Interesting.
A streaming G4 channel could work, I still think this might be in response to Venn Though.
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IGN: G4 is Coming back in 2021
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Interesting.
A streaming G4 channel could work, I still think this might be in response to Venn Though.
I loved the original Arena. I feel like it was only on after 11 PM or something because they were playing M-rated games. At least that's what I remember.
But after Wil left, I was out. They took the show in a more "macho" direction with the new hosts.
This is the first time I have smiled all month
We had to suffer this year, so we may ascend in 2021
We had to suffer this year, so we may ascend in 2021
i really enjoyed the combination of video game clips tied to various weirdo songs. Also i was young at the time, so I only got games around Christmas and my birthday. This was before youtube was really a thing and we had a family computer that i couldnt always use, some times those clips were a way for me to experience part of a game I might not otherwise ever get the chance to play. On top of all of that, it was just sort of a cool, weird creative show.
Agree 100% on this. Seeing a trailer for Yakuza on I think NE pack in the day is what got me to want to try the series in the first place. Another episode I vaguely remember just had random splices of Silent Hill stuff cut in throughout the episode. It was a great kind of weird and I would love to see that series come back in some form.
In the end its going to be disappointing. Its telling they can't say much about what the fuck it even is.
This seems to be a well-planned tease at the moment. I'm sure there will be an official announcement sooner than later.
Olivia coming back would be like getting ... I have nothing to compare it to honestly. I just don't see it happening.
I was only 8 in early 2005 when I started watching G4 and I remember Cinematech was one of the first shows that grabbed me. I was still very much in my pure enthusiast phase of gaming where I just got excited whenever I would see clips or screens of a game anywhere. This was doubly the case here where I had not really discovered the internet yet, and the idea of seeing all these games on my primary entertainment mode, television, was very appealing and novel to me. I didn't know or care about the industry or news or any of that, I just wanted to see the games, and Cinematech was a great way of providing me what I wanted. I probably didn't appreciate the skill and artistry that went into each episode, but it was always an engaging way of exposing me to the wider world of games at the time and possibly helped further my love for the medium.
I kinda just want this to be a rebroadcasting of all their old content with nothing new, just for the sake of having high quality archives made by people as a lot of the archives on YouTube were recorded off cable in shoddy quality. Then again, I'd be surprised if the company kept the tapes.
Olivia Munn is too focused on her Hollywood career to wanna come back to Indie TV. I don't know what Morgan has been up to all these years. Also Sessler was the glue that held the show together. If he's not involved in some capacity, don't think the show is worth watching then
Cops was cancelled earlier this year. If G4 comes back, they won't be airing it.
I like old G4, but some of that old stuff works better if you leave it in the past. Something like Sensitive Sess is best rewatched on YouTube every 6 months or so when you can laugh and go, oh boy it's good we don't do that anymore.
Fine, your "bets" would just be horrible financial investments.
If they're smart, they would. Assembling a bunch of people who hosted G4 over 10 years ago would not be worth the money put into this re-launch. They gotta mix it up with some familiar faces and popular content creators of the last few years.
Yeah, a relaunched G4 can still be wacky and silly but what is acceptable for comedy has certainly changed since the network died.
I don't think we'll be seeing Sara Underwood cosplay as Bustice again. Heh.
Aside from the transphobic twitter meltdown documented in this thread, he has a history of transphobia in his game reviews. His review of Bujingai on X-Play oozed transphobia.
With that said, "Pokemon? This is Yu-Gi-Oh town motherfucker!" is an all-time quote.
It sounds like they have Comcast money behind this, I'm sure they're just fine.
I mean, how much do you think Ninja would cost compared to paying many lesser known people to doing a show?
I remember watching this a lot with a friend in high school. Mostly wasn't that great to me since it largely ignored Nintendo content but it has a certain nostalgia.
Yes, but in that same segment, Adam Sessler calls Pokemon "For Retarded Children". So y'know.
My original point was, like I already said
Something like Sensitive Sess is best rewatched on YouTube every 6 months or so when you can laugh and go, oh boy it's good we don't do that anymore.
This was said to someone who said they'd rather them just rebroadcast old content.
He already got the bag from Microsoft, I'm sure he would only ask for a few mill to do G4.
I would actually prefer smaller names because I think G4 was actually pretty good at elevating quite a few people in their careers (Tommy went on to do Video Games Live and buy Intellivision, Olivia obviously blew up afterwards, Kevin Rose went on to start Digg and fight raccoons, Morgan seems to be doing fine in the game industry, etc...), but I think if they wanted to go for Ninja they have the money.
Maybe my memory is faulty. I only watched it when visiting my friend (didn't have cable) but I remember thinking that there was very little Nintendo content. I feel like it was during the Nintendo is kiddy phase the gaming community went through but maybe I'm misremembering.
Did they say it's coming back to cable? Seems like the content they were producing was a little ahead of it's time and ended up not really fit for cable television.
If it is coming back, I'm sure it will be a youtube/twitch streaming thing with a collection of shows.
G4 was known for being, let's say, not very kind to Nintendo. All the old GameCube/Wii era standards - their games are for kids, their fans are crazy and probably mentally ill, the DS and Wii are gimmicks, the company is dying, etc.
Honestly I would be most excited for, as others have mentioned, an actual archive of their old shit, particularly X-Play, considering all of that completely disappeared off the face of the Earth save for a few YouTube channels saving a smattering of old episodes and best-of compilations. I would legitimately binge-watch an X-Play archive from start to finish if one ever actually existed.
As for a new thing? If it doesn't involve the old personalities, I don't see a huge point. But who knows. It's not like Adam and Morgan have been doing a whole lot lately, for example.
As for a new thing? If it doesn't involve the old personalities, I don't see a huge point. But who knows. It's not like Adam and Morgan have been doing a whole lot lately, for example.
Yeah, it's bad.
But we also should recognize how incredibly accepted that type of humor was in the 2000s. Calling things "retarded" and "gay" was socially acceptably despite being factually wrong. Sometimes I see a Facebook memory of mine pop up form 2010 and I'm so embarrassed.
Things have changed so much since even the early 2010s. Running the old material likely won't work a great deal of the time but if they relaunch with a more modern mindset, it can work.
