Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, I am your host as always! With the summer season officially done the big games are starting to trickle through. However, there is some unfortunate news that needs to be addressed. As many of you have already heard, Jeff's father has passed. If you have not done so already please send Jeff your condolences over here. Jeff has also set up a Giant Bomb Staff Steam Curator page that you can feel free to follow over here. Now with that housekeeping aside let's get on with the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight!
Clips of the Week
Our first clip comes from the Giant Bomb Warframe clan, Heavy Industries, and their efforts during the Operation Cryotic Front Event. The second video is a friendly reminder that way back in 2011 Ryan gave Dan shit for his love of Waluigi.
Community Activities
- Giant Bomb FIFA 15 Community Tournament - Currently in the Planning Stage - Sign up for a PC or PS4 Tournament Here!
- FIFA 15 ID Sharing Thread - Hookup to Play FIFA with Fellow Duders Online Over Here!
- Fibbage Match Making Thread - Setup a Fibbage Match By Heading Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Giant Bomb moderator @mento has embarked on an ill-fated quest to ensure that every single SNES game page has some form of text on it. The first trio of pages are part of his effort. Also Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes is out.
- The Hunt for Red October
- Mutant Fighter
- Jutei Senki
- Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes
- Hyrule Warriors
Best of Blogs
Three cheers to Mento for committing himself towards making the Giant Bomb wiki a more awesome place. Mento has a massive blog detailing his latest wiki related project, and he is joined by bobafettjm who has his daily wiki update on his editing activities on the site. regularassmilk may have missed out on the golden era of arcade games, but shares his curiosity about experiencing classic arcade games in their original format. We have plenty of blogs tackling Destiny this week. MooseyMcMan pontificates on Destiny's use and over-use of grinding, whereas JadeGL uses Destiny and Diablo III as case studies in a blog examining loot systems. TheManWithNoPlan played his fair share of Destiny on top of Wolfenstein, and spraynardtatum examines Destiny's troubled launch and consumers' expectations for the game. Drakengard 3 was already a weird game, but wemibelec90 dabble into the game's insane and baffling DLC, and he is joined by GunstarRed who decided to dabble in the "wacky" side of Japanese games with a blog about Paparazzi...the game. wumbo3000 shares a rant on why he thinks Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton was a wasted opportunity, and similarly AlisterCat has another edition of his Phoenix Wright retrospective blog series and this episode concludes the Turnabout story-arc. MeatsofEvil has another update on his Persona 3 Extra Life 2014 livestream. Daneian pontificates on the legacy of Chrono Trigger's game design, whereas thatpinguino details why Chrono Cross features one of his all time favorite game soundtracks. thatpinguino also has a new "Deep Look" pertaining to why he still enjoys playing Banjo-Kazooie all these years after the fact. Sparky_Buzzsaw jumped into the next generation this week with his purchase of a PS4; GranHeaslip nails down what he thinks are Heavy Rains' greatest failure; and Mento concludes his Previous Generation Comic Commish blog series.
- Wiki Project: Super '93 (By: @mento)
- Hotel Gaming (By: @regularassmilk)
- Grinding to a Fault (By: @mooseymcman)
- The Great Loot Debate… Deboot? Debate! (By: @jadegl)
- Drop a Blog On It! (Destiny n' Wolfenstien) (By: @themanwithnoplan)
- People are Fickle (By: @spraynardtatum)
- Drakengard 3's DLC - Should you Buy It? (By: @wemibelec90)
- Simple Blog Get! 3: Girls On Blog (By: @gunstarred)
- Mini Review/Rant About This Game (Phoenix Wright and Professor Layton) (By: @wumbo3000)
- My Journey to Extra Life 2014: Persona 3 - Week 2 (By: @meatsofevil)
- OBJECTION! Part 3 - Goodbye Turnabout (By: @alistercat)
- Chrono Trigger's Clockwork Precision (By: @daneian)
- Deepish Look: Banjo Kazooie- The Platformer that Was Left Behind (By: @thatpinguino)
- Baby Deep Look: Chrono Cross- The Amazing Soundtrack (By: @thatpinguino)
- Oh Hey, I Bought a PS4 (By: @sparky_buzzsaw)
- Heavy Rain Fails as a Piece of "Interactive Drama" (By: @grantheaslip)
- Weekly Wiki Update - Sunday, September 21st 2014 (By: @bobafettjm)
- The Comic Commish: The Previous Generation (Jul-Nov 2012) (By: @mento)
Fantastic Forums
Join the rest of the Giant Bomb community in giving marshermallow input on his awesome Giant Bomb East logo. If you are looking for gaming related discussions we have a thread for the Destiny update, Danganronpa 2's story, Hyrule Warriors, and Defense Grid 2. Remember that if you create a discussion thread for any game to link them here so I know where all of the great debates are happening!
- GB East Logo I've Been Playing Around With (By: @marshermallow)
- Queens Wrath Destiny Update Discussion Thread (By: @doctordonkey)
- Danganronpa 2 Story Discussion Thread (Spoilers) (By: @mwng)
- Hyrule Warriors Discussion Thread (By: @el_tajij)
- Defense Grid 2 Discussion Thread (By: @stepside)
Lovable Lists
Mento has a depressing list of Japanese games that received European translations, but never were officially released in North America. Hassun is a bit moribund with a list of fast paced shooting games that feature slow moving projectiles...for the worse.
Useful User Reviews
- @gamer_152's review of Glitchhickers
- @quid_pro_bono's review of Destiny
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