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Arthur Gies Leaves IGN

Dance In My Blood said:
RebelFM is called that because it was an offshoot of fired members of 1UPFM. Gies was a friend/roommate of Gallegos and essentially got a free ticket into the spot light.
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He's admitted to taking advantage of connections (i.e Anthony) several times. Networking makes the world go 'round.
 
Could very well be Giantbomb. Patrick Klepek dropped hints that there is going to be some sort of expansion of news and content that they are going to announce "after PAX."
 
Haven't heard anything about him since I quit listening to RebelFM 3 years ago; he was nerve-wracking.
Oh well, good luck to him and whatever he's doing.


jett said:
I stopped caring about individual game writers(GB aside) the day The 1UP Show died.
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God, this!
 
DaBuddaDa said:
Could very well be Giantbomb. Patrick Klepek dropped hints that there is going to be some sort of expansion of news and content that they are going to announce "after PAX."
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Hm, didn't know that. Looking more and more likely.
 
He's not going to Giant Bomb. Calm down people. Jeff has gone on record as saying that they are happy with the current staff and that getting any larger could slow them down.
 
Big Ass Ramp said:
He's not going to Giant Bomb. Calm down people. Jeff has gone on record as saying that they are happy with the current staff and that getting any larger could slow them down.
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The next hire at GiantBomb has to be Leigh Alexander anyway.
 
Arthur Gies was (in my opinion) the downfall of IGN. He decimated the site and made it the wasteland that it is today.

It was his awful review of Hydro Thunder Hurricane that started the end for me. It was a review in which he gave the game bad marks because he was not good at the game.

Arthur Gies' Terrible Hyrdro Thunder Hurricane Review

Note the 190 nearly unanimously disparaging comments afterwards.

I stopped visiting IGN soon after that as all their reviews seemed to be fairly off the mark or so reviewer-centric as to be completely meaningless to anyone who was not the reviewer.

After checking back in to IGN once or twice over the last year and seeing absolutely nothing that compelled me to stay, it does not surprise me to learn Mr. Gies was editor there.

If he is indeed now working for http://rivalvideogamewebsite.com/, I can assure you they are worse for it.
 
donarumo said:
Arthur Gies was (in my opinion) the downfall of IGN. He decimated the site and made it the wasteland that it is today.

It was his awful review of Hydro Thunder Hurricane that started the end for me. It was a review in which he gave the game bad marks because he was not good at the game.

Arthur Gies' Terrible Hyrdro Thunder Hurricane Review

Note the 190 nearly unanimously disparaging comments afterwards.

I stopped visiting IGN soon after that as all their reviews seemed to be fairly off the mark or so reviewer-centric as to be completely meaningless to anyone who was not the reviewer.

After checking back in to IGN once or twice over the last year and seeing absolutely nothing that compelled me to stay, it does not surprise me to learn Mr. Gies was editor there.

If he is indeed now working for http://rivalvideogamewebsite.com/, I can assure you they are worse for it.
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Holy shit, I hope this is some joke post. Geis has been one of the few editor's there that didn't make me feel like I was reading something a teenager put out.
 
ryan-ts said:
Giant Bomb is your sacred lamb and Arthur Gies is coming to taint it with his disease.



Muahahaha.
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In all seriousness, I don't care if this happens as long as he's not on the podcast or the quick looks. He can write all he wants.
 
donarumo said:
Arthur Gies was (in my opinion) the downfall of IGN. He decimated the site and made it the wasteland that it is today.

It was his awful review of Hydro Thunder Hurricane that started the end for me. It was a review in which he gave the game bad marks because he was not good at the game.

Arthur Gies' Terrible Hyrdro Thunder Hurricane Review

Note the 190 nearly unanimously disparaging comments afterwards.

I stopped visiting IGN soon after that as all their reviews seemed to be fairly off the mark or so reviewer-centric as to be completely meaningless to anyone who was not the reviewer.

After checking back in to IGN once or twice over the last year and seeing absolutely nothing that compelled me to stay, it does not surprise me to learn Mr. Gies was editor there.

If he is indeed now working for http://rivalvideogamewebsite.com/, I can assure you they are worse for it.
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I needed a laugh, thanks!
 
You would have to have been as stupid I was and listened to many Rebel FM episodes to understand what an incredibly bad fit he would be at Giant Bomb, at least being on the Bombcast. He could get away with being a condescending prick and talking down to people to Anthony and Tyler like he was the oracle of all videogame knowledge, but that unfounded arrogance would not fly at Giant Bomb.
 
Guerrillas in the Mist said:
Are any of the "old boys" of IGN left? The only person I can think of is Peer Schneider.
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Peer and Tal are both there, but that's to be expected considering their positions. They'd have to leave the industry all together to get a better job. Outside of that the oldest surviving member is maybe idk Charles?

Anyways consider me in the camp that once thought Arthur was a hater, but has grown to love him. Sure he's strongly opinionated, but unlike many I find he tends to really try to back up his feelings with some substance.

Curious as fuck where he'd go because it's not Giant Bomb, and anywhere else would be a step down from IGN in terms of big names in this industry (Sorry GAFers IGN is still top dog regardless of what people around here think of them). He said it's gaming press, but that doesn't mean explicitly gaming journalism right? I mean he could go to a big dev and become their press person right? Wouldn't that still qualify?
 
Patryn said:
He won't go to GiantBomb. First of all, I think GB is quite happy with the staff they have (and they've said that fairly clearly), and secondly, has he ever had any connection to the GB crew?

I find it somewhat amusing that any time a gaming journalist leaves a company or a site someone says "What if they go to GiantBomb?"
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Yeah, I have a question on that, actually... does anybody here actually read GiantBomb? I can't remembe ever seening a GB news break or even review article posted on NeoGAF, a few times their original videos have shown up and that's kind of it. No pullquotes, no citations on news, no "great job, GB!" kudos, not even links to their wiki content when general references need be made. I really like the Giant Bomb crew, they're classy journalists (plus I've met Brad and he couldn't be cooler) but this site is either over-championed due to the GameSpot fallout or it's woefully underutilized by those who talk it up. People either need to step it up or knock it off with all the GiantBomb referencing; it's either a great site or it's a site you think is great, so figure it out.


BTW, it seems like GB is loved mostly for Bombcast, and that's awesome that the audience is there, but you can see how far we have to go (or maybe it'll never happen) as far as audio becoming a major part of journalism or "enthusiast press". You can't "quote" a podcast easily like you can text, paraphrasing takes time and hardly anybody does it. It's tough to reference a podcast, you can timestamp a post if you remember the spot, and you can give a start/stop link if the clip is posted on Youtube or some other streamer, but both of those cases are still rare. Commercials are hard to get because they get old by the time subscribers listen, and turn-around on download-audio ads hasn't been proven yet anyway. The only podcasts that are profitable are comedy shows (Smodcast and Carolla Network), and they're only profitable because the comics use them to sell tickets to podcast tapings and gigs. Google can't find important stuff in your podcast, it only knows what's in your headline and intro text. And it's hard to be timely with even a live radio show because content has to be produced and somebody has to be there to broadcast it. I'd love to see a site like GiantBomb tackle some of those issues, they had a great tech explosion when they started so hopefully those smart engineers are still around because there's not much money to be had in podcasting right now and you can only do it "because you love it" for so long.
 
Curufinwe said:
You would have to have been as stupid I was and listened to many Rebel FM episodes to understand what an incredibly bad fit he would be at Giant Bomb, at least being on the Bombcast. He could get away with being a condescending prick and talking down to people to Anthony and Tyler like he was the oracle of all videogame knowledge, but that unfounded arrogance would not fly at Giant Bomb.
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Agreed, he does talk down a lot, and his personality just doesnt seem like they would fit in the giantbomb offices.
 
I really don't understand all the hate for Arthur. At all. Dude knew his shit. And sometimes he calls people out for talking about shit they don't know about. I say we need more of that, not less.

Granted, I don't know how that would fly with the current Bombcast setup, but he doesn't have to be on every week. Patrick isn't. More things to read on Giant Bomb, if that's where he ends up, can't be a bad thing. Unless you just hate his voice. Which is w/e. I don't see the collective voice of the site changing because of one additional writer.
 
CamHostage said:
Yeah, I have a question on that, actually... does anybody here actually read GiantBomb? I can't remembe ever seening a GB news break or even review article posted on NeoGAF, a few times their original videos have shown up and that's kind of it. No pullquotes, no citations on news, no "great job, GB!" kudos, not even links to their wiki content when general references need be made. I really like the Giant Bomb crew, they're classy journalists (plus I've met Brad and he couldn't be cooler) but this site is either over-championed due to the GameSpot fallout or it's woefully underutilized by those who talk it up. People either need to step it up or knock it off with all the GiantBomb referencing; it's either a great site or it's a site you think is great, so figure it out.
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I know I only go to giantbomb for the videos, podcasts, and reviews. I can get my news from thousands of other sources, but mainly from gaf.
 
donarumo said:
It was his awful review of Hydro Thunder Hurricane that started the end for me. It was a review in which he gave the game bad marks because he was not good at the game.

Arthur Gies' Terrible Hyrdro Thunder Hurricane Review

Note the 190 nearly unanimously disparaging comments afterwards.
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Come on now, he's entitled to his opinion.

However I will agree with you in the sense that it was around that time I decided he was a wet blanket and didn't jive with my taste in games.
 
CoachKevin said:
Sad that he wasn't fired, couldn't stand him on podcasts.
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Well, that's an awfully selfish and short-sighted thing to say. Ah, Internets: you'll always be a safe haven for the douches of the world...
 
Interfectum said:
Did he finally get a job at Microsoft?
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Slag Nintendo and Sony and praise MS on a podcast and you will land a job with a Microsoft studio.

Arthur Gies, David Ellis and Luke Smith seen at Starbucks having lattes
CONFIRMED.
 
classicdms said:
I really don't understand all the hate for Arthur. At all. Dude knew his shit. And sometimes he calls people out for talking about shit they don't know about. I say we need more of that, not less.
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Not really. He would often invent facts to justify his opinions e.g. he claimed Devil May Cry 4 didn't sell well based not on DMC4 selling 2.6 million copies but only because he didn't like the game.

The maddening thing about Rebel FM was that the other guests knew even less they he did about that kind of stuff, so they just accepted whatever he said as gospel.

Neuromancer said:
Come on now, he's entitled to his opinion.
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I know nothing about Hydro Thunder so I can't judge the accuracy of them, but there are a staggering number of complaints about factual errors in that review e.g. exaggerated loading times.
 
Apparently everyone had the same first reaction as me, which is to keep him away from GB. Sheath your swords, white knights. I remember this is the guy who forced me to turn off Rebel FM because of how he constantly browbeat Tyler Barber into submission every podcast. I have still never heard such prickish behavior on a podcast.
 
Curufinwe said:
Not really. He would often invent facts to justify his opinions e.g. he claimed Devil May Cry 4 didn't sell well based not on DMC4 selling 2.6 million copies but only because he didn't like the game.

The maddening thing about Rebel FM was that the other guests knew even less they he did about that kind of stuff, so they just accepted whatever he said as gospel.
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Heh, great point. He has done that a lot. I remember him saying that Gearbox lost the Aliens IP because they couldn't make a deadline (even as Robert Ashley kept saying "really? I think you're wrong..."), and saying that Gearbox was going to go out of business by like 2010. Now they're making like, what, 5 games at a time? Borderlands 2, Duke, Aliens, Brother in Arms, ANOTHER Brothers in Arms...

He also disliked Vanquish, which is totally unacceptable.
 
Curufinwe said:
Hydro Thunder so I can't judge the accuracy of them, but there are a staggering number of complaints about factual errors in that review e.g. exaggerated loading times.
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That's right, I seem to remember he was loading the game off a substandard USB stick or something. Haha
 
donarumo said:
Arthur Gies was (in my opinion) the downfall of IGN. He decimated the site and made it the wasteland that it is today.

It was his awful review of Hydro Thunder Hurricane that started the end for me. It was a review in which he gave the game bad marks because he was not good at the game.

Arthur Gies' Terrible Hyrdro Thunder Hurricane Review

Note the 190 nearly unanimously disparaging comments afterwards.

I stopped visiting IGN soon after that as all their reviews seemed to be fairly off the mark or so reviewer-centric as to be completely meaningless to anyone who was not the reviewer.

After checking back in to IGN once or twice over the last year and seeing absolutely nothing that compelled me to stay, it does not surprise me to learn Mr. Gies was editor there.

If he is indeed now working for http://rivalvideogamewebsite.com/, I can assure you they are worse for it.
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Dramatic much?

He was, quite literally, the only reason I EVER went to IGN for the last several months. (I'm pretty sure you saying you've been there once or twice in the last year is irrelevant. He's not even been there that long to my knowledge.)

Maybe you're thinking of Hilary Goldstein? Couldn't stand that guy.
 
I'll admit I never actually visited IGN while he was there but I always liked him working there...

Because on Rebel FM he would rant about the shitty Wii ports he was reviewing

I will miss those rants :( Hopefully Rebel FM isn't going away. They've been pretty spotty this summer with releases, I hope the crew still has the desire to carry on a podcast

Also, didn't he just move out of his house with Chuff? And now he's leaving Chuff at IGN alone

AUTHUR AND CHUFF BROKE UP :(
They were my favorite gaming industry bromance. Poor Anthony, his tweets always seem so depressing, I hope he's okay
 
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