Content Ideas for Giant Bomb

Giant Bomb content needs considerably more Silly Wigs, imo.

@finaldasa: This is what I want. These and the Jar Time videos are some of my favorite.

I liked the idea of the Flight Club doing a series with a dynamic campaign in a flight sim until they are virtually killed or captured.

I want a pinball scrub league tournament.

Giant Bomb plays Arma 3 mods...Giant Bomb has always been about improvisation and "life sim mods" in Arma 3 is breeding ground for that kind of comedy. Remember this?

@relkin: No problem! I'm completely in agreement, especially after watching Jeff's NYU talk. It's not like these dudes aren't academic, you know? Might be the perfect way for Patrick to approach new content in his "Patrick Talks Over A Well-Edited Video" feature.

@monkeyking1969: The potential of green screen...

@shortbreadtom: Vinny said he had a bunch of ideas, so I don't see the "QL Factory" happening anytime soon. A calendar of events would be great, and maybe something where people can save individual events to a personalized queue. It would also give them a set of data to figure out what works and what doesn't, and when.

@rockyraccoon37: One of the great things about this site is that you don't have to watch everything live in order to keep up-to-date, or even enjoy it. The weekly feature would be good, but don't discount the daily content just because of its frequency. And yes to the community multiplayer show and surprises.

Idle Thumbs talked about this on their last podcast; video game post mortems with the developer; let the developer(s) come in 1-2 months after the game is out and go over all the critical points in the game, an indepth discussion on what worked, what didn't work, stuff that was cut, anything they want to talk about, sort of like a commentary track for a game.

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@kidavenger: Game Developer Magazine used to do something like that and it was one of their most popular features. That'd be really cool...anything academic/intellectual would be cool, just so we have more of that perspective from the crew.

@lydian_sel: All on board to see the method behind the madness. And, um, Salty Bet -- fuck to the yes, please.

I'm going to compile some of the ideas that myself and others found more interesting and post them within the next week or so and send them to the crew. Let's say by like...Tuesday?

Yesterday I was watching this youtube video of a guy playing some japanese ps1 game, while he translated it for everyone to follow. Thought about a "lost in translation" GB content, where they try to get through these weird games no one bothered to localize, while making up the story themselves, could be a fun show to watch.

@ftrevelin: GOD YES. I think that fits in with the "MST3K" thing, but hell yeah.

I would love for them to do multiplayer matches with community members (like TNT) I'm not saying it has to be weekly though. More frequent encyclopedia bombasticas would also be great. Also more scrub leagues. And of course more streams where they play a bunch of old console games.

@afabs515 said:

Anything I can think to say could just be summed up with this, honestly. This has been my feeling for nearly a year.

- Random PC games were and still are some of my favorite premium content. That feature kiiiiiiiiiiiiind of got rolled into Unprofessional Fridays, but it doesn't really have a ton of time to breathe there.

-The Dark and Demon's Souls runs were really fun to watch.

-The 2012 game of the year sitcom sendups were absolutely incredible. But I can't imagine the amount of time and effort that went into producing them.

-I'm a big fan of Giant Bomb Chicago. Patrick and Max are the perfect straightmen to Dave Lang's absolute insanity.

To get it out of the way, Endurance Run. Yeah. Please. Thanks
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As for original ideas, I would like to see, once a week, one of the duders find an old manual from the NES or SNES days and read the lore like a bedtime story.

Might be too late to add to this, but my favorite thing about Vinny is just watching him trying to break games. Maybe name it like CrashingCaravella, and just have Vinny play open world games and Steam early access games.

Or just just do Vinny's Vices, where you just watch him collect everything in a game while eating a bucket of KFC.

Noted!

There's a lot of great ideas. But what I really want, more than anything, is just MORE unique content from them. Literally anything, I would watch/read/roll around in it, because why not. I hate expecting so little, like if I only check in once a day I wouldn't miss much more than whatever trailer they felt like posting, which I can watch in any other site. I don't come here for news, announcements, or brief recaps of current industry happenings. I already get that everywhere else.

Unless, of course, there's solid input from whoever put up the post. Something more substantial than a clever little quip. I would be more compelled to watch trailers or click on a news story if there was an opinion piece or some sort of reaction video with some conversation, or something that displays more personality. Maybe it would take away some content from Bombin the AM and the news segment on the Bombcast, but if that means digging up more stories(which there are plenty of), as long as it has their twist on it, I'm all for it.

I don't mean to talk shit when I say that, from what I know of the crew, I don't imagine any of them being content with rehashing only facts. Patrick sure as hell isn't shy about saying what he means and his articles are always worth reading(if only they had more puns). I very much the appreciate a thumbs up from Vinnie or head-shaking disapproval from Jeff. Maybe it's because, personally, I find most everyone else in this line of work pretty intolerable and can't possibly care less about what they have to say.

This is a dumb, long, post.

tl;dr More encyclopedia bombasticas, those are the shit.

@freecajunlove: Vinny's Vices would be glorious.

@thebunnyhunter said:

I tweeted at Dave around the time they did the first Blade Runner RPCG about this and he said they were planning on doing it....that went out the window when Dave left last year...

Essentially what I've been saying for 6 months now, more focus on single games, or franchises, ~30 minutes spent on one game where no one pays attention to it isn't entertaining. That is what made the Papa Vinny Stream so great, they all were engaged in the game.

I would love some scripted retrospective presentations. Maybe interviewing some developers with old war stories to tell. Barring that, I would love to see more shotgun style livestreams where they talk about old games for about 15-30 minutes at a time.

I would literally kill someone for this. Literally.

It would be really weird if Vinny texted me and said "Hey duder I need you to take out X and then I will play phantasmagoria 2" but there is no way I could refuse.

Keep that in mind Vinny. You got a wild card you can play forevermore.

So like an Episode with Jeff and Drew commentating while Brad plays DOTA, Jeff tries to constantly derail any conversation about the game while Drew tries desperately to commentate.

I can hear Jeff's head shaking back and forth now.

That's what I want.

I would really like to see more user lists being collected and used.