I finally live in an area that gets G4 so I decided to watch it every now and then, and here's my thought: it's awful. I don't know where they get the chics that host, but I doubt any of them play games. They say the dumbest lines in the world, but hey they're eye candy right? They cater to the lowest common denominator of the American demographic who seem to only care about blood, guts, and more blood and guts. RPG's barely get covered and they talk about stupid racing games and crap like that. I never understood the appeal to sports games in general. Isn't it basically the same thing over and over? I mean granted Mario is the same thing over and over, but heres the difference: Nintendo, or Sega, or Squenix, or Nippon Ichi take the formula and add some sort of new twist to it to keep it fresh and interesting. You can't really just add new rules to football. I guess Madden 2006 has some sort of system where you can customize the QB or something, but still I can't imagine that being that fun. What's the goal? If people want to see bunch of people kick the tar out of eachother for a pigskin, why not go outside and see a real game? I play video games to get AWAY from reality so it never made sense to me.

Yeah back on topic: I saw G4's top ten most psychotic villains on TV today and I couldn't believe some of the people not on the list. Kefka from FFVI was, which I can completely agree with. I guess Seymour from FFX is a nut because he made it to number 4 or 5 or something. I can't believe I'm about to say this, but how could that countdown NOT have Sephiroth? I'm not even an FFVII fanchic, but I'll give credit where credit is due. He should have been number 1 and he wasn't even in the top 10, and Wario is on the list??? WTF?!

Finally, what I hated the most about this special I saw and an issue with G4 in general is that they spend so much time talking about stupid crap that has nothing to do with video games, like the latest cell phones. No wonder Americans no longer want a video game system, but a "multimedia system." Screw that. When the PS2 came out it was cheaper to get that versus a DVD player because it could do other things. Now DVD players are cheap. I don't need it. I don't need a cell phone, I don't need an MP3 player and I don't need a computer. I have all those things, so why should I have to pay the extra money for that crap? Shouldn't a video game channel be about video games? And it would be nice if they didn't emphasize graphics so much. There's more to a game than it's pixels. Sheesh
So far the only thing interesting I've seen is the bio on Shiggy Miyamoto from Nintendo.