Gwardinen

I've realised my original comments maybe leant the wrong way. I didn't mean to imply that I think it's the GB crew themselves being disrespectful towards Jeff. I think it's much more likely this is executive/management level not respecting how valuable Jeff's presence and legacy is, and it's likely a continuation of the perspective that led to his leaving in such a rushed way with barely any communication from them that didn't just read like frantic "Giant Bomb's not dead, honest!" damage control. That said, as some of you have rightly pointed out, we ultimately don't know the truth of what happened and this veers pretty quickly into speculation.

I guess in the end all of that is secondary, though, to just the sadness at such an ignominious end to a whole era of Giant Bomb. He was a founding member, he was a mentor to many who came after, he was a huge part of the success of the site and the way it changed games coverage. Many of the people who came through Giant Bomb are where they are now in no small part because of him. It's hard to imagine Waypoint or Nextlander even existing without Jeff Gerstmann's influence. That he ended up so unceremoniously ditched from Giant Bomb, with no real farewell and now not even a few minutes of retrospective on all his work through the years is just deeply sad to me. But I suppose some of you are also right that there's probably no satisfying conclusion to be had here anymore, and it's time to move on and stop hoping for one.

Best of Giant Bomb 217 is now out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXzHum1HO84

Unless I'm mistaken, this is the first one since Jeff's departure. As I've commented on the video, every Best of Giant Bomb video immediately following the departure of a long time crew member has ended with a big montage of clips of them as a way to look back fondly and say goodbye. The fact that there's no hint of one of the founding members of the site, Jeff Gerstmann, despite the literally thousands of hours of video content he's been in on Giant Bomb that's available for such a montage, is hard to read any way other than disrespectful.

It's also just personally very disappointing for me as I'd love nothing more than a clipshow of Jeff's best moments. Really sad.

I'm getting pretty significant screen tearing despite enabling vsync in-game and enabling triple buffering through the .cfg file. Normally my next step would be to play the game in borderless windowed mode, but for some reason that absolutely tanks my performance. We're talking about a 10fps drop, it is bizarre.

Has anyone had any luck dealing with screen tearing any other way, or getting borderless mode to not kill framerate?

Yeah I apparently never saw that because it's not in the HD collection. Interesting! I do remember Para-Medic talking about Dracula at one point.

Pretty much as the title asks, I'm wondering why this game (and its other editions) are listed as having the vampire concept? As far as I recall, only Metal Gear Solid 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4 include Vamp.

I'm Gwardinen@Turanos and I'd like to join the fleet. I'm on my first main character, Federation at level 24, and I really don't know all too much about the game. Just grinding my way up to (probably) getting a Galaxy class.