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Anonymous No.724827029 [Report] >>724827261 >>724828618 >>724828662 >>724828801 >>724828828 >>724828963 >>724829053 >>724829067 >>724829142 >>724829490 >>724829653 >>724829920 >>724829945 >>724830631 >>724830805 >>724833146 >>724833506 >>724833589 >>724834307 >>724834858 >>724835482 >>724835886 >>724837739 >>724837835 >>724838178 >>724838448 >>724839091 >>724839442 >>724841418
>zoomers missed out on this
I feel kinda bad for them
Anonymous No.724827124 [Report] >>724828809 >>724838462
the only thing worth watching was olivia munns tits (rip)
Anonymous No.724827261 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
it used t be cool to have to discover games through G4 or a magazine, finding it in some store.
Anonymous No.724828351 [Report] >>724839136 >>724839563
I miss TechTV.
Anonymous No.724828545 [Report] >>724836084
i liked looking at thoses weird clips of japanese games that come on at midnight. pretty surreal
Anonymous No.724828618 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
As fun/cool as it was, it was the beginning of the corporatization of video games, so basically a net negative.
Anonymous No.724828662 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
I don't. G4 was fucking shit. And they killed TechTV, so fuck them. The Screen Savers was infinitely superior to the absolute cancer that replaced it.
Anonymous No.724828670 [Report]
I'm a 2000 anon and I grew up on this.
Anonymous No.724828723 [Report] >>724829164
I never really cared for it. I sure acted like I enjoyed it cause hey, I was 15 and it was "the video game channel," but in reality it was pretty much just white noise I put on after school if nothing better was on.
I mean cinematech was a nice sampler plate for games you probably wouldn't ever play and icons was a solid enough documentary series for its time, but xplay and AOTS were always kinda ass. I think the only time I truly enjoyed watching it was in its zombie years where they mostly aired Ninja Warrior, and even then I mostly saw it was a makeshift replacement for my truly beloved MXC.
Anonymous No.724828801 [Report] >>724837469
>>724827029 (OP)
Anonymous No.724828809 [Report]
>>724827124
This still hurts
Anonymous No.724828828 [Report] >>724833736
>>724827029 (OP)
>the revival is already forgotten
Anonymous No.724828963 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
They still can

https://kick.com/4gtv

Fridays is all day attack of the show. Also going on YouTube and watching all the G4 e3s is a crazy good look into how the past was.
Anonymous No.724829053 [Report] >>724829137
>>724827029 (OP)
If you add a Y to it it will say G4Y which looks like GAY which primarily means homosexuality in our day and age which means I cannot support this material
Anonymous No.724829067 [Report] >>724829871
>>724827029 (OP)
the worst part about the rise of short-form content is how lazy it is. this shit at least had design and style behind it
Anonymous No.724829137 [Report]
>>724829053
lel. big if true.
Anonymous No.724829142 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
The only watchable parts of G4 were the legacy elements leftover from TechTV.
The E3 coverage was a big deal, but only because you couldn't watch live coverage on the internet back then.
Anonymous No.724829164 [Report]
>>724828723
i cared for it abit. it was surreal seeing games on tv at the time. xplay was alright for reviewing games
Anonymous No.724829202 [Report]
Crack sessler
Anonymous No.724829396 [Report]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1kmbjCrUJQ
honestly the most nostalgic part of this video is that I definitely did the same thing as this uploader with my parents DVR. Kids these days will never understand what it's like to tell your mom that no you can't delete the 1 minute "episode" of Kids Next Door, that isn't an accidental recording that's the Six Flags commercial it's really funny MOM YOU DON'T GET IT
Anonymous No.724829490 [Report] >>724829779
>>724827029 (OP)
g4 was shit
techtv was better
Anonymous No.724829653 [Report] >>724829779
>>724827029 (OP)
have you actually gone back and watched g4? it’s pretty damn cringe and bad once the nostalgia wears off. attack of the show is still pretty watchable though, but only because kevin and olivia had legitimately great chemistry

now, techtv on the other hand? kino to this very day
Anonymous No.724829779 [Report] >>724830131 >>724833351
>>724829490
>>724829653
was techtv airing at the same time or after g4? was it the one with the science shows?
Anonymous No.724829830 [Report] >>724834369
I remember my dad saying adam looked like a bitch boy and this show wasn't funny and a waste of a cable bill
Anonymous No.724829871 [Report]
>>724829067
that was one of the biggest problems with the reboot, on top of a shitty selection of new blood. there was no style, no sense of production design; no, dare I say… soul?
Anonymous No.724829920 [Report] >>724834660 >>724837378
>>724827029 (OP)
At least they got to experience the revival and see the absolute state of gaymers
Anonymous No.724829945 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
nah g4 sucked
mtv (90s) > spike > g4 = mtv (00s-20s)
Anonymous No.724830131 [Report]
>>724829779
before. techtv got bought and they became g4techtv which then they dropped the techtv because they gutted all the old programs
Anonymous No.724830631 [Report] >>724830665 >>724838762
>>724827029 (OP)
>Portal is no longer lost media as of earlier this year
FUCK YEAH SEAKING
Anonymous No.724830665 [Report]
>>724830631
mushroom mushroom
Anonymous No.724830805 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
Why don't we make something new for them?
Anonymous No.724830921 [Report] >>724831018
I liked the show where teams played each other in Mech Warrior,SOCOM, fighting games, and maybe Full Spectrum Warriors a few times, that was about it.
Anonymous No.724831018 [Report] >>724832272
>>724830921
Arena.
Anonymous No.724832272 [Report] >>724833524
>>724831018
That’s the one. I know it was just a step towards the esport cancer we have now, but it was MY esports cancer goddammit.
Anonymous No.724833146 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
TechTV was better, and right after the merger G4 still quickly declined in quality despite getting ahold of some good stuff
Anonymous No.724833351 [Report] >>724833448
>>724829779
G4 took it over like a parasite, they wanted to get into more homes by doing it, they kept a few of the popular shows like X-Play from TechTV but dropped or mutated the rest.
Anonymous No.724833448 [Report]
>>724833351
well it was run by comcast
Anonymous No.724833506 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
It was already going full retard by the time it was G4.
Anonymous No.724833519 [Report] >>724833634 >>724833713 >>724833827 >>724834185 >>724836731
The only funny part of G4 was how this was back when western game reviewers didn't even try to hide just how insanely racist they were
>Japanese game
>Ugh, it's like, wow, so JAPANESE
>Says nothing else about the game
>2/5 stars
Anonymous No.724833524 [Report]
>>724832272
The goofy VR America's Army, or whichever army shooter it was, was entertaining to watch at least
Anonymous No.724833589 [Report] >>724833895
>>724827029 (OP)
Think about it, all of the things you grew up with will be totally forgotten in 100 years. None of it matters. Focus on the future.
Anonymous No.724833634 [Report] >>724833745 >>724836372
>>724833519
whenever I think of xplay I remember an episode that spent the entire runtime promising they'd show scenes from some japanese porn game and then at the end when they finally did it was just a promotional trailer that didn't give any goods
>no shit retard it was on TV they have standards and practices
I was 12 and horny and had already seen video game boobs by that point on the internet, you think I knew that shit back then?
Anonymous No.724833642 [Report]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR8KFxi07S0
They really did
Anonymous No.724833713 [Report] >>724834138
>>724833519
>not liking Japanese tropes/game design/anime aesthetic makes you "insanely racist"
Fuck off and kill yourself SJW faggot
Anonymous No.724833736 [Report] >>724833983
>>724828828
It was DOA the second that retarded dyke opened her mouth
Anonymous No.724833745 [Report]
>>724833634
the 2 things I most remember are wondering if my cable box had a channel 0 and it was techtv. The other is some girl who worked the computers for screen savers or whatever posted an artsy pic but didn't crop it correctly so people uncropped it and she was topless. her name was cat schwartz
Anonymous No.724833827 [Report]
>>724833519
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOvj1DGwu5A
Never forget, although it can somewhat be excused because of that awful track list
Anonymous No.724833895 [Report] >>724833970
>>724833589
That's not true. And you sound like a depressing and horrible person and I bet people hate you.
Anonymous No.724833970 [Report] >>724834113
>>724833895
You don't care about what people did 100 years ago. Why do you think it will be different this time?
Anonymous No.724833983 [Report]
>>724833736
the whole concept was retarded as hell, massive budget and something like 300-400 writers to launch a tv network well past when tv was dying instead of keeping the scope reasonable and building a brand.

there was no way it was going to be profitable, the dipshit hating on the audience didn't help things.

they should have kept the streaming thing going, making youtube content from said streaming, then spread out to multiple streams people could funnel into and a 24/7 rerun stream for the no lifers, essentially becoming a modern tv network without being tied down to something their audience doesn't subscribe to.
Anonymous No.724833986 [Report] >>724834493 >>724834809 >>724838873
judgment day > xplay
Anonymous No.724834113 [Report] >>724834258
>>724833970
Only a retard like you would think this way. Your lack of education really shows. The past in many ways still influences and continues to this day or lives on in many modified ways to this day. So why don't you do everyone a favor here and just end your depressing life because in the next 100 years no one is going to care about you anyways.
Anonymous No.724834138 [Report] >>724834920
>>724833713
>SJW
Is this 2014?
Anonymous No.724834185 [Report]
>>724833519
I actually went back to find their review of the first monster hunter when it first came out back then and was surprised when they ended up giving it a 4/5.
Anonymous No.724834258 [Report]
>>724834113
Most people already forgot about G4, anon.
Anonymous No.724834307 [Report] >>724837469
>>724827029 (OP)
Anonymous No.724834369 [Report] >>724834449
>>724829830
Based dad
Anonymous No.724834401 [Report] >>724834660 >>724834862 >>724837378
>ahead of their time
>Slowly fade away
>Make a comeback
>Still somehow failed miserably
It's impressive
Anonymous No.724834449 [Report]
>>724834369
At least it had Olivia.
Anonymous No.724834493 [Report] >>724838639
>>724833986
>It's a Tommy has an autistic fit about footsteps episode
Anonymous No.724834529 [Report] >>724834803
Literally all G4 had to do was make a twitch channel and show reruns of old footage from their archives (cinematech, x-play, AOTS etc) and it wouldve done well enough to make them some money. Fuck me though right what do I, an old viewer know about what people want to watch
Anonymous No.724834660 [Report] >>724834752 >>724834867
>>724834401
>>724829920
I think her outburst caused it to go downhill.
Anonymous No.724834752 [Report]
>>724834660
By then G4 was already dead
Anonymous No.724834803 [Report] >>724835294
>>724834529
It was only revived because the grandson(?) of the CEO of Comcast wanted to advertise his esports team.
Anonymous No.724834809 [Report]
>>724833986
xplay had better reviews but judgment day was more entertaining to watch because tommy and vic were two complete polar opposites when it came to gaming
Anonymous No.724834858 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
zoomers don't have anything really. I feel bad for them too.
Anonymous No.724834862 [Report]
>>724834401
even at its peak of popularity they werent making enough to profit. the whole thing was doomed
Anonymous No.724834867 [Report] >>724834921
>>724834660
They had a resurgence on nostalgia alone. Apparently they hired way more people than they needed and were bleeding money. With how many hosts they put on each show I believe it.
Anonymous No.724834920 [Report] >>724835130
>>724834138
>you must stop using a term that aptly describes a specific behavior because a more vague, retarded and gayer term replaced it in the normie zeitgeist
Are you reddit?
Anonymous No.724834921 [Report]
>>724834867
they had like 300-400 writers not even counting the hosts.
Anonymous No.724835130 [Report]
>>724834920
Are you a faggot? The answer is yes.
Anonymous No.724835294 [Report]
>>724834803
Lmao really? either way they must not like money and im hoping that if they sell the archives or still have them that they preserve everything
Anonymous No.724835482 [Report] >>724835847
>>724827029 (OP)
Funny how they got into the anime boom late enough that they were digging from scraps of whatever was left over, and still managed to find some gems.
Anonymous No.724835847 [Report] >>724836125
>>724835482
>Betterman
>boogiepop phantom
>Dual Parallel trouble adventure
>Read or die
>Geneshaft
>Gungrave
>LastExile
>Armitage 3
>silent Mobius
>Soultaker
Peak next to Toonami at the time
Anonymous No.724835886 [Report] >>724836023
>>724827029 (OP)
Anonymous No.724836023 [Report]
>>724835886
BASED
Anonymous No.724836084 [Report] >>724838518
>>724828545
Cinematech was the perfect show for being hungover on Sunday mornings.
Anonymous No.724836125 [Report]
>>724835847
r.o.d. the tv was fucking great
Anonymous No.724836248 [Report] >>724836343
G4's golden age was very brief until it became the cops rerun channel.
Anonymous No.724836258 [Report]
i miss the e3 coverage. hell i miss e3 in general. i know it was shit in its last years but its so much better than summer game fest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1kmbjCrUJQ
Anonymous No.724836343 [Report]
>>724836248
>before it became the cops and cheaters rerun channel
FTFY
Anonymous No.724836372 [Report]
>>724833634
I remember G4 even aired some adultcon expo footage, even including a segment on hentai.
Anonymous No.724836731 [Report] >>724838298
>>724833519
It was really funny when people on twitter found out about Adam Sessler's reviews on G4 and started trying to cancel him over it. He got super pissed and started going on long all-caps rants about how all the people yelling at him were "trump supporters" somehow. I have no fucking clue how he even came to that conclusion.
Anonymous No.724837378 [Report] >>724837693
>>724829920
>>724834401
Anonymous No.724837469 [Report]
>>724828801
>>724834307
>Morgan Manjaw
>Looks like Eve Lawrence
Those were the days
Anonymous No.724837693 [Report] >>724837893
>>724837378
i don't even remember what she said. the revival was hilariously bad and i'm surprised it lasted longer than a single day
Anonymous No.724837739 [Report] >>724838059 >>724838075
>>724827029 (OP)
How old do you think zoomers are?
I was born in 1998 and absolutely watched G4 as a kid.
>n-no! ur le zillenni- ACK!!!
No such thing. Generation Z officially starts in 1997.
I know millennialcucks have no accomplishments in life and now need to pretend to have pride in things they think are exclusive to them, but they're not. Zoomers experienced DVDs, zoomers experienced VHS (I still have my copies of Terminator 2 and Commando on VHS that I recorded off of cable), zoomers experienced cable TV in the 2000s.
You are not special. Now pay off that student loan debt lmao.
Anonymous No.724837835 [Report] >>724837958
>>724827029 (OP)
Millennial here, I hated G4 because they killed TechTV. Watching Call For Help with Leo Laporte trouble shooting early 2000s Windows XP tech was peak comfy.
Anonymous No.724837893 [Report]
>>724837693
something about only watching for oversexualizing women and how old G4 was better and that they should bring it back. obviously touched a nerve and the dyke lost it, thus resulting in their immediate downfall. iirce some anon on here posted some old photos of her claiming to have known her back in highschool and proving she was a nepo baby. Sadly dont have the pic anymore but it was nothing surprising as the old photos showed how even back then she looked like a dyke in the early to late 2000's
Anonymous No.724837958 [Report] >>724840352
>>724837835
>call for help
>Leo Laporte
not knowing about the Leo wife incident, oh boy
Anonymous No.724838059 [Report] >>724838212 >>724841415
>>724837739
you would've been 10 in 2007 so the idea that you were watching vhs tapes is a bit far fetched unless you grew up in a really old fashioned home
Anonymous No.724838075 [Report]
>>724837739
>DVDs
>Delete scenes
>Alternate endings
>Commentary
>Easter eggs
>Blooper reels
Man, we lost out when streaming became the go to way to watch movies
Anonymous No.724838178 [Report] >>724838272 >>724838293 >>724838380
>>724827029 (OP)
Was it G4 that had that machinima in Splinter Cell Chaos Theory's co-op mode?
Anonymous No.724838212 [Report]
>>724838059
nta but DVDs didn't overtake VHS until 2002, so it's not far-fetched that his parents would've simply held on to their VHS player and tapes instead of just throwing them out for no reason.
Anonymous No.724838272 [Report]
>>724838178
yeah
secret agent bob and special agent steve
or some variant of the <word> agent titles
Anonymous No.724838293 [Report]
>>724838178
I forget the name but I always remember the “thorax the impaler” bit if I’m thinking of the right one, I think it was part of a few xplay episodes?
Anonymous No.724838298 [Report]
>>724836731
I think losing his job and drug abuse caused his mind to go to some dark places.
Anonymous No.724838380 [Report]
>>724838178
Part of X-play but I can't remember if was around before the G4 buyout of TechTV
Anonymous No.724838448 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
I only know one G4, if you know what I mean.
Anonymous No.724838462 [Report] >>724838515
>>724827124
Kristin Holt's legs were worth it too, and it was only occasionally but Diane Mizota did some cosplay that was pretty good for teenaged me
Anonymous No.724838515 [Report]
>>724838462
There's an episode of Portal that begins with Diane intro'ing an episode of Filter then it pans out to show Dave standing to the side just staring at her with his mouth hanging open. Then it cuts to Dave waking up from a dream lulz
Anonymous No.724838518 [Report]
>>724836084
There was something so zen about it's presentation. Also I liked the episodes that had a speed run of Zelda 1 or something in the corner
Anonymous No.724838639 [Report]
>>724834493
My favorite.
I also love how he gave the Charlie and the Chocolate factory game an almost perfect score
Anonymous No.724838762 [Report]
For me it's the girl from the first season of Pulse
>>724830631
Oh shit, I'm going to rewatch some of this. Back then this show was the only exposure I had to MMOs so it was super interesting to me.
Anonymous No.724838873 [Report] >>724839171 >>724840809
>>724833986
i remember being absolutely shocked when they gave this game a 10
still havent played it yet
Anonymous No.724839054 [Report]
remember to vote for shin maygami ten say nocturne.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJrEwEMIpM
Anonymous No.724839072 [Report]
Anyone else's dad walk in on them watching this crap. I loved this show but I am positive it ruined me
Anonymous No.724839091 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
Normalfagcore, g4 was trash
Anonymous No.724839136 [Report] >>724839563
>>724828351
This, g4 was trash and killed a far better network.
Anonymous No.724839171 [Report]
>>724838873
It's an awesome fucking game, almost has like a cool Zelda adventure vibe to it even though the game's aren't very similar, my favorite in the trilogy and one of Ubisoft's best games easily
Anonymous No.724839272 [Report]
>I LOVE YOU WHORES
Anonymous No.724839442 [Report] >>724839505 >>724839536
>>724827029 (OP)
I'm a zoomer and I grew up on this the fuck?
Anonymous No.724839505 [Report]
>>724839442
Millennials think zoomers are still 10 years old
They're a generation of eternal manchildren who live in the mid 2000s.
Anonymous No.724839536 [Report]
>>724839442
same
these balding cornsyrup faced miserable fucks don't realize how old some of us are
Anonymous No.724839563 [Report]
>>724828351
>>724839136
TechTV felt like the future. Weird feeling I know but younger me watching this felt like I was "In the Know" and it was cool to get all tech and some nerd stuff.
Anonymous No.724840352 [Report] >>724841401
>>724837958
>not knowing about the Leo wife incident, oh boy

QRD?
Anonymous No.724840809 [Report]
>>724838873
back when ubisoft was a highly respected company, good times.
Anonymous No.724840952 [Report] >>724841226
Still laughing that they tried bringing this network back and the woke retards killed it in a heartbeat lmao.
Anonymous No.724841226 [Report]
>>724840952
This network was doomed from the beginning, even ignoring the woke shit. Not saying it helped (the woke feminist rant obviously gave it a ton of bad press), but trying to launch a traditional cable TV network when most of your audience millennial/zoomer consumes their content through streaming mediums like Twitch and on-demand Youtube videos, was braindead retarded.
Anonymous No.724841401 [Report]
>>724840352
leaked nudes and sexting in 2012 with his then partner Lisa after breaking up with his ex-wife, then in 2021 had a massive leak involving his radio show and podcast
Anonymous No.724841415 [Report]
>>724838059
nta but I was born in 96 and I watched stuff on VHS.
Anonymous No.724841418 [Report]
>>724827029 (OP)
suicide mong