, Right Now), the Gettysburg movie soundtrack (Fife and Gun, The First Battle, Charging Up the Hill, Over the Fence), Homeworld 1 (Turanic Raiders Battletrack, Imperial Battletrack, Swarmer Battletrack) and Homeworld 2 (Keeper and Sajuuk battletracks) soundtracks.

Honorable mention for mod music to Scroll's music, the Hidden combat tracks, and Desperation Chapter 2's final mission track.

[meisdavidp]

Well... I could simplify into genres or something... but don't feel like it. My playlists:

(All seemingly unknown songs tend to be either video game remixes or... well basically video game remixes)

Playlist 1 (more atmospheric and trancy)

1. Kadmium - Cities in the Sand (10:11)
2. Strike911 - Corneria Trance :: Absolute High :: Starfox SNES (5:50)
3. Prophecy, Prophetess - Back To The Place I Once Knew (5:06)
4. Olivier Laurent - Metroid - The Perpetual Burn (3:38)
5. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe - 09 - Track 09 (3:13)
6. GOA Trance ( infected mushroom - Spiritual trance) (9:12)
7. Nightwish - Ghost Love Score (10:02)
8. virt, Ailsean - Dancing Mad Once Again (4:37)
9. Kadmium - O Corneria (5:08)
10. Nightwish - Dark Chest of Wonders (4:28)
11. Stemage - Metroid Metal - The Theme (2:32)
12. virt - Crystal Flash (21:52)
13. Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots (3:32)
14. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe - 07 - Track 07 (3:38)
15. GLL - Resurrection of Trance(Terranigma) (8:03)
16. GeckoYamori & Rayza - Planet Oil (3:46)
17. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe - 06 - Track 06 (4:11)
18. Sean Stone - The Boy Feared by Time (2:31)
19. Sean Stone - The Fighting Priest (2:11)
20. Matt Pollard, Sean Stone, Dale North & Roy McClanahan - A Hero's Judgement (2:55)

Playlist 2 (for when I really feel crazy)

1. DJ Testo - Cyberia (Deep Trance Mix) (4:15)
2. Drowning Pool - Bodies (3:29)
3. Disturbed - Down With The Sickness (4:38)
4. nine inch nails - more human than human [remix] (4:18)
5. DJ Tiesto - Fly (7:04)
6. Slipknot - eyeless (3:56)
7. Instrumental - Carmina Burana O Fortuna (6:20)
8. Disturbed - Get Psycho (3:44)
9. System of a Down - War (2:40)
10. Crazy Frog - Axel F. 2005 (Club Mix) (6:27)
11. System Of A Down - BYOB (4:01)
12. Disturbed - Voices (3:10)
13. Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff (2:46)
14. Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots (3:32)
15. Slipknot - spit it out (2:39)
16. Static X - Push It (2:33)
17. Machine Head - Message in a Bottle (3:30)
18. William Orbit - Barbers Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten remix) (6:30)
19. System Of A Down - Chop Suey (3:30)
20. Apoptygma Berzerk - Fade To Black (5:00)
21. System Of The Down - Needles (3:11)
22. Limp Bizkit - Rollin (Uncensored) (3:39)
23. Anne Clark - Our Darkness (Total Eclipse Remix)2.mp3

[Setekh]

Hey meisdavidp, welcome to HLP. (Version 3, no less. )

[Nix]

I tried playing it without the original music.  I couldnt get into it.  Though, I liked the smooth, meliodic tracks of Squarepusher while playing.  Without the original music though, it just doesnt play good.
Though, I really wish I could get FS1 music to run in the FSPort reliably without having to modify each and every mission file.

[IceFire]

I consider the music of FS2 to be purpose built to exist with the gameplay...that is true as they spent some time with working out how events in the game would concide with musical cues.  I think it works well and the music is memorable for me...I like it enough to keep listening to it.

I can see something like Squarepusher working well as a substitute...but I don't have enough of that yet.

Boards of Canada is in the same vein as well.

[phreak]

I've tried to play winamp while playing FS, but listening to death/thrash/black(yes i have some) metal wouldn't make it real fun between hostiles.  Unreal on the other hand.....

[Nuclear1]

Unreal on the other hand.....

*remembers StemCell being used in the Pathways trailer*

*agrees with Phreak*

[ToecrusherHammerjaw]

Good to see this thread stayed alive to some extent.  Recently tried "Battle of the Heroes" from Star Wars Episode 3 while doing the last mission of FS1.  Wasn't what I had hoped for, but it was alright.

[Nuclear1]

Now that you mention that, I wrote the second-to-last mission of Rogue Episode I to the beat of Battle of the Heroes. Turned out quite well I think.

[Liquid Fire]

Another from the "original music is good enough" crowd. But when I get tired of that, I find the soundtrack to mechwarrior 2 works quite nicely. In fact, that seems to work out for most games.

This thread reminds me. The freespace 2 credits music is awesome, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. How can I get it?

[Col. Fishguts]

Use VPView to extract it from warble.vp.

On a side note, did anyone notice that a track from the "End of days" soundtrack sounds a lot like the FS2 credits music ?

[[DW]-Hunter]

Well... I could simplify into genres or something... but don't feel like it. My playlists:

(All seemingly unknown songs tend to be either video game remixes or... well basically video game remixes)

Playlist 1 (more atmospheric and trancy)

1. Kadmium - Cities in the Sand (10:11)
2. Strike911 - Corneria Trance :: Absolute High :: Starfox SNES (5:50)
3. Prophecy, Prophetess - Back To The Place I Once Knew (5:06)
4. Olivier Laurent - Metroid - The Perpetual Burn (3:38)
5. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe - 09 - Track 09 (3:13)
6. GOA Trance ( infected mushroom - Spiritual trance) (9:12)
7. Nightwish - Ghost Love Score (10:02)
8. virt, Ailsean - Dancing Mad Once Again (4:37)
9. Kadmium - O Corneria (5:08)
10. Nightwish - Dark Chest of Wonders (4:28)
11. Stemage - Metroid Metal - The Theme (2:32)
12. virt - Crystal Flash (21:52)
13. Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots (3:32)
14. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe - 07 - Track 07 (3:38)
15. GLL - Resurrection of Trance(Terranigma) (8:03)
16. GeckoYamori & Rayza - Planet Oil (3:46)
17. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe - 06 - Track 06 (4:11)
18. Sean Stone - The Boy Feared by Time (2:31)
19. Sean Stone - The Fighting Priest (2:11)
20. Matt Pollard, Sean Stone, Dale North & Roy McClanahan - A Hero's Judgement (2:55)

Playlist 2 (for when I really feel crazy)

1. DJ Testo - Cyberia (Deep Trance Mix) (4:15)
2. Drowning Pool - Bodies (3:29)
3. Disturbed - Down With The Sickness (4:38)
4. nine inch nails - more human than human [remix] (4:18)
5. DJ Tiesto - Fly (7:04)
6. Slipknot - eyeless (3:56)
7. Instrumental - Carmina Burana O Fortuna (6:20)
8. Disturbed - Get Psycho (3:44)
9. System of a Down - War (2:40)
10. Crazy Frog - Axel F. 2005 (Club Mix) (6:27)
11. System Of A Down - BYOB (4:01)
12. Disturbed - Voices (3:10)
13. Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff (2:46)
14. Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots (3:32)
15. Slipknot - spit it out (2:39)
16. Static X - Push It (2:33)
17. Machine Head - Message in a Bottle (3:30)
18. William Orbit - Barbers Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten remix) (6:30)
19. System Of A Down - Chop Suey (3:30)
20. Apoptygma Berzerk - Fade To Black (5:00)
21. System Of The Down - Needles (3:11)
22. Limp Bizkit - Rollin (Uncensored) (3:39)
23. Anne Clark - Our Darkness (Total Eclipse Remix)2.mp3

should add some Soulfly... preferable track 13 on the Darkage cd, forgot the name of the track, and since when was nine inch nails hardcore rock LOL its industrial

[Flipside]

Hehehehe I used to play Unreal Tournament online with Closer blaring out of my speakers