ScrambledGregs

I was only mildly interested in this game, despite all the buzz, and this has completely killed my interest in playing it, or really any new game. The very phrase "pre-order DLC" itself sounds like a punchline from a Penny Arcade strip from 10 years ago.

If I pay $60 for a new game on launch day it should come with everything, period, full stop, end of argument.

I'm happy to see the new hires, and at the same time, I feel sorry for what basically every female/minority videogame journalist has to deal with.

So I guess I'm on no side and I lose? This is why I usually don't post...

Just wanted to jump on the positivity train and say that I love Giant Bomb. One of the biggest regrets of my life is that I don't say positive things about things on the Internet more often, because it seems so much more fun and easy to say mean things.

So: whoever was being shitty in the name of Giant Bomb does NOT at all represent the Giant Bomb staff and community that I know, love, and (rarely) interact with.

Also, welcome to the new hires! I know you'll fit right in and find your niche and end up just as awesome as Patrick. Since the days when it was just Jeff and Ryan, I don't think Giant Bomb has ever had a bad addition.

"...and that Epic was using the licensing fees from Too Human to make Gears of War, which was a direct competitor, in their mind, for Too Human."

After the day I had, I needed a good laugh like this.

Also, any time people are inspired to re-post that amazing early Giant Bomb video, wherein Jeff lays it down and then requests a choco taco, is a good time for everyone.

I understand voting based on the game you, personally, like more, but when we're talking "best game of the generation", you have to take a step back and think about more than just what entertained you the most. You have to factor in the industry as a whole: where it was before this generation and where it's headed; the influence the games had, the ways they pushed the medium as art form AND entertainment.

Really, there's no point in me trying to convince anyone that voting for BioShock is the right answer here, because this is all just for fun. Yet...voting for Dark Souls over BioShock as "best game of the generation" is sort of like saying you think The Empire Strikes Back was the best movie of 1980 over The Shining.

Don't get me wrong. I fucking love me some Dark Souls and Star Wars, and I would much rather play Dark Souls or watch Empire on the average day. But...it'd be hard for me to argue that, say, Empire is the more "artistic" or "important" movie of the two, however one defines those things in relation to films. Empire is more ubiquitous and enshrined in popular culture, no doubt, but would you show it to someone to justify film as an artistic medium? The Shining and BioShock are experiences that, whether you liked them or not, stick with you and make you think about them when they're over.

Maybe a better way to say it is that Empire/Dark Souls iare art but not art-with-a-capital-A.

Eh, I probably should just go to bed and stop before I get in another situation on the Internet where someone thinks I'm trying to sound pretentious.

Ryan would not want the site to end. Period.

I think it will take some time for everyone to get over this, and things will undoubtedly change a great deal, but this isn't the end of Giant Bomb.

Like many of you, I've spent hundreds of hours "with" Ryan via the Bombcast and videos. So even though I didn't know him in a real life/personal sense, I still feel like I just lost a friend, to say nothing of losing his talent and passion for writing and talking about games.

I can't even imagine what his wife and family must be going through.

It sickens me to my core to see people use the excuse of "it's America, free speech!" to defend themselves. Joking around with your friends at home or online is one thing, but when you're in public, you can't behave this way and not come off like a racist, sexist douche.

This is one of those reasons why i signed up for a membership and why I love what Patrick has brought to Giant Bomb besides more interesting news stuff.