I got Minecraft (Alpha) yesterday. I played for a few hours. I made a castle, a dungeon, and a house. I realized that's pretty much what the entire game was. It's like Legos, but slower and you can kill stuff. If you're thinking about getting it, the free version is almost exactly the same. The weapons/enemies don't really add anything to the game. Don't waste 9.95 Euros on it.
Uhm. Alpha is NOT like classic. In alpha the world is infinitive, it got dungeons, you git HP and armors, you got more blocks and stuff like doors, buckets, carts, pickaxes, swords, axes, shovels, ladders, stairs, cactus, reed, you can farm, its monsters and animals, TNT that explodes, SMP, you support majong and a shit load of more things. So don't tell me its like classic. Cuz then u didn't give the game a chance. Oh, its "Secret friday uptades" every friday to so it will get better all the time :)
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Anonymous2010-10-12 15:29
Guys, minecraft is in alpha stage. Not even beta yet.
Dont hate on it till the full game comes out
Now the game sucks imo, with the new update, the game-play is unforgiving. if you die at all, you lose all the items you have on you, you cant get them back as far as i know, and you cant load previous saves, as the game auto saves when you die.
Its really a pain in the ass too see hours of game-play go down the hole when you die.
But they did add a few cool things, like the new hellish world and whatnot, but this game would be alot more fun if it dident have a auto save on death.
stupid queers never heard of a god damn challenge. I swear this game makes my heart skip when i hear that SSSSSS.
Why?
Because when you die it actually means shit, just like in the old days before gaming became a kids marketing campaign.
Minecraft fucking rules. Even if you play without the challenge it's fucking awesome!
These guys don't like it because it's not shiny enough and doesn't have guns.
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meh2010-11-01 11:08
Sounds like yous lot are gay
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Anonymous2010-11-03 0:10
>>11 that's a bug ass wipe, and it has been fixed.
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Anonymous2010-11-04 4:46
I agree with OP - it's TOO open ended. "Survive" is not a goal that satisfies every player; at the stage it is now, minecraft does not outperform the thunderous hordes of free games with more variety, a better premise and/or quicker gratification, not even to mention the mods already available for minecraft.
>>13
You can die? Whoop-de doo. Go play Lineage, where a death means two weeks' worth of levelling time.
As an open-ended game with lots of room for creativity, there's bound to be a whole bunch of people who enthusiastically come up with awesome stuff. But it's too obviously in alpha - it's just not a fully fledged game. $10 may be a good 'investment', but consider this:
From minecraft.net:
543121 purchases
You're telling me that the apparent 5 MILLION dollars in purchase fees, less whatever hosting costs there may be that CANNOT put a dent in that, is being reflected in the development speed?
I'd rather invest my $10 in a developer who is actually interested in putting in effort proportional to the reward.
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Anonymous2010-11-04 4:49
Actually, on that note - which other games have a good crafting system in them? Dwarf Fortress takes it a bit too far for my tastes, but games with collection/crafting/creation elements have often got a lot going for them.
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Anonymous2010-11-06 20:34
You can die? Whoop-de doo. Go play Lineage, where a death means two weeks' worth of levelling time.
Who the fuck wants one mistake to basically erase two weeks of their life? Fuck that shit, minecraft beats it out any day because of its accessibility.
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Anonymous2010-11-06 20:52
Minecraft is still in Alpha for fuck's sake. OP's basically some dumb kid who can't think of anything else to build after having spent all his imagination on a castle and a house. Also, go dick around in multiplayer before you comment on gameplay. The fact that it doesn't have an end goal or some lame fucking "achievement system" for faggots to obsess over is currently what makes it so great. The people who don't like it should go back to playing their mundane first-person shooters or some shit.
>>11 That was a glitch that lasted one day, genius.
>>18 Pointing to their sales numbers is a complete red herring. It's still a $10 investment, no matter how much the money from everyone who's invested adds up to.
It wasn't about the sales numbers; it was about the sales numbers vs development effort. If the $10 investment takes 5 years to become something mediocre, it doesn't matter to me if 50 or 500000 others invested. But a $5M game should have a lot higher bar than a $500 game.
I just friggin love this game! It is so super challenging and so god damn awesome! It is in no way a complete waste of time. The best frigging game ever!
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PlayedMineCraft2010-12-27 23:42
The reason why I bought the game (alpha, few days before the beta): the gameplay seemed nice, but the free version (classic) was boring (like playing 3d shooter in god mode).
So I bought it, and thought I'm gonna get the beta soon with even more features.
The alpha was nice at first, but then it became boring again, a friend said it's because I didn't set any goals once mastered the basic survival stuff. Donno. I've seen people trying to build stuff online but it didn't catch me.
Then came the beta. and.. seriously.. doesn't worth paying more than for the alpha. Only a few bugfixes. No serious gameplay improvement as far as I've noticed, and the game runs even slower now.
If I were the developer, I'd divide the money between converting the game to c++ (so that a game that should run on a 10-15 years old machine doesn't cause today's computers to sweat ; he anyways intends to port to mobile platforms, no ?) and greatly improving the gameplay.
I'm sure people would still buy this for 20 Euros once he get all the bugs fixed, but how many of them would desperately try to sell it after a few weeks of playing ?
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Jachel 2010-12-28 1:17
The new minecraft is beta, so you guys have to pull up your panties and wait it out, yeah it's not going to be as good as the first or anything but it's going to get better, I bet you.
This game fucking rules like fuck and there is a shitload of stuff in the Beta version. I agree that The classic versions sucks but the beta and alpha versions are awesome like shit. And i am telling that giving $14 CAD is really worth. Those who disagree with me are just a shitload of bitches.
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Turbo childhood2011-01-04 18:52
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