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For those of you who have Sky Digital and watch channel 223 daily like I do, you might probably think it's all good.
The first dedicated 24 hour gaming channel. Must be worth a watch right?
But is it?
Whenever I switch on, I nearly always find "Double Life" on - where people spend upto 50p sending in a text message, and waste their money chatting as their messages come up on screen, non stop for an hour or so.
If there's not that, then there's the "Legend of Mir" - which I must say I have never heard of, where we are shown someone (who's obviously not all that good) playing the game for hours on end.
Or "Myth of Soma", again of which I have never heard. The same thing happens here.
For those of you who like these games, or like spending a lot of money texting in and getting your words up in red, green and blue, I'm sure it's all well worthwhile.
But I feel that there may well be a lot of people who don't, so I'm wondering whether there should be any sort of cutdown on the time length of those shows.
As mentioned above, I watch admit that I watch Game Network daily. I wouldn't if I didn't see glimpses of things that interest me on there. This doesn't mean that I watch it all day. I merely watch it when I find a program with a variety of gaming information is on. That's when it's at its best.
Game clip. Shows random sections of the latest games released with random soundtracks - occasionally we are treated to the game's original soundtrack. Probably the best segment of the lot.
Other sections of interest are coverage of E3 and other Expo's - which Game network does pretty well. Though I'm not sure if it repeats these programs all that much. Headline news is usually up to date and is worth watching. We rarely see any presenters though - which could be a good thing, but I think it takes away from the channel, and GN ought to put in more shows, or game related programs with presenters, rather than mainly relying on virtual text chat and playing game previews over again.
More recently, they've had some good programs on the launches of Turok Evolution and Capcom's upcoming games, with the heads of PR talking to the channel. More of this sort of thing would be good.
What thinks you?
The first dedicated 24 hour gaming channel. Must be worth a watch right?
But is it?
Whenever I switch on, I nearly always find "Double Life" on - where people spend upto 50p sending in a text message, and waste their money chatting as their messages come up on screen, non stop for an hour or so.
If there's not that, then there's the "Legend of Mir" - which I must say I have never heard of, where we are shown someone (who's obviously not all that good) playing the game for hours on end.
Or "Myth of Soma", again of which I have never heard. The same thing happens here.
For those of you who like these games, or like spending a lot of money texting in and getting your words up in red, green and blue, I'm sure it's all well worthwhile.
But I feel that there may well be a lot of people who don't, so I'm wondering whether there should be any sort of cutdown on the time length of those shows.
As mentioned above, I watch admit that I watch Game Network daily. I wouldn't if I didn't see glimpses of things that interest me on there. This doesn't mean that I watch it all day. I merely watch it when I find a program with a variety of gaming information is on. That's when it's at its best.
Game clip. Shows random sections of the latest games released with random soundtracks - occasionally we are treated to the game's original soundtrack. Probably the best segment of the lot.
Other sections of interest are coverage of E3 and other Expo's - which Game network does pretty well. Though I'm not sure if it repeats these programs all that much. Headline news is usually up to date and is worth watching. We rarely see any presenters though - which could be a good thing, but I think it takes away from the channel, and GN ought to put in more shows, or game related programs with presenters, rather than mainly relying on virtual text chat and playing game previews over again.
More recently, they've had some good programs on the launches of Turok Evolution and Capcom's upcoming games, with the heads of PR talking to the channel. More of this sort of thing would be good.
What thinks you?
I don't know if you read my post properly, but I did say I didn't watch it all day, but just tuned into it every day whenever something interesting might have been on...
Anyway, yeah it has become a lot worse than before, and despite having heard about Myth of Soma for the last year and a half, I still haven't seen or ever heard of the game anywhere, etc..
It's a shame that the first "dedicated" 24 hr gaming channel has become like this...
Anyway, yeah it has become a lot worse than before, and despite having heard about Myth of Soma for the last year and a half, I still haven't seen or ever heard of the game anywhere, etc..
It's a shame that the first "dedicated" 24 hr gaming channel has become like this...
Ocarina wrote:
> For those of you who have Sky Digital and watch channel 223 daily like
> I do, you might probably think it's all good.
That's sad...
It was good when they had the little programs showing you a taster of new games, but now they have no shows on at all...
I'm not sad enough to watch it all the time though, I'll just flick onto it...
Basically it's crap now!
> For those of you who have Sky Digital and watch channel 223 daily like
> I do, you might probably think it's all good.
That's sad...
It was good when they had the little programs showing you a taster of new games, but now they have no shows on at all...
I'm not sad enough to watch it all the time though, I'll just flick onto it...
Basically it's crap now!
For those of you who have Sky Digital and watch channel 223 daily like I do, you might probably think it's all good.
The first dedicated 24 hour gaming channel. Must be worth a watch right?
But is it?
Whenever I switch on, I nearly always find "Double Life" on - where people spend upto 50p sending in a text message, and waste their money chatting as their messages come up on screen, non stop for an hour or so.
If there's not that, then there's the "Legend of Mir" - which I must say I have never heard of, where we are shown someone (who's obviously not all that good) playing the game for hours on end.
Or "Myth of Soma", again of which I have never heard. The same thing happens here.
For those of you who like these games, or like spending a lot of money texting in and getting your words up in red, green and blue, I'm sure it's all well worthwhile.
But I feel that there may well be a lot of people who don't, so I'm wondering whether there should be any sort of cutdown on the time length of those shows.
As mentioned above, I watch admit that I watch Game Network daily. I wouldn't if I didn't see glimpses of things that interest me on there. This doesn't mean that I watch it all day. I merely watch it when I find a program with a variety of gaming information is on. That's when it's at its best.
Game clip. Shows random sections of the latest games released with random soundtracks - occasionally we are treated to the game's original soundtrack. Probably the best segment of the lot.
Other sections of interest are coverage of E3 and other Expo's - which Game network does pretty well. Though I'm not sure if it repeats these programs all that much. Headline news is usually up to date and is worth watching. We rarely see any presenters though - which could be a good thing, but I think it takes away from the channel, and GN ought to put in more shows, or game related programs with presenters, rather than mainly relying on virtual text chat and playing game previews over again.
More recently, they've had some good programs on the launches of Turok Evolution and Capcom's upcoming games, with the heads of PR talking to the channel. More of this sort of thing would be good.
What thinks you?
The first dedicated 24 hour gaming channel. Must be worth a watch right?
But is it?
Whenever I switch on, I nearly always find "Double Life" on - where people spend upto 50p sending in a text message, and waste their money chatting as their messages come up on screen, non stop for an hour or so.
If there's not that, then there's the "Legend of Mir" - which I must say I have never heard of, where we are shown someone (who's obviously not all that good) playing the game for hours on end.
Or "Myth of Soma", again of which I have never heard. The same thing happens here.
For those of you who like these games, or like spending a lot of money texting in and getting your words up in red, green and blue, I'm sure it's all well worthwhile.
But I feel that there may well be a lot of people who don't, so I'm wondering whether there should be any sort of cutdown on the time length of those shows.
As mentioned above, I watch admit that I watch Game Network daily. I wouldn't if I didn't see glimpses of things that interest me on there. This doesn't mean that I watch it all day. I merely watch it when I find a program with a variety of gaming information is on. That's when it's at its best.
Game clip. Shows random sections of the latest games released with random soundtracks - occasionally we are treated to the game's original soundtrack. Probably the best segment of the lot.
Other sections of interest are coverage of E3 and other Expo's - which Game network does pretty well. Though I'm not sure if it repeats these programs all that much. Headline news is usually up to date and is worth watching. We rarely see any presenters though - which could be a good thing, but I think it takes away from the channel, and GN ought to put in more shows, or game related programs with presenters, rather than mainly relying on virtual text chat and playing game previews over again.
More recently, they've had some good programs on the launches of Turok Evolution and Capcom's upcoming games, with the heads of PR talking to the channel. More of this sort of thing would be good.
What thinks you?