Press Reset: The Story of Polygon - financed by Microsoft for $750,000

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soultron said:
Giant Bomb: for people who read their video game coverage drunk, naked, and eating Taco Bell.

Polygon: for people who want to feel sexy reading/watching things with a sexy layout on their sexy mobile device that uses Internet Explorer.

WHO ARE YOU?
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What if I feel sexy while eating Tacobell naked and drunk?

I'm not using internet explorer, though. A man has standards.
 
27 year-old white man found dead wearing t-shirt of kickstarter of documentary of non-existent video game website. The case is being treated as a suicide.
 
I never realized what a risk these guys were taking by agreeing to work for a big media company backed by angel investors. I hope their families don't starve.
 
LukeSmith said:
I really like Chris Grant and Brian Crecente, I've known them both for years and they've done good stuff.

But a movie about the guys who are supposed to be writing the stories about the guys who are doing the real work (making the hardware and software that fuels the industry they are covering) seems a bit backwards.
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I look forward to your reviews of their content.
 
One can only imagine the trauma of moving in and out of idyllic family homes and the patience required to cope with differences of opinion about video games.
 
Zaph said:
I'm just imagining the Polygon guys watching these Giant Bomb edits while screaming "MARCIA, MARCIA, MARCIA!"
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To which GIANT BOMB replies:

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RaffAO said:
One can only imagine the trauma of moving in and out of idyllic family homes and the patience required to cope with differences of opinion about video games.
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But didn't you hear? "If the site doesn't succeed, it could be terrible!"

Somebody call TruTV!
 
I really hope this turns out to be a joke. Like, just seeing some (not all) of the people involved, I would like to think they would be more self-aware than this.

And I love the old "don't judge it until you see the whole thing" gag, that some of these guys are using. I wonder how many of these guys were on Dennis Dyack's side when he was pulling the same shit.
 
I've noticed people in the enthusiast press are fairly full of themselves. (With some exceptions, of course.) They love to talk about themselves, about their jobs, what their jobs mean to the industry, and how important they are. It's borderline cliche at this point.
 
Calling yourselves "the biggest brains in gaming journalism" is so....so.....so.....ridiculously overbearing that I can't even describe it.

Seriously.

"LOOK HOW AWESOME AND SMART WE ARE."

My God.

Please go away.
 
Dude. These guys are going to revolutionize games journalism.

Calling it right now, review scores will go to the thousandth place.

Halo 4 : 9.999
 
Despite really enjoying arthur/Anthony on Rebel fm this video's tone is a big reason 99.9% of my video games browsing is giantbomb and neogaf.
 
The only way a teaser for a documentary about the launching of a website that hasn't launched, and thus has yet to obtain any sort of cultural value, winds up being worthwhile is if it ends with them failing and the last episode revealing the full site will never launch.

Nothing they've filmed thusfar is going to be all that interesting--the struggles of a small business tend to come from having the funding to keep paying your staff, and if I understand it right they were just handed a shitton of VC to fund the company with and until the site's up and operational money struggles won't be a huge component. They're not to the part where a documentary would be interesting!

It did give the world the Giant Bomb remix trailers, though, so there's that.
 
The loop of Justin McElroy's face flapping around in the last fifteen seconds of Brad's video is my favorite thing ever. I could watch that for hours.
 
I guess all the Verge sites have this kind of vibe, right? Like the guy who stopped using the internet, complete with whimsy-ish videos and writeups of him rediscovering himself and shopping for pre-war technology.

I wonder about Arthur though, does he feast on hatred like it's the gasoline to his engine? He gets so shat on so constantly that its the only way I can see him coping.
 
I would actually really like to see a 2PP exploration of Giant Bomb, but they're still holed up with DoubleFine

/edit I can't take the McElroys seriously after like two years of MBMBAM. Their voices are far too entwined with terrible, horrific, scarring but hilarious anecdotes and terrible advice.
 
It's pretty clear that they take their jobs seriously. That's cool and all but it really is the sort of thing you prove by action and not words (read documentary).
 
A trailer hyping a documentary that's meant to hype an unproven gaming website that will almost certainly continue the awful trend of hyping announcements of announcements.

Some industry this is.
 
Ahhh, this kinda games journalism stuff always makes me look forward to 8-4 Play. I'm happy there's a new episode this week!
 
EmCeeGramr said:
SAN FRANCISCO

Time lapse shot of early morning traffic in the Bay. Ambient music.

Cut and slow-pan right as JEFF GERSTMANN sits on a sill and stares out a window into the soft blue glare of the morning light. He is contemplative. Cut to confessional shot of JEFF.

JEFF: I... I think that video games provide a unique medium and opportunity to elucidate upon them.

Black and white, left shot, Dutch angle

JEFF: That's my calling in life. It's not an easy one.
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We're veering dangerously close to GiantBomb fanfiction territory here but gods help me I want more.
 
Jintor said:
We're veering dangerously close to GiantBomb fanfiction territory here but gods help me I want more.
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Cut to Alex covered in the shit games he has reviewed that noone needed a review for anyways like burgertime hd and the weird mercenary kinect game.

"DO YOU SEE HOW I SUFFER FOR ALL OF YOU! *sobbing* jeff's review abuse for me started with that infamous big rigs review *louder sobbing* please I need a minute to calm down"
 
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