vonkoz00

I mean I am definitely here for the personalities. That has been true since Arrow Pointing Down for me. But I ultimately came to hear those personalities talk about games. Polygon, IGN, Waypoint they all branched out and now Giant Bomb feels like it's copying rather than innovating like they have in the past.

I think there is something to be said for a site that goes deep rather than wide. I just love that there was a space that was solely centered on gaming discussion with tangential excursions into gaming adjacent discussion. It just doesn't feel that way anymore and it makes me sad.

Someone above had a brilliant suggestion of a music show through the lens of how well the medium is used in games (Guardians of the Galaxy, GTA, MGSV) it's talking about music but by way of games.... that connective tissue is there.

If you're gonna have a show about film talk about movies that inspired games. Escape From NY with MGS, Mad Max with Fallout, Aliens with.... almost every sci-fi game. It's about movies but again the connective tissue to games is there.

I just feel like the shows now are not what this site was about, and if that's the direction that Jeff wants to go so be it, I wish him and the team luck... still doesn't mean I can't be bummed out about it.

Yeah I mean I think it's cool to have one or even two shows, but lately it just feels like there are a lot of shows that have nothing to do with games. And if those are taking away from potential game centric shows than I think that's a problem on a site that is supposedly about video games.

Where is the game content? I used to love stuff like Ranking of Fighters, This is the Run, Game Tapes, Demo Derby, Metal Gear Scanlon Even stuff as far back as T.A.N.G.

Now we have stuff like, Albummer, Bak 2 School, Reel Layers, even Armed and Rangerous feels like it doesn't fit.

Don't get me wrong there has been some cool new shows too (Grubbsnax and Guilty Treasures)

Now I know GB always has tangents like the DBZ Podcast, and even Wrestling Podcasts, but that always felt periphery to the game centric content.

Am I alone in not liking the direction the content is taking on the site?

Two that immediately jump to mind is

Ys 3 Wanderers from Ys on the SNES. The music and opening cutscenes blew me away as a kid! As far as Ys games go it's a bit of the black sheep of the series. Kind of what Zelda 2 is within that series. It's pretty short all thing considered but something about it grabbed me.

The other is Sky Gunner on PS2. It's such a wonderfully bright and positive game. It's like playing a Ghibli movie. Super fun dogfights and a great visual style. Shame no one really talks about it.

BTW the first SEGA console was the SEGA Master System, not the Genesis. :P