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The Community Spotlight - 11/29/2013

by zombiepie

Special Thanks to RenegadeMike for This Banner! Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! You have been asking for it for a while, but a new t-shirt is finally here! The new VinnCo Maglift System t-shirt is still available for $20 (plus shipping) in all sizes at the Giant Bomb Emporium. For those wondering if there is going to be a 2014 subscriber t-shirt do...

Special Thanks to RenegadeMike for This Banner!

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight! You have been asking for it for a while, but a new t-shirt is finally here! The new VinnCo Maglift System t-shirt is still available for $20 (plus shipping) in all sizes at the Giant Bomb Emporium. For those wondering if there is going to be a 2014 subscriber t-shirt don't worry it's coming, but the staff can't agree on the design. For those still wondering why the last Unprofessional live stream was free Twitch.tv removed its access code feature meaning that premium or subscriber streams are no longer possible. The engineers are going to work on a solution soon, and expect an update if they can't design something by the time the next premium stream rolls out. Speaking of Jeff, he's still a man with no luck. In terms of Thanksgiving Patrick wants to know that HE is very thankful of YOU, even if it should be the other way around. Also Josh Melnick has the best Thanksgiving Thanks for Ryan:

Well Said!

Clips of the Week

TurboMan is back but this time has compiled the best moments from the Xbox One live stream. TepidShark on the other hand decided to mash the Persona 4 Dancing All Night trailer with Van Halen.

Community Activities

  • Characters of the Generation - Hub Thread - Join the Community Effort to Crown a "Character of the Generation" Over Here!
  • PKMN League - Sign Ups for Season 3 Close on Saturday - Sign Up Here!
  • Spelunky Giveaway - Humor mracoon's Obsession with Spelunky By Taking Free Copies of the Game from Him Over Here!

Wonderful Wikis

The Legend of Zelda and Mario are swinging strong this week. With Ryse and The Shivah are bringing up the rear.

Best of Blogs

Mento continues to look back at the generation that was using MS Paint with the year 2007 as his target year this week. Video_Game_King finally got around to playing Assassin's Creed III and shares his thoughts about that and some obscure Japanese anime garbage. On the flip side GoranP played Assassin's Creed IV and explains why it's the first Assassin's Creed game he has actually liked. Spraynardtatum uses Dead Rising 3 as a case study of why in-game exploits good for games, and how micro-transactions are killing them. Similarly, Falconer breaks down why as a fan of the Forza franchise the micro-transactions in that game have seriously bummed him out. Granderojo pleads the case for hex grids and uses Fire Emblem Awakening as his evidence. DonChipotle however, pleads the case for why Nier is his game of the generation. Irishdoom and MooseyMcMan share the ups and downs they have had with the PS4. Music maestro Hamst3r has some original music for you to enjoy, and PeezMachine shares his progress in designing a Giant Bomb themed version of WindJammers. tamriilin takes up Brad's challenge and lists ten games that came out this year that he thinks are better than Brothers (even though that wasn't his challenge). Yummylee decided to go back to the first Onimusha game and talks about how it holds up today. As seen above TepidShark crossed Van Halen with Persona, even though the instructions clearly say to not cross the streams. With all of this Persona talk swirling around Aaox shares his concerns about the Persona franchise and disappointment with the Persona 5 reveal.

Fantastic Forums

SupaPuerco has created a Giant Bomb random headline generator where you can mashup TMZ, BuzzFeed, and Tested headlines with real Giant Bomb ones with hilarious results. It's time to change your avatar to have a Santa hat...yeah! There's another thread where you can have another user photoshop a Santa hat for you. Then we have a shit ton of video game discussion threads, and at over five discussion threads this week I'm going to go on a limb and say meets Urban Dictionary's definition of a "metric shit ton."

Lovable Lists

Mento throws his hat into fray in determining the Soundtrack of the Generation with his list. alucasan decided to go back to the games of his gaming past and listed out his favorites. doppelgamer also went old school but annotates the old examples of censorship in video games that still grind his gears. Inspired by his enjoyment of A Link Between Worlds MormonWarrior decided to rank all of the Legend of Zelda games from best to worst. natedagr811 decided to call it a year and has published his GotY list.

Useful User Reviews