My only issue with it is that, if I remember correctly, the video thumbnails spoiled the major category winners, so I need to avoid the site if I want to listen to the podcast without knowing the outcome of the discussion. Since there is other content this week that I'd like to see as it goes up (personal lists, guest lists, etc.), this is sort of a bummer.
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My only issue with it is that, if I remember correctly, the video thumbnails spoiled the major category winners, so I need to avoid the site if I want to listen to the podcast without knowing the outcome of the discussion. Since there is other content this week that I'd like to see as it goes up (personal lists, guest lists, etc.), this is sort of a bummer.
Content is Content, nomnomnom.
Just wish it didn't come out right at noon, cause of actual christmas work lunch, but it's all good.
RepairmanJack
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I think the one person was just bummed there wasn't anything to listen to until later in the day. With stuff being staggered we'd maybe have the podcast to listen to earlier in the day. I saw it as more whining about it being released later in the day rather than how the stuff is released in general.
Us work podcast listeners(at least myself) will probably be a day behind all week. Nothing really that big of a deal though.
Nestunt
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Give me all the podcasts today and the videos and texts later!!!!!
ok, Im kiddin. 10 hours is an overdose, it has to be savored
Our audience is evenly distributed enough around the country/world that unfortunately some time zones are always gonna get boned on posting times. I'm just thankful people care enough about our stuff to wish it was going up earlier.
You are linking to the video pages, but I am fairly sure on the main page last year, the thumbnails were spoilery. For example, the thumbnail for the Day 5 video was an image of XCOM, I am almost certain. I could be wrong. Either way it's easy enough for me to avoid the page until I listen to the podcast, which I do as soon as it goes up, so it's certainly not the end of the world.
RepairmanJack
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Perfectly understandable. Just minor whining gearing up for the more serious whining after the contents release.
They usually talk about their list of nominations before they narrow it down and usually say the game before going deep into spoilers. I'd just listen intently and then skip ahead a bit when it's questionable. I did it with Walking Dead last year pretty easily.
LackingSaint
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Yep, that's absolutely what I was trying to get across; it's not so much i'd want you to delay the articles as it is i'm just sort of bummed I couldn't listen to the podcast earlier in the day. Like I said in my original post though, it's a pretty minor nitpick.
Does your homeland Australia get priority?
Oh, they already finished the main game? I thought they were taking a break from it to do the DLC. When did they beat the vanilla game?
Hellsing321
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I just want to know what forms of torture you used on Jeff to get him to agree to put Brothers in the top 10.
Well, at least you're somewhat aware that your complaint is unreasonable.
John Rabbit
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vinny hasn't, he just finished the DLC last episode. he just has gwyn left if he wants to beat it right away.
So how salty did this years discussion get?
Oh man, that's fucked up but I admit that I LOLed.
MonsterDunk
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If we don't do it this way, then the comments of the podcast and various message board posts just become mindless lists of categories and winners, effectively "spoiling" things for people who care about the awards.
So we just sort of spoil it ourselves before anyone else can and let people consume whatever they want in whatever order they want. Player choice, moral implications, it's very big with the kids.
SteveWinwood
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Drew still best staff member re confirmed.
Fattony12000
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-wow- such video
I wanna go jam on some wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind brah.
I wanna go jam on some wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind brah.
Fair enough, thanks the answer Jeff.
Well damn... EA just paid for a year of sub on GB for me!
http://www.giantbomb.com/hubs/ea-origin/
Origin is really great for giving away stuff for free haha.
Edit: And apparently they are already gone lol
http://www.giantbomb.com/hubs/ea-origin/
Origin is really great for giving away stuff for free haha.
Edit: And apparently they are already gone lol
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Wow, that's pretty damn cool of EA.
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Oh thats fuckin' awesome. I still have a good 6 months on my sub though.
Backfoggen
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Weird
SatelliteOfLove
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There was no filter, Jeff Gerstmann just channeled the spirit of the late great Paul Bearer to grant him power for multiplayer wins. It was never the urn!
LackingSaint
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Jeez, it's crazy how dismissive Jeff was of DmC for Best Graphics. That game looks AMAZING, and the art design is constantly changing up from level-to-level in a really interesting way (YO, ONE LEVEL IS SET INSIDE OF A NEWS BROADCAST).
that level's look was radical. (though the level design was pretty much a goddamn corridor, iirc)
LackingSaint
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In general yeah the critical path was always fairly straight, but there were so many hidden crevices I never managed to discover I have to give props to the game for. I just remember constantly finishing levels thinking i'd done it all and then getting like a 30% Exploration rating.
I think if anything is speaks to how good the art design and graphics are that the main path is almost always a straight line, but it still always feels varied and interesting.
Best boss fight that I have played this year happens in that level. Amazingly creative. The night club level wasn't shabby either.
LackingSaint
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The night-club level that transforms into a huge glorious soundwave? The level where you climb up a tower by jumping into a river and then actually climbing down from the bottom of the reflection of the tower to get to the top, while rain falls upwards around you? The final level where the level transforms into chalkboard notes to denote which direction you should go? Man, there's so much great-looking stuff in that game!
Shuhei Yoshida maybe?
I don't think when it came out is going to affect anything.
shadyspace
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Mike Drucker.
Yosp or Cerny.
SteveWinwood
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Yoshida
That's someone who came to mind when they said it, but surely he'd just list off a bunch of PS games.
Sony's own Adam Boyes
John Carpenter. I thought it was on the schedule for a little bit. It was a top 6, though.
Barnett's list (podcast) was weird. I can't remember a single thing from the 40 minutes apart from his son playing on PC now.
Dude replied to a crazy stupid email I sent him once. That guy ain't hard to get a hold of
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