What Makes Minecraft Special?
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To me it basically took the LEGO I loved when I was younger and turned it into one of the video games I love now. One of the other main draws to me is that, unlike LEGO, I don't have to worry nearly as much about how many part I do or don't have nor having to take apart my older creations in order to build new ones. I can start a world at any time I want in survival or creative mode and either work my way to building bigger and better things or build what I want when I want with what ever I want. When you add things like the different mobs and farming and the dozen other things you can do it can just make it so much more fun. It just gives you the freedom to do whatever, whenever, wherever you want to and even better is that there are always new thing being added to the game for you use and explore.
LEGOS and the freedom to have as many different kinds of LEGOS and build whatever I want with them. Giant hot air balloon? Awesome. Huge Tree of Knowledge with a tree-house, sweet. Massive pirate ship? Yay! *air-punch* Giant golden penis and testicles? If you want my good sir/madam.
It gives you a chance to build, struggle, and make your own story line and rules for yourself.It also gives you a chance to do that with your friends. It also gives you the opportunity to have as many of all the items as you want to just create the hell out of things on a blank canvas, if you'd rather do that instead. Install a lovely texture pack (if you want) and make some magic.
It gives you a chance to build, struggle, and make your own story line and rules for yourself.It also gives you a chance to do that with your friends. It also gives you the opportunity to have as many of all the items as you want to just create the hell out of things on a blank canvas, if you'd rather do that instead. Install a lovely texture pack (if you want) and make some magic.
It's basically a simplified and striped down level editor. People love making content and there own games and Minecraft either lets them do basic level editing or provides an abstract enough setting that people can make whatever up that they want. At least, that was my assessment of it the last time I looked. I get bored with no goals or objective and an endless steam of randomly generated areas that all feel the same eventually.
Pretty much every other game I have played this generation that allowed me to be creative came with a horribly annoying limit on what I could do or how far I could take things. Things like Little big Planet are great and I have sunk a lot of time in that game to, but that damned thermometer in the 'level creation tool' makes the game boring and castrated.
Minecraft is limitless. It's like if a billionaire kid bought all the Legos in the world, and playing with them involved fighting monsters sometimes. Add in the addictive nature of looking for and finding cool things to mine and the exquisite reward of better building materials after... It's like the perfect game orgasm.
Minecraft is limitless. It's like if a billionaire kid bought all the Legos in the world, and playing with them involved fighting monsters sometimes. Add in the addictive nature of looking for and finding cool things to mine and the exquisite reward of better building materials after... It's like the perfect game orgasm.
This is the point where people either love or hate this game, and it's amazing that it's all for the same exact reason. Want to hear something both amazing and depressing? Your description of Minecraft describes real life PERFECTLY. lolNightmareExpress said:
It's built in a way to try to trick people into creating their own objectives and rewards and if it succeeds in doing so the result is satisfying on a very personal level. I get it, but as someone with an actual creative outlet I feel like it's a huge waste of time for ultimately very little accomplishment compared to actually making something. Also since I can see through the gimmick I feel like the game is crossing its arms and saying "fun? I'm not entitled to give you fun! Make your own fun!" I'd rather play a game where I don't have to do the game designer's job for him, but that's just me.
I don't know... For me I think its working hard at something and succeeding on my own will and initiative.
For example:
In one game (my main survival) after many hours of living in a hovel I upgraded to a small castle built on an island I made myself. Then I decided I wanted sheep but there were no sheep on my entire continent. So I went sploring and found another full of sheep. I wanted those sheep on my land so I built a massive L shaped bridge 4 blocks wide (2 inner blocks for walking and 2 outer for fencing and light) that connected the two continents.
I decided to make something of my own free will, made it under my own steam with no encouragement or real reason to continue and I succeeded. That bridge still makes me feel fuzzy and I walk it every time I load up Minecraft.
For example:
In one game (my main survival) after many hours of living in a hovel I upgraded to a small castle built on an island I made myself. Then I decided I wanted sheep but there were no sheep on my entire continent. So I went sploring and found another full of sheep. I wanted those sheep on my land so I built a massive L shaped bridge 4 blocks wide (2 inner blocks for walking and 2 outer for fencing and light) that connected the two continents.
I decided to make something of my own free will, made it under my own steam with no encouragement or real reason to continue and I succeeded. That bridge still makes me feel fuzzy and I walk it every time I load up Minecraft.
My favorite part about MineCraft is that moment during pre-alpha before there was limited water flow, before there was crafting, before there was day and night, before their was limitations on the spawning of enemies, before saves.
(You have never known true horror until you've met a creeper that can see through walls, explode without line of sight, detonate upon being killed, and no limitations as to where it spawns.)
There was this wonderful single moment where I thought to myself. "What do I do?" That sentence taught me that I possessed infinite power to not only destroy, but to create.
(MineCraft is Epic Mickey done right)
I punched that first block, and I knew that I could then place it anywhere.
That was a powerful moment.
(You have never known true horror until you've met a creeper that can see through walls, explode without line of sight, detonate upon being killed, and no limitations as to where it spawns.)
There was this wonderful single moment where I thought to myself. "What do I do?" That sentence taught me that I possessed infinite power to not only destroy, but to create.
(MineCraft is Epic Mickey done right)
I punched that first block, and I knew that I could then place it anywhere.
That was a powerful moment.
I haven't played it yet for reasons honestly unknown to me but from what I gather what puts it apart from other games is that it really is quite original, your only held back by your imagination and I feel like it's the plucky little car that could.
Seriously, never underestimate the fact it's an indie game. You get a wonderful feel good factor from an underdog succeeding in such spectacular fashion.
Seriously, never underestimate the fact it's an indie game. You get a wonderful feel good factor from an underdog succeeding in such spectacular fashion.
