Thumb Bandits

Fidelis

Did anyone catch this on CH4 last night/this morning @ 12:35am? It was presented by Iain Lee (11 o'clock show) & Aleks (bits). It wasn't very good to be honest but hey, no other gaming programmes on the telly. Also, Iain has a way with words; "the people of everquest are nice, while the people in ultima are wánkers". Bring back GamesMaster!

Acidflash

I didn't catch last nights episode but i've seen a few and they are pretty crap.But what do you expect from a programme presented by people from the 11 o'clock show and bits.
But like you said there are no other game shows on TV

Shinji

Thumb Bandits isn't a bad effort, but it could have been so much better.

Still, I'm in it. So it's obviously the Best Thing Ever.

Dustaz

Your the human chair that Ian Lee sits on? pld

smoke.me.a.kipper

shinji, when are you on? or were you on already?

BLITZ_Molloy

theres Cheats on Trouble. Horrible presenters that bore the hell out of you but the reviews are fairly honest and you get to see plenty of games footage.

Games Master could have been so much better - they wasted too much time talking to boring contestants and having competitions between poeople who did'nt know what button does what.

"How do I jump again?" ...

"Pants!"

chernobyl

Watching peeps play games on television will never work, games are interactive, i think the best analogy is, would you prefer to watch to peeps having sex or get some action yourself?

The only reason pr0n does so well is that sex is not available at the push of a button but games are.

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by chernobyl
Watching peeps play games on television will never work, games are interactive

I want you to do me a favour.
I want you to think about your argument. Give it some serious thought. Go, put on some relaxing music, make a cup of tea, and think it out. Grab a pen and paper, to take notes, if it helps.
Now, think, braniac. If, in your expert opinion, "games on television will never work" because they're "not interactive" - explain to me the success of games magazines.
Well (and I'm answering myself, to help you out), there's the fact that video games magazines have a lot more information in them. Bad Influence tried to address this with their "Data Blast" at the end of the show, but this was let down by the fact that the rest of the show was incredibly condescending and patronising and, well, a frantic dash at the last minute to get a video tape and record some cheats for Mortal Kombat was much too taxing for most of it's viewers.
Which hits onto another point - it's very hard for games shows to hit on a nice format. They either treat their viewers like children (and alienate half their audience), or try to be "Booya, wicked!", "in-your-face", and alienate the other half. With print, apart from a little editorialising, it's mainly just the facts. Even still - there's always going to be a magazine out there more to your taste.
Now, tell me again - is it *really* because the TV show "isn't interactive"? If anything, I think games shows are better suited for showing off games than most computer magazines. For example - all the video games magazines in all the world could spend forever describing the dynamics of something like "Super Monkey Ball", but you still wouldn't fully get it. Thumb Bandits shows 30 seconds of it, and you realise what a badass game it really is.

chernobyl

Originally posted by ObeyGiant

If anything, I think games shows are better suited for showing off games than most computer magazines.

When im reading about a game in a magazine or on the net, the game is generally not available in europe yet, so i want as much detail as i can get on the game, therefore the format works.

I dont want to see ppl playing games, i want to play the games myself.