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- May 14, 2019
I like Minecraft.
Funny thing, I thought the game was way older than it was. As in, had been around since the 1990s. I was first introduced to it by a high school friend, odd kind of homeschooled guy, who played it on his phone. We mercilessly bullied him, but when I found it had survival elements I got really interested.
I only play Survival. Can't keep the attention to do Creative. What I do is usually just build giant farms, wall them in, and try to explore massive areas. I always rage-quit a world when I die while exploring and lose my maps, or some expensive stack of resources. In all those years (I guess going on eight, now) I've never used Redstone once, or really done much of anything besides build farms and mine in the Overworld.
The only problem with Minecraft is that it's too much of a time waster. It takes many hours to do anything meaningful in it (so much time is spent just clear-cutting rock) and even compared to other video games, it's drudgery. I can zone out listening to other stuff, but the guilt of it is too much.
Come to think of it, I use Minecraft and Don't Starve like competitors. Both of them are "survival" games where you build up from literally no tools. However, Don't Starve is more of an actual game where the survival is hard and the world cartoony and interesting, while Minecraft is minimalist and allows for way more creativity in actual building, at the cost of survival being more of just a motivator to build certain things.
Funny thing, I thought the game was way older than it was. As in, had been around since the 1990s. I was first introduced to it by a high school friend, odd kind of homeschooled guy, who played it on his phone. We mercilessly bullied him, but when I found it had survival elements I got really interested.
I only play Survival. Can't keep the attention to do Creative. What I do is usually just build giant farms, wall them in, and try to explore massive areas. I always rage-quit a world when I die while exploring and lose my maps, or some expensive stack of resources. In all those years (I guess going on eight, now) I've never used Redstone once, or really done much of anything besides build farms and mine in the Overworld.
The only problem with Minecraft is that it's too much of a time waster. It takes many hours to do anything meaningful in it (so much time is spent just clear-cutting rock) and even compared to other video games, it's drudgery. I can zone out listening to other stuff, but the guilt of it is too much.
Come to think of it, I use Minecraft and Don't Starve like competitors. Both of them are "survival" games where you build up from literally no tools. However, Don't Starve is more of an actual game where the survival is hard and the world cartoony and interesting, while Minecraft is minimalist and allows for way more creativity in actual building, at the cost of survival being more of just a motivator to build certain things.
