Giant Bomb Thread The Third: #TeamBrad

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Vinny's laugh in the Ravaged quick look reminds me of how great it is when he cracks up laughing. What are the best examples of that happening besides Outcast, the flight club one (can't remember the specific video), or the rabbids video?
 
baconbm said:
Vinny's laugh in the Ravaged quick look reminds me of how great it is when he cracks up laughing. What are the best examples of that happening besides Outcast, the flight club one (can't remember the specific video), or the rabbids video?
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Ending of Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Beta.
 
baconbm said:
Vinny's laugh in the Ravaged quick look reminds me of how great it is when he cracks up laughing. What are the best examples of that happening besides Outcast, the flight club one (can't remember the specific video), or the rabbids video?
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Dark Souls, Farming Simulator and the first Wipeout QL off the top of my head.
 
baconbm said:
Vinny's laugh in the Ravaged quick look reminds me of how great it is when he cracks up laughing. What are the best examples of that happening besides Outcast, the flight club one (can't remember the specific video), or the rabbids video?
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Hell yeah, we're going to turn this into another Vinny-laugh-appreciation mini-thread! Let's do this!
 
Been out of the loop the past couple months, any particularly great pieces of content I've missed (barring last week's gems)?
 
FStop7 said:
If the buyout was a matter of survival of the site then it might not have been the payday you think. I hope it was good though, they deserve it.
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At least in the case of GB, it def didn't seem it was for survival. Whiskey Media as a whole was most likely a bailout. I wonder if Alex is an actual employee or if the guys just help him out.
 
The Dutch Slayer said:
Just saw this in this thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=425934

2006 gamespot NES retrospective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGV5OvMZCYA
http://www.gamespot.com/features/flashback-nes-6144735/

SO SO SO GOOOOOD I wish they would do one for the snes!
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Yeah, that retrospective was brought up in the last thread - so damn good.

It's actually kinda shocking that old Gamespot had so many good on-camera personalities under one roof. Even in 2006, Gamespot really tried to put out great long-form content (remember the E3 docs?) when most other websites were just focusing on hiring as many bloggers as possible to churn out posts. I wonder if they intentionally tried to hire people who weren't afraid of the camera, or was it just luck?
 
I have the E3 docs and tried to put them on Youtube but they all got flagged for copyright :\ Dunno why, I think it might be the music.

They're great. I'd love GB to do one like that...
 
Zaph said:
Yeah, that retrospective was brought up in the last thread - so damn good.

It's actually kinda shocking that old Gamespot had so many good on-camera personalities under one roof. Even in 2006, Gamespot really tried to put out great long-form content (remember the E3 docs?) when most other websites were just focusing on hiring as many bloggers as possible to churn out posts. I wonder if they intentionally tried to hire people who weren't afraid of the camera, or was it just luck?
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Well Jeff was already in high position to hire people so he was already focused on camera stuff.

Combination, look at these people, these people together with the 1up staff was THE best that video press personalities had to offer at the time.

It's hard for me to think of people who are not from the era who are in the press now, who are this good and still work press side.
Now a lot of youtube gen have great personalities and have fun youtube shows but not on the "main" press websites, I do not really think that anyone has come close to this core group + 1up staff.
 
Foliorum Viridum said:
I have the E3 docs and tried to put them on Youtube but they all got flagged for copyright :\ Dunno why, I think it might be the music.

They're great. I'd love GB to do one like that...
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That sucks, I have been trying to track down a decent quality version of Electric Showdown, the one that they offer for streaming on the Gamespot website looks so bad. Now I know why I can't ever find them on YouTube.
 
The Dutch Slayer said:
Well Jeff was already in high position to hire people so he was already focused on camera stuff.

Combination, look at these people, these people together with the 1up staff was THE best that video press personalities had to offer at the time.

It's hard for me to think of people who are not from the era who are in the press now, who are this good and still work press side.
Now a lot of youtube gen have great personalities and have fun youtube shows but not on the "main" press websites, I do not really think that anyone has come close to this core group + 1up staff.
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Yup, outside of Giant Bomb, there are a few personalities around but they're scattered and keep crossing over into production.

I watch a few 'Youtubers' and streamers occasionally but I've noticed, one or two exceptions aside, they're only really good within their comfort zone - laughing and messing around with their friends/co-stars. As soon as they're outside of their 'bubble' and venture to places like E3 and PAX, their attempts to conduct interviews or roll with a live conversation falls apart fast and it gets super awkward/amateur.

Also, there's an annoying trend where new outlets similar to Giant Bomb show potential but then realign their focus more on 'geek culture' than just exclusively video games. Because, apparently, if you play games you also like anime, toys, shit films, comics, 'geek icons' (I threw up a bit just typing that) and other random bullshit.

It's really important Giant Bomb hang around.
 
darkressurection said:
That sucks, I have been trying to track down a decent quality version of Electric Showdown, the one that they offer for streaming on the Gamespot website looks so bad. Now I know why I can't ever find them on YouTube.
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I can't even watch it on Gamespot. I get an error page when I try to watch EE.
 
The Dutch Slayer said:
SO SO SO GOOOOOD I wish they would do one for the snes!
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I wish they would do one for it now, like a GameSpot/Giant Bomb joint thing. I certainly wouldn't mind! :O

Also, remember when owning Fubu stuff was the epitome was fashion? (Not being sarcastic... everyone I knew owned some sorta Fubu thing)

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Man, watching that GMA video is quite a step in the past ("what can we see in this that we haven't been able to see before?! :O")
 
Why did people hate Gamespot back in the day? I didn't really visit any gaming sites. I only listened to the Hotspot so I always liked jeff and the crew.
 
chogidogs said:
Why did people hate Gamespot back in the day? I didn't really visit any gaming sites. I only listened to the Hotspot so I always liked jeff and the crew.
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Gamespot was great. Hotspot, On The Spot, Tournament TV, Button Mashing, honest reviews, good news reporting, great personalities...

You'd have to be an idiot to have hated it.
 
chogidogs said:
Why did people hate Gamespot back in the day? I didn't really visit any gaming sites. I only listened to the Hotspot so I always liked jeff and the crew.
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Because 1up existed. Gamespot never had a voice to me, so I stuck mostly to smaller, more specialized sites until 2004 or so and then started following 1up.
 
Dark Schala said:
I wish they would do one for it now, like a GameSpot/Giant Bomb joint thing. I certainly wouldn't mind! :O

Also, remember when owning Fubu stuff was the epitome was fashion? (Not being sarcastic... everyone I knew owned some sorta Fubu thing)

I6emx.png


Man, watching that GMA video is quite a step in the past ("what can we see in this that we haven't been able to see before?! :O")
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dat young Jeff
 
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