The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
Please vote in the Forum Structure Poll. Polling will close at 2PM EST on January 21, 2025.
Giant Bomb: Psychonauts 2 is probably a thing. Post the news in the thread just in case
BlankZoe
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
It's Giant Bomb! Maybe the best video games website on the internet.
Giant Bomb was founded by Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis after the whole Gamespot Kane and Lynch fiasco. It is home to quality journalism, entertaining videos and so much dubstep.
Giant Bomb's staff includes:
Jeff Gerstmann!
Ryan Davis!
Bradley H. Shoemaker!
Vinny Caravella!
Patrick Klepek!
and others, including Alex Navarro and Drew Scanlon!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vTzpuYRF1sHere is their just released Top 10 Games of 2011 List!
Here is a list of the funniest quicklooks!
Also you can post about Screened or Tested or even ComicVine or Anime Vice I guess. Maybe not Anime Vice.
TALK ABOUT GIANT BOMB
BlankZoe on
0
This discussion has been closed.
Posts
Warlords Cash Games
Pax Prime 2011 Panel
Jar Time With Jeff 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Random P.C. Game: Swat Phantasmagoria Part 1 / Part 2 Baldur’s Gate 2 The Elder’s Scrolls II: Daggerfall Part 1 / Part 2 Crusader: No Remorse
Load Our Last Save: Brute Force Halo Full Spectrum Warrior Star Wars: Republic Commando
The Running of the Lanterns 1 / Deux
Thursday Night Throwdown: Street Fighter 3: Third Strike: Online Edition (Note that this is infinitely entertaining for me, because I am a fighting game nerd who loves to watch them it might not be for you) Dead Island Trackmania 2 Left 4 Dead 2 Unreal Tournament 2004 Quake III: Arena Fortune Street Part 1 / Part 2 Trenched (Shut the fuck up, it’s Trenched)
Members Only Snes Party: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Welcome Back Tricaster Party: Part 1 / Part 2
And pretty much all of the Happy Hours are great, it’s hard to find ones that aren’t, the other TNTs I have listed are my personal favorites the other
Whiskey Media is like if the Gawker network wasn't terrible. Hosting tons of different review sites, they're really neat!
The most well-known Whiskey Media site, it was founded by Jeff Gerstmann and Ryan Davis after Jeff got fired from Gamespot because Kane and Lynch is a shitty game. They do quicklooks, the Giant Bombcast, and other various pieces of content that are very good.
The next most popular Whiskey site, Tested is helmed by Will Smith (who sadly isn't all that Fresh) and Norman Chan (Maximum PC and PC Gamer, respectively). They test a lot of dumb shit but it's a really good place to go for tech news and every week they're joined by Gary Whitta for the This Is Only a Test podcast.
Comic Vine is about comic books. I like comics, I'd say check it out if you do too.
Screened is their movie division. Operated by the drummer Alex Navarro and the puppy obsessed Matt Rorie, they write movie reviews.
Well, animes.
You can subscribe to their sites to get a bunch of neato Subscriber Videos, access to the mobile version of their site, etc, by going here and paying $4.95 a month or $49.95 a year (t-shirt still comes with the year subscription
http://www.giantbomb.com/chat/
TNTs are here
Someday I am going to have the money to subscribe.
Also I have been avoiding a lot of the top 10 discussion because somebody mentioned they do not mind spoiling things in their top 10 videos and I still have a lot of games to play
but I am happy they have my money
A ton of great games this year.
Indie and AAA ones.
so many pictures of him at cookouts and parties
I started watching the Persona 4 endurance run. I held off for a while because I assumed, not being into those kinds of games, that I wouldn't really enjoy it. How wrong I was.
Every part has been great so far, but especially part 6. Holy fuck part 6. I literally had to pause because I was laughing so hard that I couldn't breathe.
I can already taste Ryan's rage
That Vinny is the best
Well when your competition is as unique and strong as you and all you're doing is matching what you've done before and not setting a new bar, it's easy to see why they felt another game deserved the award
It's also a side effect of the generation lasting longer than usual. Uncharted 2 dazzled in 2009, in 2011 people had higher expectations and part of the reason they were not met was because of hardware limitations
PSN ID : DetectiveOlivaw | TWITTER | STEAM ID | NEVER FORGET
god that man is wonderful
Yeah, same here. Dude surprised me with his funny
Well, I don't agree that UC3 merely matched UC2, I think both the graphics and the technical implementation of both fire and water exceed what UC2 had to offer. And for Best Looking Game, I don't see how the argument against a game that looks "fucking phenomenal" can literally be "it's a great looking game but so was Uncharted 2". That's not a flaw in UC3, that's a strength of UC2. I'm not saying anything against the end-result, I think The Witcher 2 was the right winner... not, perhaps, on my computer, but on better ones. But if the argument is "Yeah, the old one also looked good", then the category suddenly becomes Most Improved Graphics From The Last Iteration Of The Franchise and shouldn't Rayman be the clear winner there?
Eh, as I said, I don't mind who won, just disliked the specific argument against it. You couldn't imagine anyone arguing against Portal 2 for best story by going "yeah, it has good writing, but so did Portal 1".
Remember how when they were talking about LA Noire and how, as it looked more and more realistic, it reached its own uncanny valley where unrealistic spots stuck out more?
Exactly how I feel about Uncharted 3, in particular anything having to do with melee. That game looks smooth as butter with wonderful animation until the second you have a fistfight with someone, then the animation turns janky and stilted. I haven't played The Witcher 2, but Rayman Origins and Dead Space 2 both look a lot better and more consistent IMO.
Twitter 3DS: 0860 - 3257 - 2516
One half of it being Alex doesn't really help
Sometimes he gets a bit too internetty for my tastes but most of the time I like him fine.
Also the fact that Trains Vs. Zombies or Family Fued 2012 are not on the Quick Look list is a crime.
SHOW ME BLOW!
Tumblr | Twitter PSN: misterdapper Av by Satellite_09
i cannot stop laughing
Tumblr | Twitter PSN: misterdapper Av by Satellite_09
Tumblr | Twitter PSN: misterdapper Av by Satellite_09
I continue to not like that series at all. It looks and sounds fucking wonderful, but for being such a sprightly looking character (dude has no arms or legs!), the movement is just way too sluggish for my taste. Maybe I'm spoiled; the last platformer I got into or gave a shit about was Super Meat Boy, which is pretty much impossible to top.
Steam: Car1gt // Tumblr // Facebook // Twitter
But beyond that they have pretty solid journalistic integrity. Nothing about them seems fake or paid for.
So yeah, just in case you clicked on this thread and wanted a random opinion of the site.
Also Tested is pretty great too.
They said almost nothing about any specific storylines or plot points in Skyrim. A bit of the endgame Saints Row stuff is mentioned, but I don't think it was a huge spoiler. Honestly the only big spoiler bomb dropped during the final podcast is related to Catherine, in case you had any interest in that.
Cool, I'm near the end of Saints Row, but Skyrim is the kind of game where I'm going to be doing side stuff for quite a while.
And Catherine hasn't been released in Australia, but it's the kind of game I'd rather hear about than play.
but if they talk about Catherine I really can't wait to hear Jeff yell at Patrick for giving it the number 2 spot
SPOILERS
All I took away from what Brad said was that no other game does what it does (I disagree with that) and that in the numerous hours he has played, no content was unenjoyable (which was not my experience)
So I am a little disappointed, I suppose. I wish Brad would've been able to say anything bad about the game to put what he liked more in focus. It is hard to say why you liked something past a certain point, but Jeff and Ryan admitting to some flaws and shortcomings of Saint's made me understand their position on the game better. I guess either he is unwilling to address the flaws (without just attempting to debunk them) or I am simply unable to see how every part of that game can truly be considered unflawed by him
or I missed something he said that is also a possibility I mean they talked for a whiiile
I really think the dude just loves the game. I mean he has played it a crazy amount and is continuing to play it after probably 100 hours. Brad has very odd tastes sometimes but when he loves a game he really loves a game.
It doesn't make sense at all
I think I just like exploring caves or something