well this has to go in the "top ten most meaty and meaningfull emails"
category for 2004
mailing list award nominee iymc
excellent
yeah, if we could snag a few of the better ones, it will be perfect for
eurotv.
Kayode James wrote:
> (In response to the Iliad strip e-mail...)
>
>
> I don't know if I'm the only one, but I've been watching quite a lot
> of G4 and I have to admit, it's better than the channel it replaced.
>
> The best of Tech TV (minus CFH at least) is still there. X-Play,
> Screensavers, Fresh Gear and The Tech Of.
>
> G4 has added quite a few decent shows to the mix...along with some
> that are as weak as the Iliad strip indicates.
>
> *Icons* is the best in my opinion. It's an excellent hour-long series
> that runs down the careers of some of the greatest videogame
> personalities, creators, companies, consoles and series, a la /Titans
> of Tech/ or /Headliners and Legends/. Good stuff man. Not comical or
> low-browed at all. Mature documentary style with interviews from
> around the industry etc. So far I've seen them do Gameboy (with
> extensive stuff about the guy behind the system), Sonic and his
> creator Yuji Naka, EA (which was great), and some other developer.
> Can't wait to see them do Hideo Kojima or the man himself Shigeru
> Miyamoto. Miyamoto go HADDA be a two or three-parter.
>
>
> *Judgement Day *is basically a more mature X-Play with two guys who
> debate their views of the game, as well as peripherals. Cynically
> humorous, sometimes edgy, probably better than X-Play.
>
>
> *The Pulse* is a decent weekly hour-long videogame News show with two
> relatively entertaining hosts. Always informative, sometimes amusing.
> Definitely worth a watch, even if you may have already read plenty of
> the news online by the time it airs.
>
> *Sweat* (Sweat!) is all about sports games. Looks okay, but I'm not
> really into sports games. Plenty athlete interviews. Looks like it
> fills a niche well.
>
> *Cheats* is here and there. It's better for the younger folk I guess.
> It's all about Cheats, tips and strategy guides. I watch it because it
> has some of the best and longest gameplay clips of all of the shows.
> The host is very annoying. Very annoying.
>
>
> *Cinematheque* is basically Euro TV. Clips and trailers from
> games old, new, and upcoming. No hosts. Just clips and trailers. There
> was a clip of a PC game from the mid-nineties, which should tell you
> how far back it goes. Decent stuff to sit back and chill with.
>
>
> *Arena* is basically a multiplayer competitive show that pits teams
> against each other for prizes. It's okay.
>
>
> *Electric Playground* is yet another review show. It's decent.
>
>
>
> Then there's *Filter*, which has good content but a terrible (albeit
> good-looking) host. It's basically a VH1 "Top 10 List" type show, with
> a particular genre or category (Top Ten Basketball Games, Top Ten
> Trippiest Games, Top Ten Best Music), and it has the same style of
> irreverent interviews with industry figures and "celebrities" as the
> VH1 shows.
>
> It straddles the line between pop and gaming.
>
>
>
> "*Players*" crosses that line. It's more or less shit. Interviews with
> celebrities who play games, and a bunch of other "reality TV" stuff.
> I've never sat through a whole episode...it's annoying and patronising
> bullshit.
>
>
> *G4TV.Com* is probably the show that the strip was referring to. Two
> relatively attractive young women with questionable gaming pedigrees
> pretending to be gung-ho gamer-girls but just looking stupid. Haven't
> been able to sit through a full episode of this either, but it looks
> like they just do previews and features.
>
> And that's about the rundown.
>
>
>
> No wait...there's a show called *Portal* that I saw last night for the
> first time. It's...WTF? No really...WTMC? Is basically some kinda
> weird MST3K kinda parody show that uses character models from games
> and puts (rarely) comical voiceovers to them to make some kinda weird
> dimension-hopping sci-fi fantasy saga. This is some weird shit. Would
> probably go good with a five-piece and two Stag, but as it is now, it
> belongs in that late-as-hell timeslot it's on.
>
> Can't believe I remembered all of those shows offhand.
>
>
> Baego, it would be good to cap some of the episodes of Icons and put
> them up on Euro TV. Great stuff for any gamer. That is the type of
> show we need. Takin Gaming to the A&E charts.
>
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