G4 reaches new lows - Covers AVN Awards

Taramoor

For those of you who still get G4 on your cable package, you may intrigued to discover that they're currently covering the Adult Entertainment Expo and will have Red Carpet coverage of the AVN Awards, the top honors in the Adult Entertainment industry.

As I write this, the hosts of whatever tech show G4 currently runs are on the set of "Lexington Steele"s new movie Black Reign #10.

Yeah.

So, a long time ago I think I said G4 couldn't sink any lower when they started airing that Star Trek 2.0 crap.

I've been proven so very very very wrong.

In this thread we will discuss the short, tragic fall of what was once a promising idea. A cable network dedicated to video games.

Bionic Monkey

*sigh*

It's bad enough I miss TechTV already. But ever now and then, they've just got to twist the knife a bit more. It makes me ashamed to even have Comcast internet.

devolve

A cable network dedicated to video games is a bad idea.

A cable network dedicated to technology is a great idea. They need to go back to the techtv format, which they are doing in some respects.



However, I don't know what the problem with covering the AVN's are. To this day it still stuns me how people who have no problem chainsawing a man in half still get spooked and giggly about boobies.

Nocren

I knew something was up when the so called tv for gamers started showing Cops and Arrested Development....

I used to tune in for Star Trek:TNG on occasion, now I don't even bother stopping.

EDIT: Eh, we're Americans. Violence is one thing and sex is another.

nightmarenny

arrested Development is the best thing about G4.

FreddyD

devolve wrote:

A cable network dedicated to video games is a bad idea.

A cable network dedicated to technology is a great idea. They need to go back to the techtv format, which they are doing in some respects.



However, I don't know what the problem with covering the AVN's are. To this day it still stuns me how people who have no problem chainsawing a man in half still get spooked and giggly about boobies.

Well, if I remember correctly, no one remembers the ads after watching porn. Their minds are... elsewhere. So the only way to show boobies on tv and make money is to charge a fee.

Spoon

I've heard there trying to be a 3rd rate Spike ...and they are succeeding.

manaleak34

Yeah I did see that while flipping though the schedules. Also a night or two back they had this marathon of documentaries on nearly every single aspect of sex for whatever reason.

Good thing I barely watch any TV right now.

I miss you Heroes

Invisible

They're also covering some technology expo. Because it's not a videogame network any more, it's another Spike TV. They're going to cover whatever they think will bring in their target demographic: 18-30 (more like 24, but I'll high ball it) year-old men.

In other words, who cares? They have like two video game shows now: X-Play and Cheat. I think their Tech offering stops at "Attack of the Show."

chaossoldier

That Ninja Warrior show kicks ass though.

cj iwakura

As long as there's Cinematech, there's some hope.

A very dim speck of hope, but it's something.

That show really goes all over the board.

But I don't have cable anyway, so not like it matters.

Though when I watched G4, I just about exclusively watched Cinematech.

Bionic Monkey

cj iwakura wrote:

As long as there's Cinematech, there's some hope.

A very dim speck of hope, but it's something.

That show really goes all over the board.

But I don't have cable anyway, so not like it matters.

Though when I watched G4, I just about exclusively watched Cinematech.

Even Cinematech ruins games now though. What fucking idiot thought it was a good idea to show the ending cinematics?

yalborap

cj iwakura wrote:

As long as there's Cinematech, there's some hope.

A very dim speck of hope, but it's something.

That show really goes all over the board.

But I don't have cable anyway, so not like it matters.

Though when I watched G4, I just about exclusively watched Cinematech.

I honestly wasn't much of a cinematech fan. Sometimes the stuff was cool, but a lot of the time it was a little boring. Maybe I watched bad episodes or something.

Gilder

I consider G4 a giant insult to real television stations but they try to cover it up with THE BOOBIES which doesn't help the case at all and only makes me hate them even more and Arrested Development which still isn't good enough to bring them out of the cesspool of shallow crap they like to air. How many original shows do they even have that don't suck complete ass? I bet half the ratings they get come from old Star Trek and AD reruns. Also, I never did forgive them for letting the people vote Shenmue second worst game ever on Filter.

chasm

G4 and Spike are enough to make women hate all men.

cj iwakura

Bionic Monkey wrote:

cj iwakura wrote:

As long as there's Cinematech, there's some hope.

A very dim speck of hope, but it's something.

That show really goes all over the board.

But I don't have cable anyway, so not like it matters.

Though when I watched G4, I just about exclusively watched Cinematech.

Even Cinematech ruins games now though. What fucking idiot thought it was a good idea to show the ending cinematics?

When X Play reviewed Digital Devil Saga 2, they showed the ending for #1 right before the review.

Gilder

cj iwakura wrote:

Bionic Monkey wrote:

cj iwakura wrote:

As long as there's Cinematech, there's some hope.

A very dim speck of hope, but it's something.

That show really goes all over the board.

But I don't have cable anyway, so not like it matters.

Though when I watched G4, I just about exclusively watched Cinematech.

Even Cinematech ruins games now though. What fucking idiot thought it was a good idea to show the ending cinematics?

When X Play reviewed Digital Devil Saga 2, they showed the ending for #1 right before the review.

That reminds me of their Tales of Symphonia review. Every clip they showed was from the last 2 hours of the game and they even showed the one on one duel between Lloyd and [spoiler:9dfa146e90]Kratos[/spoiler:9dfa146e90] That's just inexcusable. Even Cinematech uses spoiler warnings. Luckily I had already beaten the game when the review came on.

Uriel

I miss TechTV.

I only had it for like two years before they turned it to G4.

It seems everything they do on G$ is just to piss off the people who loved TechTV.

Legacy

nightmarenny wrote:

arrested Development is the best thing about G4.

BUT THEY MAKE IT PAN & SCAN.

Fuckin' G4.

Bionic Monkey

Legacy wrote:

nightmarenny wrote:

arrested Development is the best thing about G4.

BUT THEY MAKE IT PAN & SCAN.

Fuckin' G4.

I have the entire series on DVD anyway. So... fuck G4.

Legacy

Bionic Monkey wrote:

Legacy wrote:

nightmarenny wrote:

arrested Development is the best thing about G4.

BUT THEY MAKE IT PAN & SCAN.

Fuckin' G4.

I have the entire series on DVD anyway. So... fuck G4.

Same here.

It's the principle of the matter.

Target Practice

devolve wrote:

A cable network dedicated to video games is a bad idea.

A cable network dedicated to technology is a great idea. They need to go back to the techtv format, which they are doing in some respects.



However, I don't know what the problem with covering the AVN's are. To this day it still stuns me how people who have no problem chainsawing a man in half still get spooked and giggly about boobies.

Yeah, the only reason this bothers me at all is because it doesn't make sense. What does a channel about video games have to do with awards for porn?

yalborap

Bionic Monkey wrote:

Legacy wrote:

nightmarenny wrote:

arrested Development is the best thing about G4.

BUT THEY MAKE IT PAN & SCAN.

Fuckin' G4.

I have the entire series on DVD anyway. So... fuck G4.

Dude, no. You can catch horrible diseases that way.

Lep

chaossoldier wrote:

That Ninja Warrior show kicks ass though.

rchou

TechTV didn't make any money. G4 isn't making any money. Both are failures financially, and are thus not viable for the mainstream.

also:

Lep wrote:

chaossoldier wrote:

That Ninja Warrior show kicks ass though.

The Wolfman

Apparently Asia Carrera is a pretty avid gamer. And not the fake "Oh... I like... Pac-Boy and stuff".

I don't know what's sadder though. That I somehow came across that knowledge, or that I managed to actually retain it.

Eh, probably both.

Neva

I remember watching X-play every now and then during those times when the only thing on TV was court shows. The show was pretty decent, but every episode they tried harder and harder to be more annoying, firing people who did things right. Now the whole show is just cut outs of famous people making annoying noises with about 10 seconds of reviewing a game in between.

TelMarine

The Wolfman wrote:

Apparently Asia Carrera is a pretty avid gamer. And not the fake "Oh... I like... Pac-Boy and stuff".

I don't know what's sadder though. That I somehow came across that knowledge, or that I managed to actually retain it.

Eh, probably both.

I thought it was pretty well known (in the PC gaming world at least) that she was really into Unreal Tournament.

AbsoluteZero

G4 has this commercial running where a scientist with a zany German accent describes the two halves of the male mind. Essentially one half greasy nerd, one half porn addict.

That pretty succinctly describes what G4 thinks of their audience.

Also X-Play fucking sucks.

Gilder

AbsoluteZero wrote:

G4 has this commercial running where a scientist with a zany German accent describes the two halves of the male mind. Essentially one half greasy nerd, one half porn addict.

That pretty succinctly describes what G4 thinks of their audience.

Also X-Play fucking sucks.

Yes, that commercial makes me vomit. Also, I hope you're talking about recent X-Play. Because it indeed does suck. But old X-play wasn't too bad and from the few episodes I saw of Extended Play, it was fantastic. I really wish they'd go back to that format. Just Adam in an arcade reading reviews. That's really all we want.

victor_c26

TelMarine wrote:

The Wolfman wrote:

Apparently Asia Carrera is a pretty avid gamer. And not the fake "Oh... I like... Pac-Boy and stuff".

I don't know what's sadder though. That I somehow came across that knowledge, or that I managed to actually retain it.

Eh, probably both.

I thought it was pretty well known (in the PC gaming world at least) that she was really into Unreal Tournament.

Yeah, she's friends with that Hard OCP guy that posted here about his weekly contests. It's pretty well known that she's a PC gamer.

I'm actually surprised that G4 covered CES at all. CES is a pretty geek centric convention. Former Screensavers Robert Heron and Patrick Norton covered CES Monday thru Thursday this week.

FightTest

Triple signed on Ninja Warrior owning faces. I wish they had more episodes because I keep seeing like the same 3 repeated over and over again.

Flesh Into Gear

chaossoldier wrote:

That Ninja Warrior show kicks ass though.

contraband

ughh

Vyolynce

Target Practice wrote:

What does a channel about video games have to do with awards for porn?

(Insert Jack Thomspson/Hot Coffee joke here.)

Axen

nightmarenny wrote:

Arrested Development is the best thing about G4.

Also I found X-Play's Saw parody episode to be hilarious. When that one dude was tortured with the Virtual Boy was great.


Unfortunately I don't think there is really anything on G4 worth salvaging. Best to nuke it from orbit.

MiSTieOtaku

I loved watching TechTV. It had GREAT SHOWS! Call for Help, the Screensavers, old X-Play, hell even Anime Unleashed was pretty good. I could basically watch that channel and pretty much be interested in anything that was on. And then G4 came along, and for a short period of time it actually didn't seem that bad. This is, of course, when they still had actual game-related shows.

G4 is apparently in denial of it's own hideously false existence. It isn't a game channel anymore! Hell, Spike TV has more game related shows than G4, and one of the only game related shows they have left, X-Play, is a carry over from after the merge between TechTV and G4. So basically the last of their actual game related content isn't even originally theirs.

bongi

Taramoor wrote:

In this thread we will discuss the short, tragic fall of what was once a promising idea. A cable network dedicated to video games.

i don't think a network about videogames was ever a good idea

unilateral

We get G4 on our cable package at school, and it's on the same channel that Fox used to be on, so I flip to it a lot.

Our (the people in my house) favorite show is the Jamie Kennedy Experiment or Experience only because at the end of every prank he goes
"You've been Xed!"
and the people just look at him like "what the fuck?"
so he has to go
"You're on my show! The Jamie Kennedy Experiment!"

It's like him and Ashton Kutcher were old college roommates who got in a fight right before graduating and both declared they would make the best prank show.

Clawshrimpy

I hated it when they made Icons not about Video games anymore. The last thing I wanna hear is the backstory to some "gangsta rapper"

That said, TechTV was awesome in so many ways, The Screensavers, Martin Sargeant's show, pre-rape X-play. etc.

Reynolds

Basically, they keep sliding off the edge of things 'we' like.

Star Trek? Acceptable. 2.0? No.
Miyamoto's bio? Yes. Skateboarders and UFC fighters? No.
Geeky hosts making bad jokes about video games/Japan? Yes. Non-geeky hosts making bad jokes about anything else? No.
Video games that are almost porn? Yes. Those asshole hosts making bad jokes about porn stars? No.