As I write my next post for this very blog, G4 is on in the background. A (vaguely interesting) special about a Madden football tournament has just transitioned into a piece about the "lingerie bowl," a bunch of girls in bras and panties playing full contact football. Real life football... not video game football. This piece has been going on for about five minutes now. Every few seconds, I have to check the corner of the screen for a Spike TV logo. No such luck.
This is G4... Video Game (and Scantily Clad Women's Sports) Television.
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By misfortune I caught an episode of Filter which itself is a decent concept that is terribly, terribly implemented. Essentially it is a countdown show of games (Top 10 RPGs, Top 10 survival horror games, etc) hosted by a token “hot chick” who is given abysmal dialogue written for idiots (these are, of course, my personal feelings).
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, the episode I saw was the Top 10 Best Selling Games of All Time. I thought to myself that this might be pretty interesting. The flaw, of course, is that all top x lists come from polls from their web site. Now items such as the Top 10 Text Adventure Games are obviously very opinion oriented but the Top 10 Best Selling Games of All Time sounds, to me, like it’s supposed to be factual and it was, indeed, presented this way.
So if you are wondering, the top selling game of all time is Super Mario Brothers for the NES. Yeah.
I don't feel the floundering network will live to see 2006 at this rate. Every week or so I'll scan the programing, and it's the same tired reruns. The screen savers, which is hit or miss in my book, is the only show worth tuneing in for on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree. It was so outraged to find out that a great channel (Techtv) for the computer nerd in you was getting infestied by this hip, young, new channel called G4. Because of this infestation the channel is now almost completely for gamers and not for the computer people.
ReplyDeleteOf coarse we still have the screen savers, but this jack ass named Kevin Perira (or however you spell his name) has joined in and guess what? He talking about friggin games! If I want to watch a show about video games, I watch X-Play.
Which (by the way) gives much more intellegent reviews than Judgement Day or G4TV.com. These new shows are shallow, stupid, and have horrible writing. I guess the only good new show that was added was Icons. But thats about it. I'm dissapointed, I really am and I'm sorry it had to be this way. :(
Yes, I agree. It was so outraged to find out that a great channel (Techtv) for the computer nerd in you was getting infestied by this hip, young, new channel called G4. Because of this infestation the channel is now almost completely for gamers and not for the computer people.
ReplyDeleteOf coarse we still have the screen savers, but this jack ass named Kevin Perira (or however you spell his name) has joined in and guess what? He talking about friggin games! If I want to watch a show about video games, I watch X-Play.
Which (by the way) gives much more intellegent reviews than Judgement Day or G4TV.com. These new shows are shallow, stupid, and have horrible writing. I guess the only good new show that was added was Icons. But thats about it. I'm dissapointed, I really am and I'm sorry it had to be this way. :(
Yes, I agree. It was so outraged to find out that a great channel (Techtv) for the computer nerd in you was getting infestied by this hip, young, new channel called G4. Because of this infestation the channel is now almost completely for gamers and not for the computer people.
ReplyDeleteOf coarse we still have the screen savers, but this jack ass named Kevin Perira (or however you spell his name) has joined in and guess what? He talking about friggin games! If I want to watch a show about video games, I watch X-Play.
Which (by the way) gives much more intellegent reviews than Judgement Day or G4TV.com. These new shows are shallow, stupid, and have horrible writing. I guess the only good new show that was added was Icons. But thats about it. I'm dissapointed, I really am and I'm sorry it had to be this way. :(
Where Leo ....We miss him....
ReplyDeleteAw man. I totally agree with all you guys.It's really pathetic how TechTv just got eaten up by the dumb asses at G4. As for X-Play, I guess is still like Morgan but it's sad how they took away her moral integrity and turned her into the other bimbo's on G4. And Mike is absolutly right about how they turned Adam into an even bigger jackass than he was before. I mean, it was fine when it was just TechTv, but now their just being cruel when frankly he's a very intellegent man. But, again, needs food on the table.
ReplyDeleteI mean, really, F U G4. I'm sick of your trash mucking up a poor yet good channel into a dimwitted, stereotypical, assfest which has no respect for it's veiwers.
Aw man. I totally agree with all you guys.It's really pathetic how TechTv just got eaten up by the dumb asses at G4. As for X-Play, I guess is still like Morgan but it's sad how they took away her moral integrity and turned her into the other bimbo's on G4. And Mike is absolutly right about how they turned Adam into an even bigger jackass than he was before. I mean, it was fine when it was just TechTv, but now their just being cruel when frankly he's a very intellegent man. But, again, needs food on the table.
ReplyDeleteI mean, really, F U G4. I'm sick of your trash mucking up a poor yet good channel into a dimwitted, stereotypical, assfest which has no respect for it's veiwers.