"G4 + GameSpot Cinematech SPECIAL" Talkback

[Duke]

Wednesday and Thursday, G4 and Gamespot are teaming up for four very special episodes of Cinematech which show off various topics:

Part 1 - Games of 1998 - GS takes a look at arguably the greatest year of video games.

Part 2 - Digital Women's Liberation Front - Two of GameSpot's female editors look at 12 video game femme fatales who don't use clevage or bikinis to get attention.

Part 3 - How to be a Player - For those with no video game knowledge whatsoever, this is your savior.

Part 4 - Elegy for a Generation - A look back on the history of the GameCube, Playstation 2, and XBox while looking ahead at the Revolution, Playstation 3, and XBox360.

Parts 1 & 2 air Wednesday the 24th at 10PM & 10:30PM, and encore at 2AM-3AM that night and 9AM-10AM & 5:30PM-6PM on the 25th.

Parts 3 & 4 air Thursday the 25th at 10PM & 10:30PM and encore the same times as Parts 1 & 2, except a day later.

These specials also introduce the newest redeisgn of Cinematech. Instead of the camera lens coming together like the packaging used to be, instead there's a random G4 intern-guy going all Bruce Lee on a giant robot made out of televisions and stereo speakers.

[Zyzzybalubah]

Wow I'm liking their take on Cinematech, they should always host it! The new format is great and I hope they keep it this way, the old format was boring. I like how they actually put little side notes, have trivia, and the presentation is just really nice.

[Duke]

They only did the Pop-Up Video-style notes during special themed episodes before. Dunno if this is going to be the new format or if it's special due to GameSpot producing these episodes.

[Wounded_Dragon]

I found the pop-up notes kinda of jarring and quite annoying. I was hoping to get a glimpse of Xenogears, since I've heard a lot about it but never actually seen or played it. But the pop-ups obscured the picture abour 3/4ths of the time, covering as much as 2/3rds of the screen.

I thought that only happened on the Interweb :sweat:

[RAINMAN]

Good special but 98 is the not the greatest year in gaming.

[Zach]

I really like all the changes. And yes, 98 is the best year in gaming. (I'm glad that they mentioned Half-Life. It's too bad, though, that they had to conform and pick OOT as the game of the year. Gordon Freeman is way better than Link.)

[RAINMAN]

Not to the guy who ben playing VG sense days of atari 2600.