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[newjeruse]

The Vinny/Brad Demon's Soul ER is fantastic.

Agreed. Some of my favorite content on the site ever.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

I don't think they were deleting comments because of mentioning they were like Quick Looks, as my comment wasn't deleted, and it was even responded to by Griffin.

Edit: Welp. It's deleted~

This comment?

To be fair it was pretty easy to find on their site when you use the internal search tool.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Hotline Trail looks totally rad.

The videogame made to give ryan tribute was cool too. I dunno why there are fish skeletons and glowing crabs though.

 

[infinityBCRT]

Yesterday I was in a Toronto parking lot, in my car, listening to Bombin the AM with Scoops and the Wolf when I looked into my rear view mirror and saw a big GIANT BOMB logo in it. It took me a second to realize what had happened, and jumped out and yelled HEY DUDER to the guy wearing the Giant Bomb hoodie. Was the first time I've ever met anyone who was a fan of Giant Bomb. Just said hi and went on my way.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Link to the ryan davis tribute game.

http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/mailbag-mayhem-staring-ryan-davis-the-bomb-crew/22277/

 

[Keyser Soze]

Worth Playing has a lot of feels...

Patrick sitting in silence directing jolly Ryan Davis to throw cake into a toilet from the roof of the Giant Bomb offices is quite an emotional piece of video content

 

[Netrunner2k2]

Worth Playing has a lot of feels...

Patrick sitting in silence directing jolly Ryan Davis to throw cake into a toilet from the roof of the Giant Bomb offices is quite an emotional piece of video content

Yeah, you could feel the emotions going through Patrick playing it.

 

[Xater]

Worth Playing has a lot of feels...

Patrick sitting in silence directing jolly Ryan Davis to throw cake into a toilet from the roof of the Giant Bomb offices is quite an emotional piece of video content

Yeah lots of feels there.

I do have to say though that it's a great tribute and I actually laughed out loud when Ryan threw that cake into the toilet.

 

[Alo81]

This comment?

To be fair it was pretty easy to find on their site when you use the internal search tool.

I actually tweeted Griffin about it yesterday. It was deleted. They brought them back.

 

[Kerned]

I actually tweeted Griffin about it yesterday. It was deleted. They brought them back.

Cool of Griffin to reply, and it's nice that they restored some of those comments.

 

[LiK]

I actually tweeted Griffin about it yesterday. It was deleted. They brought them back.

Good, tell that mod to calm down.

 

[popo]

Yesterday I was in a Toronto parking lot, in my car, listening to Bombin the AM with Scoops and the Wolf when I looked into my rear view mirror and saw a big GIANT BOMB logo in it. It took me a second to realize what had happened, and jumped out and yelled HEY DUDER to the guy wearing the Giant Bomb hoodie. Was the first time I've ever met anyone who was a fan of Giant Bomb. Just said hi and went on my way.

What is wrong with you? You don't talk to strangers. Politely nod if you must, try to minimise eye contact.

 

[demidar]

What is wrong with you? You don't talk to strangers. Politely nod if you must, try to minimise eye contact.

No no no, you must establish prolonged intense eye contact to assert dominance.

 

[razgriz417]

Patrick's You Don't Know Jack story about Ryan

 

[I speel my dreenk]

Thought Let's Play means a complete playthrough.

Yeah, to me a LP is a complete video series of a game almost always in multiple parts, whereas a Quick Look is obviously not that. You would never conflate Quick Looks with Load Our Last Souls, or Endurance Runs, etc.

 

[Haunted]

I do think there is a distinction between Lets Plays and Quick Looks though.

Lets Plays generally tend to be much longer form, in that they often cover entire playthroughs of games.

A Lets Play almost always starts at the beginning and finishes either at the end, or when the player gets tired of it.

Quick Looks are different in that they're more geared to showing off games and introducing people to them. It's a reason when I'm interested in a game I don't just search for Lets Plays, I look at Quick Looks.

I guess the distinction is that generally, Lets Plays are intended to show you one persons experience through the whole game, while Quick Looks tend to be more of purchasing advice/small introduction to the game.

If you simplify it to "Talk over video games" then sure, Slowbeef probably deserves the credit for popularizing LP's but I think Quick Looks are different from that.

They're the first episode of a Let's Play that doesn't get a followup.

Whether you want to call them Quick Looks (GB), Let's Look At (Northernlion), Overview Video (Polygon), First Impression (a million sites), [channel name] Plays or WTF is...(Totalbiscuit), they're all functionally the same.

 

[Haunted]

Good, tell that mod to calm down.

He was probably just following protocol of not allowing advertisement (=mention) of competing sites.

 

[kvk1]

That DayZ segment. Holy hell.

Anything ArmA related + GB/Vinny = Pure magic.

 

[jmood88]

I'm finally finishing this week's bombcast and the serial killer story is perfect for Lacking Saint's next animated video.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Patrick sitting in silence directing jolly Ryan Davis to throw cake into a toilet from the roof of the Giant Bomb offices is quite an emotional piece of video content

Yeah. It was really hard to watch. God damn...

 

[KingGiddra]

Negative. Let's Plays were very much a thing well before Giant Bomb started doing quick looks. Hell, I recall seeing them around towards the end of 2007. I'm not saying that Giant Bomb bit off of them, but let's not act like it was the most innovative idea ever here. It's just that the great personalities at Giant Bomb took it to the next level.

As a side note, NBA on TNT definitely suffered with the addition of Shaq.

You're on the mark there. Let's Plays started gaining popularity on SomethingAwful around 2006-2007. They're meant to be full length playthroughs of games and can range from video with audio commentary to screenshots with subtitles. There are some incredible LPs like the Jurassic Park: Trespasser playthrough with ResearchIndicates. The Endurance Run is closer to the format of an LP than a Quick Look is.

 

[FStop7]

Let's Plays were happening on the Penny Arcade forums as far back as 2005 or 2006. There was probably some overlap with Something Awful.

The early ones were forum posts: big blocks of text and screenshots. The player telling the story of his/her playthrough, sometimes adding color to the story by telling it from the perspective of the character.

I think I saw my first Youtube LPs in 2007.

 

[Dr_Boris_Goltz]

Did they fix yesterday's stream archive? I don't want to watch it if it cuts off randomly.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Did they fix yesterday's stream archive? I don't want to watch it if it cuts off randomly.

Drew just tweeted that they are on it.

 

[Xater]

Did they fix yesterday's stream archive? I don't want to watch it if it cuts off randomly.

Just watch it on Twitch.

 

[popo]

This quote from Jeff should be on the next OT, such good advice in general to anyone getting all abusive on the internets.

Stand up, walk away from your computer, go outside, take a deep breath, and realize that you’re being the worst kind of asshole. Calm the fuck down.

http://blog.jeffgerstmann.net/post/...eally-trying-to-justify-stupid-business#notes

 

[Dizzy-4U]

That Worth Playing........fuck.

 

[Megasoum]

This quote from Jeff should be on the next OT, such good advice in general to anyone getting all abusive on the internets.



http://blog.jeffgerstmann.net/post/...eally-trying-to-justify-stupid-business#notes

Jeff sounds really on edge since yesterday on Tumblr.

 

[obonicus]

Nah, he sounds the way he usually does when dealing with that sort of person.

 

[funkystudent]

Where was Jeff this week anyway?

Rocksteady? The Order 1886? DICE? All 3?

 

[Brashnir]

Where was Jeff this week anyway?

Rocksteady? The Order 1886? DICE? All 3?

DICE. He posted a jar time from vegas.

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Where was Jeff this week anyway?

The Order 1886? DICE?

That was in the same location, both.
Jeff has gone lots of times to DICE, but usually with Ryan

 

[funkystudent]

worth playing.....



What a awesome little Ryan tribute.

 

[popo]

Nah, he sounds the way he usually does when dealing with that sort of person.

yeah, you can't blame him. Also, for every one abusive idiot he replies to, he likely gets 100 other such messages every day.

 

[Patryn]

Nah, he sounds the way he usually does when dealing with that sort of person.

Especially when he's also dealing with people trying to get him to wade into the POLYGON STOLE QUICK LOOKS AND ARE CENSORING!!!! nonsense.

 

[Typographenia]

I stopped watching the stream yesterday and missed the dayz section entirely.

This is hysterical! The outcomes for Vinny and Drew encapsulate their personalities and typical outcomes in QLs and such so perfectly, hahahahaha

 

[The Dear Leader]

Yeah, to me a LP is a complete video series of a game almost always in multiple parts, whereas a Quick Look is obviously not that. You would never conflate Quick Looks with Load Our Last Souls, or Endurance Runs, etc.

Let's just say they are Let's Play Lite Likes.

 

[Brashnir]

Let's just say they are Let's Play Lite Likes.

And what if one of these is of a Rogue-Like-Lite-Like?

 

[I speel my dreenk]

And what if one of these is of a Rogue-Like-Lite-Like?

Well, then we've got a Rogue-Like-Lite-Like Let's Play Lite Like on our hands. This is getting dangerous.

 

[Zaph]

At some point, we'll have to treat the genre like ancestry:

"Oh, it's a Rogue-like, twice removed".

 

[Brashnir]

Well, then we've got a Rogue-Like-Lite-Like Let's Play Lite Like on our hands. This is getting dangerous.

I hope it features Like-Likes...

 

[EmCeeGramr]

At time point, we'll have to treat the genre like ancestry:

"Oh, it's a Rogue-like, twice removed".

Let me consult my game genre phylogenetic tree.

 

[Ketch]

Oh crap sorry in advance.
A Zelda spin off covered by polygon.

Would be like a Like-Like rogue like lite Let's Play lite like.

 

[NumberThree]

Oh crap sorry in advance.
A Zelda spin off covered by polygon.

Would be like a Like-Like rogue like lite Let's Play lite like.

You're a Like-Like rogue like lite Let's Play lite like.

Besides, you guys are missing the most important question - was Quick Look invented or discovered?

edit: 5/5 review for Jazzpunk! I really need to grab it.

 

[FStop7]

This quote from Jeff should be on the next OT, such good advice in general to anyone getting all abusive on the internets.



http://blog.jeffgerstmann.net/post/...eally-trying-to-justify-stupid-business#notes

I think there's truth in his words, but Jeff should also be aware by now that, as a rule, people are really sensitive about their money. He shouldn't even engage on the topic.

 

[FHIZ]

God... Patrick's face during Ryan game in today's Worth Playing.

Just when I thought the wound had started to heal. Now I'm sad again.

 

[Infinite Justice]

Damn at that final segment in Worth Playing :O :O

that complete silence (save for the game sounds) was kinda jarring especially compared to the earlier parts of the vid.


RIP Ryan RIP

 

[HappenstanceUK]

God watching that last section was hard.

 

[Backfoggen]

Lmao at Brad believing in the Valley of Defilement bridge trolls.

 

[Truant]

Where's this from? Not the game, but the footage.