Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition Overview
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well that was a poor overview it missed out quite a bit. Yeah multiplayer is probably fun but it won't work if you don't have an HD TV, so no splitscreen for me and the map size is radically limited only takes about five minutes to cross it. Bought it so i could run it with a render distance further than short and what I've been left with is a watered down version of the game. I just can't get over the map size limitations back on the old PC version one of my maps had rail roads that spanned multiple maps, linking all my bases in different biomes, by the looks of it the 360 map I'm currently on doesn't even have a snowy biome.
My advice to anyone interested is to hold off, unless some of the missing features are restored.
My advice to anyone interested is to hold off, unless some of the missing features are restored.
Don't suppose you know someone who works in a computer store? If they can get a Microsoft Expertzone account and watch a dozen how-to-upsell-Office propaganda videos, I'm pretty sure those cards are available for like 11 bucks apiece. Less if you keep it up for a few months to get to "expert" status. Even a 2800 point card is cheap (10 dollars + watch 2 videos at expert level, or something).Solo-Wing said:
Nice to see they took a hint from Terraria and the like and included a scroll-through crafting system that is still needed in the PC game (or something like it). If they had a Guide character who you could check what materials can make what items, then they'd be all set.
It's likely that the size of the area you can go in is limited in splitscreen so that players can't go too far apart and make the game load too many chunks.
Nope,it only goes as far as your map does,it's pretty much an island surrounded by water & invisible walls. It still makes quite a big map. So far I've noticed it's missing Villages,mines,the dungeon,silverfish, creative mode,& Endermen.But there is a spot in the menu for DLC so we might get some of the stuff later.Jimmy T. Malice said:
Peaceful mode is there, you can set the difficulty in the settings menu and when you start/load up worlds.Crono1973 said:
I'm thoroughly enjoying the 360 version at the moment. It feels a little... lacking, but it does suffice for the time being. I've had a good play of it with some friends and even spent too many hours yesterday building a fortress with water cascading down the glass from the roof. BUT a lot of the really good stuff from PC just isn't there.
My friends and I are just enjoying it for now, nothing more and nothing less. I'm anticipating the next update for the game too: hopefully NPC's, strongholds and pistons and jungles and such will be included; though I also hopes it's not to far into the future. It would be like if a Halo 3 PC port had no theatre or forge-mode.
Overall: very well made, very entertaining and worth the money if you don't already have MineCraft or would love to play it with friends in the same room on 1 screen, albeit lacking features at the moment.
The game is roughly equivalent to Minecraft Beta 1.6 so it'll take a while before we see any additions like villages/mines. To be honest a lot of people feel that those additions ruined the core minecraft experience by trying to shoehorn in a faux-rpg element but that's for another conversation.
Why not buy points cards off Ebay? I just did a quick check and you can find 1600 for under $20 and they usually email you the codes. I buy all my points cards that way (Europe here) in 4200 batches and usually costs me around £35 so it's basically a 1:1 conversion for Points to Euro Cents. Very handy for a quick visual conversion.Solo-Wing said:
Most of the performance gain will be from the C++ port and optimisations. Managed languages like Java and C# will perform badly in real time applications like games because opportunities for optimisations are scarce. For XNA, Microsoft took a slim version of .Net for C# and optimised the hell out of it for games.Lunncal said:
To everyone who has hit invisible walls, apparently the game world is only 1024 by 1024 blocks according to the wiki ( Which barely harms it, i have still found epic mountians, beautiful waterfalls and the like, you can still explore, plus you do get a map to see where the end is.) however for me, it feels much bigger. But yes, it is smaller than the PC version, it might be given more area with the coming updates.
But still, considering my Laptop hates rendering Minecraft properly, this is like a gift from the gods, i love it! Sure the PC version is better, with the unlimited world, but it's hardly a deterrent, there is still A LOT you can do, and the only items that are't there are things from the new patches.
I dread to think when Endermen come to the 360 *shudder*
But still, considering my Laptop hates rendering Minecraft properly, this is like a gift from the gods, i love it! Sure the PC version is better, with the unlimited world, but it's hardly a deterrent, there is still A LOT you can do, and the only items that are't there are things from the new patches.
I dread to think when Endermen come to the 360 *shudder*
It does have a snow Biome, believe me, check your map there will parts you haven't explored. the only biomes it doesn't have is jungle and swamp.Noswad said:
And the features will be restored, just don't expect an unlimited world, doubtfull anyway, still good though ive managed to make many houses across the world, each a fair distance apart.
fair enough, I'm not doubting that there's enough space to build but by removing the unlimited world and replacing it with one that can be crossed in about five minutes it's kind of removed the exploration aspect for me. It just seems that the world has been made far to small if an infinite world isn't possible maybe one that takes half an hour to cross, even if it means making choice on that world between multi player. and world size.arc1991 said:
I was going to get this to play with my brother and finally see what the big deal was. No HDTV...
If it still isn't any good then I am going back to old school runescape (http://www.rsclegacy.com).
If it still isn't any good then I am going back to old school runescape (http://www.rsclegacy.com).
Having never played Minecraft for more than a few crappy, performance-killing moments on my PC, I am thoroughly enjoying this game on XBLA. I fired up a new world last night, and 9 hours later I was still happily tapping away at hundreds of quantities of cobblestone from a gigantic, floating mountain.
I suppose it must be the case that those who played it on PC may find the world to be small, but against its platform competition, Minecraft 360 features a larger, more interesting world than its clones, especially across the horizontal dimension, discounting Total Miner's 2000+ block depth, which, while impressive, is a far more static and empty world than Minecraft's, and much, much smaller across the horizontal dimension, capping out at 500 blocks across in Dig Deep IIRC.
If you've never played Minecraft, don't be dissuaded by the PC players claims of a "tiny" world. Having dumped over 12 hours into my first world already, and only revealed about 50% of the surface map in the process, there's more than enough content without needing to wander for 20 minutes in one direction for no reason except to just do it. For people who have never played it, I imagine an endless world won't be missed like it would for others. Though, hopefully a creative mode with a larger plane is in the pipeline, I can understand how that would be desirable.
Seed functionality is there, so seeds that worked on beta Minecraft PC still work, so that's a small plus. I spent a few testing them out last night, and they work great. Gives a lot of landscape variation depending on what you use, and how.
At any rate, for someone who's been desperate to play Minecraft, tried the clones, and found them fun, but missing something, Minecraft 360 is an excellent choice. At $20, it faces stiff competition from a couple of the $2 Indie Clones, so it will be interesting to see if these games develop a sort of feature arms race, or if the good clones will stifle out now that the big daddy of them all is in the picture. It remains to be seen.
tl;dr: Minecraft 360 is an excellent version of Minecraft, and will suck up hours of your life, especially if trying the PC version as anything greater than a foggy postage stamp has been denied to you, as it has been me.
I suppose it must be the case that those who played it on PC may find the world to be small, but against its platform competition, Minecraft 360 features a larger, more interesting world than its clones, especially across the horizontal dimension, discounting Total Miner's 2000+ block depth, which, while impressive, is a far more static and empty world than Minecraft's, and much, much smaller across the horizontal dimension, capping out at 500 blocks across in Dig Deep IIRC.
If you've never played Minecraft, don't be dissuaded by the PC players claims of a "tiny" world. Having dumped over 12 hours into my first world already, and only revealed about 50% of the surface map in the process, there's more than enough content without needing to wander for 20 minutes in one direction for no reason except to just do it. For people who have never played it, I imagine an endless world won't be missed like it would for others. Though, hopefully a creative mode with a larger plane is in the pipeline, I can understand how that would be desirable.
Seed functionality is there, so seeds that worked on beta Minecraft PC still work, so that's a small plus. I spent a few testing them out last night, and they work great. Gives a lot of landscape variation depending on what you use, and how.
At any rate, for someone who's been desperate to play Minecraft, tried the clones, and found them fun, but missing something, Minecraft 360 is an excellent choice. At $20, it faces stiff competition from a couple of the $2 Indie Clones, so it will be interesting to see if these games develop a sort of feature arms race, or if the good clones will stifle out now that the big daddy of them all is in the picture. It remains to be seen.
tl;dr: Minecraft 360 is an excellent version of Minecraft, and will suck up hours of your life, especially if trying the PC version as anything greater than a foggy postage stamp has been denied to you, as it has been me.
That split screen s distracting as hell, especially when you have creepers coming at you.
Minecraft only cost $20 if you preordered in beta.
Minecraft only cost $20 if you preordered in beta.