Are you fucking kidding? Of course the show will go on. Giant Bomb was started and raised by Jeff and Ryan but I don't think it stops with them. Giant Bomb is a constantly combusting group of talented friends doing dumb videogame related shit and that's the legacy Ryan would have wanted to leave behind.
I hope it's not disrespectful or too soon or something, but this has made me think about the nature of Giant Bomb. Yes, things won't be the same. But I'm suddenly thinking of GB as something that can exist past the presences of Jeff and Ryan. Maybe someday the GB crew will be an entirely new generation of game journalists with the same 'mission statement' Giant Bomb has always had. I can picture someone like Patrick running the show in like 10 years with a new group of young whipper-snappers to continue keeping the gaming industry on it's toes.
Just trying to keep my brain occupied thats all :( :( :(
@regal: You're assuming hiring a new person would mean they are replacing Ryan. That's crazy, there is no replacement for Ryan and there never will be...it doesn't mean that if they hire a new person it's fair for the user base to instantly shun them because they're "not Ryan."
Ryan Davis will never be replaced but new staff coming in isn't a bad thing in any way.
Wait, what ? Are you serious ? OF COURSE it will continue and OF COURSE it will remain great. I can't imagine anything would piss Ryan off more than the site going away because of this. It's pretty horrible to lose Ryan Davis, but what about losing the Bombcast, losing Jeff, Brad, Patrick, Alex, Vinny, Rorie ? I don't see a chance of this happening.
This site has a lot of love, silliness and hard work built into it over the last 5 years. It works because folks love the people involved, not only the videogames they talk about. Which makes Ryans passing so devastating. But in the end, Giant Bomb will survive, it will become even better and will remain being the greatest videogame website ever made.
These duders and this site has been our home and family for years, grieving is inevitable (Rightfully so), however I know if things were different, Ryan would be nothing but more determined to keep the train going.
I'd imagine Ryan would be pissed if they simply called it quits, and you don't just throw away something you've worked so hard to build up like that. So no, I don't think it's the end. It's the end of the site as we know it, but it'll continue somehow. I'm sure there will be some change, but right now that's not that important, right now it's about remembering Ryan.
Ryan put in so much darn hard work into Giant Bomb, that ending it here would be a great shame to him. I expect the guys will take a week or so break and come back to clear a few things up, Jeff as already said the Bombcast is continuing, why would you stop the feature that Ryan made so memorable.
No way will they stop doing what they're doing. I don't think it's what Ryan would want. He would want them to continue with their shenanigans and nonsense full steam. It'll be a completely different dynamic than what we have come to love for sure, but it'll still be Giant Bomb. If this place disappears the Internet will be a worse off place.
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