How did you find Giant Bomb?

Came over from the Hotspot after the whole Gamespot problem way back when, kept tabs on the Arrow Pointing Down website until they made the first version of Giant Bomb.  Made an account as soon as possible once it was reborn to an earlier version of the site we see today.  I don't make many posts even being a member since the start as I have a lot to do in life and just commenting away in a website is usually not my idea of spending that time.  However it is the first forum that I ever bothered even making more than 1000 posts for and even doing stuff like contributing an asset for a forum member for something, which says how nice the community here can be when the usual forum trash isn't making the rounds.  Here's to Giant Bomb's continued success!

The Podcast

I was a long time fan of the Hotspot. After the crew left Gamespot, I followed the Arrow Pointing down blog. When Giantbomb went live, I signed up on day 1.

@Axxol said:

Do we need another one of these threads?
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/how-did-you-find-giant-bomb/462444/
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/how-did-you-guys-find-giant-bomb/872/
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/off-topic/31/how-did-you-find-out-about-giantbomb/252312/
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/how-did-you-discover-giant-bomb/1503/

Only every time someone gets banned from Gamespot and then proceeds to make five threads a day like all the noobs do.

I followed from Gamespot as soon as it was created, but I had all my friends on GS so I stayed there, untill I could take no more and then joined GB in I think Octoberish last year

Pretty sure I've posted in one of these threads before (hopefully not somewhere in this post) but I found Giant Bomb from Tested. I used to listen to the Maximum PC No BS Podcast back when Will Smith was EIC over there and I followed him and Norm over to Tested. Then I started to look at the Whiskey family of sites and fell in love.

I've been around for sometime, followed Gerstmann after the GS thing happened. Giantbomb is awesome, overrun by trolls on the forums but I don't come here for the forums.

Kotaku started sucking even more and I needed a new place to chill.

A dude on a forum gave me a link to the P4 Endurance Run. Told me it was something I should check out. I did, and here I am.

Yeah, had been on Gamespot since 2003, and after Jeff left, i followed. 

@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:

it was weird, i began listening to on the spot and mark zuckerberg left gamespot. lots of people kept saying how there was a chance he might go to a site called Giant Bomb. a few months later i looked his name up and the i found a thread on Giant Bomb that said that Mark went off to the company that made Forza. i decided to just make an account here and ive been enjoying my time on this amazing web site ever since

You mean Brian Ekberg. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook. Brian Ekberg was at GameSpot and is now community manager at Turn 10 studios.

Endurance Run.
 
'Nuff said.

Gamespot/Gerstmann incident which ran in to the Arrow Pointing Down podcast.

Another video game site had Giant Bomb as source on one of their articles. Can't remember which one though.

Through Comic Vine. Funny thing, I deeply loathe Comic Vine nowadays.

Well one day I was hanging out with my friend and his friend after not going to a graduation party. We were talking and my friend said "You like Persona 4 right?' He then proceeded to tell me about a site that is playing Persona 4 from start to finish and adding their own commentary as they play. It sounded kinda stupid so I just brushed it off. The next day I was hanging out with him again and he took me to this site and showed me two episodes of the Persona 4 Endurance Run. From there I was hooked. I came to Giantbomb everyday to watch the Endurance Run and as the the Endurance Run neared its end I started watching Quick Looks, after 3 or 4 of thoes I signed up for a membership then a paying membership.

Was a Gamespot subscriber for a few years, up until the so called Gerstmann Gate Incident, then somehow i found my self listening to the Arrow Pointing Down podcast...

I found it via a Something Awful games forum thread.

From Jeff's blog.

Looking for deadly premonition gameplay im sure

Friend linked me to Brad's Infamous video review. Thats where the addiction began.

I was on this porn site looking at naked cartoon pussy and I clicked on a link that brought me here.

Used to got to GameSpot, lost sight on the guys for a bit when the shit happened, then randomly clicked on a link to this site and rejoiced! How glorious to be a member of the finest video game community around.

Through Wikipedia, while looking up Jeff Gerstmann, after listening to a couple old Hotspots and wondering what the heck was up with him.

@The_Laughing_Man said:

                      

  Yup..this is what I found. And it just went from there. Quick look after quick look. Then Signed up. 

                   

               

You joined that late and have 8 thousand posts?  Jesus H Batman.

Gamespot

After Jeff and everyone left Gamespot I said to myself "This site sucks, I wonder what everyone else is doing". Quick google and I found Giant Bomb.

A while after Gerstmann and others left Gamespot I googled his name to see if he was still doing reviews. Giant Bomb came up, I saw not only him but Ryan Davis and some of the others from GS. I signed up right after I saw the Rogue Warrior Quicklook.

Came over from Gamespot after Gerstmanngate.

My cousin showed me it, since he was a big fan of the site. I also knew Jeff from Gamespot so immeditely liked his personality and reviewing style in Giant bomb.

I discovered Giant Bomb through Metacritic, but it was actually TANG that got me to stick around and sign up.

I went on iTunes and downloaded the most popular gaming podcast at the time.

followed Jeff here.

I wasn't a gamespot guy, but I heard of the incident on another site and decided to see what Giantbomb was all about and I've been here since then.

Someone posted on the the GB videos of gametrailers, I thought it was good so I decided to check out the site, been around ever since.

Refugee from Ye Olden GameSpot days.

It found me!

@Aus_azn said:

Gamespot-Gerstmann incident.

A fellow named DualReaver made me come here. I already knew about it before that, I just didn't come here.

Reading some comments in a news story on GameSpot that were incredibly derisive of GameSpot and supportive of GiantBomb, I decided to check out this site. This was about a month before the 2009 GOTY Awards, and definitely around the time the Avatar review sitting on the front page for nearly two weeks straight.

Many people were recommending the site through the 1-up boards after the UGO buyout. Fell in love with the quicklooks, never looked back.

Gamespot.

I followed Jeff on his blog during the transition period, that was a fun time filled with hour long points reports. :p

TVtropes linked to the Persona 4 Endurance Run one day, I went, watched the first video... and found an even bigger time-sink than TVtropes in the Endurance Run.

Jesus told me about it

I just sign up today. However, I do remember gamespot was once good with their on the spot feature and video reviews, with people like Greg Kasavin, Jeff Gerstmann, Ryan Davis etc still there.

I feel like I'm the only one to use this method to find out about this site... Anyway, during the Infamous and Prototype debacle I was listening to GamesRadar's podcast TalkRadar. Brad guested on the show with his thoughts about how Infamous is better. So I checked out Giantbomb and slowly it became my daily thing. Oh and my first quicklook was...