Why does everyone like minecraft?

[Scow2]

Challenges to getting the work done shouldn't add to the creative process, but in fact take away.

I'll put it another way
you see a painting by an artist with paint
and then a crayon drawing

Is the crayon drawing inherently better because the artist chose to hinder himself, or is he infact rightfully ignored for using inadequate tools.

Minecraft is a game, not an Art Studio.

An open-world game. A simulation of being a man: The divinely-tasked steward of the world, given infinite intelligence, knowledge, ability to learn, and desire to re-shape the world, but in a limited, fallible body. Creating something you are proud of is an achievement, an endevour of epic proportion. In Minecraft, you write your own story, much as you do in real life. It has a very primal feel in some ways, in that there's no civilization or society to guide you.

The power of life and death is in your hands in Minecraft: Do you kill those cows for their hides, or let them live? However, the world is also cursed. Terrors stalk the night, and you must re-forge the very world around you if you want to survive against them. And daybreak doesn't always offer salvation. However, what kind of "life" is mere survival? Any animal can do that. In Minecraft, you are a God! Your power may be limited, but your potential is not. Furthermore, you can go to the very depths of Hell and come back!

Challenge is what makes things "fun". In Minecraft, you have ultimate Player Agency. Would you play a game, no matter how good its story is, if "combat" simply involved walking through a room of enemies and watching automatic animations showing you kill them... without even needing to think of "Where to go" because pushing any direction on the D-pad marches you in the right direction?

Minecraft: The Book of Genesis According to Steve?

Also, don't dis the crayon as an artistic medium. I've seen several crayon drawings that far outclass paints.

 

[Tselis]

It sounds to me like digital legos, with monsters. What's not to like?

 

[Xman490]

It's nothing like Lego, guys. Go play with Lego and tell me it's anything fucking like it.

Spoiler: First arguments

Why everyone likes Minecraft;
a) Because it's really good.
b) Because it gives you a huge sandbox world where anything is possible and your only limited by your imagination.
c) Because creepers are the scariest and yet most awesome enemy in any game ever.
d) Because it's really f*cking good.
e) Because Mojang's friendly and trusting attitude towards it's community is so refreshing in an industry filled with Blizzards and EAs.
f) Because it's modding community is the best I've ever seen for any game.
g) Because it's really really f*cking good.
h) Because it's apparent absence of a story is made up for by the countless adventure maps, RP servers and Shadow of Israphels ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gi9-UZKYo4&feature=channel_video_title, yeah it's an LP, but whatever).
i) Because it's a one time purchase that's frequently updated with new content.
j) Did I mention it's really bloody good?

a) that's an opinion
b) No it doesn't, there's very little you can do actually apart from stack blocks which do nothing. 'Anything is possible' well why can't I drop kick a creeper? Exactly. Not anything, only a small amount of things you can accomplish with cubes.
c) Nope.
d) Nope
e) There are a lot of developers like Mojang, and they also actually do shit. Just look in places other than the big companies.
f) No fucking way.
g) Nope
h) That's not a reason it's good. That's just showing off a mod.
i) Unless you bought it after Alpha. It's not updated with content, it's updated with BASE content. This is a beta remember, all this stuff isn't extras it's all bits of the main game.
j) Yes you did. Now stop saying that.

I notice how a lot of people are using other games or developers' problems as good reasons for liking Minecraft. No, that's not a good fucking reason. You're just being annoying and you sound like those idiots who go on and on about how everyone sucks.

Yes, I own Minecraft. Yes, I've played it a lot. The people who never shut up about how shit it is are just as annoying.

(Well, I had a series of brain farts while posting this.)
b) Many of the blocks have functions, but each one is very limited.
f) Considering the work put into big mods like the Aether Mod, it's debatable.
i) I don't know about that, since I got it in Alpha.
j) Its Good Level is OVER 9000!
I agree with your other points.

 

[jpoon]

I just think it's a good ole time to be a designer of buildings and structures. I also really like the ability to construct stuff with the redstone (circuits and such) and being able to make fun stuff with water and lava. Good times to be had by all!

Oooh, don't forget how fun they have now made the bow and arrows, that's a good time now too!

 

[BrainWalker]

Why do people keep creating this thread? I see it every week. It's insane. They always ask, "Why does everyone like this game?" and follow that with "I prefer a game with a good story/action/character advancement/any of the many other things Minecraft doesn't have," and somehow they don't realize they've just answered their own question.

Let us not forget Minecraft is still in beta and as of yet it's actually not really a "game." It's a delightful sandbox with a unique aesthetic and a procedurally generated world, populated by zombies and skeletons and giant spiders and terrifying unhappy exploding green phalluses for some reason. With each update, Minecraft gets ever so slightly closer to the RPG-ish thing that Notch eventually intends it to be, but it's not really anywhere near there yet.

What Minecraft offers right now is limitless exploration and incredible creative potential. If you're not into wandering around or building stuff, you probably aren't going to like Minecraft. It's really that simple. This isn't rocket science.

 

[00slash00]

Whats the big deal abut minecraft? My freind showed it to me and there was nothing interesting about it.I just simply thought it was boring.I dont understand the objective, apart from building stuff and staying away from monsters. He then showed me a hacked version and that was equally as laggy and slow. Or maybe its just me. I mean i do like the single player aspects of a game better than any oher part. Video game stories are a main aspect of a game that i enjoy. Anyway whats every one else's opinion on minecraft?

if you play games for the story, then minecraft probably isnt for you. i havent played it either for exactly that reason. you dont really have a goal. you collect resources and build stuff. if you need a end point to work toward, mincraft doesnt really have one. thats my understanding anyway

 

[TheEldestScroll]

you don't play minecraft for narrative and a compelling story, that's retarded, and i feel stupid having to communicate that point across to a fellow escapist who i would assume to already know that to be the case. if you'd just take it for what it is, then you'd enjoy it. but first, you have to actually PLAY it to make that judgement. nobody that i know who has actually played it has had your response, though i know plenty of people that have merely "seen" it and dismissed it as boring and lacking in objective just as you have. so seriously, pay the 20 bucks, play the game until you have made something worthy of a sense of accomplishment, and then tell me that minecraft is nothing special.

 

[ultimateownage]

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Quality is just as subjective as anything else. If anything, it's more subjective than whether or not you enjoy it. Enjoying it or not is a fact; It's true or false. You can't be wrong about how you feel.
My original post ended up way more hostile than I had intended it to be. Sorry about that. I only quoted you because you encompassed a lot of the points that irk me about this topic. I admit some of my points were stupid.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

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Quality is just as subjective as anything else. If anything, it's more subjective than whether or not you enjoy it. Enjoying it or not is a fact; It's true or false. You can't be wrong about how you feel.
My original post ended up way more hostile than I had intended it to be. Sorry about that. I only quoted you because you encompassed a lot of the points that irk me about this topic. I admit some of my points were stupid.

That's fair enough, I can understand where you were coming from now. I think we'll have to disagree about the quality issue though. I believe that quality is a measure of good versus bad qualities, where as lack of enjoyment comes from these flaws causing more of an impression than anything it does well. For example, I acknowledge that DA: O was probably a very good game, but the sheer ugliness of it prevented me from ever having fun with it. It's just a personal definition, your one is probably better, but it's just my understanding of it.

 

[Little Gray]

For the same reason people like Lego.

 

[Mezahmay]

Spoiler: I like Minecraft because apparently it can teach forum necromancy!

Seriously though, this thread was dead for over three years. The discussion has long since moved on and the Code of Conduct frowns upon thread reviving.