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Dec. 12th, 2011 13:39![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhanow, why i've been so quiet since the *poing* got here. it's all their fault -- the *poing*'s and the paramour's. because they introduced me to a game by the name of minecraft, and i've been playing it obsessively since then. and because the depression hasn't gone away (ha! if only...), i either have energy for a social life, or for the game.
it's a wonderful game, and the first game since arcanum that's sucked me in so fast. but it's way better than arcanum; more immersive, more creative, more expandable. it's a sandbox game, its primary focus is on building, but there's also exploring, acquiring stuff, farming, figuring out how items in the game work, and fighting for survival -- if you want to. you are not locked into any specific mode, and you can freely switch between them. you can play the game without ever fighting a single enemy and with unlimited resources to build anything you want, where health and hunger are of no concern, and where you can't die, or you can battle it out in hardcore mode, where death lurks around every corner and means the end of your entire world, and you have to start over from scratch. or anywhere in between; explore an abandoned mine today, build an automated underwater sugarcane farm tomorrow, and trap poisonous spiders the next day.
it can be played by children, teens, and adults, by parents with their kids, without either getting bored or finding it too difficult. you can play it alone, or on a server with your friends, or on a public server with hundreds of people under a particular theme (like recreating middle earth, or lost, or anything the server owner comes up with. you can save your world and share it with other people.
it's also expandable, and since it's been played by millions of gamers since its beta release a year ago, there are lots of extensions (called mods) available. some only change a small aspect, others add a whole new dimension. you can "skin" it with texture packs so everything looks like the world of tron or victorian steampunk. you can make your own texture pack; it's easy -- didn't take long til i started my own, of course. ;)
and it's all done with cubes.
it's a wonderful game, and the first game since arcanum that's sucked me in so fast. but it's way better than arcanum; more immersive, more creative, more expandable. it's a sandbox game, its primary focus is on building, but there's also exploring, acquiring stuff, farming, figuring out how items in the game work, and fighting for survival -- if you want to. you are not locked into any specific mode, and you can freely switch between them. you can play the game without ever fighting a single enemy and with unlimited resources to build anything you want, where health and hunger are of no concern, and where you can't die, or you can battle it out in hardcore mode, where death lurks around every corner and means the end of your entire world, and you have to start over from scratch. or anywhere in between; explore an abandoned mine today, build an automated underwater sugarcane farm tomorrow, and trap poisonous spiders the next day.
it can be played by children, teens, and adults, by parents with their kids, without either getting bored or finding it too difficult. you can play it alone, or on a server with your friends, or on a public server with hundreds of people under a particular theme (like recreating middle earth, or lost, or anything the server owner comes up with. you can save your world and share it with other people.
it's also expandable, and since it's been played by millions of gamers since its beta release a year ago, there are lots of extensions (called mods) available. some only change a small aspect, others add a whole new dimension. you can "skin" it with texture packs so everything looks like the world of tron or victorian steampunk. you can make your own texture pack; it's easy -- didn't take long til i started my own, of course. ;)
and it's all done with cubes.
Same old you, but ...
Re: Same old you, but ...
on 2011-12-17 04:19 (UTC)