GrandHarrier
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OMG $5 off but this Best Buy order is taking foreeeeeever.
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Minecraft XBLA |OT| Don't touch my cactusSsSS
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Baconsammy
Banned
Wait, so if I die I lose everything? I assume if I put stuff in a box it will be safe. Learning the hard way.
Stormwatch
Member
You lose everything, but it sits in a pile where you died. If you go back it should all be waiting there for you.
IF you get back there quickly enough (assuming it's a PC).
But yes, you need to eventually start building chests to store stuff in a stone safe house, something like that. And when you go exploring, you don't want to take -all- your valuables, just a reasonable collection.
Baconsammy
Banned
My problem right now is not knowing where I was. Is it like Dark Souls where if I die again the old pile disappears? Or will I now have two piles?
I went ahead and bought it through BB...I wasnt originally going to get it for 360 since I have the PC version...but I went ahead and took the plunge since it will be more comfortable to play at my couch and it runs at a better framerate on the 360 than on my PC.
Even though I own the PC version since the beta Ive really only played it for around an hour so. In what ways is the 360 version gimped?
Even though I own the PC version since the beta Ive really only played it for around an hour so. In what ways is the 360 version gimped?
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Deleted member 47027
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Smaller world (still more than large enough for 99% of people) previous version to PC (still tons of content) and...I think that's about it. I really enjoy the 360 ver and I own PC as well.
Cool...is there any other game that the largest world size on the 360 version can be compared to (ie. Just Cause 2, Oblivion, GTA4, etc...).
Also do they plan on bringing the 360 version up to par with the PC version?
snoopeasystreet
Member
Is there a screenshot function? If not, that's a huge oversight.
There should be a way for me to show what I built to people without having to host a game for them to join.
There should be a way for me to show what I built to people without having to host a game for them to join.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
You can upload screenshots to Facebook.
snoopeasystreet
Member
That's cool then. Can't decide if I'll buy it or not. I already own it on PC but I like the idea of using a controller to play it.
Really? They couldn't push it up to allow more room?
i nerini del buio
Member
That's not how the game works
Btw, is the xbla demo any different from the unlocked full game? jesus the game world is really small in the demo, I hope that's not how the full game is :S
MrGreencastle
Member
The game size has almost nothing to do with how much space you get in the game.
rangersfan414
Member
Is best buy still selling this for $15?
On the page it shows $15 for me, but once i click add to cart, it changes to $20.
On the page it shows $15 for me, but once i click add to cart, it changes to $20.
CrAzYLeGzLU
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bigtroyjon
Member
CrAzYLeGzLU
Member
I believe you pause the game then hit Y to share an image to Facebook.
toythatkills
Member
Can you upload images to something other than Facebook?
I have silver and every time I try the facebook share option I "Lose Connection to Host" which boots me from my own singleplayer offline game. Those auto-saves in the corner count for nothing and you go back to your last physical save. I lost like hours because i wanted to take a picture of the cow invasion taking place in my house.
I've only played the PC version, so apologies if any of this ends up being wrong:
When you die, everything you had on you pops out and acts like any other item dropped in the world (like the little blocks that fall when you mine something). The items you dropped will despawn after a few minutes, so make sure to rush back to where you died, as you don't have long to get there before everything's gone forever.
Also, any items that fell into lava or touched a cactus will also be destroyed instantly.
Keyser Soze
Member
Almost 2c per MB! Outrageous
Baconsammy
Banned
Kinda hard to take a review seriously from someone that doesn't know the difference between tenants and tenets.
gregor7777
Banned
I wonder if your revew is "fair". It seems to me that it would be a more accurate review to base it on the XBLA game's merits alone, rather than a jaded comparison to the PC game which makes up the bulk of your review.
It's the Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition for a reason. It didn't come out of the gate as a straight up port. At least, nothing I've seen has marketed it as such.
Your review said:
This is exactly what I mean.
ChoklitReign
Member
As a 2-year veteran, I think the presentation is great. My mini-review of pros and cons:
+60 FPS
+UI is sweet & should be brought to the PC with controller support
+Music is more frequent; it seems to play nonstop
+V1.6.6 gives it an old-school feeling without hunger, XP, or scarcity of arrows
+Lots of handholding at the beginning
+Nostalgic feeling of beginning for the 1st time. My first world has various biomes close together - compensation for world size?
-Really small FOV. I have my doubts it is to improve framerate.
-Torch light is smaller; I have to put torches in caves 5 meters apart.
-Creepers are more aggressive & harder to kill with a sword
-Somethings wrong with the controls or sensitivity; I grip the right wing harder than normal and it fatigues my hand and thumb.
-D-pad should have extra controls like a turnaround button for creeper evasion
+60 FPS
+UI is sweet & should be brought to the PC with controller support
+Music is more frequent; it seems to play nonstop
+V1.6.6 gives it an old-school feeling without hunger, XP, or scarcity of arrows
+Lots of handholding at the beginning
+Nostalgic feeling of beginning for the 1st time. My first world has various biomes close together - compensation for world size?
-Really small FOV. I have my doubts it is to improve framerate.
-Torch light is smaller; I have to put torches in caves 5 meters apart.
-Creepers are more aggressive & harder to kill with a sword
-Somethings wrong with the controls or sensitivity; I grip the right wing harder than normal and it fatigues my hand and thumb.
-D-pad should have extra controls like a turnaround button for creeper evasion
GrandHarrier
Member
I ordered around 9:30 am PST and its still "In Process" of being completed. Mildly annoying.
Z_Y
Member
Kinda hard to take a reviewer seriously who posts his review in the OT and says "I will probably get a lot of hate for it. *laughs*"
Rocky_Balboa
Member
Started mining and building, but I don't have the ingredients to make torches. How can I get flint and steel or coal?
You will probably get a lot of clicks for it. *laughs*
Okay, so I suffered a slip up of auto-correct. If you're going to write off everything I said because of that, so be it.
Straight from Microsoft's press site:
To me, that sure sounds like they're marketing it as the PC version brought to the Xbox 360. I would also find it funny to say that you can't compare the two versions. That's like saying you've got Street Fighter IV as an arcade game, and then you announce it for consoles, and suddenly we only get half of the character roster—but that's okay, because it's a special version of the game for consoles. Of course people were expecting the PC version, as they should.
And even beyond that, if you take the game simply on what it is as an Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, the worlds are still ridiculously small, and the new crafting interface is stupid. Neither of those change if you take the PC version out of the picture. If the XBLA version was the only version to exist, it still would be horribly crippled by aspects such as those. To me, this feels no better than a "throw them a bone" mobile version of Minecraft, and that's utterly disappointing.
If you look through my history of reviews, on EGM or otherwise, I've never trolled for hits by means of scandalous reviews. That isn't my style.
Baconsammy
Banned
Oh don't get me wrong, I wrote it off when the link said "I'll probably get a lot of hate for it *laughs*".
You'll be able to make torches before flint and steel. Just look for coal in rock. It's very abundant, you just have to mine. Be sure you're using a pickaxe when you mine or you won't get any. Coal looks like stone except there are black splotches. Once you have some coal and sticks, you can make torches.
gregor7777
Banned
Setting aside the marketing issue, which I think you could argue both ways, I think saying the crafting system is "stupid" makes the arguement for the people criticizing your review.
You may not like the change because you liked the PC crafting system. You may feel it takes away from some aspect you like in the PC game. But how does that make it "stupid"? And I don't mean that in some abstract way, I mean literally, how do the changes make it "stupid"?
Rocky_Balboa
Member
Thanks. Couldn't find any coal from the rocks (yet), but I'll keep digging.
Baconsammy
Banned
Speaking of stupid - I dug and dug and dug and dug a hole and then my tools broke and now I'm stuck at the bottom of the hole. I quit and started over and one of the help tips was advising me not to do exactly what I did. I'm dumb.
In the tutorial it shows you how to create it from regular stone.
In the tutorial it shows you how to create it from regular stone.
bengraven
Member
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Over 200,000 on the leader boards. Not bad.
$4m revenue.
$4m revenue.
blizzardjesus
Banned
you can make charcoal by burning wood with wood in the furnace/oven.... the charcoal will attach to sticks to make torches.
Well, I explained that in my review. One of the very first concepts that you're introduced to in Minecraft is that you have to survive, but you don't know how to do that. And then you learn that you can build, but you don't really know how to do that either. You find those things out from one of two waystrial and error, or cheating. Cheating we can't control, and that's a choice that players may make. But that trial and error is a big part of the player's introduction to Minecraft, and where I think a lot of that initial connect to the game is made. Forget mine carts or beds or glass or whatever elseyour first discoveries are things like a stick, or a sword, or a torch, and each discovery you make is exciting. What else could be in this game? You wonder that, so as you find more materials, you start trying different combinations. Suddenly, you make come across a pattern for an item you didn't even know was in the gameand that discovery is thrilling!
That entire aspect of Minecraft is gone because of the new crafting UI. Right from the moment you boot the game, all of those discoveries are just handed to you on a platter. Discovering those initial creations like a stick or a sword or a torch are meaningless, because you're too busy looking at diamond pickaxes or repeaters.
As I said in my review, they could have kept the exact same interface, but had items be hidden until unlocked by making them the first time. Or, they could have given players an option like, "Do you want to be spoiled by knowing everything that's in the game, or do you want to still discover that stuff on your own?" Something, anything to help keep that aspect of discovery alive.