A Few Words About Unfinished

Only problem I have is Unfinished has negative connotations (with the un prefix), at least to me. A more positive spin for a title could be As It Develops, In Progress, In Utero. Something that denotes growth towards final rather than something that is not final.

More video is always good. Not a fan of the title, but that's a quibble I could get over easily if it's good content.

I approve of this thank you Jeff

Well, we're not going to say no to more content, so...

I suppose this is good?

I think i have to agree with some of the others when i say i dont really like the "unfinished" name it does seem to have a negative connotation. "Early look" or "Crackin wise with Vin Dawg N' the Boyz" seem like better names.

Yeah, I suppose this came about from a discussion on the forums and long periods of AAA games missing from the release calendar.

So a new format open to what ever is good. I think it should be more like a free unpro fridays with a little more serious tone. Group of folks in the studios with someone who has actually played around with the early access game. Since they can sometimes be dense.

Unfinished sounds bit too professional. How about "Half assed look", and put half a donkey as the splash screen.

Anyway, I'm in. There seems to be lots of interesting early access games out there.

As someone who has currently backed over 600 crowd-funded projects and has about 50 of the 88 Early Access games on Steam, I think this is a great idea.

The thought process is flawless.

Good work gentleman.

Format does sound fine, but not sure on the term label though, but that's just a personal preference thing. Certainly interested in seeing what's produced and go from there. All the best of luck!

I know this may seem like more divulgence into more semantics, but what about games like Broken Age? Would that be appropriate for Unfinished, or does it fall into a episodic category? In fact, does episodic count as unfinished?

cool

I think it will be similar to how they did The Walking Dead. The quicklook was done a day or two after the first episode was released but the review was done when the game was complete.

And "quick look" is? The title does a very good job at setting up what you are about to watch.

Props to you guys. Makes sense and should be fun to see you cover the odd stuff showing up in these kind of releases.

Sounds good to me!

Only thing I'd add is that I'm not a fan of having multiple games in 1 video, without good indexing. I've often found that I'm interested in only 1 or 2 games in an Unprofessional Friday and it can be a bit difficult to jump to those specific game(s). I realize that's the format for UF and I'm fine with that but I wouldn't want that annoyance to expand to this new format as well.

Anyway, good to see you guys continue to innovate!

I don't care what things are called, I care about pure content. The more content the Giantbomb staff are freed up to produce is all good in my books, finding a name for something that can allow them to feel better about creating content on it makes me very happy.

Also I agree that in the past these types of games only being covered in longer live shows was weird, since I tend to not be able to watch 100% of each show each week, usually only a bit here and there and only sometimes do I get to sit down and watch most or all of a show, and I feel sucky cause I could have missed something that I would have enjoyed seeing simply because of the crazy huge amount of content in those live shows. Potentially breaking some of that off into more specific chunks of content is super rad, ensures I have a larger chance to see and keep track of all of it, and it sounds like just straight up more of it will exist as a whole.

CHEERS AND HIP HIP HURRAH.

Alternative names:

1. "To be or not to be"

2. "What it was"

3. "The Forest Primeval"

4. "Progress Report"

5. "Sonogram"

Love the idea. Go for it.

Cold. Ice cold.

Good! Definitely clears up some weirdness about having several Quick Looks, potentially, for just one game.

Sounds okay to me, hopefully it will sort out the issue of people whining in the comments of quick looks.

Great idea guys. Looking forward to more great content!

This is a great idea and a great addition to content! Nice thinking!

This sounds great.

It's weird how Brad was arguing during the GOTY deliberations that Early Access does a little bit of disservice to unfinished games because there's no telling how unfinished they really are and how that could discourage people from playing the game and now we'll have a feature covering them. I'm not complaining or anything, I just find it weird, that's all.

And MIST is a better name.

Looking forward to Unfinished!

Love this idea. Will be a great way to keep up on the latest new things that haven't been covered in more official capacities yet.

Early Access games are quickly becoming something I enjoy. I currently own Rust, Starbound, and Kerbal Space Program. It's fun seeing them grow and whatnot. It'll be interesting to see the crew play them and even revist them later down the line to see how they change.

So...does this mean there will be a Path of Exile video at some point? I still don't understand how no one there has looked at it.

Thank god. Now people can stop complaining when early access games dont get looked at like finished games do.

I approved of more content for non-premium member. It always feel weird when UPF is sometimes basically a bunch of quick looks that normal user has no access to. Premium show should be restricted to games that is really experimental or older games I think.

Contuining the trend of doing stuff they would never consider or even make fun of a few years back. Not that I blame them, gotta keep the site alive, but still.... Giantbomb is changing, fast.

Sounds like a good idea to me. There should definitely be some kind of distinction between Early Access/Beta/Preview stuff and finished products.

@drewbert Are we getting a new bumper or just plain old Video Feature? Maybe a new chord from Vinny?

More video content in any capacity is an awesome thing to me. Glad you guys are doing this.

Agreed it's time, and the format sounds great.

@jeff@drewbert: Name makes sense, ideaology makes sense. When did you guys start making sense and/or what have you done with the real Jeff? (In all seriousness, awesome idea.)

Agreed that it's time. And I like the approach, looking forward to it.

I like it, especially if it'll open you guys up to doing more video content that you wouldn't have normally done. Nice to see you guys reacting to the changing market!

Neat idea.

@truthtellah: sounds fucking refreshing!!!

or reminds me of the horrific creatures from the stephen king story... :\

Looking forward to seeing how this takes shape.

Good on you guys for figuring out how to deal with this flood of unfinished games for sale. People defiantly need to see if some of these are worth their time. In the few Early Access games and such I've bought they have ran the range of 'solid base with details just needing to be fleshed out' to 'hardly a game yet' and I would like to see the state of things firsthand and how the developers are working on it before shelling out cash for what is essentially a preorder.

Is it possible for you to have Unfinished and Unfinished Solos, as you do with Quick Looks?

Oh fuck yes.

Nice. I was hoping for a look at the Next Car Game, I actually bought it, and it's pretty cool. The car physics are awesome! It also comes with a separate dl of a tech demo that I really hope they include in the unfinished look. I messed around with both pieces last night for a couple hours and was surprised how much fun I had with it.

huh neat idea, looking forward to it!

Anything that means more video coverage from the bombcrew is pretty much 100% pure happy-drugs to me, so yay!

Always happy about new features.

Super idea fellas, thumbs up!