G4, O how I loved thee

[Sparkly Weasel]

H I started watching G4 back when it was still Tech TV, and I loved it. It had great shows, like X-Play(then) and The Screen Savers (now AOTS.)
A It was the nerd channel, for people like me.
L Let me break it outline the shows as they were and as they are now-
I Filter- Dian Mizota was the host, and they did a top ten for stuff like Best story, Worst game, and Best graphics. After a brief dab into pop culture, they replaced Dian Mizota with Beth Ostrosky, and Best music with "Guys it's OK to hate" The show now exist as a 60 bit in the ads.
W The Screen Saver- Used to be a talk show for nerds, with neat gadgets and sites, cool events, and fun stuff like LAN Party thursday and Free Play Friday. Now it's Attack of The Show, and the Around the Net is just a collection of recent YouTube videos. Plus the occasional gimmick. They almost completely forgot about gaming.
A Robot Wars- Neat little show, sort of campy. Basically robot v. Robot in a fight to the death, in an unforgiving arena. It's gone now.
L-Arena- Cometetive gaming on TV. The first place I saw Kevin Periera. 2 teams go in, one team comes out. It was pretty cool, a nerds football game.
I- X-Play- The reason I started to watch the network to begin with. With funny and informative reviews, they cought my attention. With their funny skits, they got my laughs. With their complete shutdown of reviews, they earned my hate. They have 1, count it, 1 review per episode.
Of the original hosts, only Adam Sessler, Morgan Webb, and Kevin Periera remain. Good shows have been replaced with Cops and Cheaters. This network really fell from 1337 to noob. Not "Newb" as in inexperienced or new, "Noob" as in just sucks.
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[ThePoodonkis]

bravo. you hit the nail directly on the head with this one. Tech TV was awesome, now G4 just sucks noodles.

 

[Chaosthief]

G4 wasn't that bad in the earlier days. They actually improved it when they sacked Judgement Day, X-Play's "annoying little brother" show. But later on when they added Cops, Cheaters, and other shit, I actually was glad I stopped getting the channel.

 

[TomNook]

Cinematech ftw!

 

[The Sorrow]

Agreed. X-Play USED to be hilarious, Filter used to be fun to watch, Arena was a blast, Robot Wars remains one of my favorite shows of all time, even though it's gone. Is Brainiac, another awesome show, even on anymore?

 

[cleverlymadeup]

techtv used to be awesome

they had some cool shows, xplay and screensavers were the only 2 to live, they used to have audiofile, great music gadget show, techlive, news show on tech, freshgear, show about gadgets, call for help, kinda basic user stuff but darn funny both leo and chris (the call for help marathon just ruled, i watched several hours of it)

then it merged with g4 and all the good shows got replaced by shows about video games, i stopped watching it that point, i haven't watched it since

the canadian version did bring call for help back but it wasn't the same

also sad that james kim died the way he did

best leo moment on the screensavers was when burt monroy was showing him how to swap heads on ppl in photoshop using one of the tools in it and all leo said over and over was "tell me it's not this easy, please tell me it's not this easy", tho the time he tried to add a bigger drive to his tivo and messed it up on live tv was kinda funny too

the patrick one is when they were showing how to destroy hard drives, he opened the drive and goes "well remember how we heard about those ceramic drives? guess we found one" the platter was shattered after he gave it a good crack with the sledgehammer

 

[felltablet]

G4 is only a constant cops marathon.
it has X-play, AOTS, and... COPS!
Lots of Cops, over and over again.

 

[Sparkly Weasel]

I'm still waiting for someone to mention it...
EDIT: Can't blame some of you guy's, you haven't been around long enough. Should probably wait till Darth or Galt get here.

 

[nightmare_gorilla]

as much as i hate to say it g4 is certainly doing one thing right. code monkeys, i love code monkeys which makes me think g4 doesn't make it. i LOVED judgement day when it was on, well at least one of the guys on it i liked, arena i also enjoyed but i sort of discovered it as they began taking it off the schedule.

yeah when i saw "cheaters" was on i did a real "WTF" moment, i thought it was jsut cheat at first but even that show has disapeared as bad as it was it was about video games. infact aside from code monkeys none of the shows on g4 that are watchable have anything to do with games.

this is an unabridged list of anything i'll watch on g4, i don't care if you put a gun to my head i won't watch anything else.

-code monkeys
-ninja warrior
-totally outragous
... i do beleive that is all of them.

man what happened, doesn't anyone like gamers anymore? it seems like we've been abandoned by all the people who used to kiss our ass. gamestop, g4, even the developers seem to be pretty uninterested in us at times these days.

 

[ThePoodonkis]

do they even show code monkeys anymore?

 

[Aura Guardian]

Man do I miss those days. Code Monkeys I actually enjoy watching. Has its moments. But still, I want Techtv to return. Hell Adam Sessler's Mom says "I miss techtv. Those really were the good'ol days"

 

[Johnnyweird]

Basic cable.
Whoo hoo.

 

[Aura Guardian]

do they even show code monkeys anymore?

June 1st new season

 

[Easykill]

I don't know how I missed that the first time. Hiya, Weasel.

 

[Dark Shroud]

I do enjoy more episodes of X-play during the week. But I would like more actual reviews done each episode. AOTS has it's moments thought it will never live up to the Screen Savors. Code Monkeys is awesome.

It seems that they show Cops & Cheaters because they need something cheap to make money off of. The execs drove the station into the ground. I didn't care much for Electric playground, but I did like Judgment day. TechTV was the reason my family upgraded to Digital Cable. Now I barely watch TV.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I'm still waiting for someone to mention it...
EDIT: Can't blame some of you guy's, you haven't been around long enough. Should probably wait till Darth or Galt get here.

Haliwali?

 

[the monopoly guy]

Agreed. X-Play USED to be hilarious, Filter used to be fun to watch, Arena was a blast, Robot Wars remains one of my favorite shows of all time, even though it's gone. Is Brainiac, another awesome show, even on anymore?

hell yes....but now G4 has ninja warrior, duty free tv, theyre gonna have spaceballs the show. basically they have sold out, even x play; they used to have 3-4 reviews a show now they only have 1-2, they're not funny anymore, they basically sold out. AOTS is still awsome , but it could be better (do they still do dvdusday?)

 

[Man_In_Gauze]

Duty Free TV is basically the only thing I watch, although bits of AOTS or X-Play or Cheat if they're on.

Man, I love Ninja Warrior and Unbeatable Banzuke.

 

[TheIr0nMike]

My ideal G4 line up (not in this order):
>X-Play
>ATOS
>Code Monkeys
>Icons/Game Makers
>Cinematech
>Arena (but only weekly or bi-weekly)
>A one to two hour block dedicated to Machinima
>Cheat
>Brainiac
>Robot Wars
>Filter

Please add if I'm missing something.