Hey everyone! ZombiePie's been putting these community showcases together for years now, and it's well past time to get them more prominently featured. As such, we're going to be hosting them on the homepage moving forward. Although my name's on the byline, ZombiePie deserves all the credit for putting them together. Enjoy! - Rorie
Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Giant Bomb Community Spotlight. Do not attempt to adjust your computer monitors, YES this edition of the Spotlight is indeed on the frontpage of Giant Bomb rather than being pinned to the forums. Today marks an exciting moment for myself, the Spotlight, and the Giant Bomb Community. Together we are going to experiment and explore new avenues, formats, and activities to more effectively spread the word about the best content that the Giant Bomb Community has to offer every week. However, I would first like to thank Mr. Rorie, Jeff, and all of the members of the staff for allowing this to happen, and of course all of you for continually providing me with the amazing material to justify this happening in the first place. Thank you, and this is and always has been for you.
It goes without saying that the format of the Community Spotlight will be tinkered with in future editions. on how to better present community content please feel free to present your ideas and thoughts in the comments below. For this week we will be maintaining the standard format as with previous editions, but I will be taking all of your suggestions for future editions very seriously.
As seen on the banner which you can catch over here. In regards to site related housekeeping there a few announcements worth sharing. First off the issue should be fixed now thanks to the hard efforts of the engineering team. Another issue that the engineers are actively dealing with are which have been hitting some users on the site. If you have experienced a CSFR Token Error please drop a comment here. Speaking of the engineers they would like for anyone that is to go ahead and run a special diagnostic test to help them locate potential sources to these issues.
The first video of the week comes from @turboman who has a new edition of his "Best of Giant Bomb" video series. This episode is all about Dan playing games with his father. The second video comes from the Guilty Gear Xrd Weekly Tournament Group, which you can join here, in the form of an archive of their last tournament.
The first image comes from Kyle G on Twitter who shares his best attempt to create Charlie Tunoka in Bloodborne. The next set of images come from Stochastic Gamer on Tumblr who was inspired by last year's Halloween UPF.
The community is just buzzing about Bloodborne and Pillars of Eternity this week and luckily for many users we have some nicely done wiki pages for both of them. for doing the research to figure out what Agent Alice was about last week.
, and has two massive and well written blogs not only detailing his thoughts about the game, but also an explanation as to what keeps bringing him back. which he not only enjoys playing today, but defends as being the "last true Front Mission" in North America. While they oftentimes get a bad rap . is back with avengance this week with series. M but with this edition breaks-down how you can quickly beat all of the bosses from Beatrix 1 to Beatrix 2 in FFIX. Speaking of Final Fantasy games with a detailed look at how the game sets up the Pulse Verge. under the "Grounded" difficulty setting. , but went the whole mile in writing a blog about his first impressions of the game. as part of his long running Comic Commish blog series. bobafettjm is happy to discuss this week, and always welcomes you to join him. he has ever played on his review blog. despite having some issues with how it controlled. Finally , and discusses each game in great detail.
In terms of the forums everyone is welcomed to . We also have . We also have. Another opportunity to learn about new games can be found in a . Finally can you think of a really monotonous boss fight that you had to deal with in a game you liked? Well that's the topic of debate for .
ATD88 continues his theme of examining the Final Fantasy franchise, but this week he . Doppelgamer on the other hand and added them to his "Hall of Shame" list. Finally Eder with a list of his ten favorite champions in the game.