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I was incredibly excited when Patrick came to Giant Bomb (and I believe I've said as much) and he did not disappoint.

I'm sad he's leaving, his 'worth reading' articles did an especially amazing job of leading me to new stuff and having it at a place like GB meant I always remembered to read them. I don't even remember to read everything I contribute to on Patreon.

Lots of assholes hated him, he himself wasn't always perfect, but he was great at his job and if you doubt his value to the website just because he had an open mind and moral compass, keep in mind that this same open-mindedness got him to try and reevaluate games well outside his comfort zone, which gave a good counter to some of the other voices on GB. (as much as I enjoy them as well)

Though if you hated him because he was passionate about social issues, first of all, ugh. Second of all, he was never very reactionary - his journalism instincts allowed him to step back, evaluate and assess when he could have easily joined a twitter chorus of peers, some of which were disappointed when he didn't in fact jump in right away.Just because he disagreed with you, doesn't mean he didn't put a shit-ton of thought into what he had to say and why he held that opinion. Which is more than can be said than most people who do disagree with him on social issues.

The combo of optimism, talent and a journalistic mindset makes Patrick Klepek pretty rad at what he does, and that well thought out optimism made him stand out amongst many of his peers.

I'll miss his contribution and chemistry with the rest of the crew and extended Giant Bomb family (frankly his E3 guest list choices are going to be a hard act to follow), and it's hard not to consider the site lesser without his content.

Good luck Patrick!

It was great seeing Brad so positive, active and on point the entire time. I'm so used to Brad being the sleepy endearing "Wake up Jeff" of the Bombcast Wiggles, I was blown away and I mean that in the best way possible. He was engaged in hosting, and that in turn made the podcast all the more engaging.

I can't imagine a better workplace than one with Chris Remo, Tim Schafer, Anna Kipnis, Ron Gilbert and Brad Muir in it.

Wait, don't kill me Giant Bomb community, I mean a video game related workplace.

Fuck! I mean a workplace full of really funny dudes.

Shit!

Well, dammit. I just freakin' love Double Fine!

I'm very excited for this and have high hopes that this brings Civ V up to the level everyone who played Civ IV to death hoped all along.

It gladdens me to see developers finally taking notice of Seal's advice from his hit single/proto-GDC talk - Crazy. It saddens me it took so long though.

The industry is never gonna' survive, unless we get a little bit...crazy.

I bought a Dreamcast at launch, and its Australian launch was pretty much the worst organised console launch I've ever seen or heard of.There were no memory cards, no Soul Calibur and no Sonic..basically the best launch title available was Ready 2 Rumble boxing because the things you wanted were all stuck on a boat in Sydney due to some customs issue.

I was worried about my purchase then, and in terms of long term support I was right - but as a gamer I never regretted that purchase because the Dreamcast had some amazing games.

The Vita has the only launch line-up in which I cannot afford to buy all the games I want on day 1, and this is putting aside the fact I don't have any plan to buy Uncharted or Wipeout.As a piece of hardware it gets most of it right and as a gamer I'm spoiled for choice, its long term prospects are the only issue.

But for right now, unless they start doing Sega-CD style addons or introduce a quick revision with massive internal memory, I don't see myself regretting this purchase even if its lifespan is similar to the Dreamcast.

I hope the 3DS and Vita have very healthy markets over the long term, and there's certainly nothing wrong with being skeptical about the Vita's long term prospects - I just don't care when I'm playing the games.

I enjoyed making it to the end of the Sith Inquisitor storyline, and am enjoying the Imperial Agent storyline - but there is absolutely no compelling reason to play past the conclusion of the story. The end game offers nothing compelling and doing another storyline involves repeating a bunch of quests you already did to ensure you can do the story stuff.

It is unreasonable to expect the game to be as polished as WoW, but Rift has far less of a budget and staff yet still manages to have a higher level of polish in most every aspect, be it the engine, end-game or gameplay - and that still isn't enough to make me play Rift.

Great work as always Patrick. I was curious when I heard about Noah but I never saw him compete, I only follow fighting games once a year and didn't really know where to look to find out if it was a serious thing or novelty while 50 posts a second fly by in the NeoGAF live Evo thread.

It is fantastic to see a father putting what money he has where his mouth is when it comes to supporting his son in endeavours he's passionate and talented in - even if as a father he doesn't quite get it himself.

Patrick is an amazing writer with a knack for real journalism and we're lucky he keeps himself in the game industry. This is fantastic news.