Well the title is incorrect, it sucks more would be a lot more accurate.
Before they decided to EXTREME it, this particular videogame show was good, it started out as gamespot tv under the banner of ZDTV, later known as TechTv, it was actually a good show at the time, you had Adam not acting like an ADD riddled child and Kate Botello all reviewing games and the like, no stupid skits, no "ANIME SUX" mentality, no all RPG's suck except FF crap. It was a good show.
It turned into Extended Play afterwards, Kate left and only Adam was left, the show still wasn't bad though, dumb skits where kept to a bare minimum and for the most part we saw Adam at the start and at the end.
Then of course G4 purchased Tech Tv and shit all over their programming like a cancerous tumor, a lot of shows where cancelled and others where changed, Extended Play was changed.
Morgan Webb of the Screensavers was added as a host, seems realized that with some make-up and longer hair she would look much more attractive, the entire format was changed in favor of dreadfully unfunny skits and us looking at the hosts several times through out the show, Adam suddenly became an idiot, Morgan became the cool, confident host, problem was this gave her air of arrogance and bitchyness, suddenly certain genres where hated and the overall quality of the show took a very sharp decline.
Now the show has been changed, no idea why and its just worthless now, its like they're trying to cram Icons, Cheat and X-Play into a 22 minute show.
Last nights episode was easily the worst I've seen, they an interview segment with a man who ran a high end gaming store, later they reviewed Turok, they gave it a 3, why did a 3? Graphics? Dumb A.I? Nope, they gave it a 3 because it didn't have auto aim assist like most modern shooters had according to Morgan(Notice she didn't say PC shooters), she didn't discuss weapon types, the multiplayer, enemies, nothing, just this and that was the basis of her score.
Later on they had a segment on how game devs made sound work in games, a short 2 minute segment that ended way to abruptly, after that we got the Advance Wars Days of Ruin review, this is what Morgan said.
New units.
Wi-fi online capability.
New story.
That's it, no discussing of the CO powers being so different, barely touching on the story, just these 3 points that any consumer could gleam from simply looking at the DoR box at the local gaming store.
I understand wanting to make a more informative game show but this isn't the way to go about it, this is just overkill, most people just want reviews, I guess G4 is so desperate to mantain the GAMER demographic that they don't want to flat-out cancel everything, just cram it all into one show.
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FAIL X-PLAY IS FAIL!
Also, Morgan was way hot with short hair on ScreenSavers.
What changed?
I like the show, G4 still has it's head up it's posterior about a lot of things, but I enjoy the show still. I mean it's now pretty much like "The Daily Show", they tell you when the show airs so you know the material isn't too outdated.
Morgan's chin still disturbs me, but she signed my PSP case back at E3 06, so it's all good. I kindda like her hair long and wavy.
And I agree with Brandon, if what adam and morgan claim they write most of their own reviews, and they are pretty funny (though I don't always agree, but they are still funny.).
-Werd - BTW, nice post Kyousuke Nanbu!
wtf.
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I was a very weird 6th grader.
Extended Play was full of win... And to an extent, so was early X-Play.
On an irrelevant note, I watched AOTS today, and found it kinda tolerable. Of course, I stayed home sick today, too... And I was on cold medication... So...