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Giant Bomb #24 | In the beginning...
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sammyCYBORG
Member
Different strokes and all but Patrick discussed games that never get a look in now and I liked that he was the news guy who made the news section a bit more focused.
Dan is entertaining but he can become tiring and Jason is just dull.
And of course outside of the podcast Spelunkin and Spookin were two of the best premium features.
What I wouldn't give to get Scoops back!
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Now come on. I wasn't the biggest Austin fan but you don't have to celebrate him leaving
Piston Hyundai
Member
am I in bizarro world
like yeah spookin' is cool if you're into that sort of thing but spelunkin' is A: not premium, and B: the same game being played with the same person on a daily basis
LurkerPrime
Member
This is #therun.
sammyCYBORG
Member
Was it really not premium? Crazy.
Spelunkin is Patrick taking a great game, learning its incredibly intricate mechanics, mastering them and then doing an extremely hard completionist run.
That series is the reason why I have 100 hours logged in the game and can proudly say I beat Yama.
Those few weeks he played that game and rightly fell in love with it is a level of quality that GB hasn't really produced in ages. It was fantastic.
did he come into work at 4 am after a taco bell run
broncobuster
Banned
Ryan, Jeff, and Vinny were a winning combo for anything. Like Vinny and Austin were.
Related, I slowly but surely got through the Fortune Street TNT last night. Now that's a game of skill.
Thanks! You read all these crazy stories about Dennis and his meeting with Kim Jong.
And that Van Damme flick.
I'm not that into Basketball nowadays like I was when I was a kid thanks to Michael Jordan and the Jordan shoes. Everyone at my school wanted them.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Spookin' was the moment I realised how stupid scare-cams are. Fun series though.
Daily Spelunky was on par with "Dotin' the A" and other GB daily video series that don't feature enduring
Daily Spelunky was on par with "Dotin' the A" and other GB daily video series that don't feature enduring
Cindi Mayweather
Member
All this content sounds so cool and I missed it. Oh well.
Twin Tails
Member
sammyCYBORG
Member
Dude you're in the best position. GB is at its weakest now so you can go back and experience all the greatness from the past for the first time. That's super cool.
Pro tip watch anything with Dave and Vinny first.
LurkerPrime
Member
If Giant Bomb bought Vice Gaming everything would be perfect. The Austin- and Patrick-shaped holes in content would be instantly mended. And since Vice Gaming's website doesn't really exist yet, it's like nothing else would change.
It's, uh, still on Giant Bomb, you know. QLCREW is the best way to find anything.
Don't give them any ideas about limited time content. They could do bad things if the money was there.
It's, uh, still on Giant Bomb, you know. QLCREW is the best way to find anything.
Don't give them any ideas about limited time content. They could do bad things if the money was there.
Thanks! You read all these crazy stories about Dennis and his meeting with Kim Jong.
And that Van Damme flick.
I'm not that into Basketball nowadays like I was when I was a kid thanks to Michael Jordan and the Jordan shoes. Everyone at my school wanted them.
Yeah his off court antics have been a disaster for the past 20 years and probably held him back from being even better on the court, but even so he's one of the best to have played the game.
Piston Hyundai
Member
I got all the achievements in that game well before any ports got out there, so I was Spelunkied out by the time Patrick got to it. I didn't need to see him go through all that stuff because I already went through those motions myself.
But regardless, daily content of the same exact game quickly runs thin, and Patrick did that with more than just Spelunky.
sammyCYBORG
Member
They'd have to actually make the premium content first with the existing money
Well there you go, completely different. I watched 50 hours of Patrick play before I played for 100 myself.
Still think I'd have loved watching him do it if the order was reversed though. His commentary about the game was great.
Glitchesarecool
Member
I'd hardly call this it's weakest moment.
Piston Hyundai
Member
Yeah, you'd be crazy to call anything but the period before Dan joined the weakest part of the Giant Bomb timeline.
sammyCYBORG
Member
Worst combination of staff, least good selection of premium content (when made) and no real random/behind the scene videos.
It's still good and I love the site, but it's definitely at its weakest in its history right now for me.
Glitchesarecool
Member
I am told the post-Ryan, pre-Dan era was bad.
Though I wouldn't know, I came in after Dan had been around some time.
The time between Ryan passing away and Dan + Jason being hired was way way worse than now.
God. Yeah those were dark days. I think everyone on the site was just numb for months after Ryan passed.
sammyCYBORG
Member
That's a period of time I have no real strong memories of, so maybe it was. At least after Ryan dying you still had Patrick though.
god yes, does anyone remember any of those Jeff and Brad quick looks
Piston Hyundai
Member
okay now you are just vastly overrating patrick
sammyCYBORG
Member
How can I overrate something that is my own personal enjoyment? To me Patrick is one of the best personalities to have been on the site.
Solo Patrick was never the best Patrick though.
Edit: I do still miss Bombin' the AM with Scoops and the Wolf though tbf.
Hey now, Jeff and Brad have had plenty of great quick looks.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Persona 4 Endurance Run. Say goodbye to 100+ hours.
sammyCYBORG
Member
He was great solo, and yeah I miss Bombin too.
Nice to have a bitesize podcast like that.
If cindis gonna watch this she should know it's already prerecorded
Piston Hyundai
Member
Sure, but saying "at least we had Patrick" as if that's supposed to be some sort of solace is maybe kind of a fucked up thing to say.
sammyCYBORG
Member
Er I'm just saying that during that period we had a guy who was constantly putting out great content buddy. Dunno why you're trying to read between the lines of anything.
I wasn't even the one who brought up that period.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
No home stream today?
Twin Tails
Member
None it seems. Jeff is playing Forza so I guess he is finishing his review.
MassiveNights
Banned
The controversy around Patrick and Austin has always been really, really weird to me.
Even outside of the raging crazies, they always seem to spark pages of navel gazing in here.
Even outside of the raging crazies, they always seem to spark pages of navel gazing in here.
sammyCYBORG
Member
I feel like a bit of a weirdo because I love Patrick and am fairly indifferent to Austin. He annoyed me a fair bit, sometimes.
Guess you can only love one SJW?
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Darn. I was hoping we'd get one every week! After a Premium-contentless week I need my stream fix.
tryagainlater
Member
Austin was the best duder and you're all wrong for thinking otherwise.
Piston Hyundai
Member
as someone who doesn't give a shit about editorial on the site, Austin was cool
just a tough Twitter follow
I can't stand for this hate speech!
I disagree. Best era was started with Austin and if the new hire is on same level as the people before him/her it will become that again.
When Patrick was living in Chi and working for GB and Alex in NY they were borderline inactive members for a while not counting the worst video feature on the site and a awkward two man video podcast. The West was in shambles, understandably, for a long time.
Dan and Jason came on board and gave the West energy it deeply needed. Dan was the reason for Demo Derby, Metal Gear Scanlon and Mario Party and they are all the best content the site has ever done (minus MGS 4-5), free or not. Maybe I'm giving Dan too much credit but BD (before Dan) I felt I hardly knew anything about Drew, he was kinda just there.
Then Austin came on board and the East finally came together with a podcast (Jeff B. whatup!). Even though there are maybe only 3-4 quick looks with the Vinny, Alex and Austin combo I like they clearly filled a need in the GB fanbase that wasn't being served before.
The only things that I feel that has been done better in past then this is year is the amount of content and their studio looking cold and uninviting.
Gozer the Gozerian
Member
Go back to talking about goty already, this conversation is the worst