I haven't blogged in ages, and I'm not publishing this on the forums for various reasons, so I'm hoping someone will read this!

I've been a bit concerned with the quality of Giant Bomb's content recently. The issue came up when I heard that a bunch of people on NeoGAF were not reupping their subscription because they felt quality of original output on GB had dropped, and I can't really blame them. The question is, what are the problems?

'Stale' content - For a while now, there hasn't been a new original video series on Giant Bomb, with the exception of the recent Betting the Farmville series. It's just been Quick Looks, mostly. Now I understand why the crew doesn't want to rush into another Endurance Run completely, but the fact that content over the summer has been slim, with no ongoing series like TANG or ER, is a bummer. Happy Hours also seem to have fallen into a safe formula. What happened to excellent stuff like Creeper Jeff? Will and Norm's food-hijinx are so predictable at this point they're not really that amusing anymore.

Lack of enthusiasm - Maybe this is just me, but I'm missing some of the vital spark, especially in Quick Looks, that Giant Bomb used to have in spades. I rarely find myself laughing during QL's anymore, yet when I look at some of the excellent Best of Quick Look compilations on Youtube, I'm frequently in stitches. Maybe they're not covering as many weird/bad/obscure games as they used to, but I feel like they're kind of going through the motions a lot of the time. Also, it seems like everyone has gotten that much worse at playing videogames, and I hate to sound like one of those guys, but it's just frustrating to watch so many times. Like they're all awful at parsing on-screen information or just, y'know, reading what the screen says. The Warhammer 40k Kill Team QL was a great example, with Brad wondering why his ranged weapon sucked when he clearly picked a melee dude, and not melee'ing at all for like the first 5 minutes (I hadn't played the game myself at that point).

I don't know, mostly just rambling here, but I'm not really feeling much of the content anymore. I'm not putting this on the forums because then I'll probably get shot to shit, this is just the way I've been feeling about the stuff GB has been putting out the last few months. Anyone agree/disagree? Is it just me?

Thanks for reading