Poll: Terraria Vs Minecraft

[Rage4Kon]

When Terraria came out it looked much more like a finished product than Minecraft. Terraria was perhaps easier and faster to make as it is 2D, this leaves much more time to put new elements into the game to make it more like an RPG and less like a ripoff of Minecraft. When Minecraft was released for download it was in an alpha state and is still a few months and many updates away from full completion. When Terraria came out it seemed like a finished game that would receive updates regularly to enhance the gameplay. This will most likely happen when Minecraft gets its full release. So, for the moment I like Terraria more for the single-player and Minecraft more for the multiplayer but my views may change in the months to come.

 

[Justin Beber]

Terreria looks like minecraft, and it plays kinda like minecraft, but the idea is different. Bear with me. There are three different ways that you can play minecraft. You can play the game normally; kill some monsters, explore some caves, make full diamond Armor, make a nice house, and then you have seen everything, and the game gets dull. The next way you can play is to treat it as a creativity toy, and this is where the minecraft is different from terraria. Sure in terraria you can build things, but it is 2D and you are limited by that. As a creativity toy Tarraria can't beat minecraft as a creativity toy. The third way you can play minecraft is to create gadgets. I kid you not, there are people who have in minecreat created computers, huge songs, digital clocks that keep time, huge game play manipulation devices. Minecraft has its own science, and there are people who love it for that. This is another thing that terraria can't do. Minecraft has invented a new genre, a genre that I am going to call super sandbox. Terraria is similar to minecraft because it dabbles in this new genre. Terraria is only about the first type of gameplay, you explore and kill things and build better and better armors but when all that is done you just have to wait for new content because there isn't anything else to do. They look alike but so do crap and chocolate; not to say terraria is crap, it looks like a lot of fun, but minecraft it isn't; and while it may be fun it lacks minecraft's longivity because it doesn't have its own science, and because it is in 2D. I guarantee you that in a year minecraft will still be alive and kicking and terraria won't, or at the very least the months won't be as kind to terraria as they will be to minecraft.

minecraft is soooooooooooooooooooo much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[veloper]

Terraria is a cute game with exploration, npcs, bosses, all the things you'd expect in a game.

Minecraft is grind and the minimal gameplay only serves to delay your creations.

 

[omicron1]

Minecraft - Terraria may be more gamey but I play for the atmosphere, immersion, and other buzzwords; and Terraria has nothing on Minecraft in that regard.

 

[Mr. 47]

I've played both extensively. It is like comparing Metal Gear Solid with Hitman. Kill people silently or your screwed, but they play completely differently.

Minecraft is primarily a creation game, you build buildings first, fight the odd creaper second. It has no true objective. You can explore, but you really don't have to. Materials are easy to find.

Terraria is a platforming/exploration/fighting game first, building takes a back seat to exploration and combat. You need a house to hide in at night, and to keep your NPCs in, but other buildings aren't really required. In my first 22 hours of playing, I had only one huge house where I kept chests and NPcs, I only started building towns after that. Minerals are more difficult to find, requireing you to explore. Items are much more difficult to craft, requiring up to 30 bars of a mineral to create (with bars taking up to 6 of an ore to smelt) but do not break over time.

Minecraft is Lego with a sword, Terraria is a crossbreed of Minecraft, Monster Hunter, and an NES game. Terraria is more of a 'game' then Minecraft is.

I'm not sure which I prefer. In Minecraft I can build cities, while adventuring and battle has real worth in Terraria.

 

[SixWingedAsura]

Both are amazing.

They are! Minecraft is pretty much virtual LEGOs. You make your own adventures. And with 1.8 on the horizon, the game's about to explode with new awesome content.

Terraria is a Metroidvania/Zelda-esque game with some Minecraft flavor thrown in. It was well worth the 8 bucks I spent on it.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Neither are technically finished so wait to see how similar they are when done.


Off Topic: Terraria's version 1.0.6 should come out between Monday and Wednesday, adds more furniture and a Major RPG element add-on/overhaul!

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Having played both (though Minecraft a lot more) I think it's like Apples to Oranges. Terraria is more like a dungeon crawler with sandbox building elements. Minecraft is the other way around. I don't think it's a fair comparison.

 

[Phlakes]

Minecraft. Aside from Terraria being a rip-off

It's hardly a rip-off. Do we call every shooter after Wolfentein a rip-off these days? No we don't, it's a genre. Deal with it, it doesn't make Terraria any worse.

There's one thing that makes a game a rip-off or not- if it's trying to ride on the success of the game it's borrowing from. There's no way it never crossed the developer's mind that being similar to Minecraft would boost sales and popularity.

But Terraria is pretty different like people have said. At the very least, the building and mining mechanics are a rip-off.

Now Fortresscraft is an entirely different story...

 

[CRRPGMykael]

Is this really up for debate?Terraria is by all means a complete rip-off of Minecraft,except it's 2D,so basically it's even a downgrade.

 

[retyopy]

Now, I've heard it said that Minecraft is supposed to be a survival game. I disagree. It's a building game with survival elements. Minecraft is about working hard to get materials, then using those materials to make epic structures. It just so happens to have monsters.

 

[BaronUberstein]

Terraria is simply what Minecraft should have been. When I bought Minecraft it was during an early build where Notch still had his original ambitions of developing the game beyond just a sandbox builder. It was supposed to become a big RPGish adventure game with unique landscapes and special monsters to fight. That never happened. Terraria does this and more in simply it's release build

Terraria does have it's problems. Unless you're using it to build alot, a couple of completionists could have the best gear in the game within less than 20 hours of playing, with all bosses defeated. I'm eager to see if Terraria gets developed further, and in what way. But every time I play it, I think of all the potential Minecraft had at some point, but seemed to have forgotten about.

I wouldn't have bought minecraft if it was just another RPG.

I like being able to build giant structures, winding subways, forts and cities. I didn't buy minecraft to kill monsters and that's why I'll never buy Terraria, because at the end of the day I don't want to play another 2d platformer.

Minecraft has vast amounts of potential, you just have to have the creative will to build and dig.

 

[MassiveGeek]

Minecraft. Aside from Terraria being a rip-off, their so much less that's possible. Taking a dimension away makes building a lot less interesting. Plus, Minecraft has a certain charm with its art and music and everything.

Explain how Terraria is a ripoff.

Minecraft was, in Notch's own words, "An infiniminer clone." The differences between Minecraft and infiniminer are far fewer than those of Terraria and Minecraft. Its in the same genre, of sandbox-crafting antics. At worst, it would be a Minecraftlike, as games like NetHack are Roguelikes. Roguelikes aren't considered clones, just entries in the genre.

Why on Earth is the Terraria-Minecraft thing such a big issue that people so adamantly condemn this burgeoning title?

Agreed.

I personally like Minecraft better because of the creative freedom and exploring qualities, not that Terraria lack that, the exploring is far more adventure-oriented with more mobs and that, but Minecraft just appeals to me more personally.

Still the comparison is only superficial - when you play them, you see that the difference between the games is big enough for the comparison to be sort of useless.

 

[Guilherme Zoldan]

It would be silly to Say Terraria didnt take a lot of quees from minecraft. But it would be unfair to say its a clone. To me Terraria is video game progress done right, taking the formula of another sucessfull game and expanding on it, exploring it in other ways.
As for which is better, its hard to say, they play really differently, building in Terraria doesnt have the same appeal as it does in Minecraft but Terraria has a lot of really cool features that are lacking in the Minecraft such as carrying your character over, lots more items and RPG elements.
Its an apples and oranges thing to me.

 

[devilkingx]

terraria, minecraft has gotten boring once you realise that its basically playing with legos in a video game, terraria rewards combat and exploration but it lets you build if so inclined(its not as good as in minecraft, but atleast you have something to do if you dont want to build)

minecrafts survival aspect is lacking and thats a fact, however my opinion may change with the upcoming adventure update

 

[devilkingx]

Is this really up for debate?Terraria is by all means a complete rip-off of Minecraft,except it's 2D,so basically it's even a downgrade.

because minecraft has monsters that burrow, monsters that fly, biomes that affect monster spawn, unlimited durability armor and armor set perks not to mention guns, lasers, and bosses

just like terraria has dungeons, exploding monsters, an unlimited and randomly generated world and countless mods

are you a retard? no offense but come on now terraria is like orange juice with vodka and minecraft is vodka with orange juice, just because they are composed of similar ingredients doesnt mean the end product is the same(see: dumplings and bread, egg salad and eggs benedict, steak and burgers, etc.)

oh and terraria being 2d isnt a downgrade because good 2d > bad 3d, unless you want to argue that the n64 and ps1 have better graphics than terraria too

 

[dancinginfernal]

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I know you're new and all, Welcome to the Escapist, stay out of the Basement and all that,

but would you care to elaborate aside from just using an excessive amount of o's?

 

[CRRPGMykael]

Is this really up for debate?Terraria is by all means a complete rip-off of Minecraft,except it's 2D,so basically it's even a downgrade.

because minecraft has monsters that burrow, monsters that fly, biomes that affect monster spawn, unlimited durability armor and armor set perks not to mention guns, lasers, and bosses

just like terraria has dungeons, exploding monsters, an unlimited and randomly generated world and countless mods

are you a retard? no offense but come on now terraria is like orange juice with vodka and minecraft is vodka with orange juice, just because they are composed of similar ingredients doesnt mean the end product is the same(see: dumplings and bread, egg salad and eggs benedict, steak and burgers, etc.)

oh and terraria being 2d isnt a downgrade because good 2d > bad 3d, unless you want to argue that the n64 and ps1 have better graphics than terraria too

Terrarria is just a rip-off of Minecraft.Admit it.I don't care if you think it's good,but admit it.First,there was Infiniminer,a game about mining precious stuff but then everybody decided it was more fun to build than to mine.Then Notch was like "OK,I could make a game out of this except with crafting and survival and shit",and Minecraft was born.Some time later some other guy was like "oh,lets make minecraft,except were not that good at programming,so lets make it 2D,yeah,i bet everyone is gonna think its really artsy and stuff".
I know Notch sorta likes Terrarria(and he wouldnt just go around saying its shit because thats not his 'style),but then again he still loves Bethesda right after they sued him.Could be lawyers just being lawyers,but Todd Howard had a conversation with Notch about Minecraft and Skyrim etc. and the lawsuit makes no sense.

 

[devilkingx]

Is this really up for debate?Terraria is by all means a complete rip-off of Minecraft,except it's 2D,so basically it's even a downgrade.

because minecraft has monsters that burrow, monsters that fly, biomes that affect monster spawn, unlimited durability armor and armor set perks not to mention guns, lasers, and bosses

just like terraria has dungeons, exploding monsters, an unlimited and randomly generated world and countless mods

are you a retard? no offense but come on now terraria is like orange juice with vodka and minecraft is vodka with orange juice, just because they are composed of similar ingredients doesnt mean the end product is the same(see: dumplings and bread, egg salad and eggs benedict, steak and burgers, etc.)

oh and terraria being 2d isnt a downgrade because good 2d > bad 3d, unless you want to argue that the n64 and ps1 have better graphics than terraria too

Terrarria is just a rip-off of Minecraft.Admit it.I don't care if you think it's good,but admit it.First,there was Infiniminer,a game about mining precious stuff but then everybody decided it was more fun to build than to mine.Then Notch was like "OK,I could make a game out of this except with crafting and survival and shit",and Minecraft was born.Some time later some other guy was like "oh,lets make minecraft,except were not that good at programming,so lets make it 2D,yeah,i bet everyone is gonna think its really artsy and stuff".
I know Notch sorta likes Terrarria(and he wouldnt just go around saying its shit because thats not his 'style),but then again he still loves Bethesda right after they sued him.Could be lawyers just being lawyers,but Todd Howard had a conversation with Notch about Minecraft and Skyrim etc. and the lawsuit makes no sense.

your either completely retarded or a convincing troll

how you manage to completely ignore that minecraft is shallow in non-building aspects and terraria is shallow in building aspects is beyond me

how can something that you spend 90% of your time fighting and exploring for treasure be a clone of something you spend 90% of your time building 9% of your time trolling forums and being whiny and entitled and the other 1% doing everything else

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I had posted about the differences between the two before. (Loosely quoted)

'Minecraft is a building game with survival elements and Terraria is a survival game with building elements. If you want to play Legos and if building something grand is something you really want to do, I'd buy Minecraft. If you want something that feels more like an mini-RPG in 2D - get Terraria.'

They defiantly aren't the same game - that is highly noticeable within the first few minutes. Which makes me wonder where the, "Terraria is an exact clone of Minecraft!", is coming from exactly. Raging fanboys perhaps? Though, I still prefer Minecraft.