Don't Try This At Home: Alex & Dan's PAX Prime 2014 Prep Work

Oh, come on. It has always been dumb. Remember the old Video Things? I love this sort of random stuff. If you don't like it, there are always other things on the site.. I really hope they go all out crazy for the next few months.

@ptys: Good criticism, it really spells out your issues and how they can be fixed.

Oh my god. Jeff said this would happen. You guys have literally tried this at home. A hotel room might as well be home to a bunch of drunk journalists. Not only did Jeff call it but he was an accessory to it. I'm very disappointed in all of you but at the same time the end result was positively hilarious. I wonder if any wrestling organization has considered using a wiffle bat full of water as a foreign object. Thanks for the premium content you freaking marks.

@fobwashed said:

This is fantastic.

Oh yes! Awesome premium content:)

@ptys said:

It's ironic, because it's content like their Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Musou game and other Quick Looks and content - which come from a position of ignorance and, for the most part, service no one - that has me visiting GameSpot or elsewhere. I love Giant Bomb more as a personality-driven website, than as a serious games journalis'y site where I'd go to be informed about games and whatnot.

That has literally always been the case though. They've made tons of QLs of games they don't like (a handful of Musou games, actually) and/or don't care to understand. I think it's a legitimate criticism, but not as something "new" or anything since they've had that sort of content since the very start.

I love this.

So how many more PAX Rumbles before someone goes through a table?

I mean, we got close at PAX East with Greg Miller and the John Drake pillow, but Alex seems reluctant to talk about tables and actual "legit" wrestling matches. Something about the fragility of his neck and spine.

It is exactly that kind of content that keeps me coming back for more. I love most if not all of the content on the site since Dan joined the team. ( and all of the premium content, old and new, is just solid gold in my opinion. ) Gamespot still takes itself too serious. The only content on there i do like is The Point.

this is a serious website about video games

This website is so fucking stupid. Goddammit I love it.

This was fuckin dumb! and this is why i will always subscribe to this beautiful website

that kick really hit him and dan got way too into this lol

Since when did I say dumb stuff wasn't good? My original criticism was actually about how its turning into a Wrestling and Dota site but I edited my post out of fear the "GB Illuminati" would get upset. They spent almost a week at PAX and all we got was a Q&A, a Panel and this? Check out Danny's tour of the PAX show floor, it gives you an idea of what the shows like, the GB Crew seem more interested in promoting themselves rather than gaming these days.

@fobwashed said:

This is fantastic.

And Jeff is wielding that completely wrong.

@ptys: Sorry I didn't ready your edited post where you perfectly explained your stance?

THAT WAS ALL FAKE?!? I'M NEVER COMING BACK TO THIS SITE AGAIN!!!! I'VE BEEN DUPED!!!!

@gorillamopena: Maybe ask questions in future rather than assume everyone is stupid ;)

@ptys: Yeah if you think they talk about DOTA/Wrestling too much you can do that. (I won't agree because I love wrestling but whatever)

But this is more panel prep/prep for the Harmonix panel than actual wrestling content.

I love that Jeff Gerstmann can now add "road agent" to his resumé thanks to this video and the planning for this segment. Take a bow, gents.

Yup, I couldn't care any less for taking video games seriously. ESPORTS is the most serious. I love how some people feel offended by things like Jeff saying Yoshi is shit. Though he mostly means the mechanic of egg throws.

I think you are greatly overestimating the size of the Giant Bomb audience. An audience that will voraciously seek out media regardless of how difficult it is to find. (The Unarchived channel being testament to this.)

Meanwhile I found this cool gallery of the PAX East Rumble:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.734863886565739.1073741839.174864895898977&type=3

My complaint was about the sites focus on Wrestling, Dota and their own personal celebrity which the community loves to feed. No ones doing editorial anymore, its just dudes clowning on camera for their adoring fans?

But that's not even remotely true. Whether it's Patrick's articles, industry discussion on Scoops & the Wolf or the truckloads of Quick Looks we're getting again, there's no shortage of game coverage here. It just happens to be wrapped up in some endearingly stupid personality-driven content.

It's that combination that makes the site worth returning to day after day.

@ptys: I think that's fair but it varies from game to game. I consider some games as things that aren't to be taken too seriously and the editorial stuff does come across in Quick Looks or the podcast. If you mean complete reviews, I like reading em, but the video content does enough to point my attention towards cool games or put any message the guys have to say about topics. Plus the morning show may as well be editorial, its just not in written form. That being said, i enjoyed Guns of Navarro.

There isn't less video game content because of the wrestling content. There's the same amount of video game content with more wrestling content on top of it. If I didn't care for wrestling at all I'd still be pretty happy with the quicklooks and wrestling-unrelated premium content.

Patrick and even Alex are is definitely producing alot of content which I appreciate. Scoops was pretty much the sole contributor after Pax where we had a drought of updates for like 6 days. TGS was on and so I had to go to Gamespot as no news was being reported.

Stupidity. This is why I love Giantbomb

I don't even like wrestling, and this shit's amazing. It is more about the silly awesomeness of the duders than actual wrestling content.

It's still real to me, dammit.

This is great. It reminds me of exactly how my friends and I would plan dumb shit in high school.

A beautiful bunch of nonsense. Really impressed by everyone's work surrounding the PAX Rumble.

Holy shit did that kick sound REAL good. Man, awesome!

Wait, this was staged? It's not real?!

Man, being HR for you guys must be a fucking nightmare.

Keep up the good work.

This is like some kind of weird porno :p

This is STAGED?

this is still one of the best videos on the website.

@rodiard: no, this video was staged. The actual pax thing was real.