Board 8 > Matt Rorie is leaving Giant Bomb

(+) Yeah! (+)

I know the writing has been on the wall for a while, but this slow death of giant bomb still sucks to see

this feels like the final nail to me

I like the people who are still there, but its hard to see it as anything other than a sinking ship now.

It sucks. There was genuine potential before Jason and Jess got fired.

At least he wasn't fired!

I'll continue to watch/listen until the site truly goes under but it's been on life support for a while now.

Very wierd conflicting emotions about this. I could never stand when Rorie was actually in content, but him leaving is this last shred of connection being torn down.

I feel there have been so many final nails at this point that it wont be over until its over, but barring a big turnaround it definitely seems to be on the way out. This is a real shame as following Gerstmann leaving/getting fired they had a pretty remarkable bounce back only for Fandom to completely scupper it. A lot of their best ever stuff was in the last year.

All the best to Rorie though, glad he got a new job.

Wheres he headed?

bummerrrrr although I kinda forgot he was still there

i do love him though

Jan being sick the past week or two they've been left with no video producers and just Grubb putting it together as they go along keeping it barely going.

if we are in the final wave of Giant Bomb at least last year introduced me to Friday Night Forking which I watch religiously every week on Twitch now

and special guest from GamesBeat, Mike "Mitch" Minotti, who's on more often now than other core crew members

I find him more enjoyable than everyone else

Oh yeah this really highlights what an inane decision the layoffs were by Fandom. Lets lay off all but one of the production staff followed by production grinding to a halt the second the last remaining producer gets sick. They havent had one producer since right after the site started for a reason.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Wheres he headed?

alpha protocol 2

but yeah the site is basically as good as dead now. its really too bad because the restructuring when they brought Dan back in seemed like things were heading in a good direction

His goodbye UPF just now was a lot of fun. Some peak Rorie action.

the rare written review

https://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/resident-evil-4-2023-review/1900-803/

MoogleKupo141 posted...

His goodbye UPF just now was a lot of fun. Some peak Rorie action.

Pivoting from that to a sponsored Marvel trading card unboxing thing was a little weird though

aw that's too bad. Completely sloshed Rorie reciting poetry on a midnight stream is one of my favorite GB moments

Now that he's gone we can get back to things that actually matter like Steel Battalion

https://twitter.com/DanRyckert/status/1638652005089710081?t=dMajoFYaFuOUXHg4H19BAg&s=19

oh god I had no idea he is playing Steel Batallion

I love that game and still have the controller tucked away somewhere

I just want to use this opportunity to say that Play it Forward is one of the best series they have done in years. Dan is doing great stuff on the video content side. Theyre just getting absolutely screwed over by their parent company and circumstance.

well that was one of the best UPFs in recent memory

I have not watched UPF in a long time but I watched this birthday one. Very fun.

Honestly the minigames in that game looked pretty good to me

upf this week being just two people really says it all

RIP