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Renegade_Turner wrote:More capable, modern version? Minecraft has only been in production for less than a year and a half...in fact, the full version still hasn't been released.

Actually development started in 2009.
But still... "Capable and modern" errr wha...

Even though Minecraft has the look of an older game, it's very capable and modern. In fact, it comes out in a couple of days.
Ren that was a very good analogy. That's exactly how I think of Minecraft's ending, and boss fight. I wish it would have stayed as a simple sandbox; the forced meaning is unnecessary. I guess you don't really have to pursue the ending though, so it's just there to please people like Cyber.

m3nace wrote:

Renegade_Turner wrote:More capable, modern version? Minecraft has only been in production for less than a year and a half...in fact, the full version still hasn't been released.

Actually development started in 2009.
But still... "Capable and modern" errr wha...

That changes it from 1 year and 6 months to 1 year and 11 months. You're right, MASSIVE difference.

It is to an infant. And I think your math is slightly off, it actually officially started on May 10, 2009, which is approximately 79570000000000000000000000000000 yoctoseconds ago, or 0.00000000000000007957 yottaseconds ago, or 2 years 6 months 7 days ago as of November 17, 2011. Which actually is significantly different.

No but you see Bryan already did that one and it wasn't even funny when he did it...

I was bored. Wolfram Alpha is fun. So is Wikipedia.

Jacktheawesome wrote:Even though Minecraft has the look of an older game, it's very capable and modern. In fact, it comes out in a couple of days.
Ren that was a very good analogy. That's exactly how I think of Minecraft's ending, and boss fight. I wish it would have stayed as a simple sandbox; the forced meaning is unnecessary. I guess you don't really have to pursue the ending though, so it's just there to please people like Cyber.

I was just going to say that. I don't actually like minecraft anymore; It's lost the 'Build Anything you Want' feel and seems like the last stages of development were extremely lazy, and seemed to involve adding a bunch of stuff from skyrim into the game. (XP/Levels, Tool Upgrading, Potions, Dragons, BOSSES)

The Ending narrative is annoyingly long too.

zzwerty wrote:[...] and seemed to involve adding a bunch of stuff from skyrim into the game. (XP/Levels, Tool Upgrading, Potions, Dragons, BOSSES)

He just added generic RPG elements. The dragon boss aside, why would you say it has anything to do with Skyrim? Because they were "released" at the same time?

I know, the comparisons people draw to Skyrim always seemed a bit overblown. I think the RPG elements didn't add anything to the game at all, but eh. You can always ignore them. I still play, but mostly in creative mode, planting ungodly amounts of TNT everywhere and making all the mountains volcanoes.

I just ignore them.

It isn't really a big issue. The biggest problem I had was the fact that you could "win" Minecraft. However, the process you have to go through to actually get to the end fight is so far removed from what you would normally do while playing Minecraft that pretty much the only people that would ever get to it would be the people that really want to have an end fight. So it all works out in the end.
I haven't tried Terraria. It looks kind of good, but I have such limited funds for gaming that I would much rather spend money on a game that isn't so similar to Minecraft.