Game number 2 is another old game that is still very popular among many people, it is called Minecraft. Minecraft is not a game you can purchase on Steam by the way. You have to go to the Minecraft website, make an account, and purchase the game. It used to be $20 when it was still in beta, but it came out of beta not long ago, in 2011 and the price went up ~$10, give or take a few.
This is a 3 dimensional world made up of 1x1 blocks. This game can be multiplayer or single-player. In multiplayer, you can join other people on someone elses server or your own that you host and try to survive either by helping each other or attacking each other. You can do pretty much whatever you want. You use your hand to destroy and pick up blocks, then place them as you like or you can craft them to make tools to help you mine stone or ore. There are animals in the game that you can find that give different drops when killed. You can find pigs which drop pork, chickens which drop feathers and raw chicken, cows which drop leather and beef, and sheep that drop wool. You can also make sheers and sheer the sheep which gives you more wool than it would killing them. All of those mobs are passive and will only run if you try to attack them. There are also wolves which you can tame to follow you and keep as a pet, but if you attack it before taming it, it will attack you. At night, you have to be careful and stay indoors or near light because monsters spawn and will try to attack you.Some different servers have different plugins and so different features can be found on different servers. There are some that put you in creative mode. You are invincible and you have all the materials in the game, this type is mainly for flaunting your creativity and building whatever you want. Most servers are set to survival, where you have a life bar and a hunger bar. If you get hurt, your health bar decreases and if you die, you drop all of your items you have on you and are teleported to spawn or where you last slept in a bed. If you do not eat food, your hunger bar will decrease and if it is at zero, your health bar will start to decrease. If you have full hunger, than you will slowly regenerate health.There is a single player where you can choose between survival and creative so that you can play on your own world without other players. I know a few people that have their own servers, mostly set to creative. I love to build large structures or make sculptures when I play on them.
I will add some photos to try to help you get a better picture.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Counter-Strike: Source
The first game I wanted to share is a steam game that I play regularly, almost every day. It is called Counter-Strike: Source. This game is fairly old; it has been around for a good number of years now, but it is still a lot of fun. It is an online, first person shooter with your two typical teams, pretty much good and bad. You have your terrorists (T's) and your counter terrorists (CT's).
On original servers there would be two spawn points on either side of the maps, one for the CT's and one for the T's. The objective is to either kill everyone on the other team or complete a task. The task differs depending on the map. Some maps require the T's to plant a bomb, only one terrorist on the team will receive the bomb. They must guard it from any CT's who have the option to purchase a kit to defuse the bomb or do it manually which takes longer. If the bomb is not defused in time, the round ends and the terrorists are declared the winners. The other type of map is a rescue. This is where the terrorists have 4 hostages and the counter terrorists must sneak into the terrorists spawn point, find the hostages, and bring them back to their spawn and the round will end and the counter terrorists are declared the winners. These are just the basic, original types of servers.
There are many other types of servers with different plugins that the owners of the servers add on to make the server more interesting or give players a change in game play. Some examples of different servers are: mini-games, zombie escape, gun game, bunny hopping, and surf. There are many other different types of servers, some that require a certain skill to be able to be played well, like one of the servers I mentioned before: bunny hopping, or surf.
It is an online game, so the majority, if not all of the people playing, you will not know. It is not scary though, it just gives you the opportunity to meet different people from around the world that have a similar interest as you. There are some bad servers I have seen and would never go back to, but the servers that I play on, most of the people are very nice and respect one another. If you are a gamer and are looking for a classic game to play that is loads of fun, you may want to give this game a try.
On original servers there would be two spawn points on either side of the maps, one for the CT's and one for the T's. The objective is to either kill everyone on the other team or complete a task. The task differs depending on the map. Some maps require the T's to plant a bomb, only one terrorist on the team will receive the bomb. They must guard it from any CT's who have the option to purchase a kit to defuse the bomb or do it manually which takes longer. If the bomb is not defused in time, the round ends and the terrorists are declared the winners. The other type of map is a rescue. This is where the terrorists have 4 hostages and the counter terrorists must sneak into the terrorists spawn point, find the hostages, and bring them back to their spawn and the round will end and the counter terrorists are declared the winners. These are just the basic, original types of servers.
There are many other types of servers with different plugins that the owners of the servers add on to make the server more interesting or give players a change in game play. Some examples of different servers are: mini-games, zombie escape, gun game, bunny hopping, and surf. There are many other different types of servers, some that require a certain skill to be able to be played well, like one of the servers I mentioned before: bunny hopping, or surf.
It is an online game, so the majority, if not all of the people playing, you will not know. It is not scary though, it just gives you the opportunity to meet different people from around the world that have a similar interest as you. There are some bad servers I have seen and would never go back to, but the servers that I play on, most of the people are very nice and respect one another. If you are a gamer and are looking for a classic game to play that is loads of fun, you may want to give this game a try.
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