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AJUMP23
Gold Member
Know nothing of his personal life just know he changed and it wasn’t good.That monstrous second wife of his ruined him.
Umbasaborne
Banned
She probably still looks good now
Umbasaborne
Banned
People need to learn how to ignore the chat. I stopped listening to woolie and pats castle super beast podcast because they would record live on twitch and get into arguments with the chat constantly
Umbasaborne
Banned
Shes also like, way too famous to keep doing g4.
Id be shocked if they got her back for anything more than the occasional video cameo.
edit: her last movie was a direct to vod low budget action film that had that throw away villain from captain america as the lead protagonist. So i take that back, maybe not “tooo” famous.
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Games of Today
Member
I was actually watching Attack of the Show this morning! They were talking about Cyberpunk.
GreatnessRD
Member
Son, I did not know Olivia Munn was really wilding on G4. She came after my time since I stopped after Morgan Webb, lmao.
Ghost of Caelid
Banned
Give established youtubers a show...give ACG a review show alongside sessler, or Vatividya a narrative lore show...G4 established some great style alot of content creator use. So instead of doing what worked in 2008 use what works in 2021.
Kacho
Member
Adam Sessler drops leftist zingers in his reviews now. It’s soooo bad. Lol
They also split up their reviews between a white man, a womxn and black dude so it’s perfectly diverse.
ManaByte
Gold Member
He ALWAYS did that. Just people didn't care back then and throw a fit like they were personally insulted. He always complained about the glorification of guns in FPS, for example.
Boss Mog
Member
Sad. Just goes to show, some things are better left dead and buried.
haxan7
Volunteered as Tribute
Their new tagline should be Built for and by Twitter.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
Seems like they're going for the streaming personality angle and using their budget to add a bit of pizzazz and higher production values to it. Which, honestly, could work out in the long-term, as long as the personalities seem genuine and interesting.
The new personalities (aside those I've already seen streaming in some other capacity, like Olivee and Xavier Woods) have definitely grown on me, some more than others but overall they feel good. It'd be cool if guys like Xavier could pull in some OG wrestlers like Stone Cold, Booker T, Hulk Hogan, Kane etc. to do specials like playing some of the '90s/early '00s WWF/WWE wrestling games together on a stream for example.
So you're saying they should've just picked a line-up of white guys instead of picking people on individual merit? Have you even watched any of the new G4? From what I've seen there aren't any political slants or agendas being pushed. As for the Adam Sessler stuff well I guess it comes down to what you'd consider a "leftist zinger" and what context it's used in.
Believe it or not you can have a quality product that also happens to be naturally diverse.
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BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
I like X-Play's new review / discussion format. Sessler offers his opinions, one of the young new hosts cuts in and shares theirs, and then everyone discusses it. It seems like the producers (which includes Sess) learned a lot by listening to engaging podcasts in the years between G4 going off the air and its rebirth.
It's weird to me how many of these new G4 members use their streamer names, but hey, gotta make way for the next generation and their ways I guess.
Kevin Pereira still has it. Can still improv and save the dying bits of others. It's a shame they couldn't find a proper co host for him and AotS, as it's obvious these kids are having a tough time keeping up with him and aren't witty enough for that kind of live show.
It's weird to me how many of these new G4 members use their streamer names, but hey, gotta make way for the next generation and their ways I guess.
Kevin Pereira still has it. Can still improv and save the dying bits of others. It's a shame they couldn't find a proper co host for him and AotS, as it's obvious these kids are having a tough time keeping up with him and aren't witty enough for that kind of live show.
Kacho
Member
Yep. It's a shame because Sessler has incredible energy in his reviews still, they're just injected with a ton of cringe. Dude has devolved into a clout goblin.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
I think a proper co-host for AotS will still take a bit of time, it could be among the ones that've done it so far but they just might have to adjust a few things. That said you're right, Kevin's still excellent, still has all the chops. I know there was some drama over the NFT segment but the way he just rolled along with that, even if he was legit salty, was hilarious. Takes a special knack to pull that off.
Kacho
Member
No, I'm saying their individual reviews didn't need a bunch of random people forced into them. It's pure bloat.
I also wouldn't call anything about the new G4 natural, which is why I won't sub or consume their content on the regular.
i will take a candace bailey return over munn.
Malakhov
Banned
I can't stop watching this for some reason. Is this a tv show...No it's not back, Sessler pretends to be hard hitting but ends up being just as toothless a whore as any other mainstream review padder.
This is all G4 was... see what this talentless hack would lick or deep throat.
Isa
Member
I don't know man, I just can't support G4. There was some decent at times but for me Sessler and even Webb pissed my Sister and I off on so many occasions. Its like we're polar opposites to us in terms of taste and appreciation. Plus I'd never watch a cable tv channel anymore, much less a Youtube one of theirs.
I have much more fondness for The Electric Playground with Victor Lucas and Tommy Tallarico. They covered more content and were much more open minded and fair critics, say if a genre didn't suite them they would still rate it fairly and mentioned how they felt, including respect for the effort and quality put into said titles. Nowadays we're spoilt for choice so I don't see how I'd need another thing like this in my life. So many better sources that are far more knowledgeable and straight to the point on topics I care about not being presented in an obnoxious tweaker aesthetic.
Don't let my opinion bring you down though, if you like it have a ball.
I have much more fondness for The Electric Playground with Victor Lucas and Tommy Tallarico. They covered more content and were much more open minded and fair critics, say if a genre didn't suite them they would still rate it fairly and mentioned how they felt, including respect for the effort and quality put into said titles. Nowadays we're spoilt for choice so I don't see how I'd need another thing like this in my life. So many better sources that are far more knowledgeable and straight to the point on topics I care about not being presented in an obnoxious tweaker aesthetic.
Don't let my opinion bring you down though, if you like it have a ball.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
It's natural the same way a lot of once-TV productions turning to the web are: adopting a streamer-based model. Conceptually G4 isn't too different from things like OTV (Offline TV); a branding of personalities doing content that's umbrella'd under that brand.
Also some of the people aren't random: Xavier Woods, Olivee for example are already known in other gaming circles, and the former's a WWE wrestler (I first found them through SFV along with Kenny Omega) and the latter's hosted a lot of League tournaments. Some of the others IIRC have been editors in the industry for a while. I'll admit there are some there who I haven't heard or seen before but I trust the vetting process there to have pulled in people with enough knowledge to bring something to the network.
I mean I'd personally want OGs like Morgan Webb, Olivia Munn and while not strictly G4, Victor Lucas (EP) back, but they've either moved on or might have scheduling conflicts.
Hope Tommy can recover from the disaster that's the Amico; him partnering back up with Victor for regular EP reviews would've been really cool. I don't have the issues with X-Play you did, though, I kinda liked the banter between Morgan and Adam and it was some of those reviews that got me interested in certain PS2 games for sure.
When regular access to game footage was a rarity back then stuff like EP and X-Play were always welcomed especially since as a kid I didn't have regular access to a PC and video content of games online was almost unheard of.
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Isa
Member
I mean we didn't hate it, other shows on G4, TechTV before then iirc were nice enough. And any semblance of love for the hobby plus news and info on new and upcoming stuff was always a treat. Otherwise it was purely magazines for us. It'll be interesting to see what comes next for Tommy for sure. I honestly wish he'd score some games again, maybe help get some Earthworm Jim love to the current gen.
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Bruce Greene and James Willems are back too?
Watched when started the Brazilian version. Both were good
Bonus: girl on G4 Brasil
Watched when started the Brazilian version. Both were good
Bonus: girl on G4 Brasil
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
Gold Member
If there's one thing from the Amico saga I hope goes really well, it's their Earthworm Jim game. A shame the series died in 5th gen (I never got around to playing EWJ 64 but I've heard it's actually pretty decent) because there was always room for it in 3D, I think, if they stuck long enough to take an approach like was basically done for Ghouls 'n Ghosts in the Maximo series.
The new one is 2D, but if they have key players working on it, that should be a good sign. More on-topic though, also mostly-magazine from that time, even after G4 and the such started to establish themselves. Though I think sometime shortly into 6th-gen I did start going online to get gaming news and it wasn't too longer later sites like Gamespot would host media for new games to download, remember doing that for Gears of War, GT5 , VF6 especially but by 7th-gen I more or less stopped reading magazines altogether.
Yeah, don't hold your breath, that ain't being worked on anymore, not the build that Tommy and Amico flashed around at the start of all that anyway. It's M.I.A.
Been down a Rabbit hole on the Amico, it's a lot of hot air and shady practice. Tommy seems to be a rather iffy character with a lot of debate on what's real and what's simply the construct of a very vain man.
Anyway, just watched a vid of this new G4 and it wasn't a hot mess, will try some more.
I loved G4 at the time but even as a Jr High Schooler I knew the skits/humor was unfunny and cringey and were the worst part of the channel.
Sad to see they brought back the cringey humor.
The content such as the Cheat show, Game Makers Documentary, and Xplay Reviews were excellent.
Sad to see they brought back the cringey humor.
The content such as the Cheat show, Game Makers Documentary, and Xplay Reviews were excellent.
Kiddo Cabbusses
Member
People probably didn't notice it back then because the X360 days were full of "dudebro" shooters. His complaints seem more glaring now that Nintendo Switch is the best-selling platform and there's loads of diverse indies and VR content because he seems to be fixated on dudebros with guns simply existing.
I don't know why the heck Microsoft keeps sponsoring them if he's basically gonna trashtalk the kind of product they market and sell.
Anyway, here's hoping G4's Icons comes back. I liked that series.
softwarepagan
Neo Member
I was worried G4 was going to be completely zoomerfied (and the pre-release stuff kind of was) but honestly as an old G4 fan I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I'm still on the fence about a few members of the new cast but for the most part I think they're pretty cool.
Also it's hilarious to whine about "40-year-olds acting like children" on a gaming forum.
Also it's hilarious to whine about "40-year-olds acting like children" on a gaming forum.