Are they dying? Will they survive the coming year?

Are they dying? Will they survive the coming year?

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Unfortunately, they're here to stay. Even though Jeff, Vinny and Brad are the only non-shit members left and they never do any content together that doesn't have the other NuBombs ruining it like Abby, Alex, Ben, Dan and Jason.

On a scale of Brad to Alex how bad are the GOTY deliberations going to be

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dan's great, fuck off

Abby Russel

I'm afraid it's gonna be a Ben.

Ben, they'll be a Ben. Hard to look at or listen to with terrible opinions on everything topped off with redditer humor.

It's time to move on, everything that made giant bomb good is gone for ever

>Brad
I remember when Brad was the most disliked personality. I can't imagine what it must be like for people to call him not-shit.
Really, Giant Bomb declined after they moved back to the Gamespot Offices and the final nail was after Ryan died. Jeff is probably biding his time until retirement.

>Abby and Ben are the worst hires they could have made

They're like Mega64, they have a ridiculously loyal fanbase that's been with them forever that will support them through anything. Only way GB dies is if they make it die themselves or Jeff/Brad gets accused of rape.

It would be funnier if it was Ben and Abby was the accuser.

I fell off the train a few years ago. I still like listening to Jeff talk about old games, and Vinny still has great chemistry. But all of the energy from the Whisky Media days is long gone.
They would never do something like this again:
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I fucking hate everyone except Jeff and Brad. Dan can sometime be kind of funny but he's usually just annoyingly autistic. GB should've died when Drew left, he was a god amongst men.

t. Dan

i hate brad because hes a lazy fat cunt and has no opinions of his own
>durr neofag said
>durr twitter said
>durr resetera said

Considering how much of an "Ally" he is I'd expect it. Abby has like a year in her before she jumps ship, or when Goty feedback hits the podcasts and she gets torn apart for her hilariously shit opinions.

>Abby has like a year in her before she jumps ship
She already started doing videos for Polygon, I wouldn't give it 6 months.

Diversity Hires Y'all!

I love that she says "I wasnt apart of the process of being hired" but she actually got hired for nepotism because of her friend being friends with someone in that office. "Dig deeper" but only when it matters and not when you need a job.

Fuck outta here with that nonsense. Ben at least tries to do new shit to help out, Abby just is all "whoa is me, lol i do comedy, lol Vinny is really running the show and hosting while I make sure the lights are on!"

She sucks.

Brad sucks. Stop liking his lazy, boring ass. Only Jeff and Vinny are good. I'd rather just sub to a twitch channel with Jeff and Vinny than sub to giantbomb.

Only difference is Mega64 funny.

Vinny died a little over a year ago user, its time to let go.

They're all awful except for Jeff

>Watching the White Male Feminist cast

Are they still funny? I kinda stopped watching them years ago except for the annual Todd and Aaron awards

Jeff old games streams are the best videos.

yes

realistically Giant Bomb should consist of Jeff Gerstman and Brad Shoemaker sitting in an 80s rec room ala Angry Videogame Nerd and playing / chatting about games.

they aren't even capable of delivering regular quick looks.

imagine having a staff of 8 or 9 people or whatever they have, and not being able to regularly and consistently produce a video a day when there are literally hundreds of games released every year.

derrick is straight up unbearable at this point but the others are fine. there was a few weeks derrick took a break and the podcast was great.

what in the fuck am I even watching?

she's just fidgetting with a fucking hot wheels car for 3 minutes straight, is this what - may Allah forgive me for uttering this word - millenials fucking do all day at work?

Things really did change after Abby came on. He lost any humor he had, and seems to feel absolutely compelled to involve her in literally everything despite her lack of interest, or opinion.

>could have gotten Awakened Nick Robinson
>Ben had to be there already and disown him for being a human being

They've been slowly dying for years

Ryan was the lucky one, he got off easy.

>millennials
I'm one but unfortunately I was an idiot and decided to get an actual hard job. I'm a microbiologist in the pharma industry. I don't get a spare minute in the 13 hour work day apart from my 30 minute lunch break lel.

i've grown more and more frustrated at their shit production rate.i know ''lazy'' gets thrown around a lot lately for most stuff but giantbomb have definitely tipped over to lazy. what do they do all day? they dont even need production value t this point, just press record and see what happens

>that feel when Ben and Abby are so lifeless and terrible that Austin and Patrick were better in comparison

As much as I agree Brad sucks I've been watching these guys since 2005 on GameSpot so I've grown accustomed to them being there in the conversation. It's like having a really strong drink; you know you're going to get drunk and enjoy it but the bitterness is always there, you just get used to it.

For some reason I completely blanked on Giant Bomb for the last 9 years and missed literally all of the good shit
I guess because it's a "video game review" site and I never had money to buy video games
Sucks to see people reminiscing about "the old days" that I missed

>what do they do all day?

settling into the new office
meetings
preparing for E3

I felt the same way and got into their content finally just last year; here's one of my favorite older videos of theirs, I think it's a good starting place.

youtube.com/watch?v=3_dcWGjf7us

I feel like it really accelerated when Drew left and Ben and Abby were hired.

>Abby was fine for a few weeks, then when Vinny started pushing her in literally all content they made she continues to get more and more emboldened to spout her Nu-feminism ala twitter with zero actual logic or self made opinions or ideals.
She's absolutely insufferable now.

Where did everything go so wrong

I've been watching them since the twilight princess pre-launch stream they did for gamespot.

you joke but the parody has become reality at this point

I miss the communist black man, at least he had shit to say sometimes.

I remember when I first found giantbomb and I went through most of the quick looks, even ones for shovelware were entertaining. Now I can't even remember the last one I watched, maybe that JoJo game.

Hopefully this thread doens't survive because it's not vidya e-celeb garbage.

There's so much good older content. The ER for persona 4 and deadly premonition are premium kino

>whoa is me
Woe.

Giant Bomb is videogames.com

try again kid

I think the chrono trigger one was alright too despite patrick

Adding a female member to the team was a mistake.

I think giant bomb should be more popular than it is now, jeff's "personality", brad's silence and Vinny's love for FMV really sold me on this.

C H R I S T M A S C A S T

You'd have to be a kid to watch this shit. And don't say no because GB is old. Old GB and current GB are nothing alike. This is e-celeb garbge.

>now

"e-celebs" are video game culture

try again kid

No they're not. I will now proceed to show you over 300 pictures as to why you're wrong.

None of this would have ever happened if they just went with Snake Snake Snake.

Trust me I'm totally John Titor.

>This is e-celeb garbge
go cry about the 3 other e-celeb threads faggot

go back to your containment threads

E-celebs need to be deleted on sight so they can head on back to where they belong.
reddit.com

Isn't it interesting how most people who defend e-celebs can't make a proper sentence? It's almost as if they're children or have low IQs.

>the culture surrounding video games isn't video game culture
fucking moron

>If you have ever made a video game related video, you're suddenly video games and you can talk about rumors and their private lives on Sup Forums - Video Games

Retarded e-celeb lovers, everyone.

>he doesnt understand we can just create a new thread after he goes turbo autist and posts his sad collection of print screens

>He doesn't understand that the more people post these things out of spite, the more people get annoyed and the more likely it is to get banned finally
Go for it dude.

are there any comprehensive lists of "essential" older GB content?

anything involving Ryan

>abby bringing up that 2b wearing a skirt in nier is gross
>alex tries to explain why it makes sense for the story because it's robots trying to emulate humans etc
>abby completely ignores this and goes on a rant about how they should have covered her up more and she can't enjoy the game because of it
>everyone just stays silent until she's done

You know if fucking ALEX is explaining to someone that something isn't sexist then something has gone horribly wrong.

Bayonetta is bad for women. Don't forget that one either.

At least Austin was educated and eloquent. These new 2 have nothing intelligent to say.

>taking photos in public washrooms

why the fuck do people do this

This is why hiring a 20 something woman was a mistake at a company filled with mid-30s to 40 year old men. They'll just sit there silently as she spouts off insane bullshit feminism.

Narcissism

>Woman have to have double the knowledge to get in to male dominated industry

Meanwhile Abby didn't even know what internet latency was and constantly shares opinions on games she has never played.
Giantbomb is a complete disgrace these days.

No, this is seriously shaping up to be one of the worst years for GB, not even hyperbole. The thinly veiled Trump attacks in every podcast / quick looks, the "omg we're living in the end times" attitude from 2/3 of the cast, the terrible presence of the new arrivals, their E3 guests, Drew leaving, the terrible content output, Dan going to NY, Jeff being absent way too much etc. I think the GotY talks will be beyond terrible, as well.

Usually, fans would joke "see you next week" whenever someone would say they stopped consuming GB content, but this was the year I finally stopped listening to their podcasts and QLs. I still come to their threads to see what other people are talking about, but during E3 I just felt like I had enough of their content.

They are fucking lazy and have been for years. They've been lazy ever since Patrick. I fucking hate Patrick, but for like 2 years he put out 90% of the content on that site while the rest of them did nothing. There are single YouTubers that put out more content than most of GBs contributors. Seems like the older crew members are the worst about this.

It's blown ass for a long time, so you haven't missed that much.

I laughed pretty fucking hard when Vinny said it routinely takes 2 hours to setup a single quicklook. All of them just flat out suck at production.

Dude they are just getting used to the office, cut them some slack.

This. I hate Patrick and Austin. but both, specially Patrick, did 10000% more work than GB does today.

He has to be bullshitting. Don't they have a QL room? How does it take longer for them, professionals, to setup a Quick Look than it takes for a fucking teenage youtuber to record unedited gameplay at his home? It's not like QLs need much editing...

...

>Sup Forums
>video games

Video games are trapped in 2013. There have been no games since then.

It was funny when Dave Lang put Jeff on blast at E3 asking what the fuck are they even doing and where is the good content at. Jeff looked really uncomfortable because someone since Ryan finally called him on his shit.

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And basically the entire Persona 4 Endurance Run

Yeah, it clearly makes him uncomfortable when people bring up the lack of content

Is this an accurate timeline of the gradual fall of GB?

>Patrick joins
>Whiskey media collapses and the site is bought back by CBSi
>Dave Snider leaves
>Ryan dies
>(year of nothing)
>Vinny moves out of the state
>Alexis leaves
>Austin joins and leaves in the span of a year
>Drew leaves
>Worst hires in the history of the site join

The Game Room Quick Looks are my favorite. They got progressively funnier as Game Room slowly circled the drain.

>tfw no good videogame podcasts exist anymore

>a Sup Forums 10/10

I listened every week from 2009 up until 6ish months ago. I couldnt do it anymore
They're all insufferable, even Vinny and Jeff G are now.
I miss Drew.

Jeff B is just one man, and he doesnt even work for them. He can't carry them all on his New Jersey Devils sweater wearing back.

Nobody does except Lang.

miss me yet?

it looks like she'd rather be dead

the Giant Beastcast still exists

I feel sorry for that black guy on the left of the picture. He doesnt deserve to be associated with that trash behind him

>we will never see the best group together again

Abby and Alex and Vinny still ruin it