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@MattyFTM said:

It's both. And a gaming community too. The great thing about the site is it's diversity.

There aren't enough reviews, released in a timely manner, to make Giant Bomb a real review site. It's really a junk drawer for miscellaneous gaming detritus, which is fine, since no other site does this. But to be taken seriously as a gaming outlet, GB needs to do the things that other gaming outlets do, more consistently. Diversity is great, but it can't be a cover for mailing it in.

@Jack268 said:

Wasn't DotA 2 set for this year? Also, on a pure technical level, Skyrim is very flawed with it's numerous bugs. I think it's unfair to give a GOTY title to it simply because the world is large and there's a lot of content when there are much more well polished and produced games even if they are shorter.

There was a "bug" in your statement (your it's in the second sentence should be its). I doubt you would want your post to be disqualified over bad grammar. Bugs and errors are part of life, and can be edited or patched as people catch them. Hardly a reason to DQ Skyrim from GOTY.

@phrosnite said:

Fair enough but why other games get slammed for texture problems but not Bethesda games? In all the video reviews I watched the review were defending the texture problems which made me lol. WTF?!

Because Bethesda gives you a 10 out of 10 in every other area, which makes you forgive the limitations of a console. Other games/franchises don't distract me as well, because they aren't doing the same 10/10 job in all the other areas that matter.

Greatness isn't a democracy. If Skyrim gets a pass on textures, it's because it deserves it, IMO.

Announcing the game 14 months early ... I guess it's "epic" then, right.

@Twilight said:

@MattyFTM said:

I'm pretty sure the video's have always been only 360p. They haven't downgraded the quality. And the quality always seems fine to me. I rarely watch the video's in HD, and the standard def vids always seem decent enough.

You're probably right with that they've always been in 360p. I've been thinking about making a thread about it before. And seeing it saying "360p" right there on the player made me go ahead and finally make one.

Attracting people form YouTube is a great idea, but for them to want to go to the website, a great first impression is needed. There is no doubt that GiantBomb and all the other Whiskey Media sites produce great video content, but when the videos aren't uploaded in 720p, the site doesn't seem that professional to me. Especially when all the other gaming websites (IGN, Gametrailers etc.) upload all their videos in 720p.

Given the strength of its staff, Giant Bomb has a reasonable right to want more from us than IGN or Gametrailers. Other premium products like Apple, or services like the New York Times, are asking for more and getting it.

But I totally agree about the 360p quality being terrible. 480p is what they should be giving us. As non-paying customers, we're still denied a mobile site and the premium videos. Making us watch dishwater pixellated videos sort of takes it too far. We are still eyeballs for their advertisers. Do they want us to watch the videos or not?

@AhmadMetallic said:

@i77ogical said:

Ryan is amazing. I just wish he didn't swear so much. I can't listen to the podcast on regular speakers. It's just not good.

The Coen Brothers are writing Ryan's profanity-laced Bombcast comments? It's rarely as charming and hilarious. The gist of what he's saying is always good, though.

Ryan is amazing. I just wish he didn't swear so much. I can't listen to the podcast on regular speakers. It's just not good.

These reviewers make a name for themselves by "breaking away from the pack" and giving AAA games a lower score than their peers. Instant notoriety! Then, to defend themselves, they try to single-handedly re-weight the gaming scores that we're all used to. "Homefront? It was an average game. It should have gotten a 5. Gears should get a 7-8."

The irony is, either way the scale slides, the relative distance between a Gears and a Homefront game stay the same. So what does it matter if games are a 7-10 scale, or a 5-8 scale? Sterling is getting his 15 minutes off of Gears 3 by making himself into a martyr, basically.

@Procyon27 said:

So many people here that don't play COD and won't play COD complaining about something that does not affect them.  It's teh lolz.

It'll affect said people if Elite sells well and other companies start doing something similar until it becomes the norm. Buy our game for x amount then shell out another x amount to subscribe for all our planned 'DLC'. Before the days of downloadable content games were released without holding back features in a bid to make yet more money, today the rich get richer.

Before DLC we had expansions, a rarer breed today and usually only for PC, which were fairly priced and for the most part contained hella more content than a few maps and some gimmicky stat tracking system.