Minecraft - Is it worth playing?

[Sompting_Seagull]

Sounds good.
Do they have an iPad version?

Minecraft Pocket Edition. I like it, so does my 6yo son. Tell the wife I gotta play it to help the kid....when really its for me.

 

[Sompting_Seagull]

It's the crack cocaine of video games. Its a mix of Lego, Sims and Dungeons & Dragons.

You start off building a house, then a castle, then you give a wolf a bone and you have a pet dog and you think.... yeah this is alright but I'm starting to get bored.

Then you dig a big hole (or go exploring and find a big hole) and f*ck me, there are massive underground cave systems with zombies and skeletons; and waterfalls and hot lava; with hidden chambers and collapsing ceilings.

And next thing you know its 6am on monday morning, the weekend has disappeared and the missus is f*cking fuming!


At least that's what happened to me!

Same

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

It's the crack cocaine of video games. Its a mix of Lego, Sims and Dungeons & Dragons.

You start off building a house, then a castle, then you give a wolf a bone and you have a pet dog and you think.... yeah this is alright but I'm starting to get bored.

Then you dig a big hole (or go exploring and find a big hole) and f*ck me, there are massive underground cave systems with zombies and skeletons; and waterfalls and hot lava; with hidden chambers and collapsing ceilings.

And next thing you know its 6am on monday morning, the weekend has disappeared and the missus is f*cking fuming!


At least that's what happened to me!

This. Exactly this. All this 'it's for kids' is like saying that football is 'just a game'.

Strictly speaking, both assertions are correct, but...you know...they're not really.

 

[Hiney]

What is with Minecraft? Looks sh*t and yet it's so popular.

Why?

Anyone play?

Is it fun?

Well worth playing.














If you are 12

 

[brightn'ove]

Sounds good.
Do they have an iPad version?

yep

 

[Billy the Fish]

Minecraft is for people who can't have sex - so basically children under 16 or fat ugly adults!

Seriously, how shit must a persons' life be if they want to play this after they've grown their first pube

 

[Dick Head]

big lego

John Wayne is Big Lego.

 

[Sompting_Seagull]

Minecraft is for people who can't have sex - so basically children under 16 or fat ugly adults!

Seriously, how shit must a persons' life be if they want to play this after they've grown their first pube

When you get a wife and kids and the base unit and large keyboard for proper games goes out the window, and you only have an iPad or a Laptop which sucks for first person shooters and such. Last time I entered a multiplayer game I got killed instantly and frequently on it.

Minecraft is like the best 80's game you never had.

 

[ees complicated no?]

Well I play it and 24, tried building the Amex couple if years ago got the easy stand built and gave up just played survival mode

 

[Colonel Angus]

My daughter is addicted to it. I can understand the addiction to playing it, why not after all? But it's the addiction to watching youtube videos of other people playing it that I find a bit weird

That sums up the same situation in my house and my opinion in the most succinct way possible.

 

[Mellotron]

Utterly pointless and daft.

Insanely addictive and fun.

 

[sebtucknott]

I've never really got it. But then I can't really comment as I haven't played it.

This however did blow my mind...

Some one builds working 1kb Hdd in minecraft

 

[wakeytom]

I've never really got it. But then I can't really comment as I haven't played it.

This however did blow my mind...

Some one builds working 1kb Hdd in minecraft

I find that almost literally mind blowing!

Got to admit didnt understand the hype but just picked up a ps4 and want a game to play during insomnia and find that most games just over-work my brain eg concentration of 1st person shooters etc but maybe this is not it as I will just be thinking of new stuff to make.

 

[Norman Potting]

My daughter is addicted to it. I can understand the addiction to playing it, why not after all? But it's the addiction to watching youtube videos of other people playing it that I find a bit weird

On a similar theme, watching youtube video of folks opening bags of Moshi Monsters.

 

[Norman Potting]

I've never really got it. But then I can't really comment as I haven't played it.

This however did blow my mind...

Some one builds working 1kb Hdd in minecraft

Do you think that "someone" gets out much?

 

[Bold Seagull]

People are building actual replica cities!

http://architizer.com/blog/summer-video-game-series-the-best-of-minecraft-architecture/

 

[wakeytom]

People are building actual replica cities!

http://architizer.com/blog/summer-video-game-series-the-best-of-minecraft-architecture/

Some of that is very impressive

 

[crasher]

People are building actual replica cities!

http://architizer.com/blog/summer-video-game-series-the-best-of-minecraft-architecture/

Strikes me it's the modern equivalent of those old boys who used to spend years building perfect replicas of cathedrals out of matchsticks.

 

[LowerWesty]

Ok at first look it's Lego on a PC, but like most things when you look a bit deeper they get far more complicated and interesting.

My Grandson (11) 'plays' it and his grasp of how things work has improved beyond belief. He's a normal guy, plays football, rides his bike, goes to the youth club and the skatepark, with his mates. But Mincraft has opened his mind to truth tables and logic gates and how they can be used to control processes.

I'm not saying he up to the level of understanding, let alone constructing the1KB memory block, but he and his mates have constructed machines that work.

Minecraft isn't just a game it's a game that encourages learning and if you enjoy learning you progress far more quickly.

Google 'Minecraft escalator' for an example of what kids can achieve.

Sent from my iPad

 

[shaolinpunk]

It's nothing short of a phenomenon. Personally I've never got into it (in fairness I've not really given it a proper go) but I've heard largely good things about it. The only real limit on what you can build is your creativity and patience

I know that it has been used in schools and that I've heard that, as it's a sandbox to get creative in, it is a big help for kids with autism that otherwise struggle to express themselves