After losing nearly their entire gaming demographic with the abysmal and blatantly corporate-sponsored Spike TV Game Awards, it's hard to imagine Spike TV sinking any lower. In fact, Game Head isn't half-bad, hosted by Geoff Keighly and featuring actual content. Sadly, that's not what will be reviewed here. Instead, this is Fresh Baked Video Games.
If you could, imagine half the budget of G4's X-Play, take out the single joke that's occasionally funny, add in writers who very likely are "freshly baked," and you have this new Spike TV travesty. Their website lists it as a "hypersonic comedy stew inspired by the irreverent and subversive attitude found in video games and people who play them."
There are a few things in there worth dissecting before we even begin thrashing this abusively terrible show. First, the big words used in that description alienate the four-year-olds who would actually find this garbage funny. Secondly, if you've ever picked up a controller, you have every right to be offended, send millions of pieces of hate mail to the network, protest outside their corporate offices, and threaten legal action for emotional distress for their horrible stereotyping of game players. Not a single true gamer would inspire this.
Besides the low-level description that tries to look intelligent, Fresh Baked Video Games attempts to mimic something like Saturday Night Live, only forgets the whole comedy bit. A parody segment made to look like a news report on the invention of video games takes us to an Amish village where we see them churn butter. Let's be clear: This is the highlight of the writing team's humor in this half-hour disgrace to cable.
If that's not lowbrow enough, take a look at their giveaway section, when a poor sap has a chance to win a free copy of Burnout Revenge. Since this is Fresh Baked Video Games, all he has to do is choose how he takes a shot to his testicles, whether by baseball bat, female dancer, or mace. This makes the Amish segment look highbrow by comparison. Worse yet, a shot to the balls should be funny (why else is America's Funniest Home Videos still on the air?). However, the lead-up to this segment was so atrocious, it loses all of its appeal in context.
Article comments
1 - Tan The Man
I see Spike TV is reeling after losing WWE.
2 - Sterfish
This show sounds pathetic. The fact that G4 can and does better than this shows just how far Spike TV has fallen.
3 - That GUY
Yep your 100% right this show is the worst gamer show since.............ever with their out dated games, bad comedy, writing, acting and why would a gamer want to watch a video game show that doesn't even talk about games and have they even shown an Xbox 360 at least gamehead (still a bad show) talks about games
4 - AliceSargent
That show makes me so mad, what the hell is up with that blind kid who can play Soul Calibur? He's not some kind of child prodigy he's just a button masher. I agree with you 100%