Was the G4 corporate dudebro era of video game coverage better than I remembered it being or is it just nostalgia? They forced the word "gamer" into everything and they focused on college aged douchebags who only played Madden and GTA, but it was the last time I knew about most games that were coming out. Looking back on it now I wish it lasted a bit longer.
g4 was the soulless corporate era. techtv was when it was authentic.
>>747505328it was better when they didn't try to appeal to the lowest common denominator
Did she ever fully take out her tits?
>>747505328I enjoyed how they shit on almost every jrpg they got their hands on.
G4 haters are just upset because they laughed at Japanese videogameshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCzVsaJgyKc
>>747506315to be fair, some of that still rings true
>>747505328>>747506315it always made my brain tingle that I found her regular appearance on the show more attractive than than her bikini shoots. idk why.
>>747506315Back in those days the Japanese were the ones trying to make movie games and rightly got shit on for it. Funny how it's the opposite now.
>>747505687For me, yes. Sessler watched
>>747505328Zoomers don’t understand what it was like to have an entire industry exclusively made by and for straight men. Imagine a multi billion dollar entertainment industry designed to appeal specifically to you. Women and faggots haven’t poisoned the well yet. I guess we still have sports though
>>747505924Nah they gave good reviews to jrpgs and just teased them and weebs cry about it still And btw jrpgs deserve to be made fun of
G4 was garbage, repurposed to basically sell games to dudebros over the original geeks who played them >but hot chix broThey were mostly all playing >Oh you pitiful little nerd with your pitiful little dick wouldn't know what to do with it. You'll buy anything I say if I jiggle my tits for a second and eat this hotdog on a string you pathetic geek boy.characters, notably Olivia Munn . You guys rightly bitch when the industry was contemptuous of its audience in other ways,this was just that over and over again. Now the TechTV days, that seemed better and more in line with actual interests of the community.
>>747505328G4 was for niggers, and by 2007 didn't give a shit about games besides X-play, which after the first season turned into lame tryhard faggot shit.>>747505579>>747509934Based fellow TechTV chads.
>>747505328>this unironically made gen-Xirs cum in their jorts
>>747507767She always looked better on the show. I think the rumor was she was insecure as hell when Oliva Munn entered the picture and that's when she started dressing like a vice principal.
>>747505605>it was better when they didn't try to appeal to the lowest common denominatorExcept that's literally what they did.
g4 peaked here
>>747511537I thought this was where that whole channel was going. Surprised me that they just became the Cops rerun station basically.
>>747507767I'm gonna parrot the other anon before me and say that she always looked better on the show. I'm gonna guess it's because bikini babes are a dime a dozen, but girls talking about video games while wearing casual clothes with recognizable video game iconography was a novelty then. Plus, if memory serves, unlike Olivia Munn, Morgan Webb was actually a gamer and knew her shit fairly well.
>>747511003SESSMONEY IN THE HOUSE
based webb not coming back for that g4 autopsy a few years ago
>>747505328>Or is it just nostalgia?>Cheat! being an entire TV program of a pretty lady reading codes of GameFaqsI remember G4 both with and without the TechTV heading as not being good so much as novel for having a television network that spent so much time talking about video games. It was a means to hear about a lot of games, though.>>747509348Truly wild how true this was. For better and for worse.
>>747505328>>747506315Remember, this woman didn't exist to be easy on the eyes for you.
>>747505328>THIS was seen as exceptionally ugly and manfaced to elder millennialsGoddamn people were picky
>>747505328mmm webby
>>747505924Literally never happened. They gave every single Final Fantasy a 4 or 5. Even the Baiten Kaitos review, they gave it a 3/5 despite mocking it and being borderline racist. The only bad Japanese game review I recall was Eureka Seven Vol. 2: The New Vision which was a shitty PS2 mech game that everyone in the West hated. Their hatred of Japan is exaggerated heavily.
>>747511003bizarre, because Morgan was always hotter
>>747509934continue jiggling tits ....
>>747511619those poor knees.... they tell a tale of woe
>>747507767>>747511671Because she legit was the only actual video game fan there. She has a great body, but she had no idea how to sell it. She was awkward and weird, and regardless of what monkey brain thinks when it sees a half naked chick, you can still tell something isn't right. However in the proper setting, where she is actually confident about what she's doing, it is more attractive. Hot chicks on TV are a diamond dozen, but a chick you actually want to hear what she has to say is rare.
>>747511003they're both dressed like people 10-15 years younger. like the school scenes in the toby spider-man movies.
>>747511841It was because we were comparing her to all the other female talent at G4. Yeah on her own she is cute, but you have to remember that her female on camera coworkers were literally models, ex-cheerleaders, and wanna-be actresses.
bringit....BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
>>747505328
>>747505328The dated nature of it is funny now, but back then it was a bit of a slop aimed at retards who needed things to be formatted like a television for them to process information.Magazines were genuinely good though, except the ones that were trying to bait people by being eccentric.
>>747511003Na her husband didn't like her tech tv, unkempt looks and wanted her to look prettier.
>>747509934This. I kinda get why people would find hot chick stuff nostalgic because of differing trend, and how women presented themselves differently back then.But if you were there at the time, they felt as pointless and tasteless as tittystreamers on Twitch.
>>747512960I met this chick at a convention years ago.She is TINY.
nazis beware....you're in for a scare....
>>747509348Sports are also pozzed
>>747511619The channel was constantly struggling to figure out what to air other then AotS, Xplay, and Cheat. TechTV at least had everything involved with technology. In the end, a TV channel entirely dedicated to video games and gamer/nerd culture existing right as the internet was taking over that entire sub culture was just doomed to fail.
Did the internet kill gaming magazines too?
>>747509934G4 was patient zero when it came to "women in video games" and all that came with it. Olivia Munn and Morgan Webb walked so Anita Sarkeesian could run.Everything wrong with games journalism by 2014 could be traced back to that, really.
>>747512384Annie’s pretty young. We try not to sexualize her.
>>747517263cool tourist opinion
Only thing G4 was good for was giving the greatest, most original video game composer ever in the world dozens of hours to say the most retarded shit imaginable.
just took an adam and wiped my sessler.
>>747517794His mom is very proud.
>>747517794I remember, even as a kid, wondering wtf he was talking about on that short lived game review show he was on.
>>747505328It was a novelty to see any video game coverage on TV at the time but it very quickly lost its purpose as the internet replaced everything. In retrospect it wasn't anything special.>>747511537I used to love this and I'm afraid to go back and find out how bad it was.
>>747510167Anyone remember the TWIT and Screensavers call in show? People would call in with their technical problems or questions and the hosts would either know off the top of their head, or figure out it out more or less live? >>747511537>>747511619I think they could have had a future if they at least created a lot of custom content. They could have gotten a jump on short form content and shows that previously would have been YouTube only sort of things, and put money into it and made some unique stuff. >>747512413She was one of the few that also basically got out of the industry and retired entirely. I think she got married and lives a relatively quiet life. good on her. >>747514942>tittystreamers on TwitchYep, exactly. Just like all the partnerships with Maxim / FHM and whatever other "young men's magazines" it was about selling an image more than anything. >>747517263I don't think any of that is accurate. G4's women were a totally different and diametrically opposed to Sarkeesian. In fact, they were one of the things she targeted about the "fake gamer girl persona, which made us real gamer girls who just didn't want to be objectified heckin offended" . They were both bad in different ways but not really one to another.
>>747505328they're responsible for the pendulum shift the other waythey were the final form of the late 90/2000s corporatization dude bro, girls in bikini shit, that the early tumblr 1.0/blue hairs managed to swing it back to the era we were in in the 2010sluckily we've seen to finally come out of that era now. but it'll still take some time
>>747514067Nintendo Power's redesign in 2005 was following the same zeitgeist of G4 and looking back it fucking sucked. Any good or interesting parts it had were kicked to the curb when it was sold to Future US a few years later.Scott Pelland was a shitty editor in even in the early 1990s and the moment he took charge in 2000 did more damage to the magazine than Chris Slate ever could.
>>747505579This. G4 was nothing but God damn campus PD reruns by 2010
>>747518121>that short lived game review show he was onHe was actually on it for almost a decade, it was originally a segment part of Electric Playground. Then Vic Lucas managed to sign a deal with G4 and spun the segment off into a separate show, Judgment Day/Reviews on the Run.https://youtu.be/7X1rcBvcTps?si=HCyvu79qTwCzQCCa&t=1193>>747518403>Anyone remember the TWIT and Screensavers call in show?Yes. Goddamn Screensavers was bottom-rated cable comfy kino. Here's a guy calling in to see how he can discuss fansubbed anime on VHShttps://youtu.be/U3_ZUm72XDI?si=z4gBRRmwjxjx0vN_&t=2650
>>747510242Clicked on this thread for this. Good work.
>>747505328Present wrongs don't make past wrongs right. Just look at the putrid shit they write here. This opened the door to the enshittification of gaming.
>>747519292Sexo
>>747519292fridge body + cringe
Did boomers just coom all the time back in the day? Their tv women always seemed to wear revealing outfits.
>>747520816>>747520962duality of man
I still don't quite get it, but in a matter of months, we went from that to a world where you’d get dirty looks for calling Lara Croft a sex symbol.In a flash.Around 2010, you’d blink and go from a world where video games and the media surrounding them were all about having fun, to one where games had turned into political artifacts.
>>747512413Exactly.
>>747521083gayness of glownigger
It was slop but it was still dude-aligned so you had tiddies and the nerds could still shuffle in with some cool ideas without being shitted on. PS3 Killzone 2 trailer is the cutoff.
>>747518987Good god that's massive SOVL. They have to define anime (with proper pronunciation) because its possible some people wouldn't have a clue what they were talking about. >Hey, can you just show my fansub hosting website on TV? Sure!Today they'd have Funimation and Crunchyroll screaming that you're enabling piracy or some such, but it was a different time back then. Man...
>>747520962for a board full of white supremacists, they sure do hate the standard white woman body type
>>747521126more and more normies getting connected to the interview via smartphones and facebook + twitter blowing up
>>747505328It was the start of the decline
>>747521835Found the scapegoating jew.
>>747521809Considering that DBZ was already on Toonami in 1999, and the following year they'd have bilingual DVDs, he was either real ballsy or real stupid by calling in on a national show to discuss trading anime.Or maybe he knew already that maybe a dozen people watched only were watching ZDTV/Tech TV at the time and knew it was a very low possibility Funimation would see the segment and send his site a C&D.
>>747521850I think about those 2008-2013ish years a lot because we had social media and the AppStore but it was still a fun time to be young. Sort of a bridge between the old world and today.
>>747522361Those were the years beginning the decline. You were just too underage to notice.
>>747505328why the bald cokehead faggot hated JRPGs so bad?
>>747521126Divide and conquer tactics were employed to distract people. And it worked.
>>747522153Possibly, but then again even when there were VHS tapes by Funimation or ADVision (I still have the full set of Bubblegum Crisis that I saved fucking forever to buy as a kid) that fansubs were sort of ...left alone. Even if they were popular ish things, downloads online or literally someone subbing onto VHS were not considered a huge deal if they weren't being sold as bootlegs. If they had no legal distribution at all they were almost entirely ignored by rightholders, who were still only sort of barely integrated to this whole thing.
>>747505328The g4 comic was a 4chan meme which is mostly cynical about anything
>>747521126>>747522361You can actually see signs of things to come back in the 90's. They were already pushing pretty hard for this kind of censorship, and 9/11 actually set them back quite a bit, because American patriotism was at an all time high. It took about a decade for things to settle down again enough for them to return to where they were almost at in the first place.
>>747505328 Literal ad copy of that shit is better than what we're getting now. But that's on the marketing teams of the game companies too.
>>747522952Yeah, DBZ for instance continued with VHS fansubs being traded because it took Funi forever to release the entire thing on DVD with subs, and even they only managed to put DBZ out in a consistent format with those fugly cropped orange bricks. Usually the only licensed anime that was being fansubbed on VHS was anime that came out dub-only (basically anything from Streamline).
>>747521835Anon according to 4chan every woman must have a 16 inch waist, basketball tits and the face of a ten year old Korean chick
>>747505328I hated it at the time, but now I long for it.
>>747523494You just proved that there is a hotter woman on the same damn show, retard. Webb is just a fridge.
>>747523720whats the sizzler up to these days? still fuming at everything on bluesky or wherever?
>>747524402Searching the net for any mention of himself whilst doing coke all day.
>>747524402He had a meltdown over magicmush's xplay video existing without him ever bring interviewed.
>>747524402Allegedly he came into some money after leaving G4 which is how he can finance his coke addiction while spending his days fuming on bluesky
>>747524704>(((came into some money)))
>>747524787SHUT IT DOWN!
>>747523578What kind of idiot logic is this
>>747526476You asserted that everyone here has ridiculous chud standards, yet you posted a woman barely even more attractive than Webb, on the same show, who I actually find attractive. Do the math, drooling retard.
>>747523109On a long enough timeline, you'll find prigs. But as stated before, 2001 and 2014 are close enough breakpoints for that generation of internet and gaming-related content.
>>747512960does she do porn?
>>747505579Ive been watching old call for help recordings and the crew somehow remains at 100% at all times, I recommend anyone watch some eps if you want background noise. Leo Laporte is one of the most charming tv hosts and it's really funny how many horndog remarks he manages to sneak in lmao.
>>747521126Is that the Epstein island pilot girl who's still missing?
>>747526476the man is thinking with his DICK. You have a problem with that? Go argue with his dick. You'll lose that one.
>>747526762No, I understand what you're saying. While there are just prudes in every generation. It's just that back during the 90's wave, videogames were so below the radar that the most anyone cared about was banning Mortal Kombat for violence, and shit like Hot Coffee, which were all big fucking nothings. However, the big overall cultural wave you are talking about was very much a thing they were pushing even back then, but subsided after 9/11. Videogames just got included in that wave upon its resurgence now that they were seen as a much more serious medium.I'm not disagreeing with a word you've said. Just pulling the scope out farther. This shit has been hitting in waves for decades since long before either of us were born.
>>747505328white women are so ugly
>>747528075Yeah, that coked up jew would like a story about a dystopian world where everything is owned by kikes with PMCs. Oh wait, that's just reality.
>>747523463MMM good times. I miss being young.
>>747523463Obvious implants. Got Pablito salivating, tho.
