Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight, and I, @zombiepie, am honored to be your host once again! Things were mostly quiet this week, but that does not mean that the Giant Bomb Community was asleep all week long. Firstly @cosmicbacon is the user to thank for the banner this week, and it is also worth noting that he has a blog which compiles the best of his artistic works right here. Speaking of user art it sounds like @fobwashed is making great progress with animating the PAXAMANIA personas of the Giant Bomb staff. Also, @jordha has created a Giant Bomb themed card game in Tabletop Simulator, that you can download and play right NOW!
Now, onto the site bugs this week. The first report deals with users having issues with posting comments on the site. As @jslack explains here. Giant Bomb has been known to have issues with the extension Ghostery so try disabling that extension to see if that helps. Also, for users that are using Firefox, please be aware that if you do not download Flash your only video playback option will be HTML 5 based. That covers the housekeeping so let us get on with the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight!
Clip(s) of the Week
- Our first video comes from CosmicBacon which provides a time lapse of how he created the MS Paint banner for this week. The second video comes from @twitterlegend and combines Giant Bomb with the Seinfeld intro to hilarious effect. Finally, we have the latest, and always great, edition of @turboman's "Best of Giant Bomb" video series.
The Giant Bomb Weekly Gallery
- This week we have a smattering of works of art from the Giant Bomb Staff MS Paint user created art showcase. Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg, and if you want to see more nightmare fuel just check out the thread over here. I am warning you...some of the works will give you nightmares
Gallery
Community Activities
- Project CARS PS4 Community Racing Club - Race with Other Giant Bomb Users in the PS4 Version of Project CARS By Posting Your PSN ID Over Here!
- Giant Bomb PAX Prime 2015 Boston Meetup - If You Plan on Going to PAX Prime 2015 Join the Planning Effort to Host an in-Person Meetup in Boston!
Best of Blogs
- Creating Games as a Hobby (By: @kewlsnake) - Programming and designing games has been in kewlsnake's blood for quite some time, and he discusses what about game making is so appealing to him on his latest blog.
- The Rise of UXIIIP: Final Fantasy XIII and Anti-Immigration Politics (By: @dankempster) - dankempster uses the recent U.K. elections to discuss Final Fantasy XIII's commentary about anti-immigration sentiment in amazing detail on his blog.
- Have Open World Games Lost Their Appeal? (By: @grtkbrandon) - As excited as grtkbrandon may be for the pending release of The Witcher 3, he also cannot help but feel a little fatigue with the open world format in this and last generation. Check out why he's feeling tired wit the open world format here.
- So I Just Played: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (By: @tarfuin) - Inspired by the recent depressing news about the current state of Konami, Tarfuin decided to give Metal Gear Rising a shot, but discusses why he couldn't help but feel disappointed with the game.
- What I've Been Playing 5/14/2015: Titan Souls I Wish I Loved You (By: @sagesebas) Titan Souls has all of the parts to a game that sagesebas would normally love, but for some reason the game didn't click for him. Read his theories as to why this may have been the case.
- Broken Age Won't Change the World, But it will Brighten it & Baby Deep Look: Broken Age - The Subversive Ending [SPOILER WARNING!!!] (by: @thatpinguino) - thatpinguino spent a great deal of time last week playing Broken Age. Read all about his thoughts on the structure and "subversive" nature to its ending on one of his two blogs for the game this week.
- Best of Giant Bomb 78 - I Am Become Mega (By: @turboman) - TurboMan has a new edition to his wonderful Best of Giant Bomb video series! This episode compiles the best moments of the Big Live Live Show, the Kerbal Space Program Quick Look, and the Mario Party 4 livestream.
- I Expected More from Batman: Arkham Asylum (By: @grantheaslip) - GrantHeaslip finally crossed off Batman: Arkham Asylum from his gaming backlog list, but shares why the mystique and hype surrounding it hurt his enjoyment of the game.
- RElapsed Fan - Resident Evil: Director's Cut (By: @nightriff) - Nightriff continues his chronological playthrough of the Resident Evil franchise with the Director's Cut of the first Resident Evil game. Read why he thinks the game has held up relatively well almost twenty years after the fact.
- I Suck At Fighting Games: Mortal Kombat X (By: @perfidioussinn) - As part of his continuous effort to get respectfully good at playing fighting games online PerfidiousSinn gave Mortal Kombat X a shot, and discusses why the tutorial systems in the game really held him back from improving the quality of his play.
- Let’s You and Me Fight: Enter the Fightstick (By: @ford_dent) - Ford_Dent finally bit the bullet and decided to acquire a fighting stick. Read all about why he's making the investment over here.
- Wiki Project: Super 94 Q2 &Mento's May Mastery: Day 15 (By: @mento) - Mento continues to plug away at his daily series of Steam game appraisals, as well as move along his quixotic task to ensure the Wiki has a complete set of pages for every SNES and Super Famicom game.
- Trip to the Galloping Ghost Arcade (By: @riostarwind) - Retro arcades aren't entirely dead in the United States, and RioStarwind's picture tour of the Galloping Ghost Arcade in Chicago proves it! Check out this blog and see if the arcade is worth your time.
- I Played Twelve Hours of Mario Party 10 - My Final Impressions (Hint: I Like Mario Party) (By: @zombiepie) - Giant Bomb moderator ZombiePie is an insane person, and the fact that he has played over twelve hours of Mario Party 10 proves it.
Join the Discussion
- E3 2015 Speculation and Predictions Thread (By: @adequatelyprepared) - E3 2015 is approximately one month away from happening so feel free to join the rest of the Giant Bomb community in predicting what the surprise announcements are going to be right here.
- Do You Use Walkthroughs in Adventure Games? (By: @mormonwarrior) - Join the debate on whether or not walkthroughs are a necessity or sacrilege for the adventure game genre on our community debate and poll for the subject this week.
- Desert Golf Hole Help and Advice Thread (By: @quipido) - Is there a hole in Desert Golf that is giving you a nightmare of a time? Well let out a yelp on our community help thread and get some advice on how to get a hole in one.
- How Do You Feel About Weapon Wheels (By: @isomeri) - Another fun and civil community debate; this discussion centers around the use and possible abuse of weapon wheels in video games. Where do you stand in regards to this gaming concept? Share your thoughts and vote on our poll regarding the mechanic.
- The Witcher 3 Platform Preference Poll & Discussion Thread (By: @twolines) - If you plan on getting The Witcher 3 this week feel free to vote and indicate which platform you plan on getting the game for!
Lovable Lists
- Platformative 3D Platformers (By: @mento) - Platformers may be Giant Bomb moderator Mento's favorite genre, and he shares a comprehensive outlook of the many 3D platformers he has played in his lifetime on his latest list.
- Games of Video in the Year 2003 CE (By: @brodehouse) - Brodehouse looks back on the biggest, and in his opinion, best gaming experiences of 2003 on his latest list this week.
- Kawika's Games Journal of 2015 (By: @kawika) - With most of 2015 down Kawika has started working on a running tab of all of the games that he has played in 2015. Check out his list and read his final impression on all of the games.
Wonderful Wikis
- Mario Party 10 - YOOOO! 2015's front runner for Game of the Year, Mario Party 10, now has a 250+ wiki page! Learn all about how you can host your own joyous Mario Party Party!
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - The real big release for this week is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and you can read all about the premise, gameplay changes, and the different versions of the game on our wonderful wiki page. Why yes I am a bad person for putting Mario Party 10 ahead of The Witcher 3!
Useful User Reviews
- @sagesebas throughly enjoyed his time with Axiom Verge and you can read why he enjoyed it so much on his review.
- @jaypb08 decided to go back and play The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings before the release of the third entry in the franchise. Read all about how the game pleasantly surprised him despite being intimidated by it at first.