i am sorry for saying like this,but What is the point of PLAYING minecraft, i still have no idea why is it super famous,i mean you guys are not kids or something like that you play that a lot,i wanted to open this topic because today i was on Xfire and i saw that 10 people were online and 8 of them were playing Minecraft,so tell me,why the hell it is super famous all you do is bricks and mining pfff.
Nerón wrote:IDK, it's just fun >.<That is not good enough to tell why,why is it fun. is it because of the fact that going here and there is fun,let me tell you about it,mister.If you want to really play something,do play Farmville,because it creates your imagination BACKWARDS >=D or play SKYRIM it is better than that,but mining and going there and here Feels like being Forest Gump, well if you want to be like that suit yourself . i want a reasonable cause,not a lolipop >.>
well i like mc cuz you can create what ever you want and whit al sort of stuf that comes to your mind you can make them real in mc yes its just pixeled blox but once you play it you get sucked in to it and you look at it in a different way if you say yes its only build and mine thats it but lets say call of duty you just kill people (talked about this with maul) get me i tought it sucked to but i tryed it a bit and its rly adicting like there some sort of....DARK MAGIC!
[color=#FF8000]Jawfin[/color] wrote: Zab's fault (as per usual)
if you really think that that is addictive,you better start to live your life and do minecraft in real life and afterwards come back and see which is really addictive,at least Call of is far better than this crap,because you learn how to aim,how to kill people and tasting how battlefield is, can you do this in cod or other games,no you cant,you could if you would in ancient Rome time as a SLAVE and besides you cant even do make the mines round,all you do is square This is not Tower Bloxx
Minecraft is difficult to explain...
When I first gave it a try i was all 'pff, there is no way i will like this game, its too simple'
5 hours later i was still mining for diamonds....
so all i can really tell you is, for some reason it is addicting, but even i cant figure out why yet.
When I first gave it a try i was all 'pff, there is no way i will like this game, its too simple'
5 hours later i was still mining for diamonds....
so all i can really tell you is, for some reason it is addicting, but even i cant figure out why yet.
~Come to bring the Lady of Time to her final destination, The Big Bad Wolf~
Senbou. wrote:Minecraft is difficult to explain...and why were you mining diamonds,were you trying to find a bone for me?;P
When I first gave it a try i was all 'pff, there is no way i will like this game, its too simple'
5 hours later i was still mining for diamonds....
so all i can really tell you is, for some reason it is addicting, but even i cant figure out why yet.
Arcanine wrote:if you play minecraft in its' purest form, diamonds are one of the most difficult resources to gather, so the running joke is everypony is mining for diamonds as a goal for the game :PSenbou. wrote:Minecraft is difficult to explain...and why were you mining diamonds,were you trying to find a bone for me?;P
When I first gave it a try i was all 'pff, there is no way i will like this game, its too simple'
5 hours later i was still mining for diamonds....
so all i can really tell you is, for some reason it is addicting, but even i cant figure out why yet.
and lolnope, bones are for taming wolves :P
~Come to bring the Lady of Time to her final destination, The Big Bad Wolf~
Moved to Anything Goes.
Arcanine wrote:if you really think that that is addictive,you better start to live your life and do minecraft in real life and afterwards come back and see which is really addictive,at least Call of is far better than this crap,because you learn how to aim,how to kill people and tasting how battlefield is, can you do this in cod or other games,no you cant,you could if you would in ancient Rome time as a SLAVE and besides you cant even do make the mines round,all you do is square This is not Tower Bloxxwell i would but in real life making a house,castle,hotel etc takes a lot of time and a lot of money
but here YOU JUST MAKES THE THINGS YOU WANT anyways like senbou sayd i dont know how but it just sucks you in to it like a desease
[color=#FF8000]Jawfin[/color] wrote: Zab's fault (as per usual)
Let me preface your question with another question, why do any of us play video games? Honestly, I'm asking this in all seriousness. Feel free to answer at your leisure. Why do you play video games?
You bring up the argument that in Call of Duty that you learn to aim and "kill people" (nice imagery there btw.) However, this is not the same as being on an actual battlefield, holding a real gun and aiming as you fire with it actually kicking you back. Sure, you get a virtual feeling of it if they programmed it just right, but it's still not 100% the same experience. However, you get enjoyed out of playing Call of Duty, like many other games in the world. They enjoy that rush of being on the battlefield, gun in hand, ready to take down their enemy for the cause they feel is just. It's fun, and it can also be realistic, get the blood flowing and heart rate up.
Minecraft on the other hand is a completely different game, but it's still a game. If all games were Call of Duty, hell, I wouldn't be a gamer. There are multiple genres out there for what people like. Minecraft is a genre where you build. That's all you do. You scavenge for materials, you build, whether it be a house, a proposal for your girlfriend, or an internet meme. Your imagination is practically your only limit. That's what makes Minecraft fun to me, and I don't even play the game.
Minecraft teases your imagination so deeply, you can get lost mining for the right materials to perfect what you want to build, want to do. It's not just going out and shooting people.
Gaming is an artform Arcanine. Everyone appreciates art differently. Some people might love Picasso, while others just don't understand what the hell he was smoking to come up with some of his masterpieces. Art is purely subjective. While you might love Call of Duty, others might love Minecraft, and just you asking people why they love it, won't have you fully understand why.
In my opinion, go to Minecraft's website. There's a free build of one of the earliest patches of the game you can play on your browser. You don't need to gather resources or anything, you can just build. Give that a try, and see what you think of the game yourself. You're not going to be able to form an opinion of the game without trying it yourself. It's like asking someone what they thought of the Mona Lisa or Citizen Kane without going to the Louvre or putting that DVD into your TV yourself and watching it.
So I come back to my question that I posed at the beginning, why do any of us play video games? They're fun. They tap into our imaginations and let us experience roles we could never feel in the real world, or that we could but we are afraid to try it in real life because it has very serious consequences. They teach you, they take you for a ride, they're lovely, and just plain awesome. That's why I play, and one day want to design video games. I hope this sums up in some way why people probably love Minecraft.
You bring up the argument that in Call of Duty that you learn to aim and "kill people" (nice imagery there btw.) However, this is not the same as being on an actual battlefield, holding a real gun and aiming as you fire with it actually kicking you back. Sure, you get a virtual feeling of it if they programmed it just right, but it's still not 100% the same experience. However, you get enjoyed out of playing Call of Duty, like many other games in the world. They enjoy that rush of being on the battlefield, gun in hand, ready to take down their enemy for the cause they feel is just. It's fun, and it can also be realistic, get the blood flowing and heart rate up.
Minecraft on the other hand is a completely different game, but it's still a game. If all games were Call of Duty, hell, I wouldn't be a gamer. There are multiple genres out there for what people like. Minecraft is a genre where you build. That's all you do. You scavenge for materials, you build, whether it be a house, a proposal for your girlfriend, or an internet meme. Your imagination is practically your only limit. That's what makes Minecraft fun to me, and I don't even play the game.
Minecraft teases your imagination so deeply, you can get lost mining for the right materials to perfect what you want to build, want to do. It's not just going out and shooting people.
Gaming is an artform Arcanine. Everyone appreciates art differently. Some people might love Picasso, while others just don't understand what the hell he was smoking to come up with some of his masterpieces. Art is purely subjective. While you might love Call of Duty, others might love Minecraft, and just you asking people why they love it, won't have you fully understand why.
In my opinion, go to Minecraft's website. There's a free build of one of the earliest patches of the game you can play on your browser. You don't need to gather resources or anything, you can just build. Give that a try, and see what you think of the game yourself. You're not going to be able to form an opinion of the game without trying it yourself. It's like asking someone what they thought of the Mona Lisa or Citizen Kane without going to the Louvre or putting that DVD into your TV yourself and watching it.
So I come back to my question that I posed at the beginning, why do any of us play video games? They're fun. They tap into our imaginations and let us experience roles we could never feel in the real world, or that we could but we are afraid to try it in real life because it has very serious consequences. They teach you, they take you for a ride, they're lovely, and just plain awesome. That's why I play, and one day want to design video games. I hope this sums up in some way why people probably love Minecraft.
Nec,i would like to thank you for this well written reply,you have made my mouth open and you made a topic,thats what i was waiting for.Dont get me wrong guys,but you were not explaining that fully like Nec did,anyway i do play games for two reasons i suppose btw,1st, i like to play games with my friends,2nd,i generally get educated when i play a game like cod,rtw etc. i get educated bcs,in cod i experience how being a soldier feels like or something like that,its really hard to explain and i amsurelywill
By the way.my apologies if i really pissed you off,because when you write i felt like you were angry or something like that, it was not personal,it was just,i dont know,i didnt understand why it was so known and because of my lack of experience about it i just didnt understand that,do you understand Nec? i am not a bully who cause a fight,i just was trying to understand but i couldnt,btw sorry for double post,as i said before i use samsung champ now but its writing is limited, thank you all for enlighten
Apology Accepted Captain Necros 
and honestly,i did not know you had that writing style,i mean apart from being extremelly helpful,i never saw you that you sound like pretty serious but seeing you moody from my past and dont worry about it champ,everbody makes mistakes but i dont think that you had error
and honestly,i did not know you had that writing style,i mean apart from being extremelly helpful,i never saw you that you sound like pretty serious but seeing you moody from my past and dont worry about it champ,everbody makes mistakes but i dont think that you had error