Giantbomb GOTY 2012 Thread: Videos, Top 10's, and podcasts lots and lots of podcasts.

Is anyone having trouble playing the videos? I can only play the Day 5 recap. None of the other videos load after I hit play.

Chrome and Firefox...

I have the same problem.
More specifically, only videos on the front page play for some reason.
 
Oh, as if companies react to anything other than the market
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Is anyone having trouble playing the videos? I can only play the Day 5 recap. None of the other videos load after I hit play.

Chrome and Firefox...

Using google DNS? Giantbomb player is completely fucked when using that for some reason, the player has just been shit for me for the last many months.
 
He goes straight over their head. Being a loveable asshole is such a fine line to walk, especially on the internet, but ZMF fucking struts along it. How can you hate that. Just ban him if he goes against the rule, but laugh about it. Don't be a mardy git. :lol

Rather sad watching people grasping for authority in these situations.
 
Blah I can't listen to these anymore. The minefield of spoilers is hard to navigate. I tried skipping around but then bam. You'd think you could listen to a best character conversation without major plot points popping up for far cry 3 but.... Here were are.

Great conversations though, maybe ill come back to these after I finish off a few more of 2012s notables.
 

Man I enjoyed reading his post and all the comments on it. ZMF's list has the most comments of ALL the guest lists. You can practically taste the hate from all those butthurt forum users who sent pallets of candy and stupid bullshit to the office and barely get recognition, yet some Twitter user and ex-forum member gets the love every year. It's amazing.

Also his list is pretty good. You can't argue with that Mass Effect rant.

I WANT MY ELCOR WORLD MISSION DLC AND HOLSTER MY WEAPONS BIOWARE!!!111!
 
hey everyone :)

Today is a "quieter day" so I think I will be able to update some things.
Have not seen anything after Wednesday.

Were the daily videos just as good as before?
 
Those of you having trouble with watching videos on GB, have you tried disabling ad-block for Giantbomb specifically? I've had trouble with that in the past but since allowing everything from Giantbomb I've been A-OK.
 
The final podcast with the top 10 games of the year is great, a good reminder of the reasons why goty and top lists are pretty dumb.

Jeff was specially crazy this year.
 
It's a young community, largely. The diehard guys tend to be a bit older, but the mass of the users there are pretty young and I think they tend to treat the staff as surrogate role models/ friends/ father figures

Yeah that is what I thought. Kinda depressing for the guys that. Kids should remain on Gamefaqs!
 
I love how you Neogaf dudes regularly generalize the GB community based on a small number of immature commenters (and what videogame comment section doesn't have those?).

I just read through a few comment pages for ZMF's list and most commenters actually seem to like the list/the guy's humor, some are saying his allcaps-schtick is getting old and only a few guys are upset about ZMF's appearance on the site. It looks like there are actually more posts complaing about the complainers than actual complainers.

Also, the crew-adoring weirdness is a firm part of GB threads on Neogaf as well. That doesn't stop anyone here to act all holier than thou, of course. Interwebs, guys. :)
 
I love how you Neogaf dudes regularly generalize the GB community based on a small number of immature commenters (and what videogame comment section doesn't have those?).

I just read through a few comment pages for ZMF's list and most commenters actually seem to like the list/the guy's humor, some are saying his allcaps-schtick is getting old and only a few guys are upset about ZMF's appearance on the site. It looks like there are actually more posts complaing about the complainers than actual complainers.

Also, the crew-adoring weirdness is a firm part of GB threads on Neogaf as well. That doesn't stop anyone here to act all holier than thou, of course. Interwebs, guys. :)

I agree with your statements and the truth about the ZMF post is more nuanced than how it was stated by us in this thread, but you must admit stuff like those mailbags are getting into serious sycophant territory. I wonder how the GB-staff feels about those because I couldn't really find any enthusiasm in the last candy-mailbag video (except for the Toblerone lol) so they gave everything away in the staff kitchen. I'm seriously wondering what they do with all that other weird/funny/throwaway stuff they get sent to them. Do they actually keep it or throw it away?
 
Those of you having trouble with watching videos on GB, have you tried disabling ad-block for Giantbomb specifically? I've had trouble with that in the past but since allowing everything from Giantbomb I've been A-OK.
no adblock, player is still a peice of shit
 
I agree with your statements and the truth about the ZMF post is more nuanced than how it was stated by us in this thread, but you must admit stuff like those mailbags are getting into serious sycophant territory. I wonder how the GB-staff feels about those because I couldn't really find any enthusiasm in the last candy-mailbag video (except for the Toblerone lol) so they gave everything away in the staff kitchen. I'm seriously wondering what they do with all that other weird/funny/throwaway stuff they get sent to them. Do they actually keep it or throw it away?
It's hit and miss in my opinion. Some are fun, some are not and some are just plain weird (which is entertaining, too). If the crew didn't want more fan packages, they'd stop doing those videos.

People in general seem to like the videos and if you don't, don't watch them. Sure, there is some amount of attention-seeking involved but what's wrong with that really? I don't really care. And sometimes the attention is well deserved:

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I'll just say it: the GB community is fine. It's weird, creative, mostly peaceful and I like reading blogs about brewing beer and other kinds of random stuff on my favorite videogame website.
 
DISHONORABLE MENTION: MASS EFFECT 3
THIS GAME SHOULDVE BEEN HOT SHIT IN A GOLDEN BOWL BUT THEY FUCKED IT ALL UP. SO I SAY FUCK IT. FUCK ITS BULLSHIT NICKELANDDIMEASS TEXT ONLY FETCHQUESTS AND FUCK IT FOR COCKTEASING US WITH AN ELCOR WORLD MISSION

THAT'S FUCKING RIGHT
 
These GiantBomb GOTY deliberations are becoming my brother and I's Christmas tradition. The movies this year are too funny and I loved listening to almost 10 hours of Jeff and Vinny being hilarious. I wish they would have listed their top 10 games in the day 5 recap video though.
 
There's a Top 10 list by Jhonen Vasquez up on the site. That's certainly unexpected.
Someone mentioned he was friends with Ryan, I think.

How appropriate that he loved Hell Yeah, it feels like a love letter to him (I like it too).
 
It's a young community, largely. The diehard guys tend to be a bit older, but the mass of the users there are pretty young and I think they tend to treat the staff as surrogate role models/ friends/ father figures

I'm sure some guys here were making fan-fiction stories about GOTY...so yeah. Not every community is perfect. :P
 
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