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Hahaha shit hit the fan by the end of it.
I played the demo for about 10 minutes, found it interminably dull. I get the idea, the joy is in ownership of you world, but the 8-bit style makes everything look the same (within reason), and with such simple mechanics, I was bored before the sun set. It's hugely popular though, so it's probably just me.
Destructoid nailed it:Not just you. I can't really appreciate it either. I like looking at what others have built, but spending time on it myself isn't much fun.
Destructoid said:While it's incredibly engrossing and more than a little addictive, Minecraft's slow pace and excessive time encroachment can be something of a hassle. Any plans beyond building a small shed and killing things requires a large investment of time, as well as regularly wasted energy. One can spend hours digging underground to grab just enough materials to finish certain creations, and mining often involves huge amounts of doing very little but the same mindless chores over and over again. Getting to the gold, diamonds, and redstone requires vast sessions of simply holding down a button over successive grey blocks, getting deeper and deeper into grey caves full of more grey blocks to brainlessly mine. Walking through the world is slow and tedious, a problem offset by the ability to build minecarts -- which themselves will require lots of tedious mining and walking in order to craft.
Hey, when you're right, you're right.Calling it: Jim Sterling.
Edit:
Destructoid nailed it:
Destructoid nailed it:
Destructoid said:it's incredibly engrossing and more than a little addictive
To be fair, he gave it 7.5/10, and was very complimentary on various aspects. He just, like me, questions wether hours of holding a button on front of grey blocks is worth it to build a fairly dull block structure or two.Jim Sterling is the Armond White of video games.
Destructoid nailed it:
Make sure your privacy settings for the xbox are set to allow social media uploads.How you guys taking screenshots? Cant find it in the options?
what's about these waterphysics in minecraft? i tried to make a kind of river... and failed miserably. i dug hours ... for nothing O,o
I played the demo for about 10 minutes, found it interminably dull. I get the idea, the joy is in ownership of you world, but the 8-bit style makes everything look the same (within reason), and with such simple mechanics, I was bored before the sun set. It's hugely popular though, so it's probably just me.
I believe water moves 8 spaces out from the source block so you would need to place multiple source blocks with a bucket to make a decent river...if that's the problem you were having with water.
Also, anyone wanting to build underwater place a stalk of sugar cane or a ladder to create an air pocket so you don't have to resurface as often. I've tried this on the PC version not too sure if it carries over to the 360 version.
Well, as I was bored by ten minutes, it's kind of unlikely that another half an hour would make much difference. Plus, Minecraft kind of puts its stall out straight away, its not like I only played darts in GTA4 before deciding it wasn't for me, I tried the bread and butter and didn't feel it. And it wasn't that I wasn't entirely sure, I was utterly bored to tears. Do you think hiding in a dark shack for half on hour would've changed my mind?Being bored before the sun sets is putting hardly any time into it at all. How can you possibly judge the value of a demo based on less than 10 minutes play?
Never use the Exit and save option. It freezes quite often that way. Always safe and exit then... Sorry for yout lossPiece of shit froze while saving. What the fuck.
Is there a GAF GT for this?
4 randoms came into our map, destroyed everything, lit the floors on fire, flooded the house, and left this:
lmao
^ I believe friends of friends as well
lol tunavi, did you get their gamertags so you could return the favor? If so feel free to post whenever you see them on and I'll help ya ;D
So people who you let in to your world can destroy everything you build? That's some nasty stuff, I'll be extra carefull with letting people in
Oh my this is a good video.
Doing my XBLA Analysis. Minecraft's Easy Leaderboards show 1,101,563 players. Normal shows 603,265, together for 1,704,828. Jesus.
Doing my XBLA Analysis. Minecraft's Easy Leaderboards show 1,101,563 players. Normal shows 603,265, together for 1,704,828. Jesus.
Well fuck me, I played 12 hours of minecraft today
I raise you
played 20 yesterday :/ no food, no shower, no sleep
4J Studios has confirmed via their Twitter account, what they hope the next Minecraft (XBLA) update will contain. “We’re aiming to update to the major PC releases – first one will be the equivalent of the PC Beta 1.7.3 version.”
Currently it appears as if the game launched with all of the features of Minecraft (PC) Beta 1.6.6. This is the update just prior to pistons and shears. If they make their schedule, the next update will include the following features:
Added pistons.
Fixed clay generation.
Flint and Steel or redstone is now required to trigger TNT.
Fences can be stacked.
Added Shears.
Redstone wire now will connect to a repeater.
Shears can be used to pick up leaf blocks.
Shears can be used to shear sheep without hurting them
Sheep no longer drop wool from being punched, only from being killed when they are unsheared.
New textures for Cobblestone and Brick blocks.
Silverfish skin was added (for Beta 1.8).
This would also include various bug fixes and the such. The clay generation is something everyone is already acutely aware of. Looking at our friends list, there are very few people who have managed to find clay, and even then it’s always under 30 blocks.
4 randoms came into our map, destroyed everything, lit the floors on fire, flooded the house, and left this:
http://i.imgur.com/Ts0L0.jpg[IMG]
lmao[/QUOTE]Hahaha. Wasn't me, but I don't feel bad. That's hilarious.
Well, as I was bored by ten minutes, it's kind of unlikely that another half an hour would make much difference. Plus, Minecraft kind of puts its stall out straight away, its not like I only played darts in GTA4 before deciding it wasn't for me, I tried the bread and butter and didn't feel it. And it wasn't that I wasn't entirely sure, I was utterly bored to tears. Do you think hiding in a dark shack for half on hour would've changed my mind?
Maybe build a glass construction in the sea that will allow you to make stairs that go up to your island? Dunno if that's possible though
A flying island sounds pretty awesome though.
I played the demo for about 10 minutes, found it interminably dull... It's hugely popular though, so it's probably just me.
Not just you. I can't really appreciate it either. I like looking at what others have built, but spending time on it myself isn't much fun.
I too find the game incredibly dull. However, I know exactly what my issue with the game is. I personally find no joy whatsoever in creating things. Just feels like work. For me, destroying and killing are much more fun pursuits for a game. Sad but true. I guess I could play Minecraft online and drop into open games to wreak havoc on people's creations but I don't want to be a douchebag so I'll just avoid the game altogether.