Giant Bomb Community GOTY 2012: The Podcast!!

So a few of us fellow GB users decided it would be cool to get together and make a podcast chatting about the a huge list of games that would make our top ten games of the year list.

Those chatting include: Ghostiet, CornBREDX, asian_pride, MajorMitch, Phatmac, and Bobby_The_Great

We started by running down a list of almost every single game that released from 2012. Seriously.

From there, we narrowed down the list to 43 games that we felt comfortable battling it out for the ten spots. The result, was a 6 hours (edited down to 5 hours) podcast of us trying to figure out which game it should be.

A few caveats:

• This was done over Skype, so it's not the best sound quality.
• Also, this was done with the mics each owner had, so again, be generous with the sound quality.
• 5 hours is a REALLY long time, so I didn't have a chance to listen and edit EVERY minuet detail. Otherwise it would have never gotten out.
• I think our list might cause some controversy, if you agree or disagree, be thoughtful in your comments below.
• I find it odd almost how close our list was to this link: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/the-giantbomb-communitys-top-ten-games-of-the-year-for-2012/573612/#97
• No, we didn't look at the link at all before making this.

So, I hope you enjoy, and I've tried my best to provide an MP3 for a 5-hour long podcast, and a Youtube upload, so pick your poison.

And most of all, I hope you all enjoy!

MP3 download (file size is about 110mb) = http://www.filedropper.com/giantbombcommunitygoty2012podcast

Also, please let me know if there are any "better" places to post the MP3 download, the file is too long for Soundcloud, Reverbnation and so on, so if you would like the file in another downloadable format, just let me know, please.

Youtube :

If you do not have time to listen:

Downloadin' now!

@TooWalrus: Thanks, hope you enjoy!

I was wondering what happened to this idea.

@ImmortalSaiyan: It exist in 5 glorious (or not so glorious) hours.

@Bobby_The_Great said:

@ImmortalSaiyan: It exist in 5 glorious (or not so glorious) hours.

And it was a result of over thirty days of almost daily conversation, planning and rehearsal in a twenty person PM that I was privy to be a part of because I'd said "YES I'D LOVE TO TALK INTO A MICROPHONE WITH YOU GUYS... but I've only played like 9 games so MAYBE NEXT YEAR!"

@Bobby_The_Great said:

@ImmortalSaiyan: It exist in 5 glorious (or not so glorious) hours.

That is a long time so while I will give it a shot later I may get get through it all.

The only game of the year that matters (EVEN MORE THAN VIDEO GAME KINGS!)

@CornBREDX: Word, fellow podcast buddy!

The Youtube video has now been added.

Thanks guys for making this be a reality! Hope you guys enjoy it!

@ImmortalSaiyan said:

@Bobby_The_Great said:

@ImmortalSaiyan: It exist in 5 glorious (or not so glorious) hours.

That is a long time so while I will give it a shot later I may get get through it all.

Yeah it went on way longer than I ever would have imagined!

I'm listening to it right now! Had a great time chatting with you guys! :)

Hope others who tune in will at least appreciate our discussions, even if you don't necessarily agree with our choices. Happy listening! :)

So, you guys... I'm a proficient artist (he said sarcastically because I am not) and I made this thexy pictoire
 

@CornBREDX said:

So, you guys... I'm a proficient artist (he said sarcastically because I am not) and I made this thexy pictoire

What a dork bomb! :D

@CornBREDX said:

So, you guys... I'm a proficient artist (he said sarcastically because I am not) and I made this thexy pictoire

What a dork bomb! :D

@CornBREDX said:

@Phatmac said:

@CornBREDX said:

So, you guys... I'm a proficient artist (he said sarcastically because I am not) and I made this thexy pictoire

What a dork bomb! :D

BOOM!

i wish I would have used this artwork instead.

is it bad that i don't know any of those users o.O

@Marz said:

is it bad that i don't know any of those users o.O

Tis fine!

@Marz said:

is it bad that i don't know any of those users o.O

I hope that doesn't matter?

Listening now.

@panvixyl said:

Listening now.

Give us feedback! :)

I still can't get over the fact that Bobby and MajorMitch sound so similar. It's like Bobby's talking to himself. Or MajorMitch talking to himself. Either way.

Also, I still think the Spec Ops revelation is one of the best moments of that podcast.

@CornBREDX: Yeah actually. Thanks. Made me interested in checking out Jacob's Ladder. :)

@asian_pride: Jacob's Ladder is one fucked movie. It's also a HUGE inspiration on videogames as a whole, namely Silent Hill and Twisted Metal: Black.

@Bobby_The_Great: Oh man. That just makes me more interested to checking it out. I'm not so big on horror, but I'm willing to watch it based on how it's a main inspiration for Silent Hill.

I heard no mention of Little Inferno, I am disappointed!

But good from what I listened to so far.

@asian_pride said:

Also, I still think the Spec Ops revelation is one of the best moments of that podcast.

Pretty much. This and concluding that my user name is pronounced "Ghostyeti".

@Hizang said:

I heard no mention of Little Inferno, I am disappointed!

Goddamn, you actually reminded me that I wanted to talk about that game.

Guys, we need to do a double.

20 minutes in and this is surprisingly good. I think you do a solid job in hosting, Bobby_The_Great, and whomever is the one who has the strong European accent I enjoy listening to as well. I laughed out loud at the description of Cain from Binary Domain as some ''French James Bond Butler''.

@Hizang said:

I heard no mention of Little Inferno, I am disappointed!

Goddamn, you actually reminded me that I wanted to talk about that game.

Guys, we need to do a double.

@Hizang said:

I heard no mention of Little Inferno, I am disappointed!

But good from what I listened to so far.

I really want to play that game! :(

@Phatmac: @CornBREDX: It's one of my favourite games this year, it's a very similar experience to Journey, Braid and The Unfinished Swan.

Glad people seem to be liking it!

@Hizang said:

@Phatmac: @CornBREDX: It's one of my favourite games this year, it's a very similar experience to Journey, Braid and The Unfinished Swan.

I gotta play it soon!

Listened to about 3 hours of it, I think whoever it is that is pumped about Black Ops has sold me more on playing that game than any of the reviews did.

Only 5 hours?

I am 3 hours in right now. It's surprisingly good.

*Stands up and claps*

That's my podcast reference. Thank you.

I shall perhaps listen to this, but I shall not spoiler time stamp it!

*he posted before sleep in the hopes that doing so will help him remember this exists in the morning

You know this is a amateur podcast when someone calls the combat in AC3 terrible. That actually made me turn this off. Sorry guys.

how is this 5 hours?

@Bourbon_Warrior: We went through 43 games, some of which (Spec Ops, Guild Wars, Mass Effect) we got into really long conversations about, then we argued about which games should comprise the top 10 with a very heated argument between 4 particular titles and then we had a pretty long discussion what should be our proper GOTY. It's long, sure, maybe too long and maybe some games were completely not necessary on that list, but it's not exactly unwarranted if listened to.

Ill give it a listen when Im doing some work

You know this is a amateur podcast when someone calls the combat in AC3 terrible. That actually made me turn this off. Sorry guys.