Really? Every GB thead on the main Era forum devolves into this eventually; the people who want GB to give them what they want and the people who understand or acknowledge why GB cannot or wont do that and are ok with it.
That's the right amount of the game to see before you play it.
It's three days of recap, not two. They're only up to September so far.
It makes me think that Drew is the guy that understood lighting, because it's been bad ever since he was not involved.
Outer WOrlds has 'o' for Obsidian
They talked about Left Alive for less than 2 minutes. That's kind of the point, if it didn't grab them they swiftly move past it. If it did, they dig deeper. And then it gives context to the awards when you have an idea what the general consensus is for a nomination. I get that without awards being given out yet it can just seem like meandering talk about games they've already discussed throughout the year, but everything they're saying would have been brought up if they were giving awards from day 1, they just would have been shouting it at each other to try and get their game to win which is what they're trying to avoid.
It doesnt seem nearly as interesting as just doing awards from day one though.
I can see that, I definitely think they can find a better balance. 2 days for games recaps would be a good compromise I think.
heaven forbid people use a forum to express their opinions
It really seems like they're in a tough spot. I kind of wish they would experiment more with remote stuff. A holiday spectacular where the West calls the East and they do a competetive multiplayer game could be fun. A Man of Medan playthrough between the East and West would also be pretty entertaining. Get on My Level is already remote and works pretty well.
This is an incredibly tame degree of revolting compared to the sexist shit being thrown at Abby a couple years ago. 2017 was a truly embarrassing year to be in the GB community, this is just whining for the sake of whining. GB isn't known for having the most mature community on the internet, especially the subset here on Era. There's a reason the GB staff don't come here anymore
Brad and Austin saying there's no way to make a polished version of a game like that was an all time brutal moment lol.
It's not really that prominent outside of this thread tbh. Maybe GB will make some more changes but more likely people will get over it.
I would like to see more joke categories again but I think they need to be...good? And new. As we saw from things like Best Styyyle in recent years when the joke gets worn it just becomes a kinda dull category.
They're not telling that to their audience, they're telling it to the 1% of their audience that complains. Like anything, I'm sure the vast, vast majority of people don't care much
Was referencing the poster above me but I'd wager far more than 1% of Giant Bomb's audience isn't happy with the GOTY changes.
Killing your employee's enjoyment of their job and driving them away from the site just to satisfy a small, vocal section of "fans" who are probably going to stick around regardless is worse.
Yup, that's exactly what we want. A happy medium simply doesn't exist.
Disagree, the comments on the site and even reddit has a lot of it, too.
I was specifically talking about those wanting them to go back to the old format, I thought I made that pretty clear 🤷♀️
It's basically the recap at the beginning of a show that you'd usually skip past
