Minecraft is still a big deal in my house. My kids play it on the PC and when their friends come over they will play on the Xbox. I just had to help my neighbors buy a PC copy for their son.
Notch and the herobrine have mythical status here. I’ve heard tales about the herobrine being Notch’s evil brother and there are frequent conversations regarding who (Notch or the Herobrine) is the most powerful. I think they are getting these stories from youtube or their friends.
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As of probably a year or so ago, notch was still a huge jerk. Minecraft the game is awesome and I wish I could find a sever to play on but he’s an asshole.
Head bob is the first thing I disable on all games, but thanks I’ll try increasing the brightness and removing vignette.png.
In general, most FPS games give me motion sickness, which sucks because I really want to play them. Some games are ok. Skyrim is mostly good (thank god), Killing Floor and Team Fortress 2 are fine, and I can play Borderlands for about an hour at a time. About 30 mins of Minecraft makes me feel like crap for the next several hours. Alan Wake is 3rd person, but 5 mins of that gave me a bad headache, probably because of all the wavy camera effects.
Thanks for the context!
I heard Notch only drinks the tears of orphans and he invented honey boo boo.
Those sales were likely the cards you can buy in major retailers now being activated that were Christmas presents. You buy the card and then download the game. Younger kids are suprisingly interested in the game.
It is not surprising at all. It is one of the only games that lets you express any kind of real creativity.
Exactly, my cousins have 5 kids and they all know of the game and want it. The words they use to describe it are very similar to how kids used to talk about lego. “I can build this and this and have adventures here with my castle and tunnels.”
Yep. It reminds me of a mod me and my friends used to play of the original Halo. In it, when you shot your pistol, it created a log (as in a long wooden log that you see lying around in some of the multiplayer and single player maps). So we would fire up Blood Gulch with the mod, and build all kinds of stuff with logs. Bridges, houses, anything we could think of. Even back then, I thought, someone should make this a full featured game, just being in a game together and building stuff.
When I was in Korea there was a lot of “Teacher, I’m creeper. PSSSTTTT…BANG!” from the elementary school kids. Even saw a few playing it on their phones. Every class from about 5th grade and up knew about Minecraft. I had always thought its popularity was mostly contained in the US. Their obsession with Angry Birds however was genuinely insane.
I hope Minecraft grabs the attention of some big development houses. I hope they take the time to understand why it is so successful. I would very much like a whole new crop of games that emphasize creativity and exploration. I would like these concepts to be explored in as many game types as possible.
A friend was telling me about this whole Minecraft music thing going on, so I go on you tube and there are like tons of songs about Minecraft. ( I haven’t played much since mid-2011)
WTF… I never even knew this was going on!
So I searched around a abit and this guy put together the top 25, in his opinion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUN15WYC-fg&list=UU50C1qJA4Wmssisdkyb381Q&index=2
Its actually pretty good. :)
The stuff my 8 year old is creating blows my mind. I’m surprised someone hasn’t examined the educational benefits of Minecraft for young kids.
For those who don’t want to put Java on their real computer (*), VMWare Workstation 9 (or VMWare Fusion for the Mac folks) now handles passing hardware video acceleration through to the guests.
[Yeah, the cost of the VM software is significantly higher than the game, but really, VMs are so useful. Also, I think VMWare is having a Workstation 15% off New Year’s Sale now]
(*) If you do insist on putting it on a computer, please don’t let it talk to a browser. Pretty much, ever. Seriously.
Bit of a problem here where all the major banks require java in browser for secure authentication… kinda defeats the purpose I’d say.
That’s great that you could use a Minecraft thread to express your views on Java. Nice.
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I still remember the days back when Minecraft had already sold millions, yet IGN didn’t have a single article up about its existence. It was pretty hilarious watching it become so incredibly successful while the most popular gaming sites on the internet ignored it in favor of giving more undeserved attention to steaming piles of AAA crap.
Minecraft absolutely deserves every penny it earns. In an age where AAA console titles will give often you a dozen paltry hours of campaign and then happily charge you extra to go online and battle your friends and even PC titles are laden with awful DRM or nickel and dime you with DLC, Minecraft provides hundreds of hours of entertainment for one purchase, and the updates and additions are FREE. It is hands down the best gaming value I have ever spent money on.
My 13 year old son, who churns through shooters like he’s a character in a Quentin Tarantino movie and plays, finishes and trades back practically every AAA title he can get his hands on, has been playing Minecraft for nearly two years now. First it was on the PC, where he would create huge castles and entire towns on his own, then with me or his friends. Then when it came out on Xbox Live I figured he’d be bored of it already, but no, he spent his MS points on it and was instantly hooked again playing with an all new group of friends making worlds together. Lately he’s been splitting time between the Xbox version and the PC now that he discovered custom servers that do things like Hunger Games and straight PvP. It is entirely possible that he has more hours invested in Minecraft than he does in every other game he’s ever played on Xbox, combined.
The best part is, it’s a great game. The building and design aspects, the resource management, the need to prioritize (when playing survival), those are all skills that have real life benefits. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours of gameplay, and all with an educational benefit, not bad for $20.
Notch and the Mojang folks deserve every penny.