The One Thing I'm Starting to Hate

Is people treating the site like it's Gamespot 2.0. Just because it's run by basically the same people that made you love the site, doesn't mean this is the site. They don't share many similarities and I'm sure the Team don't appreciate the 'comparisons'.

Just saying, is all. You can continue if you want, I'll just be out helping out the wiki pages when I can.

you cant blame the gamespot populous running from that fascist place

just look at casey wegner

How is anyone treating this as GS 2.0? In fact there are many threads which disprove any similarities between the two websites. This is a COMPLETELY different website.

I agree with you, I really don't want to see this turned into GS 2 the main reason I came here is to get away from all the stupidity

It's already earned the title Gamespot 2.0 over at Gamespot. It just doesn't have the Retards (Yet). Right now we're just posting for fun. (getting our post counts up :P)

Really? This place seems to act just like any other video game forum I have seen.

I don't see this site as GS 2.0.. It's Giant Bomb, damn it!

"I agree with you, I really don't want to see this turned into GS 2 the main reason I came here is to get away from all the stupidity"

This is NOT GS 2.0

THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAA!

*Dies*

I think we will all know when and if the average GameSpotters become a majority on this website i.e. it will become shit fanboy wars.

The issues with GS:

Mods (Abuse power, never bite their tongue, always lock posts) - a forum isn't school, and it's not work - they treat foruming like it's a professional job/sport. Lay off and fucking relax. I come on the internet to get away from the rules and bullshit of everyday life. I don't need some 14 year old kid telling me what is wrong and what is right according to his fucked up views.

This is Giant Bomb. We have Giant fucking Bombs, and we will fucking bomb all of the other sites with our bad ass content.

This place has the potential to be laid back and professional - while still offering something for everyone.

This is GIANT FUCKING BOMB BABY.

I'm hoping the current community will hold together and try to discourage the average system wars yobbery from taking hold.

"I'm hoping the current community will hold together and try to discourage the average system wars yobbery from taking hold.
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I never used Gamespot. I went there once after signing up for GameFaqs a while ago and didn't like it. What an ugly website. Then my friend told me of the Giant Bomb and the whole Gamespot 'incident' or whatever. I thought it was total BS and went and downloaded the first podcasts. I stayed up til five listening to the first like, three or four podcasts, and playing Brawl. I laughed so hard that night....

Anyway, Gamespot, has always sucked in my eyes, mainly because of the ugly looking site. Don't compare it to GB, this is in a league of it's own.

"Farmer said:

"I'm hoping the current community will hold together and try to discourage the average system wars yobbery from taking hold.
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I think there's a few people here who share that hope, and so far (some how) this place has avoided any kind of flaming session.
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It is run by former gamespot editors. It is populated by former (and current) gamespot members. It is a games site like gamespot. I can see why people are calling it gamespot. Although I'd rather call it wikigamespot.

"Farmer said:

"I'm hoping the current community will hold together and try to discourage the average system wars yobbery from taking hold.
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I think there's a few people here who share that hope, and so far (some how) this place has avoided any kind of flaming session.
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^true that

"It is run by former gamespot editors. It is populated by former (and current) gamespot members. It is a games site like gamespot. I can see why people are calling it gamespot. Although I'd rather call it wikigamespot.
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Well, I'd like to think these early days lay down the groundwork that the attitude of this place is built on.

People are fickle, of that there's no doubt, but fingers crossed the majority can learn to tame their egos in favour of a decent environment.

I don't really care what it's compared to (the team probably does so stop), but I just really like the site. It's really fresh and clean, like a brand new car.

I don't view giantbomb as GS 2.0. Gamespot isn't what it used to be

Why would GB staff not appreciate the comparisons to GS? GameSpot is an extremely succesful site. You know you've got a good site when it's being compared to GameSpot.

Never been a part of or seen the gamespot community - doesn't sound like a great place anyway.
But so far the Giant Bomb community is shaping up to be quite reasonable, people are getting along well.

"It is run by former gamespot editors. It is populated by former (and current) gamespot members. It is a games site like gamespot. I can see why people are calling it gamespot. Although I'd rather call it wikigamespot.
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Or you can call it, WikiSpot :D

"Never been a part of or seen the gamespot community - doesn't sound like a great place anyway.
But so far the Giant Bomb community is shaping up to be quite reasonable, people are getting along well.
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This is already dominating everything GS has to offer, it's smoother better looking and does not fluff shit up.  Kudos.   Welcome back people taht left Gs for this awesome site.

Yea I think we should all drop the gs talk and start out fresh.

Gamespot is garbage and so is most of the people migrating from there

I would have to say they are completely different sites and not even in the same league together, because GiantBomb is MUCH better.

I kind of like the layout of the gamespot forums but hopefully I'll learn to like. But I'm enjoying to so far.

I was a part of the Gamespot community for several years, but it just isn't the same anymore.  I have high hopes for this site, and it looks so sleek!

Giant Bomb is run by people all former employees of GameSpot, so naturally there would be comparisons between the two sites. I do feel that there are similarities, but not strong enough to say that this is a second GameSpot. This isn't just another gaming website; it's user tailored to make the users only go into what they find interesting.

I never had a GS account but rather ran from the abysmal IGN boards to here. I love it here.

I hope that our community doesn't end up like a bunch of GS hating pricks like it's already made to be.

the n4g forums are even worse.

Those people are just whining. If OT gets spammed with religion threads, then it might just be GS 2.0...

"Those people are just whining. If OT gets spammed with religion threads, then it might just be GS 2.0...
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i'm from gamespot... RAAAAWR :P

""The issues with GS:

Mods (Abuse power, never bite their tongue, always lock posts) - a forum isn't school, and it's not work - they treat foruming like it's a professional job/sport. Lay off and fucking relax. I come on the internet to get away from the rules and bullshit of everyday life. I don't need some 14 year old kid telling me what is wrong and what is right according to his fucked up views."

and some people want to go to a forum and not have to worry about people flaming them and acting like jackasses. =/
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gb rules

surprise! you're banned? nobody should be surprised about getting banned. you need many pages of mod history before something like that happens.

Giant Bomb is on another level than GS. To compare Giant Bomb to GS is an insult.

and what makes you think i'm lying? the "one shot" ban is only for extreme cases. other than that, it takes a long time for a user like that to be banned. gamespot is far more lenient than many other gaming forums out there.

"How is anyone treating this as GS 2.0? In fact there are many threads which disprove any similarities between the two websites. This is a COMPLETELY different website.
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I think Gamespot is being too extreme. The censorship of even the slightest insults is ridiculous.

Whenever a person crosses the line, however, the community is mature enough to keep them in check.

I dont see how this is GS 2.0