Poll: Terraria Vs Minecraft

[Lunafox]

Quick question, Which one?
Real question, Why?

Minecraft has been around for a bit longer and I'd bet a pretty penny that it formed part of the inspiration for Terraria and has left me wondering what the general feeling toward the two are now.

Both of them have differences in game-play and aesthetics and both appear to be off the shelf (interwebs) hits. Are these games ushering in a new genera of games? Are we going to see more clones, parodies, rip-offs and re-imaginings? Maybe even the next big MMO "World of CraftCraft" from BloodyBigBudgetGames&Co? Or is the just a flash in the pan, tiding us over till the next innovation that people will look back on and give a hefty ?meh? to, much like Tower Defence games.

Thoughts, ideas, opinions, randomly hurled insults?

 

[SinisterGehe]

They are two totally different games, only thing in common is crafting and building.
Terraria is RPGish. Minecraft is sandbox gaming with focus on survival.

I like the simple content that can be accessed with ease. And the difficulity increases with time. Minecraft doesn't have this. It is the same, but you can build lot of things which keeps the interest.

 

[Phlakes]

Minecraft. Aside from Terraria being a rip-off, their so much less that's possible. Taking a dimension away makes building a lot less interesting. Plus, Minecraft has a certain charm with its art and music and everything.

 

[GiantRedButton]

liked both but in minecraft building feels more precise.
Creating something that occupies 3 dimensional space is something spoecial as drawing etc doesn't satisfy the need.
Combat is better in terraria though, hands down and everything.

 

[Harb]

Just because those two games have similar graphics doesn't mean their playstyles or mechanics are similar. Terraria has been heavily influenced by Minecraft, but is completely different game. Thus there is no point comparing them.

Basically what SinisterGehe said.

 

[Hungry Donner]

I haven't played Terraria, it looks neat but sidescrollers don't really interest me. I do look forward to Minecraft getting a bit more 'game' behind it but I don't think Terraria is really the direction I'm looking for.

 

[Biodeamon]

I hate to start a flame war, but Minecraft kicks terraria's butt.

Terraria would be nothing without minecraft

 

[ramboondiea]

Minecraft. Aside from Terraria being a rip-off, their so much less that's possible. Taking a dimension away makes building a lot less interesting. Plus, Minecraft has a certain charm with its art and music and everything.

clearly you haven't even played terraria if you believe it to be a rip off.

anyway i prefer terraria, it just feels like it has a goals, i like that, also theres just so much crap to make, and so many ways to play it. minecraft is fun and all. with all the building things, but i lie the fact that terraria is more of a game

 

[Erana]

Minecraft. Aside from Terraria being a rip-off, their so much less that's possible. Taking a dimension away makes building a lot less interesting. Plus, Minecraft has a certain charm with its art and music and everything.

Explain how Terraria is a ripoff.

Minecraft was, in Notch's own words, "An infiniminer clone." The differences between Minecraft and infiniminer are far fewer than those of Terraria and Minecraft. Its in the same genre, of sandbox-crafting antics. At worst, it would be a Minecraftlike, as games like NetHack are Roguelikes. Roguelikes aren't considered clones, just entries in the genre.

Why on Earth is the Terraria-Minecraft thing such a big issue that people so adamantly condemn this burgeoning title?

 

[Senrab]

Terraria is simply what Minecraft should have been. When I bought Minecraft it was during an early build where Notch still had his original ambitions of developing the game beyond just a sandbox builder. It was supposed to become a big RPGish adventure game with unique landscapes and special monsters to fight. That never happened. Terraria does this and more in simply it's release build

Terraria does have it's problems. Unless you're using it to build alot, a couple of completionists could have the best gear in the game within less than 20 hours of playing, with all bosses defeated. I'm eager to see if Terraria gets developed further, and in what way. But every time I play it, I think of all the potential Minecraft had at some point, but seemed to have forgotten about.

 

[Feralcentaur]

I prefer Minecraft myself. Although I wouldn't say that Terraria is a rip off just for having the same basic idea, as I think that would be pretty much the same as saying Wolfenstein and Doom are the same game just because they're 2 games of a genre that wasn't common at the time. Actually, come to think of it it's more like saying Contra and Doom are the same...
I just prefer the freedom that 3 dimensions give as opposed to 2.

 

[Scars Unseen]

Isn't this kind of like taking a poll for Doom vs Super Metroid? Completely different types of games with some overlapping concepts.

 

[jimahaff]

Terreria looks like minecraft, and it plays kinda like minecraft, but the idea is different. Bear with me. There are three different ways that you can play minecraft. You can play the game normally; kill some monsters, explore some caves, make full diamond Armor, make a nice house, and then you have seen everything, and the game gets dull. The next way you can play is to treat it as a creativity toy, and this is where the minecraft is different from terraria. Sure in terraria you can build things, but it is 2D and you are limited by that. As a creativity toy Tarraria can't beat minecraft as a creativity toy. The third way you can play minecraft is to create gadgets. I kid you not, there are people who have in minecreat created computers, huge songs, digital clocks that keep time, huge game play manipulation devices. Minecraft has its own science, and there are people who love it for that. This is another thing that terraria can't do. Minecraft has invented a new genre, a genre that I am going to call super sandbox. Terraria is similar to minecraft because it dabbles in this new genre. Terraria is only about the first type of gameplay, you explore and kill things and build better and better armors but when all that is done you just have to wait for new content because there isn't anything else to do. They look alike but so do crap and chocolate; not to say terraria is crap, it looks like a lot of fun, but minecraft it isn't; and while it may be fun it lacks minecraft's longivity because it doesn't have its own science, and because it is in 2D. I guarantee you that in a year minecraft will still be alive and kicking and terraria won't, or at the very least the months won't be as kind to terraria as they will be to minecraft.

 

[Sinathor]

Minecraft is amazing, and Terraria is pretty good. There's nothing wrong with stealing ideas and taking them to new directions. Terraria is a lot more action based than Minecraft. Minecraft is much more about building stuff, whereas in Terraria you spend your time digging deeper and deeper, constantly finding new areas and enemies. Building things in Terraria feels more like a bonus for all the hack and slash. I enjoy both games as they differ from each other enough.

 

[bob1052]

Minecraft is a cross between survival adventuring and crafting. It utterly fails at bringing any depth to the survival adventuring side however, and the crafting side falls flat because of it.

You start the game out and you need to rush for coal and wood before night. Every creature is feared because you have nothing to fight them off. 20 minutes into the game and you have a sword and some armor and you will never die again unless you mess up miserably playing with lava or a giant cliff or have a mining mishap. The only reason creepers have become so feared is because they can damage your creations, no one cares about any danger to themselves because it will hardly touch you.

The adventuring becomes so boring that you spend all your time either mining while tuning the game out of your mind and going on autopilot, or you start using /give and build over the top items.

Having spent a lot less time with Terraria its hard to say if it suffers the same way as Minecraft but the crafting system in Terraria is definitely not an attempt at making a limitless world building sandbox and therefore it relies solely on its survival adventuring. Since its adventuring, similar to Minecraft, has no depth, it is significantly worse than Minecraft.

Both are pretty shit.

 

[Tdc2182]

I hate to start a flame war, but Minecraft kicks terraria's butt.

Terraria would be nothing without minecraft

No... Terraria would be nothing without Miner: Dig deep.

The only thing Terraria copies is the crafting system and a similar randomized cave system.