Minecraft: Has anyone else lost the "Thrill" of it?

[Ronan Gallagher]

I dont know if its just me but when I bought Minecraft Alpha and loaded up a new world, I was just so excited, with all the music playing in and the cows and sheep, I was constantly on the Minecraft forum looking up recipes and stuff to do on youtube, 6 months later, I am still a huge minecraft fan, with my first house securely in a museum I buiilt around it. I only just realised that I always have to music off beacause I plan out designs and stuff with guys on skype. The cows and sheep being grinded into materials, and all the Forests and mountains either settled on or Gone, I sort of get the spark back every time a patch comes out, but now my Question: Do you feel the same when playing Minecraft as you did on your First Day?

 

[microhive]

Although, the first time was very magical, building a giant skyscraper with a mineshaft in its centre, I still get quite similar thrills whenever I play on our sever at the dorm.

 

[Tekyro]

Definitely not, the spark's just kind of gone out for me. I mean, I still play it, but it's more a kind of half-hearted "alright, I've not got much else to do, might as well play Minecraft for a bit".

 

[ToastiestZombie]

A little bit, I really dont play SP anymore since it seems like your constantly grinding and looking around aimlessly for very little reward, it seems like you might have all the diamond in the world but if you fall in lava then that all is rendered useless.

I only really play MP now because ive found a server that makes minecraft feel much less like a grindfest, but a building MMO community.

 

[BlueFishie]

I'm desperately hoping the Adventure Update can rekindle my interest in Minecraft. I can't bring myself to enjoy it as it is. :/

Had a blast playing with a few friends back when survival MP was new. We built ourselves a little village, improved on it some, yadda yadda yadda. Then we all grew bored, as we had everything we'd "need" in the village. None of us are patient/skilled enough to build the insane stuff people do. I just hope the Adventure Update makes something other than building a viable, enjoyable playstyle. The bits I've heard do sound promising, though.

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

Got bored after a couple of hours, when I had made my giant golden dick and a massive castle. I try the new updates (like when railroads came, and now pistons) but it's just the same "build stupid shit because it looks cool".

with all the music playing

lolwhut

you mean the incredibly depressing piano?

 

[GiantRaven]

A little. The game does need the adventure update badly. I have wrung a little more enjoyment out of the game by setting up an online server for my younger brother so I can see the stuff he builds though.

you mean the incredibly depressing piano?

Dude. Incredibly depressing piano is deep, man.

 

[Superior Mind]

Nah I've pretty much lost any enthusiasm I had for the game. Built a house complete with a doom tower, an arboretum, wheat and cane farms, underwater chill-out room with its own lava waterfall and a complicated series of tunnels and mine shafts, (among a few other things,) and kind of just thought "what's next?" I don't really have any need to build some huge project, the value of Minecraft to me is what fun I can get out of it not creating some big thing that mostly represents a huge waste of time.

 

[SixWingedAsura]

A little bit. I still have the Aether to explore and the Artifact mod is coming up, and when 1.8 comes out, all my interest will be re-peaked, so it's not all bad.

 

[Riddle78]

Find a cave. Delve deep with stone picks,sword,and a stack of torches. Nothing else. It's exhilirating! Plus,when you come out with your spoils,you'll know you done well. Repeat into the Nether,and,if you got the mod,the Aether.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I play from time to time, but not as much as I used to. My sister, however, plays all the time, because she found a multiplayer server that she likes. The MP server I used to play on is down, so I've been working on small projects in SP. It's more of something I do when I'm at my computer and I can't think of anything else to do now though.

 

[Not Lord Atkin]

yup. after having spent ages building myself a huge underground hall with a double-layered glass ceiling and an infrastructure to lead the lava through from the nearest lava pool to my fortress of awesome, where it would fill the ceiling, I unleashed the lava from the pool and into my infrastructure.... where it stopped flowing after 3 bricks. Then I learned of the lava physics from the internet. Lost interest in the game.

 

[Richardplex]

Find a cave. Delve deep with stone picks,sword,and a stack of torches. Nothing else. It's exhilirating! Plus,when you come out with your spoils,you'll know you done well. Repeat into the Nether,and,if you got the mod,the Aether.

It loses its spark when you can punch creepers to death without them even sssSS'ing.

OT: I never got into MP, nor have any mods because I'm incompetent and lazy beyond comprehension, so maybe the adventure update will make me play for a few hours.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

on single player i just fuck about with mods.
SMP is fun, because i have people to talk with and build with.
plus, the other people make pretty things for me to look at.

 

[Veroxx]

I've lost most interest in actually playing the game now, the fun I do get out of it is running a few servers for my friends and a few people I know online and working on Bukkit.
Sure every now and again i'll go back and have a an hour or two of fun but it's just lost it's "play for hours and never get bored" appeal.

 

[Savagezion]

Yeah, for a while now really. I mostly play it as a time killer anymore. I am hoping the adventure update will spice it up a bit. It doesn't take long to have everything you "need" in survival mode and once the challenge is gone, there is no incentive to do anything. No sense of accomplishment.

When I start a new game, I think "I need to get a safehouse, iron, diamond, redstone, etc." You are scouting locations and surveying the land for the best possible setup. You have plans that will result in game altering rewards as incentive. Once you have all of the rewards, which is fairly easy to achieve, the game is boring and has nothing to really offer. This is what I am hoping the adventure pack solves.

 

[RYjet911]

For me it's mainly because Terraria did it better for me. It focused more on the adventure than the creative, and I've had a lot more fun and playtime with that these days.

Hopefully the Adventure update helps that, but even so... I have a lot of annoyances with Minecraft that just make the game unbearable at times.

 

[DEAD34345]

Well, this is pretty much the problem with building a truly sandbox game. There's no pre-defined goal, you have to make your own.

For me, the goal was originally exploration, both in terms of physically finding stuff and also finding out all the things I could build and make. Now I pretty much know everything there is to know about Minecraft, and exploring new areas quickly becomes dull when you realise that each new continent is exactly like the last ten...

Since I don't enjoy building for the sake of building, I now have no goal in Minecraft, so it has become incredibly dull. Maybe the adventure update will change that, but I doubt it. I've had quite a few hours of enjoyment from the game, and I'm pretty sure I've got my moneys worth from it, so I'm content to just stop playing.

I think Notch should ramp up the difficulty (or provide a separate option to do so), and make it so that the goal of "survival" mode is actually to survive. Massive sieges and titans and the like would be very welcome, rip a few more things straight out of Dwarf Fortress. DF is one of the few sandbox games I have yet to get bored of, but that might change when (or if) I get good enough to consistently survive. In Minecraft surviving is as easy as putting yourself in a dirt box, so survival was never a real goal.