Halfway through the year 2021 when more people are getting vaccinated and going out and managers demanding that their peons go back to work in an office building with a shitty commute so they can have someone to lord over once again and everyone's trying to remember how to be social in public after being stuck inside for over a year of school or work...yeah this is the perfect time to drop a be...
I never got around to making a poll for 2019 for reasons but I figured I could at least write down my own Top 10 anime for everyone to read and acknowledge as the best. 1) Beastars Did you ever watch cartoons or read stories as a child with mostly (or only) animal characters and wonder how they felt about eating burgers, or where their ears rested on their head, or how carnivores resisted the u...
FINALLY, IT'S HERE Welcome everyone to the...holy shit, I've been doing this unofficial poll for about 7 years now? That's insane. People have grown up, gotten jobs, lost jobs, graduated, dropped out, found love, lost it, joined the forum, abandoned the forum...it's been a heck of a ride. Don't know if I'll have the energy to do this one more year but no one else stepped up so here I am. This y...
Sorry this poll came so late, too busy thinking about Hellshake Yano Hello there all you lovely Duders! While you have been making Top 10 Game of the Year lists, the denizens and lurkers of your local Anime and Cartoon Megathread have been watching a bunch of Japanese cartoons and are now prepared to rank them in an order, so you know which ones to watch (or avoid, depending on your opinion). W...
Hey, you try coming up with a clever subtitle on short notice! Welcome, Duders, to the 6th Annual Giant Bomb Anime Duders Anime of the Year Poll! Everyone in the Japanese animation industry is standing on edge for a small niche of people on a website catering to a slightly-bigger niche aimed at Western audiences to tell them which animes are actually the best this year. Though there weren't as...
2017 sure was a year, huh? A year full of anguish, anxiety, panic attacks, recovering from a knee injury, 2 different moves as I found a good job that took me into another state, watching every single pro sports team I like crash and burn, a slight dip into alcoholism, and constant reminders that time is fleeting and we’re all waiting to see what’s finally going to kill off humanity between the...
Hello there all you lovely duders! While you all have been making Top 10 Game of the Year lists (if your Top 3 don't include some combination of NieR: Automata, Persona 5 and Yakuza 0 then video games are Ruined Forever) , the denizens and lurkers of your local Anime and Cartoon Megathread have been watching a bunch of Japanese cartoons and are now prepared to rank them in an order, so you know...
Remember, even the best anime is still anime; anime is still terrible. -- @bigjeffrey (R.I.P.) Duders and Dudettes of Giant Bomb, welcome one and all to this relatively minimalist presentation of the 5 th annual Giant Bomb Anime Discussion vote for 2016 Anime of the Year! This was the year of the exclamation point! Multiple exclamation points!! One of the shows on this list even had eight of th...
It Begins...Again! Hello Duders and Dudettes of Giant Bomb! As the holiday season approaches and final exam papers are...well, finalized, it's time to get voting on your favorite anime of 2015! In years past, we've had Daily Lives of Highschool Boys take home the first one in 2012, and then Kill la Kill seasons 1-2 taking home consecutive victories in 2013 and 2014. In 2015, One-Punch Man lande...
Introduction Welcome one and all, Giant Bomb Anime Duders/Dudettes (collectively known as GBAD, or at least that's what our Steam group says) to the big thing where I post the results of the anime poll as voted on by you, the Giant Bomb community, or at least those who chose to respond to it. The initial OP will be a bit shorter as I wanted to get the main part out first. The results of the bon...
Hello Duders and Dudettes of Giant Bomb! Hope you've been enjoying your holiday season, because now it's time to get voting on your favorite anime of 2015! In years past, we've had Daily Lives of Highschool Boys take home the first one in 2012, and then Kill la Kill seasons 1-2 taking home consecutive victories in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Now this year the field's open for someone else to t...
Weeks after all the 2014 [X] Of The Year lists have faded from memory, the community has turned their attention to the next shiny thing. Of course, this is the perfect time to finally tally up the somewhat-delayed reveal of the 2014 anime poll among the Giant Bomb Anime Duders who voted. As always, if you're curious about what's good, you'll find us in the Anime/Manga Megathread . This year, 52...
Hello everybody. Now that E3 has lived up to its usual disappointments it's back to business as usual. This means summer vacation for most of you and work for those of us stuck in cubicles waiting for the world to end, hopefully after we blow our paychecks on booze and hookers. Either way, it's fucking hot outside right now, and you can only watch the World Cup for so long before you realize ho...
Noticed that most of my blogs have been either about animu or that corny "Endure This! Run!" about The Last Remnant (still on indefinite hiatus, sorry @video_game_king ), but I gotta put this all down somewhere, so here we are. In Which I am an Official Game Designer Back in January, me and a few wonderful people developed a game for the Global Game Jam (GGJ). 48 hours (including time set aside...
Duders and Dudettes! Welcome to the results of our 2nd annual poll about Japanese cartoons! First off, thanks to the folks at AV for letting me borrow their big-ass spreadsheet so I could remember which shows actually aired in 2013 and not just last season. Also, thanks to the anime/cartoon megathread . You're cool enough. The AV crew still loves you, Giant Bomb, even if you don't love them bac...
Stay tuned for a special message from your anime president. So it's that time of year again, that time where we comb through the many pieces of entertainment we enjoyed and see if we can't come to a consensus on which ones were the best, shortly before we yell at each other for having incredibly terrible tastes while the country continues sinking into the ocean from whence it came. Ah, democrac...
Guess what guys, it's that time of year again! The time of year where Gaben lowers the prices on everything and all the money you planned to spend on things like "food" and "central heating" instead goes to pay for Santa to bring you Dishonored's GOTY Edition! It's only $13! How could you pass up that deal? It certainly beats stomping over the bodies of retail workers and crazed mothers to get...
[I kinda like Boney M and there was an Idolm@ster anime (three of them!) so it counts.] Welcome to the capsule preview of fall anime, Duders and Dudettes! I attempt to break each of these upcoming shows down to their essentials, or at least what I think are the essentials. Even I can only care about so many shows in so little time these days. We've got some really awesome stuff and some really...
Lots of social awkwardness apparent in this upcoming animu season. I tried to find something on youtube with "spaghetti" in it, this is what came up. [Crossposted on that anime site that people loved/hated before the big breakup. You know the one. If you are looking for a more serious/thorough/good explanation of what's coming up, now's your chance to look for another blog/site.] It seems most...
First off, I want to say thank you to all 25 of you in the thread that voted. I probably should've made this poll a separate topic. Maybe next year, but at least we got a decent sample of the regulars to the General Anime Thread in the Giant Bomb forums. I have tallied the votes and come up with both weighted and unweighted totals. I will post the full vote totals at the end of this blog post....
Endure This! Run! Part 14: Like Hitting Rocks With a Sword, Because That's What You're Doing It really has been months since I last did one of these? Wow, I am a terrible person for prioritizing other things over this Let's Play/Endurance Run, I know. But the show must (eventually) go on... When we last left our heroes, Rush yet again got scammed by a "Mage-like Girl" and overpaid for common it...
Endure This! Run! Part 13: Indiana Sykes, Raider of the Lost Temple of Doom Rush got swindled by a mage, then made up the difference by helping Baron Nielsen reclaim his escaped fiance. Unfortunately, the game gave me a not-so-subtle reminder to get back to the story when I tried to follow-up with the runaway bride, so back to Elysion we go! Waaaaaait a minute...that Mage-Like Girl looks famili...
Endure This! Run! Part 12: We Interrupt This Presentation of Romeo x Juliet... Wow, it really has been that long since the last time I posted one of these, huh? Anyways, when we last left our heroes, The Conqueror's army marched through the streets of Elysion just as David finally attended Congress. After being distracted by a woman wearing a very impractical outfit, Rush discovered that a olde...
Straight out of an exclusive interview with Japanese gaming magazine Gemaga, when asked what his goals for 2012 are, Blazblue producer Toshimichi Mori responded that he wants to make Blazblue 3 . [snip] Immediately after revealing his desire to make the next game, Mori added that he wants to make an anime as well. While it seems he's half joking and half serious, he then went on to request that...
Endure This! Run! Part 11: He's called "The Conqueror," not "The Negotiator" For those that care, voting is still open for Jorgen's class (see the end of Part 10 for details)! In the last episode, David headed to Elysion to meet with the Congress, but a couple of Dukes were late, so he and Rush ditched the city and got some sidequests done. But eventually, we have to continue the story, so even...
Endure This! Run! Part 10: You're in the Wrong Line of Work In our last update, we explored the wonders of the Athlum army recruitment system, and how Rush has essentially been put in charge of a royal guard of Athlum's finest, just without most of the decision-making. Also Emma killed a bunch of dudes. Now we set off towards Elysion! Rush stops along the road to admire some artwork. This area...
I've been seeing these "Best of 2011" lists littering the forums and blogs around Giant Bomb, so I figured I would follow suit, but with a twist: I'm going to post the games I just hated in the year. The utter disappointments, the money-grubbing releases, and the just plain bad games that should serve to all game designers as a lesson in "What To Not Do" when making a game. Also, I guess becaus...
Endure This! Run! Part 9: Rush Sykes Has A Posse This one will probably be a little shorter, as I'm dealing with a couple projects that take precedence over this series. Still, I thought I should update you folks on my journey through The Last Remnant, as it's been almost a week since the last one. In the last episode, Rush faced a fiery idol and it turns out that one of the biggest leaders of...
Hey there folks. You might not have seen this when (if?) you were updating your Xbox 360 last night, but if you did it successfully, they included a new Terms of Service agreement. But buried within Section 18 of that agreement is a clause similar to that of EA and PSN that waives your right to join a class-action lawsuit and forces all disputes into arbitration if you live in the US. Some rele...
Endure This! Run! Part 8: Ninjas Can't Catch Me When I'm On Fire Okay, I was a bit of a dick leaving everyone on that cliffhanger, but now we will see the battle of this boss. This boss battle, if you will. A handful of Third Committee Unions spawn out of fucking nowhere and we have to deal with them. Luckily, these guys are just annoying and are easily dispatched. I highly suggest you do dispa...
Endure This! Run! Part 7: Diplomacy at a Pointy Edge We embarked on the easiest sidequests ever. I think it was because SquareEnix doesn't trust you to figure out what a sidequest is on your own. In any case, we return to the main story. Yay! Soldier: Oi! Are you Rush Sykes? Rush: Uh...yes? Soldier: Well the Marquis of Athlum's been looking for ya! Rush: Wait, so he wants to find Irina now? Sol...
Endure This! Run! Part 6: One is the Loneliest Number Last time, Rush discovered he could slow down time to a crawl, and after slaughtering more monsters around a ruined city he found his sister Irina with a couple of named Bad Guys. Then he decided the best strategy to get her back would involve running into the open and yelling at them despite not having any means to hit them from that far aw...
Endure This! Run! Part 5: Oh Hey, Bullet Time! Previously, on Dragonball Z: Rush went on a quest with Pagus to find some anti-Remnant terrorists who had somehow fought their way through a ruined castle full of monsters just to hold a rally about how much they hated Remnants, despite the fact that no one was forcing them to use one. Also, Rush learned to use magic, and started shocking people le...
[Everyone pretend this went up last week and it's not incredibly late due to technical issues. Okay? Okay.] Endure This! Run! Part 4: Rebels Without a Clue When we last left our heroes, Rush was surprised to discover that David trusted him with an important job as part of his initiation into his Athlum crew. Unfortunately, busting up that slavery ring yielded no information about Irina, though...
Endure This! Run! Part 3: The Slave Cave When we last left our heroes, Rush's thanks for saving Emma was getting threatened with death at least twice. Also, he had a large flashback to the time his sister was kidnapped by a hooded black guy, then went super-Saiyan and magic-punched a monster to death. Well, look who finally showed up! Pagus, Torgal, David, Blocter and four random soldiers someh...
Endure This! Run! Part 2: Cave? When we last left our tale, a boy named Rush decided to rush into the middle of a battlefield to pursue a woman way too old to be his sister. Said woman was about to be sacrificed by a young blonde man named David, despite the fact that he could target his BFG to aim only at bad guys...come to think of it, David's army didn't even have to show up on the battlefie...
Yes, part 2 of my "Endure This! Run!" should be posted sometime between today and tomorrow, but I thought I'd take a brief moment to pimp out this here podcast myself and some folks have been working on. It occurred to me that we've been doing this for over a year now, but I don't think I actually talked about it on Giant Bomb. I know there are a lot of folks who have their own little podcast (...
Endure This! Run! Part 1: That's How You Treat Your Superweapon? Just in case you forgot this was a Square Enix game Well, so begins my crazy experiment in storytelling. And this game. As you can see above, The Last Remnant was an original JRPG that the company created, and they were very happy about it. Army vs. army battles, an epic storyline that didn't include the words "Final Fantasy" atta...
I've hinted at this thing in my twitter, but it seems like I am actually going to do it. Back when The Last Remnant was on sale on Steam for about $5 (I think?), I had bad memories of trying to play the thing on the 360 and getting halfway through before deciding the bugs weren't worth the trouble. But other "internet friends" of mine who played the PC version assured me that it was infinitely...
Prologue Last night after exhausting myself, I was tempted, oh lord was I tempted to write a drunkblog (or whatever the equivalent is when you feel wiped out after martial arts practice instead of drunk and/or crunk). Luckily, my brain decided a better use of its time would be to go to sleep for two hours, then wake up with a stream of Artosis playing yet another zerg opponent in SC2 (he ended...
Does it count as a drunkblog when you've had a few glasses of wine and a little bit of that fake sudafed they sell OTC in CVS now? I wonder how much I ccan get through this before I collapse on my keyboard/desk/other surface. So to stat: allergies. They suck. I am allergic to nothing except the stuff that bees move from one plant to another. Stupid plants, needing bee pollendust to live. Don't...
[Disclaimer: cross-posted from a similar post of mine at Anime Vice, because some people here apparently like anime or are curious enough to troll those who do, but don't like to visit that other Whiskey site after gia and John left. Also, my 360 has officially red-ringed last night and I'm pissed at the possibility of having to shell out lots of money to get it repaired/replaced , so you will...
I would like to take this moment to rage against a Drive-spamming Noel. I am pissed that my opponent had double my rank based solely on pushing two buttons in "Beginner Mode" online, but even more pissed at the fact that I couldn't counter it enough times to beat that asshole even when I saw him/her/it mashing the exact same combo. That is all. You may now go about your business.
If you've played a fighting game online (or maybe any game, but I've personally noticed this only when playing fighting games), there's a good chance you run into a certain kind of people. The kind of people who send you a personal message after a match that didn't go in their favor because their "surefire" strategy was utterly useless when you saw it coming and did something super cheap and co...
Maybe it's just me, but I've been noticing a trend in DoWII games online, maybe because I've been spending most of it playing as a "pubbie" with other pubbies, but it's been sticking in my craw. Yes, capturing the Victory Points are critical in ranked matches in order to prosper, but before you vie for control of these points, there are three important things you should know: * Cap the fucking...