G4 nostalgia.

[SolidZone 26]

Remember G4 the channel for gamers? The channel was Ok before they went full sellout. What shows did you guys enjoy? Mine was Cinematech.

 

[epigenes]

loved me some X-Play. adam sessler and morgan webb are the only credible games journalists. they actually recommended good shit like okami, not just the latest call of duty
attack of the show was kinda meh, but Ninja Warrior was awesome when I was in middle school. used to come home after class and watch idiots try to beat Stage 1 for like 2 hours while procrastinating my homework

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

Man I miss G4 and I miss TechTV. It was great when both were around, if I wanted to watch gaming stuff G4 was it, and TechTV for the nerd tech talk.

G4TechTV was okay but it was clear it wasn't going to work that well.

 

[Overcooked Raccoon]

The classic Cinematech with the white background and list of games counting down is without a doubt something that gives me chills even now.

The presentation for that show was like 10 years ahead of it's time, mixed in with the amazing music they used as bgm, it was like one of the best presentations I've ever seen for a show like it.

Here's an idea of what I'm talking about:

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

There's a fella that has over 20 hours of cinematech on his channel with other g4/techtv stuff. Quality isn't the best but it's probably the best you'll ever find.

 

[Least Concern]

I liked being able to see the real gameplay of a game (as opposed to a well-produced advertisement) and make judgments of a game on that before buying. This was before YouTube and Twitch, so you couldn't as easily just pull up real gameplay footage of any particular game you were interested in as you can now. And I imagine this stuff was cheap as heck for them to produce since for the most part they didn't need actors or scripts or anything for their shows.

 

[c-no]

Loved watching G4 when I was younger, seeing episodes of Cinematech where you see gameplay for all kinds of games, even ones that weren't available in ones own country and episodes of Cheat!. Don't know how good the suggestions from Cheat! were but I enjoyed watching it nevertheless. Can't say the same for when G4 merged with TechTV since I wasn't really into much of Tech TV's stuff back then as a kid. The channel really went to shit when they thought things like Cops and The Man Show were some how fitting for a channel meant for gamers and people into technology. Gave one an idea how clueless the people running the channel can be when they somehow think shows meant for Spike TV and Comedy Central can somehow fit into a channel made for gaming and technology.

 

[HumanHive]

They claim the fall of G4 was inevitable, but now entire companies are built on cute girls streaming and playing pranks on other cute girls. It was just typical exec retardation. Same thing happened to MTV; remember when the channel was about music videoes?

 

[Oddjob OTP]

They claim the fall of G4 was inevitable, but now entire companies are built on cute girls streaming and playing pranks on other cute girls. It was just typical exec exceptionalism. Same thing happened to MTV; remember when the channel was about music videoes?

I remember reading an interview with an MTV exec about them phasing out music videos. Basically, the gist was that who in the era of YouTube would bother watching videos selected by some cockfag at MTV? Not to mention that music has become more and more fragmented and nobody except teenage girls still cares about pop music. G4 probably had the same problem with Let's Plays eating their lunch and their entire roster of notable personalities was Adam Sessler, Morgan Web, Tommy Tallarico, Olivia Munn, Kevin Pereira, and that Mormon girl from Real World New Orleans (for some reason) who were all on the border of becoming How Do You Do Fellow Kids.

 

[c-no]

I remember reading an interview with an MTV exec about them phasing out music videos. Basically, the gist was that who in the era of YouTube would bother watching videos selected by some cockfag at MTV? Not to mention that music has become more and more fragmented and nobody except teenage girls still cares about pop music. G4 probably had the same problem with Let's Plays eating their lunch and their entire roster of notable personalities was Adam Sessler, Morgan Web, Tommy Tallarico, Olivia Munn, Kevin Pereira, and that Mormon girl from Real World New Orleans (for some reason) who were all on the border of becoming How Do You Do Fellow Kids.

Considering the advent of Youtube and even before that having mp3 tracks of music, one can see MTV and even G4 going the way of the dinosaur. Then again if these channels still focused on what they started off, their deaths would probably left a less sour taste in people that used to like them before they filled it with shows that had little to do respectively with music and gaming.

 

[Syaoran Li]

loved me some X-Play. adam sessler and morgan webb are the only credible games journalists.

Well, Morgan Webb is credible and has wisely stayed out of the culture wars drama in the video game industry because she's too busy actually enjoying video games.

Not gonna lie, I was kind of surprised to find out she was a genuine gamer while Adam Sessler was the hipster faker chasing a fad.

Adam Sessler is a lolcow even among game journalists thanks to a poorly hidden major drug problem and he has his own thread here on the Farms. He's a typical SJW soylent male feminist creep, complete with the obligatory beard.

Not gonna lie, when I was a twelve year old boy watching G4 on satellite TV, I had a bit of a crush on both Morgan Webb and Olivia Munn.

Olivia Munn may have been a "fake gamer girl", but she was of a different kind of fake than the ugly wokepunk dangerhairs now associated with the term. I'd consider her less of a clout chaser or grifter and more of a young actress who used video gaming to get her name out there and get her foot in the door.

By the time Anita started her crusade against gaming back in 2012, Olivia Munn was on the cast of The Daily Show and beginning to get roles in Hollywood and couldn't give two shits about any of it.

If she is woke, she's nowhere near as public about it.


G4 was pretty good back in 2004-2005 with stuff like Cinematech, classic X-Play, and some of the anime they aired on the show to cash in on the popularity of Adult Swim at the time. I got in around the tail end of their glory days, since late 2005-early 2006 was when they first started to ape Spike TV and Comedy Central, as I recall correctly.

Still trying to find that Cinematech episode about the games that caused major controversies.

I remember seeing it late one night way back in 2005, and it was cool because not only did they include the big hits that were controversial but also are acclaimed to this day (Mortal Kombat, Doom, Resident Evil, GTA III) but they also included the games that were only known for their controversies (Night Trap, Chiller) or were popular at the time but forgotten now (Darkwatch, Carmageddon)

 

[c-no]

Well, Morgan Webb is credible and has wisely stayed out of the culture wars drama in the video game industry because she's too busy actually enjoying video games.

Not gonna lie, I was kind of surprised to find out she was a genuine gamer while Adam Sessler was the hipster faker chasing a fad.

Adam Sessler is a lolcow even among game journalists thanks to a poorly hidden major drug problem and he has his own thread here on the Farms. He's a typical SJW soylent male feminist creep, complete with the obligatory beard.

Not gonna lie, when I was a twelve year old boy watching G4 on satellite TV, I had a bit of a crush on both Morgan Webb and Olivia Munn.

Olivia Munn may have been a "fake gamer girl", but she was of a different kind of fake than the ugly wokepunk dangerhairs now associated with the term. I'd consider her less of a clout chaser or grifter and more of a young actress who used video gaming to get her name out there and get her foot in the door.

By the time Anita started her crusade against gaming back in 2012, Olivia Munn was on the cast of The Daily Show and beginning to get roles in Hollywood and couldn't give two shits about any of it.

If she is woke, she's nowhere near as public about it.


G4 was pretty good back in 2004-2005 with stuff like Cinematech, classic X-Play, and some of the anime they aired on the show to cash in on the popularity of Adult Swim at the time. I got in around the tail end of their glory days, since late 2005-early 2006 was when they first started to ape Spike TV and Comedy Central, as I recall correctly.

Still trying to find that Cinematech episode about the games that caused major controversies.

I remember seeing it late one night way back in 2005, and it was cool because not only did they include the big hits that were controversial but also are acclaimed to this day (Mortal Kombat, Doom, Resident Evil, GTA III) but they also included the games that were only known for their controversies (Night Trap, Chiller) or were popular at the time but forgotten now (Darkwatch, Carmageddon)

In regards to Cinematech, weren't those known as the G4 reports on sex and violence in games? I remember seeing those years ago as a kid when the likes of GTA caused an uproar on both ends after San Andreas came out and people found out about the hot coffee.


Edit: found them

 

[Syaoran Li]

In regards to Cinematech, weren't those known as the G4 reports on sex and violence in games? I remember seeing those years ago as a kid when the likes of GTA caused an uproar on both ends after San Andreas came out and people found out about the hot coffee.

I'm not entirely sure, actually.

I think that might have been something else entirely, but I may be wrong.

As far as I know, this was presented like a normal episode of Cinematech with the theme of the episode being video game controversies.

EDIT: That's not the thing I'm talking about. It was a normal episode of Cinematech with the game footage montages. What you posted looks more like a dedicated special.

I also remember the Cinematech about 1998, which is often looked at as "the greatest year in video games" the same way 1939 is seen as "the greatest year in cinema"

Given the landmark titles that came out in 1998 like Resident Evil 2, Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot: Warped!, and Final Fantasy VII (technically that one's 1997, but it's often lumped in with the 1998 landmark titles), I can see why.

Honestly though, I think 2001 is more deserving of the title for the Greatest Year in Video Gaming, or at least is tied with 1998 for that spot.

 

[c-no]

I'm not entirely sure, actually.

I think that might have been something else entirely, but I may be wrong.

As far as I know, this was presented like a normal episode of Cinematech with the theme of the episode being video game controversies.

EDIT: That's not the thing I'm talking about. It was a normal episode of Cinematech with the game footage montages. What you posted looks more like a dedicated special.

I also remember the Cinematech about 1998, which is often looked at as "the greatest year in video games" the same way 1939 is seen as "the greatest year in cinema"

Given the landmark titles that came out in 1998 like Resident Evil 2, Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Crash Bandicoot: Warped!, and Final Fantasy VII (technically that one's 1997, but it's often lumped in with the 1998 landmark titles), I can see why.

Honestly though, I think 2001 is more deserving of the title for the Greatest Year in Video Gaming, or at least is tied with 1998 for that spot.

Far as memory serves, I think you are on to something in regards to video game controversies but unfortunately, I can't remember much of that one off the top of my head. Trying to look up the cinematech on video game controversies, the 1998 one did pop up as one of the search results.

 

[HumanHive]

I remember reading an interview with an MTV exec about them phasing out music videos. Basically, the gist was that who in the era of YouTube would bother watching videos selected by some cockfag at MTV? Not to mention that music has become more and more fragmented and nobody except teenage girls still cares about pop music. G4 probably had the same problem with Let's Plays eating their lunch and their entire roster of notable personalities was Adam Sessler, Morgan Web, Tommy Tallarico, Olivia Munn, Kevin Pereira, and that Mormon girl from Real World New Orleans (for some reason) who were all on the border of becoming How Do You Do Fellow Kids.

G4 and MTV went downhill BEFORE the rise of youtube and such. It's nothing but a sour grapes explaination.

 

[Pissmaster]

Icons was a pretty good show

 

[Kacho]

I remember back in like 2005 G4 had this special series called Video Game Vixens which just revolved around saying a bunch of female characters in video games were hot and trying to decide which one was the hottest. It was retarded but it makes me pine for simpler better days. That shit would never fly now. You'd be more likely to get a show where a couple trannies decide which developer is the most misogynistic these days.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

 

[Dom Cruise]

I liked TechTV better but G4 was fun for a while there too.

Cinematech was great, I still vividly remember the first time I saw the intro for Rule of Rose on there (I think it was the late night "Nocturnal Emissions" spin off) and being completely blown away.

I also remember a pretty interesting show called Filter that would count down various "top ten" lists like the "top ten trippiest games" and would feature various game journalists as talking heads, Filter was where I first saw clips of the Zelda CDi games' animated cutscenes, they also referenced Zero Wing's "All Your Base" (maybe in the same episode?) although I first saw that on X-Play.

Does anyone remember a machinima show they had that would use games like Second Life and WoW? I think it was called Portal, that one seems to be forgotten.

Icons was a pretty good show

Yup, that was a good one, very informative.

Not gonna lie, when I was a twelve year old boy watching G4 on satellite TV, I had a bit of a crush on both Morgan Webb and Olivia Munn.

I totally had a crush on Morgan, I'm still sad she turned down the offer to pose for Playboy.

At least Olivia Munn went topless in Magic Mike.

Honestly though, I think 2001 is more deserving of the title for the Greatest Year in Video Gaming, or at least is tied with 1998 for that spot.

2001 is my personal favorite year for gaming.

 

[Dimetrodon]

G4 and MTV went downhill BEFORE the rise of youtube and such. It's nothing but a sour grapes explaination.

Yeah, I think people are forgetting that from 2001-2004, a lot of pre-YouTube video streaming content started to appear online. Plenty of sites let you watch music videos and GameSpot, among others, hosted video reviews and E3 coverage. Fuck, I remember in 2002 watching full episodes of different anime series on the Toonami Reactor and on Manga.com.

Really, it's just weird how so many people act like video streaming didn't exist in the early 2000s. It was a lot more limited, sure, but it was there.