Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! The engineers are still ironing out some leftover issues with the new site, but the live stream content is coming at a furious rate. There's a new "New releases" show featuring Giant Bomb and GameSpot staff members working to showcase you all of the latest games. Have any thoughts on the show? Go ahead and share you thoughts on the discussion thread for the new show over here. Also worth noting is that Patrick is planning on playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and if you are a fan of the series wants your advice on playing the game. Finally if you haven't read Jeff's comment on changing review scores after publishing them, you should. szlifier's Quick Look search engine that allows you to filter Quick Looks by staff members is nothing short of amazing.
Community Activities
Giant Bomb Community TrackMania 2 Stadium Server - Join the Trackmania Madness Over Here!
Giant Bomb SimCity PC/Origin Friends List - Have Other GB Users Join Your Regions Over Here!
Share Your Etrian Odyssey IV Guild Cards - Share Your Cards and ER Codes Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Tomb Raider and SimCity are the big releases this week and not only are they both reboots that have dropped their numbering, but they both have detailed wiki pages. Also for both pages go back and check out the Lara Croft and SimCity 2000 pages to read up their wonderful history. Baseball season is drawing near and that means that the major baseball games are coming out, MLB 13: The Show most notably. Finally you can always count on the fire Emblem wiki editing community to provide a great character wiki page as seen with the new and improved Gaius page.
The passes for PAX East 2013 are being sent out this week and that means that Marino has provided another PAX Guide to PAX which should be required reading for any PAX first timers. Blogging machine Video_Game_King graces you with two blogs this week with one providing an in-depth analysis of the box art for Persona 3: FES and the other plunging into the depths by detailing his experiences with Bioshock and The Little Mermaid. Humanity explains why he's starting to get bummed out by all the cynicism he has noticed recently proliferate the video game community. Related to SimCity spiralcut shares his rants on the launch day issues with SimCity. In light of the launch issues with SimCity TheAdmin discusses his expectations and hopes for always online games. thatpinguino recently went back to Final Fantasy VIII and explains how developers could learn a lot on how to deal with random encounters in role-playing games. Inspired by Matthew Rorie's employment luck and Unprofessional Fridays Mento whipped up a very dog centered blog detailing his adventures in Dog's Life and Okami. Phatmac finally got his hands on Fire Emblem: Awakening and shares his thoughts in a very detailed blog this week. Finally humphreys shares his perspective on the Mass Effect series as someone who has just played all three games back to back.
Again, szlifier's Quick Look search engine that allows you to filter Quick Looks by staff members is amazing! Check it out if you haven't already! With two upcoming game conventions hook-up with and set up meeting places with other users on the PAX East 2013 and SXSW Gaming Expo discussion threads. Find any great free apps or games for the iPhone? Well share them on the Free App attention thread! Finally Seppli asks you to think of your favorite games with difficulty scaling and SpudBug discusses why the "Why does this game exist" question is incredibly reductive.
This week abbyrose shares the most disappointing games ever released. EightBitWarrior on the other hand has created a video Game of the Year list detailing every single game that would take his game of the year award since his birth.
This Edition of the Community Spotlight is Brought to by "The Plaid Zone."
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! If you have received a PM from this edition of the Community Spotlight, don't panic! You have created something worth showcasing! For this edition of the Community Spotlight I am going to utilize the #username feature when inputting usernames. There are a couple of reasons for this: 1) It's faster than manually hyper-linking the usernames, and 2) It allows for more users to be aware that they have done something notable. I have done a terrible job at notifying people that they are being showcased or featured on the front-page. By using the #username feature I'm able to notify a larger number of users that I'm showcasing something that they have done quickly and easily. If you absolutely hate it I can put your username on a blacklist to not be linked that way, but honestly give it a try. Again it makes things easier for me, and you get a little congratulatory PM containing the entire edition of the latest Spotlight...almost as if it were an actual community newsletter.
Super House of Dead Ninjas Super Score Challenge Thread - Post You High Scores in SHODN Over HERE!
Always Be Cloaking - Giant Bomb's Community Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online Clan of Deadly Duders - Join the Clan Over HERE!
Wonderful Wikis
This edition of Wonderful Wikis is brought to you by the wonderfully weird and obscure! Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of Titans continues the trend of JRPGs having impressively detailed wiki pages, yet again. Phantom Break: Battle Grounds is your "I Bet You Didn't Know THAT Was Released This Week," game and you can read all about what it's all about on our wiki page for the game. Last weekend I noticed that our Dog's Life wiki page is better than it has any right to be...kind of like the Dog's Life video game. Finally help make the neat idea of having a "Plagiarism," concept page by attaching more examples you can think of the concept as well as detail the examples of it already known.
Menace to society and blogging legend Video_Game_King has officially published his 300th blog on Giant Bomb. Check out all of his detailed stats about his blogging "career" on Giant Bomb. Mento published not one or two blogs this week, but three! Read all about his issues with the new site to the Turbo-Grafx weirdness he has been playing. BlazeHedgehog shares his impressions of the Castlevania: Mirror of Fate demo, whereas Phatmac discussed his thoughts on Metal Gear Rising...I wonder which was longer the demo or the game....Fattony12000 in anticipation for the upcoming release of SimCity played through every PC SimCity game and discusses the evolution of the franchise on his blog, simultaneously GrantHeaslip has finally completed his personal "Endurance Run" of Final Fantasy XIII and reasons out his final thoughts of the game. ArbitraryWater enjoyed Fire Emblem: Awakening so much that he wrote a blog about why it's probably going to be his Game of the Year for 2013. The fourth edition of Dialogue Options, the community round-table blog series, discusses the merits and de-merits of always having the protagonist end up on top in video game stories. JJWeatherman has written a blog explaining why he kind of like much lampooned Amy, and Sweep addresses his concerns about how "bigger" games for this next generation, may not be for the best. Finally evanbower does you a solid this week by not only sharing why he found Super Mario 3D Land slightly disappointing, but also for starting a blog series providing time stamps of all the hilarious and memorable moments for Unprofessional Fridays.
This week we have video game discussion thread for BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner 2, and the God of War: Ascension Demo. We also have an interesting poll related to whether or not you watch every cutscene when playing video games. Finally we have a discussion thread for Alex's new Guns of Navarro feature and everyone's favorite obscure buried treasures from this generation of video games.
Well Mento may have actually broken his record for most appearances on a single Community Spotlight with his three blogs and list of every Mega Drive/Genesis game that he has played. tablefloor on the other hand has created a list sharing his top 10 favorite games from this generation of console games.
This Edition of the Community Spotlight is Brought to by "The Plaid Zone."
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! If you have received a PM from this edition of the Community Spotlight, don't panic! You have created something worth showcasing! For this edition of the Community Spotlight I am going to utilize the #username feature when inputting usernames. There are a couple of reasons for this: 1) It's faster than manually hyper-linking the usernames, and 2) It allows for more users to be aware that they have done something notable. I have done a terrible job at notifying people that they are being showcased or featured on the front-page. By using the #username feature I'm able to notify a larger number of users that I'm showcasing something that they have done quickly and easily. If you absolutely hate it I can put your username on a blacklist to not be linked that way, but honestly give it a try. Again it makes things easier for me, and you get a little congratulatory PM containing the entire edition of the latest Spotlight...almost as if it were an actual community newsletter.
Super House of Dead Ninjas Super Score Challenge Thread - Post You High Scores in SHODN Over HERE!
Always Be Cloaking - Giant Bomb's Community Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online Clan of Deadly Duders - Join the Clan Over HERE!
Wonderful Wikis
This edition of Wonderful Wikis is brought to you by the wonderfully weird and obscure! Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of Titans continues the trend of JRPGs having impressively detailed wiki pages, yet again. Phantom Break: Battle Grounds is your "I Bet You Didn't Know THAT Was Released This Week," game and you can read all about what it's all about on our wiki page for the game. Last weekend I noticed that our Dog's Life wiki page is better than it has any right to be...kind of like the Dog's Life video game. Finally help make the neat idea of having a "Plagiarism," concept page by attaching more examples you can think of the concept as well as detail the examples of it already known.
Menace to society and blogging legend Video_Game_King has officially published his 300th blog on Giant Bomb. Check out all of his detailed stats about his blogging "career" on Giant Bomb. Mento published not one or two blogs this week, but three! Read all about his issues with the new site to the Turbo-Grafx weirdness he has been playing. BlazeHedgehog shares his impressions of the Castlevania: Mirror of Fate demo, whereas Phatmac discussed his thoughts on Metal Gear Rising...I wonder which was longer the demo or the game....Fattony12000 in anticipation for the upcoming release of SimCity played through every PC SimCity game and discusses the evolution of the franchise on his blog, simultaneously GrantHeaslip has finally completed his personal "Endurance Run" of Final Fantasy XIII and reasons out his final thoughts of the game. ArbitraryWater enjoyed Fire Emblem: Awakening so much that he wrote a blog about why it's probably going to be his Game of the Year for 2013. The fourth edition of Dialogue Options, the community round-table blog series, discusses the merits and de-merits of always having the protagonist end up on top in video game stories. JJWeatherman has written a blog explaining why he kind of like much lampooned Amy, and Sweep addresses his concerns about how "bigger" games for this next generation, may not be for the best. Finally evanbower does you a solid this week by not only sharing why he found Super Mario 3D Land slightly disappointing, but also for starting a blog series providing time stamps of all the hilarious and memorable moments for Unprofessional Fridays.
This week we have video game discussion thread for BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner 2, and the God of War: Ascension Demo. We also have an interesting poll related to whether or not you watch every cutscene when playing video games. Finally we have a discussion thread for Alex's new Guns of Navarro feature and everyone's favorite obscure buried treasures from this generation of video games.
Well Mento may have actually broken his record for most appearances on a single Community Spotlight with his three blogs and list of every Mega Drive/Genesis game that he has played. tablefloor on the other hand has created a list sharing his top 10 favorite games from this generation of console games.
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! The community is still getting use to both the new site and the announcement of the next Playstallion the Playstallion 4. Our very own Jeff Gerstmann discussed the announcement of the new Equus based platform on Gamespot, and Adam Sessler (yes, on Adam Sessler). If that wasn't shocking enough Brad Muir revealed he was in a Ska Band where he played the saxophone! How is that even possible? Finally best wishes to all of the fine men and women at 1Up and GameSpy, especially Matthew Rorie, after losing their jobs. On that dower note here's a YouTube video of the Bombcast theme masked up with the Saint's Row: The Third garage music:
Giant Bomb Guild War 2 Guild Thread REDUX - The GB Community Guild Thread is Under NEW MANAGEMENT!
Wonderful Wikis
All hail the "new" Brad Muir! Give him your saxophones to help his ska band take over the world! Oh and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance came out and it has an impress wiki page thanks to the Giant bomb community. I personally worked on the Michael Jordan wiki page to detail all of the "important" games he has appeared in.
Brad Muir (Begun the Main Wiki Page Image Wars Have)
Big shout out to charlie_victor_bravo for finally coming out and announcing that he's the user on YouTube making the bootleg GameBomb.ru Bombastica videos. You should check out his latest video for Demolition Girl. benspyda shares some of his personal Sonic the Hedgehog fan art, and buzz_clik discusses an odd Japanese robot puzzle game you probably have never heard of. gogosox82 got around to playing the Dragonborn DLC for Skyrim and discusses if it's worth your time. Video_Game_King got horrifying with Penumbra: Overture and Splatterhouse, whereas Sarumarine discusses why dead Space 3 lacks horror because it added a bunch of stuff it shouldn't have. FLStyle gives you a summary of the upcoming events from the Winter lineup for the Fighting Game Community. In anticipation for Metal Gear Rising LegitFruitSnack finally completed every game in the Metal gear Solid franchise and discusses which game is his favorite on his latest blog. thabigred blogged about why a lot of games utilize archipelagos when creating open worlds, and GrantHeaslip returns to the world of Final Fantasy XIII as he continues to attempt to play through the entire game. ildon laments about how going through Black Mesa Source highlighted issues with the original Half-Life that he didn't notice the first time around, and mrcool11 explains why he really enjoyed Mass Effect 3, including its ending, now that he's beaten it. Mento details how video games have integrated meteors into their stories and Cretaceous_Bob provides a synopsis about he recent foray into The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Finally IrishDoom blogs about his tolerance for games that are incredibly difficult.
If you haven't heard 1Up.com is closing, as well as GameSpy, so join LordAndrew in posting your 1Up.com user stats. Fellow friend in arms BoG has created a forum topic discussing teh best RPG battle systems. Fobwashed asks if the lack of a forum feed on the front page has impacted your use of the site. If you haven't noticed Jeff's Gaming Minute Radio feature has joined the Bombcast on the Podcast portal, so discuss your thoughts of the feature. Finally show off the profile banners you have on your profile on the Banner Sharing Thread.
The announcement of the Playstallion 4 got TepidShark into a frenzy as he has already listed the five games for the platform he can't wait for. Nikral was recently reminded about the old days of LAN parties and as such has created a list of his favorite games to play during LAN parties. Finally wastlanderone has taken up the insurmountable task of listing every single "Diablo-like" game ever made. Help him out if you can.
Hey...so stuff happened this week. You might have heard some rumors about a new Giant Bomb website being launch. Those rumors are true Yeah, a completely new site, weird right? Over the years that I have been on Giant Bomb, and even before becoming a moderator or even a community promoter, I have experienced five Giant Bomb site re-designs. Some more significant than others; some were even better than others. I kept on using the site regardless of the issues or contrivances that I or any of the other members of this community experienced because they didn't matter. I think I can speak for much of the Giant Bomb community that I have never seen a website that I truly care for take the monumental task of rebuilding itself within a period of about a year. Yes, there are issues still, but that does not change the very special medley of friends, staff, and users who frequent this site any less special. If you disagree, then well...maybe this site and community doesn't mean as much to you as it does to me. That's fine because I have for the greater part of a year have come to terms with the fact that maybe, just maybe I'm a little "Giant Bomb crazy." So let's get through this, together as a community, and do whatever we can to help @snide@ltsquigs@idbloc@alexisg@mrpibb or any of the fine members of the engineering staff (sorry for @Commenting you all by the way) make this site "special." It's the least we can do after over four years of wonderful memories. So without further ado let's go over the week that was on Giant Bomb dot com, a website about videogames. That said don't accept Drobot's pay calls:
Also get well soon Patrick, it looks like you took a big tumble judging from the security cameras:
Important New Site Stuff
With this being a new site there are known issues that are still in the process of being fixed. The API will be fixed for your enjoyment by Wednesday of next week. More importantly, premium subscriptions are being extended for two weeks in light of issues with the new site.
As already indicated in the "New Site Stuff" the wiki is still kind of screwy. Some of you may be having points issues and others can get your submissions through. The staff, thanks to @marino are aware of almost every single one of these issues so don't worry.
The site migration did eat up a couple of notable blogs that no longer exist. Also in large part due to the site being a little finicky headers aren't coming back until next week.
For those of you that enjoy the list feature there's a new feature on the site that makes finding new and interesting lists a whole lot easier. It's the "This week's most recommended" button on the new and improved "User Lists" page.
Author's Note: I need your help. The user activity feed is helpful but different, and the old "User Review" section on the Reviews tab is gone. Other features are visible but sometimes hard to locate so Spotlights are going to have involve a lot more out of myself and you the community. So please, and I'm saying this from the bottom of my heart, help me out. Let's make this work together.
Stay Unprofessional Any-day, Everyday!Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! The beta site is going to become the new Giant Bomb Tuesday, February 12th! Still free to file bug reports on the beta site as it will help the engineers better prepare the site for the launch. Related to the new site is that the moderation and banning system is being changed on the new site. For wiki editors the snapshot for the new site of the current site will be done around the 10th so realize your wiki edits will not carry over when that happens. As you may or may not be aware of our very own Patrick Klepek celebrated his birthday on the 7th...and then proceeded to break his collarbone. Wish Patrick a speedy recovery and a painless surgery over here. Notable Birthdays this week: Patrick Klepek, and BoG.
Game Nights and Community Activities
Giant Bomb Community Tournament #1 StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - Date Set for March 23rd - Get the Details Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
This week we have a handful of big and notable game releases this week...and by that I mean two or three depending on how your gaming tastes swing. Regardless Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2 is clearly the front runner as the most important game this week with Fire Emblem Awakening, Dead Space 3, and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time already being dead before they were released.
The blog of the week this week comes from EpicSteve who has written an incredibly powerful and personal blog about how video games have helped him deal with PTSD and coming back home from a tour in Afghanistan. It's definitely worth a read if you haven't check it out so far. Another big notable this week comes from Rappelsiini who has hosted a community round-table project where users share their opinions about major questions and issues facing the video game industry and community. With the first wave of big games of the year community is a buzz about the recent releases this week. Phatmac explains why he enjoyed Ni no Kuni, but found that a lot of the game didn't really work for him, whereas Mikey2D has set out to play all of DmC and formulate his own opinion of the game free of the controversy surrounding the game. ArbitraryWater, our old game expert, decided to give Dead Space 3 a go and discusses why it went in the wrong direction in terms of its direction, and unfortunately dankempster talks about his fears about the new direction of Dead Space 3 pending its release. Menace to society Video_Game_King provides a weekly blog about his wacky and odd adventures in Dear Esther as well as MC Kids, while GrantHeaslip continues to give an update on his progress with his Final Fantasy XIII play-through. DevourerOfTime completes his blog series annotating the games he's most excited about with his top five most anticipated games of 2013, and blogging machine Mento has two major blogs this week one with a fun webcomic and the other detailing the weird world of Japanese video games. Dark_Lord_Spam has spent a good deal of time with Guild Wars 2 and explains why the lack of tutorials hurts the game for newcomers, and simultaneously thebigred explains why the art styles of most isometric RPGs aren't what he finds to be appropriate for the genre. Terra was Chubbaluphigouss first real MMO and he discusses how he feels about the game now that it's going Free 2 Play. mtmckinley is still playing Skyrim, but is making it a refreshing experience by adding a good deal of role-playing to his play-through. MetalGearSunny got a PlayStation Vita as a birthday gift and provides his impressions of the platform, D_W explains how his progress in making his own video games is going, and finally MisterBanaFoam gives you an update on his Donkey Kong 64 "endurance run."
big_jon has reached the highest rank in Halo 4's and provides the most comprehensive and detailed review of the game you will ever read. Yummylee has created a forum post about the oddness of the Dead Space 3 Co-op mode. As already mentioned wish Patrick well in his surgery related to his broken collarbone. Finally check out the latest batch of Giant Bomb Bingo sheets that kre8havoc has created.
The master of lists, Mento, graces us with a fun list of every game which have depicted video game characters in chains. Next we have Archlord with a list of his favorite games as well as why they have a close place in his heart.
Are You Ready for the Upcoming Dave and Patrick Quick Look for Fire Emblem: Awakening? The Community Probably Isn't....
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! The big news this week is that the beta site is now open to everyone including those without a subscription! So long as you signed up for an account prior to Thanksgiving go ahead and see what the fuss is all about and try to break some stuff so the site can get better. If you do manage to break anything on the site idbloc is the guy to talk to for any issues related to the forums. For issues related to the wiki ltsquigs is the man to talk to. squigs and rchen are the people to talk to if you have any issues related to the new beta chat, which might I say is going to be up for the weekends. So have fun and be free, because the honeymoon wont last forever! Finally hold the presses! Someone on YouTube is posting fake videos of GameBomb.ru...someone call the copyright police!
Game Nights and Community Activities
Dota 2 House League Community Tournament - The Teams Have Been Selected - Watch the Tournament Livestream Saturday 12 EST & 4 EST Here!
Let's Make a Game 2013 - Join the Let's Make a Game Community Project and Make an Actual Video Game - Get the Details and Sign Up Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Skulls of teh Shogun is finally out! After incorrectly dating it two or three...or maybe even four times the game is finally coming out! Anyways check out the wiki page if you are still interested in learning about all of the mechanics in the game. The wiki pages for Ni No Kuni as well as Proteus have improved in the last week. Finally in anticipation for the release of Fire Emblem: Awakening the Fire Emblem wiki community strikes again with two new and wonderful character pages.
The true highlight this week comes from EpicSteve who has written a highly personal and emotional blog about the role that video games have played in him dealing with depression and PTSD after leaving the combat zone in Afghanistan. People are still playing everything related to Devil May Cry ranging from Yummylee breaking down exactly why DMC 2 is such a bad game to ArbitraryWater who played DmC as well as Valkyria Chronicles II. Another popular video game was Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. Sparky_Buzzsaw discusses why he was completely enthralled with the game on his blog whereas Sarumarine explains his disappointment with Ni No Kuni, but satisfaction with The Walking Dead. Mento is starting up a new blog series showcasing twelve notable Turbografx-16 games, whereas Wrighteous86 continues to provide reviews and summaries to all of the Halo novels that Halo 4 expected you to read before playing it. GrantHeaslip wrote up another entry in his blog series of him attempting to play through the entirety of Final Fantasy XIII, but he also wrote and incredibly interesting blog about how collectibles hurt atmosphere and worlds in video games. Mikey2D provided an extremely comprehensive breakdown of his thoughts on the Dead Space 3 demo, and Mago applied the same formula to the Pokemon X/Y news and trailer. C0V3RT discusses how he's going to use the impending release of Wind Waker HD to reassess his feeling about the game. Video_Game_King graces the site with another blog of dubious historical accuracy, and aurahack vents about why you it was a giant waste of money for him to purchase a season pass for Call of Duty: Black Ops II. heatDrive88 tackled the idea of how moral ambiguity makes for more compelling video game stories, and jakob187, one to never shy away from controversial issues, points out how even video game fans need to be more open minded in regards to the debate of violence in games. There are plenty of other wonderful and readable blogs, so go forth find them and tell me all about them.
Antichamber has been hanging out of the Top Sellers list on Steam for a while, and if you are one of the many people who bought but have found yourself stuck on a puzzle or have hints for the game then comment on the Official Antichamber Puzzle Hint Thread. The Dota 2 community has been running a House Tournament for the last week and if you have missed any of the matches check out the Dota 2 Community Spotlight. We have other official discussion threads for the 2013 update of Street Fighter X Tekken, games with confusing menu interfaces, the ending of Proteus, and the best Pokemon games that aren't from the Pokemon franchise.
For lists this week we have Super___Sam creating an alphabetical version of the usual "favorite games ever" list. The maestro of lists, Mento, on the other hand has created a highly humorous list of damsels in video games that are young or even children.
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! If you want some fun stats related to the site apparently Divekick was the #1 most frequented game page this week. If you are interested in reading Ryan's scathing review of Fuji Mongolian BBQ, which you may recall from the most recent Bombcast, someone found it on Yelp. Also related to food is Drew's recipe for his Fritos-Breaded Chicken sandwich that you may have seen on this weeks' "I Love Mondays" video. sgt1shot1kill is the user that sent the amazing poster for the last Mailbag and has uploaded it to the site over here. Finally someone mashed up Rap Man with the theme song to Space Jam...the results are amazing:
Let's Make a Game 2013 - Join the Let's Make a Game Community Project and Make an Actual Video Game - Get the Details and Sign Up Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Well if you have been keeping up on the news you know that both Atari and THQ have fallen on less than fortunate luck. THQ is essentially no more, which is unfortunate as our wiki page for the company is stellar, and the same can be said about Relic's page. This also unfortunately means that Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online may never see the light of day. Atari has two company pages on the site and you should check both of them out as they are extremely detail and explain why.
The Metal Gear Rising demo has struck a cord with numerous users on the site and Mikey2D in particular who broke down his impressions of the demo on his latest blog this week. JJWeatherman blogged about why he would encourage anyone to play Kentucky Route Zero despite its short game time, whereas I_smell celebrates the release of his indie game on Steam after failing before. Colourful_Hippie talks about why he thinks it is time to retire his 360 despite all of the fun he has had on the platform. Video_Game_King strikes yet again this week and blogs about his adventures on a couple of fun but weird JRPGs, and he is joined by Mento who tackled numerous "weird" Wii games including Fragile Dreams. Having played BlazBlue CSE FluxWaveZ compares the two games and discusses what features from BlazBlue he'd like to see featured in Persona 4 Arena 2, and on the note of Persona 4 fellow moderator Marino popped his Persona 4 virginity by playing Persona 4: Golden and talks about how it was the best 96 hours he has spent in a long time. Now I know that most of you are done with Game of the Year blogs, but plainplease has created a highly humorous 2012 award blog listing the best examples of rolling in 2012. RecSpec finally got around to Mass Effect 2 as part of his effort to finally get through the entire Mass Effect franchise, simultaneously MarkWahlberg got around to blogging about his thoughts about Mass Effect 3 as someone who only knows the Extended Cut Ending. Gamer_152 was completely enamored with Thirty Flights of Love and talks about why on his blog this week, whereas bonbolapti talks about his dislikes of Final Fantasy: All the Bravest as well as DmC. MajorMitch finally got to Torchlight II and found it's similarities with Diablo II a little uncanny and Sarumarine recently played FTL much to his delight. GrantHeaslip played catch up with his Final Fanatsy XIII blog series with two entries this week whereas MisterBananaFoam returned to the curious world of Donkey Kong 64 for his. Finally aurahack compares the relationship and progress of the Souls franchise to that of Persona 3 and 4.
The forums are alive with discussions about recently released games this week. The Cave, Metal gear Rising: Revengeance's demo, and the current state of violent video games all have particular discussion thread worth checking out. If you have ever dabbled in the dark arts of custom video game box cover art show off your art or print outs on the thread about them. If you bought the PC version of DmC post your high-res screenshots on the screenshot thread. Finally, if you can recall the last time you really wanted to go back to an old game just for nostalgia sake describe your last "nostalgia attack" on the thread discussing them.
As always list maniac Mento graces us with a new and creative list, and this time it annotates the notable games with towers in them. Hizang went with a personal list of the top games that made him care about video games, and jonnyflash80 has taken the task of creating a list of every single terrible movie licensed game. It goes without saying that Jonnyflash80 needs and wants your help for his list.
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! If you haven't heard friend of the site Will Smith had a child! Wish your best wishes to Will, his wife, and their child Willow on the congratulation thread over here. Even more good news about friends of the site comes from Matthew Rorie who has been annoucned as the new executive Editor of GameSpy. Wish our puppy loving Rorie the best over here. If you are a premium member and have access to the beta site there is a new API Update which details recent changes and fixes to the beta site.
Giant Bomb Community Co-Op Group for Warframe - Play Warframe With Other User Online Over Here!
The Giant Bomb Gaming Hub 2013 - The PC GaminG Hub is Expanding Beyond PC Games - Sign Up Here!
Giant Bomb Persona 4 Arena PS3 King of the Hill Tournament - Set forJanuary 26th 12pm-3pm PS - Sign Up Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Devil May Cry is the big new release this week...and that's about all I want to say about that without inciting a riot in this Spotlight. If you wanted to know more about the odd world that Cart Life is all about after seeing the Quick Look for the game check out the wiki page for the game. Finally if you watched the first edition of the Jurassic Lark premium video feature check out the Jurassic Park game page to read summaries for all the different versions of the first Jurassic Park movie that Patrick did and did not feature.
This week Phatmac took the time to go through his portable backlog and play Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, and he is joined by CJduke who did the same but with 999. Door related was Fobwashed's latest blog which discusses the difficulties of programming doors in video games. Sarumarine went through Deus Ex Human Revolution and blogged about how he had a lot of fun with it. After having played through VLR and 999 RecSpec decided to play Ever17: The Out of Infinity which is tangentially related to those games and compares them, similarly jakob187 looked back to Guild Wars 2 and extrapolates on how the game clicked for him again. Video_Game_King tackled two Konami games this week with Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance and Ganbare Goemon 3. Continuing his blog series and effort to play every game in the 1001 Games You Must Play book hasvlad blogged about Mafia and if it's worth going back to after all these years, simultaneously GrantHeaslip continues his blog series about playing through Final Fantasy XIII but discusses the depiction of the female characters in the game. _Mattallic took to task in rebuking the notion that no big games are coming out in 2013 with a list of the 5 games he is most looking forward to. With the recent controversy surrounding the female torso bonus for Dead Island: Riptide ztiworoh discusses how marketing more than gore or sex have assisted in the stigmatization. Playing catch up dankempster played through Sleeping Dogs and talks about his adventures, and is followed by MajorMitch who blogged about his time with Far Cry 3. Wrighteous86 provides you with a summary and review of one of the Halo books that Halo 4 assumes you read before playing it and TrueEnglishGent in true punctual gentleman form has blogged about his favorite games from 2012.
As stated in the introduction Will Smith had a baby this week and if you haven't done so already wish him and his wife your congratulations and best wishes. RobotHamster has modded his Legend of Grimrock party with the Persona 4 fan-art of the staff. DocHaus has created a comprehensive guide on how to succeed in Anarchy Reigns' Death Ball mode, and Colourful_Hippie shares his pitch for a fun fake Nicholas Cage movie. Finally if you'd like to see a civil and mature dialog between users about the recent Devil May Cry game check out the official discussion thread for the game
This week we have two very interesting lists by Mento and FlaminB. Mento spent his week compiling a list of games with mind-numbingly inane tasks in them that truly will test your patience. Have you ever had a game where you were one achievement or trophy away from "S-Ranking" a game, but that one achievement prevented from doing so? Well FlaminB has a list of games like that.
Many Thanks to OllyOxenFree for This Photoshop Work!Hello and welcome to the latest and belated edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! For those of you that aren't able to join us on the beta site there's some big news to discuss. The Wiki Tasks System is being scrapped and replaced with a flagging system that the engineers are still working the details on. However, there most likely will not be a Task System when the new site launches. For those that are part of the beta check out Jeff's exclusive beta article on problems he has with the Windows 8 App marketplace. Also currently exclusive to the beta site are transcripts of the scripts for the various parody videos for the Game of the Year videos and a new bug report about what has been fixed on the beta site. Matt Pascual is all set for the next Giant Bomb Extra-Life event on November 2nd! Finally ask yourself if you have smashed enough helicopters in your life yet.
Community Events and Game Nights
Merry Gerstmas! 2013 Giveaway of 500 Games to 300 Duders - See If You Can Win Some Free Games Over Here!
Southern California Giant Bomb User Meet-Up Group - Play Games With Other Giant Bomb Users in Person By Joining the Meet-Up Group Over Here!
Clan Wars Group for Natural Selection II - Join Site Engineer idBloc in Playing Natural Selection II Online Over Here!
Giant Bomb P4A King of the Hill Tournament (PS3) - Set For Saturday January 26th 12pm-3pm PST - Sign Up Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Both Drox Operative and Dead Pixels are digital games recently released that have surprisingly detailed wiki pages worth checking out.
rjayb89 shares you his stats for all of the main Mass Effect games as part of his blog looking back at the franchise as a whole. GrantHeaslip started his blog series about trying to get through Final Fantasy XIII from start to finish, whereas DevourerOfTime has created a blog series about his most anticipated games of 2013. pickassoreborn responds to Jeff's recent comments about the ZX Spectrum with a love letter to the platform, whereas Snail extrapolates on Jeff's articles about issues with Windows 8. CJduke is finally going to tackle his backlog starting with Limbo, and a certain hostile hamburger explains why he only uses Steam as his digital PC distribution platform. thabigred defends Patrick discussing spoilers and story details related to Binary Domain during the GOTY Bombcasts. hsvlad restarted his effort to play every game detailed on "1001 Videogames you Must Play Before you Die!" Mento entertains with a MS Paint webcomic as well as a blog related to the miscellaneous games he has played recently, and Video_Game_King has created an equally entertaining blog about a couple of "girl games" he played. MajorMitch explains why he found Thirty Flights of Love to be a bitter disappointment while PsEG grumbles about capacity issues in hosting Race Nights on Xbox Live.
If you haven't seen it yet check out Shimakaze's index in construction of every single Quick Look that Giant Bomb has published, and if you seen anything missing help fill it out. FLStyle gives you the line-up for EVO 2013 and summary of how the event is going to look like. Finally share what game you think will disappoint this year and how you finally feel about the ending of Mass Effect 3.
List machine Mento graces us with his list of his favorite PS2 games. See which games made his list and see if you can think of what your own list would look like.
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