Is the Enyclopedia Bombastica Dead?

Between Jeff’s more informal streams, play dates, This is the Runs, passive-aggressive wrestling promos, and various other #content being done on the site now, is the Encyclopedia Bombastic a relic of the past? In particular, Jeff’s streams tend to cover the personal and industry history for the games which was kind of the defining thing about the EBs. I’m not sad about it. Things evolve and have a time and place, but I did like the kind of “historical” angle angle they had to them.

Yes, i thought they actually said so but maybe i am misremembering. I mean its been years since they had one.

Giant Bomb features never die, they just stop getting updated.

GB has always been iffy about hard cutoffs for features.

Completely forgot about that series! I loved the idea and it's sort of similar to Game Informer's Replay show that I used to love. Would be cool to see it come back, but there's so many other things running right now.

I have a feeling that it has morphed into what Jeff randomly streams from home as of late. Fast and loose approach that's segmented to cover more games.

It's a shame because that's a really great name for a feature.

I would love to see new ones. Perhaps they could have guest entries at some point?

They need to do Technos Trilogy featuring:

Super Dodge Ball

River City Ransom

Crash and the Boyz Street Challenge

The video format wasn't really suitable for so much information, so it is now available as a 64 volume book collection, or the Bombastica '95 CD edition in local stores.

Long dead. It doesn't even stink anymore.

I loved the feature and was just asking myself yesterday why we never got more of it.

It seems like it was conceived as a way to record videos from home to have content during a week when maybe everyone wasn't going to be in the office or whatever. I remember Jeff, Alex, and Brad all did theirs mostly from home.

It was always a video feature that was infrequent and done by some staff members more than others, so it wasn't surprising that it gradually got phased out.

Agreed that Jeff's home streams seem like the replacement.

I would like to see them take a crack at having guests do encyclopedia bombastica entries for games they have deep knowledge of, but that would probably be a lot of work to coordinate, and you’d not have the personalities hosting it that you might want to have as part of the package.

They're focusing on more unique content and having Abby and Ben bring their own ideas to the content as well. I'd like them to revisit it, but that seems far out.

I always really appreciated the idea of having every game in the database have some piece of video content attached to it.

How about an organised community effort?

That's a shame. I supposed it's easier to just stream for a couple hours and come up with insights on the fly instead of making an effort to know as much as they can about a game beforehand.

But I haven't been watching Jeff's streams like I did with the Bombasticas. Too long for me.

I don't think I ever did one so maybe I'll try to put one together if I ever get a chance for some older PC stuff. But I hate editing videos of myself together.

@rorie: We love it

Me too. It's an insane goal, to be sure, but I think it would be extremely valuable to have at least some video of each game from a preservationist perspective.

@rorie maybe a video when official Vanilla WoW releases?