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The Giant Bomb Thread

ThetherooThetheroo Registered User regular
edited February 2018 in Social Entropy++
Giant Bomb is a website about video games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG_8XHk5JDk

The end of the year is a good time to reflect upon the best and worst of video games in the previous year. Listen along to your 2017 Giant Bomb Team as they talk for hours and hours and hours about all things video game.

Jeff Gerstmann


Brad Shoemaker


Alex Navarro


Vinny Caravella


Matt Rorie


Dan Ryckert


Jason Oestreicher


Introducing your newest additions to the Giant Bomb lineup

Ben Pack

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Abby Russell

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Jan Ochoa

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    bennett foddy's list makes me VERY excited for Dunk Lords

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    bennett foddy's list makes me VERY excited for Dunk Lords

    NBA Playgrounds broke my heart

    maybe I'll be ready to love again

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    i don't know how i went the entire year without yearing anything about nba playgrounds

  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    i don't know how i went the entire year without yearing anything about nba playgrounds

    It was the biggest case of "well this doesn't seem very good...but what else am I gonna play on the Switch in June"

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  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    Are we containing the crazyness here???

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    I feel bad for Alex in best surprise since fire pro did come out and now won’t be eligible for next year.

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    Catching up on Bombcasts GOTY podcast, finishing on Day 1.

    Brad picked a hell of a hill to die on for best graphics.

  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Knight_ wrote: »
    I feel bad for Alex in best surprise since fire pro did come out and now won’t be eligible for next year.

    Look I’m gonna side with Jeff here. If it was decided before the Podcast that no early access games were eligible then don’t do that during the recording. Between that and the mess that is Best World my faith in Alex has been shaken lol

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    all this nier automata talk in the goty podcast and whoops I just reinstalled neir automata

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  • Theodore FlooseveltTheodore Floosevelt proud parent of eight beautiful girls and shalmelo dorne (which is currently being ruled by a woman (awesome role model for my daughters)) #dornedadRegistered User regular
    is blank check just not releasing an ep this week? I can't remember what that schedule of theirs said for the week after the last Jedi

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  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    is blank check just not releasing an ep this week? I can't remember what that schedule of theirs said for the week after the last Jedi

    @Theodore Floosevelt

    This is not the podcast thread!

    But they said they were taking a week for xmas

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  • The BetgirlThe Betgirl I'm Molly! Registered User regular
    I believe that's the joke, chincy

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    Knight_ wrote: »
    I feel bad for Alex in best surprise since fire pro did come out and now won’t be eligible for next year.

    Look I’m gonna side with Jeff here. If it was decided before the Podcast that no early access games were eligible then don’t do that during the recording. Between that and the mess that is Best World my faith in Alex has been shaken lol

    sure, but pubg was early access at the time of recording and actually came out after fire pro iirc. that's why i feel bad since by their rules it should have been eligible for 2017.

    alex has also been on record for weeks saying the early access rule is bad and dumb and i probably agree with him? idk. it's stupid since there are a ton of games that i only played in early access and couldn't give a shit about once they came out since i had my time with them.

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  • lionheart_mlionheart_m Registered User regular
    The Jeff defense (which btw I don’t agree with since it boned Dead Cells) was that PUBG was gonna be released on December. Fire Pro wasn’t therefore PUBG was a 2017 release and eligible for awards.

    Which btw sucked big time for Gang Beasts. I mean you can see what happens when a game isn’t acknowledged when it’s having an impact during Best Multiplayer.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Shout-out to A House Of Many Doors, a game which will get completely overlooked in the Best New Character category, but which has extremely strong entries in the category

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    Fiona McConnagh is a Poet-Knight who has joined the order thanks to being abandoned outside their castle as a baby. However, her poetry is fucking terrible and she has no idea how to improve.

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  • CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    A few overlooked best moments:
    - The part in Persona 5 where the bad guy appears to win in a fairly decisive and shocking manner. (The following explanation and follow up is a bit clunky but that moment is rather jarring)
    - The culmination of Igor's storyline in Persona 5
    - The reveal of Project Zero Dawn in Horizon.

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  • Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    End wrote: »
    all this nier automata talk in the goty podcast and whoops I just reinstalled neir automata

    this cannot continue

  • President EvilPresident Evil Let's Rock Registered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    I feel bad for Alex in best surprise since fire pro did come out and now won’t be eligible for next year.

    Look I’m gonna side with Jeff here. If it was decided before the Podcast that no early access games were eligible then don’t do that during the recording. Between that and the mess that is Best World my faith in Alex has been shaken lol

    I just listened to his takedown of 2K. I knew I couldn't stay mad at him for long.

  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    watching hitsmas

    hitman is a really good game you guys

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    End wrote: »
    watching hitsmas

    hitman is a really good game you guys
    Some might say the best game of 2016

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Everyone is terrible and wrong

  • SLyMSLyM Registered User regular
    Hey ceno maybe put those in spoiler tags? I haven't beat persona 5 yet

    My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    i agree with abby that persona sounds sometimes like musical theater's interpretation of "rock 'n roll"

    i disagree with her that that's a negative

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    The entirety of the Best Wolfenstein 2 Moment or Sequence deliberation is a joy

    What a fucking buck wild game

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    on why I listen to goty one of my favorite things are great takedowns(it's why I listen to Jets sports radio) which jeff usually provides. I don't listen to all the categories

    "sim city! holy shit!"

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    i agree with abby that persona sounds sometimes like musical theater's interpretation of "rock 'n roll"

    i disagree with her that that's a negative

    I think the music in persona 5 is definitely better than rent, though that's not exactly high praise

  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    i agree with abby that persona sounds sometimes like musical theater's interpretation of "rock 'n roll"

    i disagree with her that that's a negative

    I think the music in persona 5 is definitely better than rent, though that's not exactly high praise

    If only Jan could have weighed in, seeing as he is now Giant Bomb's Musical Editor

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  • Librarian's ghostLibrarian's ghost Librarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSpork Registered User regular
    The number of times on Hitmas where one of them said, man hitman is a good game, was a lot.


    I don’t think I knew you could climb with an axe. Hitman is still teaching me.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Man, Drew, Jan, Abby

    What is it with video producers and great hair

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Moriveth wrote: »
    Man, Drew, Jan, Abby

    What is it with video producers and great hair

    They all stole vinnys
    You should have seen it

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    The entirety of the Best Wolfenstein 2 Moment or Sequence deliberation is a joy

    What a fucking buck wild game

    It's the thing I'm saddest about - I can't play it right now, so I don't want to spoil the deliberations more than skimming over the name of the moment without context.

    So I bought Odyssey instead.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    best music
    cuphead got robbed. fuck neir imo imo. abby's opinions are very good and right.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    Nah

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    OMG. 20 minutes into Hitmas, and I'm laughing so hard it hurts.

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  • EndEnd Registered User regular
    hitmas really needs to return every year

    I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
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  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    edited December 2017
    I have almost beaten cuphead.

    I do not like it very much at all, I don't think.

    It's not very fun to play.

    Edit: Also holy crap they should have killed this best word segment in the editing room, yeeesh.

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  • SCREECH OF THE FARGSCREECH OF THE FARG #1 PARROTHEAD margaritavilleRegistered User regular
    i like abby but i think she is not very good at articulating her opinions, and also some of her opinions are garbage especially re: music and also re: nier

  • InquisitorInquisitor Registered User regular
    i like abby but i think she is not very good at articulating her opinions, and also some of her opinions are garbage especially re: music and also re: nier

    Splatoon 2 is a very good game.

    (I kind of want a switch for Splatoon 2.)

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