{"id":204,"date":"2018-02-03T23:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T04:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fms321.wnhughes.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/game-log-1-3-rocket-league-explosions-adrenaline\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T22:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T03:11:16","slug":"game-log-1-3-rocket-league-explosions-adrenaline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/2018\/02\/03\/game-log-1-3-rocket-league-explosions-adrenaline\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Log 1 \u2013 3: Rocket League: Explosions & Adrenaline"},"content":{"rendered":"

For my third category of game for my game log, I chose Rocket League. The game is pretty simple. You play a variation of 2 v 2, 3 v 3, etc soccer as a car. As you might imagine, controlling a car to volley, pass, and shoot like you would as a human being in a soccer game is difficult. In fact, somewhat similar to Peggle, this game uses a difficulty curve, albeit a much sharper one, to get you hooked. I\u2019ve played Rocket League before, but I was pretty rusty. My first few games involved lots of me missing the ball, overhitting passes, and overshooting the goal with frustrating inaccuracy. Thankfully, I gradually become more competent and began being matched with better players. After a while, the gap between my play and that of my opponents became immense again, and not in my favor.<\/p>\n

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These guys were driving on the walls, speeding around the map, and essentially exploring dimensions of the game totally\u00a0outside of my capability. I felt good enough to not feel inept at the game. However, there was a clear reward for putting in more time to refine skills. In other words, this game had a relatively low barrier to entry giving the player a sense of accomplishment when achieving a sort of basic competency, but there\u2019s also serious depth!<\/p>\n

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This game also had some serious juiciness that made the action exciting. Whenever you score a goal in Rocket League, the ball doesn\u2019t just hit the back of the net. It creates a huge explosion that blows all that players goals in the opposite direction of the goal with seismic force, all in SLOW MOTION. It was like playing an action movie\u2026.playing soccer…as a car.<\/p>\n

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The world of Rocket League takes place in a diverse array of arenas. These levels differ in not only appearance but also gameplay-impacting level design. This provided a sort of variety to the game as I honed my skills within the same gameplay mode. This awesome combination of gameplay mechanic design and visual juiciness and variance created an addicting experience, as I intended to only play for 30 minutes and ended up playing for much much longer.<\/p>\n

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Source: Game Log 1 \u2013 3: Rocket League: Explosions & Adrenaline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my third category of game for my game log, I chose Rocket League. The game is pretty simple. You play a variation of 2 v 2, 3 v 3, etc soccer as a car. As you might imagine, controlling a car to volley, pass, and shoot like you would as a human being in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"item_id":"4fb74e372dd232219a2ab1bce76cd5fc","pf_source_link":"","item_date":"Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:43:37 +0000","item_author":"admin","item_link":"http:\/\/fms321.wnhughes.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/game-log-1-3-rocket-league-explosions-adrenaline\/","item_feat_img":"","item_wp_date":"Thu, 01 Feb 2018 16:43:37 +0000","item_tags":"","source_publication_name":"","source_publication_url":"","nomination_count":"0","sortable_item_date":"1517503417","item_description":"","pf_word_count":"463","pf_forward_to_origin":"no-forward","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[92,93,94,95,96],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-round-1","tag-carros","tag-cars","tag-explosions","tag-rocket-league","tag-soccer"],"nominators":[],"archiveOrgStatus":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9xw5i-3i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/308"}],"feed":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/pf\/v1\/feeds\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"attributes":{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true},"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"attributes":{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true},"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/games18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}