mr_bigmouth_502 wrote:
Misery wrote:
lostonearth35 wrote:
I really don't get what the big deal about Minecraft is. I've now even seen big plush toys of those "creepers" or whatever they're called, the name is fitting anyway. and guide books for playing it at the store. I know it takes more than pretty graphics to make a good game but everything is so blocky and pixel-ly and UGLY. I do like "retro" type games but mainly if they're 2-D. I still remember back in the 90's when 3-D polygon games came out and most of them were terrible, but they've improved a lot since then. Minecraft looks like they took the worst things from both dimensions. And from the videos I've seen on Youtube it looks like people really love to troll, annoy and even bully people who are "noobs", and heaven help me if I mentioned I was female, I've heard the horror stories about female gamers getting death threats and stuff. I don't get these "social" games where anyone can talk to you during play and say practically anything they want. Even when they don't say anything bad I feel really uncomfortable. I like my own little private worlds of Sims and cartoon animals even though I occasionally upload videos.
It's not a "social" game.... not even close. Iv'e heard some funky misconceptions about Minecraft before, but.... I've never heard THAT one. The game in it's normal form is played OFFLINE, in single-player. I dunno where you're getting these horror stories from, but I've a hard time believing they come from THAT community. As for the trolls.... better believe every single online game ever has those. They're only a problem if the server admin is a moron, reallly. Though, again.... that's for online play only.
I've played the game absolutely to freaking death myself (that it has 10 bazillion mods helps) and of the hundreds of hours I've put into the game, MAYBE exactly 2 of those hours involved online play. That's it. As with you, I prefer to keep my own world to myself.
As for the LOOK of the game, that bit is on purpose. Aint gonna be for everyone, but still. I tend to look at it in the opposite way from what you do: I like the way this game looks (as wella s the retro games you mention) but give me most modern console games, and I'm gonna easily point out a few that I think are all sorts of ugly. Gears of War, for instance. Or most FPS games.
From what I've seen, most people who play Minecraft regularly play it in multiplayer.
That's only seen in videos, really. Singleplayer is usually not recorded because it's hard to come up with commentary; very few Youtubers and such have managed to make single-player commentary interesting.
The vast majority of the playerbase either A: doesnt care, B: doesnt wanna deal with lag or griefers or data-smashing server crashes (all of which are a major possibility), or C: cannot get online with the game (it's notoriously wonky online, though it's getting a bit better). PARTICULARLY when it comes to mods. If you're a mod-user (and there are ALOT of them), you play offline, 95% of the time. Getting mods onto servers is a MONSTROUS pain in the ass. Hell, getting some mods into your singleplayer setup can be annoying enough.... I can remember days where I would sit there for like 3 hours yelling at the screen while trying to get the accursed things to do as they were supposed to.
And of course some play both equally.
And it ALSO depends on what KIND of server you're playing on, when you are playing online. If you're playing on a "pure" survival server.... as in not modded, and without special server gameplay changes, then there'll be a fair amount of social contact (er, usually.... sometimes you still get a server where nobody really talks much).... but typically only with whatever group you choose (usually small groups) or with friends. If you're playing a minigame server, which have become stupidly popular recently, dont expect much in the way of chatting in most games.... it's all about competition there, more like the usual multiplayer found in all sorts of games.
And finally, many that do multiplayer ONLY play directly with friends, which typically means that one person in that group of direct friends is running the server themselves. This is the preferred form of multiplayer when it comes to survival, because you already know everyone, can talk to them totally normally, and you dont have to worry about griefers and such. THAT one is generally a pretty pleasant experience. THough my personal favorite, on the occaision when I actually go online with it, is the minigame stuffs. They're hilarious, and can use rule changes and gameplay changes WITHOUT using mods, for example the "Egg Spleef" game (which is particularly hilarious) gives each player a shovel that shoots eggs, which delete cloth blocks that they hit, the idea being to break the floors underneath your opponents and drop them to their doom while not being dropped yourself.
While I usually do single-player I will say that multiplayer stuffs, regardless of your preference as to which type, can be very fun. Even if you'd rather do singleplayer most of the time, it's very much worth at least giving it a try.
01 Jun 2014, 2:47 pm
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