Gamerzville On Sky One
<div class="IPBDescription">WTH!?</div> I just watched this for the first time, and was looking forward to it because there isn't a descent gamers program on TV at the moment. When it first started I could see that it was going to be good because you had a big studio with loads of kids playing games and testing out different peripherals etc, so i thought WOW this could be the new Bad Influence, how wrong I was.
The presenters are 2 blokes which talk like they've played games before but thats it, they don't have any experience whatsoever. The kids they got to review the games were perfetic! They were like "uhhh yeah i like this game cuz uhhh its uhh good" They also had a Face-Off in Mech commander i think with these 2 kids who were like on Valium or something because they barely said a word, it was so lame.
To top it all off they had this woman going out to interview the makers of a new game, she was perfetic too, she was asking really stupid questions to the top bloke of the game, questions like: "so uhh its got good graphics then". It was up to the poor bloke to make the interview worthwhile, which he did thank god!
They also had a "Game Guru" which is a mystical bloke who gives out cheats, he was ok but nothing special. Give me Nam Rood anyday!!!!!
The only bloke on there who had a brain in his head was a bloke from PC Zone who was reviewing a game, he reviewed it properly, and gave proper pros and cons for the game, whereas the other blokes were like "yeah, gameplay good, uhhh graphics ok, 5/5" Thats not a review!!!
This program is rubbish, I don't believe Sky One have paid all that money for such a rubbish show which could of been done with much better people. If it had the right people it would of been a great show, but alas, it is not....
The presenters are 2 blokes which talk like they've played games before but thats it, they don't have any experience whatsoever. The kids they got to review the games were perfetic! They were like "uhhh yeah i like this game cuz uhhh its uhh good" They also had a Face-Off in Mech commander i think with these 2 kids who were like on Valium or something because they barely said a word, it was so lame.
To top it all off they had this woman going out to interview the makers of a new game, she was perfetic too, she was asking really stupid questions to the top bloke of the game, questions like: "so uhh its got good graphics then". It was up to the poor bloke to make the interview worthwhile, which he did thank god!
They also had a "Game Guru" which is a mystical bloke who gives out cheats, he was ok but nothing special. Give me Nam Rood anyday!!!!!
The only bloke on there who had a brain in his head was a bloke from PC Zone who was reviewing a game, he reviewed it properly, and gave proper pros and cons for the game, whereas the other blokes were like "yeah, gameplay good, uhhh graphics ok, 5/5" Thats not a review!!!
This program is rubbish, I don't believe Sky One have paid all that money for such a rubbish show which could of been done with much better people. If it had the right people it would of been a great show, but alas, it is not....
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there was ont on recently in the uk supposed to be "dedicated to every gamer" they even held a "tournament" but it was <b>all</b> on consoles, the tournament was just 4 ppl playing a multiplayer game, with the loser dropping out, then they go and play the next one until you end up with a winner.
there are some really good game shows out there, but they are usually on at 2:00 in the morning
Bring back Bad Influence, that was the best show!
It could be GameNetwork!
Oh the humanity!
Cybernet is good, The Web Review was good (damn them cancelling it), Mercenaries was damn good on Bravo but they got rid of that too.
It makes me cry.
Cybernet is good, short and sweet!
Game-Pad is ok, although there are only like 12 shows in each series and so they repeat it every day for the whole year!
Cybernet is good, short and sweet!
Game-Pad is ok, although there are only like 12 shows in each series and so they repeat it every day for the whole year! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I think GamesNetwork gets its cash because it turns into a porn channel after 11. So much for 24/7 gaming.
Game-Pad, its OK, Violet Berlin (the host) has a rather annoying voice, and the jokes are all crap (and they are written by her)
The best thing was last night GamesNetwork did a review of Day of Defeat - I never seen someone suck so badly at Day of Defeat in my life, and they get paid to do it.
However, someone did send GamesNetwork a promo video for Natural Selection (Monse I assume) so they are only -49 on the sucky scale.
Anyway, it really bothers me when people do things that are supposedly "tailored to games" but the people doing it don't know a thing about games. Or when they only feature consoles. Evil.
I remember reading in PCG (UK edition that is) that the BAFTA awards (I think) rated Halo a substandard game because the "panel" of "judges" (read: monkeys) couldn't figure out how to get their character to stop looking at the ground. They were also only devoting on average about 2 hours to each game. Hardly enough to get a decent idea of the game for review purposes. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/style_images/2/icon3.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
As you said, the only reason i watch it is when it turns into porn, i mean "BabeStation" is really good <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Well...its not really, its just a air-head woman reading txts from perverted boys and doing stuff for them. But the thing is she never actually does anything, she just says "i will do it sooooon"
Actually, forget it i know where they get their money from. The texts are ?3 a text plus ur standard telecoms charge, now i know how they are funded. I can't imagine the look on some of the geeks faces when they get their phone bill
From the second i saw the advert for this program i knew it would be shite. It started off with a load of "fashionable" guys... come on, in all fairness, we're gamers, we're not fashionable. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Then it proceeded downhill from there. When he started reading off a list of gaming platforms that they will cover in the show "... So whether you play on mobile, pc, con..." hang on a minute... "...So whether you play on mob..." he didn't just say mobile did he? "...So whether you play on mobile..." oh dear god. They actually consider the mobile phone to be a gaming platform.
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<!--QuoteBegin--Insane+ Aug 12 2003, 12:48 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Insane @ Aug 12 2003, 12:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I remember reading in PCG (UK edition that is) that the BAFTA awards (I think) rated Halo a substandard game <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Well even a monkey is intelligent to notice that Halo is teh lewse. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
<b>thats</b> what it was called
yeah, give us thumb bandits.
Ian Lee who used to present it is now doing a C4 breakfast show. i miss him
Damn that was good.
Iain Lee used to do the 11 o'clock show on Channel 4 too, which was the programme that had Ricky Gervais.
Good stuff, I am surprised no-one else has commented on Mercenaries <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--> They still repeat it at 2:30AM and 3:30AM on Ftn (Sky 256) That was good.
Except that they were good looking and not so butch.
Emily Boufantte <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Ditto.
Gamenetwork is'nt that bad... The porn is just a bonus. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Ian is doing RI:SE
His funny. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
One of those women, was on Thumb Bandits too.
Violet Berlin is not fit, she has ample breasts but that is about it. Its the voice that puts me off.
However, I leave it up to the NS Fourmites to decide for themselves:
<img src='http://www.bravo.co.uk/games/images/violet_02.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
<img src='http://www.badinfluence.fsnet.co.uk/signed_violet.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
<img src='http://www.badinfluence.fsnet.co.uk/pic_violet_2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
What was with that haircut. She also went through that strange stage of shaving her head completly except for a long fringe at the front, who remembers that stage <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
She looked a lot better in the later years though
<img src='http://www.badinfluence.fsnet.co.uk/signed_violet.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Yummy!
She looks good in game-pad too. She used to change her hairstyle like every episode, but now shes sticking to the "Holly from Red Dwarf" look, which i hate!
<img src='http://www.bouff.tv/mainpics/18_05.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
now she does this show on bravo which i like <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Jason Bradbury! Hurrah!
<img src='http://www.warpig.com/paintball/tournament/campaigncup/2000/gallery/1112jasonBradburytvpresenter.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
I think he'd make a great host.
The perfect gameshow for me would have Violet Berlin doing interviews, the American woman from Bits and thumbbandits doing the games reviews, the bouff woman doing the main show, and Nam Rood doing the cheats <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->