Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight and I,
- 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!
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!
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.