The Community Spotlight - 04/19/2013
By ZombiePie 16 Comments
Hello and welcome to the belated latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight. I am your host as always, ZombiePie to provide you with a weekly "spotlight" on the latest great works from the Giant Bomb community. The week is over, luckily that's true! With the doldrums of the video game season in full effect, and recent events considered may I recommend that you take the time to tell someone you care for that you love them? Anyways, if you haven't seen the images that the community has produced as a result of Ryan's request for a new podcast image...man, you are missing out. I means here are some examples:
Community Activities
- Giant Bomb Injustice: Gods Among Us Community Online Play Thread - Post Your Gamertag or ID Over Here!
- Brand New Giant Bomb Community Minecraft Server - Join the Server Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Injustice is the big release this week and you should check out the wonderful wiki for teh game if you can. I'd make a lame joke about how I sure hell don't know anything about Shin Megami Tensei games...but I've done that joke ten times already. Crusader: No Remorse and Games on Which Comic Books are based both have had some awesome recent work done on them worth looking over.
- Injustice: Gods Among Us
- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
- Crusader: No Remorse
- Games on Which Comic Books are Based
Best of Blogs
Fobwashed shares the progress to his MegaMan X GiantBomb flash games and explains why he needs your help now! cisko, cabelhigh, and jakob187 all discuss how BioShock Infinite is more than just a first person shooting game to them. Mento list the miscellaneous video games he played recently and theuselessgod has started a blog series examining the games in his old school game collection. Hailinel has three notable 3DS RPG games he like to talk to you about on his latest blog, whereas EarthBowl shares a poem and novel about how he feel about Xenoblade Chronicles. JohnSublime looks back and reminisces upon his old 3D Movie Maker projects, while Grant Heaslip explains why going back to Donkey Kong Country was harder than he thought it would be. Busted1der explains how issues with cloud saves led to him re-playing Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and spykereightsix shares what playing videos games is like when you are thirty and on the road a lot. Finally StarFoxA continues to play through his Humble Bundle backlog with Thirty Flights of Love.
- MegaMan X GiantBomb: A Little Help Here? (By: @fobwashed)
- My Life By Ken Levine (By Jonathan Cadotte A.K.A. Me) (By: @cisko)
- Mentendo Miscellany 04/17/13 (By: @mento)
- Fun with Three 3DS RPGs (By: @hailinel)
- Donkey Kong Country: Pretty, but Frustrating (By: @grantheaslip)
- "How Sweet The Rain Falls" (By: @earthbowl)
- I Played the First 5 Hours of Bioshock Infinite and Now I Have Opinions (By: @cabelhigh)
- On Bioshock Infinite and Its Clandestine Nature (By: @jakob187)
- How Xbox Cloud Saves Service Lead Me To Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (By: @busted1der)
- Nathan vs His Game Collection: Day 8 - A Boy and his Blaster Master [Earlier Entries Can be Found Here] (By: @theuselessgod)
- 3D Movie Maker: In Memorium (By: @johnsublime)
- Bundle Backlog - Thirty Flights of Loving and Dawning (By: @starfoxa)
- Video Game Binging for Thirtysomethings... (By: @spykereightsix)
Fantastic Forums
Nickieroonie is the user that sent the staff those awesome painted shoes this week and breaks down what making them was like. We have plenty of threads related to Injustice from sharing tips and tricks to posting live streams with awesome combos. Have any ideas of what hat would look awesome on Patrick? Post your ideas on the Patrick Hat Project, or P.H.P. With Dota 2 still lighting the world on fire talk about your online follies as a newcomer if you are one on the community newcomer thread. Finally what's your working definition of "Metroidvania," and what are your favorite examples of the genre? Share you thoughts and examples on the discussion thread about the issue.
- Giant Bomb Shoes (By: @nickieroonie)
- Injustice LiveStreams Thread (By: @jjor64)
- Dota 2 New Players Thread (By: @mariachimacabre)
- P.H.P (The Patrick.Hat.Project) (By: @akyho)
- Who are you Leaning for as Your Main in Injustice? (By: @demoskinos)
- Official Injustice Matchup Help and Strategies Thread (By: @sackmanjones)
- What is Metroidvania? Which is Your Favorite? (By: @terramantis)
Useful User Reviews
- @eirikr's user review of Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers