That mid to late 2000s period where they pushed the gamer label really hard

>tits and ass marketing
>weirdly anti-Japan bias
>Guitar Hero meals at Taco Bell
>XBOX 360 as a status symbol in America
>the attempt to replace the nerd image of gaming with a dudebro buttchugging mountain dew playing Halo 3
>general shift to multiplayer post CoD and at peak WoW

I hated it at the time but in retrospect it was the last time I actually felt connected to new games and the developers behind them.

7th gen sort of sucked. 6th gen was better.

not really. only thing i watched around that time was giantbomb and even then it was for the personality rather than games.

I still remember going to midnight launch of gears2 with a friend and smoking a bunch of weed.

>>716034346 (OP)
I hated it back then, and I still hate it now. Maybe even more so considering that it's the era where most of the current cancerous gaming trends began.

>>716034346 (OP)
Cinematech was the coolest show on G4/TTV

>>716034346 (OP)
I do not miss the SpikeTV/G4 dudebro era at all, no. Normalfags and literal children
>but thats how it is now!
No, you really have no idea how shit the "culture" was. The mid to late aughts were a cultural wasteland and the nostalgia for it today by people who were too young to really experience it would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

>>716034346 (OP)
It was worse than the era before it and opened the door for the most cancerous of normalfaggots to ruin the hobby. I hate the cringy gaymer shit that became a brand and an identity for some. The games themselves were fine for the most part but they got worse with each year (2012-2013 were dreadful) though.

>>716034346 (OP)
The only thing I miss from that era is the grittiness of certain games that is completely lacking in today's landscape.

>>716034346 (OP)
Back then I used to roll my eyes at all the tits and ass marketing, but now I realize we must defend it.

>>716034948
You are gay.

>>716035194
There was not a woman above a soft 6 on that entire network, it was incredibly patronizing then (give the nerds attainable girls to lust after!) and it's baffling now you people act like they had Spike TV levels of TnA.

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss TechTV. G4 can always burn in hell.

>>716035293
You are brown

>>716034346 (OP)
It was special, thing I most miss is Netflix party mode on the 360. We would take turns picking the absolute worst movies we could find and making the party watch them. Alien Blood was the worst I remember.

>>716035420
420, nice

>>716034346 (OP)
Nothing was woke, feminists were laughed at, and sexuality was still a common thing. Those parts were so good that overall I think things were better than.

>>716034346 (OP)
I think you're being a bit cynical about it by mashing it at together. Earlier G4 was really just about filling a journalism void regarding videogames. They had easy content with high viewership and all they had to do was relay information from various gaming magazines; this was when G4 was enjoyable to me. During their "weird anti-japanese bias" I discovered Katamari. I got to watch X-Play and see reviews for games I never heard of, AotS for videos I hadn't seen, and Cheat for Kristen Holt's legs.

No, I think a lot of people fellate it because of the culture war and they were dumb impressionable kids and nostalgic for a time when they were happy and unaware of politics, but it was a dark, soulless time that I never want to go back to. The fucking dudebro era of EA sports followed by the piss filter dime a dozen FPSes. 2003/2004 was when it started getting bad.

>>716034346 (OP)
Do I mess TechTV and G4TV? Yes. Yes I do. It was the best channel for gamers and by gamers. Until they shut down in 2014 during the rise of Zoe Quinn. Then you got the disgraced G4TV reboot with Frosk and her "Sexism in Gaming" rant that killed it along with their woke bullshit they've been cramming down everybody's throats.

>>716034694
Tiny gen alpha nigger
>>716034346 (OP)
It was actual fucking peak. Getting on x360 and booting up halo 3. Calling people niggers. Camping at midnight for releases.
>taco bell was arguably okay.
Fuck man, I miss those times

No because that stuff was reality TV for nerds who thought they were too "cool" to watch reality TV when it was all the same slop
Hated it back then and I still hate it now

>>716035313
uh huh.

>>716035592
I had a friend in high school that camped out when Halo ODST released and his dad bought him 4 copies, he gave me and my younger bro our own copies and the last copy to another friend. Gave us the copies at school the next day and we were on it as as soon as we got home

>>716034346 (OP)
Yes. The G4 era was great. I wish Motorola stuck with PowerPC. The G5 was such a flop thanks to IBM.

>>716035313
Kristin Holt was definitely above a 6

>>716034346 (OP)
>tits and ass marketing
yes
>weirdly anti-Japan bias
japan WAS the place, but it was an era of turning out mindless jrpgs
>Guitar Hero meals at Taco Bell
it's just taco bell
>XBOX 360 as a status symbol in America
false it was the ps3 ($600 no gaems)
>the attempt to replace the nerd image of gaming with a dudebro buttchugging mountain dew playing Halo 3
yes
>general shift to multiplayer post CoD and at peak WoW
yes

albeit all of this had nothing to do with g4, like really v is waxing poetics about being a dudebro cod player shows how normalfag 4chan has become

>>716034346 (OP)
Yeah but it's mostly because of how fun it was to be a young man then. I'd watch X-Play, Martin Sargent, Judgement Day etc and eat a DiGorno stuffed crust pizza, smoke Sour Diesel. Do the same thing the next night but with friends and watch SmackDown. Our guy was Mr. Kennedy.

Now weed gives kids schizophrenia, nobody hangs out with each other anymore and wrestling sucks. And no more G4.

>>716034346 (OP)
The problem of that era was that most games looked and played the same. If only some games were brown and bloom no one would have complained but literally everything was brown and bloom. It's easy to look back and only think of the good shit but do much soulless uninspired slop was produced during that time. It's also when the wild west times of the internet were truly over and social media became dominant. Instead of niche nerd communities you now had gentrified normalnigger places which would lay the groundwork for how shitty games and the internet as a whole is today. So mostly still a better era than today but also completely inferior to anything pre-2007

>>716034346 (OP)
No, that era was the beginning of the decline with vidya becoming heavily corporatized and casualized.

>>716035591
>By the gamers
The word gamer became cringe in the late 00s precisely because of that normie shit. You think Reddit is bad now? Imagine nothing but vectorized rage comics and an endless blender of regurgitated content and painful humor lacking any sense of self-awareness. Nuke the 00s and everything afterwards.

There were no "gamers" actually making professional content. It was all studio execs. The only actual "gamer" content was on YouTube, shit like AVGN and later College Humor. That's how low the bar was. There were also Newgrounds parodies and Flash videos, but you weren't going to get truly good reviews. Let's Plays in their current format started at the turn of the decade with people like PewDiePie. The bar for quality was low because the internet was still expanding, technological limits were being overcome, I remember when TiVo seemed like a dream. YouTube did its first livestream in November 2008, that's what got me to make an account. The infrastructure wasn't there to make quality content and neither was the demographic with the necessary set of skills. This was also during the 2008 financial crisis, young adults were utterly fucked, they weren't making money off of gaming content.

>>716036145
>DiGorno
>Kristen Holt
>Mr fucking Kennedy
holy soul

>>716034346 (OP)
I was never into it at the time like a lot of others ITT have said, but it's miles better than what we have now in hindsight. The earlier stuff especially from TechTV, there was dignity, authenticity, and soul behind it.

>>716034346 (OP)
>G4 Era

this sounds like bullet points for Spike TV

>>716035812
The whole network turned to shit with the inclusion of this 7/10

>>716034346 (OP)
>weirdly anti-Japan bias
some of those x-play reviews are hella racist, it's crazy they got by

Everyone back then was a retard who thought rage comics, "the narwhal bacons at midnight", holds up spork" and "the cake is a lie" were the funniest shit ever, but hey at least you could say nigger on the voice chat.

Victor Lucas uploads old episodes of Electric Playground every week. The access they had back then was so cool, took it for granted.

>>716035369
I'm yellow and you are still gay.

>>716036145
This webm is a good example of some of the charm I enjoyed. For me G4 was the first time seeing hosts break the fourth wall, being intentionally awkward with commercial outros and yelling at crew members.
I remember some segment on Attack of the Show where they were talking about beer or a brewery and had beer on set, but then Kevin Pereira explained that you're not actually allowed to drink alcohol on tv and it always stuck with me as gospel.

>>716036528
they were actually 20x smarter than todays lot when this was circulated and not taken seriously

>>716036498
I never watched it. But knowing this existed was more comfy to me than the DEI trash of today, which is the main point, silly.

>>716036830
When are lowrider jeans gonna make a comeback?

>>716036948
When women learn how to diet again.

>>716036948
Probably if (and hopefully when) chicks stop being fat again

>>716036973
>>716036989
Truth spoken within seconds of each other.

>>716036973
>>716036989
I guess. But you'd think at least the chicks who are in shape would want to flaunt their tight tummies and mog the fatties.

>>716036830
Fair enough it just got flanderized with the coomer shit. It went from "we have some female nerd hosts who are kinda hot" to "we hired a hot nerd host and some hot segment reporters" to "WE HIRED A PLAYBOY PLAYMATE FRONT AND CENTER SEX SEX SEX"
In your pic you can see Kevin seething at the state of his career

>>716034346 (OP)
Everything somehow, against all reason, just continues to get worse and worse, making what used to be shallow, annoying corporate marketing executive-produced slop seem relatively better in hindsight.
I still didn't care for G4 because reviews and segments often focused on gimmicks, costumes, or skits more than deep analysis of game mechanics or design philosophy. G4 felt like a watering down of the real "culture" of gaming so that they could appeal to normies who otherwise wouldn't give a fuck about games. This problematic trend mirrored itself in the development and design of the games that were starting to come out. Games started to become more generic as a result.
Still, at least games were still the main fucking focus and the hosts could give their actual opinions that weren't focus-grouped-to-death. Gaming media today is often bogged down by Twitter outrage cycles, apology posts, and editorial hand-wringing, where hot takes must be curated for backlash avoidance. I'll take some cringey normie humor made in good faith over the ironic detachment we get now.

>>716036665
I just remember back then things being pretty mellow? You'd get into the occasional "you don't support the troops?!11!?!" arguments but in general things were apolitical. No smartphone recording you every second. You could be more sincere and embarrassing without it following you around. I think that translated to TV.

>>716037101
>"WE HIRED A PLAYBOY PLAYMATE FRONT AND CENTER SEX SEX SEX"
Yeah I get what you mean, but I'd rather go back to that than whatever this garbage is, know what I mean?

>>716037405
Social media changed everything basically, for the worse.

>>716037559
That came out 5 years ago.

>>716037610
And the G4 stuff we are talking about is from 15-20 years ago. I am illustrating a point which I think is far too advanced for your low IQ brown brain. Sorry. I don't think we can talk further, you are apparently retarded.

>>716034346 (OP)
Corpos have never understood videogames or gamers, and the hyper-casualized mid-00s was no exception. They wanted to superimpose MTV onto gaming culture and Hollywood onto videogames when we actually have a lot more in common with tabletop and fantasy/sci-fi novel nerds.

There's a reason why games from that era are kinda missing the nostalgia train and why that style of videogame is currently losing hard to stuff that more closely resembles the 90s mindset in terms of gameplay and aesthetics.

>>716035420
>>716035478
is this still possible to enable on 360's still? or is it lost to time

>>716034346 (OP)
The main reason I miss this era is because people were normal and not massive authoritarian control freak karens.
Everybody just left each the fuck alone for the most part and that's what I want back.

I love Plain Janes so much. Poblem is they think they are hotter than they are.

>>716037101
I used to roll my eyes at this kind of tryhard pandering from outsiders who clearly weren't gaming experts, as you could just feel that something was off, like you weren’t really the target audience, even though you were supposed to be. Now, I look back and realize I was on the wrong side, and I wish I would've appreciated certain things more. What I wanted was a more dignified presentation that took itself seriously and had people that could speak the language and be hardcore experts, but if I knew the dystopia we'd be under now would be the alternative, I would've appreciated the normalcy more.

>>716034346 (OP)
G4 can burn in hell, TechTV had all the good stuff.
>Anime Unleashed
>Screen savers
>Cinematech
>Unscrewed
>Wired for sex
>extended play

>>716037942
The attitude problem was definitely starting within the industry. Gamers were getting fed up with all of the handholding and terrible monetization, and the industry response was extremely dismissive and hostile.

Of course, the end result of that is that people love the stuff that came before like Diablo 2 and the outlier stuff that came after like Souls and Minecraft, whereas the era in between is kind of a forgotten gap. The games that were made for gamers are still making money and have a legacy.

>>716038125
Don't ever start asking for shitty times again. Even if now is all kinds of shitty in a different way, that doesn't mean you should wish for a different kind of less smelly shit. Wish for good times. I worry that a lot of these threads are psyops trying to idealize a time that was shamelessly terrible.

No I don't want to go back to the time of MTV executives telling dumbass normalfags what I should like in my games. I don't want them endlessly mocking the Japanese games I did like because that was another form of culture war as the Xbox 360 was taking off. I don't know if it was Americans being defiant that they weren't number one in a medium and a general sense of xenophobia (okay I do know), but they thought you were a loser then and they'll think you're a loser now. My only hope is that people are getting sick of all this culture war shit and all the people freaking the fuck out if a woman has a hot ass or if a woman isn't attractive enough get sent by rocket into the sun, and people just play what they want to play without cultural imperialism.

>>716034346 (OP)
>>dudebro
Go back to Tumblr

>>716034346 (OP)
No but I miss the tech tv era

>>716034346 (OP)
Would cum on her face

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss the early 2000s, and turn of the millennium.

I miss early-early G4 and not the Post-Merger G4 where the Anti-Japan nonsense came in. It felt like a renegade UHF channel that was making original content for fun just to see if anyone would watch.

>>716038706
Sadly, the modern Internet and the types of people on it have stripped bare any delusions or ignorance of the idealism of human interactions we once had, and utterly destroyed people's ability to behave with the dignity and nuance required to not have this twisting of ordinary themes into something nefarious or agenda-driven. The modern lens we all look into, including back to media 20+ years ago, is unhealthy and making everyone depressed and demoralized. We never used to worry about the appearance of a woman in a game or whether a game was political because we knew the people making the game and the people online or in-person that we'd discuss it with were good faith, normal people who actually cared about gaming. But because of the insanity of the last 10+ years, anything made in good faith that can be compared to the insanity will be raked through the coals, even if an ugly woman is an honest design decision and not some feminist self-insert or whatever.

>>716038706
> I don't know if it was Americans being defiant that they weren't number one in a medium and a general sense of xenophobia (okay I do know)
You're both right and wrong.

Right in that it's a kind of xenophobia.
Wrong in that it's xenophobia from the general American public against non-Americans.

The Jewish cabal hates anything that falls outside of their cultural sphere and wants to destroy/subvert it. They cracked down just as hard on the 90s fantasy culture of 90s videogames, where we had girls in bikinis slaying orcs and somewhat complex gameplay systems. The call them "alternative spaces" and treat them as a problem.

>>716040213
>America can't hate muh based japs naturally!
America had plenty of reasons to hate the Japanese.

>>716040857
Not since their economy fell apart in the 90s.

>>716040857
Anime lined the shelves of every video store.
Japanese games sold well.
DBZ and Pokemon are a part of the American identity in the sense that every American under 40 is familiar with them.
None of this would be true if your average American hated the Japanese.

You know who did? The Jewish businessman who also hates the American stuff that Jewish businessmen went to war with when they took over videogames.

>>716034694
This. Gaming culture went from nerdy to cringe around that time. And now it's gone from cringe to feminist tranny. When will it all stop?>>716034796

>>716034346 (OP)
>>the attempt to replace the nerd image of gaming with a dudebro buttchugging mountain dew playing Halo 3

Watch your fucking mouth

>>716041314
He's not wrong. Gaming became purely corporate around that time and any time corporations take over, they destroy it. Games went from being made by passionate devs who actually played and loved games to bring made by jeets who were control (and still are) being controlled by boomers who've never touched a game and can't use their Outlook without calling IT

>>716034948
Fucking this. If you're nostalgic for Mountain Dew soaked slop, Finish the Fight™ with a noose.

>>716040213
Look, dude. Most of those weeb games just suck. It's not "anti-Japanese bias". American games have better in every era except the late 80s and MAYBE the early 90s.

>>716041775
You enjoy CoD that much bro?

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss stumbling among great games I never knew about. Discovered DJMAX from that show that plays random clips from games.

>>716041806
You're not making the point you think you are. No matter what you think of COD, you can't deny that Japan has utterly failed to make even a single noteworthy FPS.

>>716034346 (OP)
>tfw first found out about g4 during e3 2010, long after their decline
It's not fair, I could've seen true kino...
Yeah, I did check out the revival, but it left just as quickly as it came, thanks to the "DON'T WATCH IT" rant.

It was alright. The E3 coverage is fun to look back on. It's rather comical that nearly every guy had a faux hawk on the channel.

>>716041658
Halo 1 + 2 were good games that just happened to be the catalyst for something terrible.

But without gatekeeping of executives who don't understand videogames or gamers (which needs to become the norm in the future), what happened in the 00s was inevitable anyways. If it wasn't Halo that became the rallying cry for the takeover by Hollywood types, it would have been something else.

i miss g4 a lot, but i mainly miss what it stood for. at the time everyone seemed excited for the next big game, and up until that point it seemed like every year games just got better. more of what people wanted. somehow AAA games were just getting BTFO by AAA games that came out a year or two later. the future seemed bright and G4 being an entire channel dedicated to games made it feel like the ride would never end. I was a teenager back when we got g4 around 2004/2005 and it blew my mind that something like a videogame channel was even possible. but at the same time it also made perfect sense because of how amazing everything was.

these days it would be almost impossible to have a channel like g4 because games do not wow you anymore or try to be a better experience than what came before it. its just super corporitized slop designed to maximize every cent possible from the customer. half the people who work on videogames today just do it as a job and they dont even like the franchise theyre working on.

>>716041843
So I was right, you do. Wether or not Japan has made a good FPS or not is irrelevant when there's more genres out there other than Ball or Gun game.

>>716034346 (OP)
Yeah it spawns many dudebro millennial which was the antithesis of hipster cucks (see: FEZ guy), truly miss these days

>>716034346 (OP)
No, it was terrible, and it was around that time that things went to shit for gaming. The cancer has changed but i'm not nostalgic of the old one

>>716042074
ZDTV was great when I found it in 1999. Like you, i was amazed at the concept of a channel dedicated to the internet, technology, and some vidya coverage.

>>716042169
>>716042169
>Dudebros just wanna see shit like tits, explosions, violence and guns in their vidya, fun gameplay non-withstanding.
>Hipster pseuds do stuff like safe horny and try to turn their games into some wannabe high-brow social commentary art piece
Yeah these guys also ruined music in many ways as well.

>>716042169
Dudebro retards largely became woke retards.
Because they're insecure tryhards who are easily swayed by social pressure.

The relatively intelligent nerds and normie guys who aren't all that concerned with what others think of them were the ones who never drank the koolaid.

>>716041058
The successful Japanese businessman set on stealing failing American companies trope lasted into the 00s.
>>716041115
Some Japanese games sold well. Mostly the ones that weren't too Japanese, and stuff like DBZ and Pokemon got Americanised. Also, anime while present in video stores had a pretty small presence and was still relatively obscure.

What the fuck was anti-japan back then?
Also it stopped because you can just go to Amazon or some shit website now for all your gaming crap, they don't need to buy billboards or commercial time since no one goes out anymore and no one watches TV anymore. The most you'll get is some youtube ad or twitch ad and you ALREADY know about it because you're on the computer meaning you probably already know when something is coming out.

>Cinematech
>Screensavers
>Code Monkeys
>Cheat!
It was pretty nice. The girls were hot, too.

>>716042460
G4's hosts (Adam and Morgan) had a bizarre anti-Japanese bias for some reason, I think i'd chalk it up to them mostly being older Gen X'ers and being part of the pre-cool Japan era of pop culture.

>>716042459
>The successful Japanese businessman set on stealing failing American companies trope lasted into the 00s.
If that was true then I would have seen it growing up.
Didn't come across it until I started deliberately watching and reading older shit from the 80s.

>>716042459
I was there.
Anime had two aisles in Best Buy, took up a wall in Suncoast, etc.
Also, how do you get more anime than FFVII? It's pretty much THE definitive JRPG.

Japanese games collapsed in the mid-00s because the Japanese industry went full retard and arbitrarily decided that every game with a budget had to be Call of Duty.

>>716042738
>Anime had two aisles in Best Buy, took up a wall in Suncoast, etc.
I certianly DON'T miss spending $20-30 for 3-5 episodes.

>>716036498
Begone faggot.

>>716034346 (OP)
No.

Dudebro era of games was awesome.

I never watched this. Only guy in our friend group who might have was a massive Fatlus enjoyer so I doubt he would tolerate their bs.
My friends and I were staying up all night playing FATE, Oblivion, early early Dota 2, Brawl or Halo. We had no concept of mass gamer media and just played whatever. We also didn't really have "the gamer", we were all fucking dweebs in our own way but there was no stigma of "oh that's the gamer guy" because we all played games.
We would watch early YouTubers when that started to take off and that was about it. Arby n the Chief, that one guy on Machinima's Racist Santa, AVGN, some shitty Newgrounds anims. All this corporate shit completely failed to grab our attention and I feel pretty confident saying it only spiraled into the corporate nightmare we have today.
For all the successes and groundwork laid over the last few decades to "legitimize" video games, it's mostly been inclusive to either retarded corporate normieshit like this or gamers themselves who never needed to be convinced. The average normal does not know what a good game is. The average gamer today is just as ignorant and withered as one of those normals. It's been decades and still if you want any kind of passionate gamedev you need to already know a guy or tunnel your way into the good graces of likeminded individuals through exhaustive effort. This other shit is just noise.

>>716042660
>If that was true then I would have seen it growing up.
Even Adam Sandler movies from the 00s like Click did the Japanese business meeting thing.
>>716042738
>Anime had two aisles in Best Buy, took up a wall in Suncoast, etc.
If it wasn't a kids show it rarely showed up.
>Also, how do you get more anime than FFVII?
FFVII is safe anime. Anime got looked at worse by the general public when more and more anime got exported to the west that wasn't darker and edgier but also couldn't hide behind being a kids show.

>>716043254
>Even Adam Sandler movies from the 00s like Click did the Japanese business meeting thing.
Not in a negative way.

>>716042874
>Buying a shitty "pre-viewed" VHS at my local Blockbuster with like 3 episodes of whatever they aired locally as a kid because I had no money
Yeah I don't miss it either.

>>716043254
>If it wasn't a kids show it rarely showed up.
I think I remember seeing GitS and Akira at mine but the kids' anime was lumped in together with the kids cartoons section while the former got its own section at said place.

>>716042636
Most of the scripts were written by the interns btw
They also had the 00s cringey JRPG fanbase loud in their faces on the X-Play boards. So that didn't help.

I think a lot of people forget just how awful G4 was for most of its existence. The consumption and death of TechTV ended the vast majority of the actual good programming, and by 2008, all it had was X-Play, Attack of the Show, and 18 hours of Cops and Cheaters reruns. Somehow it crawled along like this for another half a decade before it was finally mercy killed.

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss G4 like you wouldn't believe.
The four legged one.

>>716043254
FFVII had plenty of fanservice. It sucks that the game industry's balls went into a Jewish woman's purse the moment that graphics got good enough to make it hot.
The video stores absolutely did have ecchi.

>>716043590
Early G4 was peak true gamer. I still remember them showing off how to mod (yes, mod) an OG Xbox controller to work on a PC.

>>716043590
Every discussion that I see about G4 is controversial at best.

The non-controversial positive opinion is that TechTV was great.

>>716034346 (OP)
I forgive that idiotic marketing era because it eventually led to the irony-layered MLG gaming memes.

>>716044098
Oh yeah, that is true. I forgot about that meme era. Now that was good shit. Irony before it was slop.

>>716043764
>mod (yes, mod) an OG Xbox controller to work on a PC.
can you imagine a mainstream outlet giving that kind of information out now? Being blacklisted from press events, banned from any online services, would be the least of their worries, hell nintendo would just straight up fucking murder the entire staff

>>716043716
FF7's fanservice is like when you feed a dog some food with his medication in it to get him to take it when he wouldn't otherwise.

The truest and hardest G4 pill to swallow was that no matter how good or entertaining the content was, it still led undesirables into the hobby (women, blacks, casuals)
It undid years of gatekeeping, but its bittersweet because you can tell a lot of the staff actually really did give a shit about vidya

>>716034346 (OP)
>>weirdly anti-Japan bias
Anon that never went away.

>>716034346 (OP)
Damn you guys old as fuck. 7th gen is the best

>>716034346 (OP)
>>weirdly anti-Japan bias
??? You're talking about the same G4 that had X-Play Tokyo Game Show specials, and played takeshi's castle

>>716039936
>the people online or in-person that we'd discuss it with were good faith, normal people who actually cared about gaming
This ending is why the internet is terrible and we can't have good things anymore.

10000 bad faith actors are sitting in wait to spend an hour reacting to whatever new game comes out spinning it to their side (too sexy, not sexy enough, too many blacks, not enough blacks) just to get views on their twitter feed or youtube channel. Nobody can just enjoy/ignore things anymore. All culture and all art must be reacted to and it must play into some kind of insane narrative that didn't exist before 2016.

The MTV style marketing was always a joke, but I can still feel a little bit of the sincerity of that era. Game devs making games they wanted to play themselves. Reviewers giving honest feedback. No talking heads reacting to everything with fake facial expressions that a toddler could interpret.

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss laughing my ass off of episodes of X play

>>716034346 (OP)
No. It was the AAA era that was about fighting to sell big mainstream games at Walmart. At least with digital games indies can exist and emulation is much better now even if the corporate side is even more hellish.

I had to buy the earliest versions of Mount and Blade off an insanely sketchy turkish website because distribution was so terrible back then.

>>716044890
>takeshi's castle

>Hey Ken, I think this guy's talking about MXC
>Let's go back to Guy LeDouche in the field with our next contestants

>>716035964
My man, I thought she was the prettiest girl on the network

>>716039936
Making an ugly woman is already a loaded design decision, because the appearances of the characters is wholly under control of the developer. You don't make a character ugly without a reason for the same reason you don't write a character as a faggot or a cannibal without a reason. Protip: most people would choose to be less ugly rather than more ugly if they could.

>>716036284
>The only actual "gamer" content was on YouTube, shit like AVGN and later College Humor.
Forgetting the king...

>>716034948
yeah and now it's fags and trannis.
it was better before you retard

>>716034346 (OP)
Yes I miss it often.

>>716034346 (OP)
No. It was dude's bro era. Also, if you liked weeb shit you were immediately assumed the worst of the worst.

>>716034346 (OP)
I generally miss when women were sexually objectified and leaned into it, and the people that were against it were a bunch of hag wall roasties who even women didn't wanna listen to.

Something happened.

>>716034346 (OP)
I’d rather Mountain Dew chugging dude bros than mentally ill trannies who want to edit and censor games they don’t even play

>>716046027
It pains me to look back at things like the 2006 E3 coverage where you don't see DEI nonsense nor a trooner in sight because how fucked the industry has fallen.

the jump from gen 6 to 7 was the last time I was really impressed by new hardware

>mfw we used to call Morgan Webb the fake gamer and thought Sessler was the cool one
how young and naive we were

>>716046358
literally this
who knew Sessler was an NPC

>>716036830
I enjoyed Candace Bailey on AoTS more than Olivia

>>716042920
It’s a shame she bogged herself. Its comical how she fucked off innawoods with her husband he builds and does all the work and she prances around half naked taking photos but will also get upitty when people call her out and she acts like she’s doing equal amounts of labor

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss when vidya was made by nerds and dorks

>>716044823
7th gen was fine but was also the beginning of the end. 6th gen had better and more iconic games though

>>716046358
>>716046376
>almost none of the arrogant, sarcastic 00s comedians were playing a character
>this was actually who they were
Sessler was obviously a casual.

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss being catered to. No one back then gave a shit about muh female representation or pandering to niggers and trannies. As cringe as G4 was I'd take those days over what we have now in an instant.

>>716046358
>>716046376
>>716046647
>reviews FF11
>solo plays as an Elvann WHM
>gets mad when he can’t do anything and constantly dies
>calls the game shit because he’s trying to melee solo as a healer as the worst magical race
he was always a retard

>>716042081
You disproved your own claim. Twice now.

>>716046758
not what I'm talking about

>>716046712
>I miss being catered to.
same, companies knew it was dorky straight white guys playing videogames and they pandered to that demographic until one day they decided they wanted to appeal to women and people who don’t even play or buy games

>>716046879
he’s jewish so this is just expected

>>716034346 (OP)
It was the beginning of the downfall, can't say I really have any particular fondness for the Gears of Gaylo era or for the start of CoD normalfags, or for the brown & bloom nastiness really.

I'm not saying that the AAA industry is any better now than it used to be, it certainly isn't, I'm just saying it has been very shit for a very long time. Fortunately there are so many games available that good ones still keep popping up somehow, even if it's kind of a monkeys and typewriters situation more so than any actual pursuit of quality from the big-money industry.

>>716046712
Imagine the smell

>>716047237

>>716036830
You are retarded

>>716036830
I need an ass pic of the one in red

>>716038706
Based post

g4 haters are literally just underage

>>716047527
You are idolizing kikes and feminists who hate your guts

>>716047527
quite the opposite actually. Most g4 haters are tech tv lovers who are all now in their mid 30s

>>716047663
funny considering g4 is literally tech tv.
xplay is the same as extended play and gamespot tv woah crazy dude
you sure you're not underaged? lmao

Wow I just love thots who pretend to care about video games because they couldn't make it anywhere else

>>716047829
I’m 34, I never hated g4 like most people did but I’m just stating a fact. A lot of g4 hate came from fans of the original tech tv

>>716046358
>loved JRPGs
>loved anime girls
Morgan was always /ourgirl/

>>716047943
> I’m just stating a fact
no, you arent
it's not a fact just because you said it dipshit.

>>716047829
>funny considering g4 is literally tech tv.
It's not. A few of the shows overlapped, but then they went from The Screen Savers to slop like Attack of the Show. Then just giving up completely, and airing COPS.

>>716047905
It wasn't perfect but it was better.

>>716048045
underage b&

>>716048081
Leo Laporte literally left screen savers it has nothing to do with the g4 merger

>>716048302
yes, yes you are
report yourself faggot

>>716034346 (OP)
It was a shit time, but I still prefer it to the Redditification of the hobby.

>e-retard shit
kill everyone in this thread

>>716048426
are you actually implying people DIDNT shit on g4 due to the tech tv merger?

>>716046879
That's no longer him. He had a meltdown last year when people were not okay with israel glassing civilians and hospitals and then deleted his account. Some other person picked up his @ when people found out that he actually deleted his account instead of deactivating it (the latter blocks your @ so other people can't use it)

>>716048529
lmao thanks for proving what I already knew
that you're an absolute fucking mongoloid who can't even read

>>716047663
Dont forget the OGs who came from ZDTV!

>>716046562
The fate for all women. Did she even have any kids? Gonna get a whole lot worse for her if she didn't.

>>716037946
I thought it was fine if a bit cheesy. It's leagues better than what the industry is like now.

It was the last time that there was any real life in the Western gaming industry and while most dudebro games are hit-or-miss with me, I can appreciate them for being decent enough single player experiences and great multiplayer experiences. Plus, I do miss when hot women were part of the marketing for games and consoles. Not even Japan does that anymore outside of hot anime/vidya chicks.

I can understand where the older dudes that liked Tech TV are coming from, but it's objectively true that we've been in a steep decline (in many respects) ever since the 7th gen, which is honestly the last gen where the games were worthwhile enough to cover and had teams full of passionate programmers working on them often enough.

>>716048776
no she’s like 40 with fake bolt ons, a bogged face, and no kids. It’s unironically over for her

>>716040857
the bias was pretty bad, their beatmania review is infamous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOvj1DGwu5A
>with guitar hero already out there and far superior, the real question is, who is this game even for?
>there is nothing fun about that game
>i think this is beginning of the era of lame guitar hero rip offs

>>716034346 (OP)
No
7th gen was the literal beginning of the end. You have to be a brain dead zoomer who can't fathom that both old and new things can be equally shit

>>716049148
It was a shit version of beatmania in all honesty using the 9th style engine when RED was already out and Happy Sky CS was out by the end of the year.

>>716048776
No she just has an only fans where she posts her pussy for a few bucks.

It's really strange to look back on my childhood now and realise just how much of a fucking loser you were if you played videogames into highschool.
You basically couldn't talk about anything except FIFA or COD with anyone except fellow nerds.
By the time I got into uni this shifted and there was a mass move into even nerdier stuff like DnD by normies.
I think I still would have prefered it to stay as it did when I was young in that I believe the quality of videogames probably wouldn't have capsized, but there's an obvious appeal to being able to play vidya as an adult without having to hide it

>>716034346 (OP)
Nah don't miss it. Garbage like Gaylo getting praised was laughable. At least now everyone shits on American games, and nlw realize only Japanese, Korean, and Chinese games are good

>>716034346 (OP)
No. It sucked, it was cringe and it went on for too long. Glad it's dead.

>>716050812
I'd take a million Jack Thompson's over one modern SJW.

>>716050743
>Korean, and Chinese games are good

>>716034346 (OP)
>Genuine hype for real games when developers actually tried
>Before online and all of it's "conveniences" shat up pretty much every aspect of gaming
>When normies were banished to madden, fifa, and sport racing games
>Plots were fine, but gameplay was king
We'll never have anything like that again. Gaming will never get better than it is now, unless you're a spec or moviefag

>>716034346 (OP)
No, the gamer label was always shit and full of posers. Tits and ass was ok

>>716034346 (OP)
I hated g4, it was normiecore and fake cunts like sessler. Why its remembered fondly here baffles me.

>>716034948
100% truth, it was also the first true corporate effort to make gamers play a certain type of video games.
Previously it was random magazines here and there but now it was amped 100%

>>716034346 (OP)
We all knew it was corporate pandering back then, but they had hot girls and video games on TV so we enjoyed it as much as we could. One thing I will say no one saw coming was Morgan Webb actually liking games and Sessler being an insane jew who hated games and gamers.

>>716035420
Netflix party mode was one of the most kino features. like you me and my buddies probably watched hundreds of movies with it

>>716034346 (OP)
when people made mods for games because they enjoyed it or it was a step towards them becoming actual devs but they didn't beg for money with patreon

Meanwhile, in Britain, our TV games programming featured Scottish men explaining why it was okay to want to fuck the school girls in Persona 3:
https://youtu.be/xXBAzPjeqsQ?si=n7mLbJ3kLSJlbmv8&t=518

>>716034346 (OP)
No, it was the beginning of the end. Critics started going full retard by this era and it was the time it doubled down on the corporate office shit rather than the indie-style of development that was present in the 90s even on an AAA level.
The only thing I liked about it was the "XTREME" aesthetic, but that's only because that aesthetic was present all over the 2000s and 90s, that's the only reason to look fondly on G4, the fact that it was the era of that aesthetic of games in marketing. But that's about it, it's like looking fondly at historical documentaries at the time for that 90s-2000s era style of presentation and aesthetics even though information was presented wrong back then just as much as it is now.
Everything else about it was proto-reddit and lame as fuck.
Also the anti-Japanese shit was the fucking worst and it went hand-in-hand with the dark ages of vidya.

>>716037559
You have to understand that the mindless oversexualization of that era of people doing it for marketing DIRECTLY led to the existence of dogshit like TLOU2. As long as it was the Japanese and small-time talented artists doing it for magazines and their own appeal and shit, it was all good, they drew appealing shit that made both genders admire it (barring the fringe hysterics, of course and of course the very same type of fags that ran G4 and are now ultra-leftist morons). The problem was pic related 90s comic book artists who can't draw anatomy to save their lives and drawing sex slop like this which no sane man would jerk off too.
A lot of millennials saw this shit and began to instead gain the opposite idea that "all sexualization le bad" which directly led to shit like TLOU2 being made.

>>716051172
because /v/ is full of redditor tourists who somehow think this place has always been a heckin safe space from evil nazis and anime like somethingawful told them it was

>1995-2000
>Seething about 2D games
>2000-2009
>seething about JRPGs
>2006-2012
>seething about games having more color than brown
etc
Sorry not nostalgic for any of this shit

>>716051837
And now people are reacting to that extreme and flocking to extremeley sexualized korean gachaslop and pantyshot otaku culture

Nope. Journo faggots were always journo faggots. They always had this sad little anti Nintendo bias, while they sucked iff brown and bloom. Anyone who posts game reviews or pines after this shit was clearly a new faggot that wasn't aroumd for GG. Fuck all journos, now and forever.

The only thing I miss about the past is being able to make friends in WoW. Everything else can fuck off.

>>716034346 (OP)
Not really.

>tits and ass marketing
All this does is go to show how hypocritical games marketing is now.
>weirdly anti-Japan bias
This was probably the cringiest fucking thing about gaming culture at the time. How could anyone feel nostalgic over this bullshit?
>Guitar Hero meals at Taco Bell
Taco Bell was cheap goyslop then just as it is now.
>XBOX 360 as a status symbol in America
If you mean it was a timebomb hopelessly prone to RRoD sure I guess it was.
>the attempt to replace the nerd image of gaming with a dudebro buttchugging mountain dew playing Halo 3
All that Mountain Dew turned them into basedjaks in the 2010's.
>general shift to multiplayer post CoD and at peak WoW
This just led to publishers more aggressively nickel-and-diming players at every turn with GaaS cancer. Nothing to be nostalgic about at all.

>>716050923
same because everybody just laughed and called him a retard. game devs actually are bending over backwards to appease a demographic who don’t even like or play or buy Videogames

>>716052131
Unfortunately correct. And until we learn, the cycle will sadly repeat, although at least some people are beginning to see the hypocrisy more clearly at least.

>>716034346 (OP)
>Do you miss the G4 era
yes

anyone else getting G4TV fatigue?

>>716034346 (OP)

Man I really loved attack of the show, there was this comfy feeling of bridging the gap between tv and internet that was extremely fun and novel to me.

>>716053431
funny how some fat autist actually took the time to make this

I miss techtv
fuck g4

>>716053650
truth hurts

>>716034346 (OP)
That picture drives me crazy because women with thin lips really set me off. Need to find pics of my ex to jork it to now, thanks OP.

>>716053431
you can hate g4 all you want, but they were just ahead of the curve on this. They knew gaming going mainstream was inevitable. Now gaming is cool and trendy and everything they marketed it as.

>>716053904
>you can hate g4 all you want,
thanks, i will
>but they were just ahead of the curve on this.
and they deserve to hang for it, like all the rest

>>716041906
You didn't miss much
It was pretty shit compared to the gaming mags we had in the 90's - 00's and the actual games.
That channel was pure dudebro weed gamer faggotry the whole way down.

>>716053904
so your saying g4 became part of the problem

>>716046376
I always knew
his schtick as "sarcastic angry gamer nerd man" was annoying and shallow
their reviews never convinced me to buy or not buy a game compared to what I read online or in mags

>>716034346 (OP)
No. Only poser faggots watched G4.

>>716054368
It was just something to have on in the background, but nothing to be taken as gospel.

>>716054025
>>716054198
I just dont fault them for capitalizing on something that was inevitable

>>716034346 (OP)
>G4
Yeah I fucking loved friendship is magic

>>716054326
meanwhile morgan was always open about what vidya she liked and that she played a lot of wow. she was also on techtv before sessler ever was working on call for help and screensavers

>>716040213
>what a thoughtful post but you're wrong
>it's the jews
You're first in line on his rocket to the sun

>>716034346 (OP)
yes, it was honestly a really cool time in gaming and kindve a new frontier for game media. I wish somehow that magic could be recaptured, but stream culture, consumerism slop, and metagaming trash has really sucked the soul out of a large swathe of the industry.

>>716036498
You know a 7/10 is in the top ~15% of women globally right?

>>716034346 (OP)
>G4
are you boomers still around? I'm 30 and I never watched or remembered G4. how many 35+ people are still using this god forsaken board?

>>716034346 (OP)
>G4
Yeah I miss it.

>>716057202
I just turned 50 this year. There is no 4chan retirement home.

>>716057272
Safe edgy

>>716034796
been watching old episodes of electric playground and they are so good compared to whatever we've had the last 10+ years

>>716052927
Me in the back, waiting for the right moment to pull her into my cubicle

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss TechTV

>>716034948
You sound like a massive faggot

>>716053431
hehe

>>716036830
I blame this shit for making my nerdy ass think I could pull women like that, what a let down for childhood me.

>>716036284
I still miss Spoony.

>>716057570
Eggless roastie

>>716057701

>>716057795
is that Asmongold? lol

>>716036532
Who the fuck is Zoe Flower? I watched EP regularly

>>716058021
Well, he IS the voice of your generation.

I miss playing Rock Band with my friends but that is literally the only memorable thing about that era of gaming. It was really fucking bad if you weren't a COD dudebro, and that game only kept my interest for a few months while i was in High School, shit got old fast

>>716057795
If you can't connect the dots between shitty culture warriors complaining about games, and them eventually joining game companies to make them worse, your definetly low IQ.

>>716058362
Oh don't worry, I see the thread of shitty culture warriors complaining about games lol

>>716058528
>is anyone else tired of antiwoke stuff
i hate you fags so goddamn much

every single G4 nostalgia post/thread can be broken down to "i was a teenager at the time and the girls made my peepee tingle"
none of this shit was ever funny unless you were a brain dead white kid from the suburbs, it was ALWAYS super fucking commercialized (everyones memories of this time are tied directly to mountain dew, doritos and vidya tie in meals, just like the OP post), and you were just children convinced this particular scripted jewish television programming was "for you"

>>716058715
Just let the kids have their fun. I was nearly 30 when it was a thing.

>>716058670
Ha, good. Stay mad

>>716058715
nigga I would just have it in the background while doing something else to stare at booba and boota, why are you making a big deal out of it, are you gay/a woman?

>>716053904
Yeah but they failed. They had a massive headstart on the competition and what they chose to do was become SpikeTV 2. You can hate someone for selling out regardless, but you can't pull the "Hate the Game" card when you're a shit player.

Original G4 was good. When it went to G4TechTV is when it started to suck, even though that's the one people say was good. I know it got even worse when it went back to just G4, but it was already bad with the TechTV merger. That's when the off-topic programming really ramped up that wasn't vidya nor tech.

>>716059517
Was Code Monkeys pre or post merger? I cant remember.

>>716036830
>zoomie too young to have actually experienced something is a huge fan of it
All the G4 fans ITT everyone. It was literally corporate slop designed to move products, the only difference is the target audience shifted.

>>716035812
I was too young to watch these shows when they were around. Not that I couldn't find a way, I merely wasn't aware.
That said, I will be beating my meat to this very woman right now because I'm harder than a diamond, not gonna lie. Who is she?

>>716059294
Because it opened the floodgates for normalniggers like (YOU) and by extension the tidal wave of subhuman brownoids we're currently drowning in. Fuck you, die.

>>716059907
Seek help nigga, being this mad ain't normal.

>>716059907

>>716034346 (OP)
Lately the realization's been hitting extra hard that the internet I grew up with is over. Free games, content made out of passion, and an online culture unique from the real world. It's all gone and there's no going back. Dunno why, but some reason I thought it would always be that way.

>>716034346 (OP)
No. It was all really forced shit. Reminds me of the man show. Peak cringe, was a bit funny when I was 5 but that's about it.

>>716034346 (OP)
>I hated it at the time but in retrospect it was the last time I actually felt connected to new games and the developers behind them.
>MSM try to ruin the gamer label
>Succeed
>that was the last time I enjoyed gaming
lmao.

>>716057795
>That game you like is woke...
No one says this because no one likes those games.

>>716034346 (OP)
>weirdly anti-Japan bias
felt more like a rivalry thing to me, any time an undeniably really good Japanese thing came out it was always highly praised, like MGS, SMT, Kingdom Hearts, FFX, etc. Even old console presentations were like that, throwing shade at eachother for fun. People had more guts and were less sensitive then.

>>716060440
we went from “never use your real name online” to “link your public account up with your full name and photo in order to post!” In under 15 years

>>716054462
>It was just something to have on in the background, but nothing to be taken as gospel.
This, G4 was peak background noise in high school. At least back when it actually showed games. It was nice having clips of games play while I did homework.

>>716034346 (OP)

Less about the channel itself and more about the fact it feels like the last time the actual customers were catered to instead of this fucking current wasteland of endlessly searching for the mythical "modern audience". Not to mention the active hostility and contempt a lot of companies have nowadays for their audiences.

>>716063074
In all seriousness, why does it seem like the videogame industry is the one industry that openly hates its audience? The last 20 years we will ask for “X” and they will give us “Y” and then call us stupid retards for not wanting “Y” and they’ll say “X” was always shit

>>716035591
hahahahaha
I hadn't kept up with that bitch
hilarious

>>716063237
>you think you want it but you don’t
where does this sense of arrogance and ego even come from? You’re making essentially a children’s toy predominately used by dorky and horny 12-35 year old white men

>>716034346 (OP)
Absolutely yes.

https://youtu.be/x3NLa4ebX4E?si=AxH8G9rJBNKnebp1
>watching g4
>talking with my bros on aim
>playing halo and melee
We didn't know how good we had it

>>716056931
no one in the fucking world uses a standard deviation when judging women

>>716063237
market research

>e-retard thread
>300 posts
i love how underages are allowed to post here nowdays

>>716064443
The only people who remember G4 when it was "good" are 30+

anime-themed games had went from cool and unique to a bunch of girly bullshit for perverts and socially awkward emo losers around this time. it was seen as equally as dumb as sports games and hunting games.

>>716064205
Anyone with an IQ above 75 does.
Sorry your IGN-addled zoomer brain can't think logically.

>>716034346 (OP)
No.

>>716052927
DSP is eternal

>>716064505
just because you are older doesn't mean you aren't underage
only underages pay attention to e-retards and if they ever did. they will always be

>>716064763
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCPDVVLUw-4

>>716064505
This has to be one of the cognitive dissonance episodes, where 80% of the posters are bots, the other half are 30+ year old men sprouting shit they have seen 15 years ago here, such as complaining about summerfags, like imagine any new zoomer coming here and staying like lol

>>716064586
go ahead, go rate 100 pics of random women and see how it plays out nigger

>>716064895
>like imagine any new zoomer coming here and staying like lol
Who do you think e-drama threads are filled with?

>>716045827
A dogshit sandwich is still a dogshit sandwich even when out up next to a terminal asscancer AIDS sandwich

>>716064815
not clicking your shit shill

>>716065410
fuck off globalist

>>716065048
Niggas that are 30+ and do the same shit they have been doing for the past 15 years, same games, same topics, same drama, this website is perfect for arrested development individuals.

>>716044823
7th gen was when gaming started to go to shit

>>716064974
I know what a 5/10 is when I see one, bro.

>>716057202
I'm 29 and I still remember G4 and decent amount of late 2000s/early 2010's pop culture. It's not like shit I did yesterday, but I do remember watching it after school and on the weekends with friends.

>>716066191
>i know my own opinion when i have it
amazing

>>716065829
And yet you're here too faggot.

>>716034346 (OP)
Pandering with casual attitudes and sex appeal was vastly more desirable than whatever the fuck companies have tried since. Which is mostly negging their own customers

>>716034346 (OP)
the early tech tv/xplay days were good. the later days with Attack of the Show were pretty cringe imo

>>716034948
Kys, the 2000s were awesome.

>>716057410
Another billion to israel

>>716066306
>>716064974
what point are you even trying to prove here?

>>716057795
Gold is a grifter, yes, but the others before the hipster era were just natural back and forth. The progressive intersectional stack is entirely astroturfed. Funded by different entities. It wasn't a natural occurrence. The people pushing against those concepts are both reactionary, and natural. Normal people don't want preachy, passive aggressive, shrill idealogues filling their entertainment with rhetoric and secular religion. That shit just got defunded, so it's not coming back. We're just seeing the dying throws of the true believers as their Notre Dame burns down.

>>716063237
Marxist subhumans infiltrated every industry

>>716034346 (OP)
>Do I miss the times where a bunch of neckbeards said my games sucked and some 6/10 swimming on strawberry jam were the peak of the gaming culture?
No, I don't.

>>716065829
Everyone is arrested developed the societal concept of an “adult” doesn’t even exist, it’s a completely made up idea that only serves to benefit (((them))). A developed “adult” is nothing more than a domesticated wageslave who doesn’t think or feel or question the manufactured cattle life handed to them

>>716034694
>>716034948
>>716035041
These guys definitely had a non-zero number of wedgies and swirlies
>>716036145
Seriously
All the oldfags complaining about "muh dudebros" were probably little dorks everyone bullied. It was cringe but gaming has always been kind of cringe. All the G4 shows were fun even the scripted stuff like Code Monkeys is just really memorable. Combined with the nightly movies and occasional Ninja Warrior (yes there was a time when G4 wasn't just Cops) it was basically the go to gaming channel for anyone. YouTube wasn't really a big thing yet. IGN and G4 and Gamespot is all we had.

>>716066831
Nows not the time for pretentious smug superiority.

You know shit sucks when the mountain dew dudebro era is preferable to whatever the fuck we have now. At least they pretended to like/cater to "gamers".

>>716042920
I came so many buckets to her one spread with peeks of her coinslot

>>716035812
>>716042920
Fuck I thought that was supposed to be Sarah Lane I was wondering why she looked so different

>>716034346 (OP)
>weirdly anti-Japan bias
I'd like to see them having the same nerve they had with japanese games back then with the Chinese games these days.
I bet them would even have to kneel in front of Xi Jinping and fellate him happily for hours.

>>716066909
>All the oldfags complaining about "muh dudebros" were probably little dorks everyone bullied.
Everything was better before your kind was allowed in. Gaming tanked when dudebros got in. The internet died when normies like you got access. Every hobby and interest a man could have is better when it's a focused group of enthusiasts who enjoy it. Then it inevitably gets ruined when the hoi polloi invade those spaces.

>>716060440
Don't cry because it's gone. Smile that you got to experience it (and horde shit if you can). The Internet isn't forever as it turns out.


>>716062832
Crazy how quick people got psyoped to do this. I remember when they taught that shit in Internet security classes and the very next year, that class was never offered again.

>>716067782
*FWOOOOSH*

>>716062832
Nobody trusts fake weridoes.

No. Even back then, as a teenager/young adult I did not like the faux Gamer™ culture, or as we called them back then filthy casuals. No, pandering to my sexuality did not make it better.

They were still blatant corporate shills, they just did not learn to use Social Justice shit as a diversion/shield. CoD and WoW becoming cultural touchstones could arguably be said to be the reason we live in the current always online, grindy, monetized to hell and back hellscape. It was the start of the end, not something we should celebrate or be nostalgic for.
The games of the era, even WoW? Sure. Of course. Everything else in that era? Yea I get being nostalgic about. Megan Webb and the other women of that era were hot, that was great n all. Hell, I get even being nostalgic about watching TechTV/G4 from that era. But the Network and the whole culture that was pushed by it? No. I cannot say I miss it. Because it's the same shit we have today, but less gay. It never really left to be missed.

>>716068463
Indeed. I've had to question my gamer identity a few time in my life.

>>716068463
lol it was NOTHING like today. corpos want to make money? yeah they always have even in the 80s. Literally everything about your comic could be changed to the cereal and toys they constantly pushed. Gaming was always pandering to someone might as well pander to the actual 80% adult male fans

>>716067782
>>716068463

Gaming was always somewhat popular, even in the arcade days. Anyone deluding themselves into thinking that it wasn't is pretending that games like Wipeout, Doom and GTA weren't system sellers back in the day.

I get being a hardcore gamer that pushes yourself to the limit, but a lot of you dudes are poorly adjusted nerds that want to get back at your bullies by shitting on their tastes in games (which even the most chill of dudebros had).

It was SJWs and their ilk that ruined gaming more than the shite but ultimately inoffensive tastes of dudebros. They just wanted to hang out, have fun, drink beer and look at hot chicks which is not only respectable but actually pretty fun.

>>716045334
>Guy Ledouche here, so you're having problems with your controller huh?
>Well, I can't use the Xbox controller correctly on account of my tiny hands
>Oooohhh, they are tiny. I bet they could fit in tight spaces
>They can't reach the face buttons and joysticks at the same time
>Oh, maybe Guy can help? While you're tiny hands are pressing on my buttons, I'll reach around and wiggle your joystick for you? Oooohhh hoho ho ah hoooooo

>>716068939
People made that argument back then, as it turns out we were right. Der Casual did to lead to the ruination of gaming. LOOK at the current state of the industry.

also
>people on /v/ now defend casuals

>>716063491
People use to give Olivia Munn shit, but she was willing to do all kinds of stupid shit they told her to.

>>716034346 (OP)
Hell no.

>>716068939
>popular
>back then
yes..3 people played games in my high school
but it was popular! i swear!

>>716067782
This. Twitch and competitive/sweaty online gaming killed the online gaming aspect of most games.

>>716071365
Twitch wasn't a thing during this era retard, It existed but it wasn't really doing anything until twitch plays pokemon something this site actively participated in

>>716046992
wdym? isn't trump a huge israel supporter? and he was friends with (((epstein)))

>>716069927
remember when halo and wow threads were deleted on sight? now people are for real being nostalgic about fortnite and cod warzone let alone halo and mid-00s garbage
underageb&, casuals and dudebros everywhere, it's fucking over

>>716062457
>it was always highly praised, like MGS, SMT, Kingdom Hearts

Bullshit. Where was Kingdom Hearts during Hurricane Katrina?

>>716057202
just turned 35 this month, I remember watching g4 while shit posting on /v/ in highschool, good times

>>716066569
this one >>716064205 try to keep up

>>716034346 (OP)
I miss when girls didn't have tattoos.

I miss Layla Kayleigh.

>>716034346 (OP)
The boobs were great back then

>>716072804
(You)

>>716077331

>>716077397
Oh shit, is this the same chick from that old demotivational poster where she's shrugging ¯\_(ツ)_/¯?
Looks like the same angle and blouse colour, though it was a bit darker iirc
I tried googling for 'bewbs motivational poster before:2009' and got a nostalgia trip but couldn't find it

>>716067782
>dudebros
it was women

>>716034346 (OP)
I loved Cheat, Electric Playground, Cinematech, live E3 coverage, and maybe a few other shows.
Too bad it turned into COPS channel.
You'd have to erase almost two decades of internet, consoles, and other tech to go back and appreciate G4 now.

secret agent steve and special agent bob was great

>>716034346 (OP)
Even CONSOOOOOOMING felt kino back then

>>716048549
>The punch a nazi guy turned out to be a nazi
poetry

>>716079119
Gaming culture truly peaked here!

>>716034346 (OP)

>>716034346 (OP)
Morgan is such a cutie patootie, god bless Canada and Italy for making women like this (do they still have women like this?). Gosh I wish I was her husband.

>>716034346 (OP)
I'll take dudebro buttchugging over limpwristed trannies any day

>>716034346 (OP)
I really missed back to back marathons of Cops, because when I think gamers, I think fat ass American cops chasing after Bobby Joe, the bail jumper of Blaire County, while wheezing like they were about to die.

>>716077397
awooga!

>>716079586
Thats my wife you are talking about

>>716034346 (OP)
HNNNNNGGGHHHHHPPPFFFFTTTTTHH

>>716035420
I wish I had friends growing up to do that with. It does sound like it would be fun.

>>716034346 (OP)
I dont care that she has a man jaw, I still would.

It's Ironic that the generation who grew up watching G4 ruined gaming

>>716034346 (OP)
Not really. I mean I watched the channel sometimes but I never really enjoyed any of it's programming. It just brought up Vidya a lot so instead of leaving the food network on maybe it'd be this instead.

>>716034346 (OP)
>Nintendo abandoning hardcores for casuals and producing shovelware
>600$ PlayStation
>Red Ring of Death
>every game an ocean of brown and greys
>shooting games everywhere
>no more good Silent Hills
>Resident Evil 5 almost killing the franchise by copying cod
It was mostly shit
I can't remember anything I liked from that era except a few Wii Games like TP, Paper Mario, NMH and Mad World and Tales of Vesperia and Gears of War for the 360

>>716034346 (OP)
I had the biggest crush on her as a kid. I wonder what she's doing now

>>716057272
Even though this is based they're just being anti religious. Even back then they were all atheist reddit sperglords.

>americans will never ever be able to grasp the pure sovl of GameOne and only have their shitty G4

>>716034346 (OP)
>this is OP now

>>716081939
https://youtu.be/j1qPOtlIvX8?si=Qpf5SbWwCYEJ6VZu

>>716052927
Yo wtf

Is that DSP in the back!?!?

>>716034346 (OP)
Was awful then, and still is today.
G4's was always nothing more then an ad platform specifically for western publishers, hence the anti-japanese angle.
It use to be prior that no one really cared where the game came from as long as it was cool/fun. But it helped make the market of "anti weeb" retards that just simply could not enjoy things if it wasn't brown and bloom.
Its not nearly as bad today, but it did needlessly stir the pot on a culture war of sorts.
Also, fuck G4 for killing an actual decent channel, TechTV.

>>716081939
I'm assuming you're a Euro, and I wanna ask in case you may know: There were two European video game shows we had available in the Middle East:
1. French TV5 show where the glasses-wearing host is in a CGI desert gas station and the cars that stop by give him a preview of whatever's the featured game of the week. Also it would show recordings from E3 when it used to happen.
2. British(?) show where it's an CGI robot with a TV for a head in a room full of TV screens. When they zoom into its face they preview a random (then current) vidya. They would also have a "box office"-style countdown of the week.

This was all from around 2002 to 2006, but I can't find them no matter what I search for.