To go and say that Gerstmann wasn't the reason why you started following GameSpot is like saying asking if you like eating a grill-cheese sandwich on a Sunday afternoon isn't a good pick up line for woman at a bar. How I first discovered Gerstmann was when he guest hosted Attack of the Show back when G4 was good in 2005 (Here's Gerstmann's old blog about it). The week prior to that, Sean Baby guest hosted the show, so for two weeks of Attack of the Show you got Sean Baby one week, then Gerstmann the next; a great deal for those who have sexual fantasies about both people. 
 
When Sean Baby's hosting duties was up, then came in Gerstmann - that big, tall, John Candy looking mothafucka while sporting his red track suit. First thing he said that he's Jeff Gerstmann and he's from a web site call GameSpot (I never heard of it). Seeing how I didn't know anything about Gerstmann, I thought he was fucking boring at the time, he wasn't really at his best. But the guest hosting thing wasn't the only GameSpot/G4 related thing, other GameSpot editors took over the show Cinematech, and that's where I was first introduced to Ryan (the MacDonald version), Ryan (the Davis version), and the all mighty powerful Greg Kasavin. 

he makes jokes about things I am interested in so I find him humorous. Im not sure if you were expecting more or not but there yah go.

I'm sure Jeff would say the same thing about you. He probably thinks less of you too.
/pointless thread

None of the gamespot stuff really compares to what they're doing right now. The freedom they have now lets them do way funnier stuff.

I'm sure Jeff would say the same thing about you. He probably thinks less of you too. /pointless thread

Dudes still great. Dats it dats all.

He's funny on the bombcast when he isn't doing LOUD SARCASTIC VOICE or talking about how he doesn't like anything. I've bought games based on his reviews and felt burned before...but yeah I'm mostly bumping this so I can read fanboys gets mad about nothing :]

I love Gerstmann

to me this post is more about your own feelings than anything Gerstmann has done differently. You basically hint as such in your post

After that, G4 went to shit in 2006 .... And then I got internet! The first web site I went to was GameSpot, that's where I got to see and listen to Gerstmann in the form that he should of been on Attack on the Show. Gerstmann was an entertaining guy, and the one I favored before getting to know the staff and realizing the awesomeness of Kasavin, Davis, and Navarro....

Gerstmann for some time has not been as entertaining as he once was in his GameSpot days.....I think less of Gerstmann than I did back in the glory days.

I think He brings it as well as I've observed him to for years upon years, I just think you're bored of his style. And the newness/power of it has worn off for you now that you have experienced other things.

wouldn't worry about, a person's tastes can change as one ages and experiences new things.

No..no still find him quite funny and entertaining.

I think he's a pretty funny dude.

so we can review people as well as games?

I don't feel about Gerstmann, you sick bastard.

Jeff seems pretty awesome. see: the Jar Time videos

I watch Jar Time while masturbating furiously with a printed copy of his Twilight Princess review wrapped around my 8.8 inch schlong...

Seriously, what a bizarre fucking thread.

I think Jeff is a pretty cool guy. Eh rights reviews and doesnt afraid of anything.

@JayDee said:

so we can review people as well as games?

7.6

Just why?

He is part of the reason i subbed so obviously he cant be that bad.

All I can do is disagree.

This thread made me realize I have been following these guys for over almost 10 goddamn years. I mean, I read gamespot when it was called videogames.com, geez. On topic; Jeff is still awesome.

Jeff is one of the most respectable, honest, entertaining people in the games industry.

He's also on my list of inspirational people on facebook alongside Cliff Bleszinski and Batman.

It's weird, I don't remember if it was review scores or some of his opininion (though it wasn't his Zelda review, I actually liked for that), but he was probably the person I despised the most in this profession.
 
Then I started warming up to him when he was hosting On the spot and the Hotspot instead of Rich, and was genuianly sad when he was fired.
 
Now, after following him on GB and other places, he's become my most respected and loved person on the industry, right next to Greg Kasavin.

Jeff is a beautiful gem of a man.

I think his GB stuff is better than his Gamespot stuff, really. The guys have a lot more freedom here.

I love Jeff Gerstmann and I support all his endeavors.

Also I want to have his e-babies.

If you anticipate "funny moments" when you watch/read the website's content, you're doing it wrong and you're kinda lame.

I mean, I guess I'd hang out with him sometimes, or something. I don't know. What are you looking for here? I mean, sure, sometimes I think about him running through a forest of bacon with nothing but a pancake on his head, but what business of that is yours? None. So stay out of my head, you goddamn communist.

I want to hug him.

If you anticipate "funny moments" when you watch/read the website's content, you're doing it wrong 

and you're kinda lame.

.but yeah I'm mostly bumping this so I can read fanboys gets mad about nothing :]

I think He brings it as well as I've observed him to for years upon years, I just think you're bored of his style. And the newness/power of it has worn off for you now that you have experienced other things.

wouldn't worry about, a person's tastes can change as one ages and experiences new things.

Jeff Is my hero.

Dude's funny, and seems fairly stand-up, but I can't for the life of me appreciate any of his opinions.

He hates a lot of stuff, almost irrationally.

Love him. Doesn't matter whether I agree with his opinions or not.

I love the dude! Always have, always will.

@artgarcrunkle said:

He's funny on the bombcast when he isn't doing LOUD SARCASTIC VOICE or talking about how he doesn't like anything. I've bought games based on his reviews and felt burned before...but yeah I'm mostly bumping this so I can read fanboys gets mad about nothing :]

Definitely agree about the LOUD SARCASTIC VOICE thing. I thought it was pretty funny and, whether intentional or not, makes him sound like Trey Parker. But god... he does it so often these days, and he appears to have a negative generalistion for everyone and they all apparently speak in that exact same kind of voice. His latest Jar Time in particular during the DLC rant segment made him appear like a bit of an asshole constantly doing that voice over and over.

I still think Jeff's a swell, funny guy and more often than not a very rational and reasonable dude, though. But his impressionist satire of people he finds annoying often backfires, usually making him sound even more annoying than the people he's impersonating.

@SeriouslyNow said:

Your threads are shit.

This

At this point in time I feel like you suck OP.

@AhmadMetallic said:

If you anticipate "funny moments" when you watch/read the website's content, you're doing it wrong 

Then what was the whole conversation about buying socks on the BombCast really all about huh? Are you implying that there's some sort of encrypted message that you can decipher? Then please, do so.   

being funny is just a bonus because he is already a pretty good video game journalist.

It's weird, I don't remember if it was review scores or some of his opininion (though it wasn't his Zelda review, I actually liked for that), but he was probably the person I despised the most in this profession.   Then I started warming up to him when he was hosting On the spot and the Hotspot instead of Rich, and was genuianly sad when he was fired.  Now, after following him on GB and other places, he's become my most respected and loved person on the industry, right next to Greg Kasavin.

@The_LMFAO_Guy: You came on a website that serves mostly video content to people who LIKE that video content a lot, that's fueled by the editors' personalities, Jeff Gerstmann being one of those editors, and then bitch about how much you don't like them?

Firstly, in what world do you live in that this isn't trolling?

Secondly, If you don't like Jeff that's your oppinion, why not go complain about him on a website that he doesn't personally oversee?

Thirdly, you've made 71 posts to my current count as I type this post, don't you think you're being a tad masochistic to yourself if you hate/find boring one of the main people who produces content on this site and still keep coming back for more?

Is it not considered insane to do something that you don't like/doesn't work for you over and over again?

He's awesome....just like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 he gets a 10/10.

@The_LMFAO_Guy: How did you not have the internet until 2006?

Jeff is pretty awesome. Dude gets DEEP in the jar videos.

If you watch some of the Jar questions you see that he is much more insightful then what you might think.

@The_LMFAO_Guy: While I really like him still and there a lot of great moments, there is just something about those hotspot episodes. And this is coming from someone who just started following giantbomb a year ago and that was my first exposure to the whole crew.

My not giving a shit senses are tingling!

@The_LMFAO_Guy said:

I can't really recall a really funny Gerstmann moment recently on GiantBomb. The content he has provided on Giantbomb just isn't as good as the content he provided on GameSpot.

lol

He's my favorite review guy. I dunno why. We both agree on the same flaws usually I guess.