Wow. I assumed that Gamespot was a shambling corporate zombie, but watching this just made me cringe with how scripted and unfunny it is.
Alex Navarro
Senior Editor at Giant Bomb from 2010 - 2021. Formerly GameSpot editor and PR specialist for Harmonix. He previously worked for Whiskey Media on their movie site Screened. Drum God. Ask him about Big Rigs.
Alex Navarro makes an On the Spot cameo
I hope you at least didn't take that comment seriously, as many people do." all i know is the new OTS will no have jeff pointing into the camera telling me " anime is for jerks. "
and because of that i'm NOT INTERESTED "
I miss the old gamespot so much :(. Once Rich left I stopped going as much and now I don't go there at all. The new OTS seems so stale, once Alex took over the mic I noticed how bored the original guy sounded, like he had no energy. The host seemed pretty cheesy too, all his lines seemed forced. Now I'm all nostalgic for old OTS heh, I think I am going to go watch some old ones.
On the Spot suffered when Rich Gallup left. As much as I like Jeff, Rich was the better host, and Jeff seemed more at ease as the wingman. But even with Gallup gone, Jeff and Ryan were so familiar with the format that the show transitioned hosts very smoothly.
There's something to be said about Rich, Jeff and Ryan's ease in front of the camera which makes them a lot more likeable if you will because you are seeing them, not a performance like these new people. Lark seems so uncomfortable, it makes me wonder who put him as a co-host...he does not belong in front of the camera
The hatred I see here for a website is disconcerting, yeah that is 'the site' and is the reason why this site exists but to just bash them as if they held any power or oppinion when it went down is stupid. Saying the new staff sucks is complety childish and takes away everything this site was created about. Obviously they needed to change the show because of the lack of interest was generated after the fact. It was not THEM who this THIS. That is was bothers me about this.
I wish GameSpot had the guts to change the name, because that soulless piece of audio/visual garbage is nothing like what On The Spot used to be. Though I know that no amount of bitching is going to bring the true OTS back, so we might as well just forget about it and go back to enjoying the great site that we have now.
I like Tor Thorsen, I enjoyed his tenure as Hotspot host, as for the rest of the crew, meh. Neither like nor dislike them.
"Wow On the Spot is pretty awful these days. Their new editors have no personality and are pretty annoying "
@Br3adfan: i agree
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