Giant Bomb Thread The Third: #TeamBrad
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shadyspace
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Same.
Infinite Justice
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on hiatus due to GOTY.
i got on the site finally and it looks really cool but my browser tab loader is spinning eternally .
LOLOLOL @ that pic of Ryan in that article
Felix Lighter
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Looks great on the iPad.
Keyser Soze
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Arlecchino
Member
Welp, I have no choice but to only listen to the bombcast on the site now.
bearythebear
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When I logged into beta site, I got an "activate account" email. Anyone else get it?
Felix Lighter
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Dave mentioned ignoring that in a tweet.
symphonask
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Too late. Already clicked it. Got a 404 error.
EmCeeGramr
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Hey, I'm not getting a 500 error anymore!
*logs in*
Error 403: Forbidden
*logs in*
Error 403: Forbidden
chickdigger802
Banned
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
oh just to be continued.
chickdigger802
Banned
I don't like how huge everything is. Fonts are stretched out and ugly.
The top is what I see right now on a 14" laptop. The bottom is what I want to see
responsive design.
They can't do shit about it pretty much.
StopMakingSense
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Oh it got hit with a responsive design stick.
Their new site is still lacking in essentials, like every redesign before this one has: Videos aren't sorted and tagged to reasonable categories, the overview shows neither date nor length of the videos, there's no option to only show GB original content.
In addition, going through paginated sites is still very annoying (due to the AJAX driven nature as well as the inability to quickly jump in content either through entering a date range or page number). This is especially bothersome on their podcast as well as video pages.
Their video-search engine still offers an absolutely horrible user experiences, often barely useful and hinders the discovery of content.
Absolutly agree. Considering for how long we've been asking for some of those features, not seeing them in a full redesign is incredibly dissapointing.
The video sorting is terrible. The fact that you can't search for quickook types (example all the racing quicklooks or all the fighting games, etc) is stupid. And also, the search on the video page will still search all the videos, not just the category you are in right now.
So, for example, if you are looking at the quicklook category and search a game title it will still show you all the trailers/reviews/tnt etc... totally useless.
Yeah, this is the result of always starting from scratch instead of iterating.
Felix Lighter
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I don't believe they started from scratch because they necessarily wanted to. They had to do a complete rewrite because they wanted to build the site with the tools their new engineers were familiar with. Hopefully moving forward, they will be iterating on this new design.
The search and sorting issues are disappointing but at least the player seems significantly better.
Funchameleon
Banned
Would anyone be awesome enough to screenshot the front page redesign at the responsive breakpoints?
As far as they said GB had to initiate a complete rewrite because BermanBraun bought the rights to the Distillery, CBSi has an interim agreement in place to license the technology until the site is rewritten from scratch by their engineering team and up and running.
I understand that rewriting a complex site such as this is a huge undertaking (especially in such a short amount of time), but seeing the same old easily-fixable problems on the video page (date, length, search engine, original content filters) on another iteration of the site is a bit disheartening, as GB have always been pretty bad about fixing such basic issues.
If you're using Google DNS, they apparently route some of GB's video traffic through China which makes it slow to load, according to Jeff. I don't know if there's a fix beyond not using their DNS.
There's now way this is still an issue, unless they are using the worst possible CDN.
Apparently, they are looking at another place to deliver content with the new site. Plenty of people are having problems with GB video being slow.
YoYo Switch
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I don't like how huge everything is. Fonts are stretched out and ugly.
The top is what I see right now on a 14" laptop. The bottom is what I want to see
wow that's preeeettty
I don't like how huge everything is. Fonts are stretched out and ugly.
The top is what I see right now on a 14" laptop. The bottom is what I want to see
Yeah, I agree. I wasn't following any of their changes, but I just checked out seaserpent and came away with the same opinion. The site looks nice, but I would really like there to be more information above the fold. One giant article doesn't do it for me and I'll probably stick with their RSS feeds. Do they still plan on organizational changes? I too was surprised the videos looked to be in the same "sorting" groups.
I mean, it was mentioned on the Wii U stream as being a problem, so I just assumed it didn't vanish between then and now. I haven't had any issues with it myself.
It's certainly a very easy thing to try and a reasonable thing to mention, but I don't think their very consistent video issues can still be blamed on their CDN reading the users location wrong due to Google DNS.
Why would you sort videos by shows, or add some filter for GB produced content, when you can have it all mashed together so stuff like the Brazen stream is completely lost in the shuffle.
It's not like GB is mainly a video site, that's the reason why they haven't fixed such basic issues for many years now!
Pretty much the only thing that I would want from a redesign. Videos are pretty much the only content I use GB for, and the sorting and filtering is terrible.
funkystudent
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New design looks good but responsive design is the worst thing ever for the way I browse the web.
Is there a way to zoom in on a responsive / reactive webpage without the design changing and the text going all over the place? Can they add a "lock button" to the reactiveness of the website?
Its also why I hate browsing a lot of sites on my phone now. On some mobile versions of sites you cant pinch to zoom so I cant read shit. Would rather view the desktop website and zoom how I want.
Is there a way to zoom in on a responsive / reactive webpage without the design changing and the text going all over the place? Can they add a "lock button" to the reactiveness of the website?
Its also why I hate browsing a lot of sites on my phone now. On some mobile versions of sites you cant pinch to zoom so I cant read shit. Would rather view the desktop website and zoom how I want.
Binary Domain is disappointing as hell. Every single time that game was about to become awesome, they throw in a horrible boss fight, break you off from the good characters, drop in a turret sequence or take the story is a dumb direction. The game drags like hell for the last 5-6 hours.
The squad AI is absolutely awful. I honestly can't think of a single situation where they helped besides when you get downed without a medkit. Half the time they would refuse my orders, and the other half of the time they would just sit there not shooting at all. Eventually I just started telling them to charge every single fight so they would at least soak up some damage while I killed everything. It didn't really matter though because the combat became a joke once the assault rifle is upgraded near max. Every single enemy gets instantly decapitated if you get headshots. At the start of every fight I would just run straight at the enemy, then get headshots on every single one as they were distracted by the other robots. That's all on the hardest difficulty as well.
The squad AI is absolutely awful. I honestly can't think of a single situation where they helped besides when you get downed without a medkit. Half the time they would refuse my orders, and the other half of the time they would just sit there not shooting at all. Eventually I just started telling them to charge every single fight so they would at least soak up some damage while I killed everything. It didn't really matter though because the combat became a joke once the assault rifle is upgraded near max. Every single enemy gets instantly decapitated if you get headshots. At the start of every fight I would just run straight at the enemy, then get headshots on every single one as they were distracted by the other robots. That's all on the hardest difficulty as well.
Not being able to actually choose sides between Faye and Bo/Charlie/Rachel is dumb as hell too.
Hot Coldman
Banned
I thought the game was only 6 hours long.
The average on howlongtobeat is 9. That's about how long it took me too.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
It's reactive design (haha) and I think handles the various endings better than Mass Effect anyway. At the very least, it makes more sense than the ME2 thing of loyalty missions somehow making people more survivable.
God damnit I just brought it.
Hot Coldman
Banned
So it drags for most of the game? Bummer. Hopefully I have a better experience with it.
I don't think Binary Domain drags at all: It's a very fun and refreshing shooter (Faye & Rachel 4ever) that's welcome respite from all the other generic shooters out there.
Everyone that disagrees with me is obviously a hollow child!
Solution to squad AI: Don't give out any orders, it's not necessary.
Story being dumb: Par for the course and obvious from the first minute
Boss fights: Refreshing for the most part and pretty easily doable
Everyone that disagrees with me is obviously a hollow child!
Solution to squad AI: Don't give out any orders, it's not necessary.
Story being dumb: Par for the course and obvious from the first minute
Boss fights: Refreshing for the most part and pretty easily doable
Riposte
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Saying Binary Domain drags while also saying you could just freely headshot all the enemies seems a little contradictory to me. Most of the game is combat encounters, so if you can push through them at a good pace the game shouldn't take feel like it is taking too long. A common theme seems to be "bosses fucked my shit up, I didn't like that".
Most fights in BD I was pushing forward so fast my allies couldn't keep up, and I was playing on hard. I think the people who say the fights are tedious are too used to brainless COD encounters where you just spray out bullets and push ahead. If you actually aim in BD, you work through most enemies in no time. I never felt it dragged, but I did dislike when it suddenly stops letting you choose your teammates. I hated the Chinese chick and I was stuck with her for too long.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Whats a good image heavy page. I want to test it with multiple images.
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