Minecraft - sucked in again.
Minecraft. In all reality, this is a pretty stupid simple game. You farm something - you get something. You use the somethings to craft something else. You build with the something elses to create other things.
The graphics...Stupid. Really simple blocks made of set colors to make the job of having radiant sources of light go much easier.
The gameplay, mind numbing. Want to mine stone? Hit it with a (wood, stone, iron, etc.) pick until it gives you a unit of stone. Want to cut wood? Hit it with a (wood, stone, iron, etc.) axe or your bare hand until you get a unit of wood. Want to get pork steaks? Hit a pig with whatever you got until it dies and drops pork steaks. Better cook those in the oven though.
And yet, several of my friends have that funny look in their eye. You know the one. The one that they got when they started playing Everquest, and then EVE, and then World of Warcraft. You have seen this look before. The fanatical one. Then they ask me this question, "Have you seen this game?"
So yeah, I downloaded it, and played with it, then immediately got boned when night fell. So I then read up on it, found the right combination of things, didn't like where I was and deleted and tried again.
Last night, I put it on peaceful mode, because I was tired of being shot at for standing around in the dark and not having found coal for torches. And I finally found several really cool things all at once.
I found my first internal waterfall. Followed by finding my first big void. Managed to find a vein of coal, and had enough torches to light my way into the caves. I found my way down the mountain, into a second internal waterfall and a patch of lava. Wow. NOW I get it. To mark my way, I used torches and stairs so I can easily make my way back up without jumping. I built a tunnel up into the mainland and made a quick stairway out of my mine.
Yeah, that's right. MY mine. Each time you start a new game, it recreates the world. The mine you found in the last game is not the same as this one. This one is my mine.
Although now I am thinking that I need to make a new world, put it on normal difficulty, make myself a hut to protect myself, and then do my exploration one mountain at a time.
I have a plan, but random resource and monster generators laugh at plans.
Perhaps we shall see who will have the last laugh.
The graphics...Stupid. Really simple blocks made of set colors to make the job of having radiant sources of light go much easier.
The gameplay, mind numbing. Want to mine stone? Hit it with a (wood, stone, iron, etc.) pick until it gives you a unit of stone. Want to cut wood? Hit it with a (wood, stone, iron, etc.) axe or your bare hand until you get a unit of wood. Want to get pork steaks? Hit a pig with whatever you got until it dies and drops pork steaks. Better cook those in the oven though.
And yet, several of my friends have that funny look in their eye. You know the one. The one that they got when they started playing Everquest, and then EVE, and then World of Warcraft. You have seen this look before. The fanatical one. Then they ask me this question, "Have you seen this game?"
So yeah, I downloaded it, and played with it, then immediately got boned when night fell. So I then read up on it, found the right combination of things, didn't like where I was and deleted and tried again.
Last night, I put it on peaceful mode, because I was tired of being shot at for standing around in the dark and not having found coal for torches. And I finally found several really cool things all at once.
I found my first internal waterfall. Followed by finding my first big void. Managed to find a vein of coal, and had enough torches to light my way into the caves. I found my way down the mountain, into a second internal waterfall and a patch of lava. Wow. NOW I get it. To mark my way, I used torches and stairs so I can easily make my way back up without jumping. I built a tunnel up into the mainland and made a quick stairway out of my mine.
Yeah, that's right. MY mine. Each time you start a new game, it recreates the world. The mine you found in the last game is not the same as this one. This one is my mine.
Although now I am thinking that I need to make a new world, put it on normal difficulty, make myself a hut to protect myself, and then do my exploration one mountain at a time.
I have a plan, but random resource and monster generators laugh at plans.
Perhaps we shall see who will have the last laugh.