Meh. Still better than nothing at all.

Wow, that actually brought back warm memories of G4 to me. Man, how I loved all of its old programming.

T.V. for gamers! My ass. At least it used to be. It all started to go down hill as soon as they changed screen savers to AoTS and got rid of Kevin Rose.

i hated when they joined together with techtv, they had tomany of their shows on g4.

Acutally G4TechTV in Canada still rocks and I plan to do an article on it. Rogers Media saved the tech only channel TechTV and merged it with G4, but they only show the tech related shows from G4.

More later on.

I never had G4 because it was never offered by the cable company where I used to live (to put it in perspective, I didn't get Comedy Central there either, fascists), but I did have, and greatly enjoyed, TechTV. Everything from Call for Help and Screensavers and ExtendedPlay before it became XPlay (and when it had that nerdy girl in the glasses as Adam's cohost as well.) Hell, I even enjoyed Unscrewed with Martin Sargent.

I figured as soon as I heard that TechTV and G4 were merging that all the shows I loved would be gone and sure enough they were, in like, less than three months time.

I have G4 now but I can't honestly remember the last time I watched it. I think I saw Man Show airing and never went back.

It's a shame. RIP to two good channels.

I'm sorry, but G4 never had glory days. They've always been a retched piece of ass. TechTV on the other hand never had anything but glory days.

yeah G4 is pretty much a second SpikeTV with one show about games. Looking at the schedule for it now there is 7 hours before a show about gaming comes on. And Kevin P. does get annoying but he is who i first heard about destructiod from so he's not all bad.

They are launching their own version of the Real World called the block, I guess video games are not enough for them....

I got you :)

I think that most people originally from the merger thought the other was to blame. I was certainly on the TTV side, I have fond memories of channel 354 on DirecTV being my only channel on for weeks at a time.

In reality, it's Comcast, all the way. They bought TTV and threw G4 together. Their ultimate goal was to create a channel that creates money. Nothing more. They failed in their intial effort. Love it or leave it, neither channel was making good money. TTV was burning cash like crazy on huge tech giveaways. G4 was ridiculed by the gaming press for being little more than video clip shows and Tommy Talarico's ego.

So, merging didn't work. They trimmed shows, trimmed talent, and now they've earned the scorn of the community and they have nothing. Let it go as a shitty knock off of Spike TV. That's what I did, and now and forever it remains a blocked channel on my lineup.

G4 has never had glory days, IMHO. Pretty much has always been shit whenever I caught it.

I don't recall G4TV mentioning Destructoid in their glory days. They recently did. Granted, Dtoid didn't exist in these supposed glory days; but if Ron's going to get lucky with Olivia @ CES, these kind of posts are bad for business. Cock blocker!

BTW - who sings the song? I kinda dig it. It got me starting to hit the bottle again, to drown away my blues.

G4 just needs to die, and I think it will soon. G4 and E! are going to be sharing resources and studio space soon. I can imagine that eventually G4 will be merged into E! and we'll have one less horrid channel to flip past. I still remember when TTV was ZDTV ans X-play was Gamespot TV....

Its a Kid Rock song - Lonely Road of Faith. How fitted that I posted it.

That was fucking awful, it reminded me why I hate G4

" dormedas says:
01/02/2007 22:12
I remember the days when G4 was actually for gamers. Now it's SpikeTV2. Soon enough SpikeTV will go "RIPOFFS!" and buy whatever shows they can off the air. The countdown begins until X-Play is removed from the lineup because the head honcho is so screwed that he doesn't realize X-Play is the only thing that holds G4's ratings quasi-high. (Of course I'm going out on a limb here)

Oh do I miss you former host of Cheat, Cory Rouse (MUCH better that Ms. Slut) Former hostesses of G4TV.com, Former Host of Filter, Diane Mizota (as before, MUCH better than "IM CUTE LOOK AT ME YOO MEN I GOTS MEH BOOBS!")

G4 sucks now. I could go tune to it right now and then scoff and look away. "

Cory Rouse is the most annoying person on Earth (Not saying the new host is any better.) Diane Mizota was a goddess you bass turd! I mean look at who replaced her, the slut trophy girl friend of Howard Stern.

I loved G4 back in the old days (I was in middle school mind you, 18 now). I had the miss fortune of never seeing Tech TV before its unholy merger with the now crappiest channel next the MTV.

I actually miss the old school days of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network. With good shows like Rocco's Modern Life. And Cartoon Network showed Batman. What happened to those glory days? Huh? ANSWER ME, NICKELODEON! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?

Oh. Sorry. I forgot we were talking about a gaming channel.

Never watched G4

TechTv was gold though. Leo and Patrick and Marty FTW. :up:

I'd much rather watch Star Trek and Man Show reruns than looking at a bunch of MTV rejects pretending they knew half of fuck-all about video games.

To this day, I weep and mourn the loss of TechTV. You can't go wrong when every other show is hosted by Leo Laporte. Dude knows his stuff.

Yeah, G4 and TechTV used to be my favorite channels. Each one catered to a very specific audience, and it was great times. I remember learing how to build my first computer by watching Patrick and Leo on the screensavers. I learned how to diagnose various computer problems on Call for Help. I learned so much about the video game industry and the designers of my favorite games by watching Icons. Both channels were such a pleasure to watch, it's sad just thinking about their fate. I loved turning on the TV and seeing Dave talking to Bernie (that badger creature from EQ), It was so nerdy, and so so great. And during commercial breaks they would show high score videos and interviews with people in Ebgames stores and their opinions on games. It really felt like a gaming channel made exclusively for the hardcore gaming audience. But then the two channels merged...all the great hosts from TechTV were fired, and soon after, most of the G4 hosts as well. The programming became more mainstream, and then most shows were dropped. All I see now is Star Trek (not a fan, but not a hater either) and occasionally Attack of the Show. AotS is ok, but The Screen Savers was definately better (although I do have AotS to thank for introsducing me to Dtoid). Anyway, those days are gone and G4 is pretty much dead to me. I will miss you G4 and TechTV, you were both very dear to me. May you rest in peace.

My favorite part of the old G4 is the old nick arcade like show.. I think it was called Starcade but I cannot remember. It was hosted by a really old dude and was from like 1985 or something. It was AWESOME..

What Glory???

Starcade! isn't that the show were the kids got to run thru a gamestore and take whatever they wanted? all the losers always got shawdowrun or something. god. that was good tv. need to get that on nick G@S.