Zannah said:
GrizzlerBorno said:
Again, please don't comment on something you have a rather vague grasp on.
tahrey said:
Lookit me I'm indie omg must defend.
grar I don't like minecraft's visuals
IRaithI said:
I'm indie! Must defend minecraft!
Blah blah blah I don't like minecraft because the graphics are bad and I can't tell why everyone loves it
1. Dude, you made an entire THREAD on something you have a rather vague grasp on.
2. I think the best way to put it is like this. You click World 1. You spawn. Around you, you see an entire world, 8 times the size of the surface of the Earth, being created around you, block by block. This is an excellent metaphor for the game itself. EVERYTHING around you is just blocks. Blocks as easily placed by you as they are by the editor. But, before you can place them, you need to earn them. After the world finishes spawning, what happens? This is the important part. What happens?
Whatever you want.
That's right. Whatever you want. First thing you know, you need to survive. You get some wood, build picks, torches and weapons. Then what? You need to make a home, to live through the night. Now that you've lived through the first night, you have a base. Now you can concentrate on not just surviving, but flourishing. You're all alone in this absolutely massive world, nobody to tell you what to do or how to do it. The entire world bends to your will. What'll you do? Build a giant doom fortress, maybe, that's the general approach. Okay, tme for your doom fortress.
Here, however, is where the main difference between something like the oblivion level editor or garry's mod and minecraft shows itself. No spawn menu. If you want to spawn a block, you'd better damn well have a block. In my case, for the wooden flooring alone, I used well over 10,000 wooden planks. I had to chop down god knows how many trees, planting saplings where they stood to ensure I have access to more wood, clear the land to have a flat base, build up a proper outer wall, smelt the glass for my skylight, pick every single goddamn flower that I put in my garden (Yes, I have a garden. It's very pretty.).
My point being, the block construction system may not be the prettiest, but goddamn it, it's mine. This is MY fortress of doom. It's MY rooms, MY torches, MY floors. It's MY walls, MY turrets, MY giant booby traps in the entrance and treasure rooms, MY lava waterfalls and moat. I had to dig down to the goddamn bedrock and beat up Fred fucking Flintstone (Well, in all fairness, it may have been a zombie, but with how dead that show is, might as well have been) in order to get the dozens and dozens of buckets of water to fill my moat and run my waterfalls. This fortress was built with my stones. My stones, that I worked to tear from the earth, using my blood, sweat and tears as the mortar.
That is why minecraft is better than your basic level editor. Every block, every plank, every lump of coal. I EARNED that stuff. My world was generated with no surface coal, I had to hunt for that shit. I spent god knows how long hunting for it. When I found my first vein of coal, they don't have words for how overjoyed I was. Let's see you get that kind of joy out of a spawn brick button. For my garden (Yes, I have a garden. It's very pretty.) I spent three (minecraft) days searching the hills, mountain ranges and valleys of my world for the single red rose to finish my flower arrangement. Again, the joy and satisfaction on climbing a monstrous peak, all the way above the clouds, to find the final red rose on its peak, and the feeling of self satisfaction as I planted it among its fellows on my garden. As it so happened, it was almost sunrise when I planted that last flower. I turned on my jukebox, put in a green record and climbed the stairs to the roof. As the music played and I watched the sunrise, I looked out across the world. Do you know what I saw?
Possibility.
