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@htr10 said:

Well, a "Quick Look" is a more specific concept than a general Let's Play. A Quick Look is covering a newly-released game using a moderate length (20 minutes or so) chunk of commentated gameplay from at or near the beginning. So that's what Jeff means when he claims that Giant Bomb innovated the "Quick Look" format of covering new releases. It was something that other major gaming sites weren't doing at the time, even though of course Let's Plays already existed.

Choosing what to include and what to exclude is the entire process of creating a work of fiction. Ideally, every choice should work toward telling a better story. For example, you may not want to make your audience think about the Aurora mass shooting if your story would not benefit from making your audience think about the Aurora mass shooting.

Starting a few weeks ago, Jim Crawford the creator of Frog Fractions has been a regular co-host of Video Games Hot Dog, a podcast by the developers of Kingdom of Loathing. He's mentioned a few things about the process of what's he's working on. It's nothing too specific, just things like he's been learning Unity for the past few months and has hired multiple people to work on something for him. Who knows, maybe even these vague statements are red herrings. I don't know if there's a place where people are collecting intel on Frog Factions 2, but I thought it'd be interesting to discuss it with someone.

Shouldn't this be called "Mario Party 2 Party" rather than Mario Party Party 2?

Oh, so this explains why Bayonetta 2 and Spelunky got such low review scores. Those Storyist game critics just don't understand Sportist games!

If Giant Bomb still used Twitch regularly, this would really cramp their style. Now Jeff can't stream this or this anymore.

Spader is cool, but let's take a moment to remember the original superhero, Spader-Man:

Thank you for writing this. Just last night I was thinking that Jeff needed to say something like this, as he did with his last Letter from the Editor.

I understand the concept of remaining silent to not legitimize something, or that saying anything would be obvious and futile anyway. But Jeff and the rest of the Giant Bomb staff are big personalities in the industry, and if they remained silent (except for the occasional tweet or a discussion buried in the middle of a 3-hour podcast), then people could take that silence and start filling in their own false assumptions.

There's way too much content for me to process and say confidently "this one is the best." But as far as single-game video series go, I was just rewatching and thinking how great Breaking Brad: Volgarr the Viking was. You've got Brad getting suitably frustrated but eventually conquering the game, and all the while he, Vinny, Drew and Rorie talk shit about all kinds of topics including science fiction, history, the paranormal, fantasy books, etc.. Not to mention one particular jaw-dropping moment.

OK so Ambrose sprayed Rollins with green slime last week, and now Kane and Orton got yellow and red slime. If we extrapolate from this, next week Triple H will be splashed with blue slime, Stephanie with purple slime, and Cena had better watch out for orange slime.