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#1 Edited by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 3 months, 7 days ago

Well, I've been annoyed by the alignment as well, so I tweaked the CSS myself to this. It's not much work. It's two classes you need to change. There's a class .skin-no .row .span8:first-child that just needs one attribute: width: 100%. Second class to change is .skin-no .span4, just add 'display: none' attribute. DONE!

#2 Posted by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 3 months, 7 days ago

The site is almost completely broken for me. I can't watch videos on the site anymore.

In progressive mode (all quality settings) while video is buffering it runs at a bout 1-3 FPS. The video lags about 5 seconds behind the audio. After it has fully buffered/downloaded it runs marginally better, but still choppy/stuttery and if I try to use my computer for anything else (browse in other tabs/window or run other programs) without it getting choppy and the audio stuttering like mad.

In streaming mode it has all the same problems just to a lesser extent but even tho I have a fairly good internet connection (20+ mb) it's constantly pausing to buffer and constantly stuck on what looks like the lowest quality setting.

Now to be fair, I'm on a crappy, old, Dell laptop from over half a decade ago with Intel Express video. On it's best day this thing is a miserable hunk of junk. But I have NO problems watching video on any other site. Only the new GB.

Yeah, so this. I have the same problems on a fairly good laptop. HTML5 playback option doesn't help either (in fullscreen).

#3 Posted by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 3 months, 7 days ago

Non YouTube playback options are terrible fullscreen. :(

#4 Posted by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 3 months, 7 days ago

It's a Symfony2 website (PHP framework). Symfony2 is the new Zend.

#5 Edited by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 3 months, 27 days ago

Say about Patrick what you will, he's the best at convincing me to go buy a certain game during a QL.

Also, Quick Look EX's almost never have any value for me. The Giantbomb dudes are way too kind (I get that) and most of the time the game-makers 'act' a scene and be surprised or something, while I now for a fact that they've encoutered that specific moment a thousand times before. And thus, it feels fake a lot.

#6 Edited by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 3 months, 27 days ago

Not sure about bringing back video reviews. They were too scripted and go completely against what everybody is saying about being more relax, enthusiastic, excited, etc..

The special thing about that week with Vinny, Drew and Brad: they didn't care. They were about to show Sleeping Dogs DLC, but instead the first 45 minutes were just Vinny messing around in 'regular' Sleeping Dogs. Normally somebody would have said "we should probably show this and do this". But then it was just going with the flow, enjoying the game and the company.

I also agree that sometimes it feels like they just want to get through the day because it is 'work'. It is and it's probably normal, but it's not fun as a viewer to sense these things.

#7 Edited by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 3 months, 27 days ago

@Castiel said:

I've been a big fan of not singling out specific members of the GB crew, but if I have to be honest there are certain QLs I don't enjoy as much because of the person involved. I'll just leave it at that.

It's definitely not the only reason though. The week where it was only Brad, Vinny and Drew were the best week in GB for years and it was because they didn't have to follow any plan or anything. It was just them doing what they wanted to do and it just felt natural, fun and relaxed.

This. I can't really explain it, but I've never felt the vibe from the office that well as in those videos. There was a particular 'je ne sais quoi' going on, it was awesome.

I also have to note while I agree I enjoyed QL's more in the past, I'm the first to nag when there's a lack of content for a while. So they must be doing something right. I also don't have any problem with Patrick whatsoever, but last week was just a bit too much.

Also: more Flight Clubs. I'll put on my FC shirt everytime when there's a new one, I promise!

#8 Posted by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 4 months, 14 days ago

I can only offer Don't Starve.

#9 Edited by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 5 months, 2 days ago

Maybe Vaas isn't dead after all... If you think about it, we really didn't see him get murdered (for real), did we?

Shocking DLC coming soon to reveal it all!

#10 Posted by NicolasVH (47 posts) - 5 months, 21 days ago

@Castermhief117 said:

@NicolasVH said:

IGN.com decline is primarily because they went more international. When I visit IGN, I automatically get redirected to IGN Benelux (which kinda sucks, because there's not cookie to remember not to do that again). IGN supports more than 10 different languages, on 9 different IGN's. IGN.com's loss is definitely less worrying than Gamespot's decline.

Maybe it's time for Gamespot to focus on other continents as well. Maybe knows more about this, but he probably can't talk about it.

Are you sure that visiting those websites don't count towards IGN as well? Gamespot also has networks in China, Belgium, Mexico and a few others.

http://www.gamespot.com/misc/worldwide.html

You're right. But they mention both Belgium and The Netherlands but both websites don't exist anymore.

Hoempage hits might also count towards IGN.com, but the few traffic due to international users browsing the localised websites is definitely not counted towards IGN.com.

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