The Community Spotlight - 11/28/2014
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WELCOME EVERYONE
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! I am happy to be your host this week, as always. This week we have some major bits of housekeeping to go over. First off Danny and Drew would like to thank your for joining them, if you did, in enjoying the F1 season. The plan is to start up the Alt+F1 podcast when the 2015 F1 season starts. Brad Muir is going to be a father! If you haven't done so already join the rest of the Giant Bomb community in wishing him the best here. Speaking of friends of the site Dave Lang has started a new podcast with Darryl Wisner where they both ruminate over the rise and fall of Midway, and discuss being game developers in general. In terms of our Big Report users, including myself have had issues posting images from URLs. Finally the staff want you to have an impact on their GOTY coverage and awards by voting for five games you want to see them Quick Look or discuss. If you can think of any big games the staff may have overlooked that were released during 2014, vote for them now.
Clip of the Week
Dave Lang is a monster, but he is OUR MONSTER. For those that missed it Mr. Lang discusses his "Giant Bomb Staff Tier List" in the clip below.
Community Activities
- Super Smash Bros. Wii U Nintendo ID Exchange - Compete Against Giant Bomb Users Online By Heading Over Here!
- Geometry Wars 3 Leaderboard Thread - All Platforms Welcomed - Populate Your Leaderboard with Giant Bomb Users By Heading Over Here!
- Elite: Dangerous Commander Name Trading Thread - Explore Space with Fellow Users By Heading Over Here!
Wonderful Wikis
Read all about Smash Bros. and Pokemon this week. Also celebrate Dhalsim's 62nd birthday this week, as well as the original DS' tenth bbirthdayby checking out their awesome wiki pages. Finally who would have guessed that Geometry Wars: Galaxies, the forgotten stepchild of the Geometry Wars franchise, had a well doen wiki page?
Best of Blogs
A big "THANK YOU" needs to be sent bdhurkett's way as he has combed over the entire Mario Party 2 stream to create a document that details every single stat you would ever want to know about the stream. Just to give you an idea as to how monumental this task was, bdhurkett's document is forty pages long and has thirty graphs and tables. takua108 also committed himself to a significant task in that he hosted his own Winjammer tournament and details what the experience was like on his blog. Unfortunately this leads us to IcyEyes who has hit some personal issues that have resulted in Bombjammers being delayed indefinitely. Please wish IcyEyes the best in his future on his blog. Myniceicelife has a short but humorous tale on Nintendo thinking his birth name is inappropriate, whereas Asko25 extrapolates on his inner battle with Black Friday and holiday slaes. TheRealMoot recently got back into Visual Novels and discusses the game that got him. Mento is starting a new blog series sharing his playthrough with Dark Souls II, and thatpinguino has a new Deep Look as well as an archive of his FFVIII Endurance Run. Finally FreezyFrog AND bobafettjm want you to check out some awesome stuff they have found and done on the Giant Bomb Wiki.
- Taking the Fun Out of Mario Party 2 (By: @bdhurkett)
- Started a Local Windjammers League and Ran Two Tournaments (By: @takua108)
- Bombjammers Delayed Indefinitely :( (By: @icyeyes)
- This Text Contains Offensive Language (By: @myniceicelife)
- Black Friday vs Life: A Year-long Struggle (By: @asko25)
- Visual Novels and How I May Now Have an Internet Stalker (By: @therealmoot)
- Dark Souls II: Bosswatch (Part 1) (By: @mento)
- Deepish Look: Digimon World- Potty Training And Reincarnation (By: @thatpinguino)
- Community Endurance Run FFVIII Speed Run Footage (By: @thatpinguino)
- Wiki Shout-outs Week 3: Geo Wars Edition (By: @freezyfrog)
- The (Mostly) Weekly Wiki Update - Sunday, Nov. 23 2014 (By: @bobafettjm)
Fantastic Forums
Which games are getting delayed, and which ones are getting announced? Share your 2015 gaming predictions on our thread, and hopefully be able to put "clairvoyance" on your resume. We have a discussion thread for the recently released Tales from the Borderlands, as well as a Giant Bomb movie commentary track wishlist thread worth checking out. Finally the community is still a buzz about Dragon Age: Inquisition and we have plenty of thread about the game to enjoy this week.
- 2015 Gaming Predictions Thread (By: @samfo)
- Tales from the Borderlands Discussion/Impressions Thread (By: @cbk486)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition (Spoilerific) Story Discussion Thread (By: @encephalon)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition Hints, Tips, and Tricks Sharing Thread (By: @alistercat)
- Dragon Age: Inquisition Glitch Reporting and Discussion Thread (By: @the_ruiner)
- Giant Bomb (Movie) Commentary Tracks Proposal Thread (By: @hassun)
Lovable Lists
The 2014 Game of the Year lists are starting to trickle and yevinorion has the appreciated distinction of providing written reasons for all of the games on his list. Also, redefaulted boils down the Genesis to five of his favorite games on the platform.
- GOTY 2014 (By: @yevinorion)
- My Top 5 Genesis Games (By: @redefaulted)
Useful User Reviews
- @mento's review of Murdered: Soul Suspect
- @gamer_152's review of Burial at Sea for Bioshock Infinite
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