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G4 brings back 'Arena' as a monthly series, hosted by Xavier Woods (AKA Austin Creed) and Gina Darling
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Since I assume you haven't, it's not like the original one was. Talent is great and I actually laugh a lot.
Never seen the original, but Gina and Austin are more than enough for me to watch this show. They are great on Attack of the Show.
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Yeah, they've built up a solid community.
When then channel is live, they regularly have at least a few thousand viewers on Twitch/YouTube.
It's not perfect and you can see them figuring things out as time goes on but it's been a very solid launch with some fun content.
It's also been the target of alt-right chuds for being too "woke," having too much diversity/LGBTQ representation and not objectifying women like the channel did in the 2000s. So that's always a plus.
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Yeah, this might push some people away but I think it makes sense.
There are a thousand ways to watch teams of "regular gamers" play against each other now. The original Arena was kind of ahead of its time in that way. I think putting known streamers and such against each other is probably the smart way to relaunch the series in 2022.
Yeah, and I feel that is part of the charm for me, specially for the Name your price show.
Agreed!
The irony is, since they do the videos live (and then upload them uncut), the talks and humor can get pretty lewd with personal talk and jokes, but not to the expense of others. So this is a more mature version of the original show even moreso (even if producers keep reminding them to keep the bad words to a minimum, since I guess it makes it harder to cut for the tv versions).
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Kevin Pereira's interview/hangout with Austin a few months back was great. I knew next to nothing about Austin before that.
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It was kind of bubbling under the surface prior but that viral moment when Frosk went off on sexist pigs leaving comments talking about which G4 women they would/wouldn't have sex with really set some of those people off.
I still see them leaving harassing comments about Frosk because of that moment like 6 months later.
I mean, keep hate-watching obviously. Views are views. But it's really pathetic/kind of scary.
To add, G4 has hosted game tournaments that people can sign up for. They've been slowly working on expanding their eSports offerings.
Yeah that was something else :/ Women says "stop being all sexist!" and then when I was trying to find all the clip on Youtube (since G4 clipped just that portion at one point) there were all these listings for "critics" labelling it as a "meltdown". Yeah, someone being pissed off at awful behavior and calling people on it is totally someone having a "meltdown" or whatever :/ What a waste of time to get worked up on and STILL be mad about or whatever. This is why I love Kassem jabs with "This is not *my* G4!!"
I searched for them on YT after this thread and the first thing YT decided to show me, before even any G4TV content, was that goblin The Quartering ..
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Indeed.
It should be noted that Fiona Nova (Attack of the Show host/'The Gunk' voice actor) is a close chaotic runner-up:
I watched their initial reveal thing and was disappointed to see Abby wasn't on camera in any capacity so tuned out
By coincidence, she just left G4. The twitter thread has some of her work on camera.
Crazy, haha.
I always remember their tips and tricks were always simple stuff like you'd read from a manual. I enjoyed the competition portions though, especially when it was for a game that was yet to be released.
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Interesting take.
What exactly made the old G4 "brilliant" that is somehow no longer there now?
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Hope she lands somewhere where she can be on camera full time. She's awesome.
I loved their old original shows like Filter, Judgement Day, Cinematech, Cheat!, Portal, etc. It was really cool to have an entire channel dedicated to videogames 24/7, and even the "commercials" were gamer-focused, like the guy playing SSX and talking about what he enjoys about gaming. The product was legitimately something I enjoyed up until they merged with TechTV and became the COPS channel.
I was just thinking about how remarkable it is that two good channels just kind of shit the bed upon their merger. Hardly any of the TechTV programming survived, and the G4 stuff just got worse over time.
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I'm honestly curious as to what you think G4 was before if you're taken aback by those random off-script clips from a comedy show.
But to answer your question: no. The channel is also this:
And this (57:47 if it doesn't bring you directly there):