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12 Hours of Skyrim, 12 Hours of Greg Kasavin: This Thursday!

Join us on Thursday morning as a good friend sits down with Bethesda's latest.

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Back in the old days, live streaming video of people playing video games sounded like madness. It didn't make any sense. And, when it did happen, it certainly didn't happen for 12 hours straight. One man, one reviewer, one Greg Kasavin decided that maybe the best way to get some information out to the people about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion would be to let the world watch as he began his review process. With a game as long as Oblivion was, the first 12 hours is kind of barely scratching the surface, so I don't know that it even really "spoiled" anything in the traditional sense.

I think the rest of us thought he was crazy. 12 hours? With one game? Live on the Internet? Forget it. "It'll never work," we said. Yet here we are, five years later, with a fancy new site largely built around the idea of posting hours and hours of game coverage. He was right. We were wrong. It was a pretty awesome happening. People are interested in watching other people play video games on the Internet. Seems so obvious these days, doesn't it?

That's why this week's live event feels momentous. Because we'll have Greg Kasavin, now of Supergiant Games, coming in to share his first 12 hours of Skyrim with the world. To make sure that we aren't sullying his time--mostly because I've already played more than 12 hours of the game and Brad's review will have posted by then--we're essentially going to lock Greg away and let him do his thing. Will he join the Dark Brotherhood? How many dragons will he fight? How many shouts will he find? Hmm... maybe we should start some kind of betting pool. Either way, I'll be hanging out in our chat room during the stream, so let's posse up and watch Greg's adventure, cool?

Join us at 8AM Pacific Standard Time on Thursday for Skyrim. Or, if you're feeling saucy (and hate sleep), our own Dave Snider is going to kick off the live festivities with a pre-Skyrim stream starting at midnight PST on Wednesday nigh (or Thursday morning, depending on how you want to look at it)t. Will he play Morrowind? Oblivion, perhaps? Come back to the site tomorrow night and find out!

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This will be 100x better than IGN's 24 Dark souls Marathon! WOOOHOO!

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Greg Kasavin is a man that I respected more than any other in games journalism. Every time he said anything, I could understand his point of view, which is what I think all games journalists should strive for. It's not about being controversial, or getting the story first, it's about having opinions that people value and being able to articulate them well enough that anyone can at least see why you have the point of view that you do. He's the greatest games journalist I've ever listened to and followed, and I'll love to hear about his thoughts on Skyrim as he plays through it. Giant Bomb continues to put together features that I want to see. I love how diverse it all is. It's not all Quick Looks or news or reviews, they mix it up better than any other games site in my opinion.

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@AV_Gamer said:

Greg should write the review, but since he worked on the game, that would be considered biased.

One good thing going for Greg, if his game developing career doesn't last, he'll easily have a place at Giantbomb.

It's good to have connections.

What? Greg didn't work on Skyrim...

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I've decided that I'm just going to hit up the archive when that's up. I'm going to be sleeping through pretty much all of Dave's stream and classes are going to make me miss the first 4 or so hours of the Skyrim stream so I'd rather just see it all from the beginning.

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Late night with Snider, what could possibly go wrong!
Be there at 12

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@lancer75 said:

Greg Kasavin is a man that I respected more than any other in games journalism. Every time he said anything, I could understand his point of view, which is what I think all games journalists should strive for. It's not about being controversial, or getting the story first, it's about having opinions that people value and being able to articulate them well enough that anyone can at least see why you have the point of view that you do. He's the greatest games journalist I've ever listened to and followed, and I'll love to hear about his thoughts on Skyrim as he plays through it. Giant Bomb continues to put together features that I want to see. I love how diverse it all is. It's not all Quick Looks or news or reviews, they mix it up better than any other games site in my opinion.

I didn't really dive into games journalism until the rise of GiantBomb, but the reasons you state here are the main reasons I like the website in general - everyone has clear tastes and authorial voice, which is unimpeded by outside factors. If Kasavin can bring that level of quality to the Skyrim stream I'm even more excited for it than I was.

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@Milkman: Bastion.. Skyrim... SAME THING?!

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@caska said:

Daggerfall with Vindave?

you mean davinny?

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I want to watch it so bad, but my aversion to knowing anything about the game beforehand is too strong. Sorry Dave and Greg. I love you, but I can't do it.

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Elder Scrools all fucking day!

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Why of all weeks was this the one that I entered the workforce?! I want to watch it so much!

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Will miss Dave starting it off but will check out some of Greg playing Skyrim tomorrow. What a day it will be. Just to think I will have another elder scrolls game in like 25 hours is so awesome.

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@Milkman:

My mistake.

In that case, they should let him write the review.

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I'm all over this.

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They've broken the street date release of Skyrim in Australia...brb...snagging a copy and playing it before Greg does

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to loosely paraphrase the Beastie Boys,

No Sleep Till Skyrim

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Can't wait for Greg and Skyrim. Should be awesome. In other news, is the Dave show premium only, by any chance?

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Already got the game at the store i work at... dont know if i should get it or not X_X

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They probably should have stated that Daves thing isn't free.

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I have come to realize I am watching Wednesday Night Fights, the pre-show thing at 3 AM then waking up to watch the 11 AM stuff...then going to the Skyrim midnight launch. Good lord.

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LOOKS LIKE SCHOOL AND WORK IS RUINING MY LIFE ONCE AGAIN. WNF is keeping me entertained also.

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@Jeff: Will this be archived for subscribers?

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Is the live stream going to be for subscribers only? I really need to know, so that I don't miss school for nothing.

EDIT: Nevermind, Ryan said on his twitter that it is not premium only. Can't wait!

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Awsome:) good thing im up early!

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This should eat up most of the time until the midnight release :D

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Want to watch but don't want to be spoiled T_T

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GREG WHY DID YOU KILL THAT GOAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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Does anyone know in which part on Justin.tv Greg killed a dragon? ( I assume he did since he used a shout at the end)

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@Sogeman said:

Does anyone know in which part on Justin.tv Greg killed a dragon? ( I assume he did since he used a shout at the end)

I don't know exactly which part, but it's close to the end.
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Has there been any word yet if they will archive the 12h marathon here on GB? They archived the pre-marathon, and I know I can watch Greg's on Justin, but I'd rather download it from here. :)

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@Cincaid: Obviously I have no solid information, but it took them around 12hrs to archive the pre-stream stuff. Greg's sesh was double that, so I think we'll be looking at sometime tonight for all that. If they are planning it at all.

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I hope they archive it Im watching pre show atm

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Is this still being archived? been a few days now and nothing

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I would also like to know if the FULL video will be posted on Giant Bomb still. I know I can see it on Justin.tv but I would like to see the full thing with fixed audio and everything on GB.

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Where is the archive!

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I'm too busy playing the game but I want to get an archive of this so I can watch it at some point. Hopefully it shows up on Giant Bomb so I can download it overnight or something.