PAX Prime 2014: The Giant Bomb Panel

I've got so much love for this ... <3

Great panel. Game Bomb segment was incredible. Socialist Justice Warrior, haha, I'm glad at least one gaming website can not take themselves so seriously and make fun of all the over dramatic bullshit ruining gaming journalism these days. Games are about having fun and Giantbomb is one of the few non-youtube game websites left that seems to still celebrate that instead of being over dramatic, whining constantly like a tumblr blog, slandering game devs and game players, focusing on negatives and trying to push personal social agendas 24/7 instead of actually telling us if a game is fun or not. Ty giantbomb, stay fun, lighthearted while informative in the ways that matter when it comes to games, pls never go the way of certain other game sites out there.

I do listen to a lot of podcasts. It's the consistency that bothers me in this case. I have no patience for that anymore. Has nothing to do with different opinions and everything to do with how they're expressed. With the panel I was hoping for the fun silliness of yore without the need for that stuff for once but I should've expected it with the news hitting during the event.

Yes, that's a typo!

@def: Dude. They shit-talk A LOT of things. Chill. I listen to a few different gaming podcasts and theyall have WILDLY differing opinions about certain subject matters, companies, franchises, etc. I wouldn't have anything to listen to if I needed to agree with everything they said.

I really could've done without the uninformed Nintendo shit-talking again. Came here for the fun shenanigans not a reminder of why I stopped listening to the podcast. :/

TRIPLE COLLUSION

Thank you for your hard work @drewbert!!!

That sweet, sweet chin music...

Great Panel Camerads

I swear just the other day I was thinking how funny it would be if someone would go to the PAX rumble as a GameBomb.ru Russian guy and would have the Soviet theme in the background and they actually did it. I was dying in tears from that.

I was the one who asked the "Is GB's demographic representative of people who play games as a whole" question, and I thought Jeff's answer was great, and it showed to me that he does think about this stuff. To be honest, as much as I enjoy their goofball antics (and the Firewatch stuff was awesome in person), my favorite parts of the podcast are when they engage in real talk about games and the industry as a whole.

I'm wiping the tears from my eyes...

I just went and pre-ordered Disney Infinity 2.0. Because Johnny V is the best hype man ever! And apparantly we get it a week sooner too. :P I'm looking forward to it !

That was a great panel. The Fire Watch parts were really funny. And gamebomb.ru was funny too, Drake's no accent was really funny.

That panel was fan-freaking-tastic. Maybe one of my favorite moments was when Jeff and Johnny V were talking about Tron with no one paying attention because the staff and Ninja Theory folks were throwing Disney Infinity figures to the crowd. The Game Bomb segment was a hilarious botch fest with Olaf Gerstmanoff failing to maintain a Russian accent and Ivan Shoemaker losing his mustache.

Also, Dan knows what's up with Smash Bros so good to hear the game is a blast!

Far and away, this is my favorite comment in every panel video. It never ends!

All that Fire Watch stuff is pure gold

Sunderland once had a goalkeeper called Mart Poom. Everyone would chant "POOOOOOOOM" and people confused it for booing. Similarly, no one is booing Patrick. Patrick himself has said that he has never had a single negative interaction with anyone at PAX.

Man, Alex took one for the team at the end!

scooooooops!!!!!

The PAX AV guys really know how to do bonk ass audio. Good video though Drew and Jason!

Buck Bumble, motherfucker!

That was fan f**king tastic!

It reminds me of a certain South Africa football player Booth who was white. Everyone thought that they were booing him due to racial tension, but it turned out it was a fan favorite and the supporters honored him by doing a prolonged "BOOOOOOOOTH" whenever he had the ball.

This was glorious, especially the Gamebomb part.

Great show! I love seeing Jeff host these things. Not that much time for everyone else, but they played off of him very well and I had a good laugh. The Gamebomb.ru bit was very funny and on the nose as a parallel universe GB. And I had heard about the beatdown, but I didn't imagine it was that fun.

Those questions about "Fuck the trolls" and "GB is 95% men, are we representative of the people who care about games as a whole" were wonderful. Or rather, the answers were profound.

Thank you, I was a bit uncertain about who played all the parts. You meant Andrea Rene played Patrick though, right?

PS. I can't believe Dan Ryckert set fire to his pants

Great finish from 'Dirty' Dan!

Boo-urns

Good to see Will Smith again.

That is some damn fine stage combat.

Whats with the Simba- Raja Stuff John mentioned?

Gotta love how the Ninja Theory guy talks about the "kick-ass combat" in DmC, when it's public knowledge that they had to have dudes from Capcom come in and fix it for them because it was even worse than what was in the final game.

Oh man that ending! first I was like wow, Dan he really is such a classy fella . . . then BAM! it really shows why GiantBomb is the second best site on the internet after game bomb ru.

Out of interest, are there any Russians here? And what did you think about that skit?

Good god the ending is incredible.

you're right, it's a stupid complaint sorry

If Alex and Dan can sell a super-kick this well there should probably just be a Giant Bomb Underground event every couple months.... Oh wait that's called PAX

In the Q&A when Jeff starts talking about the limits of who video game journalism is for he shows a whole other level of honesty that leaves all the other panelists speechless for a long time. It's pretty amazing.

you nerds ask questions real awkwardly

i could do it way more awkward

@danryckert ... I love you ... in a very manly way ... uh ...

I played the Russian Alex while Andrea Rene (GameTrailers, those videos that play in GameStop) played Russian Patrick.

Recent Bombcast guest and Indie dev Samantha Kalman was in on the Alex beatdown. She came in second in the PAX East Rumble but was no match for Team GFB at PAX Prime.

@jedted: Maybe it just seems bigger in the video. I guess at PAX East the room wasn't as wide but it went back farther.

gamebom.ru is a real site who new

Couldnt they mic up with their own mics and record audio with those, and then overlay that audio on the video and cut out the video audio so its better quality?

Amazing kick by Dan.

And fantastic editing my Drew, forgot this was even edited until after I finished watching.

Not enough real danger when throwing free stuff at the crowd though ;(

After the way PAX East ended I was really hoping we'd have Cena's theme blasting over the PA after someone ran in to save Alex. Nicely done superkick.

After this, I think I could live with them just skipping the Q&A from now on. Maybe keep it to whatever sub-event they hold (like the Friday night thing).

So other than Pope and Drake and Johnny V and Will Smith who were the others on the Game Bomb Panel and was that Alexa Ray who joined on the Alex beatdown?

@daveyo520: The Panel i attended at Pax East(2013) was much bigger that this one. Think it was the Phoenix theater that year.