G4 Returning in 2021

[Coolio55]

Oh boy! They're back just in time to talk about absolutely fucking nothing!
The games industry went artistically bankrupt in the meantime!

Also, the usual complaints of everyone having moved on and the fact that X-Play etc. in their original incarnations would be crucified today.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Can't wait to see even bigger soy boys than Sessler start talking about me being an evil nazi misogynist because I like fun games and not stupid shit like LIfe is Strange

 

[BOONES]

At first I was excited, but then i remembered how shit the mainstream gamers have become.

 

[Dom Cruise]

At first I was excited, but then i remembered how shit the mainstream gamers have become.

What if this is the start of a redemption arc for the gaming press though?

Certainly someone, somewhere has got to be thinking "what if we just talked about video games instead of preaching at people over politics?" right? And reviving something oh so 2000s like G4 means you want to return to the tone of what stuff like this was back then, right?

Right?

 

[BOONES]

What if this is the start of a redemption arc for the gaming press though?

Certainly someone, somewhere has got to be thinking "what if we just talked about video games instead of preaching at people over politics?" right? And reviving something oh so 2000s like G4 means you want to return to the tone of what stuff like this was back then, right?

Right?

If there was ever an appropriate time to violently sweat, this is definitely an example.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

What if this is the start of a redemption arc for the gaming press though?

Certainly someone, somewhere has got to be thinking "what if we just talked about video games instead of preaching at people over politics?" right? And reviving something oh so 2000s like G4 means you want to return to the tone of what stuff like this was back then, right?

Right?

I dunno, maybe it's just cause i'm becoming an old fuck but I realized a few years ago I don't really care what people think about games. At least not on a deep, willing to watch scheduled programming or pay for it level.

It turns out the only thing I wanted from gaming press was what Tips and Tricks offered me 20 years ago. Just some guides, some codes, a list of when games were coming out in the year, a few previews. That's about it.

And I feel like kids just want to watch twitch streamers act like idiots more than see them talk about the games.

Like is there an audience? Sure, but I don't think it's enough to sustain a television channel. Maybe a really small twitch channel, but like gaming news channels are a dime a dozen today.

 

[HumanHive]

What if this is the start of a redemption arc for the gaming press though?

Certainly someone, somewhere has got to be thinking "what if we just talked about video games instead of preaching at people over politics?" right? And reviving something oh so 2000s like G4 means you want to return to the tone of what stuff like this was back then, right?

Right?

Redemption arc for the lugenpresse?
They still haven’t redeemed themselves for the Maine, let alone everything they’ve done in the meantime. Just accept that once the mainstream has its claws in a hobby or topic, there’s no redemption.

 

[BooneHelm]

What if this is the start of a redemption arc for the gaming press though?

Certainly someone, somewhere has got to be thinking "what if we just talked about video games instead of preaching at people over politics?" right? And reviving something oh so 2000s like G4 means you want to return to the tone of what stuff like this was back then, right?

Right?

I wish I shared your optimism but let's face it, whoever ends up in charge will undoubtedly make the anti-G4. It'll be a situation where they'll pick someone who watched a few episodes of X-Play on YouTube and absolutely hated it because it's problematic (or something). Cut to 2021 where it's all focused on people who don't watch and it'll quietly disappear a year later.

Also I just don't see a market for it now. I mean if this was 5 years ago maybe but the audience moved on.

That being said I hope you are right.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I dunno, maybe it's just cause i'm becoming an old fuck but I realized a few years ago I don't really care what people think about games. At least not on a deep, willing to watch scheduled programming or pay for it level.

It turns out the only thing I wanted from gaming press was what Tips and Tricks offered me 20 years ago. Just some guides, some codes, a list of when games were coming out in the year, a few previews. That's about it.

And I feel like kids just want to watch twitch streamers act like idiots more than see them talk about the games.

Like is there an audience? Sure, but I don't think it's enough to sustain a television channel. Maybe a really small twitch channel, but like gaming news channels are a dime a dozen today.

Reviews used to be handy guides but even back in the day it was best to try a game for yourself and not only go by reviews, one of my all time favorite games only got middling reviews for example.

Still, I sure miss having the Ziff Davis incarnation of EGM as a guiding light, gaming was never the same for me after they folded.

I wish I shared your optimism but let's face it, whoever ends up in charge will undoubtedly make the anti-G4. It'll be a situation where they'll pick someone who watched a few episodes of X-Play on YouTube and absolutely hated it because it's problematic (or something). Cut to 2021 where it's all focused on people who don't watch and it'll quietly disappear a year later.

Also I just don't see a market for it now. I mean if this was 5 years ago maybe but the audience moved on.

That being said I hope you are right.

I'm not holding my breath that this will be good, but when we know nothing about something other than it's happening I don't see any harm in hoping for the best.

That said the main thing I'm really hoping for is that there will be an online archive of old G4 content.

 

[Syaoran Li]

What if this is the start of a redemption arc for the gaming press though?

Certainly someone, somewhere has got to be thinking "what if we just talked about video games instead of preaching at people over politics?" right? And reviving something oh so 2000s like G4 means you want to return to the tone of what stuff like this was back then, right?

Right?

I'd love to see that, but given that it's owned by Comcast, I doubt it unless 2020 ends with some kind of event that totally boomerangs on the Woke Left and SJW culture in a way that kills it all then and there.

I dunno, maybe it's just cause i'm becoming an old fuck but I realized a few years ago I don't really care what people think about games. At least not on a deep, willing to watch scheduled programming or pay for it level.

It turns out the only thing I wanted from gaming press was what Tips and Tricks offered me 20 years ago. Just some guides, some codes, a list of when games were coming out in the year, a few previews. That's about it.

And I feel like kids just want to watch twitch streamers act like idiots more than see them talk about the games.

Like is there an audience? Sure, but I don't think it's enough to sustain a television channel. Maybe a really small twitch channel, but like gaming news channels are a dime a dozen today.

I dunno, I think G4 isn't coming back as a TV channel but probably a streaming service (or some kind of add-on for Peacock) or Twitch channel

I wish I shared your optimism but let's face it, whoever ends up in charge will undoubtedly make the anti-G4. It'll be a situation where they'll pick someone who watched a few episodes of X-Play on YouTube and absolutely hated it because it's problematic (or something). Cut to 2021 where it's all focused on people who don't watch and it'll quietly disappear a year later.

Also I just don't see a market for it now. I mean if this was 5 years ago maybe but the audience moved on.

That being said I hope you are right.

Unfortunately, this is probably what we will get.

Ideally, G4 would work best as a streaming thing with both the old archive stuff and some newer versions of X-Play and Attack of the Show! but I doubt it.

If I were in charge, I'd have G4 recreate the "edgy" and "problematic" 2000's atmosphere, both as Millennial nostalgia bait (like TV Land was for Boomers) and as a sort of anti-wokeness thing to win over the younger Zoomers. It'd be like a palate cleanser and it'd have to start out small and not shoot for the moon, since this is the age of streaming so being exclusively about vidya is not an option.

 

[Haramburger]

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[Overcooked Raccoon]

I was talking about this in the G4 Nostalgia thread, but it's absolutely gonna be a streaming thing.

My bigger question is what content they'll even try doing.

It's safe to say G4's Golden years were sadly from it's inception in 2002 to (debately) the first year of the TechTV merger. Mainly due to the variety of shows, the staff from each still being on board, and the focus on gaming still. I'm more prone to early G4 in the old days of Blister, Classic Cinematech, and Portal/Cheat!/etc. Back when the focus was on games and the shows were campy as all hell. Part of what made them good were the people who worked on the shows despite knowing it would be extremely niche. Like Cory Rouse being a fucking gibbon on Cheat! was amazing because you knew exactly the dumb shit you were watching and were interested in it.

I think a current G4 on streaming is good, but the programming will determine it. We don't need an AOTS when there so many other outlets on youtube that cover the same ground. X-Play I can see coming back but it would have to be with Morgan as Sessler has gone off his fucking rocker since Rev3.

 

[Deadman]

Welp, THAT ruined my day!

 

[2021Murder]

View attachment 1470790And then theres this asshole.

Shes right though, but all the stuff she mentioned is why it was great. They even had these videos on their site where the female hosts would dress up in sexy cosplay costumes and say a lot of double entendres, like a 1970s uk sex comedy or sex chat adverts

I cant imagine how dogshit a modern g4 will be. They would have been better off simulcasting on cable and online. With uncensored online. A decade ago.

I bet g4 will give anita a show or some dumb shit like that.

 

[BooneHelm]

Welp, THAT ruined my day!

We all knew Sessler would be somehow involved. It was only a matter of time because what the hell has he been doing since he left G4? Does anyone remember when he showed up for the only year Spike TV did E3 coverage? They broadcasted across the street and it was just Adam Sessler and some other guy quietly sitting at a desk between conferences. It was around that time he started getting weird.

All in all I liked Sessler back in the day but now...well just look at him...

 

[Dom Cruise]

We all knew Sessler would be somehow involved. It was only a matter of time because what the hell has he been doing since he left G4? Does anyone remember when he showed up for the only year Spike TV did E3 coverage? They broadcasted across the street and it was just Adam Sessler and some other guy quietly sitting at a desk between conferences. It was around that time he started getting weird.

All in all I liked Sessler back in the day but now...well just look at him...
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The decline of Sessler depresses the hell out of me, the guy was basically my hero to teenage me, now look at him.

I just wonder what the hell went wrong, are all California people that damn deranged and mental?

 

[Rotollo]

I cant believe people think this has the chance of ever be good, G4 only worked as a TV channel and once the internet age came in full force it screwed it so hard it couldn't sustain itself. Thats why it became the cops and cheaters marathon it always was known as from then on.
The history channel was more on topic than this was in it's twilight years.

Welp, THAT ruined my day!

So this is what the power of Cocaine looks like

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

lol wonder if Woke Sessler will tank Nu-G4 as fast as he tanked Rev3Games...

 

[A Pox]

Let me tell you a little story about Kevin Pereira.

Kevin was an old school SomethingAwful goon that followed the same decline that SA had. Falling deeper and deeper into drugs and pozzed politics.

He tried to buy the G4 archive and brand name from NBC. They refused.

So he opened his own Twitch channel named The Attack. It was him and his friend Alex Corea doing a public cable version of Attack Of The Show with stunts. He hired more and more employees while it was in the red. Kevin stepped out and replaced himself with a piece of eye candy as he stole the formula to Attack Of The Show in full. Because that's what Twitch kids want, a gaming news recap of day old stories poorly read from a teleprompter.

Some how he conned Disney into paying him to make a thirty minute version for Disney XD.

So the Twitch channel turned from doing a two or three hour live show into watching them film a TV show with barely any interaction.

When the show finished filming the season, the Twitch channel was dead. They went from 1000 to 2000 viewers on average to less than 200. Employees of the channel tried doing gaming streams and Kevin came back to do a morning show. But they couldn't recover the momentum they had before doing the show.

So Kevin decided to purchase some view bots. And despite growing up on the internet, he managed to show his view bot password on stream. Leading to an emergency stream where Kevin deleted the Twitch channel at the end so Twitch couldn't ban him.

With The Attack dead, the employees tried to do their own spin off using his camera equipment. Cybergarbage. Showing that wacky & zany SA humor from 2000. It tanked and all the employees moved on.

All the eye candy moved on to their own personal Twitch channels where they still stream to this day for a small crowd of simps.

Kevin would make a new Twitch account where he do random streams where he would drum to music videos he edited together out of movies he liked.

Enter the G4 reboot. Every piece of eye candy crawled out of the wood works to try to ride the #MeToo wave and say that Kevin basically raped them by allowing Alex and a producer to be mean to them and pressure them into doing stunts. Nobody cared or noticed.

Kevin continues blow all his basic cable money on whatever whim he can think of. Currently it's lasers and building a "mobile studio" he can live out of. And drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Let me tell you a little story about Kevin Pereira.

Kevin was an old school SomethingAwful goon that followed the same decline that SA had. Falling deeper and deeper into drugs and pozzed politics.

He tried to buy the G4 archive and brand name from NBC. They refused.

So he opened his own Twitch channel named The Attack. It was him and his friend Alex Corea doing a public cable version of Attack Of The Show with stunts. He hired more and more employees while it was in the red. Kevin stepped out and replaced himself with a piece of eye candy as he stole the formula to Attack Of The Show in full. Because that's what Twitch kids want, a gaming news recap of day old stories poorly read from a teleprompter.

Some how he conned Disney into paying him to make a thirty minute version for Disney XD.

So the Twitch channel turned from doing a two or three hour live show into watching them film a TV show with barely any interaction.

When the show finished filming the season, the Twitch channel was dead. They went from 1000 to 2000 viewers on average to less than 200. Employees of the channel tried doing gaming streams and Kevin came back to do a morning show. But they couldn't recover the momentum they had before doing the show.

So Kevin decided to purchase some view bots. And despite growing up on the internet, he managed to show his view bot password on stream. Leading to an emergency stream where Kevin deleted the Twitch channel at the end so Twitch couldn't ban him.

With The Attack dead, the employees tried to do their own spin off using his camera equipment. Cybergarbage. Showing that wacky & zany SA humor from 2000. It tanked and all the employees moved on.

All the eye candy moved on to their own personal Twitch channels where they still stream to this day for a small crowd of simps.

Kevin would make a new Twitch account where he do random streams where he would drum to music videos he edited together out of movies he liked.

Enter the G4 reboot. Every piece of eye candy crawled out of the wood works to try to ride the #MeToo wave and say that Kevin basically raped them by allowing Alex and a producer to be mean to them and pressure them into doing stunts. Nobody cared or noticed.

Kevin continues blow all his basic cable money on whatever whim he can think of. Currently it's lasers and building a "mobile studio" he can live out of. And drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

Fucking lol, I was wondering what happened to that guy.

I always thought it must have been hard to go from hosting a nationally syndicated TV show to obscurity overnight, now I see he clearly went insane from it, which makes perfect sense.

Probably the same deal with Sessler too.

At the very least good on Kevin Pereira for trying to get us an archive of G4 content it seems.