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Kin posted:What Rise of the Robots Fiasco? Wikipedia says that they tried to sneak it out by giving out review copies really close to the launch date, but that it got utterly slated in the games media. (unless you mean CAVG) It was the first over hyped turkey basically. Revolutionary graphics, sound by Brian May, will redefine fighting games, etc. And I miss the old journalists who called out attempts to bribe them. I remember when Aliens vs Predator 2 came out, and one magazine lambasted them for sending a crate of goodies to bribe them for a good review. They ended up taking the piss out of their PR, offering the goodies to readers, and then said the game wasn't that bad anyway so no reason to bribe.
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Bogmonster posted:Anybody been watching that Southcliffe on channel 4 then? Its about a spree shooting in a fictional village and I'm finding it to be a really well directed drama, though with a bit too many slow pans across moors and that sort of thing. Yeah I'm watching this too. Quite enjoyed it so far but definitely agree with you about the panning. Worth watching though, bleak as it is it's very well made and the acting is top drawer.
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Aug 8, 2013 13:16
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Kin posted:What Rise of the Robots Fiasco? Wikipedia says that they tried to sneak it out by giving out review copies really close to the launch date, but that it got utterly slated in the games media. (unless you mean CAVG) http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/bad/rise.html http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/comments/Stuart_Campbell/ROTR_letter.html
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Aug 8, 2013 20:47
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No love for Cybernet in the games on TV? Just basic news reviews previews without 'attitude'. http://youtu.be/kHjTIpfNJI0
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Aug 9, 2013 07:07
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Jesus, I'd forgotten about Cybernet. It was shown at some ungodly hour. I had the oddest crush on one of the presenters, so I'd stay up to watch it and inevitably fall asleep in class the next day.
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Aug 9, 2013 09:59
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Chunk5 posted:I've always hated how TV has dealt with 'computer stuff' type programmes. It would never be as good as playing games in itself. I remember when saturday morning kid's TV had 'games' where the player shouted instructions down a phone line. It was just as clumsy and cringeworthy to watch. Aw no, Gamesmaster was great! Particularly in the later series, when they stopped treating it like a serious competition and just had a laugh with the whole thing. Here's one of my favourite moments, when they completely showed up that idiot Dave Perry as the posing twat he always was. Videogaiden was the secret best videogame show on television. Unfortunately no-one knew because the BBC couldn't be bothered to network it outside of Scotland, and the third series wasn't even fully broadcast, just hidden away in the deepest recesses of the BBCi website.
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Aug 9, 2013 10:48
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Cybernet was actually pretty good back in the day, because they'd keep the presenter to narration only so most of the program was taken up by full screen game footage. Game Trailers does reviews in the same way.
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Aug 9, 2013 10:55
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I don't know if it's already been mentioned and I can't remember the name of it but I remember there being some really really cheap cable channel that had video game channels on. All I can remember was that the vast majority of the time it was just two people sitting on a sofa facing the camera talking balls and one of them was the obligatory young "attractive" female host who had no idea what she was talking about. I have just imagined this?
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Aug 9, 2013 11:15
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7seven7 posted:Jesus, I'd forgotten about Cybernet. It was shown at some ungodly hour. I had the oddest crush on one of the presenters, so I'd stay up to watch it and inevitably fall asleep in class the next day. You had a crush on a robot with a TV for a face?
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Alan BStard posted:I don't know if it's already been mentioned and I can't remember the name of it but I remember there being some really really cheap cable channel that had video game channels on. All I can remember was that the vast majority of the time it was just two people sitting on a sofa facing the camera talking balls and one of them was the obligatory young "attractive" female host who had no idea what she was talking about. I have just imagined this? I saw one of these types of channels all the time channel surfing with SKY. There were several channels that tried to latch onto the Gaming And Gadgets crowd.
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Fatty posted:You had a crush on a robot with a TV for a face? I was not a normal child. I should probably mention that I might be thinking of another show. It had the bald bespectacled bloke off of The Gadget Show and a woman with long legs. They mostly sat opposite each other in a dark studio and talked about whatever it was they reviewed. I'm not even sure it was about games, come to think of it. 7seven7 fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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Aug 9, 2013 21:30
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7seven7 posted:I was not a normal child. That was The Web Review, and yeah the woman on that was pretty attractive. They didn't review games they reviewed websites, including Something Awful which they hated. Speaking of the bloke off the gadget show, anyone remember Mercenaries, with its hacker challenges?
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Aug 10, 2013 10:21
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A friend introduced me to Indoor League last night. Before my time, but what a show. I'd never heard of a Yorkshire dartboard before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOlEYNlSZ44
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SeanBeansShako posted:I saw one of these types of channels all the time channel surfing with SKY. There were several channels that tried to latch onto the Gaming And Gadgets crowd.
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Aug 10, 2013 18:45
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What is on BBC 1 right now can't possibly be something that can't even exist. Jim Henson's rapidly rotating corpse has a lot to answer for.
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Aug 10, 2013 18:57
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Yup, same here. Was actually looking forward to it!
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Aug 10, 2013 19:02
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7seven7 posted:Jesus, I'd forgotten about Cybernet. It was shown at some ungodly hour. I had the oddest crush on one of the presenters, so I'd stay up to watch it and inevitably fall asleep in class the next day. Back when I was 19/20 and jobless I used to love the ITV late night line-up, always watching Cybernet, Entertainment Now and a really loving weird and awful rAnDoM sketch show called Dare to Believe. Then they replaced it all with those loving call-in quiz show scam things. gently caress you ITV.
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Aug 10, 2013 19:04
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Raeg posted:What is on BBC 1 right now can't possibly be something that can't even exist. This is somehow worse than don't Scare the Hare.
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Aug 10, 2013 19:07
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My mum has actually let us watch the Cricket highlights in order to avoid it \o/
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Aug 10, 2013 19:29
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I think the BBC is trying to destroy Saturday night TV forever. I Love My Country makes me wish Threads was real.
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Aug 10, 2013 19:44
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Brown Moses posted:I think the BBC is trying to destroy Saturday night TV forever. I Love My Country makes me wish Threads was real. BBC's grand plan to punish us all for not watching The Voice involves pissing on Jim Henson's estate and a Question of UKIP
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Aug 10, 2013 19:47
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Brown Moses posted:I think the BBC is trying to destroy Saturday night TV forever. I Love My Country makes me wish Threads was real. A pretty strong wish, considering how hosed up Threads is. But yeah, in a way incredibly ironic.
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Aug 10, 2013 19:49
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I watched "that puppet gameshow" it reminded me a lot of what I remember from Muppet Show Tonight. But I agree totally with "I love my country" seems to be a show to teach UKIP where the towns without a premiere league football teams are.
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Aug 10, 2013 20:06
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Finally a Dutch tv import worse than big brother.
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Aug 10, 2013 20:11
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should anyone be interested, I'm watching Round The Bend in here http://sync.coconono.org/r/flanmurrayspalaceofawesome
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Aug 10, 2013 21:55
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Oh god that muppett thing is absolutley abysmal, and not helped by having Jonathan Ross. I'm off to read youtube comments for some mature entertainment.
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Aug 10, 2013 23:59
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Dragons Den tonight! Look forward to more embarrassing business proposals and tense musical cues.
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Aug 11, 2013 11:05
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You know what would be great? A mashup of The Apprentice and Dragon's Den. I reckon that would make people explode from the sympathetic embarrassment.
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Bogmonster posted:Anybody been watching that Southcliffe on channel 4 then? Its about a spree shooting in a fictional village and I'm finding it to be a really well directed drama, though with a bit too many slow pans across moors and that sort of thing. I'm enjoying it a lot too, well as much as you enjoy something so uncomfortable. People often call tv a writers medium, and it's rare to see a show with the confidence in its direction to allow the mood to drive the story. Lots of restraint in pacing, dis-orientating structure and a really grim mood makes something that could be banal sensationalist rubbish - a shooting spree in a quiet, country village - feel quite unique and interesting. I found the first two episode stuck with for a few days after watching. I guess the remaining parts will focus more on the journalist covering the event, i've liked the little flashes they've shown of his reporting and his complete failure to encapsulate the bleak reality of what's going on. Mr Empty fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Aug 11, 2013 |
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Just thought I'd update everyone on the struggles I've been having with Virgin Media because it seemed to generate a good bit of discussion. Any way - after not getting anywhere satisfactory with them my mum decided she wanted to switch to Sky, it's £7 cheaper a month for a better deal (and she wants Sky Atlantic) and she figures if she doesn't like it after a year she can switch back. However, at the moment she's telling me how much she enjoys Tipping Point so maybe getting rid of the TV all together would've been wiser.
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HERAK posted:I spent some time watching clips of 90s gameshows of various varieties on youtube recently, and gently caress me that was weird. The obsession with gunge especially, i wonder if it was a secret cabal of producers who had a particular fetish for it. It was something you couldn't get at home, I guess. I wonder if there was a company that made it, getting fat over the years on license fees. Not prepared the new millennium. Our post-gunge world. Chunk5 posted:I've always hated how TV has dealt with 'computer stuff' type programmes. It would never be as good as playing games in itself. I remember when saturday morning kid's TV had 'games' where the player shouted instructions down a phone line. It was just as clumsy and cringeworthy to watch. I was just thinking about that. Hugo the Troll (???) on his minecart*. I always figured you'd shout a command, like 'jump' or 'left' and some bloke sitting in front of a computer screen at Live and Kicking HQ would push his joystick. Although it did seem like the voice interaction was real because of how slow and unresponsive it was. *there are more minecarts in videogames than there are on Earth.
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Oh god Hugo The Troll. The memories of my confused 8 year old self just flooded back at the weirdness of that thing.
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I remember being bemused that there was an actual Hugo game for PS1. A game based on a Saturday morning TV idea of what games are actually like. Just checking on Wikipedia, it seems there was a whole series of them! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_%28video_game%29 Regarding Southcliffe, I do need to catch up on last nights episode but I completely agree with Mr. Empty's analysis, putting my thoughts on it better than I could. People should watch that show, seriously.
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Aug 12, 2013 15:52
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I thought Dragons Den was awful. I really liked Hilary (You make my foot itch) and Theo (children's inheritance) and the elevator just seems like a way to pad out the show with pointless shots of the hopefulls using it.
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Aug 12, 2013 16:33
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Theo Paphitis would get right on my tits when he went on about his children. He inadvertently bragged about his inability as a father when he said "my kids would break that" after snapping whatever the poor hopefully had made. gently caress off and get some parenting skills.
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Bogmonster posted:Regarding Southcliffe, I do need to catch up on last nights episode but I completely agree with Mr. Empty's analysis, putting my thoughts on it better than I could. People should watch that show, seriously. It's beautifully shot and acted, but by god is it bleak. Watched it last night, and it really wasn't what I needed to relax and unwind on a Sunday night. Couldn't get to sleep for ages afterwards, way too upset by the scene where Eddie Marsans' character takes photos of his daughter at the morgue. It was too awful to watch, I had to mute the telly and turn away
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Chunk5 posted:Theo Paphitis would get right on my tits when he went on about his children. He inadvertently bragged about his inability as a father when he said "my kids would break that" after snapping whatever the poor hopefully had made. gently caress off and get some parenting skills. Aha fair enough. Its too early to judge but I instantly disliked to new Dragons. The younger Peter seems totally pointless.
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Chunk5 posted:Theo Paphitis would get right on my tits when he went on about his children. He inadvertently bragged about his inability as a father when he said "my kids would break that" after snapping whatever the poor hopefully had made. gently caress off and get some parenting skills. My first job was in Ryman's and I spent about a week working with Theo's son. He was a decent guy, little bit chavvy though.
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Aug 13, 2013 22:54
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Dig WW2 with Dan Snow is just incredible, it's extraordinary what they dig up. The Spitfire and the story of it's pilot I thought was especially good.
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For people like myself (television masochists), Boom Town starts on BBC3 tonight and it looks to be SPECTACULARLY bad.
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