• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Giant Bomb #19 | Patrick Wins 2-1

Status
Not open for further replies.

Chuck

Still without luck
That's so awesome they're taking work a fans been doing for years for free and decided they wanted to pay him for it.
 
That's so awesome they're taking work a fans been doing for years for free and decided they wanted to pay him for it.

It's also a good way to ensure that they have some say in what premium content is released for free via highlight packages. I doubt they had any issue with what he was doing, but by making it an official version, they make any unofficial highlights less desired and thus less viewed.
 
So GB must have gotten a huge "freelancer" cheque from CBSi this year, huh? I don't recall GB having so much stuff like this happening at once ever before.
 
So GB must have gotten a huge "freelancer" cheque from CBSi this year, huh? I don't recall GB having so much stuff like this happening at once ever before.

Austin probably did a lot of heavy lifting to get this set-up for the guest column stuff (cbs is a big company), and the same system can probably be applied to videos. Props to him for bringing different voices on the site.
 

The Technomancer

card-carrying scientician
Austin probably did a lot of heavy lifting to get this set-up for the guest column stuff (cbs is a big company), and the same system can probably be applied to videos. Props to him for bringing different voices on the site.

According to Patrick he'd been trying to get something similar working for like the last five years, he's very happy Austin finally got it off the ground
 

popo

Member
Not sure why bringing on freelancers was so hard when Gamepot has been doing it for a long time. They must have a dozen freelancers doing reviews alone since they fired all their writers. Even GB has hired short term contractors for E3.

I doubt the total budget for freelance is close to the total cost of hiring a full time staff member, once you add in all the benefits etc. That could have been how GB sold it to management, give us this budget and we will not pester you over another hire any time soon.

Shower selfies?

Reference to the R6 siege QL that is in the highlight reel.
 

FStop7

Banned
Dan in MGS pt. 21 "This series is drawing to a close..."

Man, I hope they don't skip Rising. Take a few months off or something but don't skip it. It's a great palette cleanser and it feels pretty damn cathartic to slice and dice the giant machine beasts that used to push you around.

I just looked up "Life at the Outpost" by the Skatt Brothers. Wow.
 

hamchan

Member
According to Patrick he'd been trying to get something similar working for like the last five years, he's very happy Austin finally got it off the ground

Austin does in half a year what Scoops could never do. When Austin becomes a YouTube sensation I expect him to get 21000 subscribers in a month.
 

Haunted

Member
Is there a video where I can see Patrick reacting happily to what Austin has done?
cMJQLo1.gif
 

Anjin M

Member
You faded brah?

Ive just watched 2 hours of truckin on twitch. I'd get this shit if they had New Mexico.
I'm pretty amused that they picked California and Nevada since that's my corner of the world. Makes me want to buy it and see if my parents' hometown is there.
 

FStop7

Banned
The "mind powers" sound the squids in Deadly Tower of Monsters make is the same sound from MGS5. And it's from some classic sci-fi thing but I can't remember what.
 

Joeku

Member
I'm pretty amused that they picked California and Nevada since that's my corner of the world. Makes me want to buy it and see if my parents' hometown is there.

Primm (which is in the game) is one of those towns that I know more from media than anything else. I can't see the name and not think of New Vegas.

Apparently the population is like 1100 so more people have seen it in Fallout than actually ever lived there. Googling "Primm" actually brings up the Fallout wiki over the wikipedia entry for the actual town. Not sure how I feel about that.
 

oti

Banned
That's so awesome they're taking work a fans been doing for years for free and decided they wanted to pay him for it.

Yes but aren't they getting 2biz man?
Where da realness?
Where da edginess?
Where da resistance to the MAN?
where da soul?


good for them
 
It's the Best of Giant Bomb, Officially!

Nice. I always enjoyed watching the best of gb videos.

I wonder, since they named it 91, if they'll work to get the first 90 up if possible.


Is he Super Bowling? (To non-Americans, I'm talking about the NFL's Super Bowl, not some non-existent extreme version of bowling, which actually sounds kinda sounds fun thinking about what that would entail)
 
Cool to see the Best Of videos going up as official content.

Is the Firewatch video on the schedule just a QL or some kind of EX thing maybe?
 
Yes, Vinny says so right in that post.

Ah. Didn't see the separate article.

Cool to see the Best Of videos going up as official content.

Is the Firewatch video on the schedule just a QL or some kind of EX thing maybe?

I'd say that's more likely than not, considering Campo Santo is located in San Francisco. Also, Firewatch has a "history" with Giant Bomb obviously, with the long running "But What is Firewatch?" meme.
 

Anjin M

Member
Is the Firewatch video on the schedule just a QL or some kind of EX thing maybe?

Did you know that What It Is was actually a super short lived video series from 2011-2012? It's not a Quick Look or Quick Look EX because they are talking over prerecorded video instead of talking while playing. Whether or not they do that with Firewatch or if they just resurrected the series for a joke we will find out in about ten hours.
 
Did you know that What It Is was actually a super short lived video series from 2011-2012? It's not a Quick Look or Quick Look EX because they are talking over prerecorded video instead of talking while playing. Whether or not they do that with Firewatch or if they just resurrected the series for a joke we will find out in about ten hours.

Whoa
 

FStop7

Banned
Primm (which is in the game) is one of those towns that I know more from media than anything else. I can't see the name and not think of New Vegas.

Apparently the population is like 1100 so more people have seen it in Fallout than actually ever lived there. Googling "Primm" actually brings up the Fallout wiki over the wikipedia entry for the actual town. Not sure how I feel about that.

The last stop before Vegas and usually the first stop when leaving Vegas. It's an enormous gas station, a budget casino, and a couple of fast food restaurants.

edit - and a gigantic solar array that fries birds.
 

szlifier

Neo Member
Did you know that What It Is was actually a super short lived video series from 2011-2012? It's not a Quick Look or Quick Look EX because they are talking over prerecorded video instead of talking while playing. Whether or not they do that with Firewatch or if they just resurrected the series for a joke we will find out in about ten hours.

We need a revival of another great series: Man, I Saw That
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom