@sethmode: Yeah, its troubling how much they go out of their way to pass the buck elsewhere. China has a lot of horrible stuff that they do to their people and on the national stage, but viruses are viruses and China seemed to have done a decent job taking care of it within their borders. Its illogical to blame it on them. As for the US, a lot of the stuff they are doing now should have been done three months ago.
Battlefield V might be the most recent example I can think of, but any Wii game was something I can remember as being just unfairly treated in online forums.
As a Wii U owner, the Switch has been fine but not very impressive. I can see how someone who didn't own a Wii U could see why the Switch is so incredible, but since a big chunk of it's celebrated library are from Wii U games that the vast majority of people never owned until the Switch, it feels like it doesn't standalone yet.
Forums have become a relic of the previous decade. I'm not entirely sure why, but I imagine it has to be with traffic no longer being based around gaming websites and instead based on social media.
If you get all your content from Youtube and Twitter, you ain't going to go to a specific gaming website to talk about it.
For Giantbomb specifically, one way I think might work a bit is to have the Giantbomb staff post on it more. And by more, I mean a lot more, like make threads and link them from Twitter. If the Giantbomb people are typing more in their forums, the audience will spend more time there than on Twitter or video comments.
I loved that decision. It made the game better, giving you time to play every fighter and making each one valuable, giving you a chance to try them out and maybe discover some new favorites.
They should have done it for the stages as well, it was a missed opportunity not to do so.
And no, you shouldn't be trying to cheese the unlocks, that's cheating.
@inkerman:The new site is better because it makes their content easier to consume. Normally I would use Youtube or podcast apps to get the latest from them, but now I find it easier to just go straight here and get their stuff this way; which is probably what they intended to happen.
I agree that the Wiki being put in the background and forgotten is a bad thing, but that's not a change that happened last week; that happened like half a decade ago. The Wiki was one of the best things about Giantbomb and made it really unique in 2008, and I adored contributing to it endlessly. But Giantbomb was not able to foster its website very well, I feel; as the community died down and the content in the wiki slowed and became thinner which each passing year. And that's because GB didn't really promote it or fostered it. If you look at the 2008 version of the site you could see the Wiki was a big thing for the site, and even later versions had "world’s largest editable video game database" as part of it's header. But gradually it was dropped as an aspect of the site.
This new site is an improvement in its core function of delivering Giantbomb content. If you wanted more Wiki stuff, I would join you in begging for more, but that's a problem with redesigns from earlier in the decade, not November.
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