Lmao. Doubtful and they probably get the interns to do it. Psyched to see ovilee get a role
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G4 officially bringing back Kevin Pereira for Attack of the Show! and Adam Sessler for X-Play
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My biggest hesitation is that a lot of the edgier shit that used to pass for comedy at X-Play is pretty closely aligned with the shitty gamer persona that we have all become acquainted with. X-Play (Attack of the Show) played a part in establishing that gamer identity. They need to act as a firm refutation of that now. I'm not convinced they are up to the task.
She is around. She pops up in movies and TV shows regularly enough. She isn't an A-tier celebrity, but she is probably still too big for an X-Play revival.
She is around. She pops up in movies and TV shows regularly enough. She isn't an A-tier celebrity, but she is probably still too big for an X-Play revival.
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Probably the Sessler part of the announcement. A lot of people are pretty rightfully pissed that Sessler was so incredibly shitty about using the correct pronouns. Transphobia doesn't fly these days.
Meh. Attack of the Show was just a shell of a replacement of The Screen Savers.
I also feel like X-Play is totally irrelevant now in the day of Twitch streaming and YouTube reviews/gameplay clips.
Isn't this going to be a TV channel? If so I give this venture less than a year before Comcast pulls the plug and replaces it with Cops and Cheaters episodes.
I also feel like X-Play is totally irrelevant now in the day of Twitch streaming and YouTube reviews/gameplay clips.
Isn't this going to be a TV channel? If so I give this venture less than a year before Comcast pulls the plug and replaces it with Cops and Cheaters episodes.
Sheesh. Can't believe they hired him back. Has he even tried to fix this?
Yeah its about that. I mean I don't underestimate gamers' ability to not care about that stuff, but it's hard to ignore when respected people in games media publicly dragged him directly. Like G4 is going to relaunch and there's going to be a pretty good chance those same people start tweeting about the time he got super transphobic and then blocked all of his colleagues for calling him out.
I mean it should be pretty clear they don't care considering they brought back Chris Hardwick too.
Nah, you can leave those old ass shows with the fossil hosts in the past where they belong. Sessler showed his ass and Pereira has been problematic. Dude was so jealous Oliva Munn broke out.
Chris Hardwick stuff is different as there were problems with that whole thing. No one came out good from that.
Chris Hardwick stuff is different as there were problems with that whole thing. No one came out good from that.
Definitely have a lot of nostalgia for G4.
No brainer that they'd bring back AOTS and X-play. As towards the end of the original run it was pretty much those shows and cops on all the time.
But man looking back. I loved that show portal. Very interesting concept for a show. Cheat was decent. But I really loved Cinematech. They showed game trailers and cutscenes from games for 30 minutes. Got introduced to games I would have never heard about. Icons was legit too. Hope they do something like that as well.
No brainer that they'd bring back AOTS and X-play. As towards the end of the original run it was pretty much those shows and cops on all the time.
But man looking back. I loved that show portal. Very interesting concept for a show. Cheat was decent. But I really loved Cinematech. They showed game trailers and cutscenes from games for 30 minutes. Got introduced to games I would have never heard about. Icons was legit too. Hope they do something like that as well.
As much as I loved G4, it very much was a time and place kind of thing. I wish them luck though.
Cinematech to this day still helps calm my nerves lol
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The Hardwick stuff wasn't a cut and dry situation, to be fair.
Been watching Code Monkeys on Peacock a while ago and I'm curious in seeing a follow up one day, though that's wishful thinking.
Could take place post-NES era, maybe the mid 90s.
I do have low expectations about G4's revival, though.
Could take place post-NES era, maybe the mid 90s.
I do have low expectations about G4's revival, though.
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Geez, Louise. I always felt Sessler was kind of a tosser, but I never heard about this.
Watching the Thanksgiving episode was such a nostalgic trip. Not sure I'll watch the revival shows religiously but I'll see what they'll do in their first episodes.
Weird for Adam to come back to host x-play. I guess he'll have a lot of say in the production of the show now.
Weird for Adam to come back to host x-play. I guess he'll have a lot of say in the production of the show now.
Well one tweet he seems to be calling out a man who he believes is downplaying misogyny, and then someone else steps in and cautions him about linking chromosomes and gender. Totally fair comment, although it almost reads at first glance like something a douchey alt right type would say i.e. "ArE yOu AsSumING my GeNder?" He then says something linking that person to Reddit. I don't think of Reddit as a bastion of progressive gender politics, so it seems like Adam doesn't even understand who he's talking to.
Back on basic cable or what? I feel like gaming media is settled into Twitch, YouTube or specific websites.
This is where I am too. Hopefully there are new shows and hosts too.
Don't feel the same way about these two as I did when G4 first shutdown and I'm just cautiously optimistic about what G4 will even be now.
I give this news a 3................outta 5. Actually, very exciting! Hope they bring back Cinematech. Not the stupid Nocturnal Emissions BS though.
Eh I don't think this is what really anyone wants. G4 had its time in the sun, let it go. I mean all of Sessler recent videos on the YouTube channel have felt so antiquated, like a character he portrayed on Xplay trying to understand the modern internet. His dreadful mic didn't help either.
Olivia Munn is too high profile and successful in her own right as an actress to run back to X-Play.
Olivia Munn was never on X-Play, at least not that I remember. She was on Attack of the Show.
No, it's not related to the Dead or Alive franchise
No, it's not related to the Dead or Alive franchise
After going back and watching a bunch of X-Play episodes lately (to the extent that they're out there - which is really not nearly enough) I've realized that I still really enjoy that show particularly as a time capsule and a way to be reminded of games I either totally forgot about or never knew existed - but also that even despite my affection for that era of video game coverage it's also something that should be left in the past, and also I'm not sure I ever particularly liked Sessler there to begin with even all the way back then.
What I wanted was really just a proper modern archive of old X-Play episodes. I don't think the world needs an actual reboot, to be honest. Especially with Morgan seemingly not being involved because she carried that show a lot more than I realized.
What I wanted was really just a proper modern archive of old X-Play episodes. I don't think the world needs an actual reboot, to be honest. Especially with Morgan seemingly not being involved because she carried that show a lot more than I realized.
What you're describing is him calling a trans woman a Redditor because she called him on being cissexist. He then kept going off about this, and did other things such as liking transphobic tweets as the other tweets posted here documented.
