As expected, G4's E3 coverage is terrible

[SMMM]

Half of the time that I saw, they were just advertising their own shows and Mountain Dew. They didn't even mention the new SSB, nevermind show the trailer. And some of the girls on there looked like they had no idea wtf they were doing and they all had horrible, eerie, smiles...that and Gilbert Godfrey. WTF is he doing there??? I feel so sorry for that man.

[Puffa469]

I agree 100%. Theres about 6-7 minutes of actual coverage per hour it seems. Its all ads for their other shows, and theyre reading everything off prompters. There is almost zero adlibbing, they dont give their opinion on anything, its horrible.

[projecteightysix]

What ever happend to the blonde on attack of the show? This brunette chick is spacey and has no chemestry with anybody.

[RedvsBlue]

All I've heard so far is "Sony shows why they hold the top spot in the video game industry", I laughed and turned the channel. Maybe I heard something from last year's E3? Or perhaps a few years ago when they announced the PS2...

[DomLando]

G4 is crap. You didn't think there coverage of E3 would be good did you? Terrible channel and I can't stand most of the people on it.

[SMMM]

G4 is crap. You didn't think there coverage of E3 would be good did you? Terrible channel and I can't stand most of the people on it.

Notice I said "as expected"

[DomLando]

Notice I said "as expected"
Haha sorry missed that very important word.

[TheBlueWizard]

I watched about 3 minutes tonight and it was some of the worst TV/reporting that I had ever seen. I'd like to see some trailers, have them spend time talking about what they have seen or anything useful. They just kept going around from group to group (of their announcers) talking about what was coming up. The problem is that the only thing coming up was my dinner. It was absolutely horrible.

I could stand in front of a camera and give a better report of the show from what I have read on this site alone. With crap like theirs, its a wonder that they are still on the air.

TBW

[TimPV3]

I started watching it and all I saw was unfunny cracks towards the other hosts and some dude playing Madden. Needless to say, I went to Dairy Queen.

[arthurRWD]

What ever happend to the blonde on attack of the show? This brunette chick is spacey and has no chemestry with anybody.

yea i miss the blonde (sarah i think) she was WAY better than the new chick....though she is pretty hot...i assume that's what got her the job

[j.elles]

We'll see if they cover it properly tommorow. Probably not. With the whole new format thing there touting I hope for there sake they can shape up. After all we don't want idiots to be representing gamers, at least not forever.

[Z-Saber]

I've watched most of the last three nights and though I agree that in general the coverage basically sucks, there are some genuinely cool parts. For example, seeing things like MSG4 and Super Mario Galaxy in 60fps in 480p is nice. They also had Reggie on there, John Carmack, the Sega prez, and a bunch of other people.

Essentially, the best parts of G4's coverage are in the fact that they are televised, not terribly compressed/streaming like everything online, and they have some good interviews and hands-on showcasing with the developers.

[Kapwanil]

15 minutes of actual coverage each hour earlier on in the week, now down to around 8 minutes of actual coverage.

The Attack of the Show people mostly toss around bad jokes, "in-fighting" (staged bullshit), and relaying what the viewers think even though any jackass near a computer can see that via the website.

Most of the major announcements, clips, and other things are going unreported or are mentioned in such brief passing that it's a laugh.

Remember when X-Play would just cover E3 through around five or six different episodes and at least touch upon all of the major stuff? How about last year's E3 material when there would be more of a selected focus on titles yet there was some quality discussion and presentations?

Yeah, that's all gone. What an absolute waste. I ~want~ to support good aspects of G4 like I used to but they keep going down the toilet every damned month.

[Mid Boss]

Makes me glad I've missed most of it. All I watched from their E3 coverage this year was the MGS4 trailer.

[botticus]

I tried to watch some two days ago, but I couldn't stand the hosts long enough to see the exclusive Spore report. Ah well.

[markingsmart]

It's for such occasions like this that Tivo was invented.

I was thinking the same thing as I skipped through 3 hours of E3 footage in twenty minutes. I don't remember last year or the one before being this bad. Three hour episodes is too much imho, especially when it mostly consists of promos for their other shows and please, stop acting like Filter is a "new" show when it's been around before.

It seems, or I could be FF through it, that they are missing out on plenty of games, especially for this generation of consoles. Super Paper Mario? The FF 7 spin-offs? Guitar Hero 2? What about the 15 minute trailer for MGS4? The new SSB? DOAX2?

There are a few good things. The interviews with Reggie, Carmack, Moore, Molyneaux, etc have been decent. Cliffy B playing Gears of War was cool and seeing the games are cool, Spore hands on was good, but I feel like it's Groundhog Day and I'm watching the same day of coverage over and over. Is there different footage other than the clip of Mario fighting the space octopus?? Please???

I did get a kick out of the ESPN reject who is covering the Sony floor interviewing Michael Madsen. He was talking to Madsen about the Reservoir Dogs game while using a midwestern accent, all the while it looked like Madsen wanted to beat the living shit out of him.

I give the coverage a 2.....out of 5.

[Vegan]

Yeah, their plastic-faced hosts blatantly know nothing of games.

[Vinny]

Their advertisement pre-E3 made it sound like it would some damn good coverage but once they actually showed it, it was pure crap.

I just signed up for IGN Insider (with free 1 year subscriptions to EGM and OPM) for $20 and downloaded all the HD clips. Beats having to listen to G4's terrible hosts.

[j.elles]

They did have a couple good exclusives. If you can record it on VHS, or Tivo or something i'd do it.

[KingDox]

I think it's sad that g4 is based out of Los Angeles and their coverage is still poor.

[wubb]

Agreed. I DVRed the first day and watched it later FFing about 75% of it. Especially at the end of each hour it seemed like they'd tell you what you just saw, tell you what they are going to show you next, ask you to not change the channel, go to commercial..., tell you what you just saw again, tell you what you are going to see now again. Yeesh!

DVRed the second day, but ended up not really watching it because I didn't feel like FFing more than I watched. Didn't even bother recording it last night. Pretty bad when there is the excitement of two major consoles launching later this year. There should be all kinds of good stuff to cover.

Throwing to THE FEED a couple times a night is just horrible. The first night led with some story about Britney Spears each time. I couldn't get to the FF button fast enough. I'm trying to get the news about E3 here not my fix of entertainment news. Get a freaking clue! Are they trying to entice viewers into changing the channel?

Last year their coverage wasn't this bad IIRC. At least I remember actually watching each of the nights (on DVR of course.)

[ArthurDigbySellers]

I DVRed last night's and I have watched about half of it (90% FFed). It is really bad this year. Last year was alright, but as others have said, this year it is one long, bad, obvious advertisement for Scion, Mt. Dew, and all of the "new" shows on G4.

[doubledown]

What ever happend to the blonde on attack of the show? This brunette chick is spacey and has no chemestry with anybody.

She married that OTHER guy on the show. I forget his name...the guy who always sat on the couch and went to conventions and what not. I was curious because I thought the new girl sucked also....getting a BIT better though

[basketkase543]

I guess i'm the only one who didn't think it was that bad. Seriously, for the one channel that actually HAS E3 coverage they did a decent job. I saw about six different developer interviews (including God of War's David Jaffe) and a good interview with Nintendomyster Reggie.

Don't get me wrong, though - It WAS full of self-promoting; It WAS full ads and mindless banter. But considering that this was my one TV source for E3 I really didn't think it was that bad. (and the Gilbert Godfrey bit was freaking hilarious).

[Backlash]

Needless to say, I went to Dairy Queen.

What?

[evanft]

The entire coverage this week has been a complete abortion. There's about 6-10 minutes of actual coverage per hour, with the rest being taken up by hype for what's coming up, stupid in-fighting, that retarded Morgan Minute, pimping for other crappy g4 shows, booth babes, etc. As others have emntioned, where's the new SSB trailer? Guitar Hero 2? Super Paper Mario?

I mean, the entire demographic g4 is aiming at probably has an internet connection and has already seen/heard everything they want, so why the hell are they giving us uninteresting drivel and snippets of info we already know? Why not highlight games people are ignoring? How about giving us COMPLETE trailers? Why not cut out some of the useless host banter and give us extended/more interviews?

[radjago]

I guess i'm the only one who didn't think it was that bad. Seriously, for the one channel that actually HAS E3 coverage they did a decent job. I saw about six different developer interviews (including God of War's David Jaffe) and a good interview with Nintendomyster Reggie.

Don't get me wrong, though - It WAS full of self-promoting; It WAS full ads and mindless banter. But considering that this was my one TV source for E3 I really didn't think it was that bad. (and the Gilbert Godfrey bit was freaking hilarious).
So what did Jaffe talk about? God of War 2? His new PSP game? Why he says "fuck" in every interview?

[Backlash]

So what did Jaffe talk about? God of War 2? His new PSP game? Why he says "fuck" in every interview?

GoW2. He talked and the director for GoW2 played it while they talked. It looks pretty sweet, as expected.

[Abalistar]

It's really dissapointing this year. Yeah, you can't really expect that much from G4, but last year's coverage was actually pretty damn good. This year, they've actually gone through plenty of segments without even showing anything game related. It'd be a 10 minute promotion for Attack of the Show, X-Play, and a kick to The Feed. Hell, at one point they said that Gears of War footage was coming up next. The footage came THE NEXT FREAKING DAY. The only good thing has been some of the interviews.

Sadly, this is the best coverage I can get without taking all night to download trailers. Damn dial up. -_-

[Namelessloser]

its really disappointing this year. Last years coverage was outstanding... this year its like a big giant advertisment about their stupid shows and their BRAND SPANKED NEW SET. i wish they'd spend money on gamers than stupid sets.


and that new chick is hot, but jesus she is the most dullest co-host ive ever seen.

[H-Town Info]

i miss techtv

[RacinReaver]

I watched the other day, and the best thing was totally Sessler's glances of contempt towards the jackass and the girl from AOTS.

[Z-Saber]

GoW2. He talked and the director for GoW2 played it while they talked. It looks pretty sweet, as expected.
I think it looks exactly like the first one. And I'm not talking about the graphics. And I thought the first one was WAAAAY overrated.

But that's a different topic.

[rabbitt]

G4's E3 coverage has become unbearable for me. If I have to hear their website one more goddamned time...

Why is G4 the only channel for games?

[Vegan]

Why is G4 the only channel for games?

Because it's honestly not the greastest idea.

[Ikohn4ever]

ohh and that blonde sarah lane or whatever she got married to that other guy i think brendon and they wanted to see the world or whatever. The new girl seems to try to be like her but fails

[nickmad]

Morgan, how i love thee

[Foolman]

Essentially, the best parts of G4's coverage are in the fact that they are televised,

I thought that was the bad thing. They almost give you no heads up as to what they are about to show and you can't skip to want you want to watch without having TiVo. When getting on the internet, just search what you want and you're there.

[Z-Saber]

I thought that was the bad thing. They almost give you no heads up as to what they are about to show and you can't skip to want you want to watch without having TiVo. When getting on the internet, just search what you want and you're there.
I was referring entirely to the increased visual quality. The trailers look nice.

[sonicfreak5]

G4 sucks no interesting things horrible hosts and crappy skits + jokes

[evanft]

G4 sucks no interesting things horrible hosts and crappy skits + jokes

That post was very g4.

[sonicfreak5]

That post was very g4.

guess so... welll as i was saying G4 i think is trying to go for 10 to 13 year old gamers.. There asking questions to people at home like(I watched the first 15 min. of the first day)
what is a booth babe? :puke:
What is E3?

[Z-Saber]

I missed the original live presentation tonight and have been watching the re-airing. Mostly suckage.

However, the Guitar Hero 2 segment was great. It was long, showed off the game, and they actually played some multiplayer. I hadn't heard this revealed elsewhere, but it seems you can select difficulties per player, meaning I can actually play it with my friends and not fall asleep playing Normal.

Sure, I had to suffer through hours of crap, but that was almost worth it.

[ajh2298]

That blonde chick(Sarah Lane) did marry that Brendan Moran guy who also was on AOTS, the funny thing is she was going to marry the original host when the show first started(Kevin Rose).

[cdeener]

That blonde chick(Sarah Lane) did marry that Brendan Moran guy who also was on AOTS, the funny thing is she was going to marry the original host when the show first started(I forget his name).

So that is why neither one of them actually are on AOTS anymore.

[MightySlacker]

I wonder if MWL would approve of this thread

Dave

[Abalistar]

Holy crap. Is it just me, or did it look like Sesslar was going to deck dull girl in the 2nd hour tonight? It looked like she read more than she was supposed to, because Adam was about to talk and she kept rambling on. Then after she finished what was coming up, Adam got to say his name. It seemed like they were supposed to introduce themselves, THEN she explain what was coming up.

When she seemed to miss that, I could have sworn he was about to slap her upside the head. That glare was damn dirty. Unless it was supposed to be a little "joke." It sure as hell didn't look like that though.

[Skelah]

That blonde chick(Sarah Lane) did marry that Brendan Moran guy who also was on AOTS, the funny thing is she was going to marry the original host when the show first started(Kevin Rose).

lol wow thats gotta put some strain on the workplace .

[jbarby]

The G4 coverage really sucked as usual makes me wanna build a tech channel of my own. (wonders how much it would be to rent a sat station 's bandwidth)

I would have been happy if they had 3 blocks of time where they just set the camera down and taped the conference Live. Then a repeat during prime time.

1 for Sony
1 for Xbox
1 for Nintendo

That's all they had to do.


Then another block that covered games and technologies now shown in the conferences going up to booth's asking about products. To a lesser extent covering the booth babes.

I want CONTENT not hosts talking to other hosts and trying to be silly.

(sigh)

Thank god I was able to watch the conferences in full on gamespot

I tivoed the G4 coverage fast forwarded through 99.99% of it and watched about 5 minutes of previews.

[epobirs]

Without a DVR this would have been unbearable. Far too much to tolerate for the few worthy moments. Twelve hours of recording time worked out to perhaps four hours of anything worth my attention.

I can appreciate the need for the sponsors' ads but the sheer volume of time given to plugging G4 shows consumed at least 10% of the remaining time. Another major time suck was pointless talking about nothing in particular and telling the audience what a wonderful thing it was for G4 to be doing this but rarely showing the friggin' PRODUCTS the convention exists to promote.

And who does Olivia Munn sleep with at G4 to get that gig? She plenty attractive but poor host material. In the segments she did with Morgan Webb it was like they were the before and after pictures for a personality removal service. She just doesn't have the 'it' quality of personality that can be annoying in real life but is critical for playing to the camera.

Adam Sessler is good on X-play but has anyone else noticed how tongue tied he gets in live interviews. It seems he's thinking about too much at once to focus on the sentence he's trying to speak. It's a serious deficit for such work.

I get the feeling they had a very short list, maybe fifteen items, created in advance of things they were confident would make for decent content and rather than run the risk of finding little else of interest they cranked out filler. Were they unwilling to commit the resources to gather footage and edit it with voiceover in time for the following day? The press events should have provided more than enough material to fill the first day and give them some time to put together material for the following days.

They could have done so much more. The Atlus booth alone could have provided a solid ten minutes of content. Remember Disgaea? We loved it but many of you never listened. Now here is Disgaea 2, what it looks like and what new features it brings to the franchise. An easy 1 to 2 minutes right there on a single title. Then the next game. One decent crew could have shot that in an hour, delivered the tape to the edit room (presuming they have a portable facility in a van or similar) and been working on another booth within an hour, getting at least 30 cumulative minutes of solid content each day per crew. Just two crews working that way have made this into something I might have bothered to pull off my RePlayTV and burn to DVD for repeated examination.

There really isn't much reason for G4's existence beyond X-play anymore. Perhaps it would be better if they just shopped X-play to another network and got on with their transformation to Spike, Jr. They could have just one show running 16 hours a day consisting of models in bikinis or lingerie driving sports cars and occasionally shooting stuff until it explodes. Why bother with writing or dialogue when they can just cut to the chase?

Boobies! Fast car! Boom! And now a word from our sponsor explaining that their man-perfume is much like a date-rape drug yet legal.



Apparently Brendan and Sarah Moran have elected to travel the world to sample exotic foods and the diseases they bear.
http://www.sarahlane.typepad.com/sarahword/

[XxFuRy2Xx]

If they got rid of xplay they would no longer have the obligatory video game show, and they wouldn't be able to call themselves spike tv jr.

[evanft]

Apparently Brendan and Sarah Moran have elected to travel the world to sample exotic foods and the diseases they bear.
http://www.sarahlane.typepad.com/sarahword/

I love how they think people give a flying fuck about their honeymoon. Their careers=over.

[GameDude]

I'm glad sarah lane is off that show. she is so annoying and nasty.

[DarkNessBear]

What ever happend to the blonde on attack of the show? This brunette chick is spacey and has no chemestry with anybody.
Screw you! Olivia is nice!

I was on E3live (In the audience). Kevin and Olivia were the only nice ones, Adam came over but he wouldnt talk to anyone. And Morgan just kept running back and forward.

Olivia was so cute, she would just wave and smile to everyone. She was real nice.

As for the coverage. It was really shitty. Last years was AMAZING I loved it. This years... first poster was exactly right, it was them advertising themselves the whole time... It was weird. Every second was really, "Visit our website!" or "New Xplay!" or "Check out the Attack of the Show set!".

Pretty ridicoulus. Gilbert was random as fuck to... and all there floor coverage was so MINIMAL, there was SO much to see there... I cannot believe they didnt show it all. They get 3 hours a day, to show ANYTHING at E3... and they dont take advantage of it to its fullest. Pittiful.

Although I did like Gilbert Godfree's comment:
"I was recently voted the most unsexiest man in America. Being at E3, I am bound to find someone more unsexy then me!"
Although they didnt expand on that, and you didnt get to see him go find an unsexier man...

Ugh this coverage brought way to many promises and fullfilled WAY to little.

Every second of that show felt like it was just starting...
And anyone else notice throughout the whole show, every show they would go, "We got some sexy booth babe coverage for everyone!" but I never saw anything really on booth babes...

But, it was still fun being on it! And seeing everyone! And watching Kevin Interview Reggie was exciting.

[evanft]

Screw you! Olivia is nice!

I was on E3live (In the audience). Kevin and Olivia were the only nice ones, Adam came over but he wouldnt talk to anyone. And Morgan just kept running back and forward.

Olivia was so cute, she would just wave and smile to everyone. She was real nice.

As for the coverage. It was really shitty. Last years was AMAZING I loved it. This years... first poster was exactly right, it was them advertising themselves the whole time... It was weird. Every second was really, "Visit our website!" or "New Xplay!" or "Check out the Attack of the Show set!".

Pretty ridicoulus. Gilbert was random as fuck to... and all there floor coverage was so MINIMAL, there was SO much to see there... I cannot believe they didnt show it all. They get 3 hours a day, to show ANYTHING at E3... and they dont take advantage of it to its fullest. Pittiful.

Although I did like Gilbert Godfree's comment:
"I was recently voted the most unsexiest man in America. Being at E3, I am bound to find someone more unsexy then me!"
Although they didnt expand on that, and you didnt get to see him go find an unsexier man...

Ugh this coverage brought way to many promises and fullfilled WAY to little.

Every second of that show felt like it was just starting...
And anyone else notice throughout the whole show, every show they would go, "We got some sexy booth babe coverage for everyone!" but I never saw anything really on booth babes...

But, it was still fun being on it! And seeing everyone! And watching Kevin Interview Reggie was exciting.

Olivia reads the teleprompter like a fucking robot and anytime Kevin, Morgan, and Adam were talking about video games, she would stand there awkwardly. A computer with her picture as the desktop and some good speaking software could do her job.

[Rei no Otaku]

I was on E3live (In the audience). Kevin and Olivia were the only nice ones, Adam came over but he wouldnt talk to anyone. And Morgan just kept running back and forward.

Olivia was so cute, she would just wave and smile to everyone. She was real nice.
I'm sure she's a nice person, but a good host she definitely is not. What really creeped me out with her was the constant smiling. It was scary. Someone needs to tell her that you don't have to always have a shit eating grin on your face when you look at the camera. It's not natural at all. She'd read her crap off the teleprompter, and then break into the serial killer smile.

It was also hilarious whent he four of them were together and Adam, Morgan and Kevin started talking about games. She looked like a deer in the headlights. I was so expecting the following conversation to occur:

Adam: "Assassin's Creed looks excellent. Seems Ubisoft has another hit series on their hands"
Kevin: "The graphics are gorgeous, and the gameplay should be amazing."
Morgan: "I've heard rumors of a Xbox 360 port, but we'll have to wait and see."
Olivia: "I touched a controller today!"
Adam, Kevin and Morgan: "....."

[csguy1]

like some other people i miss the sarah chick. much better host.the best coverage of e3 is around is on ign.com, i mean like they have ever thing. remember last years g4oriah or what ever its called , that was the worst lamest award show ever
. even though some times we deny it ,we all have to admit that G4/techTv is just not as good as it used to be.

[csguy1]

like some other people i miss the sarah chick. much better host.the best coverage of e3 is around is on ign.com, i mean like they have ever thing. remember last years g4oriah or what ever its called , that was the worst lamest award show ever , you could easily see how the celiebrty guestes had a bad time and the band who sang looked and sang as if they were drunk, i would have rather wach some kids award show than watch g4oriah.even though some times we deny it ,we all have to admit that G4/techTv is just not as good as it used to be.:drool:

[XxFuRy2Xx]

I'm sure she's a nice person, but a good host she definitely is not. What really creeped me out with her was the constant smiling. It was scary. Someone needs to tell her that you don't have to always have a shit eating grin on your face when you look at the camera. It's not natural at all. She'd read her crap off the teleprompter, and then break into the serial killer smile.

It was also hilarious whent he four of them were together and Adam, Morgan and Kevin started talking about games. She looked like a deer in the headlights. I was so expecting the following conversation to occur:

Adam: "Assassin's Creed looks excellent. Seems Ubisoft has another hit series on their hands"
Kevin: "The graphics are gorgeous, and the gameplay should be amazing."
Morgan: "I've heard rumors of a Xbox 360 port, but we'll have to wait and see."
Olivia: "I touched a controller today!"
Adam, Kevin and Morgan: "....."Your right, it's pretty apparent she doesn't know squat about games. Doesn't really matter though since G4 rarely does much with gaming nowadays.

[markingsmart]

I'm glad sarah lane is off that show. she is so annoying and nasty.

Anyone else see the irony in this statement coming from the guy with the butt licking avatar? And how do you know she's nasty? Do you have first hand knowledge you'd like to share with the rest of us?

[ajh2298]

IMO, the chick doing "The Feed" spots during the E3 coverage was hot as hell also. I liked the fact that her chest was way too big for the rest of her body.

[evanft]

IMO, the chick doing "The Feed" spots during the E3 coverage was hot as hell also. I liked the fact that her chest was way too big for the rest of her body.

QFT. She's short, too. I love that.

I'm sure she's a nice person, but a good host she definitely is not. What really creeped me out with her was the constant smiling. It was scary. Someone needs to tell her that you don't have to always have a shit eating grin on your face when you look at the camera. It's not natural at all. She'd read her crap off the teleprompter, and then break into the serial killer smile.

It was also hilarious whent he four of them were together and Adam, Morgan and Kevin started talking about games. She looked like a deer in the headlights. I was so expecting the following conversation to occur:

Adam: "Assassin's Creed looks excellent. Seems Ubisoft has another hit series on their hands"
Kevin: "The graphics are gorgeous, and the gameplay should be amazing."
Morgan: "I've heard rumors of a Xbox 360 port, but we'll have to wait and see."
Olivia: "I touched a controller today!"
Adam, Kevin and Morgan: "....."

My point exactly.

[sarausagi]

I DVR'd most of it but ended up fast forwarding through day one and some of day two and deleted the rest.

My real complaints:

1. Constant self promotion: we know what shows there are on G4, we don't care for most of them, and you don't need to advertise them 10x an hour, if you really want to pimp your shows, do it on OTHER channels. More than anything, it makes the line up even more detestable. "Cheat" I can understand, but "Cheaters"? What's next?! Reruns of Maury? Ten year old episodes of Divorce Court? They need to be showing more anime, producing more Cinematech, and doing serious UNBIASED review shows.

2. Movement from host to host, without really saying anything, this annoyed me to no end. One girl would tell you when they came back they'd show you [insert game here] then they cut to someone on the floor telling you how great everything is, then cutting you to another host, telling you to stick around and not change the channel, then cutting to a segment [Morgan Minute, THE FEED] and then cutting back to the hosts playing with each other or saying how much they love the viewers

3. The show was too entirely focused on western gaming. Frankly, the only real Japanese trailers shown were FF XIII [which was absolutely beautiful] and the abridged MGS4 trailer. I read there was a Phantasy Star Universe trailer..though I frankly don't believe it. They passed by Namco's booth, Square-Enix's booth, and Capcom's booth, quite honestly you could spend an hour in each one. They passed by rows of DS games and didn't talk about one of them.

4. Orgasming over things with the heat index, it annoyed me to no end. Pretty much five hosts saying "OH GOD THE WII IS SO GREAT!!" and "OH WHAT A GREAT FPS!!!!!" and when one host said he liked FFXII and everyone laughed at him I was just so angry. There's such a bias on G4 it's not even funny...everytime a PS3 gaming looks AMAZING they just start "OH, IT MIGHT NOT LOOK LIKE THAT, IT'S CERTAINLY PRE-RENDERED TRAILERS!!"

But Cinematech is great, I didn't know about DJMAX Pro and now I so have a reason to buy a PSP. A CINEMATECH E3 version would rock.

[sarausagi]

IMO, the chick doing "The Feed" spots during the E3 coverage was hot as hell also. I liked the fact that her chest was way too big for the rest of her body.

Her clothes really flattered her breasts..

Anyone thinks she looks like Carmen SANDIEGO?

[Rei no Otaku]

IMO, the chick doing "The Feed" spots during the E3 coverage was hot as hell also. I liked the fact that her chest was way too big for the rest of her body.
Yeah, she did have some nice jugs. Though 50 Cent was like making out with her at one point, and that image kind of ruined it for me whenever I look at her.

[crazytalkx]

[QUOTE=Rei no Otaku;1893214]Yeah, she did have some nice jugs./QUOTE]

I DEMAND PICTURES!!!!

[Apossum]

I am thoroughly jealous of sarah lane's trip around the world. guess G4 pays well.

[Graystone]

[QUOTE=Rei no Otaku;1893214]Yeah, she did have some nice jugs./QUOTE]

I DEMAND PICTURES!!!!

http://images.google.com/images?num=30&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&resnum=0&q=layla%20kayleigh&spell=1&tab=wi

In the red dress you could see full nips. Dress was way to small.


I DVR'D it, and it was okay for the simple fact that I could fast forward past things.
I liked the fact that they kept jumping from person to person. I hate when shows go ok lets take it over to Cindy *Cindy talks for 30 seconds* then she goes okay take it Bob.

[jer7583]

G4 gets worse and worse.

It wouldn't have been that hard to add in a half hour segment of weird shit in that one hall where they stick all the startup developers and strange technology, would it?

It wouldn't be that hard to have a fucking personality and be able to talk in front of the camera, or actually feel like they were at E3 and not just on their own stage. I think basically the people they hire or can afford are dumb as shit and have no passion for gaming. Morgan Webb and Sessler seem to know what they're doing more than anyone there.

I have a feeling a lot of the choices about what to focus on or what to air has to do with people in the advertising department, trying to keep advertisers buying for their network. EA, Ubisoft, and Sony do a lot of TV advertising, and thats why you never stop hearing about their shit.

A game network shouldn't be that hard to do, people. Especially during the biggest week of the year for gaming!

Shit, they even have Soap Opera, Cooking, and GOLF channels. Unless there's golfers, cooks, and old ladies bitching about those channels right now somewhere, a channel dedicated to one hobby/activity shouldn't be THAT hard.

[jlarlee]

that olivia chick sucked she handled the teleprompter about as smoothly as I handled a condom the night I lost my virginity. She stumbled over her words so many damn times.

[Final Starman]

that olivia chick sucked she handled the teleprompter about as smoothly as I handled a condom the night I lost my virginity. She stumbled over her words so many damn times.

X mother-fucking D

[Graystone]

that olivia chick sucked she handled the teleprompter about as smoothly as I handled a condom the night I lost my virginity. She stumbled over her words so many damn times.

The one thing that pissed me off about her was that after the MGS4 trailer one of the other hosts asked her what she thought and she was like I don't know. Now I'm thinking that ok you shouldn't have to be a gamer to work at G4. But I figured that you would have to be a gamer of some sorts to be a fucking host.

This women just watched a great teaser trailer ever and all she had to say is I don't know. Lets say for a minute that she knows nothing about gaming, if you saw the main character in the game stick a gun in their mouth you could at least fake some, fear, hate, anger, worry. Something act for the camera like you give a fuck.

[ViolentLee]

I don't mean to plug my own smack, but anyone have opinions on the coverage at gametrailers.com?

[Dhuk]

Yeah, she did have some nice jugs. Though 50 Cent was like making out with her at one point, and that image kind of ruined it for me whenever I look at her.

HaHa, He fuck 'ed her.


That new girl olivia, has got to go. She looks so dumbfounded when they talk about gaming, no wonder they advoid her on the subject. I wish they never let sarah lane go.

[wubb]

Morgan Webb sucked badly when she first went over to X-Play (very awkward/stiff on camera) but she's really come into her own. Olivia is much better than Webb was in the beginning IMO. (Not much of a compliment, granted.)

I wish they had just done 1 hour packed with content per day rather than 3 stretched out hours of crap. Might be part of the reason I couldn't stand the coverage is that a lot of the shows they were promo-ing made me sad. Like the new version of Filter with some blonde bimbo hosting, kind of wraps up what's wrong with the channel's direction.

I am thoroughly jealous of sarah lane's trip around the world. guess G4 pays well.

Just took a look myself and damn! And what she has up now is just the first half. A lot of the cost of a massive trip like that is you miss out on a full year's salary, plus you have to work something out as far as health insurance, etc. I'd imagine. Maybe they are secretly trying to get a network to create a show around their trip and fund it?

[cdeener]

Morgan Webb sucked badly when she first went over to X-Play (very awkward/stiff on camera) but she's really come into her own. Olivia is much better than Webb was in the beginning IMO. (Not much of a compliment, granted.)

I wish they had just done 1 hour packed with content per day rather than 3 stretched out hours of crap. Might be part of the reason I couldn't stand the coverage is that a lot of the shows they were promo-ing made me sad. Like the new version of Filter with some blonde bimbo hosting, kind of wraps up what's wrong with the channel's direction.

That blonde bimbo you are referring to is actually Howard Stern's Girlfriend so that tells you a little bit about her to start.

[rabbitt]

I haven't really explored all of gametrailers.com yet, but they're definately up-to-date with great videos.

[arcadia]

While I don't really like the G4 network I thought the E3 coverage was ok. It was a bit long since they did spend about 30 minutes of coverage on unnecessary subjects, and about another 30 on show plugs. If they trimmed the episodes down to an hour for each episode it wouldn't have felt so akward.

I did like the interviews though, they were pretty well, and the game footage they did show was kinda nice, I've seen some of it in most places, but it was stick pretty cool.

Olivia Munn, I used to hate her but she's begining to grow on me. She doesn't read too well off of the telepromptor but she does try. I think it's because she's trying to be like Sarah Lane and she fails at it. She'll probably be better in a few months.

Most people say there were only 6-8 good minutes in there but I think
there was at least 30 minutes in there that was good. I like some things but those crappy segments (the booth babes segments were god awful, and those little skits weren't needed) .

All in all I'd say it was ok, a 3/5 nothing special but it was better than nothing, for those who didn't go. Some people really hate G4, I don't like it but I still find it ok when I spend an hour watching it.

[CheapyD]

I don't mean to plug my own smack, but anyone have opinions on the coverage at gametrailers.com?
How about some linkage to your stuff?

[ViolentLee]

How about some linkage to your stuff?
I'll be updating my Reviews thread soon. I'm actually working at GameTrailers full time, as of yesterday, so my free time for fun stuff like that is limited.

However, I can't say no to Cheapy, so here's a sampling to whet your appetite:
THQ booth tour (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10701&type=wmv)
Igarashi Castlevania interview (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10657&type=wmv)
Sega booth tour (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10847&type=wmv)
Sony booth tour (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10634&type=wmv)
Vivendi Booth Tour (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10711&type=wmv)
Rob Van Dam interview (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10732&type=wmv)
Roundtable Day 2 feature (http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?id=10782&type=wmv)