Gamezville Vs Gamepad

Kold · 29-10-2003 1:44pm #1

Took a mental health day and was laying about watching TV. Gamepad was on bravo so i thought i'd give it a look but it turned out to be reruns. Do they really think it's ok to do about 10 episodes a year then keep replaying them? I thought to myself, even if it is a bunch of kiddy bull****, at least Gamezville will give up to date reports on recent games.

Then i turned to it... They dedicated 10 minutes of the show to mobile phone games and free downloadable internet shareware crap. about 15 minutes to the challenge thingy, 2 minutes per round, the rest was them chatting utter **** about how super smash bros melee was a buttonbasher (SACRILIGE).

Anyway, my point is that these people must die. Painfully. Do they actually know how crap they are? I mean... some1 emailed them about that post...

Burago · 29-10-2003 2:09pm

A decent Games show would be so easy to make that's the worst thing. RTE could easily put one together, think more film/music review style shows. Start off with the weeks gaming news, not press releases but actual news. Then review a few games in a round table style similar to RTE's Arts show "The View." Finish off with features/previews on upcoming games. Then do the Irish/UK/US/Jap charts. Only allow real adult gamers on the show and never have people on playing games to win prizes. Simple!:D

Retr0gamer · 29-10-2003 2:27pm

I think the view is dire. I can smell the pretentiousness coming from the tv everytime I try to watch it. A show like Film 2003 would be far more suited to it. However if RTE did it then they would probably have Kevo in place of Jonathan Ross.

RopeDrink · 29-10-2003 3:42pm

In my pointless opinion, the only thing kiddish about gaming is the kiddish games themselves, yet Gamesville act the entire show out as if the whole damn gaming scene is kiddish...

Apart from the "G TEAM" and the rest of the staff, all you see are little kids screaming and giving their 0.01 cent on games they get to play-test or scream a lot during the "FACE ****ing OFF", and of course the presenters themselves aren't exactly a whole deal better... They're even worse than the little ****ing kid onlookers... And the games ****ing guru, yes, he's a ****ing legend... oh yes, he's knows everything about everything and owns a mobile phone and lives in a ****ing box with graffitee all over the place because he's mega ****ing cool...

Give me a sodding break. There haven't been too many shows that were much different, but thats not to say that they haven't been better... never seen this Gamepad show, but I bet Gamesmaster squats all over it, mainly because they did the very odd "Late Night" or "Halloween" or "Adult" showings that were very VERY un-kiddish to say the least, and Patrick Moore would annihiliate G-Guru - Personality wise at least...

And that's MY 0.01 kiddish cents on this matter.

Burago · 29-10-2003 4:28pm

Originally posted by Retr0gamer
I think the view is dire. I can smell the pretentiousness coming from the tv everytime I try to watch it.

I'm not a big fan of the view either but the round table style would work for games reviews in my opinion.

Creamy Goodness · 29-10-2003 4:36pm

yeh gamezville is utter crap

ever notice the way they love to do things in two's

boyz@gamesville.tv, that's the boyz@gameville.tv

the guru only answers two questions.

the freebies section only has two games in it

when ever they review a pc game it always gets a crap score and their reason is "the controls are crap"

also one of the presenters called tomb raider a FPS which it is far from that.

The_Scary_Man · 29-10-2003 4:50pm

The only gaming show I watch is gamerwebtv on friendly tv on digital. Presented by gamers who know what they are talking about for the most part. You can text in questions live and have the answered on the show.
I wouldn't bother my hole watching the other two.

Creamy Goodness · 29-10-2003 4:54pm

gamerwebtv is ok better than gamezville

gamesmaster is on challenge now at 6:30 for some retro action

Lawdie · 29-10-2003 5:04pm

What was the games program that was on late at night. Had a silver droid with a TV for a head.

That was pretty cool. It was quick and snappy with no presenter at all!

Lawdie · 29-10-2003 5:04pm

Cybernet?

LoGiE · 29-10-2003 5:17pm

Gameszville is possibly the worst games program ever. (Yes worse then the Dexter Fletcher on Gamesmaster) I've never seen anyone wave their hands around as much as those two clowns. It makes me want to break "da boyz" fingers...all of them.
Gamepad I've always found to be good with interviews from developers and important people from the games industry as well as generally good reviews. Not just grabing some random sod out of the audience to see how many G's he'd give a game hes only played for an hour. Its a shame bravo prefares to spend there cash on that crappy "Hackers" program.

*And for good sake give the Games Guru back his heroin and release back to the dark alley he came from

DiscoStu · 29-10-2003 5:41pm

Originally posted by LoGiE
*And for good sake give the Games Guru back his heroin and release back to the dark alley he came from

and for gods sake stop him reading www.gamefaqs.com

Dcully · 29-10-2003 6:16pm

They dedicated 10 minutes of the show to mobile phone games and free downloadable internet shareware crap. about 15 minutes to the challenge

I seem to remember them showing Enemy Territory{Return to wolfenstein new version which was relesed free to download] on the freebie section too.
You cannot say thats crap.

cecil · 29-10-2003 6:20pm

Originally posted by Burago
Start off with the weeks gaming news, not press releases but actual news. Then review a few games in a round table style similar to RTE's Arts show "The View."

What a load of rubbish, what age are you 50 or something?

They dedicated 10 minutes of the show to mobile phone games and free downloadable internet shareware

So what? I and many other people find mobile gaming very interesting and glad to see it getting a slot on Gamezville.

shinzon · 29-10-2003 6:38pm

Guys has gamezville gone into repeats, its gone back to its 9am slot and i swear ive seen some of them before

Shin

Creamy Goodness · 29-10-2003 7:18pm

the ones at 9am are the shows from 4pm yesterday i think

shinzon · 29-10-2003 8:07pm

I know that the 4pm ones are repeated at 9 am the following morning, but im 100% sure that these are actually very old shows, like they reviewed deus ex 2, jay (sigh) asked when it would be out, the guy said towards the end of the year November 2003

Shin

Kold · 29-10-2003 8:55pm

Guys has gamezville gone into repeats, its gone back to its 9am slot and i swear ive seen some of them before

thatd be the repetitive ghey bs but no, it is still being broadcasted

Im sorry but why would it be ok to show games programme repeats?

I never see Film 2002 repeats... why? cos theyre pointless

Mossy Monk · 29-10-2003 11:12pm

Originally posted by Burago
RTE could easily put one together

they could and they did. i was watching telly at about 5.30 this morning and on popped everyones favourite Kevo presenting a games programme from about 3 years ago. needless to say it was crap

suppafly · 29-10-2003 11:25pm

gamespad by a mile. Even though i think yur one is kind of annoying, and some of them are repeats i'd still prefer to watch it rather than that tripe on sky!

segadreamcast · 29-10-2003 11:39pm

"real adult gamers"

Yeah because to be a real gamer, you have to be an adult...:rolleyes:

Burago · 30-10-2003 12:35am

Originally posted by NoelRock
"real adult gamers"

Yeah because to be a real gamer, you have to be an adult...:rolleyes:

You took my comment out of context. By real I meant a "real" gamer not some tard they pick off the street for his opinion on games. Someone who plays and appreciates games. As for adult, well you hardly want kids reviewing movies so why have them reviewing games...

Originally posted by cecil
What a load of rubbish, what age are you 50 or something?

So what? I and many other people find mobile gaming very interesting and glad to see it getting a slot on Gamezville.

No, 18. I suppose you want Kevo telling you how "rapid the grafix are on dis gayem!":rolleyes:

Caesar_Bojangle · 30-10-2003 12:46am

The reason why most computer game programmes are pretty pathetic is because they are targeting the casual gamer, not us callus ridden hermits.

Stormfox1020 · 30-10-2003 10:07am

The two presenters on gamezilla mock the game world in which they present the show. You can tell straight away 1. There gay 2. they dont give 2 ****s about gaming, and 3. well there just plain gay. And as pointed out who the **** is this game guru fella, it looks like hes dosed up to his eye-balls with heroin, and looks like hes gona rape the camera men any minute. And worse of all the two presenters bow when they say his name. they make the face-offs sound like its a ****in World cup final, and usually always review PS2 games. Awell, but we should sent them this post see if they change

Lucutus · 30-10-2003 10:22am

About a year ago or so, I saw a show about games on C4. I think it was called Thumb Bandits or something. The presenters were informitive and entertaining, not condescending or just downright stupid, like so many of the other shows mentioned on this thread.

One particular week was funny when one of the presenters 'responded' to posts on their web board about him, could possibly be why C4 stopped showing it...

henbane · 30-10-2003 10:33am

Remember that late night one channel 4 had with the 3 women. Was it Bitz?

Think they need to bring it back - it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

i_am_dogboy · 30-10-2003 11:05am

Originally posted by Lawdie
Cybernet?

i really like cybernet actually, the voice is a bit annoying but it's got far better gaming coverage than any other program and it doesn't have a really annoying scoring scheme for reviews

Davey Devil · 30-10-2003 12:00pm

try gamerweb 5-7pm on friendly tv channel, on sky digital ch.268. it's low budget but the presenters are gamers unlike those tossers on gamesville. it's a live show so they just sort of wing it but it's good.

zAbbo · 30-10-2003 12:15pm

I watched Gamesville for the first time last week, i have to say its utter ****e, The concept of the show seems to be two hip hop black guys jumping round bigging up games they have never played. Why is all the news/reviews rehashed from the web.

As for Gamepad, i quite like its simplistic format, its a good show. Your man that used to be on How2 has something to do with it(the young lad, gareth)

Burago · 30-10-2003 12:30pm

Originally posted by bazH
As for Gamepad, i quite like its simplistic format, its a good show. Your man that used to be on How2 has something to do with it(the young lad, gareth)

Isn't he married to the presenter, Violet Berlin?

Goblin_insane · 30-10-2003 12:40pm

You got to realise that this show is targeted at younger people judging by the time it is shown at and the fact that they have kids on the show.
So do not expect the show to be a great expeirence for you.
Also thumb banditz was one of the chicks from bitz. I think she is doing stuff on Sci fi these day's.

Kold · 30-10-2003 5:59pm

One of the girls off bitz was pure sexy...

Creamy Goodness · 30-10-2003 6:10pm

she does ultimate gamer on sci fi which is okay aswell

shinzon · 30-10-2003 6:12pm

I was just thinking today, I wish we could hark back to the Dominic Diamond years on Gamesmaster, or the first couple of season of bad influence, now they were how gameshows should be made

Not the tripe thats on now

Shin

Caesar_Bojangle · 30-10-2003 8:56pm

Dunn, off Ultimate Gamer is proper worth a lash.

chopster · 31-10-2003 4:12am

.....all i want to say is that the girl in the freebie section of gamesville ......sarah i think...is well fit , and they prove my point all the time by having real close-ups of her all the time.

my 2c worth.

Retr0gamer · 31-10-2003 10:36am

Bring back emily dunn, emily booth and that american one from thumb bandits. I want to be able to oogle at beautiful women while looking at games. Actually emily dunn and that american one do know theiir stuff when it comes to games. Emily Booth was just plain hot and had an unhealthy obsession with horror games. I'm surprised she never took her clothes off during bitz.

Doodah7 · 31-10-2003 2:18pm

Throw a rope out before this thread goes any more juvenile and off topic...

RopeDrink · 31-10-2003 2:35pm

You got to realise that this show is targeted at younger people judging by the time it is shown at and the fact that they have kids on the show.

All it takes is for some fat cigar smoking **** to sit down for two seconds and realise that his **** arse show is utter ****e, either change it to late night (Or reschedule), give the kids some sweets and a hefty kick up the ****ing arse to get rid of them and actually make an effort to get some real ****ing gamers with some real ****ing games and remind the presenters that they're not four years of ****ing age. Every time that show is on it enrages me, and yes it's so easy to just flip the channel, but by ****ing hell I can't not watch it for fear I might miss them actually coming up with something remotely intelligent...

The only half decent thing so far that they've given me as a viewer was the fact that Commodore are possibly coming back into business and that all the old C64 tapes will be going antique!

AN-****ING-TIQUE!

How many people do you NOT know that have an attic full of hundred apon hundred of C64 games in them!? I'm one of them! If thats the case then I'll be a ****ing millionaire when they DO go antique!

Other than that it's all guru bows, G counts, "OEH TEH COENTROLS AER GHEY!", "THREE, TWO, ONE, LET THE MOTHER ****ING GAMES BEGIN" and lots of little pre-teen smell bags screaming at a plasma screen...

**** OFF GAMESVILLE!

Kold · 31-10-2003 4:20pm

originally posted by tallpaul:
Throw a rope out before this thread goes any more juvenile and off topic...

topic:
Anyway, my point is that these people must die. Painfully.

*shrugs*

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