The Community Spotlight - 10/24/2015

All Content with Dave Lang Should Come with a "Parental Advisory"

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight an I, @zombiepie, am once again honored to be your host! This week marked a few momentous occasions that you will quickly read about. One MAJOR thing of note would be the lack of video producers on Giant Bomb proper. Due to various circumstances Giant Bomb proper will not have a video producer until early November, hopefully the first week of November. Please be aware that all scheduled content will air and post normally on Giant Bomb, but there may be irregularities regarding the quality of live streams. With that let us get on with the other tidbits of site related housekeeping:

Jason and Lisa Oestreicher Had Their Child Griffin David Oestreicher Last Week!
Wish both Lisa and Jason the best wishes over here!
The person responsible for getting The Ryckoning to air on a new network has come forward and created a Giant Bomb account.

Clips of the Week

Giant Bomb TV Intros: Giant Bomb Power Rangers (By: @somestickguy_) - somestickguy_ has mashed up Giant Bomb with the original Power Rangers T.V. intro and it is truly MAGICAL!
Giant Bomb... That's a Paddlin (By: OrielFilms) - Someone on YouTube synched "Careless Whisper" to the GB staff playing the first Mario Party game. The results are horrifying.

The Giant Bomb Galleria

Banner - Dave Trump (By: @fobwashed) - Inspired by a Twitter conversation between Dave Lang and himself, Fobwashed photoshopped Dave Lang to look like Donald Trump.
Giant Bomb Logo (By: cogzwell) - Tumblr user cogzwell has created this absolutely STUNNING rendition of the Giant Bomb logo
3D Giant Bomb Head (By: @decoyoctopusx) - DecoyOctopusX made a 3D Giant Bomb Logo...LOOK AT IT AS IT STARES DIRECTLY INTO YOUR SOUL!!!!!

Community Activities

Best of Blogs

DOOM 3: I Miss the Flashlight (By: @hellerphant) - After finishing Masters of Doom, hellerphant decided to play Doom 3 and explains why he found it to be a hard game to go back to.
An Uncharted Retrospective Courtesy of The Nathan Drake Collection - Part One: Drake's Fortune! (By: @yummylee) - Yummylee is starting a retrospective blog series for the Uncharted series, all thanks to Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection! This week he looks back on Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
You Should Try Drox Operative (By: @mikelemmer) - MikeLemmer IMPLORES you to play Drox Operative, and extrapolates on why that is the case on his latest blog.
The Choices We Make: Narrative Consequences in Life is Strange (and Other Games) (By: @clagnaught) - Clagnaught will absolutely play through Life Is Strange again, and explains why that is the case over here.
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls is a Great Danganronpa Game (By: @grantheaslip) - GrantHeaslip explains why Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls isn’t the best video game, but IS a great Danganronpa game over here.
Post-Mortem Kombat X: The Living (Part 1) (By: @marino) - It's been 6 months since the release of Mortal Kombat X. After playing countless hours and reading all 36 comics, Marino looks back at who survived, who died, and who's MIA.
The Comic Commish: Back to the Future: The Game & ST-urday #017: North & South (By: @mento) - This week moderator Mento has another couple of blogs worth checking out. The first continued his "Comic Commish" blog series and extrapolates upon his thoughts pertaining to Back to the Future: The Game. The second continued his retrospective of the Atari ST with a look at North & South.
First Impressions and Guitar Issues from a Music Game Fan - (By: @megabite10164) - megabite10164 comments on what he enjoyed and disliked about Guitar Hero Live, from the perspective of someone who plays the guitar.
Backlogtober 2015 - Day 21 Update & Backlogtober 2015 - Day 19 Update (By: @dankempster) -'Splosion Man and The Walking Dead: Season Two were dankempster's latest targets for his Backlogtober post! Read all about what he thought about both games!
Extra Lifing It (By: @kazona) - Kazona plans on participating in this upcoming edition of Extra-Life! Read what he has planned on his latest blog.
Mini Review: Star Wars: Battlefront Beta (By: @gamer_152) Moderator Gamer_152 shares his impression of the Star Wars: Battlefront from what he played of the beta, and what he's excited and concerned about.
It's Hard Not to Love This Game. It's Also Kinda Hard Not to Hate it Sometimes (By: @cloudymusic) - cloudymusic has found himself both loving and hating Yoshi's Woolly World, and he extrapolates why.
Decadent RPG Design and Other Excellent Uses of Time and Money (By: @arbitrarywater) - ArbitraryWater spent a lot of time with The Age of Decadence, and shares the positives and negatives of the game.
Simulating Reality Through Forza 6 (By: @notnert427) - notnert427 droze a Nissan 350Z and used Forza Motorsport 6 as "training," and he reveals how close to the real thing the game got.

Join the Discussion

Life is Strange Episode 5 Discussion Thread *SPOILERS* (By: @l1ghtn1n) - Join the MASSIVE community discussion for the fifth and FINAL episode of Life Is Strange, but be aware that spoilers are allowed in this thread!
Vault of the Traveller [Episode 5] Discussion Thread (MAJOR EPISODE/SERIES SPOILERS AHEAD) (By: @smtdante89) - If you have played Episode 5 of Tales from the Borderlands feel free to join our community discussion about the series has ended over here.
What Open World Games Have you Been Able to Spend the Most Time in Post Main Game? (By: @kdenicolo) - Which open world games kept your attention after finishing the main story? Feel free to share and discuss your picks.
Most Disappointing/Worst Game of the Year Contender so Far? (By: @ntm) - What is your front-runner for "Most Disappointing" and "Worst Overall" game of 2015? Share your more dubious GOTY 2015 picks.
GOTY 2015 - Best Openings (By: @tr0n) - Which game from this year do you think features the "Best Opening?" Share and discuss your pick with the Giant Bomb community over here!
The Official Unofficial GiantBomb MGS V Non-Lethal Weapon Fight: Riot SMG vs. Tranq Pistol (By: @captainthunderpants) - Tranq Pistol vs. Riot SMG! Which is the better non-lethal option in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain? Vote and discuss the matter here.

Lovable Lists

My Top Ten Games of 2013 & My Top Ten Games of 2014 (By: @thesilentgod) - TheSilentGod's effort to list his favorite video games of every year that he has been alive have taken him to quaint old times of 2013 and 2014.
Ranking of Fantasies (My Rankings of Every Final Fantasy Game That I Have Beat) (By: @zombiepie) - OH GOD PLEASE TELL ME THAT I SHOULDN'T ACTUALLY PLAY EVERY SINGLE FINAL FANTASY GAME EVER MADE!

Useful User Reviews

@mikelemmer discusses how Rebel Galaxy successfully uses the fear of isolation and collision in space to its benefit.
@riostarwind reviewed Tales from the Borderlands as a complete experience now that the last episode has been released.
@cjduke used his review of SOMA to discuss how it uses the unknown in order to create a truly horrifying experience.
@vert_vermillion tried to find happiness while playing Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, but instead found it to be soulless.
@freezyfrog explains why even for free Knack isn’t worth the 30GB or so that it would take up on a hard drive.

Wonderful Wikis

Nintendo Entertainment System - Last week marked the 30th year anniversary of the North American release of the NES! Read all about the ins and outs of the platform here.
Halo 5: Guardians - This week a new Halo game will be released, and you can read all about the progress of the game over time on wiki page for the game.