Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: NeoThunder on April 11, 2007, 08:05:01 PM
Title: G4 TV launches Wii channel....sorta
Post by: NeoThunder on April 11, 2007, 08:05:01 PM
Acording to the latest episode of "Attack of the Show". The G4TV station has launched it's own Wii channel, however it's a website, But it's still entirely Wii friendly so you can watch videos, check video game news in "The Feed" and view photos. Hopefully they will add more on down the road......check it out
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Post by: ShyGuy on April 12, 2007, 05:55:36 AM
I checked it out. G4TV seems boring.
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Post by: Dirk Temporo on April 12, 2007, 07:11:22 AM
It is boring. The only reason to ever watch it is for Kaiju Big Battel.
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Post by: NeoThunder on April 12, 2007, 08:10:29 AM
Attack of the Show and Xplay are the only two shows I watch on there that are video game related
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 12, 2007, 08:23:46 AM
Quote Originally posted by: NeoThunder Attack of the Show and Xplay are the only two shows I watch on there that are video game related
Same here, but the only other shows I watch are Arrested Development, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and Cheaters. Most of those come on in a row right about now - AoTS, JKX, AD, then XPlay. Otrher times Cheaters just comes on and I'm too lazy to turn the channel.
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Post by: Adrock on April 12, 2007, 08:29:47 AM
F*ck G4TV. They ruined TechTV. And Adam Sessler is a douche. Not even Olivia Munn's hotness can balance out his unrelenting douchebaggery.
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Post by: NWR_pap64 on April 12, 2007, 08:47:45 AM
I HATE G4.
I hate Tommy Tallarico, I hate Morgan Webb, I hate Adam Sessler, I hate the guy that broke a DS out of spite, I hate EVERYONE that works there. HATE HATE HATE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!!!!!!!!!
*Ahem
I not a big fan of G4.
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Post by: Adrock on April 12, 2007, 09:08:34 AM
Morgan Webb wasn't annoying when X-Play actually reviewed games without the forced sarcasm and failed attempts at humor, which was also before they made her into this game goddess sex symbol.
G4 is a total joke of a network. Why is there so much Star Trek? And Cheaters? What the crap...... It needs to be a gaming and computing channel again.
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Post by: nickmitch on April 12, 2007, 10:34:57 AM
Quote Originally posted by: Adrock F*ck G4TV. They ruined TechTV. And Adam Sessler is a douche. Not even Olivia Munn's hotness can balance out his unrelenting douchebaggery.
Are you thinking of Kevin Pereira? He's the one opposite Olivia Munn on AOTS. Adam Sessler is on X-Play.
Quote I hate the guy that broke a DS out of spite
That was Kevin Pereira. He didn't break it out of "spite." It was a joke. . .a really bad joke. It was during that whole thing with the DSLites cracking on the left hinge.
That said, I watch G4. I enjoy X-Play's reviews; although, the "skits" that they use as episode fluff are a bit annoying, and the joking can get in the way of some of the reviews.
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Post by: Adrock on April 12, 2007, 11:12:10 AM
No, I meant Adam Sessler. That guy has always irked me. I just used Olivia Munn as an example of someone on G4 who isn't annoying since others like Tina Wood either left the network or got fired.
I actually don't mind Kevin Pereira. I'm not about to go out of my way to watch Attack of the Show but if it's on, it's not like I'm so irritated by Pereira that I have to change the channel.
Anyway, I find this G4 TV channel kind of useless. I guess it's nice that Wii is getting enough attention to cause such a thing to happen though.
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 12, 2007, 05:09:21 PM
G4TV sucks. I still don't quite understand how they screwed over TechTV, but man they really f*ed over a lot of people, and their entire audience. If it's called "TV 4 Gamers", then why in the Hell do they just show stupid crap like 7-year old Man Show episodes, Cheaters, COPS, Star Trek, Jamie Kennedy, etc. The channel simply sucks.
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Post by: NeoThunder on April 12, 2007, 06:26:07 PM
OK, what happened was the person or company that owned techtv was wanting to sell the network. G4TV didn't have that big of an audience so they bought out TechTV and all the shows that were on that network were integrated into G4 and some shows were dropped, and the name changed to G4TechTV so people understood that the two stations merged. After awhile the merge name was dropped and it became G4 again.
However since they really gained a bigger audience and an audience interested in other things besides video games. They had to taylor their programing to other things. It's still kind of a channel for nerds, just not strickly computer nerds. There are a lot of things I hate about it. I do wish I had two different channels because I loved TechTV, and having G4 for all my video game goodness.
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Post by: MorningStar on April 12, 2007, 08:41:36 PM
You know, I don't mind X-Play at all, the only time I hate it is when they review crap games. Most of the time though, I either like their stuff or at the very least find the content bearable. AOTS, though, is utter trash. While watching Munn is awesome, the whole "live" thing I think doesn't work out too well due to the bad jokes that Pereira tends to try to pull. I hate him.
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Post by: stevey on April 13, 2007, 02:24:54 PM
*Warning rant ahead*
I hate the current G4! I can't stand what they did to the network. I miss the old g4 I watched g4 years ago, before they bought tech tv, before the nintendo hating loser Kevin Pereira got hired, back when the channel first started. Back then it was gaming nearly 24/7 (beside paid programing) all the shows were none bais and never did anyone ever bash nintendo for being tiku tiku tiku! The only downside was you could tune in for an hour and see all of the new shows they air all week. Then E3 05 came along and finaly there were new shows daily but perfect g4 woundn't last long as they merge with tech tv 4 week later and turn into the beast G4tech tv which canned all of tech tv shows but two (why bother, if they weren't gonna use any of tech tv show) and shoe computer in all of g4 old shows (why the hell did they think it was a good idea to tell me about new cellphones during a video game top 10 show). As more time went by all the show got worst and worst and slow got canned one after another and now DAYS go by without a single video game related show being aired. I cant stand to watch more than 20 min of their channel.
/rant
Quote I hate EVERYONE that works there.
Careful about what you say, bloodworth worked there. You dont hate him do you.....
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Post by: Ceric on April 13, 2007, 03:52:40 PM
I can't say what I want to say because of politics but... Lets just say that same famous killing and prosecution group had members that where of the type of the ones they prosecuted. They thought they where different and great because they were theirs.
On that note I do like Bloodworth.
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Post by: Bloodworth on April 13, 2007, 10:48:37 PM
Yeah, awkward moment. I actually know these people.
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Post by: TMW on April 14, 2007, 05:41:56 AM
Am I the only one who watches Ninja Warrior?
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Post by: nickmitch on April 14, 2007, 12:56:09 PM
Regularly? Probably. Technically? No.
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Post by: NWR_pap64 on April 14, 2007, 01:29:24 PM
Quote Originally posted by: Bloodworth Yeah, awkward moment. I actually know these people.
I actually forgot you used to work there. My bad. I didn't mean it when I said I hated everyone at G4. I WAS joking about my hatred towards the channel. But I do hate how the channel is handled, and I especially hate the obnoxious hosts.
You can't tell me to respect them there!
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Post by: Ages on April 14, 2007, 01:41:51 PM
Quote Originally posted by: TMW Am I the only one who watches Ninja Warrior?
Heh, nope. I love Ninja Warrior. But I do echo the sentiments of everyone else here. G4...I don't even know what the hell it is anymore. It was a gaming channel, and even though I hated many of the shows (pretty much anything that had Tommy Taralico in it), I had to support it because it was pretty much my dream realized. I had always had high hopes for the network even though I knew it'd never be what I had envisioned (Starcade ftw). In its original format it was...tolerable. Fast forward to today and the network isn't even a shell of what it once was. The tag is "TV for Gamers" but good luck finding anything game related on it. There is absolutely no reason to tune in anymore, save for Brainaic. Last time I flipped through they had a show that was dedicated to showing Youtube videos....I think that speaks for itself. I can honestly say I hate the network with a passion. Didn't know Bloodworth worked there though. What's the story behind that?
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Post by: BranDonk Kong on April 14, 2007, 04:05:28 PM
I forgot about Ninja Warrior...but it's actually pretty boring because it's always the same obstacles. I find MXC on SpikeTV more interesting.
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Post by: Nile Boogie on April 14, 2007, 04:52:17 PM
Well I for one don't have cable so I don't hate anything on the channel. With that being said, any content that I can get for free on my Wii is all right with me.
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Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on April 14, 2007, 07:37:06 PM
"TV for Gamers" doesn't necessarily mean TV thats all about games. "TV for Gamers" could have been redifined to mean "TV for things Gamers are interested in" or "TV for make benefit of Gamers".
Shows like Cheaters, JKX and Cops are just reminding you how much happier and safe you are locked away in your house playing videogames than going out and having to deal with lying/joking/a-hole people in the real world. Ninja Warrior & MXC is there to remind you how pointless it is to go out and get exercise, you'll still never complete the obstacle course anyway, besides if you even get close, you'll just look stupid trying. You might as well stay home and act a fool playing Wario Ware and Wii Sports instead. Star Trek..... not sure what Star Trek is there for, but my guess is its just to appeal the the old school nerd that they are tyring to attact to the channel. The kind of nerd that likes to play dress up and go to conventions to meet other nerds to discuss the intracacies<sp> of the Enterprises' technologies.
I'm pretty sure that covers all of the networks non-gaming related programming, as I only watch the channel during a certain time period before work monday --> friday.
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Post by: Ages on April 14, 2007, 08:34:53 PM
heh, after describing all that, it seems as if G4 really has no idea what kind of demographic it's searching out
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Post by: Bloodworth on April 14, 2007, 11:19:58 PM
Ages, I worked on Cheat (not Cheaters) from October - December. I did strategy videos on a bunch of games like Elite Beat Agent and Twilight Princess.
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Post by: UltimatePartyBear on April 16, 2007, 05:19:57 AM
Quote Originally posted by: TMW Am I the only one who watches Ninja Warrior?
They made a show about a third rate beat-'em-up?
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Post by: NeoThunder on April 16, 2007, 07:22:07 AM
I like how this thread talks about the G4 Wii channel it was started in the first place for. Has anyone even bothered to check it out or are we all busy bitching about the channel
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Post by: Nile Boogie on April 17, 2007, 06:34:30 AM
Quote Originally posted by: NeoThunder I like how this thread talks about the G4 Wii channel it was started in the first place for. Has anyone even bothered to check it out or are we all busy bitching about the channel
Good Point. I checked it out and it's not bad at all. The more exclusive stuff for Wii the better right?
