Do you use headphones for gaming?

[Mindf!3ldzX]

http://mashable.com/2012/09/26/headphones/ , this was an awesome read. I don't use headphones for quake but I know people who do,and thought the people who do use them might find the article an interesting read

[Syluxguy28O3]

i use headphones for quake. nice read, btw.

[golden_boy]

I also usually use headphones.

Sennheiser PMX-60's actually. I find Sennheiser very adequate.

[grave_digga]

I find Sennheiser very adequate.

German quality.

[R00k]

Always

[Polarite]

I use mostly headphones for quake, but its fun with the speakers real loud too

[talisa]

dwhut? wth of course not

headphones dont have the same quality sound as real speakers.
i have my compy linked over to my radio with big speakers, and i have awesome sound

i love it that when i blow up something in a game my whole room is vibrating
i dun just wanna hear the explosions and stuff, i wanna feel them too

nothing beats feeling your chair,table ,floor and the whole entire room around you vibrate when you blow something up

[Syluxguy28O3]

dwhut? wth of course not

headphones dont have the same quality sound as real speakers.
i have my compy linked over to my radio with big speakers, and i have awesome sound

i love it that when i blow up something in a game my whole room is vibrating
i dun just wanna hear the explosions and stuff, i wanna feel them too

nothing beats feeling your chair,table ,floor and the whole entire room around you vibrate when you blow something up

i like that too, but i dont think its practical on mp. its hard to concentrate when a rq makes you deaf for 2 seconds.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

I found out this fact the hard way : You can't pretend your not home when the police are knocking at your door when the speakers are making shit vibrate.

One day when I was a teenager playing quake/ listening to music, apparently I pissed off a neighbor with one too many rocketjump's (wow ,speakers dance something ferocious from this) and called the law on me,well since I was the only one home and I wasn't hearing them beating on the front / back door , door was unlocked and that fucker walked through my shit ~ to my bedroom door,leaned in with just his head visible and motioned me to turn it down (EEEK) , and if your wondering yea I was definately smoking / thought I was doomed. He delivered the turn it down request and left without giving me any further shit.

I no longer own a stereo of any capacity to make this mistake anymore,haha. That also sparked the 'locked door' mentality ,doors locked alllllllllllllllllll time.

[Syluxguy28O3]

I found out this fact the hard way : You can't pretend your not home when the police are knocking at your door when the speakers are making shit vibrate.

One day when I was a teenager playing quake/ listening to music, apparently I pissed off a neighbor with one too many rocketjump's (wow ,speakers dance something ferocious from this) and called the law on me,well since I was the only one home and I wasn't hearing them beating on the front / back door , door was unlocked and that fucker walked through my shit ~ to my bedroom door,leaned in with just his head visible and motioned me to turn it down (EEEK) , and if your wondering yea I was definately smoking / thought I was doomed. He delivered the turn it down request and left without giving me any further shit.

I no longer own a stereo of any capacity to make this mistake anymore,haha. That also sparked the 'locked door' mentality ,doors locked alllllllllllllllllll time.

SIR SIR!!, can you please get off the bong and turn down the sterio?

[golden_boy]

it's funny reading about speakers having better sound quality than headphones when you're talking about 8 bit 11kHz sound.

It's not really audiophile territory guys.

[Perochi]

i dun just wanna hear the explosions and stuff, i wanna feel them too

[foq]

it's funny reading about speakers having better sound quality than headphones when you're talking about 8 bit 11kHz sound.

It's not really audiophile territory guys.

There can still be quite a bit of difference between your average speakers and a good pair of speakers. I ran a really old, shitty home theater audio system for a while before it broke after I already fixed it once. The audio quality was significantly better than standard speakers, and that was a really low end system.

[grave_digga]

i dun just wanna hear the explosions and stuff, i wanna feel them too

There was (iirc) a backback like thingy (or more like a vest) back in the 90s that imitates hits which hit your ingame charakter. I think it got support for a few games but i didn't remember the name of it. I also think it vibrated and stuff when explosions were nearby and so on.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

There was (iirc) a backback like thingy (or more like a vest) back in the 90s that imitates hits which hit your ingame charakter. I think it got support for a few games but i didn't remember the name of it. I also think it vibrated and stuff when explosions were nearby and so on.

Sounds like a vest design of the Rumble chair thing

The Rumble Force Feedback Chair

Want to feel like your really in the game? Take 2 kids (check!) position them on both sides of you , then when you are hit with a RL or GL etc, they can punch your arm to simulate explosions