Jeff Gerstmann Heads to New York, Takes Questions

Really awesome video, wish i was there.

Great video! Obviously Jeff has a voice on the site, and has mentioned this stuff before, but this was a cool way of seeing his perspective on how things are going on this site in long form fashion and when it is not directly attached and related to a different subject and discussion. (the last thing like that was a Whiskey Media Radio Show from years ago?)

I fucking love Jeff Gerstmann.

Oh man, the possibility of inside video of the making of Transistor is making me super excited. Fingers crossed!

Really good talk.

Jeff did great! Awesome talk!

@dryker said:

That's a real shame, really. I come to Giantbomb to see Jeff be Jeff the crazy video game guy, not Jeff the businessman.

I hope he can lock up the business end of things and return to the good old days of GB where he had all the time in the world to do an endurance run, post on forums and just talk about video games.

This is like an extended Jar time video....which means it's pretty damn great.

It's amazing how well Q and A sessions can work when the questioner isn't trying to be funny or drop a sweet inside joke.

The host asks Jeff at one point if he sees written games coverage moving away from reviews and more toward more serious articles exploring their meaning and what not, and Jeff hesitates before answering to the affect of, "sure, maybe."

I don't know about you guys, but Jeff's "Jar Time" videos are essentially this in video format (which I think occurred to Jeff, by the look on his face, but couldn't find the way to express it).

Jeff, in my opinion, has his finger on the collective pulse of gamers. And it's the unspoken tragedy of the loss of Ryan that has required Jeff to spend more time on the business side and less on his sharing his thoughts on the industry.

This was great. The PAX Panel was great. The GDC live stream was great. I feel the old Bomb burgeoning back. Ryan's smiling down on all of it. Can't wait for the future plans.

Raid!?

Very cool talk, kind of excited for some new blood on the site.

I call bullshit. *picks up phone and dials 28557448* It's ringing......... -_- *hangs up phone*

Great job Jeff. Good job NYU having the man himself on there.

I want to send a shout out to the person who posted a bunch of signs at the main building entrance, as the place in Metrotech center was a little confusing!

I was surprised to see the word Duders in real life. Good times.

That was great, Jeff! Really enjoyed that candid talk.

Hey that's awesome to hear there is a whole stock of Transistor development footage they can put something together with in future. I really enjoyed the Building the Bastion series.

@mistzero: hey, i'm that dumb interviewer in the video! message me and i'll send you some info about the stuff NYU has lined up, if you want.

Thank you Jeff for being awesome.

Alex, this will always be your legacy.

I don't get to see all the content produced, so the content was really interesting and novel to me.

Thinking about the 19 point rating scale gives me a headache.

@dylanfill: Really cool dude, I live in Brooklyn and I would have definitely gone if I knew more in advance they were doing this.

good stuff, always great to hear the other sides we dont often get a chance to see of the crew and a healthy discussion

Straight-ish Talk with Gerstmann Podcast

(Taking on the real shit, then laughing about it!)

NIce, thanks for the upload Jeff.

Great talk, that was cool. You said things I've heard you say in other places (Jar Time, podcast,etc.), but I liked it.

It's almost as if you were some kind of expert. Almost.

I love it when Jeff gets semi-serious and just talks business. It's often a refreshing and interesting insight into the world of someone that's been in the industry for a long time and has some perspective. It's also a good counterbalance to all the absolutely nutty things that go on in a PAX panel or an episode of the Bombcast. Awesome!

This is great. Hearing Jeff speak in a more serious manner is always interesting.

That was great Jeff. Thanks.

That was great Jeff. What a season, what a season...

That was great. Much more academic questions than most panels. Also, always nice to hear behind the scenes stories. /clap

A perfect example of GiantBomb being half "frank inside baseball on the gaming industry" and half "insane bullshit".

2 hours of time I should've been sleeping well spent. Great questions and great answers from Jeff as always.

Great stuff. You're an awesome public speaker, Jeff! :)

This was fantastic, thanks Jeff!

Glad this made it on the site. Good talk, Jeff!

Jeff is so fucking cool. What an absolute legend in this industry. Rock on big Jeffrey!

It was cool getting to ask a question about PR and Marketing's relationship with critics. The whole talk was a nice, refreshing palette cleanser for the wrasslin' carnage about to ensue at PAX.

awesome show!

That was a great talk!

always appreciate hearing Jeff's opinions and man did he drops some hints of possible great new things to come for the site.

good stuff!

Nice talk! I've heard Jeff answer most of this stuff before, but it's great to get a little bit more depth into some of it. And it was cool to see the really enthusiastic students getting into the whole thing. Really enjoyed this one.

Good questions!

That was a really good talk, I'm kind of bummed I didn't go now.

Really happy to hear Jeff acknowledge the wiki and all, as you would otherwise suspect it was about ready to be put to pasture. However, I feel like Jeff has long aired his aspirations for the wiki and yet it's been stuck in the same state for so long now. I'd like to hope these new workings within the wiki will be implemented sooner rather than later; maybe when they at least finally hire these new staff members.

Hell yes SJ Sharks hat in the audience!

Really loved this video. Good job, Jeff!

@hassun: You tend to get more well thought-out questions in environments like this one. The people attending are there mostly for the learning experience (this was an educationally facilitated talk, presumably for students only without or with limited access to outside parties), so it makes sense that they'd want to ask questions that really count.

It was fun and I watched the whole thing, but I've literally heard Jeff answer every one of those questions multiple times before. That probably says something more about me... but eh.

Man I love hearing Jeff solo on the mic. Great talk and great Q&A.

Great talk, good questions! Jeff can talk, thats for sure.