Ventilaator
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Finished the 404 panel.
....what the fuck, Pope.
....what the fuck, Pope.
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Beast Legacy
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The official archive isn't up yet. There's more of the NYU talk than just those two videos. Check the NYU Game Center Twitter for when they eventually put the archive up.
As mentioned before, it was Jeff talking about his background and history covering games then the rest was a Q&A session.
Cannon Goose
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Huh, so Eric Pope's a weird dude.
Delta Assault
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Jeff's segment was probably the funniest. Oh, 90s Sega. You fucking idiots.
http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/giant-bombcast-02-22-2011/1600-213/
vinny talking about demons souls and how much he struggles with it. kind of funny to hear since how big fans of the games they've become now
vinny talking about demons souls and how much he struggles with it. kind of funny to hear since how big fans of the games they've become now
hipbabboom
Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
I was just catching up on the gdc live show archive today and I think the gb crew did an amazing job and the guests were interesting as always but I cannot easily express in words just how different it feels without Ryan. It was informal in a way it felt you could wander in from the street and into a space where all these interesting people who you knew about were acting out and you could just lean against a wall in the corner of the room and chill with a beer and listen to the interesting conversation that would always organically form; at the cetera of it all was Ryan would always just barely hold it together even though it always seemed like it could come apart at the seams any given moment.
I know I'll grow to appreciate the new stuff even more as time goes on but everything right now still feels like a milestone relative to last summer so its hard to not compare these familiar experiences to the past.
I know I'll grow to appreciate the new stuff even more as time goes on but everything right now still feels like a milestone relative to last summer so its hard to not compare these familiar experiences to the past.
I think this is a good idea, but I also think they might just gloss over (well, not gloss over it, but just not mark it). It's kind of a painful day for Patrick in particular...
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I don't like Eric Pope. I'm scared of Eric Pope. Pease god help me
Yeah maybe, and it is entirely up to them how they want to handle it. Not to burden any of them with expectations of any kind, but I reckon there'll be at least some mention of it. Rorie might do another article, or, even though you're right about Pat, I could just as easily see him put his thoughts into an article, considering his tendency to discuss difficult subjects (although this is very different).
Jimmyfenix
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HR awaits for pope.
There will be an official archive that will be different than the Twitch stream. Drew was filming separately.
this art is awesome
I loved the GDC show they had, but it definitely has a different feeling compared to last year. I mean you'll never replace Ryan, the dude was amazing at what he did. I just hope they can add more on camera/personality staff to the SF crew. It feels barren since the passing of Ryan and Patrick moving away.
Personally, I think they should look more for people who are amazing in videos and live show situations. People with good improv like experience would be great, I don't mean like performing skits, but just in terms of playing off other people in quick looks, Ryan was the King of it in my opinion.
The first goal is to hire more behind-the-scenes video people.
They're already in the process of getting those reqs ready. CBSi has definitely approved some additional hiring, we just don't know how much.
RiccochetJ
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Then why did they buy them? Unless they were actually purchasing the tech team and GB just came along with it?
Except the tech and most of the team went to Berman Braun. I think Dave was pretty much the only dev who came with Giant Bomb and Comic Vine.
Also, again, the last we heard was that CBSi DID APPROVE additional hiring. Jeff and Vinny seem to be working on putting together the wording on the reqs, and they'll likely be looking for people soon.
Just don't expect it to be in front of the camera people. It'll be people nobody has heard of who can work in the control room to help out Vinny and Drew and allow them to be on camera more often.
They purchased them for their tech team. At the time Wikia was the largest gaming site based on page views and CBS wanted to have a wiki-like platform for the future. For years they were trying to patch up Gamespot and Gamefaqs when they needed a complete rebuild.
That's not what I remember reading. Also didn't Berman Braun fire most of the team after the acquisition anyway?
Not sure about the firings, but the tech definitely went to Berman Braun. It's why Dave and Alexis (who I forgot about, so he's another dev) had to completely redesign Giant Bomb and Comic Vine. It wasn't said, but it appeared that they had a year to get off the old tech and move to something new.
TheBaronOfNA
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Jeff more or less confirmed that they greenlighted hiring more staff.
They will be uploading it. It just may be a couple days. They likely have to do some editing as they were filming with multiple cameras.
LifeIsLife
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No they are uploading it, but the twitch stream was 1 camera and they had at least 2, so the archive on GB will prolly have fancy camera edits and fixes to audio levels and such and means it may take a bit of time to be uploaded
funkystudent
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Wait. So was the gamer oatmeal thing just the CAH guys dicking around and not a actual PAX sponsor?
Yes, it was CAH. The packages of the Oatmeal had the PAX East set of CAH cards inside.
Yeah, Jeff has specifically said he wants to hire someone to manage the business side of Giant Bomb and someone that can help run the control room. I don't recall any mentions of new "on air personalities".
Jimmyfenix
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I still remember when Brad Nicholson started to write news for GB Pre Scoops era....That was very interesting to say the least.
BUNTING1243
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Bring Back Brad Nicholson
Let me tell you about how many reps I did in the gym this morning...
This isn't the whole panel and the quality isn't great
NYU Game Center said they're going to have the whole thing on their vimeo by tomorrow, just wait for that
You got it backwards. All the tech went with BB. They wanted to publishing system. All the engineers left of their own accord almost to the day a year after the acquisition (speculation was they had year long contracts).
That is why they had to redesign the site from scratch.
I feel bad for him because he had this preexisting persona that was working super well for him at Destructoid, and there was no real transition period for him so all of a sudden, this new guy is talking about lifting and exercise and video games and all of the GB fandom was just confused.
Bringing in new talent like that needs to be done in a much more massaged way. Dropping new people into the shit (so to speak) is a terrible way to let people know what kind of person they are.
PodToid was the best when it was Aaron Lindee, Brad Nicholson, Jim Sterling, Sammit Sarkar and Anthony Burch. I can't even listen to it anymore, it's just not the same.
Nah podtoid was at it's best when it was Sterling, Scoville, Long and Holmes.
I think Jeff would count the introduction of Brad Nicholson as one of the greatest mistakes GB has ever made.
That, and doing ERs.
I'm kidding about the ER part.... but if I ever had the chance to have a totally honest conversation with Jeff I'd love to ask him if, given what he knows now, he would still have done the Persona 4 ER.
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