FlyingAces
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I'm not very worried about this transition. I trust Jeff and the rest of the Giant Bomb crew to keep up their signature insanity. Could it go terrible wrong? Absolutely, but that remains to be seen.
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firehawk12
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Yeah, totally. It feels like the old 1up. No other site really captures that feeling now, nor do they have the personalities. I mean, IGN tries - I think they still have a dating podcast of all things - but it's no comparison.
The IGN entertainment side is actually pretty good. If Jeff was moving to LA to join them, I might have been okay with that.
Keyser Soze
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Rorie is posting a bit in this Screened thread...
I have a phone call tomorrow morning that will clarify things for me. I would really like to not be as cagey about everything as I have been today, but understandably things have been pretty bizarre. I am fairly tipsy at this point so I won't elaborate; I'll just say that you guys will know as soon as I know. Whatever else, I would just like you guys to not worry about me. I am fine. I will continue to be fine regardless of what happens. And Screened, which is as much a product of your efforts as of mine, isn't going anywhere.
http://www.screened.com/forums/general-discussion/8/im-going-to-cry/19633/?
Very true.
Part of me is still somewhat worried about the move, but if they can just keep their core stuff going (Bombcast, QL's, TNT, crazy live stuf like the E3 podcasts) then it'll all be okay.
Someone tell me it's all gonna be okay =[
I don't think GB would sign up just to be absorbed into Gamespot. They do a very different style of gaming journalism and I really love it. As the interview said, the QL style is about extended looks at games, not the usual 5 mins most gaming sites do.
Happy Hour might be the main sacrifice but that might appear in a different form. Personally I would love them to do a monthly Scrub League like they did for MK.
I don't see their content changing but they might be able to do more of it now, which is great!
terrdactycalsrock
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Im probably late to the party, espically with all of the sites going different ways, and to lazy to notice small details but you can totally make the footer at the bottom of giantbomb disappear
Keyser Soze
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Films always have a happy ending
Basically because he gave K&L a bad score, and Eidos pulled ad revenue.
slaughterking
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Plus the Ratchet of Clank ToD review, which Jeff merely approved
Foliorum Viridum
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http://www.giantbomb.com/news/and-now-the-rest-of-the-story/4037/
It's up on GB now but it's just Youtube, not a normal upload. Bit shitty. I suppose they can't upload to their host at the moment or something as they go through the transition? They must have the same servers though because they're not going to re-upload four years of content...
I dunno. Bit weird.
It's up on GB now but it's just Youtube, not a normal upload. Bit shitty. I suppose they can't upload to their host at the moment or something as they go through the transition? They must have the same servers though because they're not going to re-upload four years of content...
I dunno. Bit weird.
...and here we go again...
Implying what, exactly?
i'm still waiting for Binary Domain. Hope Jeff finds a copy!
Keyser Soze
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The whole Eidos thing is really a red-herring. Eidos were just doing what many publishers do, and still continue to do to this day. Jeff was fired because inexperienced (possibly idiotic) people were brought to manage the company, and they folded at the first sign of possibly losing money - which is something that most likely would have never went through anyway.
If the people at the top knew what they were doing, and waited a week, everything would have blew over, Jeff would never has left - and Giant Bomb would (likely) have never been created.
It weird that the ineptitude of past owners, which lead to the creation of GB, is going to end up helping the new owners to look amazing.
If the people at the top knew what they were doing, and waited a week, everything would have blew over, Jeff would never has left - and Giant Bomb would (likely) have never been created.
It weird that the ineptitude of past owners, which lead to the creation of GB, is going to end up helping the new owners to look amazing.
Nothing, just that its business as usual back in here,
I try, as yesterday was absolutely bananas.
Basileus777
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Is that 30 minute video the only video content out there on this?
Keyser Soze
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Dave house + pancakes and the John Davidson interview are the only two recent videos.
Basileus777
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Do you have a link to the pancakes video?
vitaminwateryum
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Typographenia
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Yesterday was pretty much the worst day for me to personally have all this go down. I was busy at work and had to make a four hour drive afterwards. Just now getting around to catching up on the media from it all.
It's honestly really overwhelming. It's like I missed a month of stuff happen. Just bizarre seeing him on gamespot set again and just man. Just a weird disconnect for me happening here.
Good to hear him finally able to talk about all of this, at the very least.
It's honestly really overwhelming. It's like I missed a month of stuff happen. Just bizarre seeing him on gamespot set again and just man. Just a weird disconnect for me happening here.
Good to hear him finally able to talk about all of this, at the very least.
Keyser Soze
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Embed here - http://www.giantbomb.com/news/exciting-news-from-your-friends-at-giant-bomb/4035/
JustinTV here - http://www.justin.tv/giantbomb/b/311753835
If you have something like JDownloder installed, you can download by copy/pasting the JTV link
Ventilaator
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Hey, this clip from a Bombcast from July 2011 is kind of funny to listen to now.
Typographenia
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All I have left is the pancakes video, but I do feel a little better now being able to have a straight runthrough of everything that has gone down. I'm more relieved about the GB group being able to stay together than anything. Them still being able to maintain GB as its own "separate" site is a big bonus, though.
I'm hoping for the best for them all, and I'm really hoping the transition goes great over the next month or more.
I'm hoping for the best for them all, and I'm really hoping the transition goes great over the next month or more.
Felix Lighter
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Eerie...
slaughterking
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Haha, it's like the clip where Jeff said they would never ever host their videos on YouTube or a similar platform.
I'm not expecting the new "normal" to emerge until after PAX East. Think about it: They need to move in, get set up, then in three weeks they're flying to the east coast to do all the PAX East stuff, then they fly back and need to recover.
Predicting it'll be light content until the week of April 9. Possibly even the week after that, as April 15 is when they split the databases for Tested and GB.
Predicting it'll be light content until the week of April 9. Possibly even the week after that, as April 15 is when they split the databases for Tested and GB.
DidntKnowJack
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They aren't wrong in that clip. And if you were face to face to those guys right now and asked them, "Could this possibly go horribly wrong?" They'd tell you, "Yeah. Certainly. Anything's possible." But they aren't going to say that publically, they're optimistic and moving forward and that's what they need to do as a company for their best interests. But they're smart enough to know there are no guarantees, but they made the best possible move they could make and accepted the best offer that made sense to them.
Plus, there's got to be a sense of "We're going home." And that probably gives them the feeling that ultimately, they won.
Plus, there's got to be a sense of "We're going home." And that probably gives them the feeling that ultimately, they won.
"We're just gonna let them do what they do"
"Sure, uh uh. Not at all a common phrase when someone buys someone else"
Jasper Avenue
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Haha I love this clip.
Broder Salsa
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Ventilaator
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Also be sure to listen until the end. They go off on "EA is evil" for a while but then loop back around to "Actually, anyone buying anything is evil"
I figure the phone call is either him learning if Braun wants to keep him, or whether CBSi will be picking him up to work for GB.
Pretty much this. Although I can see Anime vice and Screened dead in a month.
snoopeasystreet
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hopefully it's the latter.
randomlyrossy
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I doubt he'd be going with the GB guys, aside from a couple of Quick Looks I don't think he ever did anything for GiantBomb did he?
snoopeasystreet
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well he used to work at gamespot and he wrote a dark souls piece for GB.
He used to work at Gamespot with the other guys.
Foliorum Viridum
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Was Matt just the guides guy at Gamespot? I remember him being the "Boss of Bosses" and I can't really recall him doing anything else!
randomlyrossy
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That was a long time ago at this point. Not really reason enough for him to suddenly get taken on with GB. He's a Screened guy who very occasionally crossed over. Alex went with them because he had increasingly become more of a GB guy with doing news and reviews for them.
HamPster PamPster
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One thing I always wondered, is Rorie the same as Shawn's friend Rorie who got brought up all the time on GFW?
randomlyrossy
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(Matt) Rorie is his second name. Rory Manion is Shawn's friend.
No. That Rorie did a few reviews for GFW, so unless he used a different last name, not the same guy.
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