Playboy model knows her games

Playboy model Jo Garcia is probably going to incur the affections of many gamers once they hear this bit of news: she plays games. And okay, I know what you might be thinking 'yeah yeah, everyone plays games now.' Indeed, many people do, even the people we wouldn't expect we hear about playing games, so much so we've gotten kinda used to it. But the difference here is she actually knows what she's talking about. She laid out her thoughts on the matter in an interview with Kotaku:

"People don't understand that that the whole gaming world is not just for geeks, and assume that every person who plays video games is a geek that wears glasses. It's a misnomer that needs to be put to rest."

Get this too: she's a console gamer and a PC gamer. A PC gamer! Can you imagine this woman sitting down at her HP Blackbird (random guess), blowing the crap out of stuff in Bioshock, or mana burning in WoW? (You think she plays WoW? I wonder what other celebrity-types play it..) "Ms. Garcia, it's time for your million dollar photoshoot." "Not now, Pierre, I'm mana burning the crap out of this Death Knight." Glorious.

Garcia says if she could get a job as a game tester, she would "do that all day long." I'm guessing she actually couldn't get the job anyway - too much of a distraction to the other employees. I don't think she's exactly aware of what goes into game testing either, but I'll let her off, this time.

The girl's into RPGs, and not just casually. Xenosaga is one of her favourite series' (omigod, me 2). She also digs Radiata Stories and Final Fantasy:

"I like those games because they have a lot of sidequests," Garcia said. "You can build up your character doing small things. I'm 100 hours into FFXII and I'm not even done with the game yet. I'm doing all the hunts and the sidequests - I'm probably a third into the game and my guys are at level 60. I hold my characters high so when I go through the game it's a lot easier."

And I thought I was one of the few who had no trouble putting in over 100 hours into a Final Fantasy title. Good to know I'm not alone.

Kotaku say that's all well and good, but did she get the Zodiac Spear in FFXII?

"I actually got the Zodiac Spear the first time I played it... you have to go through hell to get that spear, but I happened to get it the first time because someone told me about it. You can't open certain boxes, but then you have to go through and fight that nasty esper at the end... I died three times before I actually beat it."

Folks, there ain't much more satisfying in this world than hearing a hot Playboy model talking about espers.

On Garcia's first tour through the Playboy Mansion, one of Hugh Hefner's favourite rooms, the "arcade room", became one of her favourites as well:

"I was in there probably the whole time I was at the house, because I wanted something to do. I almost finished the whole Donkey Kong while I was there."