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Giant Bomb 18: Everything is always a surprise on some level
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Navigating through GB's archive basically requires google-fu and third party tools. Damn shame really, so much good stuff there but it's just hidden behind bad design decisions like the one you mentioned, awful pagination, etc.
Keyser Soze
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Gimme dat talkover
Jeff already said no, You must make your own fun.
Death Metalist
Member
Yeah, shame I lost my old account and had to make a new one in 2013. That's what happens when you leave the user linked to an email you no longer use. I still remember all the hype surrounding GB though as it began when they fired Jeff. Actually most of the old timers there had an account on Gamespot, I remember we used to have discussions about how this was going to "kill" GS because most of us are going to migrate to GB especially when the rest of the other duders went with Jeff. Looking up my old account I'm surprised it's still there, made in early 2007 which seems about right. Back in the PS1/PS2/Xbox days I used to lurk there and I remember I used to wait for centuries for any video I wanted to watch to load up because all we had back in the day was dial up/shitty DSL.
Once GB launched I no longer used the GS forums and only used the GB forums. Never even knew what GAF was until much later, spent a few years just lurking before joining here in 2014. You could kind of see why GS was huge, whenever I remember googling about a certain cheat in a game, Gamespot would come up first then CheatCC. Good times.
Edit: I also remember some people saying that GS would never do something like that lol. To GS's credit, they didn't, it's just that they had a shitty non informed manager.
Edit 2: Gerstmann-Gate lol.
Glitchesarecool
Member
booo
LurkerPrime
Member
On the bright side, they actually made videos the default searchbox result. Recently, I guess, because it'd become a habit of mine to switch it to videos results only.
Infinite Justice
Member
Hopefully people mentioned these issues during that survey they had.
Maybe they would change it up? *shrug*
That redesign is the specific point in time when many of the frequent GB forum posters stopped commenting (including me, who is still somehow one of the top 10 posters on the site). It really screwed things up, and the place became less intimate and way less active. Mod decisions also became more questionable during that time frame.
Also matches up with the time I joined NeoGAF.
Young Danny Scoops getting it done!
Exactly the same thing happened to me.
CoolBatteryCharge
Member
Just listened to the Super Castlevania IV OST three times in a row on loop and still don't get how people can hate on it.
/topicnecrobump
/topicnecrobump
Dan Ryckert said:
So basically, this game is a remake of Dave Lang's Wreckateer.
Castlevania IV has a good soundtrack - it's just that there are better versions of pretty much every song on it in other Castlevania games.
Jimmyfenix
Member
daydreaming pls
LurkerPrime
Member
Statements like that make me wonder what the 3/5 version of Just Cause 3 would be.
Also,
does this mean that Rico gets high and murders clowns in some of the side activities? Because that'd be... bizarre.
Incandenza
Banned
Yeah, everything in that review makes it sound like a game I want to play except for this part. I'll have to wait for the Bombcast tomorrow and see what he says about the technical stuff.
Sounds like it ain't making the top 10, though. Bummer!
EdReedFan20
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Interesting that the review is for PC/PS4. I wonder if that means they giving XB1 a separate review.
Secret reviews!
LurkerPrime
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Someone makes fun of him for being Canadian.
just keeping things squeaky clean
It still may if enough of them play it and like it.
Though this was really the last game left before GOTY considerations so now all the pieces are on the board.
Incandenza
Banned
My thoughts are still:
1. Super Mario Maker
2. Metal Gear Solid V
3. Rocket League
4. Axiom Verge
5. Splatoon
6. The Witcher 3
7. Bloodborne
8. Undertale
9. Rise of the Tomb Raider
10. Fallout 4
I swapped FO4 and ROTR from the last time I posted this since it seems like they're pretty positive on Tomb Raider overall.
This is a really good guess in my opinion.
Felix Lighter
Member
I think that list is pretty good. I'd expect Splatoon above Axiom Verge, Witcher at 8-10 range instead of 6.
Twin Tails
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Or just not review the version they don't have like always.
LurkerPrime
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Has there been any years where they've put a game on the site's GotY list in spite of none of them finishing it themselves? They're going to have a heck of a time doing anything with it when every statement on the game ends with, "according to everyone else." 'Cause of this, it'll probably get bumped for some other game that they can actually argue for.
Now, as to absences... Life is Strange and Tales From the Borderland need a spot--GBEast is their only hope.
EdReedFan20
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I think enough of them enjoyed Until Dawn enough for it to sneak in. All of GBEast seems high on it. Jason and Brad also seemed to like it.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I dunno, as a photographer you take plenty of shots and then decide the few that makes it through. Inane shots are part of your journey, like sketches for an artist. It's all about slowly building your own visual language.
sure. what's that got to do with my criticism, though
Either that or they just didn't get a review copy of the Xbox One version.
N
Noray
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Very simple, it's quite mediocre except for Simon's Theme and Dracula Battle
Lol at all the "It is also good".
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Oh, I thought you were talking about Max only taking inane shots. I guess you're talking about wanting a more expanded photography aspect?
broncobuster
Banned
All I'm expecting it Life is Strange in the conversations for best moment, best style, and best debut. Episode 4 has the best moment but 3 has the runner-up.
He's not wrong.
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