I’ve been listening to podcasts whenever I’m doing things that don’t involve lots of dialogue. That’s never been a knock on a game for me (Elden Ring was my GOTY last year and my favorite podcast game too), and it helps me kill two birds during my limited game time. The current season of Friends at the Table has been a great companion piece, although I’ve reached the most recent episode and am very scared of how that’s going to go.
Kind of surprised they’ve not launched a feature that lets you plug in your own music / podcasts but I’m sure liability and licensing fees are much more complicated than it seems from the outside. Hell, at this point I kind of wonder how a Fallout game licenses its songs with how much the music industry has changed in 8 years.
Anything but radio stations. I never had them on in the Fallouts because they were always one of the most obnoxious parts of the soundscape in those games.
@allthedinos: The OG Xbox had native ability to replace game music with your own (that developers had to turn on) and it was great! The music would fade and pause in appropriate moments and you could replace a lot of games' soundtracks. My guess is that the reason they don't do this anymore is because music is streamed (instead of ripped from CDs to the HD) and you'd have to pay licensing deals to various streaming services and update the game to work with their protocols. It would be kind of a pain.
Of course there WOULD be a perfect solution IF YOU'D BOUGHT A DAMNED ZUNE SO MICROSOFT HAD ITS OWN MUSIC SERVICE!
YOU SEE WHAT NOT BUYING A ZUNE HAS DONE? DO YOU SEE?
I started listening to podcast while playing. The sound design is fine, but yeah, I'm spoiled from those Fallout games and those classics songs on the radio.
XBox doesn’t have the same Spotify integration PlayStation does? It’s not always ideal, as some games fully mute their soundtracks rather than allow you to render them subtle beds for your chats of choice while a select few (Death Stranding most explicitly) disallow playback entirely “for the experience” but I am or would be surprised to learn XBox doesn’t have the same kind of function
@nodima: Xbox does have background music integration like PlayStation I think, it’s just kind of messy and of course you need the appropriate account/sub. Spotify is one of the options.
Spent some time off over the summer playing No Man's Sky and listening to George Clanton/other electronic vaporwavy stuff with the PS5's Spotify app. It's a great feature for certain games.
@bigsocrates: I held one of my old Zunes a few weeks ago. That platform was amazing. I used to squirt Katamari Damacy tracks back and forth with my roommate, who was also among the Zune faithful. I used the desktop Zune app as my main music player for years longer than anybody else on earth, until I was forced to migrate to Groove, which is also now dead.
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