MINECRAFT IS NOW BETA!

[dimm]

Playing Minecraft for the combat is much the same as playing Elder Scrolls for the combat, silly.

Oops. Ok, then what for?

Google is this amazing page where you can find answers to things.

Research? Shouldn't the minecraft thread regulars answer why they play it?
Anyway Voxeltron has voxel painting tools that are like MC but better but voxel painters use MC. Y?
Cute image.

[dimm]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... -Minecraft
a creativity tool with difficulty says Yahtzee.

[smoth]

Research? Shouldn't the minecraft thread regulars answer why they play it?

Why would any of us owe you an explanation.

[SanadaUjiosan]

I for one expect everyone to have clearly defined and grammatically correct reasons for why they enjoy a particular video game, in a classic three paragraph style essay. Double spaced.

[smoth]

lolz

[dimm]

I think i bored smoth.

[smoth]

you would have to have my interest first

[Jazcash]

Lol, Yahtzee. Good backup you got there.

[dimm]

I'm pretty sure hes wrong but you look at all those misunderstandings of MC and want to correct them right? And a 2 sentence no grammar explanation is perfectly aok.

Smoth: not entirely here to begin with.

[smoth]

Not really, the guy can say what he wants, if I spent my life correcting people I would get nothing done.

Dimm, just go watch let's plays, there are tons of them. If it doesn't look fun to you, then it isn't your cup of tea. I cannot write you an explanation of what makes the game fun because I have an unorthodox way of playing games(like how I play drug dealers in every elderscrolls game)

[zwzsg]

dimm, it sounds like your opinion on minecraft is pretty much set anyway, so that make us less inclined to waste an hour writing a lenghty explanation of what makes Minecraft good, since you wouldn't process it anway.

[dimm]

Dimm, just go watch let's plays, there are tons of them. If it doesn't look fun to you, then it isn't your cup of tea. I cannot write you an explanation of what makes the game fun because I have an unorthodox way of playing games(like how I play drug dealers in every elderscrolls game)

Can you really do that?
Right sensible thing to say about LPs.
The reviews were what prompted my set inquiries. Neither of them tried to explain the core appeal of the game. They did not even describe what most people do in the game.
Let me restate my question; what do you do most of the time in minecraft? (replayability) And what were your favorite moments that can't really be repeated? (question maybe specific to minecraft)

Let me try with a different game: League of Legends Dominion mode.

Accessibility; game is bright, colorful easy to control and easy to start. Many wildly differing characters and a new one every 2 weeks to try. Winning; sometimes that's just what i want to do. Mathcrafting; used to be important but not any more.

[zwzsg]

what do you do most of the time in minecraft?

Mining and Crafting.

More seriously, exploring vast cavern networks, excavating/building bases of operations, then turning them into warehouses or productive farms. Getting thrilled when lost underground from a fruitful diamond hunt and seeing creepers everywhere. Getting charmed when suddenly emerging in a pit with pretty laval fall and walls filled with precious ore. Now there's also the whole cattle herding and breeding, and the quest for strongholds.

[PicassoCT]

Forging buckets, loading lava into them, loosing them on some servers which still dont save there states.

[smoth]

the sort of wandering survival. Generally this is the whole point.

Why creepers are scary.


They make no movesounds and you are walking through a mineshaft. you begin to go into a sort of daze, DIG DIG DIG, oh look zombie kill. Dig DIG DIG DIG, shit sand ok good avoided cave in. Dig dig, dig, man I have a lot of loot, dig dig dig. Don't have any food and this zombie flesh is all that is keeping me alive. DIG DIG DIG, one more daimond, dig digd gidididig SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS BOOM! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

It is sudden and loud, good chance that IRL you jumped in your chair.

LOLLOLOL DIG DIG DIG RAVINE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH PLONK oh hi mr slime SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS BOOM! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

That is creeper. It is a game which luls you into a sort of passive play state where you get relaxed and then BOOM. Yeah, sure you can hide in a hole but you won't. You'll get cocky or lazy and think pfft I got this shit.

[dimm]

Exploration + cattle herding and breeding, and the quest for strongholds.

Forging buckets, loading lava into them, loosing them on some servers which still dont save there states.

Trolling can be done lots of places. Then again http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Lava#Lava_Bucket playing with mechanics seems more interesting.

the sort of wandering survival.

I was thinking building a fort to keep the monsters out. Its like a primal instinct. In fact throughout this thread i was trying to get you to say this. Also "walking through the large buildings from FPP is why Voxeltron is not better.

[smoth]

I was thinking building a fort to keep the monsters out. Its like a primal instinct. In fact throughout this thread i was trying to get you to say this. Also "walking through the large buildings from FPP is why Voxeltron is not better.

to say what?
because I don't like to compare minecraft to a game that is in a different genre?

[dimm]

I was thinking building a fort to keep the monsters out. Its like a primal instinct. In fact throughout this thread i was trying to get you to say this. Also "walking through the large buildings from FPP is why Voxeltron is not better.

to say what?
because I don't like to compare minecraft to a game that is in a different genre?

The part right before the statement
The voxel art program not the actual game; I bet i could make something in Vxtr then port to MC way faster than doing it by hand

[smoth]

minecraft isn't voxel
still don't follow

[dimm]

I switched the red and the green...