mfnick Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 Holy shit! Tam, Lucy and Grubb joining GB and Dan returning?! Fucking awesome! Love all of them. The whole situation I’ve read around Jeff G is very strange though. He’s the main reason for GB existing and the longest serving and he isn’t getting a proper good bye or send off? That’s fucked up. Can’t be under good terms surely? But then I’d be surprised by Tam etc. joining if they were that bad to him. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted June 7, 2022 Share Posted June 7, 2022 At least the Bombcast has a decent theme tune again. It's just started, and the energy is high. https://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 The recent GB content has been excellent! If Jeff going is what it took for the “new” staff and renewed energy then I hate to say it but it’s for the best. Hope it continues. Loved the Tekken endings video. Used to watch those loads with a mate back in the day, were always good for a laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Ye, it's a lot better. The past 2 years has been like watching a bunch of strangers talk to each other on a zoom call. Apparently they will be doing in person stuff as well, I would guess though on a seasonal basis and not that often as very few of them live in SF anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Unusual material from GB here, with a clickbaity title. But it's actually a really well informed talk about how visually 'busy' some games are, their (subjective) detriment to some players and how games can look good without filling the screen with tons of highly contrasted pixels everywhere (or in some cases visually similar stuff that hides necessary detail) (it is NOT a hatefest on horizon, that's just the clickbait thumbnail to get people angry on twitter. It's about colour theory, art and how we visually parse things and UI design) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 makes you wonder what's going on with GB. That title, then the absolute waste of time Last of Us Quick Look. It's good that they're busier, but I don't think I've ever been less interested in the content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 I skimmed through it and most if not all the shots I saw that she’s using is from the first area of the game (which is what I was saying when the game came out and people were making fun of me, you can’t see anything). However when you leave that part there’s much fewer areas of the game that are that densely packed and it gets much better. But it’s what I was saying the first part is too much. If it weren’t for flashing icons that light up as I walked past stuff I don’t know how I would tell apart resources from decoration in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 34 minutes ago, DANGERMAN said: waste of time Last of Us Quick Look I thought that was brilliant. & the absolute opposite of a waste of time. Every other site out there is fawning over it and given plenty of time to the new accessible features so there’s no need for another to do the same. It was genuinely funny. Joe public isn’t on GB. It’s people like us and we’re already aware of all that stuff. & Horizon, I completely understand where VB and Maf are coming from. When a game gets that visually busy it’s not longer a “good” looking game. I don’t like how clickbaity it is though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 What VB is saying is something I've felt with other games not as visually intense as Horizon. I think a lot of devs overdo it now cause of HDR tvs. It's gotten to a point of backlash for me personally where I think I just prefer rubbish looking brown games now or something. Until at least 202X games kind of relax a bit with the visual clutter Death Stranding and RDRII are good examples of great looking games where this issue doesn't really exist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 1 hour ago, mfnick said: I thought that was brilliant. & the absolute opposite of a waste of time. Every other site out there is fawning over it and given plenty of time to the new accessible features so there’s no need for another to do the same. It was genuinely funny. Joe public isn’t on GB. It’s people like us and we’re already aware of all that stuff. & Horizon, I completely understand where VB and Maf are coming from. When a game gets that visually busy it’s not longer a “good” looking game. I don’t like how clickbaity it is though. I actually wanted to see it be played though, see it running rather than just comparisons, side by sides, or pixel counting. Putting that out seemed a bit contemptible of the audience and people's valid concerns of whether the game is worth it to them or not. I'm sure it wasn't meant like that obviously, just as I'm sure most of their audience thought it was funny, but I'm not their audience any more I suppose, which is fine, not everything has to be for you innit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 GB bouncing around like a ping pong ball I was initially positive on the new direction of GB but over time I think it's way too 'Dan-ified'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HandsomeDead Posted October 3, 2022 Share Posted October 3, 2022 I like Jeff Grubb's news show well enough but I'm not a sub because I'm rarely in the mood for that much gaming stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 So in the latest episode of the Jeff Gerstmann Show, Jeff confirms why he left Giant Bomb and went to do his own thing. https://clips.twitch.tv/FurtiveTangibleBeanDansGame-cSsXPEXYahhdnECz He was fired three weeks before he was going to quit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Did he go in to why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Honestly feels like everyone at GB needs to treat it as a jumping off point onto greater things, a transition, cause I just don't see how it has any future tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfnick Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Man that’s fucked up. Being fired from the site you built up before having chance to leave properly. As for GB, I’ve been loving their recent content. It’s honestly been better since he left. However looking at video comment numbers & general discourse it does feel like Jeff going is the end of it in the not too distant future. I really hope not though. The current crew and features have been excellent IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DANGERMAN Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 I saw Giant Bomb streaming Arkham at the same time as Nextlander, and Nextlander had probably twice the audience, prior to Jeff going that wouldn't have been the case. Hopefully they generate enough to keep going, I don't watch them much but there are some decent people there 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 3 hours ago, DANGERMAN said: Did he go in to why? I haven't got to this part in the podcast yet, so I'm not sure. He does seem so much happier since he left Giant Bomb, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 He got into it here. He doesn't go into specifics on particular decisions or whatever but that he'll be angry about it for a very long time The issue with these sites was expounded on by Dave Schneider recently (who was one of the lead engineers at GB and gamespot back in the day), there's this thread on hackernews where he goes on about the challenge of monetizing sites like these while maintaining their independence. The business of internet media companies is to sell adverts at the end of the day, the modern internet sucks basically https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066626 The business of this kind of games media is in freefall I think, Jeff going independent was the best decision he made (even if imo I'm not really into the whole solo podcast thing). The Nextlander guys also saw the writing on the wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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