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/
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/
about their honeymoon. Their careers=over.
