Things That Bother You About Gaming

[Avaitor]

That bothers you?

Not at all, but I couldn't think of where else to post this.

[Rynnec]

And with that, G4 officially has nothing worth watching. Not that either X-Play or AOTS were that good.

[Commode]

Eh, it's being rebranded soon anyway, if rumors are to be believed.  Maybe this is more proof.

[gunswordfist]

Why can't video game commercials go over a few relevant features a game has instead of looking like commercials for very bad CG movies?

[Silverstar]

So G4 is finally ending X-Play and Attack of the Show.

Huh.

They might as well; the whole channel's supposedly getting a rebrand, and they haven't been about vidja games for some time now. (I understand that it's not easy to make TV shows for gamers, since most hardcore gamers are too busy playing vidja games to watch TV, but for the life of me I can't see why NBC Universal thinks that making G4 yet another guys' channel was a better alternative. There are already a ton of those, and no one can compete with the granddaddy of all guys' channels, ESPN.) Plus, everybody who was on that channel is gone now. Adam Sessler (co-host of X-Play and the last holdover from Tech TV) left a little while ago, Olivia Munn's gone, Chris Hardwick's gone and recently even Kevin Periera (sp?) split because he allegedly didn't want to be seen as the face of yet another channel makeover. (He's currently hosting that Let's Ask America game show on syndication now; can't say if that's a step up or down.)

Feh. G4 can plug a hole, as far as I'm concerned. I haven't seen the channel since DirecTV dropped it and I still haven't forgiven those so-and-so's for taking Tech TV away from me. I miss The Screen Savers and Eye Drops, dammit.

[Kiddington]

On the bright side, is this the last we've seen of Morgan Webb? 

[Avaitor]

Well she left earlier this year, but yeah, I guess that was the last we'll ever see of her.

[Kiddington]

Well, see, I don't know that; I haven't even had the channel in nearly two years.

...but hey, at least there's like no chance of her coming back now, riiiiiiiiiight? 

[gunswordfist]

Whoa, I thought it was just Sessler that left.

[Goldstar]

TV Guide reported that one proposed name for the rebranded G4 is G4Men, which is a really, really stupid name. The 'G' originally stood for Games, Gadgets, Gear and Gigabytes, and the channel isn't about any of those things now. A better idea would be to just drop the 'G' altogether and just call the channel 4Men.

I don't see any point in keeping the G4 name at all, since the channel has completely destroyed the name and anything that was previously associated with it.

[Avaitor]

Whoa, I thought it was just Sessler that left.

Wait, I thought she did too?

Or maybe I'm just thinking about Sessler.

[gunswordfist]

TV Guide reported that one proposed name for the rebranded G4 is G4Men, which is a really, really stupid name. The 'G' originally stood for Games, Gadgets, Gear and Gigabytes, and the channel isn't about any of those things now. A better idea would be to just drop the 'G' altogether and just call the channel 4Men.

I don't see any point in keeping the G4 name at all, since the channel has completely destroyed the name and anything that was previously associated with it.

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[Spark Of Spirit]

I wonder how quick they'll flip flop on this?

[Rynnec]

http://www.gamesradar.com/dmc-devil-may-cry-hands-on-6-ways-it-improves-original-series/

Uuuuuggghhhhh.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Brought to you by some guy who clearly knows absolutely nothing about what actual DMC fans like about DMC games. I also hate this ignorant attitude that any complaints about this game can be attributed to pure biased fanboy bickering. I'm not a die-hard DMC fan (I've only ever beaten DMC4 and played bits and pieces of 1 and 3), but I can already see plenty of things that I prefer about the traditional DMC games that this one just fails to capture or emulates in some inferior way. The point the author of the article made about "real people" as opposed to "cartoon stereotypes" is one clear indicator that he just flat-out doesn't "get" the joke. With the exception of DMC2, the DMC games are clearly MEANT to be over-the-top. Well, OK, DMC4 tries to tackle both a serious story while retaining the over-the-top persona of the previous games and utterly fails at it (the serious stuff, anyways), but many people, including myself, love Dante's constant cheesy one-liners and the insane and hilarious action scenes. That's part of the series' charm and appeal. If we wanted a deep and serious story-line, we wouldn't be playing a DMC game to begin with (also, this game's story looks like crap; just because it has a more serious look to it doesn't prevent it from being completely terrible if its still badly-written and absurd in all of the wrong ways).

Really, I've never been trying to put down the new game just because its different and from a Western developer, but its going more along the lines of a standard action hack n' slash game than a DMC game, which is a legitimate complaint to make about the game for people who like the classic-style of DMC games. I can't stand these ass-hole journalists who think that people are just being pissed that this game is so different from the previous games rather than realizing that people possibly don't like the actual ways in which the game differs from the proper series itself. As someone who is all for series with old formula finding new footing and exploring bold new directions, it doesn't mean that I have to necessarily like any direction it chooses to go in, and in the case of DmC, I'm not particular fond of it (though, it could be worse, and I've never downright hated on the game for the direction its going in, so I'm not that biased).