@milkman: I guess I shouldn't be so immediately down on the idea, so I'll try to give it the benefit of the doubt, but IMO their event coverage in general tends to be hit or miss, and their foreign trips rarely seem to justify the time and resources spent. I freely admit that I'm not anywhere near the majority on this; I personally don't even like the way they do E3 podcasts, since I think a lot of people forget most of the runtime on those are boring or awkward conversations, so I'm in my own odd little group, but just from a return-on-investment perspective, the content acquired from events and foreign trips tend to be dramatically less than what they talk them up to being.
Brad's trip to South Korea was pitched as a way to get an interesting series of videos from SK and their gaming culture, and what we got were two videos, totaling something around ~40 minutes. Iceland supposedly had a dozen+ hours of video and multiple cameras, but the main video was a heavily edited 18 minute video, with an interview video of people who weren't involved with the game they ostensibly went to cover. The PAX-GDC combo in the early goings of every years tends to reliably be a three-week long drought of regular content with a usually good panel from PAX, and rarely anything productive from a site-perspective from GDC.
Giant Bomb isn't Gamespot, which is a much larger and less personality driven website that can afford to dispatch various correspondents around the world when necessary for news coverage. The meat and potatoes of this site are those dudes in the office, playing games on video. As attractive as the idea of "Giant Bomb traveling around the world!" always sounds in the abstract, the realities of what it does to regularly scheduled content is a bummer and I don't personally feel is worth the sacrifice.
Granted, there's totally the possibility that this could be a fantastic idea that will result in all kinds of wacky hijinks and multiple videos and podcasts. I totally love the idea @selfconfessedcynic mentioned of them going to game stores in Australia and just generally poking around the gaming culture there, but this all just seems like a hastily smacked together idea they ran by someone at CBSi hot off the positive reception they got from the Iceland "travel log" video. This could totally end up being an idea that will result in a bunch of fun content for the site.. but it seems far more likely that this will just damage regular content production for a week or two and have a 19 minute expertly edited video of all the food they ate, instead.
Please. Be kind to me.
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