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More often than not the Viking axe was their weapon of choice.</p>\n\n<p>With a cutting-edge ranging from 3 to 18 inches in length, depending on the wealth of the owner, and a long handle, the Viking axes gave their wielder a tremendous advantage in reach. They were typically worn at the waist, held in place with a belt.</p>\n\n<h3>Ulfberht, the Viking Sword</h3>\n\n<p>Although commonly associated with the axe, Vikings were a people born into warfare so it should come as no surprise that they would not limit themselves to merely one choice of weaponry.</p>\n\n<p>The Ulfberht, aka the Viking sword, was not as commonly seen as the Viking axe. Iron was in limited availability during this era of medieval weapons and was thus typically only possessed by the more wealthy in Viking society.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Ulfberht, the Viking Sword\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Ulfberht, the Viking Sword\" /></p>\n\n<p>However, the typical Viking sword was still a formidable weapon of destruction. T double-edged blade was roughly 35 inches in length, worn over the shoulder and made reachable with the right hand.</p>\n\n<h3>Bow and Arrow</h3>\n\n<p>Although Vikings were best known as skilled, close quarter combatants (and they most certainly were), they were not limited purely to this style of fighting.</p>\n\n<p>Vikings quickly discovered that the bow and arrow, which they initially used for hunting, could also be used as an effective way of vanquishing their foes.</p>\n\n<p>A skilled Viking archer could shoot an average of twelve arrows per minute before the inevitable close quarter combat would begin.</p>\n\n<p>Taking advantage of this skill, Viking warriors would often unleash a barrage of arrows from their boats before making landfall and engaging their opponents in face-to-face combat.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h3>Viking Spear</h3>\n\n<p>One Viking weapon that fit both roles of both close and ranged combat was the Viking spear, which ranged between 3 to 10 feet in length and thus came in many various styles.</p>\n\n<p>Some Viking spears were designed to be thrown at great lengths, while others were much more sturdy, making them ideal for close quarter combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Seax, the Viking Knife</h3>\n\n<p>The last form of weaponry Vikings equipped in their vast utility belts of slaughter was the knife. Although they ranged in size and quality, these blades were never far from reach during the Viking age, as even slaves were <a href=\"https://blackguard-customs.myshopify.com/blogs/news/113278853-viking-knives\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">permitted to keep one</a> in their possession.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Seax, the Viking Knife\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_5.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Seax, the Viking Knife\" /></p>\n\n<p>The Seax was a much higher quality knife, owned by the wealthy within Viking society. It was much larger and more lethal than the typical fighting knife, often having a curved blade.</p>\n\n<p>Although these top 5 Viking weapons were the most typically used by the Scandinavian people during this period in medieval history, they were far from the only ones used.</p>\n\n<p>The Vikings were versatile warriors, who were more than capable of picking up any form of weaponry and using it, if need be, in a pinch. The Vikings were much more than just brutish warriors as many would have them illustrated.</p>\n\n<p>They were also skilled craftsmen who were capable of producing armaments of defense and beautiful, stunning works of art, such as the Viking longboat.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Armor</h3>\n\n<p>The Vikings, feared throughout the lands for the havoc they wracked across the coastline during the Viking age, were respected warriors known for their cunning and ruthless tactics.</p>\n\n<p>Yet, they were no fools; they knew that to survive in their way of life, they must protect themselves with armor such as shields, helmets and body armor.</p>\n\n<p>Viking armor was typically crafted out of thickly padded leather, which gave the wearer some protection from edged weapons. The average Viking often wore it into battle.</p>\n\n<p>Chainmail, another favorite form of armor at the time, was reserved for the more wealthy, as iron was in high demand and incredibly expensive.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Helmet</h3>\n\n<p>Not all Vikings wore a helmet, however, if they were able to, they did, as the added protection saved many lives in close quarter combat.</p>\n\n<p>The Viking helmet was relatively simple in construction, often being a simple bowl shape in design with a metal nose guard protruding from the center.</p>\n\n<p>Despite popular belief, there is little evidence to suggest that Viking helmets <a href=\"http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_helmets.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">were adorned with horns</a>, as they often depicted having. Horns gave little to no additional protection and were just another thing for an enemy to grab hold to during combat. Viking warriors were nothing if not practical.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking shield\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viking shield\" /></p>\n\n<h3>Viking Shield</h3>\n\n<p>The history of the Viking shield is an interesting one. Only a few examples of them have survived throughout history, which has led to a series of debates amongst historians about their construction methods.</p>\n\n<p>However, some prized artifacts have been found, answering some questions.</p>\n\n<p>During the Viking Age, warriors charged into battle wielding a shield, which was typically round in design and <a href=\"http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_shields.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ranged on average 30-35 inches in diameter</a>.</p>\n\n<p>A warrior usually crafted their shield by themselves, customizing it to match their fighting style and size.  A Viking shield could neither be too big nor too small, as it would render the wielder too slow or too exposed, respectively.</p>\n\n<p>All surviving examples of Viking shields are made from solid butted planks, which consist of spruce, fir or pine.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Ship</h3>\n\n<p>We would be doing a disservice if we did not touch on the marvel known as the Viking Longships, feared across the known world during the Viking age.</p>\n\n<p>Without the Viking boat, the Vikings rise to power would never have happened and their style of warfare which resulted in their rapid spread would have been dead in the water.</p>\n\n<p>Norsemen were likely the most capable seaman of their time, sailing their boats around the world and reaching as far as America in the West and Asia Minor in the East.</p>\n\n<p>Contemporary foreign sources of the period describe the Viking boat as follows:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The Viking ships had flexible, clinker-built hulls that followed the waves as living beings.</li>\n\t<li>The best ships are compared to dragons, birds and sea serpents.</li>\n\t<li>The Viking ships could quickly be drawn up on a beach.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking longship\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viking longship\" /></p>\n\n<p>Although many stories have been passed down throughout the ages, very few Viking longboats were discovered to this day. When they are, they are already broken and shattered to pieces.</p>\n\n<p>Regardless, the reality is apparent: the Viking Age was dominated by the Viking longboat, as these brave warriors sailed the seas, pillaging, conquering and permanently placing themselves in the history books until the end of time as some of the most capable warriors this world has ever seen.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"7/10/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13226"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/best-browser/"},"strings":{"title":"The Best Browser for Gaming 2020: What is the Perfect Browser for Online Games","category":"MMO Gaming Tips","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"360000","description":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>Are you into online games, but you're tired of glitches, popups and latency issues? If you’re looking for the best browser for gaming, search no more.</p>\n\n<p>As both developers and fanatic gamers, we’re well placed to understand and identify what works and what doesn't.</p>\n\n<p>Maybe you’re wondering what is the a fast, stable browser for your MMO gaming habits.</p>\n\n<p>With these questions (and more) in mind, we’ve picked out some of the best browsers on the market and have reviewed them carefully. By focusing on safety, accessibility, speed, and reliability, our guide is designed to help you find the best browser for games in 2020.</p>\n\n<h2>Google Chrome</h2>\n\n<p>According to the statistics, Chrome is the most popular browser out there with monthly trends <a href=\"https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php\">showing a 56.6% market share</a>. However, just because it’s the most popular browser doesn’t mean it’s the best browser for online gaming.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_20/browsers.JPG\" /></p>\n\n<p>One thing we know from tests is that Google Chrome is fast. Now, there are many metrics for measuring the speed of a browser, but <a href=\"https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/software/best-web-browsers-3635255/\">TechAdvisor has noted</a> that Google now auto-blocks any ads that violate Coalition for Better Ads guidelines. In practice, this means there are fewer things to load per page and, therefore, faster page load times. As an added extra, there are fewer distractions for the user too.</p>\n\n<p>What’s more, because Chrome has started to phase out Flash, it’s become the preferred web browser HTML5. For gamers, this could be a positive or negative.</p>\n\n<p>If you’re looking for the best browser for Flash games, Chrome probably isn’t it. But if you prefer HTML5 games, Chrome is fantastic.</p>\n\n<p>The popular web browser works well on mobiles too, which means you’ve got great cross-platform compatibility. When you combine this with fewer popup ads and fast loading times, it’s hard to argue that Chrome isn’t the best browser for HTML5 games and those that straddle the desktop/mobile divide.</p>\n\n<p> </p>\n\n<h2>Firefox</h2>\n\n<p>Firefox has always been known as one of the safest and most reliable web browsers. Sadly, it has often been criticised for not being the fastest browser out there.</p>\n\n<p>In 2020, though, that’s potentially changed thanks to the Firefox Quantum update. Firefox now uses less RAM, which means pages load faster. It also means the software puts less demand on your computer than Chrome does, for instance.</p>\n\n<p>In other words, the browser is lighter which leaves your system with more RAM to play with. The upshot of this is that you’ll have more memory available to power whatever online games you enjoy.</p>\n\n<p>Based on this, it’s fair to say Firefox has a case for being the best browser for <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/download-games/\">PC games</a>.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/speed.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>Another point in favor of Firefox as the best browser for games is that it works well with virtual and augmented reality. After releasing updates in 2017 and 2018, Firefox <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/04/03/mozilla-brings-firefox-augmented-virtual-reality/\">can now process VR and AR content</a> more efficiently.</p>\n\n<p>So, for those looking towards the future, this could very well become the go-to browser for VR games and AR experiences.</p>\n\n<h2>Safari</h2>\n\n<p>When you consider Safari’s place in the gaming spectrum, the obvious thing to say is that it’s best for Mac users. Because it’s been designed specifically for Apple devices, it makes sense to say Safari is the top browser for Mac and iOS games online.</p>\n\n<p>However, the thing you might not have considered is that Safari is also up there as an excellent choice for Facebook games no matter your OS.</p>\n\n<p>Because Safari 11 gives users the option to auto-block videos, it means you’re faced with fewer distractions on social media sites. As Facebook continues to ramp up its video ads, it’s nice to have a browser that can shut them off, so they don’t get in the way of your games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Opera</h2>\n\n<p>Now, when it comes to Opera, it can be the fastest browser out there for those with slow systems because of three features:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>It has a turbo protocol that reroutes traffic through Opera’s servers. This basically increases processing speeds for those with low bandwidth.</li>\n\t<li>It compresses data, so pages load faster. This is particularly useful for mobile gamers.</li>\n\t<li>It auto-blocks adverts.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/security.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>Thanks to this trio of features, Opera users can enjoy browser <a href=\"https://plarium.com/\">MMO games</a> even if they don’t have a high-powered desktop or internet connection.</p>\n\n<h2>Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge</h2>\n\n<p>Some people love to criticise Internet Explorer because it’s not the fastest browser on the market. While it may not be the quickest, it is still one of the best internet browsers for Flash games.</p>\n\n<p>Because IE11 uses your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for all graphics and text rendering, it’s capable of processing graphic-heavy pages more efficiently. This is great for strategy MMO players, for example, who play browser games with a lot of units on screen at the same time.</p>\n\n<p>Additionally, with IE being the default browser for older versions of Windows, the latest software is compatible with the touch browsing capabilities of Windows 8. Based on this, IE 11 is often considered the best web browser for Flash games but also modern innovations that are making use of desktop touch controls.</p>\n\n<p>As the more modern browser from Microsoft, Edge is also worthy of a place in our best browser 2020 rundown.</p>\n\n<p>Although it’s still somewhat underused by gaming fans, <a href=\"https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2018/04/26/these-are-the-new-features-you-have-to-try-in-xboxs-next-update/\">Edge links perfectly with Xbox Live</a>. By accessing the browser via the console, users can not only pick up where they left off in a game but also mute any unnecessary sounds, read page content aloud and even upload files to your PC via the browser.</p>\n\n<p>In this respect, Edge stands out as a contender for the title of best browser for console gamers.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/availability.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Choose the Best Browser for Your Gaming Needs</h2>\n\n<p>It’s impossible to look at a single product and say, “that’s the best browser for online games.”</p>\n\n<p>Because the industry is so varied and each company excels in different areas, the reality is that each browser is better for certain games than others.</p>\n\n<p>Google Chrome is the best browser for gaming, just because it’s fast and better set-up for HTML5 games (which is gradually replacing Flash).</p>\n\n<p>However, Firefox seems to be catching up, and its VR and AR support make it a serious contender.  Naturally, every major browser will move with the times and become proficient in handling this next-gen technology. But, if we’re looking at the here and now, Firefox stands out as an early frontrunner.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to play games online via your PC, Mac or mobile, there are plenty of browsers to choose from. As long as you know what you want to play, the options we’ve listed should keep the action flowing.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"6/27/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/browser-game-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"11152"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/deal-with-gamer-rage/"},"strings":{"title":"5 Simple Steps to Improve Your Experience: Dealing with Gamer Rage","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"540000","description":"<p>You’re half an hour into a Battle Royale match. You’ve survived sniper fire and out of control vehicles, and took down your fair share of rival players. The battle is reaching its inevitable climax.</p>\n\n<p>The tension mounts as you discover that there are only you and one opponent left. You can practically taste that chicken dinner. You creep around the side of the one remaining house on the map, sliding stealthily through the side door, when…. <em><strong>BANG! </strong></em>Standing, or rather ‘camping’ behind it is the same guy that has killed you in the previous round.</p>\n\n<p>In fact, it feels like this person has been stalking you all day, popping up at every turn, and ruining any hope you ever had of winning a match. The red mist begins to descend.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Gamer rage is pretty common\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-1.jpg\" title=\"Gamer rage is pretty common\" /></p>\n\n<p>Further down in this post we will discuss in detail each of these 5 steps in order to rage less, and enjoy the game more:</p>\n\n<ol>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Take a Break</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Lower That Difficulty</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Watch, Learn, Rinse, Repeat</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Take Your Anger Elsewhere</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Ask for Help</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>But first, some basic background information:</p>\n\n<h2>Reacting to Video Games</h2>\n\n<p>When this happens, we generally fall into one of two categories, we either A) realize what is happening within our own mind and try to cool down, or B) we end up stressing out, screaming out loud, or in the case of some - hurling the controller across the room.</p>\n\n<p>If you fall into the first category, then you most probably know how to control the anger that bubbles up inside the vast majority of us when we lose at a <a href=\"/en/games/\">game</a>. But if you happen to fall into the second category, things can take a rather unpleasant turn.</p>\n\n<h2>Why Does Gamer Rage Happen?</h2>\n\n<p><strong>The reasons that we experience ‘gamer rage’ are no different from those for road rage or any other sort of anger management issues.</strong> It is often rooted in the perceived feeling of not being good enough or being mistreated, and it is hard to ignore.</p>\n\n<p>Now, there is always the option to put the game down and stop playing, but for those of us who put video games at the top of our ‘pleasurable activities list,’ this is something we don’t really want to do.</p>\n\n<p>So, is it possible to completely control and lower our stress levels when playing games? Or is the suppression of these feelings the best we can hope for? Well, that very much depends on you and whether you can identify your triggers early.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Warning Signs of Video Game Rage</h2>\n\n<p>Triggers are aspects of games that begin the cycle of anger we experience when ‘gamer rage’ rears its ugly head. These triggers are present for all of us, and some are worse than others.</p>\n\n<p>Similar to the aspects of life we enjoy, our triggers vary from person to person. For some of us, it could be when a particular player seems to target us repeatedly. For others, it could simply be struggling to pass a certain level. In general, these triggers tend to be <a href=\"https://www.futurity.org/frustration-fuels-video-gamers-aggression/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">related to performance rather than the game content</a>.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Many things can trigger your gamer rage\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-2.jpg\" title=\"Many things can trigger your gamer rage\" /></p>\n\n<h2>What Are the Main Symptoms of Gamer Rage?</h2>\n\n<p>You can usually recognize it the moment you start to feel like your thoughts are out of your control. It is often accompanied by a raised heart rate, faster breathing, sometimes shaking, and the clear sense of utter rage. The clenching of teeth, sweating, stomach aches, and even dizziness have all been reported as early warning signs of an impending rage. There are other symptoms, but it really does depend on your particular psyche as to whether you exhibit them.</p>\n\n<p>Find our what your triggers are, and you are on your way to dealing with them. If you find it hard to decipher what exactly is triggering you, it may help to ask a friend who you play with regularly. Those of us who ‘rage quit’ games regularly may notice that it is easier to see the triggers from the outside, rather than from within.</p>\n\n<p>Here are our top 5 tips to decrease gamer rage's instances and its effect on us:</p>\n\n<h2>1. Take a Break</h2>\n\n<p>Taking a break from a particularly frustrating level is something that should help you calm down quickly. Just like with many other problems, taking your mind off the game can immediately make you feel more relaxed. It also has a critical side-effect of sometimes improving your performance on your return.</p>\n\n<p>Ever spent hours trying to pass a level on a game, only to take a short break, come back and beat it immediately? That may not be a coincidence. A <a href=\"https://www.spring.org.uk/2012/07/the-incubation-effect-how-to-break-through-a-mental-block.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">learning technique called “incubation”</a> has been discussed in the music industry from quite some time, and the idea centers around the fact that your brain will continue to decipher the things you learn in everyday life, even when you are not consciously thinking about them. This mostly happens when we sleep, often letting us wake up with a fresh perspective on a problem.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Take a break\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-3.jpg\" title=\"Take a break\" /></p>\n\n<p>This phenomenon was initially observed in musicians learning new instruments, but the premise is the same for any skill you wish to learn. If you are gaming into the small hours with diminishing success, perhaps it might be time to take a little break or call it a night and start fresh tomorrow.</p>\n\n<h2>2. Lower That Difficulty</h2>\n\n<p>The next option might be considered a cop-out, but it is worth considering.</p>\n\n<p>No matter what your friends may say, turning down the difficulty is <strong>NOT </strong>a criminal offense. If you find that a game has stopped being fun, is it really that much of a sin to lower the difficulty a notch?</p>\n\n<p>Purists may scorn, but we aren’t all born with cat-like reflexes or the patience of a saint. We shouldn’t feel guilty for wanting to complete a game either.</p>\n\n<p>The only reason anyone plays video games is to have fun, so when that stops, it may be time to finally admit you are more of a hey, not too rough kinda person.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>3. Watch, Learn, Rinse, Repeat</h2>\n\n<p>If turning down the difficulty makes you recoil in abject horror (or if you are playing an online game, it's just impossible) then you really are only left with one option. You need to get better.</p>\n\n<p>Now, you may think that is a trite statement, and to a point it is, but with the resources available to us these days, you really haven’t exhausted all avenues unless you have watched a tutorial video or two.</p>\n\n<p>If full-on walkthroughs are not your style, then perhaps a video that discusses tips and techniques would suit you better? Or for sports and competitive online games, watching a few experts on Twitch could give you a new take on why you happen to be so embarrassingly poor at a particular game.</p>\n\n<p>‘Knowledge is power,’ as they say, so find out who are the best players in the world at your game and start taking notes.</p>\n\n<h2>4. Take Your Anger Elsewhere</h2>\n\n<p>When you simply can’t calm down, sometimes it can be a cathartic experience to take your anger out somewhere else.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-4.jpg\" title=\"Take Your Anger Elsewhere\" /></p>\n\n<p>If you do find other activities alleviate stress for you, it might be a good idea to do just that. For those of you who own a boxing bag, the answer would seem obvious, but for those who don’t, taking a break from that challenging game and loading up another that you practically have a doctorate in could give you that much-needed relief from failing over and over.</p>\n\n<p>Once you have found your heart rate is back to normal, you can pour yourself a lemon iced-tea, light a candle, and try to tackle that unforgiving game again.</p>\n\n<h2>5. Ask for Help</h2>\n\n<p>If you are someone who is generally quick to anger, be that in gaming or other aspects of your life, it could be a good idea to <a href=\"http://www.priorygroup.com/mental-health/anger-management/symptoms-of-anger-management\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">look into real anger-management</a> and self-help techniques.</p>\n\n<p>Being \"mindful\" of your overall mental health is nothing to be sneered at. For those who suffer from anger issues, these facets can impede our happiness to a point where it affects our work life or our relationships. If things ever get to this level, learning how to avoid these situations and how to deal with them could be imperative in cementing your long-term happiness.</p>\n\n<p>Learning breathing techniques, how to clear your mind, and how to distract yourself can mean the difference between being the best version of yourself possible, and being that angry person that other people tend to avoid.</p>\n\n<p>If your anger is getting out of control, never feel embarrassed about wanting to seek help. It is a widespread problem and one that is much easier to deal with once you possess the right knowledge.</p>\n\n<h2>It’s Supposed to Be Fun, Right?</h2>\n\n<p>The most important piece of information to take away from this is that gamer rage doesn't mean that you need to stop playing games. It is worth remembering that the vast majority of us are very passionate when playing video games, and that passion can sometimes lead to angry when things don't go our way.</p>\n\n<p>Rather than thinking you need to eradicate all negative feeling while you play, be aware that you can appease these feelings, without taking the ‘edge’ out of your game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Don't rage quit - have fun\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-5.jpg\" title=\"Don't rage quit - have fun\" /></p>\n\n<p>Stress is what we are looking to avoid in our downtime, so go easy on yourself next time you are on a poor run. If you continuously come away from a gaming session feeling angry and drained, it will be worth your while to address the issue head-on. We all feel the urge to \"rage quit\" from time to time, but when it interferes with our enjoyment of gaming, a change is needed. Frustration is fine - anger isn’t; so for the sake of your own mental health, address the problem rather than letting it define you.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"6/19/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13219"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/we-play-war-games/"},"strings":{"title":"War Games: Why Do We Love Playing at War","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>War is horrible. No one wants to go to war, or live through one.</p>\n\n<p>So what is it about slipping into the muddy boots of a WWII soldier, tightly grasping the plasma cannon of a space marine, or sending your troops to a bloody adventure that we love so much?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Why do we play war games?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 628px;\" title=\"Why do we play war games?\" /></p>\n\n<p>The fact is, there is a whole multitude of reasons. However, what we're interested in are the most basic thoughts, feelings, and emotions that make us want to play <a href=\"/en/games/genre/war-games/\">war games</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Naturally, before we delve into our psyches and have ourselves a shootout with the forces of darkness, we need first to define what is a war game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>What are War Games?</h2>\n\n<p>It is a common belief that all war games have the same three characteristics:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The War Aspect</li>\n\t<li>The Game Aspect</li>\n\t<li>The Simulation Aspect</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h3><strong>The War Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Not all games are actually about war.</p>\n\n<p>Part of what makes a game a war game is simulating the “the activity of war” and the right vocabulary and jargon.</p>\n\n<p>Only games that depict the act of war, not necessarily realistically, can be called war games. The concept doesn’t have to be front and center, but an online war game can’t be one without war.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The Game Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Not all war simulation can, or should be classed as war games.</p>\n\n<p>For example, military maneuvers may be a simulation of war, but they don’t have a lot to do with gaming.</p>\n\n<p>If the previous aspect enforced the idea that a war game needs to deal with war, this one emphasizes that a war game needs to be an actual game.</p>\n\n<p>Games usually compel participants to compete against each other or cooperate against a common enemy. This in turn, “forces” players to think creatively and come up with new strategies to complete their goal.</p>\n\n<p>If a simulation provides opportunities for strategic thinking, then you can call it a game.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The Simulation Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Good war games simulate actual war in some way.</p>\n\n<p>They do so in various levels of realism, but by definition, playing them should provide some insight into the world of warfare (without the actual death part). From strategic planning to the conditions a person may encounter, these games replicate a situation of war to a greater or lesser degree.</p>\n\n<p>Most games do not focus on educating their players about what’s it like to fight a war or lead an army, but that is a byproduct of any good war game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The three aspects of war\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"The three aspects of war\" /></p>\n\n<p>The United States military, as well as other armies around the world, have historically valued the simulation army games can provide.; so much so, that the US Army has developed its own army game as a <a href=\"https://www.americasarmy.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">training and recruitment tool</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Now, this isn't to say that every war game is trying to be like the real thing.</p>\n\n<p>Every war game exhibits some level of the three aspects we've outlined here. However, that doesn’t mean they all exist in equal measure. Usually, promoting one aspect will most likely result in diminishing the other two. The more game-like your game is, the less of a simulation it becomes, and vice-versa.</p>\n\n<p>For example, fantasy <a href=\"/en/games/genre/mmo-games/\">MMO</a> war games work great as games, and they do deal with the subject matter of war, but they aren’t very good war simulations. Nevertheless, they are still war games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>The History of War Games</h2>\n\n<p>Games about war have been around for centuries.</p>\n\n<p>We’ve been playing at war ever since someone picked up a deck of cards and invented the popular card game “War” (when that happened precisely is lost to history). Ever since, we have been pretending to be at war in every medium imaginable, from cards to board games to video games.</p>\n\n<p>The first video game about war was \"Spacewar!\". It was a space combat game developed in 1962 on the PDP-1 minicomputer. Incidentally, “Spacewar!” is also one of the first video games ever made, which tells us a little bit about human nature and the games we like to play.</p>\n\n<h3>The First War Game</h3>\n\n<p>However, the first war game was developed in February 1980, and was called “Computer Bismarck.” It was a turn-based strategy game where players acted as the British forces, fighting against the battleship Bismarck and other German units. The German side was controlled by another player or by a computer AI, called “Otto Von Computer.”</p>\n\n<p>As you can see below, “Computer Bismarck” wasn’t much to look at. You can barely make out Great Britain (on the right) or Iceland (at the top) against the purple Atlantic Ocean.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Computer Bismarck was the first war game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_23/compbismarck15.jpg\" style=\"width: 620px; height: 326px;\" title=\"Computer Bismarck was the first war game\" /></p>\n\n<p>Since then, war games have made tremendous strides and became the most popular type of video game. The rise of the first-person shooter in the 1990s gave birth to blockbuster franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Wolfenstein. They helped establish war as the “go-to” subject of video games. It is so popular; there's even a game called Darksiders where you play the actual personification of War.</p>\n\n<p>Today, you can find war games in every genre and on every device, from narrative-heavy adventures to explosion-filled military shooters on mobile. But there’s one genre that’s almost entirely focused on the concept of warfare, and that’s strategy. Both turn-based strategy and real-time strategy games from across the years have brought wargaming to <a href=\"/en/games/platform/pc-games/\">PCs</a> around the world with franchises like Command & Conquer, Total War, and WarCraft.</p>\n\n<p>These eventually led to the rise of the MMO <a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">strategy games</a>, where a lot of modern war games find their audience.</p>\n\n<h2>Online War Games Make Us Better People</h2>\n\n<p><strong>Why do we love going to war in video games?</strong> For the challenge and satisfaction of outthinking and outmaneuvering our (virtual) enemies.</p>\n\n<p>Us humans love competing, usually caring about being <strong>better</strong>, and improving in certain fields.</p>\n\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/why-we-compete/403201/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">study by the Harvard School of Public Health</a>, almost half of the participants said they would rather earn $50,000 in a world where the average salary is $25,000 than make $100,000 in a world where the average is $200,000.</p>\n\n<p>Similarly, the study shows that people preferred to have a relative advantage and not an absolute one. In other words, people want to be smarter and better looking than their friends and coworkers, not necessarily the most intelligent and attractive person in the world.</p>\n\n<h3>Playing at War Games as a Sense of Accomplishment</h3>\n\n<p>We want to be better than our peers, and that is a fundamental human trait.</p>\n\n<p>So when you play war games - where the aim is to outsmart other players through a combination of strategy, logic, and foresight - you don't really care how good you are overall. You just want to be <strong>better </strong>than the person on the other side of the screen.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"We constantly compete to be better than one another\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_39/war-general-illustration-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 464px;\" title=\"We constantly compete to be better than one another\" /></p>\n\n<p>To put it another way, we all want to be a big fish in a small pond.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, as you progress through the game, your pond will gradually increase in size. However, truly skilled players will grow at the same rate to ensure they remain the proverbial shark.</p>\n\n<h2>A Cocktail of Hormones and Emotions</h2>\n\n<p><strong>Another reason</strong> we seem to enjoy army games, aside from the fact that they test our powers of logic, strategy, and planning, is that they appeal to our most basic instincts.</p>\n\n<p>As suggested in this <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/02/11/171698919/video-game-violence-why-do-we-like-it-and-whats-it-doing-to-us\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">piece from NPR</a>, two things are guaranteed to make a situation or narrative more appealing: sex and violence.</p>\n\n<p>According to Iowa State University professor Douglas Gentile, war games and shooters cause a cocktail of stress hormones, such as cortisol, noradrenaline, and testosterone, to be released into our bloodstream – the same hormones would have been released were we in actual combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Real-life vs Playing at War</h3>\n\n<p>In a real-life situation, these hormones would be used by the body to create a fight-or-flight response. However, as Gentile points out, they also turn us on and make us find a game more engaging.</p>\n\n<p>\"When you know you're safe, having that heightened sense of stress can be fun,\" explains Gentile.</p>\n\n<p>This theory is confirmed by iStrategyLabs' Megan Zlock, a self-confessed gamer. Zlock claims that a storyline is instantly made more impressive and immersive if there's an element of danger added to the mix.</p>\n\n<h3>Adding a Storyline to Complete the Creation of a War Game</h3>\n\n<p>\"If you want to create a good narrative, you need to create conflict, and violence is a really easy way to create conflict,\" said Zlock.</p>\n\n<p>Violence is a stimulant that, when triggered in the right setting, can be extremely enjoyable. Clearly, this is the case when it comes to immersive online war games. You’re in a war-like scenario; your body is tense from the stress of competition and the desire to win, so your brain reacts appropriately.</p>\n\n<p>Exercising a degree of control over such a situation can fill you with an intoxicating sense of power; especially if that control resulted in besting another player. Add in your stress hormones, and the resultant cocktail is one you're only too willing to drink for hours and hours.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Conflict is a great motivator\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"Conflict is a great motivator\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Why We Play War Games</h2>\n\n<p>Playing war games helps us show the world, and more specifically our enemies, that we are better than them: our strategy smarter, our reflexes sharper, and our skills superior.</p>\n\n<p>The thrill of competition, combined with the sense of power and accomplishment we derive from taking back control over seemingly chaotic situations are the reason war is such a prevalent theme in video games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"5/22/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-3.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"12953"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/the-first-video-game/"},"strings":{"title":"The History of the First Video Games is... Complicated","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>To know where we are going, we must first discover where we have been.</p>\n\n<p>This is just as true for video games as it is in any other professional field. Fortunately, the video game industry has an incredibly rich and interesting past that can teach us a lot.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>In this article, we will tackle and answer some fundamental questions regarding one of the fastest growing and biggest industries in the world:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>What is considered a video game?</li>\n\t<li>What was the first video game?</li>\n\t<li>Who ivnented the first video game?</li>\n\t<li>What year was the first video game invented?</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Who invented the first video game?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Illustration_800x650_02.jpg\" title=\"Who invented the first video game?\" /></p>\n\n<p>At first glance, you would think the answers to these questions would be quick to find and straightforward. However, like so many others that revolve around \"the first of,\" or \"who invented it,\" you will quickly learn that it is surrounded in mystery and confusion - both of which we’re hoping to dispel as best as we can.</p>\n\n<h2>What Is Considered a Video Game?</h2>\n\n<p>What exactly is a video game is an important and crucial point when debating the facts and history surrounding the origin of the phenomenon.</p>\n\n<p>The simplest definition of 'What is a video games?' is this:</p>\n\n<p><strong>A video game is anything you can interact with by electronically manipulating computer-generated images on a display screen.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Some would argue that the verb “play” needs to be included in any interpretation of video games. After all, we are talking about a game. However, many modern definitions take into consideration video games can also be viewed as an art form, used to convey a message interactively.</p>\n\n<p>Still, to determine what is the first video game ever developed, we should rely on a much more technical definition. <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_history_of_video_games#Defining_the_video_game\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia</a> states:</p>\n\n<p><em>\"Technically, for a product to be a video game, there must be a video signal transmitted to a cathode ray tube (CRT) that creates a rasterized image on a screen.\"</em></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Video game definition\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_4/mmo-mmorpg-1.jpg\" title=\"Video game definition\" /></p>\n\n<p>Although this definition may sound complicated, it defines the technical parameters of exactly what was considered a video game during that period.</p>\n\n<p><strong>This is the foundation of what is used to define the first ever created video game in its purest sense.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Today, the definition of a video game is much more encompassing.</p>\n\n<p>Only the most purists among us would argue the point that the vast array of <a href=\"/en/games/platform/mobile-games/\">mobile games</a>, or that the virtual reality simulations that have gained an audience on PCs and consoles over the last few years are nothing more than “experiences” and are not technically video games.</p>\n\n<p>In the modern sense, they are video games. However, strict parameters need to be set if we are looking to establish the truth and find real answers.</p>\n\n<h2>What Was the First Video Game?</h2>\n\n<p>Similar to the debate surrounding many discoveries and inventions, the questions of what was the first video game and who invented it have many different answers.</p>\n\n<p>But if you sift through the noise, you will begin to narrow your results and hone in on a few promising candidates.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h3>Bertie the Brain</h3>\n\n<p>According to some, <strong>the first video game ever created was Bertie the Brain</strong> - <a href=\"https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a23660/bertie-the-brain/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">constructed in 1950</a> by an inventor named Josef Kates.</p>\n\n<p>This massive monstrosity of a machine, which measured four meters tall, played a familiar childhood game known as Tic-Tac-Toe and was displayed in the Canadian National Exhibition.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Bertie the Brain - almost the first video game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/bertie.jpg\" title=\"Bertie the Brain - almost the first video game\" /></p>\n\n<p>For weeks, visitors to the Canadian National Exhibition were able to challenge the artificial intelligence of Bertie the Brain in varying levels of difficulty, much to their delight. For its time, Bertie was a marvel of technology - something no one has seen before.</p>\n\n<p>Sadly, this piece of our history was disassembled at the end of the exhibition, largely dismissed as no more than \"novelty,\" even if a fantastical one.</p>\n\n<p>We are back to the definition of what is a video game - a definition that Bertie the Brain does not quite fully meet.</p>\n\n<h3>William Higinbotham: The Man Who Invented Video Games</h3>\n\n<p>Although Bertie the Brain was a crucial part of gaming history, it did not fully meet the exact definition of what a video game is.</p>\n\n<p>This brings us to the next major contender and the one that purists believe to be the first real video game.</p>\n\n<p>Fast forward eight years into the future - to 1958 - and travel to the <a href=\"https://www.bnl.gov/world/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brookhaven National Laboratory</a>. There, you will meet a physicist named <strong>William Higinbotham.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>William Higinbotham, born on October 25th, 1910</strong> was no simple physicist. He already had an illustrious career behind him, having been a member of the team that created the first ever <strong>nuclear bomb</strong>.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"William Higinbotham, the inventor of the first video game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/higinbotham.jpeg\" title=\"William Higinbotham, the inventor of the first video game\" /></p>\n\n<p>Not many gamers know that the man who practically invented what we today call a video game was also one of the men responsible for creating the most destructive technology this world has ever seen.</p>\n\n<p>It’s an interesting dichotomy, to say the least, one that highlights the brilliance of this man's mind, while at the same time proving that not everything in this world is simply black or white.</p>\n\n<p>Being a part of this team (and the burden that went along with it) stayed with William Higinbotham for the rest of his life and troubled him. That is probably why he became one of the founding members of the \"<a href=\"https://fas.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Federation of American Scientists</a>\" - a group with the stated intent of using science and scientific analysis to make the world more secure.</p>\n\n<p>Having already been a pivotal linchpin in history, Higinbotham took up residency at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1947. That is where he came up with <strong>Tennis for Two</strong>.</p>\n\n<h2>Tennis for Two: The World’s First Video Game</h2>\n\n<p><strong>In October 1958, Tennis for Two, the first actual video game was revealed to the world.</strong> It happens during an open house hosted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The first video game, created by William Higinbotham, turned out to be the star of the show, much to the amazement of the attendees and even Higinbotham himself - people lined up to take their turn to play Tennis for Two.</p>\n\n<p>Using a small analog computer, players could adjust two knobs and push a button, which simulated a game of tennis on an oscilloscope. <strong>Essentially, this was an early version of the hit game Pong, which will come into existence 14 years later.</strong></p>\n\n<p>The game took only hours to design and was a huge success. Higinbotham was delighted, as his little experiment achieved exactly what he was striving for: livening up an otherwise dull and boring event. </p>\n\n<p>Higinbotham invented video games to show that science isn’t all about war and destruction.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Tennis for Two - the first video game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/tennis_for_two.jpg\" title=\"Tennis for Two - the first video game\" /></p>\n\n<p>Tennis for Two quickly became the most popular piece at the exhibit, capturing the minds of those who played it, despite its total lack of fancy graphics or complicated controls. Players wrote down their scores and challenges were issued.</p>\n\n<p>Little did Higinbotham realize that day, that he had started a revolutionary movement. A movement that would continue to grow for years to come, eventually reshaping the entertainment industry into what it is today.</p>\n\n<p>Similar to its predecessor, Bertie the Brain, Tennis for Two was largely forgotten after the event hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory. It wasn't until many years later that the seed planted on that fateful day would blossom and begin to take root.</p>\n\n<p>William Higinbotham, despite being accredited as the father of the first video game ever created, would not focus on this field of study and research. Leaving that venture in others capable hands, he returned to his work on nuclear arms control for the remainder of his career.</p>\n\n<p>Tennis for Two, a pivotal part of gaming history, was sadly dismantled, its parts used in other projects, destroying it for all time and making it another lost relic of the past.</p>\n\n<p>Still, the story continued onward and from that point on, the video game industry would continue to grow by leaps and bounds, gaining momentum as the years passed by.</p>\n\n<h2>Video Game Culture Explodes</h2>\n\n<p>For much of the remainder of the 1950's and 1960's, the video game industry remained relatively dormant. Slowly but surely, progress was inching ever forward as other brilliant minds would begin to take an interest in what we called today “interactive media.”</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Video game culture hasn't exploded until the 1970s, with the invention of Pong\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Illustration_800x500_01.jpg\" title=\"Video game culture hasn't exploded until the 1970s, with the invention of Pong\" /></p>\n\n<p>Arcades began to spring up across the world and gave youths around the globe the opportunity to relax, meet and socialize, while at the same time fostering a competitive culture that would push each other (and the industry) to their limits, teaching the value of perseverance, patience, hard work, and practice.</p>\n\n<p>Still, it wasn't until the creation of <strong>Pong </strong>that the movement truly began to grow by leaps and bounds. Pong was the first blockbuster game that captured the minds of the American public in droves and led to a hyper-acceleration of the gaming industry.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks to Pong, Atari became a household name across the United States, and their video game console a staple item in many homes.</p>\n\n<p>Throughout the years we have witnessed a stunning growth in the gaming industry, as it has grown leaps and bounds over the course of these few short decades, despite several setbacks, as there are with anything.</p>\n\n<h2>Conclusion</h2>\n\n<p>It is estimated that the Gaming industry generated roughly <a href=\"https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/06/superdata-games-grew-12-to-139-9-billion-in-2020-amid-pandemic/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$140 billion in 2020</a>, a jump from $120 billion the previous year.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Video games are bigger than movies\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Illustration_800x500_04.jpg\" title=\"Video games are bigger than movies\" /></p>\n\n<p>What this means is that the gaming industry has <a href=\"https://www.nasdaq.com/article/investing-in-video-games-this-industry-pulls-in-more-revenue-than-movies-music-cm634585\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">catapulted past other sectors</a> in the entertainment industry, surpassing Hollywood and its other entertainment competitors.</p>\n\n<p>It is hard to imagine either Josef Kates or William Higinbotham, two of the earliest pioneers of this industry, envisioning the future that laid before them, or the pivotal roles they played in creating the largest entertainment industry this world has ever seen, enjoyed by millions of people - video games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"5/15/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Header_1368x384_01.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13206"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/cross-platform-games/"},"strings":{"title":"Cross-platform Games and Why They Are So Important","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"600000","description":"<p>Imagine a world where the rigid (and often harmful) borders between gamers across all platforms have been broken down.</p>\n\n<p>This is the dream which some contemporary developers and game directors are chasing.</p>\n\n<p>Some people will argue that such an ideal world is irrational - that by attempting to bridge such dissimilar platforms and crowds you end up hurting the video game community as a whole.</p>\n\n<p>But such opinions are drowned out by the loud majority of people demanding an open gaming experience without artificial barriers.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Cross-platform gaming without artificial barriers\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 410px;\" title=\"Cross-platform gaming without artificial barriers\" /></p>\n\n<p>There is tangible evidence that this is the direction the gaming industry is going in, as we are starting to see new levels of cross-platform gaming on both consoles and mobile devices.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>What Is Cross-platform Gaming, and Why It Is Important</h2>\n\n<p>Simply put, cross-platform games are games that let players on different platforms or devices play together at the same time.</p>\n\n<p>For example, a game that lets PC gamers play on the same servers as Xbox One players, or PlayStation 4 gamers playing together with those on PS Vita.</p>\n\n<p>In many cases, cross-platform multiplayer games will remain within their respective publisher’s domain. For example, some games in the Monster Hunter series were cross-platform games, but only between Nintendo’s platforms - the 3DS, Wii U and the Switch.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Cosplayer_of_Swordwoman%2C_Monster_Hunter_in_CWT39_20150228b.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 600px;\" /><br />\n<em>Cosplayer of Monster Hunter Swordwoman</em></p>\n\n<p>Examples of more encompassing cross-platform multiplayer games are still too few, but their numbers of slowly growing.</p>\n\n<p>It is only natural that cross-platform features are on the rise, as AAA titles are released <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2018/03/21/epic-games-wants-ps4-and-xbox-one-players-to-play-fortnite-battle-royale-together\">across most major platforms</a> for many years now. As hardware continues to improve, console architecture continues to approach that of a PC, the links between all platforms will only continue to strengthen.</p>\n\n<p>Since so many gamers are playing the same games nowadays, many believe that they should be able to populate the same online networks. In other words: people should be able to play online games with their friends, regardless of platform.</p>\n\n<p>And why should they be able to? Scripting languages, software libraries, and game engines have reached a level of development and sophistication in which platform-specific details can be effectively accounted for and appropriately optimized.</p>\n\n<p>So what is stopping cross-platform gaming from becoming a standard in the video game industry?</p>\n\n<h2>The Obstacles Standing in the way of Cross-Platform Games</h2>\n\n<h3>An Unfortunately Divided Gaming Culture</h3>\n\n<p>It’s no secret that there is much rivalry between the popular platforms and their loyal fanbase.</p>\n\n<p>Terms such as “PC Master Race” and “Console Peasants” (the former being what many PC players like to refer to themselves, while the latter is a demeaning insult for those that play on console) are thrown around regularly on forums and Reddit threads. It is ironic, as these terms are extremely not PC (politically correct).</p>\n\n<p>Obviously, few PC players really mean it in a harmful or offensive way, but there are still those out there who will adamantly refuse to be involved with any console players, believing them and their platforms to be beneath their superior systems.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Unfortunately Divided Gaming Culture\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"Unfortunately Divided Gaming Culture\" /></p>\n\n<p>It is not just the PC crowd that holds such separatist thinking. Plenty of PlayStation and Xbox fanatics will also show some disrespect towards their PC counterparts. Many find PC players to be far too hardcore in both their vanities and performances.</p>\n\n<p>The same can be said about how “hardcore” gamers view those who play mostly on mobile devices. The phrase “filthy casual” is often used to demean and patronize over mobile gamers, referring to how most mobile games require little skill to master.</p>\n\n<p>Such a divided cultural can indeed hinder the uniting efforts of cross-platform games. There are those who simply do not want to open the borders between their domains and share a match with other gamers with what they perceive to be inferior platforms.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h3>Technical Limitations</h3>\n\n<p>This is a more practical point and has nothing to do with the games or gamers themselves.</p>\n\n<p>There are certainly many differences between a mouse and keyboard combo and a controller, and in many cases, it certainly does not make sense to pair such different control schematics together.</p>\n\n<p>In the case of first-person shooters, a mouse and keyboard provide a slight advantage over a controller. A mouse offers a far higher level of sensitivity and accuracy than an analog stick does, and many console players would simply not be able to keep up.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, boosts to aiming in FPS games, such as aim-assist, are implemented by proponents of cross-platform gaming, but even this doesn’t solve the problem. It opens the door to accusations of cheating by disgruntled players how “definitely shot you first.”</p>\n\n<p>Then there are server limitations caused by hardware capacities, in which one’s PlayStation 4 version of a game, for example, curbs the number of people that can join an online match, thus preventing any cross-platform support.</p>\n\n<p>Finally, console players will not have frame rates as high or performance as speedy in general as the more high-end computers. This certainly gives PC players a significant advantage in that their games simply run smoother and faster.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Dualshock_4_Layout.svg/2000px-Dualshock_4_Layout.svg.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 533px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>The Next Level of Co-op</h2>\n\n<p>Despite such limitations, which are being worked on all the time by cross-platform advocates, many people still desperately want to play their favorite games with their friends across platforms.</p>\n\n<p>There was a time when split-screen was the preferred tool for multiplayer gaming on consoles, before the advent of high-speed internet lines. While we see incredible new levels of online play, too many people miss the physical interaction of the old days.</p>\n\n<p>Being able to play something like Sea of Thieves with a friend or family member in the same room, with one person playing on a PC, and the other on an Xbox One, will rekindle this sense of togetherness.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Cross-platform games will rekindle a sense of togetherness\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 440px;\" title=\"Cross-platform games will rekindle a sense of togetherness\" /></p>\n\n<p>People do want to play together, and the resistant elitists are few and far between compared to the majority of well-natured individuals that would love to test their mettle against players on other mediums.</p>\n\n<p>There are many co-op games which people wish they could play with each other but cannot due to lack of cross-platform support. When it comes to the best online games to play with friends, it is indeed a great pity when people cannot come together due to technical limitations.</p>\n\n<p>This need is what many people believe will drive developers to overcome the mentioned drawbacks. As consoles become more powerful, and controllers become more sophisticated, we will very soon be seeing future platforms, such as Xbox Two and PlayStation 5, being able to match the power of high-end PCs.</p>\n\n<p>This balance of power and capability will eventually result in the leveling of the playing field that is needed to bring cross-platform games to the masses. Once gamers across mediums can interact with each other freely, maybe the walls between PC, console and mobile players will finally crumble.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Input-gaming.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 800px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Cross-platform Multiplayer Games Are Bringing People Together</h2>\n\n<p>To the delight of countless people all over the world, Sea of Thieves is one of the best new examples of cross-platform gaming. The Rare pirate epic lets players on Windows 10 PC, Xbox One and Xbox One X adventure together.</p>\n\n<p>Back in mid-2016, Rare’s PC Design Lead Ted Timmins and Executive Producer Joe Neate excitedly announced in a video discussing Sea of Thieves’ features that cross-play would indeed be a feature in their upcoming swashbuckling MMO.</p>\n\n<p>Obviously, since then, such a promise was something which many gamers were sincerely interested in, hoping dearly that this game would bring a stable and balanced cross-platform experience which would revolutionize this innovative functionality.</p>\n\n<p>According to an article on cross-play on the official <a href=\"https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/design-deep-dive-cross-play\">Sea of Thieves website</a>, the developers asked themselves “Why would we segregate players in the first place?”</p>\n\n<p>That is an important question. There’s no real reason to split up the game’s community, especially with Microsoft’s new “<a href=\"https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/xbox-play-anywhere\">Play Anywhere</a>” initiative. This genuinely wonderful step towards unifying the gamer community lets you play all supported Xbox One games on any Windows 10 PC (and vice versa).</p>\n\n<p>Players have reported that the cross-play experienced in Sea of Thieves makes them feel as if they are all playing on the same device. Such borderless interaction has broken down the borders between Xbox One and PC, at least while playing the game.</p>\n\n<p>Game developers have also understood the <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/blog/trends-online-gaming-2017/\">power of mobile</a> when it comes to cross-platform online games. All you need is to take a look at Epic Games’ massively popular <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/blog/battle-royale/\">battle royale</a> Fortnite. Much of its popularity can be attributed to the game’s recent versions for iOS and Android that allow for cross-platform gaming with PCs and consoles.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Cross-platform play between PC, consoles and mobile\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 440px;\" title=\"Cross-platform play between PC, consoles and mobile\" /></p>\n\n<p>Since March 12, players on PS4 have been able to play with Mac, iOS, and PC players. Xbox One players are also able to play with iOS, Mac, and PC gamers, but as it stands, Xbox One and PS4 players cannot battle it out as of yet.</p>\n\n<p>Such barriers between PS4 and Xbox One cross play would be overcome by Epic if it wasn’t for the restrictions put in place by <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law\">Metcalfe’s Law</a>. Ironically, having more users connected to the networks increase its value, so such superficial barriers only restrict the full potential of online gaming in general.</p>\n\n<p>Developers are working very hard on surpassing such restrictions, providing a gaming experience that transcends almost all cross-platform barriers, and allowing a united gaming experience where almost everyone can play together.</p>\n\n<h2>Why Sony Does Not Support Cross-platform Games</h2>\n\n<p>While Microsoft is adamant about helping cross-platform gaming become a reality in our lifetime, their main competitor in the console market isn’t so keen on the idea.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/O3Tshisv-ls\" width=\"560\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>Simply put, Sony believes that it would not benefit from cross-platform games. In fact, such a breaking down of walls could be very financially detrimental to big companies that rely on exclusive games to sell the consoles themselves. The PlayStation 4 very much enjoys its passionate fan base and has used its popular exclusives to become the biggest console of this generation.</p>\n\n<p>This kingly status allows Sony to recruit countless new players that are interested in joining the most populated multiplayer arenas on consoles. As one can now see, opening their doors to cross-platform games would severely curb the PS4 dominance and appeal.</p>\n\n<p>Many people regard such stubbornness to be anti-consumer in its design, and with the passionate cross-platform crusade launched by companies like Epic Games gaining such massively acclaimed traction, many believe that even Sony will soon “give in” and join in on the efforts to being gamers from all communities to together.</p>\n\n<h2>Conclusion</h2>\n\n<p>Recent games have provided an invaluable contribution to cross-platform games development and progression. It only takes a few titles which can successfully, securely, and reasonably bring together multiple platforms to convince the gaming industry that cross-platform functionality can quickly become a reliable, enjoyable, and highly profitable venture.</p>\n\n<p>There is so much to gain from cross-platform integration, and many lead companies in the industry already know that. Technical limitations will be overcome, and a balanced and fair realm of unified play will be achieved through cooperation.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"A new level of cooperation\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_20/clan-leader-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 571px;\" title=\"A new level of cooperation\" /></p>\n\n<p>It is not just players being able to play together across platforms; it is a newfound level of cooperation between the giants of the gaming industry. The brightest and most talented minds in gaming development and direction will for the first time be working together.</p>\n\n<p>If things continue as they are with Microsoft’s enthusiasm, and Sony hopefully buckles to the march of progress, we are going to see a renaissance in gaming where the technical and cultural divisions and limitations between platforms begin to evaporate.</p>\n\n<p>We will see a standard of gaming we didn’t think was possible, where ingeniously comprehensive mediums for multiplayer experiences have been revamped to unbelievable levels. It is all certainly very inspiring to think about, and we can only wait and see how this sector of gaming will pan out in the future.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"4/29/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13200"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/grinding-games/"},"strings":{"title":"Grinding Games: How Do They Keep it Engaging?","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"540000","description":"<p>Cast an eye over any MMO forum, YouTube comment section, or game-centric Reddit section, and you will see people <a href=\"https://levelskip.com/misc/Why-Do-People-Hate-Grinding-And-Why-Do-I-Love-It\">complaining about or defending</a> the idea of grinding in video games.</p>\n\n<p>The definition of grinding is to perform a repetitive task to gain gameplay advantages. In short, grinding in games is repeatedly performing an action will increase your character stats to make them a more powerful adversary.</p>\n\n<p>Some players refer to this as “treadmilling” or less often “pushing the bar”, mainly due to the similarities that grinding has with regular exercise. You go to the gym; you sprint on the running machine, you do some weights, rinse and repeat.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Grinding in games can feel a lot like running in place\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"Grinding in games can feel a lot like running in place\" /></p>\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https://plarium.com/\">MMO games</a>, those repetitive actions can be mining ore or fighting low-level bad guys to achieve the same results. Rinse and repeat.</p>\n\n<p>Sound familiar? That is because a vast amount of games now include a significant amount of grinding. But is it really such a bad thing that to gain results we have to work for it?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>We’ve Been Grinding Games for Years</h2>\n\n<p>Interestingly enough, grinding in video games is not a new thing. Although we associate it with modern MMORPGs in particular, it doesn’t differ too much from practicing in Super Mario Brothers on the NES and becoming good enough to master that tricky level over your summer holiday.</p>\n\n<p>While you may not ‘level up’ in the same way you would expect in an MMO, you are still repeatedly trying to do something until your skill level has improved enough to facilitate your progress. Your ‘levelling up’ just happens to be noticeable in your physical skill, rather than in a number on a character stats screen.</p>\n\n<p>In essence, we have been grinding for years without even noticing it, and most of the time it has been good fun, mixed with a little frustration. Frustration isn’t necessarily a bad thing either, as waltzing through a game that is far too easy will irk players even more than one that is on the verge of being too difficult. An example would be something like Bloodborne, or the recently released platformer Celeste. Both games are noted for their extreme difficulty levels, but fans nonetheless seem to adore the challenge.</p>\n\n<p>There is, after all, pride associated with mastering something difficult.</p>\n\n<h2>Multiplayer Games are the Best Grinding Games</h2>\n\n<p>MMORPGs lean heavily on grinding as a form of character progression. On the whole, it works very well.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The key to fun grinding is company\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"The key to fun grinding is company\" /></p>\n\n<p>Stats-heavy games will always lend themselves to the grind more naturally than those that are lighter in that department. The social aspects associated with multiplayer games also allow for extended moments of grinding with less boredom. When working as part of a team in games like WoW and The Elder Scrolls Online, grinding becomes akin to a sort of fun version of work. You feel compelled to put in the time to succeed, but don’t mind doing so, as some fun times are guaranteed along the way.</p>\n\n<p>In this respect, grinding has managed to succeed as a game mechanic where perhaps it shouldn’t. Doing something repetitively over and over only to improve your stats shouldn’t be fun, should it? But when multiplayer games do this, especially RPG games, there seems to be a unique appeal that most single-player games just can’t deliver.</p>\n\n<p>To make a great grinding game, developers cannot merely rely on providing players with some company while they blindly go through their ‘gaming chores’. A good game will include a grinding routine that stimulates the player just as much as the more narrative-driven segments.</p>\n\n<p>If a game manages to hide the grind, or at least blur its edges to the point where it is difficult to tell where the grind starts and ends, it is already on the right path to success. Get this wrong, though, and players will see straight through these game-lengthening techniques.</p>\n\n<p>So what is the key to making the best grinding games?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Fun Grinding Is a Matter of Balance</h2>\n\n<p>Getting the balance right is crucial when it comes to fun grinding games.</p>\n\n<p>Too much effort and too little compensation is a recipe for boredom and frustration, and too much reward and too little work can lead to a game that lacks depth.</p>\n\n<p>The MMORPG Ragnarok Online emphasizes grinding from the very beginning of the game. For an RPG, Ragnarok uncharacteristically leans away from the story-based elements and much more towards a grind-heavy experience. That isn’t to say the story is non-existent, but it does somewhat fade into the background once you get started and find yourself traversing the maps looking for areas with enemies you can kill.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Grinding for loot\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"Grinding for loot\" /></p>\n\n<p>With enemies rarely dropping useful loot, those times where you do find yourself scanning over the remains of a fallen foe and bagging some decent swag are all the more satisfying. Ragnarok Online neither drowns players with rewards nor hands them the world on a plate.</p>\n\n<p>It’s a challenging tightrope game developers have to walk, especially when certain game franchises are now expected to have lifespans that exceed half a decade. One slip in the direction of either extreme could result in an experience that doesn't fulfill its potential as a good game or a money spinner.</p>\n\n<p>This is probably why grinding games have remained relatively static in their execution throughout the years. After all, why risk changing something that could sink the ship?</p>\n\n<h2>Variety Is the Spice of Life and Gaming</h2>\n\n<p>Bashing the same button over and over as you slam your pickaxe into a rock, all in the hope of gaining a few numbers on a stat sheet is going to get very tiresome very quickly. Mixing up the results from the mining will, on the other hand, at least keep the player concentrated on the task at hand.</p>\n\n<p>Two excellent examples of how grinding can actually work well are Stardew Valley and Ragnarok Online.</p>\n\n<p>For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past couple of years, Stardew Valley is a smash hit indie title that took the world by storm back in 2016. As the sole heir of your grandfather’s farm, you leave the city life behind and head back to the country for a life of farming, mining, and socializing with the locals.</p>\n\n<p>While town life may be considerably narrative driven, the <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/mmo-games/black-markets-hacking-mmos/\">mining and farming aspects</a> of the game are very grindy. Stardew Valley doesn’t fall into the trap of becoming tedious though, as there is plenty of variety to its grinding. When farming, you may be required to plant and water your crops on a regular basis, but the way you do this is entirely up to you. You decide on the aesthetics of the farm, you choose on what crops you sow and in what pattern. Yes, you may be repeating the same action, but ultimately it feels like it is your choice to do so, and rarely feels like a chore.</p>\n\n<p>The same can be said for the mining portion of the game. You decide where to mine, and the variety of rocks and ore keep things fresh.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"It's worth it in the end\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"It's worth it in the end\" /></p>\n\n<p>The key to the success of Stardew and Ragnarok is the blend of hard work and reward combined with enough variety to keep it interesting. As stated earlier, it can be a tricky tightrope to walk, but these are two examples of perfectly balanced games when it comes to the grind.</p>\n\n<p>They also exhibit another factor that any grind-heavy game would benefit from, and that is that they give you a little glimpse of the future.</p>\n\n<h2>Working Towards a Goal</h2>\n\n<p>No, they don’t have a crystal ball, and they aren’t going to be providing you with the winning lottery numbers any time soon, but they do give you a slight glimpse into the future. The future of the game that is.</p>\n\n<p>Grinding is only really worth it if you have a slight idea of what the results could bring you. Nobody wants to work hard if there is no light at the end of the tunnel, or the rewards might not be worth the effort. But, if you could only just see what waiting for you at the end of the struggle, it might just be worth it.</p>\n\n<p>Stardew Valley does this amazingly well by placing obstacles in the way of your character progression, blocking access to certain parts of the map but allowing a slight glimpse of what is in store once you manage to attain the necessary tools to proceed.</p>\n\n<p>This ‘carrot on a stick’ is key to any game that wants players to invest hour after hour into it and still come back for more. Whether that carrot is an inaccessible area or a weapon that is out of your current price range, the allure of ‘what might be around the corner’ has to be strong enough to encourage the player onwards. All the best grinding games know this and use it to their own advantage.</p>\n\n<p>There are, unfortunately, games that simply did not get the memo when it comes to grinding. These games tend to drag on and on, with little to no sign of a reward or reason to carry on. This would have previously been a death sentence for games released ten or fifteen years ago, but with constant updates now available to anyone with internet access, games can be rectified if needed.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Grinding in MMO games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-5.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"Grinding in MMO games\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Grinding in Video Games Done Right</h2>\n\n<p>For those of you who supposedly hate grinding, it is worth considering what the gaming world would look like without it. A game with little challenge and a constant stream of rewards is something that quickly becomes boring. Anyone familiar with a parody game called <a href=\"https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/495903\">PSTW</a> (Press Space To Win) might have already considered the empty feeling a game with no challenge provides for a player. Perhaps it is an uncomfortable truth for you to believe, that mom and dad were right all along, and hard work really is a reward all by itself.</p>\n\n<p>Some players will reference a sort of ‘zen-like’ state that descends upon them while they are deep within the grind, and the sense of achievement they get from putting in the required hours leaves them with a genuine feeling of pride.</p>\n\n<p>To loop back to the start of this discussion, if grinding is implemented correctly in the first place, we shouldn’t even notice it at all. So, as a rule of thumb, If the grind is varied, challenging, and fun, you are halfway to creating a great grinding game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"4/12/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13192"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/rts-vs-tbs/"},"strings":{"title":"The Differences Between Real-time and Turn-based Strategy","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"420000","description":"<p><a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">Strategy games</a> are among the most complex video games. Most of them fall into two similar, but distinct subgenres: <strong>RTS</strong> and <strong>TBS</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>What's the difference between RTS vs. TBS?</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li><strong>RTS means Real-time Strategy</strong></li>\n\t<li><strong>TBS means Turn-based Strategy</strong></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Understanding the differences between RTS and TBS is key to understanding the strategy genre as a <em>whole</em>.</p>\n\n<p>So let's get straight to the point: <strong>RTS vs. TBS - how to tell them apart, and which one is better?</strong></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"RTS vs. TBS\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/realtime-turnbased-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"RTS vs. TBS\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Real-time Strategy Vs. Turn-based Strategy</h2>\n\n<p>The most basic defining factor that differentiates strategy games is how they approach the concept of time.</p>\n\n<p>The first difference between turn-based and real-time strategy is how time flows in a game. If time has been compartmentalized into phases, and each player or AI opponent has allocated time slots in which to execute their strategy - you are most likely playing a turn-based strategy game.</p>\n\n<p>In other words: If you each take turns to play, it’s a <em>turn-based game (TBS).</em></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>If time flows as it does in the real world, and all players can play all at once, then you are most likely playing a <em>real-time strategy game (RTS)</em>.</p>\n\n<p>Here all decisions are made under pressure and the constant threat of attack; there are <em>no pauses</em>.</p>\n\n<h2>Turn-based Strategy Games</h2>\n\n<p>If you are not familiar with the medium, the best way to imagine a turn-based game is to think of it as a digital board game.</p>\n\n<p>In the traditional board game format, each player will have a turn to think, strategize, and execute their decisions regarding the pieces in their hands and on the board.</p>\n\n<p>The game will progress in an orderly fashion, with each person biding their time, waiting for the others to finish their turns before they can resume actioning their investments on the board.</p>\n\n<p>The same is true with many turn-based strategy games. Players and AIs will each be given a chance in an orderly fashion to utilize the full extent of their intelligence, cunning, and resources to achieve whatever objective happens to be at hand.</p>\n\n<h2>Types of Turn-based Strategy Games</h2>\n\n<p>In XCOM, you command a squad of alien-hunting soldiers, taking charge of a party of around five or six characters in total.</p>\n\n<p>In a Total War game, you take control of an entire civilization - its government, commerce and economy, and armies.</p>\n\n<p>Now, although both games involve taking turns between you and opponents, the scale is <em>completely </em>different. XCOM is considered more tactical, with more surgical battles and short-term decision-making. Total War, on the other hand, is much more massive and “big-picture” with gameplay spanning years, decades and centuries.</p>\n\n<p>But that’s not where it ends. Between TBS and RTS, the former has made its way into other, admittedly more popular genres. You can find elements of TBS in <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/mmo-games/eastern-games-vs-western-games/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">JRPGs</a>, simulators, and tactical shooters.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Real-time Strategy Games</h2>\n\n<p>The term “real-time strategy” was coined by Brett Sperry when <a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/build-gather-brawl-repeat-the-history-of-real-time-strategy-games/2/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">marketing his 1990 classic game Dune II</a>. While this game is not necessarily considered to be the first proper RTS title, it certainly did set the format for countless leading franchises to come.</p>\n\n<p>Some of the most successful and acclaimed real-time strategy franchises such as Command & Conquer, Warcraft, and StarCraft, all owe their foundational design inspiration to the early 90s sci-fi classic.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Real-time strategy is about quick decisions and multitasking\" longdesc=\"Real-time strategy is about quick decisions and multitasking\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/realtime-turnbased-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>The best way to understand a typical RTS game is to imagine the Middle Ages. In this foundational phase of human development, various newfound cultures uplifted themselves from the ashes of Classical Civilizations, often towards imperial domination goals.</p>\n\n<p>If you could imagine France, Germany and England, for example, all developing around each other, at the same time, and consequently invading or forming alliances with each other - then you pretty much understand a real-time strategy game.</p>\n\n<h3>Community Developing and Resource Gathering</h3>\n\n<p>This type of real-time strategy game involves players developing their people, settlements, armies, and strategies all in real-time. Unit construction, invasions, and all developments between players all occur along a single, continuous, and unhindered timeline which all present players share.</p>\n\n<p>Resource gathering is an essential part of most real-time strategy games, and you will indeed often find yourself competing aggressively with other players for limited resources upon the map.</p>\n\n<p>This requires a heightened level of decision-making and reflex-based reactions compared to turn-based strategy, which affords players an extended period of halted and composed planning and execution.</p>\n\n<h2>Playing Strategy Games at a Professional Level</h2>\n\n<p>If you are wondering about the esport presence of real-time and turned-based strategy titles, then you should know that RTS games make up the majority of the leading online strategy esport content.</p>\n\n<p>While you can play online strategy games that are turn-based at very competitive levels, they would, for the most part, not translate well to a live, widely-spectated performance. Many of the leading turn-based strategy games just do not fall into the esport criteria well enough. They are generally based on lengthy campaigns and lack the excitement needed for spectator sports. In fact, they face many of the problems <a href=\"/en/blog/esports/\">MMO esports</a> face.</p>\n\n<p>Today, millions of dollars go into the collective running and administering of just the online strategy sector of esports. Not only that, the actual players can win fortunes in the bigger competitions.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"StarCraft - the king of competitive strategy\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_13/starcrafttourney.jpg\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 390px;\" title=\"StarCraft - the king of competitive strategy\" /></p>\n\n<h2>StarCraft: The Founder and King of eSports</h2>\n\n<p>With the expansion of the original StarCraft monster hit, StarCraft: Brood Wars, came the foundations for the entire esports scene. It was in South Korea when the first proper and well-organized tournaments and competitions began their facilitation, around 2002.</p>\n\n<p>It was then that the first teams of organized pro-gamers began rising through the scene, receiving sponsorships from large South Korean companies such as KT, SK Telecom, and Samsung.</p>\n\n<p>While it may sound surprising or bizarre to many, Korean StarCraft champions are on the same level as professional athletes, holding the same level of public admiration and reverence.</p>\n\n<p>The original StarCraft was the first game ever to be accepted into the World Cyber Games tournament and continued to make a yearly appearance up until 2011 when it was replaced by the sequel - StarCraft 2.</p>\n\n<p>StarCraft 2 carried on the torch, continuing the original game’s success within the online strategy esports world as one of the most popular esport online strategy games.</p>\n\n<h2>RTS vs. TBS: Which is Better?</h2>\n\n<p>So, who wins when it comes to RTS vs. TBS?</p>\n\n<p>This question is obviously entirely subjective, and there is no one right answer. Every strategy game fan has different tastes. Some may absolutely love the epic war campaigns of turn-based strategy games, while others are all about the intense skirmishes of real-time strategy games.</p>\n\n<p>There are legions of hardcore fans on each side, and there have been debates raging for a long time regarding real-time vs. turn-based. Such contention, however, is ultimately redundant and futile, and players should actually be supporting the development of the strategy genre overall.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"So which one is better? Real-time strategy or turn-based strategy?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/realtime-turnbased-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"So which one is better? Real-time strategy or turn-based strategy?\" /></p>\n\n<p>It all really depends on what you want out of a game. If you prefer being able to take your time to strategize and execute orders in a controlled, calm, and paced manner, then you might be happier with turn-based strategy.</p>\n\n<p>If you prefer to play games that flow in a more realistic manner and enjoy nothing more than fast-paced decision-making and flexible reactions, then real-time strategy is more up your alley.</p>\n\n<p>Both divisions are endlessly enjoyable, however, and you really should try leading titles from both to not limit your gaming experience. The best part about both subgenres is that they offer relatively limitless potential. The same game can be played over and over again, with different races, employing different strategies and executions.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"3/27/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/realtime-turnbased-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13191"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/eastern-games-vs-western-games/"},"strings":{"title":"The Difference Between Japanese Games and Western Games","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>If you were born after 1990, there is a good chance that you have grown up oblivious to one of the most brutal and nasty conflicts of the modern age.</p>\n\n<p>It was a battle between two powerhouses from the east, whose race for dominance divided families across the globe. Friendships were destroyed, brother turned against brother, and lines were drawn in the sand, some of which are there to this day.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>This bloody conflict was known as the console wars, and it shaped both Japanese and <a href=\"/en/games/\">Western games</a> throughout history.</p>\n\n<h2>Console Wars: How It All Started</h2>\n\n<p>Back in the early 1980s, <a href=\"https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Corporate/Nintendo-History/Nintendo-History-625945.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo released their new home console</a>, the Nintendo Entertainment System, better known as the NES.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Nintendo Entertainment System, the NES\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/nes.jpg\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 510px;\" title=\"Nintendo Entertainment System, the NES\" /></p>\n\n<p>This little grey box started a fascination with video games that has grown exponentially ever since.</p>\n\n<p>To combat the rise of Nintendo, a company with a history of building arcade machines decided to enter the home console arena in 1985. With the release of the Master System, SEGA has officially started the console wars.</p>\n\n<p>Puritans may point to the earlier battles between the likes of the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum, but none of these face-offs garnered quite the same level of tribalism that the NES vs. Master System did.</p>\n\n<p>This battle continued for over a decade, with new systems entering the fray with ever increasing computing prowess and graphical fidelity.</p>\n\n<p>While fans were arguing over which side had the best console, a curious divide was becoming apparent. This divide went beyond the consoles themselves and quickly became a cultural one.</p>\n\n<p>This, of course, refers to the difference between Japanese and Western games.</p>\n\n<h2>Western RPG vs. JRPG</h2>\n\n<p>In the early years, when platformers, beat ‘em-ups, <a href=\"/en/games/genre/shooting-games/\">shoot ‘em-ups</a>, and the occasional sports sim, dominated the market, there was little to tell Japanese and western games apart.</p>\n\n<p>However, there was one genre that was starting to show the differences in culture. This genre was the <a href=\"/en/games/genre/rpg-games/\">RPG</a>. Role-playing games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Final Fantasy XV may seem similar on the surface, but to anyone who has played both, the differences couldn’t be more obvious.</p>\n\n<p>Taking Bethesda’s Skyrim as an example of a western RPG, it becomes apparent that the emphasis was on exploration.</p>\n\n<p>These games generally exhibit sprawling worlds that have been carefully crafted to make the player feel that they can quite literally go anywhere and do anything. The edges of these worlds are crafted in such a way that the player would never feel like they have discovered everything. These games are designed to make you feel like you can shape the world with your choices and actions.</p>\n\n<p>Crossing over to Japan, the JRPGs don’t follow this philosophy anywhere nearly as much. Yes, the worlds can be massive, but the games themselves tend to be more linear in nature. Here, there seems to be a more substantial emphasis on storytelling, characters, and guiding the player through a compelling experience.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Japanese Games vs. Western Games</h2>\n\n<p>When it comes to pure aesthetics, there is also quite a noticeable difference between the Japanese and Western games.</p>\n\n<p>Japanese games have generally taken on a look that is heavily influenced by manga and anime, with large eyes, cartoony features, and hair that seems to defy gravity.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Western RPGs vs. Japanese RPGs\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/east-west-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Western RPGs vs. Japanese RPGs\" /></p>\n\n<p>Western games, on the other hand, tend to aim at a slightly more realistic graphics. It is almost as though in western games we want to completely recreate life, whereas, in the east, they are happy to create their interpretation of it, unrestrained by the rules of the real world.</p>\n\n<p>Combat too generally differs quite radically in both subgenres.</p>\n\n<p>The majority of the action in WRPGs happens in real-time and dependant on player skill and reflex, whereas JRPGs quite often rely on a strategic turn-based system that plays out like a ‘stats heavy’ game of top trumps. Here, your band of adventurers face-off against hordes of evil while you decide which party member will do the most damage against which member of the opposing party.</p>\n\n<p>That isn't to say that western games like Skyrim or The Witcher 3 don’t rely on stats, but with them comes a healthy dose of hand to eye coordination. A classic Final Fantasy-style game would much rather you joust with your brain than with your fists.</p>\n\n<p>It is also somewhat interesting to note that most WRPGs have you starting out as a lone warrior, whereas the more eastern-influenced games often involve guiding a whole party.</p>\n\n<p>This could be a result cultural influence as well; wherein the western world the mighty “lone wolf hero” has been recycled in so many stories, Japanese culture has always had more of an obsession with protection, and putting a person or groups interests before the protagonists. More of a \"selfless hero\" if you will.</p>\n\n<h2>Japanese MMORPG vs. Western MMORPG</h2>\n\n<p>When it comes to online games, and in particular <a href=\"/en/games/genre/mmorpg-games/\">MMORPGs</a>, the differences have continued to develop.</p>\n\n<p>In Japan, online games are even more popular than it is in the west, and MMORPGs have become akin to more enjoyable days at the office. By that, I mean that Japanese online games are noted to have a significant amount of ‘grinding’ associated with them. In this sort of society, logging on to level up your character every night isn't looked at as a bad thing, in fact, it’s a social thing.</p>\n\n<p>This could very well be down to the way Japanese culture has embraced gaming as a legitimate pastime, something that has only just started to happen in the west, where there has always been gaming culture, but its legitimacy is slightly less accepted.</p>\n\n<p>With Japanese games, rewarding players for grinding away in groups, those sessions after work or school become the defacto way to relax and chat away with your friends, while also progressing through a game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Video games are an acceptable social activity\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/east-west-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Video games are an acceptable social activity\" /></p>\n\n<p>Some users have even started to look at these games as a substitute for social networks. You go to work, you come home, and you game with your friends. For some, the game world has become the bar or the squash court. And within a culture where hard work is revered, grinding away with your friends after work in Final Fantasy 14 is as routine and widespread as coming home and logging onto Netflix in the west.</p>\n\n<h2>When East Meets West</h2>\n\n<p>You would be forgiven for thinking that these two RPG subgenres are forking off in entirely different directions, but that is not actually true.</p>\n\n<p>Many of the companies from both sides of the gaming world are starting to take note of the more popular aspects of each other’s work, which is leading to some rather interesting mashups. None more so widespread than in the <a href=\"/en/games/platform/mobile-games/\">mobile space</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Look through either the App Store or Google Play, and you will probably notice quite a few of the adventure, RPG or <a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">strategy games</a> are now employing a Final Fantasy battle system. Even the latest Star Wars: Galaxy Of Heroes is centered purely around the combat mechanics.</p>\n\n<p>Turn-based combat, as it turns out, makes way more sense on mobile than the more western, dexterity-based way of fighting.</p>\n\n<p>On the other side of the coin, we are now starting to see far more open worlds in the likes of Final Fantasy XV, no doubt a reaction to how well western games have sold worldwide (including Japan).</p>\n\n<p>Where previously linear storylines with few choices were the fashion, multi-arced stories with alternate endings are now becoming more popular. And in return, some western MMOs now require a fair amount of grinding before leveling up (albeit a slightly different type of grinding).</p>\n\n<p>In fact, it could be said that some of the latest RPGs are neither genuinely eastern or western in origin. Most Elder Scrolls Online or World of Warcraft fans would have to admit to doing a fair amount of grinding in their time, while Final Fantasy XV fans were pretty surprised to see the number of real choices that they were privy to in the last installment of the franchise.</p>\n\n<h2>The Western and Japanese RPG hybrid</h2>\n\n<p>The great thing about this crossing over, is that it gives us games that would have otherwise been lacking in some areas. By mixing the subgenres, brand new ones have been created, and with whole new levels of addiction to boot.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.pcgamer.com/games-like-stardew-valley/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Games like Stardew Valley</a> (which is basically a heavily tweaked Harvest Moon), has taken the Japanese farm/life sim and mixed in a little western mechanics to polish things off. The game now sits pretty at number one as the most downloaded Switch games of all time, something previously unthinkable in a year which saw a new Mario release.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"JRPGs and WRPGs complement one another\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/east-west-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"JRPGs and WRPGs complement one another\" /></p>\n\n<p>So rather than seeing the differences between the two gaming cultures as a “war” of which you need to take a side, perhaps a healthier outlook would be that of two styles that complement one another.</p>\n\n<p>When one side makes strides, the other notices and reacts. Equally, when one side makes mistakes, the other makes sure they don’t fall into the same trap. And with a gaming scene that has been plagued by a lack of innovation of late, these fusions between genres, subgenres, and cultures should be welcomed.</p>\n\n<p>In a world that is metaphorically getting smaller, witnessing one culture merge with another is something that we will see more and more. Whether that is in the film industry (just look at the popularity of Studio Ghibli in the west and Harry Potter in the east) or in the gaming industry, the fusion of cultures is here to stay, and I for one welcome it wholeheartedly.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"3/13/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/east-west-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13172"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/strategy-rpg/"},"strings":{"title":"Strategy RPG Games Bring Together the Best of Both Genres","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>The lines between RPG games and virtually every other genre are gradually eroding in recent years.</p>\n\n<p>With developers looking to add more depth and personalization to their creations, <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/mmo-games/rpg-elements/\">RPG elements</a> have started to appear in places we usually wouldn’t expect to see them.</p>\n\n<p>Deep narratives, leveling and multi-layered characters are now popping up in a variety of genres, even some you wouldn’t have to expect them to.</p>\n\n<p>Essentially, we’re living in a post-RPG world where <a href=\"http://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Strategy+RPG#p=0&tab=ConcurrentUsers\">hybrids are the norm.</a></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Strategy RPG hybrids are the norm now\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_10/rpg-strategy-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Strategy RPG hybrids are the norm now\" /></p>\n\n<p>One area where RPG features have made a move in recent years is <a href=\"https://plarium.com/\">strategy games</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Aiming to elevate the genre beyond its slightly cold and calculated roots, RPG strategy games such as the Fire Emblem franchise bring tactics and immersive environments together as one.</p>\n\n<p>One of the most popular games in the series, Fire Emblem Awakening is marked by a dominant storyline that follows an epic battle across entire continents. In typical RPG fashion, all characters can be customized in various ways to suit the terrain and bring some extra depth to the action.</p>\n\n<p>However, unlike your typical RPG, players can’t just hack-and-slash their way through the game. They must employ a wide array of strategies and tactics, and learn how to best utilize each character's strengths to overcome the game’s many challenges.</p>\n\n<p>Fire Emblem Awakening is what is known as a tactical RPG.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>The Birth of Strategy Role-playing Games</h2>\n\n<p>Strategy RPG, also known as Tactical Role-playing games, can be traced all the way back to traditional tabletop role-playing games such as classic Dungeons & Dragons.</p>\n\n<p>“Cool” as it may be, we’re more interested in the video game variation. Like so many others, the subgenre originated in Japan in the 1980s. Games like The Dragon and Princess and Bokosuka Wars were among the first to lay the foundations for the new genre, called \"simulation RPG\" back then.</p>\n\n<p>However, it wasn’t until 1988 that this hybrid of strategy and RPG started to take form.</p>\n\n<p>Many point to the strategy RPG Silver Ghost as one of the first fully-formed strategy RPGs. Players were able to use point-and-click controls in a real-time environment to manage and control multiple characters/units. If that sounds like an RTS game to you, you aren’t wrong - that is exactly how it paved the way for the RTS/RPG hybrid.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The origins of Strategy RPG\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_10/rpg-strategy-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"The origins of Strategy RPG\" /></p>\n\n<p>Following the legacy of Silver Ghost, First Queen took strategy RPGs another step further with a unique take on the subgenre. The game sees players explore an interactive world filled with different characters, upgrades, and unique scenery - all standard RPG elements.</p>\n\n<p>Where this game tipped the balance towards strategy was its battles. A large part of First Queen sees players recruit soldiers and then controlling them in large-scale battles. Combined with the option to pause the real-time combat, this function allowed the player to consider precise, tactical moves to defeat AI-controlled armies.</p>\n\n<p>These hybrids showed that it was possible to create immersive RPG worlds and successfully incorporate tactical elements. The Fire Emblem series then brought the concept to mainstream audiences in 1990, and many of its features have been used ever since.</p>\n\n<p>Throughout the nineties, games like Arc the Lad II, the Farland Story series, Front Mission and more all help developed the strategy RPG genre.</p>\n\n<p>As we move into the new millennium, mobile titles introduce themselves into the mix. As the likes of Valkyria Chronicles and Fire Emblem continued to dominate consoles, brands such as Banner Saga were making mobile strategy RPGs into serious contenders.</p>\n\n<p>What we’ve seen over the years is a <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/strategy-games/vikings-war-of-clans/\">coming together of strategy and RPG games</a> to form a new genre. Essentially, for those that enjoy making critical decisions but want a more personal experience then that of a detached general overlooking a battlefield, strategy RPGs are the perfect tonic.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>How Strategy RPG Combines Both Genres Together</h2>\n\n<p>From our look at the history of strategy RPGs, we can already start to see what makes the genre tick.</p>\n\n<p>Rather than resorting to reflexes or real-time button mashing, the essence of a strategy game is to pick the best moves for the situation at hand or face dire consequences. Strategy RPG doesn't lose this aspect. The combination of storylines, expansive worlds, and customizable characters have only made these games more immersive.</p>\n\n<p>When you examine the dynamics a little closer, you get to see an interplay between strategy and tactics. As a general rule, strategy refers to an overarching goal, the bigger picture moves that will help you achieve victory. In contrast, tactics relate to the minutiae of a fight, the specific steps you make in a situation such as “use X weapon to target Y with unit Z.”</p>\n\n<p>When a game requires you to focus on an overall strategy, for instance crossing a map using the most efficient course, it leans towards being a strategy game. When you’re required to think about the weapons you’ve got and how to use them in individual battles, this is much more like an RPG. Therefore, when you combine these two elements into a single game, you have a strategy RPG.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, certain games will lean more to one side of the spectrum of the other. What’s more, you should also look out for the following attributes to know if you’re dealing with a strategy RPG:</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Team player:</u></strong> If RPGs typically put players in the role of a single character or a small party, and strategy games put you in control over entire armies - strategy RPGs offer a combination of both dynamics.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Playing an individual character in the context of a team\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_35/toxicity-in-mmo-friendly.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"Playing an individual character in the context of a team\" /></p>\n\n<p>For example, in Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, you control a unit of soldiers. Here you have a situation where you can play on the individual strengths of your characters but do so in the context of the team as a whole. You always have to consider a character’s role within the squad and make sure all individual member can support and complement each other’s abilities.</p>\n\n<p>This dynamic is something that’s often lacking in both RPG and strategy games but blends together nicely in the hybrid genre.</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>You only die once:</u></strong> In most RPGs, once your main character dies, it’s game over. Load your save file and try again. That’s not the case in Strategy games, where you have almost limitless units at your disposal.</p>\n\n<p>Once again, Strategy RPG games offer a sort of hybrid of the two paradigms. Your main character must survive the battle, but the same isn’t necessarily true for the rest of your party.</p>\n\n<p>This can challenge both strategy and RPG players. Strategy players aren’t used to having to protect a single unit - to them the base, or the bigger picture is all that matters. RPG players, on the other hands, aren’t always comfortable with the idea of “permadeath” - losing a character forever.</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>The tactical approach:</u></strong> Unlike a standard RPG where the action is up close and personal, games in this hybrid genre typically take a step back to look at the action from a more tactical angle. Some strategy RPGs shift to a top-down or isometric perspective when it’s time to fight.</p>\n\n<p>This shift between the character’s perspective and an overhead view might break the immersion a bit, but it helps highlight the strategy elements of the game.</p>\n\n<p>On the other hand, strategy games often lack mainstream appeal because they don’t offer the level of immersion the average gamer arguably enjoys. That is why strategy RPGs present a more personal perspective when it comes to the story. When a story revolves around a pivotal character - the one the player just so happen to control - the change in camera angles doesn’t harm the player’s investment in the game.</p>\n\n<h2>Are Tactical RPG Games for You?</h2>\n\n<p>Would you prefer staring at a map and practicing your long-term decision-making skills, or do you want upfront action that stimulates the senses? These are the options you’re generally faced with when you choose between strategy games and RPGs.</p>\n\n<p>But with Strategy RPG you don’t really have to choose. This unique subgenre offers the best of both worlds.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"This unique subgenre offers the best of both worlds\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_10/rpg-strategy-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"This unique subgenre offers the best of both worlds\" /></p>\n\n<p>In many ways, fusing RPG elements and strategy games together has been a success. For example, Project X Zone <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_Zone#Reception\">was a huge hit</a>, and not just because it combined some of leading characters from Sega, Bandai Namco, and Capcom. Because the 2D brawler dynamic offered a familiar setting for casual gamers, Project X Zone was able to introduce tactical battles with relative ease.</p>\n\n<p>True, it depends on each game. 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More often than not the Viking axe was their weapon of choice.</p>\n\n<p>With a cutting-edge ranging from 3 to 18 inches in length, depending on the wealth of the owner, and a long handle, the Viking axes gave their wielder a tremendous advantage in reach. They were typically worn at the waist, held in place with a belt.</p>\n\n<h3>Ulfberht, the Viking Sword</h3>\n\n<p>Although commonly associated with the axe, Vikings were a people born into warfare so it should come as no surprise that they would not limit themselves to merely one choice of weaponry.</p>\n\n<p>The Ulfberht, aka the Viking sword, was not as commonly seen as the Viking axe. Iron was in limited availability during this era of medieval weapons and was thus typically only possessed by the more wealthy in Viking society.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Ulfberht, the Viking Sword\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Ulfberht, the Viking Sword\" /></p>\n\n<p>However, the typical Viking sword was still a formidable weapon of destruction. T double-edged blade was roughly 35 inches in length, worn over the shoulder and made reachable with the right hand.</p>\n\n<h3>Bow and Arrow</h3>\n\n<p>Although Vikings were best known as skilled, close quarter combatants (and they most certainly were), they were not limited purely to this style of fighting.</p>\n\n<p>Vikings quickly discovered that the bow and arrow, which they initially used for hunting, could also be used as an effective way of vanquishing their foes.</p>\n\n<p>A skilled Viking archer could shoot an average of twelve arrows per minute before the inevitable close quarter combat would begin.</p>\n\n<p>Taking advantage of this skill, Viking warriors would often unleash a barrage of arrows from their boats before making landfall and engaging their opponents in face-to-face combat.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h3>Viking Spear</h3>\n\n<p>One Viking weapon that fit both roles of both close and ranged combat was the Viking spear, which ranged between 3 to 10 feet in length and thus came in many various styles.</p>\n\n<p>Some Viking spears were designed to be thrown at great lengths, while others were much more sturdy, making them ideal for close quarter combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Seax, the Viking Knife</h3>\n\n<p>The last form of weaponry Vikings equipped in their vast utility belts of slaughter was the knife. Although they ranged in size and quality, these blades were never far from reach during the Viking age, as even slaves were <a href=\"https://blackguard-customs.myshopify.com/blogs/news/113278853-viking-knives\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">permitted to keep one</a> in their possession.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Seax, the Viking Knife\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_5.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Seax, the Viking Knife\" /></p>\n\n<p>The Seax was a much higher quality knife, owned by the wealthy within Viking society. It was much larger and more lethal than the typical fighting knife, often having a curved blade.</p>\n\n<p>Although these top 5 Viking weapons were the most typically used by the Scandinavian people during this period in medieval history, they were far from the only ones used.</p>\n\n<p>The Vikings were versatile warriors, who were more than capable of picking up any form of weaponry and using it, if need be, in a pinch. The Vikings were much more than just brutish warriors as many would have them illustrated.</p>\n\n<p>They were also skilled craftsmen who were capable of producing armaments of defense and beautiful, stunning works of art, such as the Viking longboat.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Armor</h3>\n\n<p>The Vikings, feared throughout the lands for the havoc they wracked across the coastline during the Viking age, were respected warriors known for their cunning and ruthless tactics.</p>\n\n<p>Yet, they were no fools; they knew that to survive in their way of life, they must protect themselves with armor such as shields, helmets and body armor.</p>\n\n<p>Viking armor was typically crafted out of thickly padded leather, which gave the wearer some protection from edged weapons. The average Viking often wore it into battle.</p>\n\n<p>Chainmail, another favorite form of armor at the time, was reserved for the more wealthy, as iron was in high demand and incredibly expensive.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Helmet</h3>\n\n<p>Not all Vikings wore a helmet, however, if they were able to, they did, as the added protection saved many lives in close quarter combat.</p>\n\n<p>The Viking helmet was relatively simple in construction, often being a simple bowl shape in design with a metal nose guard protruding from the center.</p>\n\n<p>Despite popular belief, there is little evidence to suggest that Viking helmets <a href=\"http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_helmets.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">were adorned with horns</a>, as they often depicted having. Horns gave little to no additional protection and were just another thing for an enemy to grab hold to during combat. Viking warriors were nothing if not practical.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking shield\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viking shield\" /></p>\n\n<h3>Viking Shield</h3>\n\n<p>The history of the Viking shield is an interesting one. Only a few examples of them have survived throughout history, which has led to a series of debates amongst historians about their construction methods.</p>\n\n<p>However, some prized artifacts have been found, answering some questions.</p>\n\n<p>During the Viking Age, warriors charged into battle wielding a shield, which was typically round in design and <a href=\"http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/manufacturing/text/viking_shields.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ranged on average 30-35 inches in diameter</a>.</p>\n\n<p>A warrior usually crafted their shield by themselves, customizing it to match their fighting style and size.  A Viking shield could neither be too big nor too small, as it would render the wielder too slow or too exposed, respectively.</p>\n\n<p>All surviving examples of Viking shields are made from solid butted planks, which consist of spruce, fir or pine.</p>\n\n<h3>Viking Ship</h3>\n\n<p>We would be doing a disservice if we did not touch on the marvel known as the Viking Longships, feared across the known world during the Viking age.</p>\n\n<p>Without the Viking boat, the Vikings rise to power would never have happened and their style of warfare which resulted in their rapid spread would have been dead in the water.</p>\n\n<p>Norsemen were likely the most capable seaman of their time, sailing their boats around the world and reaching as far as America in the West and Asia Minor in the East.</p>\n\n<p>Contemporary foreign sources of the period describe the Viking boat as follows:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The Viking ships had flexible, clinker-built hulls that followed the waves as living beings.</li>\n\t<li>The best ships are compared to dragons, birds and sea serpents.</li>\n\t<li>The Viking ships could quickly be drawn up on a beach.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Viking longship\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons_4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Viking longship\" /></p>\n\n<p>Although many stories have been passed down throughout the ages, very few Viking longboats were discovered to this day. When they are, they are already broken and shattered to pieces.</p>\n\n<p>Regardless, the reality is apparent: the Viking Age was dominated by the Viking longboat, as these brave warriors sailed the seas, pillaging, conquering and permanently placing themselves in the history books until the end of time as some of the most capable warriors this world has ever seen.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"7/10/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_22/VKN_Blog-images---Vikings-weapons.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13226"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/best-browser/"},"strings":{"title":"The Best Browser for Gaming 2020: What is the Perfect Browser for Online Games","category":"MMO Gaming Tips","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"360000","description":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>Are you into online games, but you're tired of glitches, popups and latency issues? If you’re looking for the best browser for gaming, search no more.</p>\n\n<p>As both developers and fanatic gamers, we’re well placed to understand and identify what works and what doesn't.</p>\n\n<p>Maybe you’re wondering what is the a fast, stable browser for your MMO gaming habits.</p>\n\n<p>With these questions (and more) in mind, we’ve picked out some of the best browsers on the market and have reviewed them carefully. By focusing on safety, accessibility, speed, and reliability, our guide is designed to help you find the best browser for games in 2020.</p>\n\n<h2>Google Chrome</h2>\n\n<p>According to the statistics, Chrome is the most popular browser out there with monthly trends <a href=\"https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php\">showing a 56.6% market share</a>. However, just because it’s the most popular browser doesn’t mean it’s the best browser for online gaming.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_20/browsers.JPG\" /></p>\n\n<p>One thing we know from tests is that Google Chrome is fast. Now, there are many metrics for measuring the speed of a browser, but <a href=\"https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/software/best-web-browsers-3635255/\">TechAdvisor has noted</a> that Google now auto-blocks any ads that violate Coalition for Better Ads guidelines. In practice, this means there are fewer things to load per page and, therefore, faster page load times. As an added extra, there are fewer distractions for the user too.</p>\n\n<p>What’s more, because Chrome has started to phase out Flash, it’s become the preferred web browser HTML5. 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It also means the software puts less demand on your computer than Chrome does, for instance.</p>\n\n<p>In other words, the browser is lighter which leaves your system with more RAM to play with. The upshot of this is that you’ll have more memory available to power whatever online games you enjoy.</p>\n\n<p>Based on this, it’s fair to say Firefox has a case for being the best browser for <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/download-games/\">PC games</a>.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/speed.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>Another point in favor of Firefox as the best browser for games is that it works well with virtual and augmented reality. After releasing updates in 2017 and 2018, Firefox <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/04/03/mozilla-brings-firefox-augmented-virtual-reality/\">can now process VR and AR content</a> more efficiently.</p>\n\n<p>So, for those looking towards the future, this could very well become the go-to browser for VR games and AR experiences.</p>\n\n<h2>Safari</h2>\n\n<p>When you consider Safari’s place in the gaming spectrum, the obvious thing to say is that it’s best for Mac users. Because it’s been designed specifically for Apple devices, it makes sense to say Safari is the top browser for Mac and iOS games online.</p>\n\n<p>However, the thing you might not have considered is that Safari is also up there as an excellent choice for Facebook games no matter your OS.</p>\n\n<p>Because Safari 11 gives users the option to auto-block videos, it means you’re faced with fewer distractions on social media sites. As Facebook continues to ramp up its video ads, it’s nice to have a browser that can shut them off, so they don’t get in the way of your games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Opera</h2>\n\n<p>Now, when it comes to Opera, it can be the fastest browser out there for those with slow systems because of three features:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>It has a turbo protocol that reroutes traffic through Opera’s servers. This basically increases processing speeds for those with low bandwidth.</li>\n\t<li>It compresses data, so pages load faster. This is particularly useful for mobile gamers.</li>\n\t<li>It auto-blocks adverts.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/security.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<p>Thanks to this trio of features, Opera users can enjoy browser <a href=\"https://plarium.com/\">MMO games</a> even if they don’t have a high-powered desktop or internet connection.</p>\n\n<h2>Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge</h2>\n\n<p>Some people love to criticise Internet Explorer because it’s not the fastest browser on the market. While it may not be the quickest, it is still one of the best internet browsers for Flash games.</p>\n\n<p>Because IE11 uses your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for all graphics and text rendering, it’s capable of processing graphic-heavy pages more efficiently. This is great for strategy MMO players, for example, who play browser games with a lot of units on screen at the same time.</p>\n\n<p>Additionally, with IE being the default browser for older versions of Windows, the latest software is compatible with the touch browsing capabilities of Windows 8. Based on this, IE 11 is often considered the best web browser for Flash games but also modern innovations that are making use of desktop touch controls.</p>\n\n<p>As the more modern browser from Microsoft, Edge is also worthy of a place in our best browser 2020 rundown.</p>\n\n<p>Although it’s still somewhat underused by gaming fans, <a href=\"https://news.microsoft.com/en-gb/2018/04/26/these-are-the-new-features-you-have-to-try-in-xboxs-next-update/\">Edge links perfectly with Xbox Live</a>. By accessing the browser via the console, users can not only pick up where they left off in a game but also mute any unnecessary sounds, read page content aloud and even upload files to your PC via the browser.</p>\n\n<p>In this respect, Edge stands out as a contender for the title of best browser for console gamers.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/availability.jpg\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Choose the Best Browser for Your Gaming Needs</h2>\n\n<p>It’s impossible to look at a single product and say, “that’s the best browser for online games.”</p>\n\n<p>Because the industry is so varied and each company excels in different areas, the reality is that each browser is better for certain games than others.</p>\n\n<p>Google Chrome is the best browser for gaming, just because it’s fast and better set-up for HTML5 games (which is gradually replacing Flash).</p>\n\n<p>However, Firefox seems to be catching up, and its VR and AR support make it a serious contender.  Naturally, every major browser will move with the times and become proficient in handling this next-gen technology. But, if we’re looking at the here and now, Firefox stands out as an early frontrunner.</p>\n\n<p>If you want to play games online via your PC, Mac or mobile, there are plenty of browsers to choose from. As long as you know what you want to play, the options we’ve listed should keep the action flowing.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"6/27/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/browser-game-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"11152"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/deal-with-gamer-rage/"},"strings":{"title":"5 Simple Steps to Improve Your Experience: Dealing with Gamer Rage","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"540000","description":"<p>You’re half an hour into a Battle Royale match. You’ve survived sniper fire and out of control vehicles, and took down your fair share of rival players. The battle is reaching its inevitable climax.</p>\n\n<p>The tension mounts as you discover that there are only you and one opponent left. You can practically taste that chicken dinner. You creep around the side of the one remaining house on the map, sliding stealthily through the side door, when…. <em><strong>BANG! </strong></em>Standing, or rather ‘camping’ behind it is the same guy that has killed you in the previous round.</p>\n\n<p>In fact, it feels like this person has been stalking you all day, popping up at every turn, and ruining any hope you ever had of winning a match. The red mist begins to descend.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Gamer rage is pretty common\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-1.jpg\" title=\"Gamer rage is pretty common\" /></p>\n\n<p>Further down in this post we will discuss in detail each of these 5 steps in order to rage less, and enjoy the game more:</p>\n\n<ol>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Take a Break</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Lower That Difficulty</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Watch, Learn, Rinse, Repeat</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Take Your Anger Elsewhere</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n\t<li>\n\t<p><em><strong>Ask for Help</strong></em></p>\n\t</li>\n</ol>\n\n<p>But first, some basic background information:</p>\n\n<h2>Reacting to Video Games</h2>\n\n<p>When this happens, we generally fall into one of two categories, we either A) realize what is happening within our own mind and try to cool down, or B) we end up stressing out, screaming out loud, or in the case of some - hurling the controller across the room.</p>\n\n<p>If you fall into the first category, then you most probably know how to control the anger that bubbles up inside the vast majority of us when we lose at a <a href=\"/en/games/\">game</a>. But if you happen to fall into the second category, things can take a rather unpleasant turn.</p>\n\n<h2>Why Does Gamer Rage Happen?</h2>\n\n<p><strong>The reasons that we experience ‘gamer rage’ are no different from those for road rage or any other sort of anger management issues.</strong> It is often rooted in the perceived feeling of not being good enough or being mistreated, and it is hard to ignore.</p>\n\n<p>Now, there is always the option to put the game down and stop playing, but for those of us who put video games at the top of our ‘pleasurable activities list,’ this is something we don’t really want to do.</p>\n\n<p>So, is it possible to completely control and lower our stress levels when playing games? Or is the suppression of these feelings the best we can hope for? Well, that very much depends on you and whether you can identify your triggers early.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Warning Signs of Video Game Rage</h2>\n\n<p>Triggers are aspects of games that begin the cycle of anger we experience when ‘gamer rage’ rears its ugly head. These triggers are present for all of us, and some are worse than others.</p>\n\n<p>Similar to the aspects of life we enjoy, our triggers vary from person to person. For some of us, it could be when a particular player seems to target us repeatedly. For others, it could simply be struggling to pass a certain level. In general, these triggers tend to be <a href=\"https://www.futurity.org/frustration-fuels-video-gamers-aggression/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">related to performance rather than the game content</a>.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Many things can trigger your gamer rage\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-2.jpg\" title=\"Many things can trigger your gamer rage\" /></p>\n\n<h2>What Are the Main Symptoms of Gamer Rage?</h2>\n\n<p>You can usually recognize it the moment you start to feel like your thoughts are out of your control. It is often accompanied by a raised heart rate, faster breathing, sometimes shaking, and the clear sense of utter rage. The clenching of teeth, sweating, stomach aches, and even dizziness have all been reported as early warning signs of an impending rage. There are other symptoms, but it really does depend on your particular psyche as to whether you exhibit them.</p>\n\n<p>Find our what your triggers are, and you are on your way to dealing with them. If you find it hard to decipher what exactly is triggering you, it may help to ask a friend who you play with regularly. Those of us who ‘rage quit’ games regularly may notice that it is easier to see the triggers from the outside, rather than from within.</p>\n\n<p>Here are our top 5 tips to decrease gamer rage's instances and its effect on us:</p>\n\n<h2>1. Take a Break</h2>\n\n<p>Taking a break from a particularly frustrating level is something that should help you calm down quickly. Just like with many other problems, taking your mind off the game can immediately make you feel more relaxed. It also has a critical side-effect of sometimes improving your performance on your return.</p>\n\n<p>Ever spent hours trying to pass a level on a game, only to take a short break, come back and beat it immediately? That may not be a coincidence. A <a href=\"https://www.spring.org.uk/2012/07/the-incubation-effect-how-to-break-through-a-mental-block.php\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">learning technique called “incubation”</a> has been discussed in the music industry from quite some time, and the idea centers around the fact that your brain will continue to decipher the things you learn in everyday life, even when you are not consciously thinking about them. This mostly happens when we sleep, often letting us wake up with a fresh perspective on a problem.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Take a break\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-3.jpg\" title=\"Take a break\" /></p>\n\n<p>This phenomenon was initially observed in musicians learning new instruments, but the premise is the same for any skill you wish to learn. If you are gaming into the small hours with diminishing success, perhaps it might be time to take a little break or call it a night and start fresh tomorrow.</p>\n\n<h2>2. Lower That Difficulty</h2>\n\n<p>The next option might be considered a cop-out, but it is worth considering.</p>\n\n<p>No matter what your friends may say, turning down the difficulty is <strong>NOT </strong>a criminal offense. If you find that a game has stopped being fun, is it really that much of a sin to lower the difficulty a notch?</p>\n\n<p>Purists may scorn, but we aren’t all born with cat-like reflexes or the patience of a saint. We shouldn’t feel guilty for wanting to complete a game either.</p>\n\n<p>The only reason anyone plays video games is to have fun, so when that stops, it may be time to finally admit you are more of a hey, not too rough kinda person.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>3. Watch, Learn, Rinse, Repeat</h2>\n\n<p>If turning down the difficulty makes you recoil in abject horror (or if you are playing an online game, it's just impossible) then you really are only left with one option. You need to get better.</p>\n\n<p>Now, you may think that is a trite statement, and to a point it is, but with the resources available to us these days, you really haven’t exhausted all avenues unless you have watched a tutorial video or two.</p>\n\n<p>If full-on walkthroughs are not your style, then perhaps a video that discusses tips and techniques would suit you better? Or for sports and competitive online games, watching a few experts on Twitch could give you a new take on why you happen to be so embarrassingly poor at a particular game.</p>\n\n<p>‘Knowledge is power,’ as they say, so find out who are the best players in the world at your game and start taking notes.</p>\n\n<h2>4. Take Your Anger Elsewhere</h2>\n\n<p>When you simply can’t calm down, sometimes it can be a cathartic experience to take your anger out somewhere else.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-4.jpg\" title=\"Take Your Anger Elsewhere\" /></p>\n\n<p>If you do find other activities alleviate stress for you, it might be a good idea to do just that. For those of you who own a boxing bag, the answer would seem obvious, but for those who don’t, taking a break from that challenging game and loading up another that you practically have a doctorate in could give you that much-needed relief from failing over and over.</p>\n\n<p>Once you have found your heart rate is back to normal, you can pour yourself a lemon iced-tea, light a candle, and try to tackle that unforgiving game again.</p>\n\n<h2>5. Ask for Help</h2>\n\n<p>If you are someone who is generally quick to anger, be that in gaming or other aspects of your life, it could be a good idea to <a href=\"http://www.priorygroup.com/mental-health/anger-management/symptoms-of-anger-management\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">look into real anger-management</a> and self-help techniques.</p>\n\n<p>Being \"mindful\" of your overall mental health is nothing to be sneered at. For those who suffer from anger issues, these facets can impede our happiness to a point where it affects our work life or our relationships. If things ever get to this level, learning how to avoid these situations and how to deal with them could be imperative in cementing your long-term happiness.</p>\n\n<p>Learning breathing techniques, how to clear your mind, and how to distract yourself can mean the difference between being the best version of yourself possible, and being that angry person that other people tend to avoid.</p>\n\n<p>If your anger is getting out of control, never feel embarrassed about wanting to seek help. It is a widespread problem and one that is much easier to deal with once you possess the right knowledge.</p>\n\n<h2>It’s Supposed to Be Fun, Right?</h2>\n\n<p>The most important piece of information to take away from this is that gamer rage doesn't mean that you need to stop playing games. It is worth remembering that the vast majority of us are very passionate when playing video games, and that passion can sometimes lead to angry when things don't go our way.</p>\n\n<p>Rather than thinking you need to eradicate all negative feeling while you play, be aware that you can appease these feelings, without taking the ‘edge’ out of your game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Don't rage quit - have fun\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-5.jpg\" title=\"Don't rage quit - have fun\" /></p>\n\n<p>Stress is what we are looking to avoid in our downtime, so go easy on yourself next time you are on a poor run. If you continuously come away from a gaming session feeling angry and drained, it will be worth your while to address the issue head-on. We all feel the urge to \"rage quit\" from time to time, but when it interferes with our enjoyment of gaming, a change is needed. Frustration is fine - anger isn’t; so for the sake of your own mental health, address the problem rather than letting it define you.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"6/19/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_19/rage-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13219"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/we-play-war-games/"},"strings":{"title":"War Games: Why Do We Love Playing at War","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>War is horrible. No one wants to go to war, or live through one.</p>\n\n<p>So what is it about slipping into the muddy boots of a WWII soldier, tightly grasping the plasma cannon of a space marine, or sending your troops to a bloody adventure that we love so much?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Why do we play war games?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 1200px; height: 628px;\" title=\"Why do we play war games?\" /></p>\n\n<p>The fact is, there is a whole multitude of reasons. However, what we're interested in are the most basic thoughts, feelings, and emotions that make us want to play <a href=\"/en/games/genre/war-games/\">war games</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Naturally, before we delve into our psyches and have ourselves a shootout with the forces of darkness, we need first to define what is a war game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>What are War Games?</h2>\n\n<p>It is a common belief that all war games have the same three characteristics:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>The War Aspect</li>\n\t<li>The Game Aspect</li>\n\t<li>The Simulation Aspect</li>\n</ul>\n\n<h3><strong>The War Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Not all games are actually about war.</p>\n\n<p>Part of what makes a game a war game is simulating the “the activity of war” and the right vocabulary and jargon.</p>\n\n<p>Only games that depict the act of war, not necessarily realistically, can be called war games. The concept doesn’t have to be front and center, but an online war game can’t be one without war.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The Game Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Not all war simulation can, or should be classed as war games.</p>\n\n<p>For example, military maneuvers may be a simulation of war, but they don’t have a lot to do with gaming.</p>\n\n<p>If the previous aspect enforced the idea that a war game needs to deal with war, this one emphasizes that a war game needs to be an actual game.</p>\n\n<p>Games usually compel participants to compete against each other or cooperate against a common enemy. This in turn, “forces” players to think creatively and come up with new strategies to complete their goal.</p>\n\n<p>If a simulation provides opportunities for strategic thinking, then you can call it a game.</p>\n\n<h3><strong>The Simulation Aspect</strong></h3>\n\n<p>Good war games simulate actual war in some way.</p>\n\n<p>They do so in various levels of realism, but by definition, playing them should provide some insight into the world of warfare (without the actual death part). From strategic planning to the conditions a person may encounter, these games replicate a situation of war to a greater or lesser degree.</p>\n\n<p>Most games do not focus on educating their players about what’s it like to fight a war or lead an army, but that is a byproduct of any good war game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The three aspects of war\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"The three aspects of war\" /></p>\n\n<p>The United States military, as well as other armies around the world, have historically valued the simulation army games can provide.; so much so, that the US Army has developed its own army game as a <a href=\"https://www.americasarmy.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">training and recruitment tool</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Now, this isn't to say that every war game is trying to be like the real thing.</p>\n\n<p>Every war game exhibits some level of the three aspects we've outlined here. However, that doesn’t mean they all exist in equal measure. Usually, promoting one aspect will most likely result in diminishing the other two. The more game-like your game is, the less of a simulation it becomes, and vice-versa.</p>\n\n<p>For example, fantasy <a href=\"/en/games/genre/mmo-games/\">MMO</a> war games work great as games, and they do deal with the subject matter of war, but they aren’t very good war simulations. Nevertheless, they are still war games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>The History of War Games</h2>\n\n<p>Games about war have been around for centuries.</p>\n\n<p>We’ve been playing at war ever since someone picked up a deck of cards and invented the popular card game “War” (when that happened precisely is lost to history). Ever since, we have been pretending to be at war in every medium imaginable, from cards to board games to video games.</p>\n\n<p>The first video game about war was \"Spacewar!\". It was a space combat game developed in 1962 on the PDP-1 minicomputer. Incidentally, “Spacewar!” is also one of the first video games ever made, which tells us a little bit about human nature and the games we like to play.</p>\n\n<h3>The First War Game</h3>\n\n<p>However, the first war game was developed in February 1980, and was called “Computer Bismarck.” It was a turn-based strategy game where players acted as the British forces, fighting against the battleship Bismarck and other German units. The German side was controlled by another player or by a computer AI, called “Otto Von Computer.”</p>\n\n<p>As you can see below, “Computer Bismarck” wasn’t much to look at. You can barely make out Great Britain (on the right) or Iceland (at the top) against the purple Atlantic Ocean.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Computer Bismarck was the first war game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_23/compbismarck15.jpg\" style=\"width: 620px; height: 326px;\" title=\"Computer Bismarck was the first war game\" /></p>\n\n<p>Since then, war games have made tremendous strides and became the most popular type of video game. The rise of the first-person shooter in the 1990s gave birth to blockbuster franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and Wolfenstein. They helped establish war as the “go-to” subject of video games. It is so popular; there's even a game called Darksiders where you play the actual personification of War.</p>\n\n<p>Today, you can find war games in every genre and on every device, from narrative-heavy adventures to explosion-filled military shooters on mobile. But there’s one genre that’s almost entirely focused on the concept of warfare, and that’s strategy. Both turn-based strategy and real-time strategy games from across the years have brought wargaming to <a href=\"/en/games/platform/pc-games/\">PCs</a> around the world with franchises like Command & Conquer, Total War, and WarCraft.</p>\n\n<p>These eventually led to the rise of the MMO <a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">strategy games</a>, where a lot of modern war games find their audience.</p>\n\n<h2>Online War Games Make Us Better People</h2>\n\n<p><strong>Why do we love going to war in video games?</strong> For the challenge and satisfaction of outthinking and outmaneuvering our (virtual) enemies.</p>\n\n<p>Us humans love competing, usually caring about being <strong>better</strong>, and improving in certain fields.</p>\n\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/why-we-compete/403201/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">study by the Harvard School of Public Health</a>, almost half of the participants said they would rather earn $50,000 in a world where the average salary is $25,000 than make $100,000 in a world where the average is $200,000.</p>\n\n<p>Similarly, the study shows that people preferred to have a relative advantage and not an absolute one. In other words, people want to be smarter and better looking than their friends and coworkers, not necessarily the most intelligent and attractive person in the world.</p>\n\n<h3>Playing at War Games as a Sense of Accomplishment</h3>\n\n<p>We want to be better than our peers, and that is a fundamental human trait.</p>\n\n<p>So when you play war games - where the aim is to outsmart other players through a combination of strategy, logic, and foresight - you don't really care how good you are overall. You just want to be <strong>better </strong>than the person on the other side of the screen.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"We constantly compete to be better than one another\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_39/war-general-illustration-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 464px;\" title=\"We constantly compete to be better than one another\" /></p>\n\n<p>To put it another way, we all want to be a big fish in a small pond.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, as you progress through the game, your pond will gradually increase in size. However, truly skilled players will grow at the same rate to ensure they remain the proverbial shark.</p>\n\n<h2>A Cocktail of Hormones and Emotions</h2>\n\n<p><strong>Another reason</strong> we seem to enjoy army games, aside from the fact that they test our powers of logic, strategy, and planning, is that they appeal to our most basic instincts.</p>\n\n<p>As suggested in this <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2013/02/11/171698919/video-game-violence-why-do-we-like-it-and-whats-it-doing-to-us\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">piece from NPR</a>, two things are guaranteed to make a situation or narrative more appealing: sex and violence.</p>\n\n<p>According to Iowa State University professor Douglas Gentile, war games and shooters cause a cocktail of stress hormones, such as cortisol, noradrenaline, and testosterone, to be released into our bloodstream – the same hormones would have been released were we in actual combat.</p>\n\n<h3>Real-life vs Playing at War</h3>\n\n<p>In a real-life situation, these hormones would be used by the body to create a fight-or-flight response. However, as Gentile points out, they also turn us on and make us find a game more engaging.</p>\n\n<p>\"When you know you're safe, having that heightened sense of stress can be fun,\" explains Gentile.</p>\n\n<p>This theory is confirmed by iStrategyLabs' Megan Zlock, a self-confessed gamer. Zlock claims that a storyline is instantly made more impressive and immersive if there's an element of danger added to the mix.</p>\n\n<h3>Adding a Storyline to Complete the Creation of a War Game</h3>\n\n<p>\"If you want to create a good narrative, you need to create conflict, and violence is a really easy way to create conflict,\" said Zlock.</p>\n\n<p>Violence is a stimulant that, when triggered in the right setting, can be extremely enjoyable. Clearly, this is the case when it comes to immersive online war games. You’re in a war-like scenario; your body is tense from the stress of competition and the desire to win, so your brain reacts appropriately.</p>\n\n<p>Exercising a degree of control over such a situation can fill you with an intoxicating sense of power; especially if that control resulted in besting another player. Add in your stress hormones, and the resultant cocktail is one you're only too willing to drink for hours and hours.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Conflict is a great motivator\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"Conflict is a great motivator\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Why We Play War Games</h2>\n\n<p>Playing war games helps us show the world, and more specifically our enemies, that we are better than them: our strategy smarter, our reflexes sharper, and our skills superior.</p>\n\n<p>The thrill of competition, combined with the sense of power and accomplishment we derive from taking back control over seemingly chaotic situations are the reason war is such a prevalent theme in video games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"5/22/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_24/why-we-love-playing-war-games-3.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"12953"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/the-first-video-game/"},"strings":{"title":"The History of the First Video Games is... Complicated","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>To know where we are going, we must first discover where we have been.</p>\n\n<p>This is just as true for video games as it is in any other professional field. Fortunately, the video game industry has an incredibly rich and interesting past that can teach us a lot.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>In this article, we will tackle and answer some fundamental questions regarding one of the fastest growing and biggest industries in the world:</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li>What is considered a video game?</li>\n\t<li>What was the first video game?</li>\n\t<li>Who ivnented the first video game?</li>\n\t<li>What year was the first video game invented?</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Who invented the first video game?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Illustration_800x650_02.jpg\" title=\"Who invented the first video game?\" /></p>\n\n<p>At first glance, you would think the answers to these questions would be quick to find and straightforward. However, like so many others that revolve around \"the first of,\" or \"who invented it,\" you will quickly learn that it is surrounded in mystery and confusion - both of which we’re hoping to dispel as best as we can.</p>\n\n<h2>What Is Considered a Video Game?</h2>\n\n<p>What exactly is a video game is an important and crucial point when debating the facts and history surrounding the origin of the phenomenon.</p>\n\n<p>The simplest definition of 'What is a video games?' is this:</p>\n\n<p><strong>A video game is anything you can interact with by electronically manipulating computer-generated images on a display screen.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Some would argue that the verb “play” needs to be included in any interpretation of video games. After all, we are talking about a game. However, many modern definitions take into consideration video games can also be viewed as an art form, used to convey a message interactively.</p>\n\n<p>Still, to determine what is the first video game ever developed, we should rely on a much more technical definition. <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_history_of_video_games#Defining_the_video_game\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia</a> states:</p>\n\n<p><em>\"Technically, for a product to be a video game, there must be a video signal transmitted to a cathode ray tube (CRT) that creates a rasterized image on a screen.\"</em></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Video game definition\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_4/mmo-mmorpg-1.jpg\" title=\"Video game definition\" /></p>\n\n<p>Although this definition may sound complicated, it defines the technical parameters of exactly what was considered a video game during that period.</p>\n\n<p><strong>This is the foundation of what is used to define the first ever created video game in its purest sense.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Today, the definition of a video game is much more encompassing.</p>\n\n<p>Only the most purists among us would argue the point that the vast array of <a href=\"/en/games/platform/mobile-games/\">mobile games</a>, or that the virtual reality simulations that have gained an audience on PCs and consoles over the last few years are nothing more than “experiences” and are not technically video games.</p>\n\n<p>In the modern sense, they are video games. However, strict parameters need to be set if we are looking to establish the truth and find real answers.</p>\n\n<h2>What Was the First Video Game?</h2>\n\n<p>Similar to the debate surrounding many discoveries and inventions, the questions of what was the first video game and who invented it have many different answers.</p>\n\n<p>But if you sift through the noise, you will begin to narrow your results and hone in on a few promising candidates.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h3>Bertie the Brain</h3>\n\n<p>According to some, <strong>the first video game ever created was Bertie the Brain</strong> - <a href=\"https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a23660/bertie-the-brain/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">constructed in 1950</a> by an inventor named Josef Kates.</p>\n\n<p>This massive monstrosity of a machine, which measured four meters tall, played a familiar childhood game known as Tic-Tac-Toe and was displayed in the Canadian National Exhibition.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Bertie the Brain - almost the first video game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/bertie.jpg\" title=\"Bertie the Brain - almost the first video game\" /></p>\n\n<p>For weeks, visitors to the Canadian National Exhibition were able to challenge the artificial intelligence of Bertie the Brain in varying levels of difficulty, much to their delight. For its time, Bertie was a marvel of technology - something no one has seen before.</p>\n\n<p>Sadly, this piece of our history was disassembled at the end of the exhibition, largely dismissed as no more than \"novelty,\" even if a fantastical one.</p>\n\n<p>We are back to the definition of what is a video game - a definition that Bertie the Brain does not quite fully meet.</p>\n\n<h3>William Higinbotham: The Man Who Invented Video Games</h3>\n\n<p>Although Bertie the Brain was a crucial part of gaming history, it did not fully meet the exact definition of what a video game is.</p>\n\n<p>This brings us to the next major contender and the one that purists believe to be the first real video game.</p>\n\n<p>Fast forward eight years into the future - to 1958 - and travel to the <a href=\"https://www.bnl.gov/world/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Brookhaven National Laboratory</a>. There, you will meet a physicist named <strong>William Higinbotham.</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>William Higinbotham, born on October 25th, 1910</strong> was no simple physicist. He already had an illustrious career behind him, having been a member of the team that created the first ever <strong>nuclear bomb</strong>.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"William Higinbotham, the inventor of the first video game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/higinbotham.jpeg\" title=\"William Higinbotham, the inventor of the first video game\" /></p>\n\n<p>Not many gamers know that the man who practically invented what we today call a video game was also one of the men responsible for creating the most destructive technology this world has ever seen.</p>\n\n<p>It’s an interesting dichotomy, to say the least, one that highlights the brilliance of this man's mind, while at the same time proving that not everything in this world is simply black or white.</p>\n\n<p>Being a part of this team (and the burden that went along with it) stayed with William Higinbotham for the rest of his life and troubled him. That is probably why he became one of the founding members of the \"<a href=\"https://fas.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Federation of American Scientists</a>\" - a group with the stated intent of using science and scientific analysis to make the world more secure.</p>\n\n<p>Having already been a pivotal linchpin in history, Higinbotham took up residency at Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1947. That is where he came up with <strong>Tennis for Two</strong>.</p>\n\n<h2>Tennis for Two: The World’s First Video Game</h2>\n\n<p><strong>In October 1958, Tennis for Two, the first actual video game was revealed to the world.</strong> It happens during an open house hosted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. The first video game, created by William Higinbotham, turned out to be the star of the show, much to the amazement of the attendees and even Higinbotham himself - people lined up to take their turn to play Tennis for Two.</p>\n\n<p>Using a small analog computer, players could adjust two knobs and push a button, which simulated a game of tennis on an oscilloscope. <strong>Essentially, this was an early version of the hit game Pong, which will come into existence 14 years later.</strong></p>\n\n<p>The game took only hours to design and was a huge success. Higinbotham was delighted, as his little experiment achieved exactly what he was striving for: livening up an otherwise dull and boring event. </p>\n\n<p>Higinbotham invented video games to show that science isn’t all about war and destruction.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Tennis for Two - the first video game\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/tennis_for_two.jpg\" title=\"Tennis for Two - the first video game\" /></p>\n\n<p>Tennis for Two quickly became the most popular piece at the exhibit, capturing the minds of those who played it, despite its total lack of fancy graphics or complicated controls. Players wrote down their scores and challenges were issued.</p>\n\n<p>Little did Higinbotham realize that day, that he had started a revolutionary movement. A movement that would continue to grow for years to come, eventually reshaping the entertainment industry into what it is today.</p>\n\n<p>Similar to its predecessor, Bertie the Brain, Tennis for Two was largely forgotten after the event hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory. It wasn't until many years later that the seed planted on that fateful day would blossom and begin to take root.</p>\n\n<p>William Higinbotham, despite being accredited as the father of the first video game ever created, would not focus on this field of study and research. Leaving that venture in others capable hands, he returned to his work on nuclear arms control for the remainder of his career.</p>\n\n<p>Tennis for Two, a pivotal part of gaming history, was sadly dismantled, its parts used in other projects, destroying it for all time and making it another lost relic of the past.</p>\n\n<p>Still, the story continued onward and from that point on, the video game industry would continue to grow by leaps and bounds, gaining momentum as the years passed by.</p>\n\n<h2>Video Game Culture Explodes</h2>\n\n<p>For much of the remainder of the 1950's and 1960's, the video game industry remained relatively dormant. Slowly but surely, progress was inching ever forward as other brilliant minds would begin to take an interest in what we called today “interactive media.”</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Video game culture hasn't exploded until the 1970s, with the invention of Pong\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Illustration_800x500_01.jpg\" title=\"Video game culture hasn't exploded until the 1970s, with the invention of Pong\" /></p>\n\n<p>Arcades began to spring up across the world and gave youths around the globe the opportunity to relax, meet and socialize, while at the same time fostering a competitive culture that would push each other (and the industry) to their limits, teaching the value of perseverance, patience, hard work, and practice.</p>\n\n<p>Still, it wasn't until the creation of <strong>Pong </strong>that the movement truly began to grow by leaps and bounds. Pong was the first blockbuster game that captured the minds of the American public in droves and led to a hyper-acceleration of the gaming industry.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks to Pong, Atari became a household name across the United States, and their video game console a staple item in many homes.</p>\n\n<p>Throughout the years we have witnessed a stunning growth in the gaming industry, as it has grown leaps and bounds over the course of these few short decades, despite several setbacks, as there are with anything.</p>\n\n<h2>Conclusion</h2>\n\n<p>It is estimated that the Gaming industry generated roughly <a href=\"https://venturebeat.com/2021/01/06/superdata-games-grew-12-to-139-9-billion-in-2020-amid-pandemic/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$140 billion in 2020</a>, a jump from $120 billion the previous year.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Video games are bigger than movies\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Illustration_800x500_04.jpg\" title=\"Video games are bigger than movies\" /></p>\n\n<p>What this means is that the gaming industry has <a href=\"https://www.nasdaq.com/article/investing-in-video-games-this-industry-pulls-in-more-revenue-than-movies-music-cm634585\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">catapulted past other sectors</a> in the entertainment industry, surpassing Hollywood and its other entertainment competitors.</p>\n\n<p>It is hard to imagine either Josef Kates or William Higinbotham, two of the earliest pioneers of this industry, envisioning the future that laid before them, or the pivotal roles they played in creating the largest entertainment industry this world has ever seen, enjoyed by millions of people - video games.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"5/15/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_17/Header_1368x384_01.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13206"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/cross-platform-games/"},"strings":{"title":"Cross-platform Games and Why They Are So Important","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"600000","description":"<p>Imagine a world where the rigid (and often harmful) borders between gamers across all platforms have been broken down.</p>\n\n<p>This is the dream which some contemporary developers and game directors are chasing.</p>\n\n<p>Some people will argue that such an ideal world is irrational - that by attempting to bridge such dissimilar platforms and crowds you end up hurting the video game community as a whole.</p>\n\n<p>But such opinions are drowned out by the loud majority of people demanding an open gaming experience without artificial barriers.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Cross-platform gaming without artificial barriers\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 410px;\" title=\"Cross-platform gaming without artificial barriers\" /></p>\n\n<p>There is tangible evidence that this is the direction the gaming industry is going in, as we are starting to see new levels of cross-platform gaming on both consoles and mobile devices.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>What Is Cross-platform Gaming, and Why It Is Important</h2>\n\n<p>Simply put, cross-platform games are games that let players on different platforms or devices play together at the same time.</p>\n\n<p>For example, a game that lets PC gamers play on the same servers as Xbox One players, or PlayStation 4 gamers playing together with those on PS Vita.</p>\n\n<p>In many cases, cross-platform multiplayer games will remain within their respective publisher’s domain. For example, some games in the Monster Hunter series were cross-platform games, but only between Nintendo’s platforms - the 3DS, Wii U and the Switch.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Cosplayer_of_Swordwoman%2C_Monster_Hunter_in_CWT39_20150228b.jpg\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 600px;\" /><br />\n<em>Cosplayer of Monster Hunter Swordwoman</em></p>\n\n<p>Examples of more encompassing cross-platform multiplayer games are still too few, but their numbers of slowly growing.</p>\n\n<p>It is only natural that cross-platform features are on the rise, as AAA titles are released <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2018/03/21/epic-games-wants-ps4-and-xbox-one-players-to-play-fortnite-battle-royale-together\">across most major platforms</a> for many years now. As hardware continues to improve, console architecture continues to approach that of a PC, the links between all platforms will only continue to strengthen.</p>\n\n<p>Since so many gamers are playing the same games nowadays, many believe that they should be able to populate the same online networks. In other words: people should be able to play online games with their friends, regardless of platform.</p>\n\n<p>And why should they be able to? Scripting languages, software libraries, and game engines have reached a level of development and sophistication in which platform-specific details can be effectively accounted for and appropriately optimized.</p>\n\n<p>So what is stopping cross-platform gaming from becoming a standard in the video game industry?</p>\n\n<h2>The Obstacles Standing in the way of Cross-Platform Games</h2>\n\n<h3>An Unfortunately Divided Gaming Culture</h3>\n\n<p>It’s no secret that there is much rivalry between the popular platforms and their loyal fanbase.</p>\n\n<p>Terms such as “PC Master Race” and “Console Peasants” (the former being what many PC players like to refer to themselves, while the latter is a demeaning insult for those that play on console) are thrown around regularly on forums and Reddit threads. It is ironic, as these terms are extremely not PC (politically correct).</p>\n\n<p>Obviously, few PC players really mean it in a harmful or offensive way, but there are still those out there who will adamantly refuse to be involved with any console players, believing them and their platforms to be beneath their superior systems.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Unfortunately Divided Gaming Culture\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"Unfortunately Divided Gaming Culture\" /></p>\n\n<p>It is not just the PC crowd that holds such separatist thinking. Plenty of PlayStation and Xbox fanatics will also show some disrespect towards their PC counterparts. Many find PC players to be far too hardcore in both their vanities and performances.</p>\n\n<p>The same can be said about how “hardcore” gamers view those who play mostly on mobile devices. The phrase “filthy casual” is often used to demean and patronize over mobile gamers, referring to how most mobile games require little skill to master.</p>\n\n<p>Such a divided cultural can indeed hinder the uniting efforts of cross-platform games. There are those who simply do not want to open the borders between their domains and share a match with other gamers with what they perceive to be inferior platforms.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h3>Technical Limitations</h3>\n\n<p>This is a more practical point and has nothing to do with the games or gamers themselves.</p>\n\n<p>There are certainly many differences between a mouse and keyboard combo and a controller, and in many cases, it certainly does not make sense to pair such different control schematics together.</p>\n\n<p>In the case of first-person shooters, a mouse and keyboard provide a slight advantage over a controller. A mouse offers a far higher level of sensitivity and accuracy than an analog stick does, and many console players would simply not be able to keep up.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, boosts to aiming in FPS games, such as aim-assist, are implemented by proponents of cross-platform gaming, but even this doesn’t solve the problem. It opens the door to accusations of cheating by disgruntled players how “definitely shot you first.”</p>\n\n<p>Then there are server limitations caused by hardware capacities, in which one’s PlayStation 4 version of a game, for example, curbs the number of people that can join an online match, thus preventing any cross-platform support.</p>\n\n<p>Finally, console players will not have frame rates as high or performance as speedy in general as the more high-end computers. This certainly gives PC players a significant advantage in that their games simply run smoother and faster.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Dualshock_4_Layout.svg/2000px-Dualshock_4_Layout.svg.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 533px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>The Next Level of Co-op</h2>\n\n<p>Despite such limitations, which are being worked on all the time by cross-platform advocates, many people still desperately want to play their favorite games with their friends across platforms.</p>\n\n<p>There was a time when split-screen was the preferred tool for multiplayer gaming on consoles, before the advent of high-speed internet lines. While we see incredible new levels of online play, too many people miss the physical interaction of the old days.</p>\n\n<p>Being able to play something like Sea of Thieves with a friend or family member in the same room, with one person playing on a PC, and the other on an Xbox One, will rekindle this sense of togetherness.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Cross-platform games will rekindle a sense of togetherness\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 440px;\" title=\"Cross-platform games will rekindle a sense of togetherness\" /></p>\n\n<p>People do want to play together, and the resistant elitists are few and far between compared to the majority of well-natured individuals that would love to test their mettle against players on other mediums.</p>\n\n<p>There are many co-op games which people wish they could play with each other but cannot due to lack of cross-platform support. When it comes to the best online games to play with friends, it is indeed a great pity when people cannot come together due to technical limitations.</p>\n\n<p>This need is what many people believe will drive developers to overcome the mentioned drawbacks. As consoles become more powerful, and controllers become more sophisticated, we will very soon be seeing future platforms, such as Xbox Two and PlayStation 5, being able to match the power of high-end PCs.</p>\n\n<p>This balance of power and capability will eventually result in the leveling of the playing field that is needed to bring cross-platform games to the masses. Once gamers across mediums can interact with each other freely, maybe the walls between PC, console and mobile players will finally crumble.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Input-gaming.png\" style=\"width: 800px; height: 800px;\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Cross-platform Multiplayer Games Are Bringing People Together</h2>\n\n<p>To the delight of countless people all over the world, Sea of Thieves is one of the best new examples of cross-platform gaming. The Rare pirate epic lets players on Windows 10 PC, Xbox One and Xbox One X adventure together.</p>\n\n<p>Back in mid-2016, Rare’s PC Design Lead Ted Timmins and Executive Producer Joe Neate excitedly announced in a video discussing Sea of Thieves’ features that cross-play would indeed be a feature in their upcoming swashbuckling MMO.</p>\n\n<p>Obviously, since then, such a promise was something which many gamers were sincerely interested in, hoping dearly that this game would bring a stable and balanced cross-platform experience which would revolutionize this innovative functionality.</p>\n\n<p>According to an article on cross-play on the official <a href=\"https://www.seaofthieves.com/news/design-deep-dive-cross-play\">Sea of Thieves website</a>, the developers asked themselves “Why would we segregate players in the first place?”</p>\n\n<p>That is an important question. There’s no real reason to split up the game’s community, especially with Microsoft’s new “<a href=\"https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/xbox-play-anywhere\">Play Anywhere</a>” initiative. This genuinely wonderful step towards unifying the gamer community lets you play all supported Xbox One games on any Windows 10 PC (and vice versa).</p>\n\n<p>Players have reported that the cross-play experienced in Sea of Thieves makes them feel as if they are all playing on the same device. Such borderless interaction has broken down the borders between Xbox One and PC, at least while playing the game.</p>\n\n<p>Game developers have also understood the <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/blog/trends-online-gaming-2017/\">power of mobile</a> when it comes to cross-platform online games. All you need is to take a look at Epic Games’ massively popular <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/blog/battle-royale/\">battle royale</a> Fortnite. Much of its popularity can be attributed to the game’s recent versions for iOS and Android that allow for cross-platform gaming with PCs and consoles.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Cross-platform play between PC, consoles and mobile\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 440px;\" title=\"Cross-platform play between PC, consoles and mobile\" /></p>\n\n<p>Since March 12, players on PS4 have been able to play with Mac, iOS, and PC players. Xbox One players are also able to play with iOS, Mac, and PC gamers, but as it stands, Xbox One and PS4 players cannot battle it out as of yet.</p>\n\n<p>Such barriers between PS4 and Xbox One cross play would be overcome by Epic if it wasn’t for the restrictions put in place by <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law\">Metcalfe’s Law</a>. Ironically, having more users connected to the networks increase its value, so such superficial barriers only restrict the full potential of online gaming in general.</p>\n\n<p>Developers are working very hard on surpassing such restrictions, providing a gaming experience that transcends almost all cross-platform barriers, and allowing a united gaming experience where almost everyone can play together.</p>\n\n<h2>Why Sony Does Not Support Cross-platform Games</h2>\n\n<p>While Microsoft is adamant about helping cross-platform gaming become a reality in our lifetime, their main competitor in the console market isn’t so keen on the idea.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/O3Tshisv-ls\" width=\"560\"></iframe></p>\n\n<p>Simply put, Sony believes that it would not benefit from cross-platform games. In fact, such a breaking down of walls could be very financially detrimental to big companies that rely on exclusive games to sell the consoles themselves. The PlayStation 4 very much enjoys its passionate fan base and has used its popular exclusives to become the biggest console of this generation.</p>\n\n<p>This kingly status allows Sony to recruit countless new players that are interested in joining the most populated multiplayer arenas on consoles. As one can now see, opening their doors to cross-platform games would severely curb the PS4 dominance and appeal.</p>\n\n<p>Many people regard such stubbornness to be anti-consumer in its design, and with the passionate cross-platform crusade launched by companies like Epic Games gaining such massively acclaimed traction, many believe that even Sony will soon “give in” and join in on the efforts to being gamers from all communities to together.</p>\n\n<h2>Conclusion</h2>\n\n<p>Recent games have provided an invaluable contribution to cross-platform games development and progression. It only takes a few titles which can successfully, securely, and reasonably bring together multiple platforms to convince the gaming industry that cross-platform functionality can quickly become a reliable, enjoyable, and highly profitable venture.</p>\n\n<p>There is so much to gain from cross-platform integration, and many lead companies in the industry already know that. Technical limitations will be overcome, and a balanced and fair realm of unified play will be achieved through cooperation.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"A new level of cooperation\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_20/clan-leader-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 571px;\" title=\"A new level of cooperation\" /></p>\n\n<p>It is not just players being able to play together across platforms; it is a newfound level of cooperation between the giants of the gaming industry. The brightest and most talented minds in gaming development and direction will for the first time be working together.</p>\n\n<p>If things continue as they are with Microsoft’s enthusiasm, and Sony hopefully buckles to the march of progress, we are going to see a renaissance in gaming where the technical and cultural divisions and limitations between platforms begin to evaporate.</p>\n\n<p>We will see a standard of gaming we didn’t think was possible, where ingeniously comprehensive mediums for multiplayer experiences have been revamped to unbelievable levels. It is all certainly very inspiring to think about, and we can only wait and see how this sector of gaming will pan out in the future.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"4/29/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_16/cross-platform-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13200"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/grinding-games/"},"strings":{"title":"Grinding Games: How Do They Keep it Engaging?","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"540000","description":"<p>Cast an eye over any MMO forum, YouTube comment section, or game-centric Reddit section, and you will see people <a href=\"https://levelskip.com/misc/Why-Do-People-Hate-Grinding-And-Why-Do-I-Love-It\">complaining about or defending</a> the idea of grinding in video games.</p>\n\n<p>The definition of grinding is to perform a repetitive task to gain gameplay advantages. In short, grinding in games is repeatedly performing an action will increase your character stats to make them a more powerful adversary.</p>\n\n<p>Some players refer to this as “treadmilling” or less often “pushing the bar”, mainly due to the similarities that grinding has with regular exercise. You go to the gym; you sprint on the running machine, you do some weights, rinse and repeat.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Grinding in games can feel a lot like running in place\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"Grinding in games can feel a lot like running in place\" /></p>\n\n<p>In <a href=\"https://plarium.com/\">MMO games</a>, those repetitive actions can be mining ore or fighting low-level bad guys to achieve the same results. Rinse and repeat.</p>\n\n<p>Sound familiar? That is because a vast amount of games now include a significant amount of grinding. But is it really such a bad thing that to gain results we have to work for it?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>We’ve Been Grinding Games for Years</h2>\n\n<p>Interestingly enough, grinding in video games is not a new thing. Although we associate it with modern MMORPGs in particular, it doesn’t differ too much from practicing in Super Mario Brothers on the NES and becoming good enough to master that tricky level over your summer holiday.</p>\n\n<p>While you may not ‘level up’ in the same way you would expect in an MMO, you are still repeatedly trying to do something until your skill level has improved enough to facilitate your progress. Your ‘levelling up’ just happens to be noticeable in your physical skill, rather than in a number on a character stats screen.</p>\n\n<p>In essence, we have been grinding for years without even noticing it, and most of the time it has been good fun, mixed with a little frustration. Frustration isn’t necessarily a bad thing either, as waltzing through a game that is far too easy will irk players even more than one that is on the verge of being too difficult. An example would be something like Bloodborne, or the recently released platformer Celeste. Both games are noted for their extreme difficulty levels, but fans nonetheless seem to adore the challenge.</p>\n\n<p>There is, after all, pride associated with mastering something difficult.</p>\n\n<h2>Multiplayer Games are the Best Grinding Games</h2>\n\n<p>MMORPGs lean heavily on grinding as a form of character progression. On the whole, it works very well.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The key to fun grinding is company\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"The key to fun grinding is company\" /></p>\n\n<p>Stats-heavy games will always lend themselves to the grind more naturally than those that are lighter in that department. The social aspects associated with multiplayer games also allow for extended moments of grinding with less boredom. When working as part of a team in games like WoW and The Elder Scrolls Online, grinding becomes akin to a sort of fun version of work. You feel compelled to put in the time to succeed, but don’t mind doing so, as some fun times are guaranteed along the way.</p>\n\n<p>In this respect, grinding has managed to succeed as a game mechanic where perhaps it shouldn’t. Doing something repetitively over and over only to improve your stats shouldn’t be fun, should it? But when multiplayer games do this, especially RPG games, there seems to be a unique appeal that most single-player games just can’t deliver.</p>\n\n<p>To make a great grinding game, developers cannot merely rely on providing players with some company while they blindly go through their ‘gaming chores’. A good game will include a grinding routine that stimulates the player just as much as the more narrative-driven segments.</p>\n\n<p>If a game manages to hide the grind, or at least blur its edges to the point where it is difficult to tell where the grind starts and ends, it is already on the right path to success. Get this wrong, though, and players will see straight through these game-lengthening techniques.</p>\n\n<p>So what is the key to making the best grinding games?</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Fun Grinding Is a Matter of Balance</h2>\n\n<p>Getting the balance right is crucial when it comes to fun grinding games.</p>\n\n<p>Too much effort and too little compensation is a recipe for boredom and frustration, and too much reward and too little work can lead to a game that lacks depth.</p>\n\n<p>The MMORPG Ragnarok Online emphasizes grinding from the very beginning of the game. For an RPG, Ragnarok uncharacteristically leans away from the story-based elements and much more towards a grind-heavy experience. That isn’t to say the story is non-existent, but it does somewhat fade into the background once you get started and find yourself traversing the maps looking for areas with enemies you can kill.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Grinding for loot\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"Grinding for loot\" /></p>\n\n<p>With enemies rarely dropping useful loot, those times where you do find yourself scanning over the remains of a fallen foe and bagging some decent swag are all the more satisfying. Ragnarok Online neither drowns players with rewards nor hands them the world on a plate.</p>\n\n<p>It’s a challenging tightrope game developers have to walk, especially when certain game franchises are now expected to have lifespans that exceed half a decade. One slip in the direction of either extreme could result in an experience that doesn't fulfill its potential as a good game or a money spinner.</p>\n\n<p>This is probably why grinding games have remained relatively static in their execution throughout the years. After all, why risk changing something that could sink the ship?</p>\n\n<h2>Variety Is the Spice of Life and Gaming</h2>\n\n<p>Bashing the same button over and over as you slam your pickaxe into a rock, all in the hope of gaining a few numbers on a stat sheet is going to get very tiresome very quickly. Mixing up the results from the mining will, on the other hand, at least keep the player concentrated on the task at hand.</p>\n\n<p>Two excellent examples of how grinding can actually work well are Stardew Valley and Ragnarok Online.</p>\n\n<p>For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past couple of years, Stardew Valley is a smash hit indie title that took the world by storm back in 2016. As the sole heir of your grandfather’s farm, you leave the city life behind and head back to the country for a life of farming, mining, and socializing with the locals.</p>\n\n<p>While town life may be considerably narrative driven, the <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/mmo-games/black-markets-hacking-mmos/\">mining and farming aspects</a> of the game are very grindy. Stardew Valley doesn’t fall into the trap of becoming tedious though, as there is plenty of variety to its grinding. When farming, you may be required to plant and water your crops on a regular basis, but the way you do this is entirely up to you. You decide on the aesthetics of the farm, you choose on what crops you sow and in what pattern. Yes, you may be repeating the same action, but ultimately it feels like it is your choice to do so, and rarely feels like a chore.</p>\n\n<p>The same can be said for the mining portion of the game. You decide where to mine, and the variety of rocks and ore keep things fresh.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"It's worth it in the end\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-4.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"It's worth it in the end\" /></p>\n\n<p>The key to the success of Stardew and Ragnarok is the blend of hard work and reward combined with enough variety to keep it interesting. As stated earlier, it can be a tricky tightrope to walk, but these are two examples of perfectly balanced games when it comes to the grind.</p>\n\n<p>They also exhibit another factor that any grind-heavy game would benefit from, and that is that they give you a little glimpse of the future.</p>\n\n<h2>Working Towards a Goal</h2>\n\n<p>No, they don’t have a crystal ball, and they aren’t going to be providing you with the winning lottery numbers any time soon, but they do give you a slight glimpse into the future. The future of the game that is.</p>\n\n<p>Grinding is only really worth it if you have a slight idea of what the results could bring you. Nobody wants to work hard if there is no light at the end of the tunnel, or the rewards might not be worth the effort. But, if you could only just see what waiting for you at the end of the struggle, it might just be worth it.</p>\n\n<p>Stardew Valley does this amazingly well by placing obstacles in the way of your character progression, blocking access to certain parts of the map but allowing a slight glimpse of what is in store once you manage to attain the necessary tools to proceed.</p>\n\n<p>This ‘carrot on a stick’ is key to any game that wants players to invest hour after hour into it and still come back for more. Whether that carrot is an inaccessible area or a weapon that is out of your current price range, the allure of ‘what might be around the corner’ has to be strong enough to encourage the player onwards. All the best grinding games know this and use it to their own advantage.</p>\n\n<p>There are, unfortunately, games that simply did not get the memo when it comes to grinding. These games tend to drag on and on, with little to no sign of a reward or reason to carry on. This would have previously been a death sentence for games released ten or fifteen years ago, but with constant updates now available to anyone with internet access, games can be rectified if needed.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Grinding in MMO games\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-5.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"Grinding in MMO games\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Grinding in Video Games Done Right</h2>\n\n<p>For those of you who supposedly hate grinding, it is worth considering what the gaming world would look like without it. A game with little challenge and a constant stream of rewards is something that quickly becomes boring. Anyone familiar with a parody game called <a href=\"https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/495903\">PSTW</a> (Press Space To Win) might have already considered the empty feeling a game with no challenge provides for a player. Perhaps it is an uncomfortable truth for you to believe, that mom and dad were right all along, and hard work really is a reward all by itself.</p>\n\n<p>Some players will reference a sort of ‘zen-like’ state that descends upon them while they are deep within the grind, and the sense of achievement they get from putting in the required hours leaves them with a genuine feeling of pride.</p>\n\n<p>To loop back to the start of this discussion, if grinding is implemented correctly in the first place, we shouldn’t even notice it at all. So, as a rule of thumb, If the grind is varied, challenging, and fun, you are halfway to creating a great grinding game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"4/12/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/grinding-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13192"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/rts-vs-tbs/"},"strings":{"title":"The Differences Between Real-time and Turn-based Strategy","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"420000","description":"<p><a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">Strategy games</a> are among the most complex video games. Most of them fall into two similar, but distinct subgenres: <strong>RTS</strong> and <strong>TBS</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>What's the difference between RTS vs. TBS?</p>\n\n<ul>\n\t<li><strong>RTS means Real-time Strategy</strong></li>\n\t<li><strong>TBS means Turn-based Strategy</strong></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Understanding the differences between RTS and TBS is key to understanding the strategy genre as a <em>whole</em>.</p>\n\n<p>So let's get straight to the point: <strong>RTS vs. TBS - how to tell them apart, and which one is better?</strong></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"RTS vs. TBS\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/realtime-turnbased-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"RTS vs. TBS\" /></p>\n\n<h2>Real-time Strategy Vs. Turn-based Strategy</h2>\n\n<p>The most basic defining factor that differentiates strategy games is how they approach the concept of time.</p>\n\n<p>The first difference between turn-based and real-time strategy is how time flows in a game. If time has been compartmentalized into phases, and each player or AI opponent has allocated time slots in which to execute their strategy - you are most likely playing a turn-based strategy game.</p>\n\n<p>In other words: If you each take turns to play, it’s a <em>turn-based game (TBS).</em></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>If time flows as it does in the real world, and all players can play all at once, then you are most likely playing a <em>real-time strategy game (RTS)</em>.</p>\n\n<p>Here all decisions are made under pressure and the constant threat of attack; there are <em>no pauses</em>.</p>\n\n<h2>Turn-based Strategy Games</h2>\n\n<p>If you are not familiar with the medium, the best way to imagine a turn-based game is to think of it as a digital board game.</p>\n\n<p>In the traditional board game format, each player will have a turn to think, strategize, and execute their decisions regarding the pieces in their hands and on the board.</p>\n\n<p>The game will progress in an orderly fashion, with each person biding their time, waiting for the others to finish their turns before they can resume actioning their investments on the board.</p>\n\n<p>The same is true with many turn-based strategy games. Players and AIs will each be given a chance in an orderly fashion to utilize the full extent of their intelligence, cunning, and resources to achieve whatever objective happens to be at hand.</p>\n\n<h2>Types of Turn-based Strategy Games</h2>\n\n<p>In XCOM, you command a squad of alien-hunting soldiers, taking charge of a party of around five or six characters in total.</p>\n\n<p>In a Total War game, you take control of an entire civilization - its government, commerce and economy, and armies.</p>\n\n<p>Now, although both games involve taking turns between you and opponents, the scale is <em>completely </em>different. XCOM is considered more tactical, with more surgical battles and short-term decision-making. Total War, on the other hand, is much more massive and “big-picture” with gameplay spanning years, decades and centuries.</p>\n\n<p>But that’s not where it ends. Between TBS and RTS, the former has made its way into other, admittedly more popular genres. You can find elements of TBS in <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/mmo-games/eastern-games-vs-western-games/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">JRPGs</a>, simulators, and tactical shooters.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Real-time Strategy Games</h2>\n\n<p>The term “real-time strategy” was coined by Brett Sperry when <a href=\"https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/build-gather-brawl-repeat-the-history-of-real-time-strategy-games/2/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">marketing his 1990 classic game Dune II</a>. While this game is not necessarily considered to be the first proper RTS title, it certainly did set the format for countless leading franchises to come.</p>\n\n<p>Some of the most successful and acclaimed real-time strategy franchises such as Command & Conquer, Warcraft, and StarCraft, all owe their foundational design inspiration to the early 90s sci-fi classic.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Real-time strategy is about quick decisions and multitasking\" longdesc=\"Real-time strategy is about quick decisions and multitasking\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/realtime-turnbased-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" /></p>\n\n<p>The best way to understand a typical RTS game is to imagine the Middle Ages. In this foundational phase of human development, various newfound cultures uplifted themselves from the ashes of Classical Civilizations, often towards imperial domination goals.</p>\n\n<p>If you could imagine France, Germany and England, for example, all developing around each other, at the same time, and consequently invading or forming alliances with each other - then you pretty much understand a real-time strategy game.</p>\n\n<h3>Community Developing and Resource Gathering</h3>\n\n<p>This type of real-time strategy game involves players developing their people, settlements, armies, and strategies all in real-time. Unit construction, invasions, and all developments between players all occur along a single, continuous, and unhindered timeline which all present players share.</p>\n\n<p>Resource gathering is an essential part of most real-time strategy games, and you will indeed often find yourself competing aggressively with other players for limited resources upon the map.</p>\n\n<p>This requires a heightened level of decision-making and reflex-based reactions compared to turn-based strategy, which affords players an extended period of halted and composed planning and execution.</p>\n\n<h2>Playing Strategy Games at a Professional Level</h2>\n\n<p>If you are wondering about the esport presence of real-time and turned-based strategy titles, then you should know that RTS games make up the majority of the leading online strategy esport content.</p>\n\n<p>While you can play online strategy games that are turn-based at very competitive levels, they would, for the most part, not translate well to a live, widely-spectated performance. Many of the leading turn-based strategy games just do not fall into the esport criteria well enough. They are generally based on lengthy campaigns and lack the excitement needed for spectator sports. In fact, they face many of the problems <a href=\"/en/blog/esports/\">MMO esports</a> face.</p>\n\n<p>Today, millions of dollars go into the collective running and administering of just the online strategy sector of esports. Not only that, the actual players can win fortunes in the bigger competitions.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"StarCraft - the king of competitive strategy\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_13/starcrafttourney.jpg\" style=\"width: 1100px; height: 390px;\" title=\"StarCraft - the king of competitive strategy\" /></p>\n\n<h2>StarCraft: The Founder and King of eSports</h2>\n\n<p>With the expansion of the original StarCraft monster hit, StarCraft: Brood Wars, came the foundations for the entire esports scene. It was in South Korea when the first proper and well-organized tournaments and competitions began their facilitation, around 2002.</p>\n\n<p>It was then that the first teams of organized pro-gamers began rising through the scene, receiving sponsorships from large South Korean companies such as KT, SK Telecom, and Samsung.</p>\n\n<p>While it may sound surprising or bizarre to many, Korean StarCraft champions are on the same level as professional athletes, holding the same level of public admiration and reverence.</p>\n\n<p>The original StarCraft was the first game ever to be accepted into the World Cyber Games tournament and continued to make a yearly appearance up until 2011 when it was replaced by the sequel - StarCraft 2.</p>\n\n<p>StarCraft 2 carried on the torch, continuing the original game’s success within the online strategy esports world as one of the most popular esport online strategy games.</p>\n\n<h2>RTS vs. TBS: Which is Better?</h2>\n\n<p>So, who wins when it comes to RTS vs. TBS?</p>\n\n<p>This question is obviously entirely subjective, and there is no one right answer. Every strategy game fan has different tastes. Some may absolutely love the epic war campaigns of turn-based strategy games, while others are all about the intense skirmishes of real-time strategy games.</p>\n\n<p>There are legions of hardcore fans on each side, and there have been debates raging for a long time regarding real-time vs. turn-based. Such contention, however, is ultimately redundant and futile, and players should actually be supporting the development of the strategy genre overall.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"So which one is better? Real-time strategy or turn-based strategy?\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/realtime-turnbased-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 600px;\" title=\"So which one is better? Real-time strategy or turn-based strategy?\" /></p>\n\n<p>It all really depends on what you want out of a game. If you prefer being able to take your time to strategize and execute orders in a controlled, calm, and paced manner, then you might be happier with turn-based strategy.</p>\n\n<p>If you prefer to play games that flow in a more realistic manner and enjoy nothing more than fast-paced decision-making and flexible reactions, then real-time strategy is more up your alley.</p>\n\n<p>Both divisions are endlessly enjoyable, however, and you really should try leading titles from both to not limit your gaming experience. The best part about both subgenres is that they offer relatively limitless potential. The same game can be played over and over again, with different races, employing different strategies and executions.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"3/27/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_14/realtime-turnbased-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13191"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/eastern-games-vs-western-games/"},"strings":{"title":"The Difference Between Japanese Games and Western Games","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>If you were born after 1990, there is a good chance that you have grown up oblivious to one of the most brutal and nasty conflicts of the modern age.</p>\n\n<p>It was a battle between two powerhouses from the east, whose race for dominance divided families across the globe. Friendships were destroyed, brother turned against brother, and lines were drawn in the sand, some of which are there to this day.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<p>This bloody conflict was known as the console wars, and it shaped both Japanese and <a href=\"/en/games/\">Western games</a> throughout history.</p>\n\n<h2>Console Wars: How It All Started</h2>\n\n<p>Back in the early 1980s, <a href=\"https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Corporate/Nintendo-History/Nintendo-History-625945.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo released their new home console</a>, the Nintendo Entertainment System, better known as the NES.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Nintendo Entertainment System, the NES\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/nes.jpg\" style=\"width: 700px; height: 510px;\" title=\"Nintendo Entertainment System, the NES\" /></p>\n\n<p>This little grey box started a fascination with video games that has grown exponentially ever since.</p>\n\n<p>To combat the rise of Nintendo, a company with a history of building arcade machines decided to enter the home console arena in 1985. With the release of the Master System, SEGA has officially started the console wars.</p>\n\n<p>Puritans may point to the earlier battles between the likes of the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum, but none of these face-offs garnered quite the same level of tribalism that the NES vs. Master System did.</p>\n\n<p>This battle continued for over a decade, with new systems entering the fray with ever increasing computing prowess and graphical fidelity.</p>\n\n<p>While fans were arguing over which side had the best console, a curious divide was becoming apparent. This divide went beyond the consoles themselves and quickly became a cultural one.</p>\n\n<p>This, of course, refers to the difference between Japanese and Western games.</p>\n\n<h2>Western RPG vs. JRPG</h2>\n\n<p>In the early years, when platformers, beat ‘em-ups, <a href=\"/en/games/genre/shooting-games/\">shoot ‘em-ups</a>, and the occasional sports sim, dominated the market, there was little to tell Japanese and western games apart.</p>\n\n<p>However, there was one genre that was starting to show the differences in culture. This genre was the <a href=\"/en/games/genre/rpg-games/\">RPG</a>. Role-playing games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Final Fantasy XV may seem similar on the surface, but to anyone who has played both, the differences couldn’t be more obvious.</p>\n\n<p>Taking Bethesda’s Skyrim as an example of a western RPG, it becomes apparent that the emphasis was on exploration.</p>\n\n<p>These games generally exhibit sprawling worlds that have been carefully crafted to make the player feel that they can quite literally go anywhere and do anything. The edges of these worlds are crafted in such a way that the player would never feel like they have discovered everything. These games are designed to make you feel like you can shape the world with your choices and actions.</p>\n\n<p>Crossing over to Japan, the JRPGs don’t follow this philosophy anywhere nearly as much. Yes, the worlds can be massive, but the games themselves tend to be more linear in nature. Here, there seems to be a more substantial emphasis on storytelling, characters, and guiding the player through a compelling experience.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>Japanese Games vs. Western Games</h2>\n\n<p>When it comes to pure aesthetics, there is also quite a noticeable difference between the Japanese and Western games.</p>\n\n<p>Japanese games have generally taken on a look that is heavily influenced by manga and anime, with large eyes, cartoony features, and hair that seems to defy gravity.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Western RPGs vs. Japanese RPGs\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/east-west-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Western RPGs vs. Japanese RPGs\" /></p>\n\n<p>Western games, on the other hand, tend to aim at a slightly more realistic graphics. It is almost as though in western games we want to completely recreate life, whereas, in the east, they are happy to create their interpretation of it, unrestrained by the rules of the real world.</p>\n\n<p>Combat too generally differs quite radically in both subgenres.</p>\n\n<p>The majority of the action in WRPGs happens in real-time and dependant on player skill and reflex, whereas JRPGs quite often rely on a strategic turn-based system that plays out like a ‘stats heavy’ game of top trumps. Here, your band of adventurers face-off against hordes of evil while you decide which party member will do the most damage against which member of the opposing party.</p>\n\n<p>That isn't to say that western games like Skyrim or The Witcher 3 don’t rely on stats, but with them comes a healthy dose of hand to eye coordination. A classic Final Fantasy-style game would much rather you joust with your brain than with your fists.</p>\n\n<p>It is also somewhat interesting to note that most WRPGs have you starting out as a lone warrior, whereas the more eastern-influenced games often involve guiding a whole party.</p>\n\n<p>This could be a result cultural influence as well; wherein the western world the mighty “lone wolf hero” has been recycled in so many stories, Japanese culture has always had more of an obsession with protection, and putting a person or groups interests before the protagonists. More of a \"selfless hero\" if you will.</p>\n\n<h2>Japanese MMORPG vs. Western MMORPG</h2>\n\n<p>When it comes to online games, and in particular <a href=\"/en/games/genre/mmorpg-games/\">MMORPGs</a>, the differences have continued to develop.</p>\n\n<p>In Japan, online games are even more popular than it is in the west, and MMORPGs have become akin to more enjoyable days at the office. By that, I mean that Japanese online games are noted to have a significant amount of ‘grinding’ associated with them. In this sort of society, logging on to level up your character every night isn't looked at as a bad thing, in fact, it’s a social thing.</p>\n\n<p>This could very well be down to the way Japanese culture has embraced gaming as a legitimate pastime, something that has only just started to happen in the west, where there has always been gaming culture, but its legitimacy is slightly less accepted.</p>\n\n<p>With Japanese games, rewarding players for grinding away in groups, those sessions after work or school become the defacto way to relax and chat away with your friends, while also progressing through a game.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Video games are an acceptable social activity\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/east-west-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Video games are an acceptable social activity\" /></p>\n\n<p>Some users have even started to look at these games as a substitute for social networks. You go to work, you come home, and you game with your friends. For some, the game world has become the bar or the squash court. And within a culture where hard work is revered, grinding away with your friends after work in Final Fantasy 14 is as routine and widespread as coming home and logging onto Netflix in the west.</p>\n\n<h2>When East Meets West</h2>\n\n<p>You would be forgiven for thinking that these two RPG subgenres are forking off in entirely different directions, but that is not actually true.</p>\n\n<p>Many of the companies from both sides of the gaming world are starting to take note of the more popular aspects of each other’s work, which is leading to some rather interesting mashups. None more so widespread than in the <a href=\"/en/games/platform/mobile-games/\">mobile space</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Look through either the App Store or Google Play, and you will probably notice quite a few of the adventure, RPG or <a href=\"/en/games/genre/strategy-games/\">strategy games</a> are now employing a Final Fantasy battle system. Even the latest Star Wars: Galaxy Of Heroes is centered purely around the combat mechanics.</p>\n\n<p>Turn-based combat, as it turns out, makes way more sense on mobile than the more western, dexterity-based way of fighting.</p>\n\n<p>On the other side of the coin, we are now starting to see far more open worlds in the likes of Final Fantasy XV, no doubt a reaction to how well western games have sold worldwide (including Japan).</p>\n\n<p>Where previously linear storylines with few choices were the fashion, multi-arced stories with alternate endings are now becoming more popular. And in return, some western MMOs now require a fair amount of grinding before leveling up (albeit a slightly different type of grinding).</p>\n\n<p>In fact, it could be said that some of the latest RPGs are neither genuinely eastern or western in origin. Most Elder Scrolls Online or World of Warcraft fans would have to admit to doing a fair amount of grinding in their time, while Final Fantasy XV fans were pretty surprised to see the number of real choices that they were privy to in the last installment of the franchise.</p>\n\n<h2>The Western and Japanese RPG hybrid</h2>\n\n<p>The great thing about this crossing over, is that it gives us games that would have otherwise been lacking in some areas. By mixing the subgenres, brand new ones have been created, and with whole new levels of addiction to boot.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.pcgamer.com/games-like-stardew-valley/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Games like Stardew Valley</a> (which is basically a heavily tweaked Harvest Moon), has taken the Japanese farm/life sim and mixed in a little western mechanics to polish things off. The game now sits pretty at number one as the most downloaded Switch games of all time, something previously unthinkable in a year which saw a new Mario release.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"JRPGs and WRPGs complement one another\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/east-west-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"JRPGs and WRPGs complement one another\" /></p>\n\n<p>So rather than seeing the differences between the two gaming cultures as a “war” of which you need to take a side, perhaps a healthier outlook would be that of two styles that complement one another.</p>\n\n<p>When one side makes strides, the other notices and reacts. Equally, when one side makes mistakes, the other makes sure they don’t fall into the same trap. And with a gaming scene that has been plagued by a lack of innovation of late, these fusions between genres, subgenres, and cultures should be welcomed.</p>\n\n<p>In a world that is metaphorically getting smaller, witnessing one culture merge with another is something that we will see more and more. Whether that is in the film industry (just look at the popularity of Studio Ghibli in the west and Harry Potter in the east) or in the gaming industry, the fusion of cultures is here to stay, and I for one welcome it wholeheartedly.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" /></a></p>\n","date":"3/13/2018"},"images":{"preview":{"href":"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_11/east-west-header.jpg"},"authorAvatar":{"href":"//cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/portal/common/avatars/default_avatar.jpg","sizes":[]}},"template_options":{"compositeId":"13172"}},{"links":{"link":"/en/blog/strategy-rpg/"},"strings":{"title":"Strategy RPG Games Bring Together the Best of Both Genres","category":"MMO Games Blog","author":"PLARIUM STAFF","readTime":"480000","description":"<p>The lines between RPG games and virtually every other genre are gradually eroding in recent years.</p>\n\n<p>With developers looking to add more depth and personalization to their creations, <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/mmo-games/rpg-elements/\">RPG elements</a> have started to appear in places we usually wouldn’t expect to see them.</p>\n\n<p>Deep narratives, leveling and multi-layered characters are now popping up in a variety of genres, even some you wouldn’t have to expect them to.</p>\n\n<p>Essentially, we’re living in a post-RPG world where <a href=\"http://store.steampowered.com/tags/en/Strategy+RPG#p=0&tab=ConcurrentUsers\">hybrids are the norm.</a></p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Strategy RPG hybrids are the norm now\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_10/rpg-strategy-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"Strategy RPG hybrids are the norm now\" /></p>\n\n<p>One area where RPG features have made a move in recent years is <a href=\"https://plarium.com/\">strategy games</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Aiming to elevate the genre beyond its slightly cold and calculated roots, RPG strategy games such as the Fire Emblem franchise bring tactics and immersive environments together as one.</p>\n\n<p>One of the most popular games in the series, Fire Emblem Awakening is marked by a dominant storyline that follows an epic battle across entire continents. In typical RPG fashion, all characters can be customized in various ways to suit the terrain and bring some extra depth to the action.</p>\n\n<p>However, unlike your typical RPG, players can’t just hack-and-slash their way through the game. They must employ a wide array of strategies and tactics, and learn how to best utilize each character's strengths to overcome the game’s many challenges.</p>\n\n<p>Fire Emblem Awakening is what is known as a tactical RPG.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" <p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"top\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_RAID_EN_1920x1080_Serj_2018-0507_01Id5209_B74904_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSO.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>The Birth of Strategy Role-playing Games</h2>\n\n<p>Strategy RPG, also known as Tactical Role-playing games, can be traced all the way back to traditional tabletop role-playing games such as classic Dungeons & Dragons.</p>\n\n<p>“Cool” as it may be, we’re more interested in the video game variation. Like so many others, the subgenre originated in Japan in the 1980s. Games like The Dragon and Princess and Bokosuka Wars were among the first to lay the foundations for the new genre, called \"simulation RPG\" back then.</p>\n\n<p>However, it wasn’t until 1988 that this hybrid of strategy and RPG started to take form.</p>\n\n<p>Many point to the strategy RPG Silver Ghost as one of the first fully-formed strategy RPGs. Players were able to use point-and-click controls in a real-time environment to manage and control multiple characters/units. If that sounds like an RTS game to you, you aren’t wrong - that is exactly how it paved the way for the RTS/RPG hybrid.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"The origins of Strategy RPG\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_10/rpg-strategy-2.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"The origins of Strategy RPG\" /></p>\n\n<p>Following the legacy of Silver Ghost, First Queen took strategy RPGs another step further with a unique take on the subgenre. The game sees players explore an interactive world filled with different characters, upgrades, and unique scenery - all standard RPG elements.</p>\n\n<p>Where this game tipped the balance towards strategy was its battles. A large part of First Queen sees players recruit soldiers and then controlling them in large-scale battles. Combined with the option to pause the real-time combat, this function allowed the player to consider precise, tactical moves to defeat AI-controlled armies.</p>\n\n<p>These hybrids showed that it was possible to create immersive RPG worlds and successfully incorporate tactical elements. The Fire Emblem series then brought the concept to mainstream audiences in 1990, and many of its features have been used ever since.</p>\n\n<p>Throughout the nineties, games like Arc the Lad II, the Farland Story series, Front Mission and more all help developed the strategy RPG genre.</p>\n\n<p>As we move into the new millennium, mobile titles introduce themselves into the mix. As the likes of Valkyria Chronicles and Fire Emblem continued to dominate consoles, brands such as Banner Saga were making mobile strategy RPGs into serious contenders.</p>\n\n<p>What we’ve seen over the years is a <a href=\"https://plarium.com/en/strategy-games/vikings-war-of-clans/\">coming together of strategy and RPG games</a> to form a new genre. Essentially, for those that enjoy making critical decisions but want a more personal experience then that of a detached general overlooking a battlefield, strategy RPGs are the perfect tonic.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"middle\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/11/RAD_RedGirl_B76234_970x66_Android_iOS_English&IMG=1MTM.jpg\" /></a></p>\n\n<h2>How Strategy RPG Combines Both Genres Together</h2>\n\n<p>From our look at the history of strategy RPGs, we can already start to see what makes the genre tick.</p>\n\n<p>Rather than resorting to reflexes or real-time button mashing, the essence of a strategy game is to pick the best moves for the situation at hand or face dire consequences. Strategy RPG doesn't lose this aspect. The combination of storylines, expansive worlds, and customizable characters have only made these games more immersive.</p>\n\n<p>When you examine the dynamics a little closer, you get to see an interplay between strategy and tactics. As a general rule, strategy refers to an overarching goal, the bigger picture moves that will help you achieve victory. In contrast, tactics relate to the minutiae of a fight, the specific steps you make in a situation such as “use X weapon to target Y with unit Z.”</p>\n\n<p>When a game requires you to focus on an overall strategy, for instance crossing a map using the most efficient course, it leans towards being a strategy game. When you’re required to think about the weapons you’ve got and how to use them in individual battles, this is much more like an RPG. Therefore, when you combine these two elements into a single game, you have a strategy RPG.</p>\n\n<p>Of course, certain games will lean more to one side of the spectrum of the other. What’s more, you should also look out for the following attributes to know if you’re dealing with a strategy RPG:</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Team player:</u></strong> If RPGs typically put players in the role of a single character or a small party, and strategy games put you in control over entire armies - strategy RPGs offer a combination of both dynamics.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"Playing an individual character in the context of a team\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2017/week_35/toxicity-in-mmo-friendly.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 400px;\" title=\"Playing an individual character in the context of a team\" /></p>\n\n<p>For example, in Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, you control a unit of soldiers. Here you have a situation where you can play on the individual strengths of your characters but do so in the context of the team as a whole. You always have to consider a character’s role within the squad and make sure all individual member can support and complement each other’s abilities.</p>\n\n<p>This dynamic is something that’s often lacking in both RPG and strategy games but blends together nicely in the hybrid genre.</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>You only die once:</u></strong> In most RPGs, once your main character dies, it’s game over. Load your save file and try again. That’s not the case in Strategy games, where you have almost limitless units at your disposal.</p>\n\n<p>Once again, Strategy RPG games offer a sort of hybrid of the two paradigms. Your main character must survive the battle, but the same isn’t necessarily true for the rest of your party.</p>\n\n<p>This can challenge both strategy and RPG players. Strategy players aren’t used to having to protect a single unit - to them the base, or the bigger picture is all that matters. RPG players, on the other hands, aren’t always comfortable with the idea of “permadeath” - losing a character forever.</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>The tactical approach:</u></strong> Unlike a standard RPG where the action is up close and personal, games in this hybrid genre typically take a step back to look at the action from a more tactical angle. Some strategy RPGs shift to a top-down or isometric perspective when it’s time to fight.</p>\n\n<p>This shift between the character’s perspective and an overhead view might break the immersion a bit, but it helps highlight the strategy elements of the game.</p>\n\n<p>On the other hand, strategy games often lack mainstream appeal because they don’t offer the level of immersion the average gamer arguably enjoys. That is why strategy RPGs present a more personal perspective when it comes to the story. When a story revolves around a pivotal character - the one the player just so happen to control - the change in camera angles doesn’t harm the player’s investment in the game.</p>\n\n<h2>Are Tactical RPG Games for You?</h2>\n\n<p>Would you prefer staring at a map and practicing your long-term decision-making skills, or do you want upfront action that stimulates the senses? These are the options you’re generally faced with when you choose between strategy games and RPGs.</p>\n\n<p>But with Strategy RPG you don’t really have to choose. This unique subgenre offers the best of both worlds.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img alt=\"This unique subgenre offers the best of both worlds\" src=\"https://cdn01.x-plarium.com/browser/content/blog/images/2018/week_10/rpg-strategy-3.jpg\" style=\"width: 888px; height: 500px;\" title=\"This unique subgenre offers the best of both worlds\" /></p>\n\n<p>In many ways, fusing RPG elements and strategy games together has been a success. For example, Project X Zone <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_X_Zone#Reception\">was a huge hit</a>, and not just because it combined some of leading characters from Sega, Bandai Namco, and Capcom. Because the 2D brawler dynamic offered a familiar setting for casual gamers, Project X Zone was able to introduce tactical battles with relative ease.</p>\n\n<p>True, it depends on each game. Some lean more heavily towards role-playing games, earning the definition of “tactical RPGs”, while others go for a more traditional RTS experience, but with RPG elements thrown into the mix.</p>\n\n<p>But it only goes to show that fans of both genres will always find something to entertain and challenge them when it comes to Strategy RPG.</p>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a data-analytics-id=\"blog.banner.test\" data-analytics-payload=\"{\"position\":\"bottom\"}\" href=\"https://plarium.com/en/how-to-download-unauthorized/?plid=147426&pxl=seo\"><img alt=\"Raid Shadow Legends On PC\" src=\"https://gallery-pl.go-game.io/uploads/2019/10/RAD_Team_B74910_970x250_NoOS_English&IMG=1LSU.jpg\" 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