To add some context here, at the time you had Jeff Gerstmann which is a dinosaur in the game journalism sphere and had insights and insider information from man

To add some context here, at the time you had Jeff Gerstmann which is a dinosaur in the game journalism sphere and had insights and insider information from many different sources. He has also an encyclopedic knowledge of weird esoteric games. Add to this a series of people he had great chemistry with and people that were not familiar with some franchises and introduced by other members lead to funny moments. Their coverage of E3 was legendary. It depends how deep people are within subcultures but giant bomb did offer a lot of entertainment (even for free I never paid for the premium stuff) and honest game reviews. I can't speak for the current state because I was watching before the core team left and stopped watching after.