This is what we've all been waiting for. The final week of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection . The final week of me playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl . The final week of me blogging about it. When I left last time, I had just unlocked Solid Snake . This week, more characters will be unlocked. There will also be big Subspace Emissary spoilers, so watch out for that. Day 15: But First Let's Talk About...
Last week I launched a brand new weekly blog series about playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl in the final weeks of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, and this week I bring you a new episode. Because it's weekly. Let's recap. Last week I played some online, beat Classic mode with several characters, played Subspace Emissary, built some custom stages, and basically wasted a bunch of time until I finally unl...
Last week I finally bought Super Smash Bros. Brawl . I've been ignoring the game for the past eight or nine years or however long it's been since release, but with the impending death of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and the upcoming release of Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U , I figured it was time to finally play the game. I'll try to play online while I still h...
2014 is the Year of DS. Why? Because I said so! The important thing is that I'm blogging. There have been three DS games released in North America this year so far. Today we'll look at the first and probably least terrible of these releases: Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Universe in Peril . Was that released this year? Yes, the DS version was. While the console and other portable versions were rele...
I've been following GameSpot, reading and listening to Ryan Davis for more than seven years. I have a lot of respect for Ryan and Jeff, otherwise I wouldn't be here. But I never realized how much Ryan meant to me until July 8, 2013, when I learned that he had passed away. I’m going to miss Ryan’s stories, his laughter, and his enthusiasm. He loved to do what he did, and we loved him. Whether yo...
If you use an Android device, you can now use it to edit Giant Bomb. Here's what you need to do: Install Firefox if you do not have it already. Launch Firefox and install the Stylish extension. With the extension installed and enabled, install my Giant Bomb mobile edit button style . That's your inital setup, which you only have to once. Now, let's say you're on the go and you want to edit the...
Lord Andrew " LordAndrew " My Stats Total Points: 8,711 Rank: Grandmas Boy Last Visit: August 04, 2009 My Profile Views Total Views: 5,512 This Month: 45 Views Today: 0 Though I subscribed to Electronic Gaming Monthly, I did not have a significant online presence on 1UP. I posted 23 blogs on 1UP from July 2007 to June 2008. I had 13 friends, all people I already knew from GameSpot. It was here...
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Remember Question of the Day? Not Question of the Week, but Question of the Day. Despite the name, it had no set schedule. Questions were posted whenever, and then people wrote blogs which were associated with the question. Responses appeared not only in the user's blog, but on the page for the question. This allowed others to easily read all the responses to the question. There was also an ind...
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Something is up with the inFamous page. I shall investigate it when I am able.
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A few days ago I beat Professor Layton and the Unwound Future . It's the third game in the series, and the gameplay hasn't changed drastically, but I still really like it. For those who like numbers, my final time was 21 hours 57 minutes. During that time I found 129 puzzles and solved 110 of them. That's over four hours more than the time recorded on the previous two games. Although that state...
Really, really stupid Here are 42 videos embedded into a page on a MediaWiki 1.16 installation, made possible by the Giant Bomb API and no less than three different MediaWiki extensions. No, it doesn't really serve any useful purpose. It's just stupid, and fun. There's not much point in having access to a cool API if you can't do stupid stuff with it. Sometimes you just have to have fun. You mi...
Some notes on the new search: Can click "options" to filter by page type. Typing a new search term hides the previous results while the new results load. The first time you click anywhere in the options box all the options clear. This means that unchecking a single checkbox unchecks all execpt that one. This is not what I expect, and probably not what anyone else expects. The dedicated search p...
This one took awhile but it was worth it. It's a list of characters that are not attached to any games. This was actually the first report I tried to make, but it ended up failing. I have since fixed the code so that it retries when it fails, it updates the number or total results as pages are added and deleted, and it also has protection against what I call the 10000 glitch . You may notice th...
This one's a bit stale, because I got errors when I tried to post it earlier. Here are concepts that at the time were not attached to any games. Concepts appearing in 0 games Delete Aldmer Delete MUD Kill the Foozle Neon X360 Vizualizer Dream library Tokyo Game Show Wu Unreal Engine 4 Sound Chip Transmission Project Harbinger PlayStation Palmar Hidradentitis Double or Nothing Yandere E3 Kilij X...
Here's my latest report for you. These are objects that are not attached to any games. Perhaps the page's creator never came back to finish the job, or perhaps they don't actually fit the object criteria. Please take a look at them and determine what should be done. Note: Due some errors in file_get_contents()'s attempts to open HTTP streams, this list may be incomplete. I'll work on implementi...
Here's my second API report, fresh from the... Well, it's not so fresh any more. These are company pages with websites that are not in the correct format. I've already handled up to Sidhe Entertainment. Anything else likely still needs to be done. I will also run this query on person pages an annoying API limitation is fixed. Some tips for handling these pages: The URLs must include the URI sch...
Using the API, I have compiled a list of franchises that are listed as having only one game or no games at all. This is the first of many reports I'll be generating on a semi-regular basis for Giant Bomb and Comic Vine. I'll release the code for these reports when I'm reasonably confident that it can safely be used by others without causing world destruction. Please take a look a look at the li...
You asked for it , and I delivered. This script will send you to a randomly selected wiki page on Giant Bomb. It uses the API to determine the range of page IDs to chose from, and to test whether the selected ID exists. It shouldn't lead you to a page that doesn't exist, although I haven't fully tested that. I plan to add support for other page types, as well as for Comic Vine. Anime Vice has n...
Bill Gates is a huge fan of Endless Ocean: Red World Now let's never speak of this again.
It's been too long since my last blog. I finished Professor Layton, Scribblenauts, and Mario & Luigi within a month of their purchase, but I haven't played much since then. I have been working on some top secret highly volatile stuff, but I'm not ready to talk about that yet. And... that's it for now, I guess. I'll try to write a proper blog sometime soon, maybe.
Shortly after Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 was released, I realized that I had never beaten the first X-Men Legends game. In fact, I had barely started it. Although I have been reading up on the Marvel Universe lately, I still didn't know much about the X-Men. I knew they were mutants, but beyond that I was clueless. And although the game doesn't deal with their personalities a whole lot (most di...
Today I unlocked the final achievement in Mayhem Intergalactic, Maestro of Multiplayer Mayhem . First game that I've unlocked all the achievements in. And with that, the game's done. I don't think there's anything else left for me to do in that game. Actually, the game's page on the Steam store claims that it's possible to create custom maps. I've never tried that; never even knew the feature w...
After beating Persona 4, I wondered what I would play next. Eventually I decided I should finish Dragon Quest VIII, and then I'd probably move on to Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne after that. But for whatever reason that didn't happen. I ended starting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker instead, played that for 28 hours, and then switched to Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime. And after rescuing the las...
StarFoxA can have his 100,000 wiki points . While he's been contributing large amounts of quality information for a group of games, I've taken a slightly different route, contributing smaller amounts of data for many more games. Today I decided to focus on WiiWare, uploading "box art" for the games and making sure the release info was up to snuff. Not particularly exciting, but I don't do it fo...
Okay, admit it! I use IGN. I use the site a fair amount actually. Probably more than most people I know. Not just for video games, but occasionally for TV and movies as well. (PROTIP: Don't read IGN's spoiler-filled TV reviews until after you've already watched the episode.) I also follow IGN's Twitter account, IGNcom . But until a few days ago, I had never thought about my relationship in IGN....
My new site Reach Out to the Truth is now live. Reach Out to the Truth is the site where I'll be publishing all my future blogs. Most people don't know, but I currently blog on seven different sites. Reach Out to the Truth makes it easier for me to keep track of all my blog posts, reminds me of the sites that I need to publish the blog on, and increases the visibility of my "exclusives" which m...
Didn't even notice this until jlrm01 pointed it out to me. I need to read my friends' blogs more often. Seems a bit melodramatic. Although I do agree that staff priorities seem to be misplaced, his method just seems wrong to me. What's the point if you're not going to be here any more? I myself have had only minor difficulties contacting staff about issues, but even then there's so much stuff t...
Play Time: 46 hr 16 min 47 sec Days Passed: 58 Saves: 105 Deaths: 2 Enemies Defeated: 330 Money Gained: 2818285 Yen Demon Fangs Found: 80 Praise Earned: 2682 I'm surprised at the amount of stuff the game tracks. I didn't realize my deaths were being tracked, because the game doesn't show them off prominently on the save screen like Zelda games do. And I had no idea it would be tracking the amou...
Andrew's Top 10 Favorite List of the Greatest Games Ever Made in the History of Ever Game of the Year Edition 10. Gods and Generals I've never played this game, but my friend who works for the developer says it's really good so I put it on the list. Billy and his friends compete in a game of Quidditch. 9. Billy the Wizard: Rocket Broomstick Racing This game used to be called Barry Hatter . This...
I picked up a package today. I wonder what's inside... [cool video of me opening my mail] Oh, look. It's Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne. [cool picture of the game] I payed out the ass for shipping and customs, but I think I still got it for a pretty good price. I hope to start playing it after I finish with Persona 4. And I hope to play it for a few days before I get frustrated, toss the game on...
If only I had managed to ruin a few lives before getting caught... Oh well. I guess I'll just have to start again from the bottom.
It's been quite a while since my last real blog , so I think it's about time for another one. You know, just to prove that I am still alive and playing games. :) I'll start by listing the games I've bought since my last update. I'm only listing games I bought at retail. I also purchased a bunch of games from Steam, but those are not listed here. Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica (PS2 / new)...
A new feature was rolled out to today. Now whenever you vote a post up in the forums, an entry appears in your feed indicating that you've done so and the other user will receive a PM as well. Unfortunately, it's not very useful. You can't even tell which post was recommended. If you go into your privacy settings, you can prevent it from appearing in your feed. And from the looks of it, that wi...
So we've had the new site design for almost a day now, and I still don't have a banner. I think that could be a fun little activity for you guys. Make me a banner. :) You can find a Photoshop template here , so grab the template and go nuts.
Dear Junes management: Please install security cameras in your stores, particularly in the electronics section. I don't like the looks of those teenagers. Sincerely, Andrew
The numbers don't lie. Probably. Um, yeah. I'm in the top 5. I'm not sure how I managed that. Artist's rendition. Not shown: blueberries But how 'bout those top four data contributors. They're really something. Not like that jerk Andrew. Bet you thought you'd get a real blog entry from me. Not yet! Hopefully soon, when I feel like writing one. Also coming "soon": I reveal my secrets to success....
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The other day I bought: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Greatest Hits) (PS2) (new, $19.99) Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (used, $10.79) And by "the other day" I mean, like, two weeks ago. I would have like to get the original release of Disgaea, but at this point I'm more interested in playing the game than seeking out an original copy. Of course, it would be way disappointing if that was all I...