Poll How did you first find Giant Bomb? (592 votes)
For me, it was a friend who told me about it.
For me, it was a friend who told me about it.
I used to Google video game reviews at my old job and Giant Bomb kept coming up. Being very interested in Red Faction: Guerilla at the time, I finally clicked on that review.
Then Jeff showed up on the Bonus Round with Keighley, I thought he was cool, and then I watched all of TANG and stuck around.
Back in the day I used to follow IGN instead of Gamespot. After seeing retro videos for years it turns out I was really, really missing out.
I consider the Persona 4 Endurance Run to be the thing that dragged me into GB. I'd been a big fan of the game and when I heard these guys were doing a play-through of it, I jumped in and never jumped out.
I found the podcast on itunes and it was the funniest thing I had ever heard, so I kept listening and eventually starting going on the site.
I was told I should follow Giant Bomb on twitter. Then started coming to the site during the Chrono Trigger ER.
Well, I was a Gamespot member for a little while. Not realizing how dead that place really was, I decided to investigate why. Saw about what happened to Jeff, who I didn't really know about at all at the time, and seen that he had posted something about this place. I thought it was unfair about what happened to him, so I decided to check this place out that he mentioned. After a little bit I came to this place with a friend who I've met online on Gamespot, which he doesn't come on here or there anymore, and I've been here on GB ever since. I still love this place as I did then, and I plan to stay. =-)
I signed up for the Atlus Faithful emails after playing Persona 3, got an email about Kenka Bancho: Badass Rumble, clicked the link for the Giant Bomb quicklook, and instantly fell in love.
So...Persona led me to Giant Bomb....who led me to more Persona...and a cycle of awesomeness ensued.
I was working a shitty job doing electronics assembly. I was running out of things to listen to, and looked up "best gaming podcasts". The first episode I listened to was the one that featured this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jMwoj0uVQ
I was hooked after that.
I was looking for video game podcasts on iTunes because Retronauts had ended and then came Giant Bomb.
When UGO acquired Ziff Davis back in 2009 and they stopped making Broken Pixels episodes on 1up. I started searching around for 'MST3K'-esque gameplay videos and somehow stumbled onto GiantBomb (probably from Reddit). Made an account in 2011 (having lurked for a year or 2) and have been here ever since.
My introduction to the concept of a "Website about Video Games" was IGN, which I stuck with for a long time without really knowing anything else. This was back when they actually had an entire section dedicated to "Cars," to say nothing of the mind-boggling "Babes" section.
At some point, I became completely sick of that horrible bloated mess of a website, and ended up on Kotaku, which had the advantage of minimalism. My only interaction with other game sites was listening to their podcasts, which I did quite a lot of.
Then I heard about a guy getting fired from a website for a review, and showed up here out of curiosity. I listened to the arrow pointing down podcast, and loved it. As the general style of quicklooks and video content evolved and crystallized, I fell deeper and deeper in. Now I'm a subscriber for lyfe.
I was looking for a new gaming podcast to listen to and remembered that the Giant Bombcast came highly recommended. This was probably Summer 2009. Checked out the website afterwards, watched the P4 Endurance Run, and have been hooked ever since.
Somehow, I started paying attention to the internet and gaming websites right after the whole Kane and Lynch debacle, and via Gamespot I found out about that shit had gone down and this one cool dude had left and went over to do his own thing. Then a bunch of other cool dudes left to join him as well, so might as well check out what these cool dudes are doing. Honestly, the biggest reason for leaving GS for GB was Vinny Caravella - he was a fucking awesome podcast host.
You guys remember when GB was still a blog rather than an internet? Those were the days...
I used to look at threads on gametrailers and someone had posted the Borderlands Quick Look. I loved the banter between Jeff and Ryan and I have exclusively been visiting giant bomb for videogame content ever since.
Naked Cartoon Pussy and my brother told me to watch the Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows quick look. SUPERFLY.
After Jeff left gamespot, I pretty much followed his personal blog and then Ryan started the Arrow Pointing Down Podcast. Soon after that they started GIANTBOMB.COM.
Original day 1 member reporting in. I'm from the Gamespot depths that is the System Wars forum. That board made a man out of me
Destructoid said that this "Bomb" website were playing Persona 4. I knew nothing about Persona 4 except that some people really liked it and it was an RPG. I was kind of in a downer period at the time, with not a lot to do.There was a good week or so where I spent all my time catching up with those episodes. Eventually I did start checking out the podcast and quicklooks. Even though it was a huge time investment, it was such a great intro to the site for me.
Like 3 days after it launched in blog format I saw people promoting it in the comments for The Hotspot while they bashed gamespot. However I'm of the opinion that The Hotspot was still pretty awesome for a while after Jeff left. Vinny hosted for a while, it was great.
When Jeff said on his blog "hey, I'm making this website called Giant Bomb."
Pretty much this, I knew of Jeff Ryan and Brad since the GameSpot "Old Guard" days.
It was a comment on Gamespot back in early 2009 when some guy was complaining about a Review and someone from here mentioned this "guerrilla gaming site full of ex-Gamespot alumni!" Clicked and saw Jeff's video review for Killzone 2, and I was in!
When Jeff said on his blog "hey, I'm making this website called Giant Bomb."
I remember all the hoopla with Jeff and how he split off and made his own site with some friends. Never was big on gamespot so I didn't know who he was. Was looking for a video game podcast so I thought that this "giantbomb" thing would be worth a try, because I liked the backstory of the site.
This search was done on the Zune marketplace cause I was still using my brick of a 1st gen. Zune! That's how old school I am, I listened to it on a ZUNE!
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