0:15 – “I’ve played — the Gauntlet games I’ve played the most, I’ve played the NES game a lot. And…uhhhh…the Gamecube one a decent amount. It’s been a while.”
Starting the stream off with lies. Way to go, Erin.
Just say that you’ve only played these games briefly, on stream, for money. Nobody gives a shit.
1:00 – Mike starts talking about his experience with the game. He played it in college. Erin says, “I’ve never beaten a Gauntlet game.”
You don’t say.
3:30 – Erin picks the sexy lady archer character. Because Erin is a girl!
Mike picks the wizard, an old man.
Why the strict gender rules? Game developers started including female characters as an option to try to attract a female demographic. I guess.
But then you’d have games that only had female characters. Like Tomb Raider. Were there any guys who refused to play the game because they didn’t want to play as a woman? I don’t think so.
When I play a game, I don’t try to find the character who looks the most like me. I don’t get pissed off if there’s no big, roided up, muscly guy. I just pick whatever. Or I look at the fucking stats. I pick the character with the best stats.
But Erin will 100% of the time pick the female character. If there’s more than one female character, she’ll pick the “cutest” one. It does not portray a positive image of female “gamers”. It just exacerbates stereotypes of the airhead, fake gamer grrl trope. It’s true in Erin’s case, of course, but other women should be telling Erin to shut the channel down. She’s doing harm to women who actually enjoy playing video games.
I could swear that they’ve played this before. This was the stream where Erin said that she got first place in Fornite or something on her second attempt. Let me check the archives.
It was Gauntlet Dark Legacy for the GameCube. This is the game she was referring to at the start of the stream when she said she played it briefly. It was on stream, for money. Of course.
Oh yeah. I was right. Here’s the quote:
“She claimed to have played Fortnite for the first time recently and got first place. Uh huh. And then she played a team round with Mike and they got first place again.”
She edited this out of the version that she uploaded to Youtube. She edited LOADS of shit out. She was doing that as far back as January 2020.
6:30 – Mike makes a Wayne’s World reference. Erin has no fucking idea what he’s talking about. Even after he says that it’s a Wayne’s World reference. She never saw the movie, of course. Never even heard of it.
So she just said, “I like the sound.”
TOTAL. FUCKING. MORON.
Erin is HORRIBLE at the game, by the way. She doesn’t seem to understand that she’s shooting projectiles. So she goes right up to every enemy like she’s meleeing them.
7:45 – “Oh. I have fire breath. Oh. I forget how to deactivate it.”
Erin “always” “forgets” how to deactivate fire breath.
SHE HAS CLEARLY NEVER PLAYED THIS GAME BEFORE! SHE EVEN BASICALLY SAID THIS AT THE START OF THE STREAM? YOU CAN’T “FORGET” SOMETHING THAT YOU NEVER KNEW, YOU FUCKING CRETIN.
14:00 – Erin…oh fuck. I don’t even want to explain. She said something about liking this game better than the GameCube game. BUT SHE HASN’T PLAYED EITHER OF THEM EXCEPT FOR BRIEFLY, ON STREAM, FOR MONEY. SO HER OPINION MEANS NOTHING.
15:00 – A horntard asks if they can continue a discussion about Big Bird’s penis. This must have been something that they were talking about in one of Mike’s streams.
Mike: I don’t know. Only if Erin has something to contribute to it. We were saying, “Does it look like his legs?”
Erin: I was just going to say, “It probably looks like his legs.”
Oh, sure you were, Erin. It was on the tip of your tongue, was it? For the first time in your life you were going to make a witty comment? What a tragedy that Mike stepped on the first joke of your life.
I suspect that what Erin was ACTUALLY going to say was something along the lines of, “Yeah” or “I don’t know” or “I like the sound.”
I’m 20 minutes in and Erin still doesn’t seem to realise that she has projectiles. She’s just meleeing everything. And obviously taking unnecessary damage
20:30 – Erin starts talking about her new emotes. “There’s a new little Death. Isn’t he cute?”
Ummm….do I want to watch any more of this? I’ll give it another five minutes.
21:00 – “Oh my god. It’s a giant tree?”
Sure. Sure it is, Erin. Giant trees are a common enemy in these sorts of games. You had the Dendroids in Heroes of Might & Magic. You had the Treeman in Blood Bowl. It’s presumably a rip off of a Dungeons & Dragons character. You’ve never seen these types of enemies before? What’s your favourite giant tree enemy, Erin? Do a video on your Top Ten Giant Tree Enemies in Games.
22:00 –
Mike: Are you like a warrior?
Erin: I’m an archer.
Mike: You should, like, keep your distance.
Oh, you finally noticed, Mike? You finally noticed how fucking terrible she is at this game? How completely clueless she is on the basic fucking fundamentals of video games? What took you so long? I’ve been detailing this shit for fucking three or four years now. I noticed in the FIRST VIDEO that I saw of hers. You’re just coming around now?
Then Erin says, “You should mind your own goddamned business.”
Mike stated the fucking obvious. You have a ranged weapon. Maybe stay back and USE the ranged weapon. That’s how Gauntlet works. Erin said that she played the NES game “a lot”. How does she not know that Gauntlet is fundamentally a PROJECTILE game?
Because she never played it before except briefly, on stream, for money. Poorly. And she doesn’t even know the basic concept of games of this type (i.e. use your fucking projectiles).
24:00 – So that’s level 2 completed. Barely. I think that we can stop here. We’ve covered the essential Erin Plays points. She’s a fraud. She’s a liar. She doesn’t play video games. She doesn’t know anything about video games. She’s terrible at video games. What more can be said?
- “There was a 4-player Gauntlet at my local Golden Skateworld, which was right next to my daycare center, so they took us there all of the time in the 80s. New arcade games were always showing up there. Other games I can remember playing there are Double Dragon I & II, Two Tigers, Blasteroids, TMNT, Dark Adventure, Crystal Castles, Rush’n Attack, Gauntlet, NARC, P.O.W., & Genesis pinball.”
You know what Erin says? “That’s awesome!”
Great contribution, Erin. You’re just so full of charisma and video game knowledge.
Here’s my Gauntlet experience. I had the PC game. It was one of the first games that I got. My father just ordered it. I don’t know from where. And then one day, it came in the mail. Just in a little cardboard sleeve. A 3.5″ disc. No manual. There might have also been a slip of paper with some user notes on it. Maybe the controls or something. And that’s it.
It was the legitimate game. It had a professional label on it. But it was just in this fucking cardboard sleeve.
So I played it and it was slow as fuck. But this was how computer games were back in the day. This was probably like 1988. Something like this. Every game was slow. Anything that required scrolling was particularly bad.
This is why Sierra adventure games and strategy games were popular. No scrolling. The games could be played at a normal speed. So that’s probably why I became interested in those two genres. Those were the only types of games that worked properly on old computers.
Still, I did play PC Gauntlet a fair bit. I didn’t beat it, of course. I don’t think it’s even possible to beat the game. It just goes on forever.
I love Gauntlet, just saying. You can’t “de-activate” fucking fire breath though. It’s how the abilities work in Gauntlet. You have them until they go away. Aside from the shitty Xbox port of Dark Legacy where you have a tacked-on inventory system that sucks cock.
Yeah, it didn’t sound right what Erin was saying but I never played the game so don’t know how it works. Thanks for confirming that Erin knows nothing about the game.