Gamer Girls

I think that Ircha Gaming is the only person who I cover who I’d give some loving to. Well, maybe PVC Bondage Guy too. I don’t often talk about Ircha Gaming’s videos though because…I don’t know. They’re not really interesting. And not in a good way.

0:00 – “How much do you spend on video games?”

What year is this? I basically stopped buying video games when I got the internet in 1998. You can get every fucking game for free.

I remember being blown away that you could play SNES games on your computer. And they were all free. Costs nothing. And fucking MAME dot dk had everything. Every game for every console. The older ones, anyway. Certainly 16 bit and earlier. And they had virtually all of the arcade games. It was crazy. My mind was totally blown.

I went from having, whatever, 100 games (my PC and console game collection that I had amassed over the years) to fucking every game. Tens of thousands of them. Even on dialup, I was able to download these games.

Why would you possibly need any more games after that? If you have the entire library Atari 2600, NES, Sega Master System, SNES, Genesis, and Turbo Grafx, and arcade, what more could you possibly need? It will take ten lifetimes to get through all of those games.

Of course, I still bought games after getting the internet but nowhere near the level that I previously did. I certainly stopped getting consoles. My last console was the GameCube and I only got like four games for that. There’s no need to get a console any more. There hasn’t been since at least 1998.

I basically only got multiplayer games after 1998. So I got Half-Life, for example, because I wanted to play Team Fortress Classic. And I played Team Fortress Classic for…I don’t know…ten years. Whenever Team Fortress 2 came out. Then I played Team Fortress 2 for another ten years or whatever.

That’s largely my video game buying experience since 1998. I bought Half-Life and Half-Life 2.

How many fucking Steam games do I have? That’s the only way I’ve purchased games since…whenever Steam came out.

I have like 70 games on Steam. So 70 games in 20 years. That’s an average of 3.5 games a year. Figure an average game costs $25. I’m spending an average of $87.50 on video games per year.

I also used to pirate a lot of PC games. I still do but not so often. I don’t care about video games so much any more. Not that I was ever hugely in video games. I played them I still play them but I’ve always stuck to a few core titles that I play for years. Something has to look really spectacular before I decide to try it out. And it has to somehow reach my attention, which isn’t easy because I don’t read any “gaming news” shit.

“More importantly, how much do you spend on video games that you end up never playing.”

Zero. It’s never happened once. If you’re buying games that you don’t even play, you’re doing something massively wrong.

“I think that these are interesting topics and I want to have a discussion.”

Way ahead of you, Icha. I’ve already covered the topic just from the first 15 seconds of your video. Who gives a shit what you have to say? It’s going to be boring as fuck.

Okay, so I’ve watched the video. Except for the last minute. I had to stop. She talks about playing the demos to see if you like the game and watching Youtube reviews and shit.

It’s like she’s doing this video from 1995. Just replace “Youtube” with “Electronic Gaming Monthly”.

She seems to mostly be talking about Switch games. I don’t know. Switch games aren’t being widely pirated? There’s no Switch emulator? That’s certainly possible. I haven’t really looked at emulators in many years but the newest stuff doesn’t tend to be emulated.

But just play the older stuff then. Or PC games. PC games are superior anyway. Always have been. I enjoy the novelty of playing Super Mario Bros on my computer but PC games tend to be much more in depth, customiseable, better graphics, whatever. And it’s been this way down through the ages.