Report: Layoffs Hit G4

Sadly I was never in an area to get TechTV. I did catch it when I was visiting family and I did enjoy it when i did watch it. G-4 we did get. I gave it a straight 5 hours of trying to give it a chance and all i got was a 'Jesus Christ this sucks" and migraine. Every now and then I will catch X-Play but I hate there ridiculous method of reviewing games that somehow puts all RPGs into the 1 to 3 star category. Maybe I’m one of those old-fashion gamers where the games plot means more to me then the “oh shiny” graphics.

why would i want to watch a TV show about video games? It doesn't make any sense. 

TechTV was the bomb in the day. It and Cnet where great times once upon a time long ago...

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I refer to G4 as MTV for gamers. It's supposed to be about games, but instead you get idiots hitting each other with 2X4s and trashy reality shows.

 

It's like 10% games and 90% irrelevant crap. I mean, most of what was axed was useful. What good is knowing about the hottest PC titles when the show that gave you basic tips on building and maintaining PCs is gone. Hell, I learned of Firefox trhough TechTV

Well, if it's X-Play, they can start with getting rid of the useless characters that had stopped being funny long ago: Ratty Hand Puppet, Drunk Link, Canadian Guy and the Screaming Intern.  They might want to keep Kevin Pereira around as Jack Thompson though, as JT never ceases to be a joke.

I've never liked G4.  It's one of those channels where it's obvious that they're trying too hard to be cool for a demographic that doesn't exist (i.e. the 15 year-old trendy gamer who's out partying every night).  I mean it's about games folks - it doesn't need to be hip and trendy - gamers don't care for the image thing - that's why we spend so much time eating junk food, staying up until 4am and avoiding sunlight and clean clothes.  Oh, and we're 30+ years old - the teenaged gamer was in a minority TEN YEARS AGO.  So just quit the juvenile crap and tell us about the games.

Oh, and quit hyping everything up the yin yang.  A modicum of criticism wouldn't be amiss.

Maybe if G4 hired Zero Punctuation's Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw to write the script and dropped the pseudo-hip attitude, the channel might be worth watching.  As things stand, I wouldn't miss it if it were gone.

G4 Is Almost Dead to Me. Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb are its Life support right now. They go, and G4 is Dead. Period. I don't care how many E3 trailers they air.

Fair Warning, the following may induce nostalgia.

Still not happy about my loss of:

Tech Live (Michaela Pereira)

Call for Help (I don't care what any one says, Katt and Pirillo were great. Leo was cool too but I've atleast got him on TWiT and Pirillo is still LockerGnome.)

The Screen Savers (This show was TechTV. Period. Leo, Kevin, Patrick, Morgan, Megan, YOSHI. I mean seriously, who else could could squeeze a PS2, Xbox, and a GameCube into a PC and still have a fully functional PC? James Kim... ... ... John Dvorak, And who could forget Martin Sargeant? And speaking of Martin Sargeant...)

Unscrewed With Martin Sargeant

Extended Play (Shortened, prior to the buyout, to X-Play with something of a G4 induced changed format, but atleast the original premise is still there an Adam gives a good lesson every now and then. Kate was with him for a while, and before her was Lauren, but then came Morgan and I have no complaints. Though I did prefer her on The Screen Savers, I will admit.)

Eye Drops (Probably some of the best Machinima I've ever seen was on this show).

Anime Unleashed (Got me into some pretty decent animes. The random movie wasn't bad either).

And of course this list could go on but where would that get us? Anyway, Nostalgia moment over. Layoffs are never good, as pretty much nearly all of the original TechTV staff knows (Had to get that last shot at G4 / Comcast in). And now, I will step off my platform. Best of luck to all who receive the dreaded Pink Slip.

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Sucks that people are losing their jobs.

Also, it's just like G4 to put the brunt of the layoffs in the last bastion of TechTV on their pitiful channel.

Kill it...kill it dead...with firyyyaaaaa....

 

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I loved Webb Alert. It was my favorite "catch-up" news podcast. I know Morgan cancelled it because X-Play was picking up and she wouldn't have time, but now that it's returning to the old schedule, will she bring it back?

I remember when the show was called Extended Play on TechTV.  Honestly, the quality really went downhill.  They're a lot more biased now, and they sometimes care more about being "entertaining" than reviewing the games.

But then, I loved TechTV, and hated that it was pretty much destroyed in the merger with G4.  It's like they filtered all the crap from the channel, then kept the crap and threw out everything else.

X-Play is one of the few game related shows the G4 got (last time I checked,G4 was a gaming channel) I wish Lab with Leo wasn't cancelled.

Sorry, but I have to go onto my little soapbox.

Why when G4 merged with TechTV, you cancelled most of the TechTV shows? That kind of defeats the purpose of merging. Why did you cancelled all the good shows like The Screen Savers, Icons, Tech Live, Call For Help, etc.

What's with AOTS. At first, it was exactly like The Screen Savers, but you made it into the internet on TV. If we want the internet, we go onto the internet. It also has some of the worse skits ever. Talking pants? Oh come on. The only good part is the Loop, which show be made into a full show.

I feel nothing but contempt for G4 after what they did to TechTV.