Notch Is Worried He Might Never Top Minecraft

[Strazdas]

His other games wont do as good as the minecraft did. but it is not because the games will be bad. it is because minecraft fans will be expecting something "way more awesome" and have too high expectations going for it.

P.S. capcha: you are here, well duh ofc i am.

 

[blackrave]

Well I had idea of Minecraft on steroids, but it requires much more machine power to run (or some other voodoo tricks)
So at this point it is unlikely to happen

 

[CardinalPiggles]

So it's going to be an earthy sandbox game > A space game > ???

My money is on Time travel, Dr Who style.

 

[Ogargd]

Oh the worries of the rich man, how sorry I feel, but not really he'll still make loads of cash and be happy for the rest of his life. Selfish of him not to realize how lucky he's been to have any success at all.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Really? The "game" that everyone ate up as the second coming of Christ? He might not be able to top that?

I get into Minecraft from time to time, but yeah-what the hell is with all the praise? The guy made (read: stole from another guy) a program that is pretty much exactly electronic Lego. What a legend. Visionary. Amazing. Truly. -_-

Every time I see a story about Notch I dislike him more. That's bad, I know. But he makes it so easy.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

I think as long as Notch puts the same amount of love and care into his future games as he did with Minecraft, he'll do just fine with his career. Sure, his preceding games won't be as incredible as Minecraft, but has id made anything as earth-shattering as DOOM since its release?

A little game called Quake.

Because Quake sure did shake up the formula after Doom-oh wait...

 

[The Wooster]

I think as long as Notch puts the same amount of love and care into his future games as he did with Minecraft, he'll do just fine with his career. Sure, his preceding games won't be as incredible as Minecraft, but has id made anything as earth-shattering as DOOM since its release?

A little game called Quake.

Because Quake sure did shake up the formula after Doom-oh wait...

Except Quake was ridiculously influential [http://www.1up.com/features/why-quake-changed-games-forever] and essentially introduced online gaming as we know it. The leap from DOOM to Quake was far more momentous than the one from Wolfenstein 3D to DOOM.

 

[I.Muir]

Wow he made a game that in turn made him a fortune and now hes worried it won't happen again, STOP THE PRESS. I think there's a Que of people to the moon and back for him to join. It's bordering on impossible that anything he will ever make from now will ever top mine craft, especially now that he's rolling in cash and his motivation has flown out the window. I expect he will be obliged to at least finish scrolls considering the battling he has done for it already but I expect it will be many a vacation from his obviously strenuous lifestyle later before it's actually made.

Actually considering what the internet is saying, pulling a lucas is about the most likely thing that's going to happen. Any real work will be done by underlings, which they say is already the case. Hell they might stay a well oiled machine like lucasarts up until the point where they bust a spring and burst into flames.... like lucasarts.

 

[Saxnot]

so i guess he's scared he'll never be able to... top notch?

 

[DTWolfwood]

its ok to be a one hit wonder if that "wonder" makes you more money than u can spend for the rest of your life XD

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

I think as long as Notch puts the same amount of love and care into his future games as he did with Minecraft, he'll do just fine with his career. Sure, his preceding games won't be as incredible as Minecraft, but has id made anything as earth-shattering as DOOM since its release?

A little game called Quake.

Because Quake sure did shake up the formula after Doom-oh wait...

Except Quake was ridiculously influential [http://www.1up.com/features/why-quake-changed-games-forever] and essentially introduced online gaming as we know it. The leap from DOOM to Quake was far more momentous than the one from Wolfenstein 3D to DOOM.

Doom 1.5 "Now with multiplayer!".

Not saying it was a bad game, but a leap? A shimmy, more like.

 

[Bostur]

I can see where people are coming from when they say that Minecraft isn't creative and anyone could have done it. Thats true, but fact is no one did it. Technically Minecraft would have been possible to make in the 1990s, but no one happened to stumble upon the concept until Notch arrived on the scene.

Thats the damning part about ideas. There are probably hundreds of Minecraft successes just waiting to be done, but getting the right mix of a good idea and a useful implementation is really hard for some reason. In many cases this probably happens by chance when trying to go for something else.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

anc[is]When you can construct a swimming pool out of money and liquidize more money to swim in, nothing about your story is sad.

Perspective my friend, persepective. Humans are terrible at it.

Edit: You know I find it quite strange that so many people seem to think something in this case, minecraft "deserve" to be popular. Yeah it's a simple idea. The best ideas are allways simple. Quality of media is extremely subjective, and if a large amount of people like something, than a large amount of people like something. Are you saying that they SHOULDN'T like it? YOU get to be the judge of that? (granted, there are exceptions. But there are allways fucking exceptions)

It's especially strange when most people like a game less than most critics, or the other way around. If 90% of critics like a game, and only 70% of players liked it, than that doesn't mean that the game didn't deserve to be liked by 90% of critics, that just means critics liked it more.

 

[mooncalf]

Lots of writers sit down after a best seller and go "damn, how am I gonna top that?".
I think it's okay though, he surprised himself with minecraft, and success doesn't mean you're never surprised again, so even if it can't be anticipated now doesn't mean it wont come in due time.

 

[Helmholtz Watson]

aww, I kind of feel sorry for the guy now.