Best of Giant Bomb 2015

Playdate!

The Beastcast, in particular the glorious Christmas special, has been some of the finest GB output ever.

Every Kerbal episode has had multiple moments that have easily made me bust out in laughter.

demo derby has never disappointed me

Metal Gear Scanlon 3 and 4 were great. V has fallen away a bit (I haven't seen any updates in ages, and the nature of the game doesn't lend itself as well to a Metal Gear Scanlon).

Beastcast is the biggest highlight. Danswers was up there but it too has fallen away a bit

I'd love to see more Danswers episodes in 2016. The Beastcast was incredible and offers a great change of pace from the Bombcast. Just watched the most recent Project B.E.A.S.T. release for the first time and I am now way too invested in what the future holds.

Christmas special almost needs its own option in case anyone from GBEAST sees this and would be encouraged to do more

The life ís strange streams were the best.

Everything that gbeast has done this year has been amazing. Austin was a good hire and fits in well with Vinny and Alex, who were already great together. Also, I love their willingness to play through entire games I never would have seen otherwise. Really looking forward to gbeast 2016.

You seem to have forgotten Mario Party Party

I voted for almost everything. Demo Derby is my single favourite thing on this website and I love the Old Games Show and Ranking of Fighters as well.

I like the coverage of older stuff, but Ranking of Fighters was an especially awesome show that barely got off the ground. I want to see them mess around with more obscure and stupid fighting games. I don't really need Jeff and Jason's take on Street Fighter 2 (I hear that game's real good y'all) but I want to know what they think about Mace: The Dark Age.

Many features on Giant Bomb were fantastic this year. Demo Derby is amazing and the addition of Jeff brings a new and knowledgeable energy to the demos. Any feature from GBeast was great and I dare say the Giant Beastcast has become my preferred podcast over the Bombast. 2015 was a grand year for Giant Bomb!

@ottoman673: The first Mario Party Party came out in the summer of 2014. That's why I didn't include it. Also, fuck Mario Party.

I know it's not strictly speaking "Content" But can I add Austin joining the site? Dude is a great addition to the site, and ill be the first to admit I was sceptical when GB hired another writer. Glad to have been proved wrong.

For the poll though Project B.E.A.S.T. is shaping up great.

Demo Derby and GBE Playdate started in 2014 soooo why don't you just come out and admit you were paid off by Jeff Gerstmann to not include Mario Party Party on this list? Collusion!

I think the E3 coverage deserves some apprasial. Jeff was on fire during those and phonegate was brilliant

To pull a Dan Ryckert here and compare it to wrestling, GBeast is basically the SmackDown when WWE had their brand split in the 2000s and was supposed to be the B show but was consistently way more entertaining than the A show (Raw/GB West).

It makes me happy to see that most of the top voted stuff in this poll is coming out of the GBeast office. The SF office needs to step it up for 2016.

I absolutely love the old games show and I hope there is more in the new year. It was hard to choose between ranking of fighters and that but still I'm a big fan of all of the new content this year.

I would watch a recurring series of giant bomb peeps playing/making Mario Maker levels.

The Giantbomb makes Super Mario levels were pretty excellent. My favourite moment being:

The Kerbal Mun project, Beastcast, Danswers, Breaking Brad (Bloodbourne edition), Alt F1, and Rocket League content have been great as well. The other things (such as Playdate) I have yet to see so can not vote for them in fairness. However, that said, this has been a great year for content and thanks to the whole team for making the site what it is.

Pretty much everything from GBeast this year, and Demo Derby. Demo Derby is still fantastic.

Man, don't make me pick between all these, you monster.

@doctordonkey: You can choose multiple answers.

I went with Choose Our Own Adventure. but honestly I've really enjoyed it all. I don't like seeing Ranking of Fighters so low. That has great potential.

Glad the beastcast is getting the respect it deserves! Also I voted for like 7 things.

Honestly, I found myself checking more than half of these.

The crew did some great stuff this year. Hoping to see more of the Old Games Show and Ranking of Fighters.

Us vs. Them is also the sort of cross-office content I like to see. Featuring more Robo-Vinny.

@zombiepie's Final Fantasy 8 descent into Hell series.

No Super Mario Mornings? For shame. The Beastcast is amazing though.

Demo Derby and VinnyVania were my top picks, but Playdate and COOA also had some brilliant moments.

Demo Derby because revisiting my childhood through Dan-tinted lenses is fun.

Mario party party easily (the live one especially)! But otherwise I'll he to for demo derby. Especially since jeff joined the group

Aside from the minor embarrassment that is Danswers, it's been a stellar year for content, video and written. Some really great new stuff being put out, and the new(ish) hires have been behind a lot of it.

If I had to choose a "winner" it would be Contradiction, as it really was content that showed why GB is so unique.

Demo Derby is definitely a standout for me. I'm hoping they get around to doing them a bit more frequently in 2016. I also really enjoyed MGScanlon, VinnyVania, The Beastcast, GBE Playdate, Choose our own Adventure, The Old Games Show, and...almost everything else on that list actually.

I love the Beastcast and everything, but I worry that those of you who are saying it is better than the Bombcast are beyond help.

@giantlizardking: when you get Dan and Jeff discussing the finer points of cocaine smuggling let me know.

@giantlizardking: Bombcast has not been in prime form this year. The email section, until recently, has been a slog through most of the year.

This was a hard one. I would have to say either Danswers or the Beastcast.

Mario Party Party is peak GB

Kind of weird to do a poll for this (especially because it isn't exactly comprehensive or whatever) but Mario Party Party LIVE was the best thing this year.

Have really enjoyed Demo Derby though.

Metal Gear Scanlon 3 and 4 were great. Mario Maker has had it's moments (though went on a little long lately for me but hey).

As far as I'm concerned, I'm paying for Demo Derby.

Demo Derby and Old Games Show gets my vote. Really love hearing Jeff pouring out his trivia for older games. Would want Danny to get in on those shows more in 2016.

GBeast has stepped it up seriously lately (I've enjoyed pretty much everything they've done on that list), but I'm also a big fan of Demo Derby, MGScanlon and Mario Maker.

Also Mario Party Party is both one of the worst and best things.

More old games show and ranking of fighters please. There's still some space on that white board!

(Oh crap i just realized they could use the idea walls to rank all sorts of fighting games...)

The mario maker saga and the feud with klepek have only made dan grow on me that much more. Jason's just getting more awesome as well.

The gbwest stuff is more in tune with my tastes and i still prefer the bombcast (brad's still killing it at host), but the beastcast is growing on me after not really feeling it initially. For being such a bleak cold soul alex's weekly diatribes have quite the calming effect on me. And thankfully choose our own adventure finally has different games each episode so that is really starting to shine.

2015's been a great year for this site.

Wow I didn't quite realize till now how damn good this year has been for GB

I've got to go with GBE Playdate. The variety and just overall consistent quality puts it at the top. In general I think it was an excellent year to be a Giant Bomb user.

GBeast knocked it out the fucking park in 2015. They were responsible for pretty much all my favorite Giant Bomb content this year. That said, I also loved GB Makes Mario.