Hello and welcome to the first Giant Bomb Community Spotlight of 2016! As always I, @zombiepie, am honored to be your host on this very special occasion. On this edition I would just like to thank everyone who has made this such a wonderful year on Giant Bomb. From getting the hilarious staff moments, to getting the Community Spotlight elevated to article status this was a solid year for Giant Bomb. Furthermore I would like to thank my editor, @mento, for the time and effort that he has put into every episode of the Community Spotlight catching my occasional typos and comma splices. Finally, I very hearty thank is in store for @marino for working tirelessly to publish these Spotlights. Thank you both for making this possible, and here's to another great year on Giant Bomb! With that let's get on with the latest episode of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, because there's a lot to get through!
User Created Game of the Year Stuff
2015 GOTY Lists
- My Favourite Games of 2015 (By: @flappyhands)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @leviticus128)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @TechnoSyndrome)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @smtdante89)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @irrelevantjohn)
- Nightriff's Top Games of 2015 (By: @nightriff)
- Best of 2015 (By: @mormonwarrior)
- Game of the Year 20XX Edition! (By: @kindnivore)
- Games of Video in the Year 2015 CE (By: @brodehouse)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @infinitespark)
- Game of the Year 2015 (By: @servantey)
- Best of 2015 (By: @mjhealy)
- The Game of the Year List of the Top 10 of the Games Played in 2015 (By: @theht)
- My Games of 2015 (By: @wuddel)
- Best of 2015 (By: @asmo917)
- Best of 2015 (By: @finaldasa)
- Best of 2015 (By: @addfwyn)
- Best of 2015 (By: @jensonb)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @meestero)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @patvb)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @psycosis)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @soap)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @tandyq)
- DocHaus' Top Games of 2015 (That He Actually Played) (By: @dochaus)
- In the Year 2015, I Managed to Play a Few Games (By: @make_me_mad)
- Let's Go(tY) 2015! (By: @gravitypenguin)
- TFP's Top 15 Games of '15 (By: @thefakepsychic)
- Best of 2015 (By: @marino)
- Game of the Year 2015 (By: @darth_navster)
10 Games That Were Awesome Enough for Me to Pay/Watch in 2015 (By: @andrewb)
2015 GOTY Blogs
- Games I Think Were Pretty Good in the Year of our Lord 2015 (By: @believer258)
- Rhymes McFist's Game Of The Year/The Jimmys 2K15 (By: @rhymesmcfist)
- My Top 10 Games of 2015 (By: @mikelemmer)
- My End of 2015 Awards - Part Five (By: @dankempster)
- ZombiePie's 2015 Anime and Video Game Award Show (By: @zombiepie)
- 2015 Had Some Pretty Good Games (By: @darthorange)
- The Seventh Annual Moosies! (By: @mooseymcman)
- Dalai's Top 10 Games of 2015! (By: @dalai)
- An Ordered List of 8 Games That Came Out in 2015 (By: @theblue)
- JadeGL's Totally Awesome and Totally Arbitrary GOTY Awards (By: @jadegl)
- StarvingGamer's Games Worth Starving For (or Otherwise) in 2015 (By: @starvinggamer)
- My Favorite Games I Played in 2015 (By: @knifeyspoony)
- Shivoa's Games of the Year 2015 (By: @shivoa)
- Joemotycki's Top 10 Games of 2015 (By: @joemotycki)
- Top 5 Games of 2015 (By: @cathryn)
- I Played So Many Games in 2015 (GOTY) (By: @nickhead)
- ArbitraryWater's Top 10 Games of 2015 That Actually Came Out in 2015 (By: @arbitrarywater)
- A 2015 Something-or-other Blog (Spoilers Within) (By: @shindig)
- My Favorite Games of 2015 (By: @grantheaslip)
- My Top Five Games of 2015 (By: @gamer_152)
- Year of the Games, 2015 (By: @csl316)
- My Top Video Games of 2015 That are Totally Video Games +Sonic (By: @gunstarred)
- Game of the Year 2015 (By: @ghosthouse)
- Game Of The Year Twenty Fif-Teen (By: @fixbane)
Clip(s) of the Week
GiantBomb Animated Livestream 27/12/15 - Dan Versus Vinny (By: @lackingsaint) - LackingSaint recently livestreamed himself creating another set of his GiantBomb animated video series!
Giant Bomb Galleria
- BANNER - Designing Giant Bomb Logos in Different Styles While Listening to GOTY Podcasts (By: @dcf15) - DCF15 made a dozen or so minimalist Giant Bomb themed banners this week, and they are all awesome!
- Giant Bomb Fiasco (By: @humanity) - What happens when you cross Giant Bomb East with Pat Baer? You get this great artwork by Humanity!
- A Giant Bomb Poster for Japan (By: @asinies) asinies took the artstyle of what you would find on a retro Japanese candy box, and tied it into Giant Bomb on this poster.
- Project B.E.A.S.T. - Something in Memory of our Favorite Kerbal... (By: @bottledbacon) - BottledBacon has created this memorial for Project B.E.A.S.T.'s "Bullet" Bill Kerman.
Gallery
Community Activities
Best of Blogs
- A Personal Video Game Retrospective 1986-1987 (By: @riostarwind) - RioStarwind takes you on a personal journey on why 1986-1987 was an incredibly important and formative year in gaming for him.
- 25 Games I’m Looking Forward to in 2016 (By: @dryvby) - There are 25 games that will come out in 2016 that DryvBy can't wait to put his hands on. See which they are here.
- Anime Overload 2015: The Anime That Hamst3r Watches: My Conquest Is The Sea of Anime (By: @hamst3r) - Hamst3r wrote an end of the year anime blog, and created some fantastic art in order to promote it.
- 10 Games I Didn't Play in 2015 (By: @sunbrozak) - Instead of creating the usual GOTY list, SunBroZak listed the ten games from 2015 that he most regretted not playing.
- Crawling Back into the Fallout (and Other Things?) (By: @bonbolapti) - After having a falling out with Fallout 4 bonbolapti gave it another shot, and he shares how it went on this blog.
Join the Discussion
- Giant Bomb's Gunpla Build Club (By: @akyho) - Inspired by Austin's Day 1 GOTY segment, we now have a community thread for a "Gundam Build Club" over here.
- Wrestling Thread - Brass Ring Awards Day 4 (Top Ten Wrestling Matches of 2015) (By: @turboman) - The wonderful users behind Giant Bomb's community wrestling thread have voted on what they collectively think were the best wrestling moments of 2015! Check it out right here.
- Best of Giant Bomb 2015 (By: @isomeri) - What Giant Bomb related content do YOU think was the "Best of 2015?" Vote and discuss your favorite feature here!
Lovable Lists
- My Top 16 Most Anticipated Games of 2016 (@darthorange) - There are plenty of games that DarthOrange is incredibly excited to get his hands on during 2016! Check out what they are on his latest list.
- 2016 is Going to be Ridiculous. Especially if All of These Games Come Out. (By: @recspec) - You might be surprised to see which games RecSpec can't wait to play in 2016, so check out this list to see what they are.
- Twenty-Chagrin: Pile of Shame '16 (By: @mento) - Because he spent most of 2015 playing Atari-ST games, moderator Mento's backlog got a bit bigger as seen here.
Useful User Reviews
- @riostarwind explains why Fighting Force is an "average" game that anyone can go back to if they try on this review. RIOSTARWIND also reviewed GUNS UP! and discusses why it is a free-to-play game you should avoid this year.
- @joe423 discusses why he enjoyed the stylish splendor of Galak-Z: The Dimensional on his review for the game.