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2017’s Most Popular Video Games by Genre

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RPG: Horizon Zero Dawn

What’s not to like about Horizon Zero Dawn? It has gorgeous, sweeping landscapes, intense combat, and a great story. Moreover, there is much more to this game’s world than meets the eye. As the protagonist, Aloy, continues her journey to solve the mystery of her origin, she also finds out much about the mysterious animal- (or dinosaur-) like creatures that roam her world.

Indie: Night in the Woods

In Night in the Woods, you play as Mae, a young woman who has recently returned home after dropping out of college. Things get weird as she stumbles upon a secret in her hometown of Possum Springs. The deeper she delves into the mystery, the more she uncovers about why the coal mines closed and why her friend disappeared. The game’s focus is on storytelling, exploration, and character depth, and it also touches on topics of mental illnesses and stagnation, meaning that those looking for more intense gameplay should look elsewhere.

Multiplayer: Rocket League

Who knew playing soccer with rocket-powered cars would be so fun? Dash, spin, and even fly around, just to get the giant ball into the opponent’s goal. There are also many items to choose from to customize your car, from bodies to wheels and accessories. Also, there are other game modes, if the normal soccer mode gets a bit stale.

Single Player Shooter: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

William ‘BJ’ Blazkowicz is back with another brutal, bloody, and action-packed adventure through Nazi-controlled America. He may be injured, but he’s no less a badass for it. The sequel keeps much of the first game’s features, namely the guns, the customization, and the dual wielding. Although this game more of the same stuff that its predecessor delivered, it’s still just as fun.

Multiplayer Shooter: PUBG

A hundred players all duking it out, battle royale style, in an ever-shrinking map. Supplies are scarce, and survival is sometimes a matter of chance. You’ll die many times before tasting the sweetest chicken dinner of your gamer life. Savor it, because it’ll take more than a hundred deaths to taste it again.

Platformer: Super Mario Odyssey

Mario’s back with yet another adventure to save Princess Peach from Bowser (…surprise). This time, he’s accompanied by Cappy, a spirit that manifests as Mario’s hat. Aside from his usual repertoire of various jumps, Mario can use Cappy to ‘capture’ various living characters or inanimate objects. Capturing an object or character allows Marioto use their unique abilities. Moreover, the game takes place in a 3D sandbox environment (like Super Mario 64) that focuses on exploration rather than linear completion.

Game of the Year: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

This is the game that knocked the gaming world off its feet. A game with gorgeous graphics, simple but challenging gameplay, and quirky characters to breathe life into a rather straightforward but engaging story. While it suffered issues at launch, updates quickly fixed that, and its DLCs are enjoyable in their own ways. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a true masterpiece anyone can enjoy, even those new to the franchise.

The Top 7 Expensive Rocket League Items

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Since Psyonix has opened up Rocket League’s borders to real trading, business has been booming for the Football/Car hybrid game, with a market matching the likes of other games with trading like CS:GO and Dota 2. As with every competitive game with a loot and trading system, people are always clamoring for the best-looking stuff that money can buy. Does it affect your game? Not really; people just want to look fancy.

Even if you aren’t the sort to fawn of aesthetics, you can use your love of the game to make some big cash by obtaining crazy rare items. People will pay top dollar for extremely rare Rocket League items, and it’s time for you to try and cash in. Listed below are some of the most expensive Rocket League items in history.

Rocket League Trading: The Most Costly Items

  1. Black and Whitezomba Wheels: it’s tough to get lucky with crates, but when you do, it pays for itself. In fact, these wheels are worth 29 to 50 keys or roughly a 50 dollar average when converted. It’s not mind-blowingly expensive, but hey, 50 smackers get you a new game. It’s hardly a price to laugh at. Why are these so expensive? Well, they look good; as it is with all the items in this list. The White Zomba wheels, however, may be slightly more expensive compared to its black counterpart, for some reason, it drops less from crates.

 

  1. Crimson Lightning Wheels: going for 50 to 60 keys on average, they keep going up every time you look at the market. It’s just a fancy set of wheels that you’d simply die for. Along with the detail, superb finish, and sleek design, it’s quite difficult to ignore the beauty of these wheels.

 

  1. Striker Crimson Lighting Wheels: a variant of the above and has one of the highest certifications you can get. It’s similar to its simpler predecessor, but with fancier detail. Getting these wheels will set you back at about 120 keys or two sets of the normal Crimson Lightning Wheels. Watch out, however, as the crates get retired, and so will these items and they’ll only get more expensive. It might be wise to hold on to these items to find better prices for them before selling.

 

  1. Alpha Hat: the ultimate swag in games is items you can never get again for free. The Alpha Hat is one item that was only available for players who participated in the Alpha testing phase of Rocket League. If you’re one of those first players on Rocket League, you may already be sitting on a goldmine because the price for these hats may have already increased by the time you’re reading this article! Instant keys for an item you didn’t even earn!

 

  1. Alpha Gold Rush Boost: another Alpha item that’s worth 700 to 790 keys, making it roughly the equivalent of one thousand dollars depending on the key to dollar conversion. Unlike the Alpha Hat that simply requires you to participate in the Alpha, this specific boost makes players send a bunch of invites for Rocket League to their friends that they would then have to accept. Lots of gamers in this modern age hardly care for social interaction, so you can imagine how small some players were able to get this boost, making it even rarer.

 

  1. Goldstone Wheels: another alpha item worth around 730 to 810 keys that require more invites than the boost, at least, as far as we’ve been told. Gold is swag, and you can’t get anything more swag than Goldstone wheels!

 

  1. White Hat: perhaps the rarest of all Rocket League items, which is worth at least 3k keys and that’s being generous. There is no real way to obtain this hat via crates, and people who have found and reported game-breaking bugs to Psyonix. Considering all that, you can imagine how few of these hats exist within the Rocket League community.

 

The first person to ever get this hat reported an extremely game-breaking bug, which would have allowed him to change anybody’s level at any point in time. Instead of abusing the bug, he hid it from everyone else and reported it immediately to the developers in hopes of keeping his favorite game clean and fun. While Psyonix wanted to pay him monetary compensation for his honesty, he declined, and instead, created the unique white hat we know today, worth 6k to 10k dollars. Don’t ever let anybody tell you that last folks finish last!

PlayerAuctions’ MMO Halloween Pick: Kicking it OSRS Style

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Search all you want, but Jagex is keeping Old School Runescape’s 2017 Halloween Event under wraps as they do yearly. It’s a tossup as to what sort of Halloween event Jagex has planned this year, but it’s always different every year. If you’re looking for an MMO with dynamic events all year round, then Old School RuneScape (OSRS) is the way to go.

Even some top dogs of the MMO industry fail to maintain a vital and straightforward operational feature in their game: Seasonal Events. Yes, OSRS is one of the very few MMOs that care about mixing it up every year for each event. Take World of Warcraft’s yearly events like Hallow’s End or Feast of the Winter Veil, which has become as stale as the game. Rift is also a good and bad example of seasonal events gone wrong; ones that have gone the WoW path of repetition for tokens to turn in for event items.

For new players, these sorts of seasonal events in WoW or Rift can be entertaining, but only at first. Once the years go by, they’ll instantly notice that they’re repeating with the same exact quest, but with just slightly more prizes for their routine reward. These rewards, believe us, are worth a chunk of OSRS Gold. Anyhow, it quickly becomes tedious; a pointless exercise meant to stretch-out old content past its due date and cheat on the player base.

On the other hand, with RuneScape, it’s a different story because Jagex goes in hard to please their players. Each seasonal event is new and built from the ground up with unique quests, stories, and rewards. One might make the argument that OSRS is simple, which makes it easier to put in new content on the fly compared to WoW. Besides, Jagex doesn’t have to have add-ons, but they still do.

If you haven’t found that one MMO that you can truly love, you might want to take a stab at OSRS. With so much depth and a vast amount of content at your fingertips, you’d wonder why this game isn’t nearly as played as much in comparison to other MMOs in the genre. Considering that OSRS has a developer with a dedication to making the game as fresh as possible, you can’t go wrong with RuneScape.

OSRS Halloween 2017 event is something every player is hyped up for because nobody knows what’s in store for them. When it comes to these kinds of events, OSRS always surprises and delivers, with nothing too complacent and predictable. If you haven’t played the game, well, now’s the time. It’s even better if you get OSRS before Halloween!

PlayerAuctions News: ARK: Survival Evolved Released Later

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AUGUST 29 – after two years in the early access phase, ARK: Survival Evolved has finally released on Windows, Linux, OS X, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on August 29, 2017. In a nutshell, the game is a survival shooter where players must hunt creatures of all sizes and shapes, procure weapons, gather materials, craft tools, and build structures to thrive in the giant landmass called “The Island.”

ARK: Survival Evolved, developed by Studio Wildcard and in cooperation with Instinct Games, Efecto Studios, and Virtual Basement, started as a Steam early access game in June 2015. The game was supposed to have its official launch by late summer 2016, and things didn’t pan out because of the studios’ change in goals, so the date got pushed to August 8, 2017. However, due to the necessary paperwork, the game’s official release date was postponed to August 29. Upon the official release, the price doubled from $30 (early access price) to $60.

For more news on ARK: Survival Evolved, including ARK Wyvern and ARK Quetzal, feel free to visit PlayerAuctions.

What’s PlayerAuctions All About?

PlayerAuctions is the most secure player to player (P2P) network to buy, sell, and trade MMO game assets, including FIFA Coins, CSGO Trade, and LoL Items. The site is a neutral marketplace that supports P2P trading for popular MMOs, such as RuneScape, Old School RuneScape, World of Warcraft, Diablo III, EverQuest, Eve Online, League of Legends, and 200+ other games.

 

 

For Honor and Missions: Some Changes in League of Legends

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League of Legends (LoL) is adding the Honor System and missions. In fact, the Honor system contains a leveling system that’s meant to encourage proper team play, while missions are objectives that players must complete for rewards.

No longer is it enough for an MOBA to have various modes for matchmaking and a level-up system for the account. With the ever-growing demand for a more well-rounded MOBA experience, a variety of MOBAs have added a collection of features and LoL Items throughout the years. It’s been a hit-or-miss for many games, including LoL. Riot has decided to tweak one feature (Honors) and turn it to the Honor system while adding a new one (Missions).

 

The New Honor Is Mine

Known as the Honor Update, honors will receive other fixes aside from the name. Before, summoners are able to commend teammates for being any of the following four traits:

  1. Helpful: assist teammates in any way possible
  2. Teamwork: cooperative and put the interests of the team first before individual self-interests
  3. Friendly: pleasant demeanor makes the game enjoyable regardless of victory or defeat
  4. Honorable Opponent: an enemy who plays well but doesn’t engage in toxic behavior

Now, with the new Honor system, summoners get appreciation for working cool under pressure, exceptional shotcalling, and the memetic GG <3, which is for players who make the game fun.

Reported and Dishonored

Other than changing the criteria for giving honors to fellow summoners, the new Honor system will sort of “level up.” If a summoner receives three Honor points, the player will have a special flare on his or her loading screen to show that he or she has been earning Honor points. More points mean a greater likelihood of having a friendly and reliable player on your team.

Let’s say that a summoner does something inappropriate and gets reported: well, he or she is removed from his or her account. The penalty is enough to motivate LoL players who have earned their Honor points to take it up a notch.

 

Accepting the Mission

Another new feature is Missions: objectives that summoners must fulfill to achieve certain rewards. Although there have been missions before, they’re more of the “use <insert champion name here> for X times/and gain certain rank/earn X amount of gold” variety. The new feature is more “story-driven;” supposedly, there’s going to be a “good vs. evil” theme going on.

How that’s going to work? Nobody knows the exact answer. How’s it being received? Well, not as warmly as the usual objective-based missions are, but it’s generating enough hype to make summoners intrigued with the new format. The reason is because of the rewards: two LoL Items . In other words, skins that’s only achievable with Dawnrbinger Riven and Nightbringer Yasuo missions. The two skins are obviously being pegged as two opposing forces (good and evil) since it’s the theme of the missions. Dawnbringer Riven’s skin has that radiant yellow glow and bright early day colors like gold, violet, and sky blue. Nightbringer Yasuo has a shadowy hue and fire effects, reminiscent of cities and towns being lit by torches after the sun has set.

The new Honor system and missions are set on changing how and why summoners are going back to Summoner’s Rift. How the player base will take it is still up in the air. Hopefully they’ll be able to see what it aims to do, appreciate it, and go with the flow.

 

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