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The Beatles are incredibly hit or miss for me. For every Helter Skeletor or Here Comes the Sun, there’s three or four songs that bore me to tears. I’ll respect their musical diversity and songwriting, but I’ll rarely actively listen to them. KISS is truly awful to my ears. If there’s a...

Almost all of your complaints are fixed in Ragnarok. The story is bigger, the realms are more vast, and most importantly, you can go to all nine of them. It’s hard for me to get a frame of reference since I never played the original trilogy, but I enjoyed both 2018 and Ragnarok very much. The...

I do understand this feeling a bit, particularly with Alan’s sections. The game is far more appealing to me as Saga, as I prefer a more “grounded” story and detective-type stuff. Wake’s sections absolutely are swarming with confusing plot points.

They definitely can get too jazzy for me; the growless albums in between Watershed and the new one have a lot of this. It’s difficult for me to find emotion in jazz, and a lot of it just seems like musical masturbation to me. That said, I don’t hear much of that on the new record at all. Yeah...

I think I’m one of the few people out there who prefers Doom 2016 to Eternal. The latter just seemed far more, I dunno, goofy. Alan Wake 2 is a slow burn for sure. If you’re expecting a modern Resident Evil clone or even something like the Silent Hill 2 remake you’ll be disappointed; the game...

Honestly I think that entire album is near perfect. If I had to pick the weakest (aside from the opener), they’d be Behind the Veil and Along for the Ride, but I still love them all. On this we agree. One thing I do love, though, are the numerous riffs in harmonic minor. Such a cool sound that...

I love Opeth’s newest observation. Easily my favorite of theirs since Ghost Reveries. Not a bad track on the whole album, and like @JudasMyGuide said, it’s inspired and really takes influence from almost every Opeth album before it. That’s how I feel, too. Midnight Messiah and the big epic are...

All I know is that I’m salivating to play Metroid Prime 4. Gimme a release date already!

I’m pretty much in the same boat as you three, minus the performance anxiety. I almost exclusively play single player games, as they’re kind of a “wind down from a stressful day” hobby for me. Granted, playing games in the same room with people while tossing back a few beers is great, since I...

LOL. Hearing BG live was such a different experience. Ok I’ll admit, this was funny.

Holy crap. Camel is a huge influence on Opeth. Rick Astley has just two degrees of separation from Opeth. I will never hear Never Gonna Give You Up the same again.

I have no idea who Jon Nödtveit is, but since he’s the only one on the list who has apparently killed people, he gets my vote. MJK is odd, but he has no place on this list. Same with Lars; he’s incredibly annoying, but he’s a choir boy compared to some of these others.

Super easy votes for Myrath, Armored Saint (I love this song and entire album), and Dream Theater (Petrucci’s solo is the cherry on top of a beautiful song). White Zombie’s classic edges out Alter Bridge for me. The other two are “the enemy of my enemy”-type votes.

These would all be great live songs. I’d kill to hear Surrender to Reason in particular. A testament to the quality of their catalog, for sure.

I love the building on fire at 1:15 and the guy passed out at 6:45. Definitely the Chicago I know! But my favorite part has to be the two full minutes of the guy on a bench slowly falling asleep. Did everyone really wear hats back then? I like how wide the roads are and the minimal traffic...

All great games that hopefully you’ll enjoy! I preferred Fallen Order to Survivor, but the latter is still excellent and a bigger game overall. AC Odyssey was the best AC I’ve played, and I’m looking forward to Shadows next week. I played as Kassandra, which aside from the historical...

I love that he loves Faith in Others! Apostle in Triumph, too. Saying Blackwater Park is overrated, though… not cool. Deliverance (song) is the one that’s overrated.

Hope you enjoy it again! Easily the best of their post-Watershed prog rock era albums.

Any way you slice it, Octavarium is the best track on an otherwise painfully mediocre album. Outside of The Astonishing it’s easily my least favorite album of theirs. The Root of All Evil is one of the most ploddingly boring songs the band has ever done. Tracks 2 and 3 are also snoozefests, and...

You left out some good parts, but I’ll agree that the entire keyboard intro is boring and the song should’ve just started when the full band enters.