The slow bomb

I'm an avid reader of video- game news. Giant Bomb has been my friend since they started. The page's wiki based knowledge archive, some of the best reviews of the business and it's informal style are all trademarks that keep pulling attention. But the refresh rate i slooow. 
The holliday season was slow all over, but as the pace has picked up again on blogs like kotaku, gametrailers, Giant Bomb has lagged behind. Even Bayonetta doesn't have a vido review!  
 
Leaving the verdict out on Darksiders doesn't help either. And I'm wondering. Is this the result of a slow pace, or a more meticulous approach to reviewing? I'm hoping for the latter. Because Giant Bomb doesn't have anything to offer other than the occasional update now and then. I'm going to stop coming back. 
 
Many of those now working at Giant Bomb came from gamespot, and while I was delighted at the modernisation of many of gamespots qualities, Giant Bomb failed to bring on the eccelent inverviews.  
 
I'm hoping Giant Bomb will find new ways to bring new and good content to the site, or I believe it will see a decline in visits.

I'm an avid reader of video- game news. Giant Bomb has been my friend since they started. The page's wiki based knowledge archive, some of the best reviews of the business and it's informal style are all trademarks that keep pulling attention. But the refresh rate i slooow. 
The holliday season was slow all over, but as the pace has picked up again on blogs like kotaku, gametrailers, Giant Bomb has lagged behind. Even Bayonetta doesn't have a vido review!  
 
Leaving the verdict out on Darksiders doesn't help either. And I'm wondering. Is this the result of a slow pace, or a more meticulous approach to reviewing? I'm hoping for the latter. Because Giant Bomb doesn't have anything to offer other than the occasional update now and then. I'm going to stop coming back. 
 
Many of those now working at Giant Bomb came from gamespot, and while I was delighted at the modernisation of many of gamespots qualities, Giant Bomb failed to bring on the eccelent inverviews.  
 
I'm hoping Giant Bomb will find new ways to bring new and good content to the site, or I believe it will see a decline in visits.

I believe they're suffering with new year laziness. Or you're on this site too much. Believe me, it feels like ages for any new content to come up if you spend all day on here. 

I agree about Darksiders review, that thing should have been out at the same time as Bayonetta considering how similar the games are.

You argue a lot of good points. While I would be quick to defend Giant Bomb, they're ultimately here to fulfill our needs. If you check up with Jeff and Ryan's daily Ustream videos, listen to the Bomb Cast, and keep up on Quick Looks, you should get a good enough opinion on most major releases. They're a small man team, and making a video review isn't a 2 hour task. A written review and a Quick Look is good enough, isn't it? Or do you not like to read? I will admit they're often lacking in terms of daily written content.

Yea this is the last site I come to daily for news because there's never any news I didn't read somewhere else.

OBJECTION!

They didn't get Darksiders in the mail.  Jeff had to go out and buy it himself.

" I agree about Darksiders review, that thing should have been out at the same time as Bayonetta considering how similar the games are. "

" @Jeffsekai said:

" I agree about Darksiders review, that thing should have been out at the same time as Bayonetta considering how similar the games are. "

The time to play the game is the time it takes to play the game. I see no logic here. "

" @Lowbrow said:

" @Jeffsekai said:

" I agree about Darksiders review, that thing should have been out at the same time as Bayonetta considering how similar the games are. "

The time to play the game is the time it takes to play the game. I see no logic here. "

Okay dummy, two games come out that are the same genera so a lot of people are looking for help on which one to buy. A review for only one game comes out. That person then is defualted to that game since they have no info on the other. Simple right? From what im reading in forums Darksiders and Bayonetta have the same playthough times give or take a few hrs. "

I don't care so much about them getting video reviews up, cause those are pretty labour-intensive to produce, but I'd like to maybe see a written darksiders review.   Honestly, I'm usually here for the Quick Looks which also are not very labour intensive (mic up the players and run the capture feed).  
 
On the other hand, I appreciate that they always finish a game before they write the review for it, so I'm willing to give them time to work through it.  They also seemed a bit busy experimenting with the new video streaming, and then reverting it.

" @Lowbrow said:

" @Jeffsekai said:

" I agree about Darksiders review, that thing should have been out at the same time as Bayonetta considering how similar the games are. "

The time to play the game is the time it takes to play the game. I see no logic here. "

Okay dummy, two games come out that are the same genera so a lot of people are looking for help on which one to buy. A review for only one game comes out. That person then is defualted to that game since they have no info on the other. Simple right? From what im reading in forums Darksiders and Bayonetta have the same playthough times give or take a few hrs. "

I'd rather have the reviewer be a week later than most major websites with a review, but with a good review, than having a rushed one which might be faulty in places. Is a day one release really that important to you that you can't hold off for a week to play a game?

It's difficult to compare Giantbomb to IGN or Gametrailers because of their staff.
The bigger websites easily have multiple staff on just DS games, let alone on 360 and PS3 games.
So despite only having 5 reviewers (4 really, but Dave always does PC RPGs) I think the amount of content they pump out is perfect.
  
Sure, would it be awesome to have Bayonetta review day of release? Darksiders video review? Army of 2: 40th Day QL last week?
Of course I fucking would! But this is Giantbomb, if they put all that stuff out as quickly as everyone else, the sheer amount of awesome would kill us all.
And that's really what happens in 2012.

I just miss the Endurance run and TANG..i do feel like the amount of content we get from Giant bomb has thinned a bit but who am I to complain

You need to take into account that they really only have 3 reviewers/editors (Jeff, Brad and Ryan). Vinny and Drew also do video work for Comic vine. You can't put this in contrast with publication such as Kotaku which has 7 editors, 2 guest columnist and also receives extra content from the other Gawker Media blogs. 
 
TL;DR Giantbomb small other sites big.

This site trades speed for quality and that is a trade I'm more than happy to make.

I don't seem to remember twenty to forty minute quick looks on GameSpot.

I don't mind the delay for reviews here because almost certainly means they've finished the game and are giving you the most accurate review they can. 
Also, doesn't the GB crew review retail copies? Which means there couldn't be any pre-release reviews, and if several games dropped at once it would mean choosing which to review. 
 
@Gav47 said:

" You need to take into account that they really only have 3 reviewers/editors (Jeff, Brad and Ryan). Vinny and Drew also do video work for Comic vine. You can't put this in contrast with publication such as Kotaku which has 7 editors, 2 guest columnist and also receives extra content from the other Gawker Media blogs.   TL;DR Giantbomb small other sites big. "

"I just miss the Endurance run and TANG..i do feel like the amount of content we get from Giant bomb has thinned a bit but who am I to complain "