Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host! As we all return to the grind of work and/or school 2016 is already looking to be an exciting year to say the least. From the delay of Scalebound to the price reveal of the Oculus Rift our first "true" week of 2016 was jam packed with exciting news that took the site by storm! With this all aside, let's get on with the latest bits of site housekeeping!
- Community Voting for the Community 2015 GOTY is now CLOSED! The results will hopefully be released sometime in the middle of the week.
- Do you need more of Dave Lang in your life? Well now there's a "Team GFB" Steam Group that you can join!
User Created Game of the Year Stuff
2015 GOTY Lists
- Game of the Year 2015 (By: @badseed)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @Krockett)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @wess)
- GOTY 2015 (By: @wrathofconn)
- My Top 10 Games of 2015 (By: @sagesebas)
2015 GOTY Blogs
- Top 10 Games I Managed To Finish In 2015, And Some Other Stuff (By: @bigevil1987)
- 2015 Year in Review/Top 10 List (By: @epsilon82)
- Top 5 Games of 2015 (By: @lcom)
- Uncle Lapti's 2015 Games of the Year Blog Post (By: @bonbolapti)
- MezZa's Belated Top 10 Game List for 2015 (By: @mezza)
- A Late Arriving Top 10 Games List Of Last Year (By: @pezen)
- Sorry Folks. A Late Game of the Year List (By: @mason20)
- Game of the Year 2015 (By: @cjduke)
- The Best, Worst and Most Middling Old Games I Played This Year (By: @morecowbell24)
- 2015 Favorites (By: @lentfilms)
- The 10 Games I Felt Needed to be on a List This Year (By: @yi_orange)
Clip(s) of the Week
- Giant Bomb x Evangelion Anime Intro Mashup (By: @clagnaught) - Clagnaught has successfully melded Giant Bomb with Evangelion in this impressive television intro mash-up!
SPOILERS!
According to Clagnaught:
- Dan – Shinji Ikari
- Jeff – Misato Katsuragi
- Drew – Rei Ayanami
- Brad – Asuka Langley Soryu
- Jason – Gendo Ikari
- Vinny – Ritsuko Akagi
Giant Bomb Galleria
- BANNER - Giant Bomb IS THE THIRD IMPACT! (By: @glottery) Giant Bomb user Glottery ALSO made some Giant Bomb x anime inspired artwork as seen with this Akira inspired artwork.
- Giant Bomb x Evangelion Anime Banner (By: @clagnaught) - Clagnaught created this Giant Bomb x Evangelion mash-up banner in order to promote his AWESOME mash-up video.
- Giant Bomb Logo x Evangelion (By: @asinies) - Asinies ALSO created some AWESOME Giant Bomb x Evangelion artwork using his chibi Giant Bomb logo from last week!
Gallery
Community Activities
Best of Blogs
- Interview: Nina Freeman (By: @gamer_152) - Moderator Gamer_152 had the wonderful pleasure of interviewing Nina Freeman! Check out the interview and see what questions he asked her on his latest blog!
- Determining Giant Bomb's Favorite Publishers Using Science and Math!(By: @dragon_puncher) - Dragon_Puncher crunched the numbers and determined what Giant Bomb's "favorite publishers" are based on their GOTY over the years.
- My Attempt at Piloting Giant Bomb's Project B.E.A.S.T. 04 to the Mun and Back! (By: @orzbluefog) - OrzBlueFog faithfully recreated Vinny's spacecraft from Project B.E.A.S.T. 04 in Kerbal Space Program and was successful in going to the Mun and back!
- January Vita Lineup and Upcoming Titles (By: @blacklagoon) It's a new month and that means that BlackLagoon is back with a blog listing all of the games coming to the PlayStation Vita in the month of January.
- One Script, Two Heroes - Voice Acting in the Black OPs 3 Single Player Campaign (By: @jadegl) - Moderator JadeGL shares her recent adventures in playing Call of Duty: Black Ops III with her husband, and comments on why she found the female voice acting in the to be wanting.
- Wiki Project: Legend of the PC Engine '89 & Sunday Summaries 03/01/2016: Fallout 4 (By: @mento) - Moderator Mento's latest "Wiki Project" is all about TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine games released in 1989, so learn about what this means and entails. Mento also played a smattering of Fallout 4 and shares what his early impressions of the game were.
- A Personal Video Game Retrospective 1988 (By: @riostarwind) - RioStarwind takes you on a personal journey on why 1988 was an important and formative year in gaming for him.
- Building The List: 30 Games I'm Looking Forward To In 2016 (By: @y2ken) - There are thirty games coming out in 2016 that Y2Ken can't help but get excited for, so read what they are here.
- Finishing Final Fantasy 6 - Chapter 1: We All Live in a Castle Submarine & Finishing Final Fantasy 6 - Chapter 2: Three-Way (By: @mikelemmer) - Inspired by a certain Giant Bomb Moderator, MikeLemmer has begun a Let's Play of Final Fantasy VI! Check out parts one and two NOW!
- A Look Forward at the Games That Interest Me for 2016 (By: @jesus_phish) - Jesus_Phish is incredibly excited for more than a handful of games coming out in 2016! Discover what they are on his latest blog.
- Weekly Update #5 - January 5, 2016 (By: @qreedence) - qreedence struck The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Super Mario Maker, and Besiege from his backlog. See what he thought of them on this write-up.
- Halo 5 Shoulder Charges the Middle Chapter Syndrome (By: @darth_navster) - Read why Darth_Navster is excited for the next chapter in the Halo series after having completed Halo 5: Guardians recently.
- When Should A Game Be Described as Unplayable? (By: @sammo21) - At what point do you throw up your hands and declare that a game is "unplayable?" Sammo21 discusses this issue here.
- Gaming: In 2015 / For 2016 (By: @infinitespark) InfiniteSpark discusses what his hopes and plans for 2016 are in terms of gaming on his 2015 year in review blog.
Join the Discussion
- Amplitude First Impressions/Discussion Thread (By: @metalsnakezero) - Share your hopefully positive impressions of Amplitude over here, and bring a tear of joy on Eric Pope's face.
- Playing Catch-up, What 2015 Releases are you Digging Into? (By: @lost_remnant) - What games released during 2015 do you ALREADY know you will have listed on your gaming backlog? Share and discuss your games of shame over here.
- Quest Management in RPGs (By: @dkraytsberg) - What are the best "Quest Management Systems" that you have seen in RPGs? Join the community discussion about this issue now.
- What are Your Biggest "I'm an Idiot" Revelations in Games? - (By: @asko25) - When was the last time you announced "I'M AN IDIOT!" while playing a video game? Share and discuss the last time you made this exclamation over here!
Lovable Lists
- The Inarguably Arguable Tale of a Tales of... List (By: @sparky_buzzsaw) - Moderator Sparky_Buzzsaw ranked the games in the Tales franchise that he has played from best to worst right here.
- Releases in 2016 I'll Probably Aim to Play (By: @adzpearson) - AdzPearson listed the games that will be released in 2016 that he's thinking about playing. See what they are on this list that he has created.
Useful User Reviews
- @themasterds's review of Heroes of the Storm discusses how and why it has effectively become his MOBA of choice.
- @riostarwind shares why he found SSX (2012) to be a fun game lacking any significant "staying power" on his review for the game.