Poll: Terraria Vs Minecraft

[DeadlyYellow]

Terreria. It just has more variety to it.

Once you've seen a tree-covered hill and been in a cave, you've basically seen the most Minecraft has to offer.

 

[oreopizza47]

Randomly hurled insults? All games are made by swine!
Um, sorry, couldn't resist.

OT: I'm gonna say mostly the same thing everyone is saying. They share an inspiration, but the way they go about it is completely different. Minecraft has the lead, and I do foresee some clones in its future, but they won't stand up. As for Terraria, I only know what I've heard, but it's not the same as Minecraft, and that's good. The two games might actual help to get sales for each other by being superficially similar. Who knows, other than the fact that they're both good games that deserve to be played. That's what I think of these games.

 

[standokan]

I´m an avid Minecraft player but Terraria is just so awesome, it gives me this old Zelda feeling and in the end, I can´t really decide, it´s a draw.

 

[noble cookie]

terraria was in development before minecraft

Nope, it was developed and released all in 2011.

I think Terraria is better, because you don't require imagination to have fun with it, as you can guess I am not very imaginative.

Minecraft is a building game with adventure.
Terraria is an adventure game with building.

 

[Kristjan Truu]

Yeah how can you compare those 2 games, Minecraft is java based while terraia is somekind other thingy. Played both and they both have their plusses and minuses. And BTW news flash for ignorant and other people that haven't realized it yet that we all like diffrent things there is no reason to fight over that what you like and the other dosent. it like imature. yeah Minecraft dosen't have the dynamic light system that terraria has nor the items or so many mobs. But thats why minecraft has mods and is mod friendly.

 

[ParanoidAndroid]

I own and enjoy both games, but I prefer playing Minecraft, as the only goals are those set by the player. In Terraria, when the bosses are dead, there's nothing left to do. Also, Minecraft has greater modding abilities.
The two games can't really be compared to each other though, as they are two completely different games, that belong in different genres.

 

[lizards]

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.

agreed, air 5ed, approving looked, and rightness trophy sent in the mail

 

[Rage4Kon]

When Terraria came out it looked much more like a finished product than Minecraft. Terraria was perhaps easier and faster to make as it is 2D, this leaves much more time to put new elements into the game to make it more like an RPG and less like a ripoff of Minecraft. When Minecraft was released for download it was in an alpha state and is still a few months and many updates away from full completion. When Terraria came out it seemed like a finished game that would receive updates regularly to enhance the gameplay. This will most likely happen when Minecraft gets its full release. So, for the moment I like Terraria more for the single-player and Minecraft more for the multiplayer but my views may change in the months to come.

 

[Justin Beber]

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.

minecraft is soooooooooooooooooooo much better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[veloper]

Terraria is a cute game with exploration, npcs, bosses, all the things you'd expect in a game.

Minecraft is grind and the minimal gameplay only serves to delay your creations.

 

[omicron1]

Minecraft - Terraria may be more gamey but I play for the atmosphere, immersion, and other buzzwords; and Terraria has nothing on Minecraft in that regard.

 

[Mr. 47]

I've played both extensively. It is like comparing Metal Gear Solid with Hitman. Kill people silently or your screwed, but they play completely differently.

Minecraft is primarily a creation game, you build buildings first, fight the odd creaper second. It has no true objective. You can explore, but you really don't have to. Materials are easy to find.

Terraria is a platforming/exploration/fighting game first, building takes a back seat to exploration and combat. You need a house to hide in at night, and to keep your NPCs in, but other buildings aren't really required. In my first 22 hours of playing, I had only one huge house where I kept chests and NPcs, I only started building towns after that. Minerals are more difficult to find, requireing you to explore. Items are much more difficult to craft, requiring up to 30 bars of a mineral to create (with bars taking up to 6 of an ore to smelt) but do not break over time.

Minecraft is Lego with a sword, Terraria is a crossbreed of Minecraft, Monster Hunter, and an NES game. Terraria is more of a 'game' then Minecraft is.

I'm not sure which I prefer. In Minecraft I can build cities, while adventuring and battle has real worth in Terraria.

 

[SixWingedAsura]

Both are amazing.

They are! Minecraft is pretty much virtual LEGOs. You make your own adventures. And with 1.8 on the horizon, the game's about to explode with new awesome content.

Terraria is a Metroidvania/Zelda-esque game with some Minecraft flavor thrown in. It was well worth the 8 bucks I spent on it.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Neither are technically finished so wait to see how similar they are when done.


Off Topic: Terraria's version 1.0.6 should come out between Monday and Wednesday, adds more furniture and a Major RPG element add-on/overhaul!

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Having played both (though Minecraft a lot more) I think it's like Apples to Oranges. Terraria is more like a dungeon crawler with sandbox building elements. Minecraft is the other way around. I don't think it's a fair comparison.

 

[Phlakes]

Minecraft. Aside from Terraria being a rip-off

It's hardly a rip-off. Do we call every shooter after Wolfentein a rip-off these days? No we don't, it's a genre. Deal with it, it doesn't make Terraria any worse.

There's one thing that makes a game a rip-off or not- if it's trying to ride on the success of the game it's borrowing from. There's no way it never crossed the developer's mind that being similar to Minecraft would boost sales and popularity.

But Terraria is pretty different like people have said. At the very least, the building and mining mechanics are a rip-off.

Now Fortresscraft is an entirely different story...

 

[CRRPGMykael]

Is this really up for debate?Terraria is by all means a complete rip-off of Minecraft,except it's 2D,so basically it's even a downgrade.