Why 2015 Is The Year Of The Grappling Hook - The Gist

A bunch of games this year decided to take the epic grappling hook and run with it, err, fly with it. Here were some of our favourites!

By Jess McDonell and Edmond Tran on December 2, 2015 at 6:30PM PST

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Just Cause 3

Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Battlefield Hardline

Dying Light

Batman: Arkham Knight

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Deveroth

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why is it that when you guys do a video with a female presenting it, a picture of the woman is always used in the video's thumbnail? I can't remember the last time I saw a Danny o'dwyer or VanOrd thumbnail; all you're doing is devaluing that woman's worth, making it seem like you're fishing for clicks by using her face.

fucking sad that you people have so little respect for your audience that you think such a ploy would work. I for one know that no female face is going to get me to click any video I wasn't already going to watch, so **** your strategy.

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Fandango_Letho

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@Deveroth: VanOrd has been gone for a while, mate.

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@Deveroth: I think you might be getting a bit ahead of yourself there. As @GameYakuza already said, Danny is on almost every "The Point" thumbnail. And Lucy is on almost "Reality Check" thumbnail, just as Cameron was before her. And remember how Cam and Seb's faces featured on the thumbnail of almost every one of "GTA Diaries" thumbnails? I think that the face generally goes on the thumbnail if that Gamespot "personality" is the host of that show.

I hardly think that having a photo of Jess or Lucy wearing a t-shirt with their arms crossed constitutes a devious clickbait strategy.

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@Deveroth: Almost all hosts are female, and Danny is on almost every the point thumbnail. I you want to be a justice ninja, at least pick your battles better, and stay polite.

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