TheAdmin

it's a shell of what it was.

I was so excited for Dan's return, but he's not even on the Bombcast regularly. Feels like everyone has side gigs and the site has lost focus on what made it great in the first place. I think the most telling is GOTY content. GOTY was an event, a spectacle of videos, podcasts, lists, guests, etc. Look at the homepage. There's not even mention of it even having happened. Don't even get me started on the website design/ux (still using orange text from halloween that one time).

I was here since the very beginning, and haven't renewed my sub and I've stopped listening to the Bombcast, which I never thought I'd do.

@videogamemobes: agreed. That would be helpful.

Ever since shows were added as a thing to Giant Bomb I always found it curious, because at the end of the day they don't really make shows exactly. They make long and short form content in both video, podcast, and written form, that sometimes is a series, sometimes a one-off, and a mix of everything in between. To handle this, I recommend they do away with the "show" moniker and concept and instead move to "playlist". Let me explain below:

• A playlist could be a series of related videos of the same topic (IE: like a current show)
• A playlist could include podcast, video, or written content, or all of the above.
• A playlist could be made by staff or made by the community and shared by the staff

So what might this look like with Giant Bomb content?

• A "Run for the hills" playlist of the videos of that series
• A "Giant Bombcast" playlist of the episodes in video and podcast form
• An E3 playlist of the travelogue, trailers, and any related podcasts
• A Game of the year playlist, included videos, podcasts, and written articles of winners
• User made playlists of their fav E3 moments from past years, or GOTY discussions, or reviews
• Users could subscribe to playlists and get notified when they're updated. So even when something goes on hiatus for a while (game tapes, guilty treasures) they'll know when a new one has been added.

Playlists would allow for much more flexibility in how content is grouped together and shared. I hope an update to the site is coming with this new era and hope this is something you'll consider. Thanks for reading!

Neato!

https://www.newgrounds.com/collection/collegeuniversity

Let's all watch a few episodes of College University!

They essentially flushed all the good will the Witcher 3 brought them. It’s one thing to crunch and then deliver, but this was not delivering. Then they tried to hide how bad the console versions were and got called out.

They’re going to have to have a No Man’s Sky level of a comeback on this one.

I listen to podcast only with games that, during normal gameplay, have little to no narrative or audio. Games such as Minecraft, Factorio, Satisfactory, etc. These games' music is very low-key if enabled, and most audio is just ambient sound effects. You can play for hours just building something - so they work well for just listening activities.

@mathematics: While it won't fix everything, you may be interested in this extension that adds some features to GB: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbx/gaokookknjnmknngccmageaapfmahlei?hl=en

@conmulligan: please please please please please make an AppleTV version. Pretty please?

You could also let @rorie know, I'm sure he could tell @vinny. Not sure how much he browses the forums, but Rorie does a lot.