Yeah the what are you playing segment is generally an immediate skip through for me as I don't give a crap about card battling games, auto-chess, new obscure japanese anime fighting games, or using a mister to play 30 year old games instead of the myriad of big new ones that are out (because you don't have enough time).
I honestly can't remember when their traditional annual sale usually was - I'd let mine lapse for a couple of years until signing up again during a sale this time last year. I just did a quick google and it seems they had two sales last year as well - one in May and then another in August. I don't think the sales are because they're in any sort of trouble but it's clear that the Premium Sub is an important part of their business and they want to keep as many subscribers sticking around as they can.
Yeah I loved the idea of Sea Beasts but the only Abbey ever actually tried. Dan was being a sour child just trolling his team constantly, Alex tried but didn't know how to play and Vinny was doing his normal try to break the open world routine. I hate the RE4 playthrough as I always despised that game, I have no interest in watching n64 games. I miss the playdates being actual random fun things.
To be fair, YT gets only their free content, which is 90% Quick Looks, which are 90% terrible. QLs have become one of the single worst pieces of content they produce, they are rarely entertaining and provide almost no valuable information (they actually often provide straight up incorrect information). I'm not sure what the solution for GB's youtube channel is, but I'm actually of the opinion that the way it's currently set up actually deters potential new viewers, because it mostly surfaces their worst stuff. YT is the biggest platform available, and whether they like it or not it's where a LOT of potential viewers will first experience them. If you were to only be exposed to GB via their youtube content, and see that before their premium content or podcasts, you'd just assume they're a bunch of disinterested 40-somethings who don't know very much about video games.
I have begged them in emails to please stop guessing or just saying "I think so" when someone asks a question in a quick look unless they actually know. The amount of misinformation in quick looks has been horrible the last few years. I understand not knowing everything about a game (though you should know at least something about AAA releases) but the amount of times even just "how much is it" or "what is it available on" is met with guesswork or just not known is astounding to me.
Yeah, it is frustrating to often hear them just not even know what platforms the game they're playing is available on.
Yeah I hate saying it but man just take a little pride in the job. Quick Looks either need to have more effort put into them than "I played this game and have a save file" or just be completely re-imagined somehow because what they are now is not entertaining.
sea beasts had a lot of potential and made me way more interested in Sea of Thieves than anything else I'd seen, but I don't think it was quuuuite the right game for what they wanted from it, really. the actual 'quest' content is just too boring and repetitive to really maintain interest on its own. my friends that have stuck with SoT say that it's the stuff that happens with other players during those quests that's actually interesting—usually some kind of PvP. from what I saw of Sea Beasts it seemed like the crew really wanted to avoid actually getting into it with other players as much as possible, and that Abby in particular kinda regarded other players as being kinda spoilsports for messing with them. which I totally get, I'm not whatsoever interested in Sea of Thieves' PvP either, but that's why the game just isn't for me—all the PvE/quest stuff feels like more of an excuse to get the player out on the water than anything else
The kid thing is a very strange criticism. I think you're just acutely sensitive to any time they mention what their children are up to. They never have it overtake any conversation, and it's just insight into their lives like an
If you watch someone like Jackfrags go through it, someone that had experience with the game the quests never took longer than an hour. Their main issue was it was 4 people that knew jack shit about the game who had a 90-120 minute window and barely got through half a quest most of the time. I've got 40 or 50 hours in SoT and I solo'ed most of them in under an hour and it was a lot of fun. GBeast loves improv and SoT is made for it on stream.
I'm one of the few here. Like I said in my previous post. GBE content doesn't click with me at all. the RE playthrough and GB crime crew are a complete dud for me. The content I liked from GBE off the top of my head were the playdates where they played old obscure games and that one time where they played that Nancy Drew game.
Oh I'll admit to having a particular annoyance with kid stories, though I don't think it's all that uncommon for others to have the same gripe. It always used to be frustrating when a good comedian would have kids, go away for a bit, then come back with routines where half the jokes were about parenthood or the ridiculous things their kids do. Most people tend to overestimate how amazing or funny their kids are to people who haven't met them.
I vastly prefer the West office, to the point that it's almost the only content I consume from GB (Game Tapes, Demo Derby, UPF).
I'm one of those weirdos who started watching/listening to Giant Bomb stuff when I was 16 and felt like it fit perfectly for me in terms of humor and the personalities of the duders. I'm in my early 20s now.
