Hey,
I used to have a lot of respect for this man and Extended Play. Then it became a crappy show called X-Play. Later still, it has lost all semi balance of form by getting rid of reviews. I may not respect him anymore, but sometimes the old Sessler comes out and plays.
From Digg- For this week’s Sessler’s Soapbox, Adam Sessler brings up an issue that’s old, but still unfortunately valid. That is, he, like many people, is fed up with the amount of racist and homophobic talk on Xbox Live. As he points out, the situation is just getting uglier all the time.
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Showing posts with label TechTV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TechTV. Show all posts
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Friday, July 28, 2006
The Arrested Development of G4 continues...
Hey,
According to a post from a very good TV blog known as TV Squad, Arrested Development, one of the best TV shows to air in the past 2 decades, will be rerun on G4.
I can't believe it.
This is in line with G4 wanting to become a Spike TV/MTV/X-Play Hybrid (it has less to do with video games every day) but it just amazes me. I hate G4 for any number of reasons, as displayed in a post made a little under a year ago on this blog. Basically it's because they gobbled up and shat out what was a wonderful TV network, TechTV, and then became less and less relevant. But I will watch Arrested Development on G4, if nothing else to boost it's ratings, and maybe, just maybe, put it back on the air. It worked for Family Guy and Futurama, so why not an infinitely better show? And yet, I am repulsed, saddened, and distraught over any mention of G4. And it's not like I really NEED to watch the show, as I own the first 2 seasons on DVD, and plan to acquire the 3rd ASAP. But I will, cause I love it that much...
Why does it have to come to this. Why must G4 take something else I desperately love? WHY!!!!!!!!!!!
-Pudge
According to a post from a very good TV blog known as TV Squad, Arrested Development, one of the best TV shows to air in the past 2 decades, will be rerun on G4.
I can't believe it.
This is in line with G4 wanting to become a Spike TV/MTV/X-Play Hybrid (it has less to do with video games every day) but it just amazes me. I hate G4 for any number of reasons, as displayed in a post made a little under a year ago on this blog. Basically it's because they gobbled up and shat out what was a wonderful TV network, TechTV, and then became less and less relevant. But I will watch Arrested Development on G4, if nothing else to boost it's ratings, and maybe, just maybe, put it back on the air. It worked for Family Guy and Futurama, so why not an infinitely better show? And yet, I am repulsed, saddened, and distraught over any mention of G4. And it's not like I really NEED to watch the show, as I own the first 2 seasons on DVD, and plan to acquire the 3rd ASAP. But I will, cause I love it that much...
Why does it have to come to this. Why must G4 take something else I desperately love? WHY!!!!!!!!!!!
-Pudge
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Mega 64, or I just found another reason G4 sucks
Hey,
Sorry about not posting, school started and I had to do a lot of work and organize clubs that I run and other crap. I'll try to get on during the weekends. Look for the second half of the Vacation post whenever I get a 3-4 day weekend. Or when I get sick. Or whatever.
Anyway, I'll start out with a link. Watch this...
http://videos.somethingawful.com/mega64/theme.mpg
Watched it yet? If it's choppy, just let it run once and then run it again. Anyway, this is the theme song for a ill-fate cable show concept entitled Mega 64. The show was to have taken old and new video games and put them in real life. Don't know what I'm talking about? Then go here...
www.mega64.com
Here you will find skits about games like Tetris, Shenmue, and Metal Gear Solid. Go ahead and watch them. I know you want to. Come back when your done.
Ready? OK. Now one more link for you. It's on the site so you might have seen it. Go here
http://www.mega64.com/g4demo.htm
Watch that video and read the article. Amazed? G4 could of had this as a TV show. I could only imagine. But, because G4 is run by brainless suits, we get this instead...
http://www.g4tv.com/fastlane/index.html
Remember Fastlane? No?
Of course you don't. Fastlane was a failed Fox show from 2003, introduced in the same season as Method and Redd as a way to "get with" the hip-hop crowd. Never worked.
So I pose the question... Why would a failed show made by Fox to appeal to teens work now? What are they thinking. Their logic couldn't be worse. It's like putting 1+1 into a calculator and expecting 4 to come out. And when it doesn't come out that way, they ignore the calculator and think 1+1=4 anyway. I mean, if I was put in charge of G4 and wanted to bankrupt them, I would do the same thing that they are doing right now. I just don't get it.
We also get a new late night block showcasing Sex, Dumbasses, and Anime, the Barbed Wire Biscuit.
http://www.g4tv.com/barbedwirebiscuit
OK, WTF is a Barbed Wire Biscuit? And what the hell does it have to do with a Jackass Ripoff, Anime Unleashed, an Internet cartoon, and a Sexed-up version of Cinnimatech?
You know what's sad? If it was still TechTV, I would of watched the Happy Tree Friends show and the Anime show. But, just like you don't go to a terrible movie for a 20 sec cameo, you don't watch an evil channel for an hour. Sorry G4, but you don't get my ratings! And I don't care if I turned around one day and you were the perfect Video Game Channel. Because you turned Mega 64 down, and denied video game fans everywhere of that greatness, I will never, ever, watch G4 of my own will again.
-May all Tetris blocks find their home someday
Pudge
Sorry about not posting, school started and I had to do a lot of work and organize clubs that I run and other crap. I'll try to get on during the weekends. Look for the second half of the Vacation post whenever I get a 3-4 day weekend. Or when I get sick. Or whatever.
Anyway, I'll start out with a link. Watch this...
http://videos.somethingawful.com/mega64/theme.mpg
Watched it yet? If it's choppy, just let it run once and then run it again. Anyway, this is the theme song for a ill-fate cable show concept entitled Mega 64. The show was to have taken old and new video games and put them in real life. Don't know what I'm talking about? Then go here...
www.mega64.com
Here you will find skits about games like Tetris, Shenmue, and Metal Gear Solid. Go ahead and watch them. I know you want to. Come back when your done.
Ready? OK. Now one more link for you. It's on the site so you might have seen it. Go here
http://www.mega64.com/g4demo.htm
Watch that video and read the article. Amazed? G4 could of had this as a TV show. I could only imagine. But, because G4 is run by brainless suits, we get this instead...
http://www.g4tv.com/fastlane/index.html
Remember Fastlane? No?
Of course you don't. Fastlane was a failed Fox show from 2003, introduced in the same season as Method and Redd as a way to "get with" the hip-hop crowd. Never worked.
So I pose the question... Why would a failed show made by Fox to appeal to teens work now? What are they thinking. Their logic couldn't be worse. It's like putting 1+1 into a calculator and expecting 4 to come out. And when it doesn't come out that way, they ignore the calculator and think 1+1=4 anyway. I mean, if I was put in charge of G4 and wanted to bankrupt them, I would do the same thing that they are doing right now. I just don't get it.
We also get a new late night block showcasing Sex, Dumbasses, and Anime, the Barbed Wire Biscuit.
http://www.g4tv.com/barbedwirebiscuit
OK, WTF is a Barbed Wire Biscuit? And what the hell does it have to do with a Jackass Ripoff, Anime Unleashed, an Internet cartoon, and a Sexed-up version of Cinnimatech?
You know what's sad? If it was still TechTV, I would of watched the Happy Tree Friends show and the Anime show. But, just like you don't go to a terrible movie for a 20 sec cameo, you don't watch an evil channel for an hour. Sorry G4, but you don't get my ratings! And I don't care if I turned around one day and you were the perfect Video Game Channel. Because you turned Mega 64 down, and denied video game fans everywhere of that greatness, I will never, ever, watch G4 of my own will again.
-May all Tetris blocks find their home someday
Pudge
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Tech TV R.I.P. or Why I Hate G4 SO MUCH!!!
Hey
I posted this on a message board a couple of days back, and I haven't updated in a little while, so here is my rant about G4
What irritated so many people about the ultimate demise of Tech TV? It because they said it was going to be a fair merger. Before the fusion, they showed G4 shows on Tech and vise versa. Then they made the name of the channel G4TechTV and basically put every show from TechTV on weekends. The TechTV shows (out of respect) removed all TechTV logos from their sets. But the G4 shows still used G4 microphones, called the website G4TV.com (including a show called that), and just ignored the fact that the Tech shows were there. Oh, and did I mention that when they first merged, G4 fired every single worker of Tech TV (even Adam Sessler) and made the re-apply for their jobs. You can tell that they didn't hire many Tech people back in the new Tech shows and slowly but surely they canceled every single Tech TV show except for X-Play (which is now more comedy based that review based and basically unwatchable compared to the old hit or miss X-Play or the godly old Extended Play) Finally when only X-Play was left, they renamed the station back to G4TV and called it a day.
It is so obvious that the station is run by clueless suits. They try to appeal to horny teens by making a digital fashion show. They appeal to hip-hoppers by putting on car shows (and I quote "with cars you want and girls you can't have"). They put on an award show because people like award shows (and believe me, if you thought the Spike TV Game Awards was bad... think Cosplay Fashion show and a CGI Mario accepting an award with bad VA and corny puns)
The only show I can watch on this horrible hybrid is Judgement Day. Not so much for the reviews (which go from saying that Graphics and Sound was nice and then quickly saying that the gameplay sucks at the end, to giving Bad Boys: Miami Takedown a good score because it's a budget-priced title) but for the rare games they highlight in the Buried Treasure segment and just for a laugh sometimes (not at the jokes). How I yearn to take a video game show seriously again. But the ultimate Video Games show (Extended Play) is long gone. That show used to review good games like a real review, and only make fun of the bad games (hilarious examples from the X-Play days (only because I can't remember Extended) Aquaman for Gamecube and Pokemon Channel) and I agreed with every review. Oh well.
So that is my long winded rant of an explanation at why I call G4 the MTV of gamers.
I posted this on a message board a couple of days back, and I haven't updated in a little while, so here is my rant about G4
What irritated so many people about the ultimate demise of Tech TV? It because they said it was going to be a fair merger. Before the fusion, they showed G4 shows on Tech and vise versa. Then they made the name of the channel G4TechTV and basically put every show from TechTV on weekends. The TechTV shows (out of respect) removed all TechTV logos from their sets. But the G4 shows still used G4 microphones, called the website G4TV.com (including a show called that), and just ignored the fact that the Tech shows were there. Oh, and did I mention that when they first merged, G4 fired every single worker of Tech TV (even Adam Sessler) and made the re-apply for their jobs. You can tell that they didn't hire many Tech people back in the new Tech shows and slowly but surely they canceled every single Tech TV show except for X-Play (which is now more comedy based that review based and basically unwatchable compared to the old hit or miss X-Play or the godly old Extended Play) Finally when only X-Play was left, they renamed the station back to G4TV and called it a day.
It is so obvious that the station is run by clueless suits. They try to appeal to horny teens by making a digital fashion show. They appeal to hip-hoppers by putting on car shows (and I quote "with cars you want and girls you can't have"). They put on an award show because people like award shows (and believe me, if you thought the Spike TV Game Awards was bad... think Cosplay Fashion show and a CGI Mario accepting an award with bad VA and corny puns)
The only show I can watch on this horrible hybrid is Judgement Day. Not so much for the reviews (which go from saying that Graphics and Sound was nice and then quickly saying that the gameplay sucks at the end, to giving Bad Boys: Miami Takedown a good score because it's a budget-priced title) but for the rare games they highlight in the Buried Treasure segment and just for a laugh sometimes (not at the jokes). How I yearn to take a video game show seriously again. But the ultimate Video Games show (Extended Play) is long gone. That show used to review good games like a real review, and only make fun of the bad games (hilarious examples from the X-Play days (only because I can't remember Extended) Aquaman for Gamecube and Pokemon Channel) and I agreed with every review. Oh well.
So that is my long winded rant of an explanation at why I call G4 the MTV of gamers.
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