Grumpcade: Your Answered Questions!

Right now “GrumpCade” is one of the most cherished and well-recieved shows GameGrumps has produced alongside GameGrumps and Steam Train. Even though it’s similar to Steam Train the slight difference is that any combination of Grumps, and guest stars, can join forces and play console and PC games. ProJared was the first Guest Grump on the show with the game “Vice: Project Doom” on Feburary 4th 2015 and Ninja Brain (a.k.a Brian Wecht) became an official Grump with his GrumpCade episode of “BurgerTime” and he has never let go of the fact that he has a PhD!

However, GrumpCade was never always so popular and well-received, the first thoughts us Lovelies had were ones of confusion and slight rejection. Confusion included suspicions that GrumpCade would replace the second daily GameGrumps episode, ruining the schedule of many viewers, another confusion was the pure basis of the show. Steam Train had already shown us different Grumps as a team, for example, Barry and Dan or Suzy and Ross; so why would we need GrumpCade to do something we already have?

Well at a PAX Panel, the Grumps said they wanted GrumpCade to introduce new combos that were unfamiliar to us, which later revealed to be people outside of the GameGrumps clan. Guests such as Markiplier, ProJared, and Jirard The Completionist, giving us laughs we’ve never had before as an audience and as a fan group.

A form of rejection the show experienced was through the intro song. When some of us first

listened to it, we didn’t like it and thought it was plain old bad. There was no music, no real sense of tune, and no feasible words. Just mumbling and the Guest’s name mixed in with that mumbling. However, the tune they’ve made is to make sure that it sounds like a collaboration of voices and sounds, resembling the show itself as one massive collaboration with someone new or someone within the Grumps themselves.

Later, people started to realise that GrumpCade shows us another side to the Grumps. A few of us thought that this different angle could be a bad thing when in fact, I personally believe that it could show us how the Grumps act around close friends outside of the familiar group of 7. This could lead to us seeing a more adventurous side of GameGrumps, giving us more of a varied reason to laugh and have fun with their videos.

Now that GrumpCade is officially in our systems and flowing easily through our veins, many of us are wondering whether this is the start of a new Era for our Grumpy chums. This is also because of their second channel GrumpOut and guests on Steam Train such as CommanderHolly. I say that calling this a new era isn’t such a bad idea; although I think that era is a little too dramatic. I more see it as series two of GameGrumps, with special shows and guest appearances to keep us engaged in the content. GrumpOut just allows us to connect more with GameGrumps with videos like their Q&As and challenge videos.

All in all, GrumpCade was just a stepping stone towards the brighter, new, GameGrumps that we have today.