Best of Giant Bomb 212.5 - fan-made series of mid to late-2021 highlights

Derek Stone's Best of Giant Bomb 212 mostly covered June 2021, & Sebmal's Best of GB 213 covered January 2022. My series bridges the gap between them by covering the latter half of 2021, transitioning between their editing styles. These videos will add up to around 2 hours across 8 episodes; please excuse the 480p quality.

I've already uploaded the first 5 episodes, which cover July (and late June) through October, plus Extra Life 2021. I plan to upload the rest weekly on weekends.

Look forward to a lot of highlights of Gerstmann, Rorie, Jason, Jan, Bakalar, Jess, Danny, and more!

Subbed and will be watching. Great job!

@chamurai: Thank you!

Episode 6 for November 2021, Cabbage Boys, is now up!

Ranking of Evil ends, Run for the Hills begins, and the voicemails keep on dumping.

This rules! Props for taking on this project, and great work! I appreciate the time and effort it must take to create.

@manburger: Thanks, I'm glad to hear how much people are enjoying it! Some of the most time-consuming parts were certainly rewatching and timestamping hours of video early on, but at least I've had plenty of time for revisions

Episode 7 covering the 2021 Bombathon (December 13), Cybermania, is now up!

Bad games, janky games, game shows, and game awards await, from the first televised game awards show to the first Giant Bomb Arcade Pit, on the first Giant Bombathon.

The 8th and final episode of Best of Giant Bomb 212.5 covering the rest of December 2021, Fungal Jungle, is now up!

Jan's commentary and UPF games all go in some strange directions, and love is in the air.

Please don't tell me it's over already! If it is, then thank you on your hard work and bringing back this GB staple.

@chamurai: Thanks for all the support! It's been nearly two years since I started any work on this, and even longer since I first came up with the idea. Honestly feels a little weird to finally be done with it, but I'm glad to have done it!

The old Best Of videos are the reason I starting watching Giant Bomb in the first place and I rewatch them pretty regularly, so it's good to have more to add to the playlist. I'd somehow missed Jan's Popeye experience entirely so these videos had plenty of moments that were new to me too. Thanks for making them!

@xenonxylophone: Thank you! I also credit the old Best of's and other Youtube highlights for getting me to start watching Giant Bomb years ago.

Funny thing about Popeye: while reviewing Extra Life 2021 for timestamps, I remember being early in Jan's Popeye experience when I finally realized that Extra Life had too many good moments to be folded into the wider November episode.