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Giant Bomb #24 | In the beginning...

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daveo42

Banned
Tagyhag said:
Austin gelled into the group perfectly. It shows that while Jeff will take a long time to find a new person, he knows what he's doing. I'm not worried at all about the new hire for SF.

I wasn't too sure about Dan in the East, but Shenmue endurance run shows that they have potential.

I'll still miss Austin, but that's life.

I bet 2017 will be a good year.
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Dan/Vinny actually had me worried for a bit on how that dynamic would work, but that ER and his place on the BeastCast washed that away. Now all that needs to happen is GBeast to get an actual studio as opposed to the shoebox they live in now.

I'm looking forward to the hire in SF. In the mean time, I'm guessing they'll bring in more guests or cross coast stuff until that position is filled. Or...we'll get more Rorie.
 
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Catvoca

Banned
Master_Funk said:
Fall 2011 was peak GB for me. You had random pc game, load my last save, the skyrim pre-marathon as well as the marathon itself .

The closest since then was actually last year with the GBeast streams. Contradiction, lis, until dawn, vinnyvania, kerbal. God I miss Austin working there.
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That was when I started getting into GB. Shit was so good. The best GB lineup as well IMO.
 
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MadLaughter

Member
Anybody remember the first GB video they ever saw?

For me, it was the Dragon Age: Origins Quick Look. Shortly after that I fell into the Star Trek Online streams, and being new to the site and the flavor of humor, I was 100% sure Jeff and Ryan hated each other.
 
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Tubobutts

Member
MadLaughter said:
Anybody remember the first GB video they ever saw?

For me, it was the Dragon Age: Origins Quick Look. Shortly after that I fell into the Star Trek Online streams, and being new to the site and the flavor of humor, I was 100% sure Jeff and Ryan hated each other.
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That's ridiculous.

Ryan only hated Brad.
 
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EdReedFan20

Member
MadLaughter said:
Anybody remember the first GB video they ever saw?

For me, it was the Dragon Age: Origins Quick Look. Shortly after that I fell into the Star Trek Online streams, and being new to the site and the flavor of humor, I was 100% sure Jeff and Ryan hated each other.
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No. Don't remember. But, I do remember the first time I saw Jeff (or maybe it was Ryan). I can't remember which appearance was first, but I saw them (at different times) on The Bonus Round, a show on the former GameTrailers hosted by Geoff Keighley. The first set of podcasts I listened to was during E3 2012. It was sometime around there were I got hooked. One of my earlier Bombcasts I recall, is one where Patrick talked about loading up a jukebox with the X-Files theme. I started posting here since, I think, Thread 4. It's crazy in just three years, we've gone from Thread 4 to Thread 24.
 
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bigkrev

Member
I don't remember my first video, but my first exposure to the site was when Jeff Ryan and Brad went on either 1UP Yours or Listen Up at the end of 2008 and proclaimed Banjo the GOTY. I started listening to the Bombcast after that because I needed more gaming podcasts.
 
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Catvoca

Banned
I think I listened to the podcast for months before I actually started watching their videos. It was definitely my gateway to the site as a whole.
 
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EdReedFan20

Member
Volotaire said:
I think my first GB content was the Bombcast in early 2012.
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Yeah, same. The thing I find crazy is, because I have such a relatively strong memory and things seem much more recent to me than the actually were, I could swear I've been listening/watching Giant Bomb much longer than that.

Edit- Wait. Maybe because I have. I've watched their Quick Looks of PS Move launch games before. If I watched those when they were posted, that was 2010. I can't remember if I watched those when they were posted or well after the fact. I definitely did see their Vita launch videos, though. I can't remember if they did that in 2011 (when it launched in Japan) or in 2012 (when it launched in USA).
 
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Zeouterlimits

Member
For me, it was the Build a Bomb series.
I don't know that I saw Episode 01 as soon as it came out, but by Episode 7 I was definitely fully onboard.

I did listen to some of Arrow Pointing Down as it came out, I was following Jeff and Ryan from the K&L fallout.
 
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Cross-Section

Member
I was first introduced via the Arrow Pointing Down podcast; at the time, I thought that the idea of a 2-person podcast was lame, despite starring some of those cool Gamespot dudes, so I dropped it.

A year later I happened upon the End of Matrix Online streams and I got PLUMB hooked and binged through much of the P4 Endurance Run.
 
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wild_fire987

Member
Catvoca said:
I think I listened to the podcast for months before I actually started watching their videos. It was definitely my gateway to the site as a whole.
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I was the exact same way... Started listening in college around 2010, but it was like a year before I visited the sight...

My GB secret shame is that during that first year I thought Ryan was the dude from Bleep Bloop (that College Humor video game video series). They had similar voices and I never saw him on video for a long time. This dude on the right:

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Maiorum

Member
I think my first GB videos were the kinect QLs in 2010. For the longest time though, I just watched their youtube output, started listening to the podcast at some point, and it wasn't until I watched the Sleeping Dogs preview that I went "alright, this giantbomb.com thing sounds alright" and completely dove in.
 
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Incandenza

Banned
My first exposure to the site was in 2008 when someone on another message board linked to a podcast from the guys I used to follow at GameSpot. Pretty sure it was this one. Seemed pretty good so I figured might as well listen to it every week for 8 years.

As for my first video, it was probably Video Thing: 2Human
 
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oti

Banned
First time I heard of GB was when they introduced HD videos only for subscribers. I think the Garnett Lee podcast (was it 1UP still?) talked about that briefly. I went on the site to see what the fuzz was about.
 
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Teddified

Member
I first got into GB from the time they talked over the console reveal conferences(2012 I think). Then really got into them after I had surgery in August and burned through the Persona 4 ER while recovering.
 
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Scizzy

Member
My first Bombcast was one where Vinny was just getting into Demon's Souls and he kept describing the mechanics and everyone was incredulous at how onerous they seemed.
 
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daveo42

Banned
I don't think I heard of GB until I started getting into podcasts. Videos started with alot of the best of stuff on youtube, followed by last years GoTY vids. This year has been the year I've actually dug into the GB content.
 
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mnz

Unconfirmed Member
Scizzy said:
My first Bombcast was one where Vinny was just getting into Demon's Souls and he kept describing the mechanics and everyone was incredulous at how onerous they seemed.
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They mirrored the reactions of the whole western gaming media. It took a long time to even get journalists to give it a shot.
 
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mullet2000

Member
MadLaughter said:
Anybody remember the first GB video they ever saw?

For me, it was the Dragon Age: Origins Quick Look. Shortly after that I fell into the Star Trek Online streams, and being new to the site and the flavor of humor, I was 100% sure Jeff and Ryan hated each other.
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I'm pretty sure that it was the Persona 4 Endurance Run starting, but honestly I'm not 100% sure.
 
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Archaix

Drunky McMurder
I've been watching since...well...forever? I don't remember the first video I watched but I had been listening to the podcast and started watching all of the Quick Looks once they reliably had more than one person in every video.

On the subject of old content, here's a great one a lot of people probably miss because it's buried in the events page: http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/age-of-booty-preview-ish/2300-46/

Adam Boyes' debut on Giant Bomb before they ruined his life. Repeatedly.
 
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FStop7

Banned
I started listening to Arrow Pointing Down because I had just moved across the country and all of my game stuff was in storage. So I started listening to 1UP Yours and GFW Radio to fill the gap. I ran out of recent episodes of those so I went looking for something else. Saw the first episode of APD listed on iTunes and was pretty curious since Jeff's name was there and it had just been a few months since he'd been fired from Gamespot.

I regularly listened to the Bombcast, but I don't think I watched a Giant Bomb video until Star Trek Online. I remember being REALLY confused because each episode was like an hour long and I didn't understand how they were making all of this long form video content and who had the time to watch it. LOL.
 
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Don Friday

Member
I came back from PAX 2008 excited for Borderlands and someone in a forum posted the GB Quicklook of it. They've been my virtual best friends ever since.
I mourned and wept for Ryan's passing more than certain family members.
 
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close to the edge

Member
MadLaughter said:
Anybody remember the first GB video they ever saw?

For me, it was the Dragon Age: Origins Quick Look. Shortly after that I fell into the Star Trek Online streams, and being new to the site and the flavor of humor, I was 100% sure Jeff and Ryan hated each other.
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The first video I ever saw from them was the video where Brad and Drew went to Korea for the GSL finals. It was posted on the Starcraft subreddit.

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/giant-bomb-in-korea-ogsteam-liquid-house-tour/2300-3516/
 
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ferunnico

Neo Member
My first exposure to GB was the Bombcast. After hearing about it for so long I finally downloaded an episode and got hooked. The episode was from right after Halloween 2013 and all I remember is Jeff talking about Call of Duty: Ghosts. I think it wasn't until a couple of weeks later that I first heard of Ryan and that he had passed away just before I started listening. I immediately went back to listen to episode 07-09-2013, where everyone came together to remember him.

To this day I have never actually listened to a full episode from before Ryan's passing. I know that I'm probably missing hours upon hours of great stuff, but somehow I have never felt like going back and checking it out.
 
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Zero-Crescent

Member
MadLaughter said:
Anybody remember the first GB video they ever saw?

For me, it was the Dragon Age: Origins Quick Look. Shortly after that I fell into the Star Trek Online streams, and being new to the site and the flavor of humor, I was 100% sure Jeff and Ryan hated each other.
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It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure my first GB video was the quick look for Castlevania... Judgment.
 
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BreezyLimbo

Banned
I got into Giant Bomb after PT was released. I got into watching reaction videos of people blind playing PT, and I ran into Patrick Klepek doing it. I found out he had a series of 'spookin' with scoops', and I ended up buying a month membership to peruse his videos. I slowly leaked into other GB videos after that.

The first stream of GB I saw however, was one of the E3 after hours, the one where boyes brought a PS4 to them.(I didn't get into them then though)

All I remember from that is everyone where the same picnic shirt.
 
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mnz

Unconfirmed Member
I'm surprised their E3 after hour streams haven't been mentioned by anyone. I would think they would attract newcomers with how popular they are and with how well known some of the guests are.

Edit: Welp
 
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wild_fire987

Member
mnz said:
I'm surprised their E3 after hour streams haven't been mentioned by anyone. I would think they would attract newcomers with how popular they are and with how well known some of the guests are.
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The E3 after hours podcasts helped solidify me into buying a premium membership. I had a loooonnnggg car ride after college to move to a new city and listened to them for most of the trip, been premium ever since.
 
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Santar

Member
MadLaughter said:
Anybody remember the first GB video they ever saw?

For me, it was the Dragon Age: Origins Quick Look. Shortly after that I fell into the Star Trek Online streams, and being new to the site and the flavor of humor, I was 100% sure Jeff and Ryan hated each other.
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I don't remember.
I followed Jeff from Gamespot to his blog where he posted videos about what he was up to, like playing lots and lots of Burnout Paradise :p. So whichever video was first published on Giant Bomb was my first "official" video I guess.
 
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