GIANT BOMB COMMUNITY ENDURANCE RUN!

Are you tired of having your wishes for another Giant Bomb Endurance Run denied by the cruel Giant Bomb staff overlords?

What are you talking about? They just finished one not that long ago =P

Anyway, I'm always for charity so good wishes to you guys and stuff. Although, what you're doing is not an Endurance Run, it's just let's plays. The term "Endurance Run" is trademarked by CBS and you do not have enough twinkies (which are now rare and therefore worth more than gold) to pay for the license.

@cornbredx: You raise a very good point, Mr. CornBREDX.

Ladies and gentlemen, announcing

THE GIANT BOMB COMMUNITY KICKSTARTER TO FUND THE PURCHASE OF ENOUGH TWINKIES TO LEGALLY LICENSE THE TERM "ENDURANCE RUN" FROM CBS

https://donate.childsplaycharity.org/24a78ecfccca57b5979d603fd6861af0/

https://twitter.com/GBCEnduranceRun

I will watch some, if you are hurting for time to fill, it's possible I could help you out. I have some familiarity with streaming and I do have a free weekend.

I might donate 5 or 10 bucks, I wish it could be more, but recent events have left me with an uncertain financial future. :D

Ladies and gentlemen, the hour of reckoning swiftly approaches! The six of us are pounding the pavement on a website, pulling together fabulous celebrity appearances, robbing people blind collecting all sorts of swag to give away, and also using DEMOCRACY to determine what we'll be stuck playing during this madness. Fattony12000 is running a poll right now for those interested (and if you don't vote for Too Human, you're a real jerk). I'll be posting one myself in the near future, and it is going to have some pretty great stuff on it. Gods give me strength!

Meanwhile, I can confirm that you will be seeing the following wonders of the electronic interactive entertainment world:

• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Charles Barkley's Shut Up and Jam Gaiden
• Dota 2
• Dark Souls
• Puppies?
• Katamari Damacy (YES YES YES)

You are not jeff or vinny so no one cares about your lets play.

@jz: As it happens, I am a Jeff. That's got to count for something, right?

You said this would be focused around "Proper Endurance Runs" and then you put DotA 2 on the game list? I mean I love DotA 2 more than most, but how the hell are you going to endurance run a game with no story or ending or true plot? There's a reason there isn't an Endurance run for Fifa '10 or some shit like that. Color me confused. If you're not running games beginning to end then it's not really an endurance run, it's an overly long quicklook.

@davidwitten22: Dota 2 made the cut for a few reasons. While nobody can truly deny the deep narrative and back story Dota brings to the rich, plot-heavy tapestry of MOBA games (ha), it appears in the program as both a means of potentially getting viewers involved in some multiplayer, providing multiple streams so folks bored with INSERT GAME HERE can cleanse the pallet with Black Holes, and also as bait for a few people above my paygrade to swing by and be a part of the proceedings. By no means is Dota keeping all of us from doing an ER block. Straight up, I will be playing zero Dota during this guy and I'm down for over thirty hours at this point.

This Sounds Cool

@ltsquigs: You know what else was pretty cool? Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. Too bad the odds of a sequel to wrap up that cliffhanger ending are basically zero.

You know what? I'll go ahead and say it: I really like Perfect Dark Zero. It looked totally great when it came out and I really dug the shooting action. Also, the Greg Rucka novels weren't too bad, either.

@rorie: Dear God Rorie..

Some things are better kept unknown.

you're better kept unknown

Bastard.

REAL MATURE RORIE GOOD GRIEF

Internet deets.

http://www.heightofthegame.com/chat

https://twitter.com/GBCEnduranceRun

#GBCEnduranceRun

I'll be sure to make time for PDZ during my streams, but it looks like we may have a hot banger from your good self taking centre stage, in Alpha Protocol.

"Yeah, our map's ten times bigger than that."

@fattony12000: You know what, I'm getting irrationally excited to see some PDZ at this point. I remember being in New York City immediately after the Xbox launch and waiting in a line to play it at a Gamestop. Seemed pretty sick, but the only other console shooter I had played was MoH: Frontline so what the hell did I know. Also, you should spite all of these fools and play a real game, like Rome: Total War with R:TR installed.

@jeffrud: If you get a Dragon Warrior I emulator, THAT would make my day. :)

@blu3v3nom07: Part of me wishes there was a handy, legit way to play that game. The other, larger part of me never ever ever ever ever wants to play another Enix game after DQIX. What a skull-shatteringly awful RPG.

The time has come...

www.heightofthegame.com/chat

Everyone get in there and support this! It's for the children!

It's live!

Will be fun!

I was totally the first person to donate.

Also, it's probably a bit late to be suggesting things, but using a chat thing you have to sign up for probably isn't a great idea. People probably aren't going to bother signing up. Couldn't you just shove an IRC webchat thingy in there? Like the PC Gaming Hub have set up here.

@mattyftm: I had a backup ready to go. Refresh the page to see it.

Good luck, duders.

@jeffrud you might want to update the first post from an announcement to what's currently relevant with links to video, where to donate, etc.

See you in nine hours...

FOR SOMETHING...

SUB PAR.

Great job so far Jeff!

Yeah, sadly cause he's streaming right now he probably doesn't have time :P

http://www.heightofthegame.com/chat

If anyone wants to see some Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, I'll be starting on my Twitch channel (second row, in the middle) in about 30 minutes.

Continuing in the grand tradition!

Am I missing something? I'm not quite sure where to go to watch these things...

@truthtellah: Here ya go! http://www.heightofthegame.com/chat

This one's for you @rorie...

http://www.heightofthegame.com/chat

@fattony12000: You went with Perfect Dark? Haha awesome! Sorry I wasn't there for your start, hopefully I can join ya in an hour or two?

Keep it up, yall! I look forward to seeing more of it this weekend. Enjoyed ElectricViking's soulful time in Nocturne and Fattony's super American funtime in the Xbox 360 launch classic, Perfect Dark Zero.

I hope you keep increasing your viewership numbers and raise some big money for Child's Play, hee ho! :)

@fattony12000 is currently handing out some prizes to the top doner every hour, which means this is a pretty sick time to hop in and help us save the kids for all of you non-North American types! GET SOME!

@truthtellah: Thanks for the kind words! And everyone should really come and donate, FatTony has many prizes!

I didn't realise this was happening now :o

@beachthunder: Come by and check out dog cam! http://www.heightofthegame.com/chat
DOG STATUS: FOUND

PERFECT DARK ZERO.

COMPLETED.

LIFE.

OVER.

Heads up duders, @moztacular is currently working his way through the TRUE entries of the Resident Evil series! The top donor in the next twenty-five minutes will be receiving a copy of Just Cause 2 as a thank you gift, so jump in now for your chance to be in on the MP beta today!

Great work so far peeps, keep it up

This is pretty damn entertaining. I didn't play an RE game before 4 so it's cool to experience these.

Yeah, @moztacular is doing a great job.

this... is.. awesome.