Giant Bomb LIVE! - E3 2014 - Day 1

Great to see this though that kangaroo in the background looks suspicious.

Edit-sold on No Man's Sky as looks amazing, plus (touched on here with consequences in games) after playing a lot of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, it'd be great to see something like Day Z or Call of Duty where the better you are...great here's lots of perks but you also start going insane or hallucinating more, leaving you with a more measured approach on who to shoot in games.

Faaaaantastic. Thank you guys!

The lead programmer for Grim Fandango works for Sony in Developer Support.. could be part of it too..

This is awesome. Seeing these guys as people. Especially Brohei Broshida.

Shuhei Yoshida AND Phil Spencer? Get Reggie and they complete the set!

It was fantastic. I had to listen to the straight up "Fuck John Drake" comment like 10 times. The angry comments are pretty amusing when you know Lang and Danny via Giantbomb, though are understandable to those who don't know.

Edit: Kessler was great.

God, I was in stitches for most of the segment with JV and Lang.

How does anyone take this industry seriously?

Also, I will give you all the money if you generate this level of candid content with important professionals outside of conferences.

Somehow you got some of the most important gaming executives from Microsoft and Sony for your weird livestream, in the same room as Dave Lang and Johnny V no less. Well done Giant Bomb, well done indeed.

I haven't had this much fun watching you guys in a long long time. Really great job duders

The transformation is immediate and amazing. Angry, cocky, and I expected him to put on a cap right away.

Yeah, let's get some Infinity up in this bitch!

Shu replicating the falling asleep meme (and being a good enough sport to take that stuff in stride and own it) is fantastic.

HOT CASH!!!

Also Shu is awesome.

@slumberpunch: that was amazing haha

It's like watching a sitcom when those guys are together. I love this so much!

@adequatelyprepared: Yeah, Jeff is great at that. And Patrick is also there - I guess for the whole video?

Amazing show and impressive roster of guests for the night. Kessler's pie comment and pausing while he looked for the right PR response to the Vibri comments was hilarious. I'd love to see a one on one interview with John Mamais. He came off as a somewhat quiet or reserved person but I thought some of the points he brought up about the PC were great and echoed some of Jeff's recent comments that E3 really is a console show.

This was gorgeous.

"SUPER. SMAAAAASH BROTHERSSSS!!!"

"Are you supposed to give up after three months?!"

"Where does it come in?"
"I don't think it's a beard.. I think it's mostly neck at that point."
Jeff - "Matt Kessler - Mostly neck."

Watched most of it live, finished it today. Great show, great guests, hope tonight is just as entertaining.

Probably the best panel segment GB duders have ever done, epic!

Giantbomb have arrived!! great show as always

Man, I couldn't catch this live, but kudos to Patrick for booking some great people. Shu was way more relaxed and open than I ever would have expected, which was awesome, and Phil Spencer was too. Beyond that I thought all the guest combinations were great.

But yeah, seeing Shu and Adam sitting around drinking and talking conversationally with Johnny and Lang was pretty much the best. GB doing big things.

Holy crap - the Giant Bomb Crew snagged some BIG names for this show. Congrats guys - great show. Good on Shu and Phil Spencer for coming on - came across as quality people too.

Shu was surprisingly cool, I thought there was no way that Phil Spencer could be just as cool, well he was. Awesome show!

Kessler, Patrick and Alex in the same shot while discussing bad facial hair. That was too perfect.

Awesome show, great line-up!

Side-note: Jokes aside, there does seem a bit of tension/awkwardness between Shu, Adam and the Insomniac people.

Goddamn, listening to Hello games guy talk about his game was an absolute joy. Bravo, you brilliant room of people. Langzone was a trip as always.

Lol they had Insomniac, a usually Sony exclusive studio until recently, talking about their Xbox One exclusive on a panel with Brohei Broshida and Adam Broyes.....awwkkwwaarrrdddddddd.

Awesome. I can't wait 'till I get home to to watch this.

How high was Dave Lang's blood alcohol? No, wait, don't tell me, I want it to be a surprise.

Man, I'm glad that both guys are the heads of their respective companies (though Shu is more focused with the studio side).

Broshida

I sometimes roll my eyes a bit when I hear some people freak about Vib Ribbon knowing 99% of gamers have never played that game. Only reason I ever played Vib Ribbon was because of a friend who, for whatever reason, only ever imported his PSX games. I love Vib Ribbon but the Grim Fandango exclusive is much, much, much, much bigger in my opinion.

I am super, super excited for Disney Infinity: Marvel...whatever its officially called. Super jealous all the guys there have Marvel Infinity stuff early.

Also, this is the first person I've heard say anything bad about developing on PS4 or that there is lots of "trial and error". In fact, I've heard developers on multiple podcasts say the exact opposite for both machines.

to bad phil had to leave so soon..he was just getting relaxed.

That CD Project Red guy looked burned out. I think he was just there for the beer.

Does anyone know the story behind the name of that company? Googling it is no help.

The crew are really good friends with Johnny, Dave and Adam. It's just friendly banter.

Sean Murray might be my new favorite person...

Couldn't understand most of what the Witcher guy said...he looked tired as hell.

#banter

What a fantastic show and the guests they had were just crazy. My opinion of Phil Spencer has definitely changed for the better.

Patrick's "little disappointed kid at Christmas" face at about 1:25:00. Ungrateful sod.

Eurogamer wrote about the history of CD Project last year and it is very much worth a read.

They started the company to import CD games from the US, so I guess CD Project (or the polish version of it) was as good a name as anything to put on the form at the Tax Office.

Oh, yeah, that was a fascinating shift. Danny is fucking fantastic.

Also, I can't be the only one who thinks Sean Murray looks eerily like young, Das Boot era Jürgen Prochnow?

Suh-weet. Thanks for the link.

So I was looking at my Vita yesterday and noticed this port on the top I never realized was there before. Looked it up and turns out it was intended to be a HDMI out. http://www.chdist.com/category/workbenches-and-workshop-furniture-workshop-computer-workstations-298263.aspx So close Jeff!

These are the best part of E3. So glad to see that Giantbomb can pull in such big guests, bigger and bigger names each year (and then throw them on a panel with Dave Lang... lol). The pros in the industry must like Giantbomb as much as we do to agree to show up on this nonsense.

Broshida is the fucking man, classy as hell and yet also a funny guy willing to joke around and be silly. Phil Spencer also gained my respect, seems like a genuinely nice dude with a lot of love for video games, giving lots of praise to his competitors, much respect. Palmer is an endearing, prolific nerd, which makes me trust VR's future in his hands. Johnny V is adorable and so are the No Man's Sky guys. Dave Lang needs his own reality tv show, that is all. All the other guests were great too and Jeff was on point as usual, only wish there was a little Vinny thrown in there too.

@dustoman: Yeah, I think Shu may have misunderstood what Jeff was asking about that. I think Jeff was just talking about using a Vita as a controller for the PS TV to achieve full game compatibility because you have the touchscreen right there, and it seems like Shu was responding to the lack of HDMI out. Maybe I'm the one confused. Still looking for a straight answer to that question, but I'm guessing it's not being answered for a reason. I've heard a couple failed attempts before this one.

I could watch Jeff, Vignocchi, Adam, and Lang all day long, man.

It's funny, I saw some reactions to the Sony press conference on YouTube, with people saying Adam wasn't funny, and others saying he "seemed like a real gamer" and stuff, and I was just like - if only you fuckers knew.

Going from that amazing Phil Spencer segment to... uh... the wonderfully awkward Kessler. Now that was toasty.

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Toasty.