{"id":414,"date":"2026-09-04T16:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:16:03","slug":"what-makes-us-want-to-be-gamers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Us Want to Be Gamers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HowIt’s rare to find a game that’s able to challenge players without ever feeling unfair, but that’s exactly what Outward manages to achieve. Better still, as well as online multiplayer, the game also offers local split-screen which is becoming increasingly rare in the modern age. It’s certainly not without its flaws, but they’re far outweighed by the many, many positi<\/p>\n

XevianLight built this really uniquely shaped futuristic green, white, and grey megabase in the desert. It’s a nice homage to desert pyramids as well, with a modern twist to it. Players should never feel pressured to build squares and rectangles when only the sky’s the limit with shapes and designs in the g<\/p>\n

During the early 90\u2019s, many of us were involved in, as coined by James Rolfe, the „bit wars,” the point where competing systems developed a brand loyalty with the consumers. It was a Genesis\/SNES world and the market intended for you to pick a side. But those of us who were first exposed to video games during this time didn\u2019t originally intend to side with either Sega or Nintendo. While there were certain characteristics of each console that we preferred, our focus was never on what games were better. The first big step for any future gamer is one devoid of partisanship in the gaming community; when you first enter the gaming world, you aren\u2019t involved in the console wars. In fact, they did not exist to you back then. I personally chose Sonic the Hedgehog as my „gateway game” simply because I liked who he was as a character. I liked his cool blue color, his tough-guy stare, and the acrobatic nature of how he moved. Level design, physics, replay value, music, even the buzz term „blast processing” meant absolutely nothing to me. It was Sonic himself that captivated me to join the gaming world.<\/p>\n

This beacon megabase by Trollyn_ is absolutely gorgeous and took them over 12 hours to build. That still seems like an insane feat, considering the sheer amount of detail and planning that probably went into crafting something as elaborate as this. Adding beacons into builds is also a fantastic idea, as they can often serve as a centerpiece or something to build aro<\/p>\n

On the plus side, once you’re in the Minecraft Missions<\/a> world the sense of scale is truly fantastic. Everything seems bigger somehow, more immediate and solid. A pit in a cave that would be little more than a hazard to plop a staircase onto is all of a sudden an ominous presence waiting to see you fall into its depths. Hills are more imposing, cliffs shoot dangerously into the sky and canyons are massive rifts in the earth, and the oceans go down forever. Even the standard block has a sense of mass, with its one meter cube transformed into a substantial chunk of scenery. Another side effect of the new sense of scale is that combat has become a little easier because the strike distance is so obvious. The move to VR has done a great job of freshening up an experience I’ve been done with for several years now, which is an impressive feat. While I’m still not completely sold on the viewing solution, it’s something that works for now until a better idea is implemented.<\/p>\n

Many other gamers in my age group were hooked during the Super Nintendo\/Sega Genesis era, while the older crowd are likely to have the original NES in their hearts. Some might even cite the original Atari 2600 as their first step into the world of gaming, with their reverence for the medium enduring even the colossal gaming crash of the 1980\u2019s. On the other side of things, we have younger gamers who are being raised on Playstation consoles as new as the Playstation 4 and even Microsoft\u2019s Xbox line, which didn\u2019t appear until the new millennium. We also mustn\u2019t forget those of us who played PC games during our childhood, even the consistently ridiculed edutainment games like Oregon Trail II . We\u2019re all given so much history and so many options to choose from as fans within this medium, but those of us who call ourselves gamers find something truly fascinating with games as a whole.<\/p>\n

While you don\u2019t get to explore the world, you are given the chance to look around in order to find clues that lead to the next event. The episode doesn\u2019t stray at all from the original and even gives you the opportunity to fight zombies and craft items to make you feel more at home, feeling a little bit like a tribute. As stated before, you don\u2019t have to have prior knowledge of the game in order to enjoy this but some you should have some prior knowledge to understand the terminology and some of the jokes. ‘Ender Dragon’ and ‘Wither’ are not really words that everyone has in their everyday vocabulary but knowing about them will give you better understanding of why they\u2019re bad and why the situation that Jesse and his friends are in is bad.<\/p>\n

The trend of building homes that don’t look like homes is one of the best ones in Minecraft . It lets players innovate and think outside of the box. A home is wherever the Minecraft bed is, and that could even be a massive battleship docked in the middle of an ocean bi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s rare to find a game that’s able to challenge players without ever feeling unfair, but that’s exactly what Outward manages to achieve. Better still, as well as online multiplayer, the game also offers local split-screen which is becoming increasingly rare in the modern age. It’s certainly not without its flaws, but they’re far outweighed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-small-business","tag-minecraft-beginner-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petanque-machine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}