DemiGodRaven

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth has one early on with Jeff's Taco Truck and trying to obtain money. There's a quick throwaway line where Kasuga checks his pockets and goes 'oh, looks like I do have the money' but since its the tutorial for a minigame everyone basically says 'go do the part time job anyway, wouldn't hurt to have more'.

Both the Horizon games have a ton of these as well, I know Forbidden West does for sure.

Just look at those savings!

I bought a ps5. I was so surprised to see one in stock.

three years after launch. what a world. i had gotten so used to the idea of just never having one after the initial zeitgeist/difficulties of finding one wore off years ago. I think we're even a year removed from all those 'hey its kind of easy to find a next gen console now...' articles.

and the first thing I'm probably going to play on it is warframe.

we play the songs that sound more like everyone else than anyone else

KLON Klone Radio

its songs for the deaf, you cant even hear it!

Yep, I'm out.

Warframe is my only permanent. Wreckfest is probably on the second longest run with cook serve delicious 2 and 3 closing it out. Everything else will get the axe upon completion, though Hitman games stay around for a bit.

I thought it was about the band and their Egoleech album from '04.

My copy of Katamari Forever for PS3 showed up a whole two days before release. I felt like a god.

Wow.

There was a while there where it seemed like few power metal bands were going release-over-release and having them turn out good quite like Kamelot was with that run from Karma to Ghost Opera huh. Its easy to see how they exploded in fame right around that time as well, because it seemed like the band really found their shtick in being the classy-goth kid's power metal band during Epica and The Black Halo. Even to this day it feels like the blueprint for the band was laid out during that album and even though the lineup has shifted tremendously since - new bassist, drummer, vocalist in that time - they still know that The Black Halo was where their bread was buttered. What an album though, even as a dork who has spent most of their time in the heavier underground, I always have time for Kamelot's brand of red-wine drinking goofiness. Almost every song on this album is great and has stuck with me for the decade and a half since its release, the only ones that don't immediately come to mind on this one for me are the interstitial concept tracks and "This Pain" but everything else?

"Serenade" is an amazing closer. "Moonlight", "The Black Halo" and "Abandoned" are all great. The first four? Thats as frontloaded as a disc can get. Having Dimmu Borgir's vocalist pop up in "March Of Mephisto" only laid the groundwork for the band to try it again with Bjorn from Soilwork on Poetry For The Poisoned, and even after that they've made major usage of the light/heavy interplay dynamic. I still have the One Cold Winter's Night dvd lying around somewhere as well and I've only seen the band once, during the Silverthorn touring cycle and that involved making a trip to the Bay Area.

All that said, I do think Ghost Opera is a fun as hell album as well even if its conceptual ideas are a little more scattershot. It has another fantastic closer in "Eden Echo" though.

I want you to know that I do read all of these and I enjoy seeing someone else tumbling headfirst into the games that I used to think were the most incredible things when I was younger. The first PlayStation was my first console and I wanted to have everything for it regardless of quality because it all seemed so amazing. You have no idea how fucking cool Road Rash seemed to a kid who had no idea just how ridiculous the situation was for that port. I just never have anything to say because this is usually one of my GB forum topics to read (alongside the various other console lineup deep dives happening here) while I'm on break at work.

"Rusty Cage" was a Soundgarden song first, I had a recorded cassette tape of it from a neighbor kid who had the album it is on. I was thrilled when it popped up in the soundtrack for Burnout Paradise. Johnny Cash covered it later and did a great job making that song his own.