MERCH!
Giant Bomb - a website about video games and the people that make them

Meta gaming

by supersonic4336

This quest thing is a pretty great idea. It can be used for good as well as for evil. It's evil in that its a giant time suck. It's also awesome in that it can draw attention to weak pages that could use attention. Not even intentionally. My first assumption as I fill out my first list and surf around the site is that the games I love will be on here and have some basic info. Then I realize I'm...

This quest thing is a pretty great idea. It can be used for good as well as for evil. It's evil in that its a giant time suck. It's also awesome in that it can draw attention to weak pages that could use attention. Not even intentionally. My first assumption as I fill out my first list and surf around the site is that the games I love will be on here and have some basic info. Then I realize I'm likely the only person who cares about the existence of Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon. Now I feel like contributing to the site more, which is sure to be an avalanche like process, starting small and getting crazier. All that inspired by giant bomb offering to increase an arbitrary number in a database that means nothing in real world terms. Yet even though it isn't real I still do it because I'll be damned if some random other guy has a bigger number than me.