Welcome to my humble blog. After 2 weeks of development, hopefully it's been worth the wait. The premise of my blog is more of just to show what's happening in a few different cultures, today: Videogames, the game in question: Minecraft.
For those under a less tech-savvy rock, Minecraft is the best thing since Legos. Minecraft is a game developed by Mojang, a new Swedish video game company, formed after its founder, "Notch", made the blocky world that took the gaming market by storm. The game mixes everything a gamer could want, building, fighting, crafting (for all of those who have played TF2, you know what I mean,) and multiplayer. Minecraft lets you take the world around you, harvest it, and turn it into whatever you please. And now, its even better. Yesterday, Mojang released Minecraft Beta 1.8, dealing with some of my biggest issues. It splits Single player into two different themes, allowing you to decide on what your true purpose is: Survival, or Creative.
The difference is right in the name, and it puts the difference into what you really want. As I tend to build more than anything else, I tried out creative first. As I found myself flying around this new world, punching blocks with ungodly strength, destroying them with one blow, I almost found it as cheating, but, I found it to be much easier to complete massive monuments to building. I finished my trans-continental finishing the project that had plagued a different world for weeks in just an hour. I found it almost too easy, but in survival mode, I found quite the opposite. Spawning in a world where you can level up, (which doesn't do anything yet,) and have to eat food to survive, (something I thought I wouldn't have to do ever again since Survival mode in Fallout: New Vegas,) Minecraft turned into a game that I hadn't experienced since my first playing of it, a survival game. Once again, I found myself having to build a small dirt house at night, with one torch inside to prevent violent mobs from spawning in on me, but, it had its perks too. I found the same excitement of killing my first Creeper, (A monster that explodes when it gets close to you, much to the dismay of many unfortunate miners,) to re-finding diamonds, and making a diamond pickaxe to last the ages.
Overall, I saw improvements that I didn't think I'd ever use again, the last time I actually used a sword to vanquish a monster was months ago. The addition of noclip lets me finish large house in half the time, and I'm starting to remember the awful hiss of Creepers during the night. I'm glad to say that you can have the best of both worlds, (even if those worlds on a different saved world,) and I even took the time to play the game in the fashion I had forgotten so long ago. Minecraft is by far one of the greatest indie games out there, and hopefully Mojang can keep working its Magic, I look forward to the Xbox version, then I'll never be able to leave my La-Z-Boy downstairs.
For those under a less tech-savvy rock, Minecraft is the best thing since Legos. Minecraft is a game developed by Mojang, a new Swedish video game company, formed after its founder, "Notch", made the blocky world that took the gaming market by storm. The game mixes everything a gamer could want, building, fighting, crafting (for all of those who have played TF2, you know what I mean,) and multiplayer. Minecraft lets you take the world around you, harvest it, and turn it into whatever you please. And now, its even better. Yesterday, Mojang released Minecraft Beta 1.8, dealing with some of my biggest issues. It splits Single player into two different themes, allowing you to decide on what your true purpose is: Survival, or Creative.
The difference is right in the name, and it puts the difference into what you really want. As I tend to build more than anything else, I tried out creative first. As I found myself flying around this new world, punching blocks with ungodly strength, destroying them with one blow, I almost found it as cheating, but, I found it to be much easier to complete massive monuments to building. I finished my trans-continental finishing the project that had plagued a different world for weeks in just an hour. I found it almost too easy, but in survival mode, I found quite the opposite. Spawning in a world where you can level up, (which doesn't do anything yet,) and have to eat food to survive, (something I thought I wouldn't have to do ever again since Survival mode in Fallout: New Vegas,) Minecraft turned into a game that I hadn't experienced since my first playing of it, a survival game. Once again, I found myself having to build a small dirt house at night, with one torch inside to prevent violent mobs from spawning in on me, but, it had its perks too. I found the same excitement of killing my first Creeper, (A monster that explodes when it gets close to you, much to the dismay of many unfortunate miners,) to re-finding diamonds, and making a diamond pickaxe to last the ages.
Overall, I saw improvements that I didn't think I'd ever use again, the last time I actually used a sword to vanquish a monster was months ago. The addition of noclip lets me finish large house in half the time, and I'm starting to remember the awful hiss of Creepers during the night. I'm glad to say that you can have the best of both worlds, (even if those worlds on a different saved world,) and I even took the time to play the game in the fashion I had forgotten so long ago. Minecraft is by far one of the greatest indie games out there, and hopefully Mojang can keep working its Magic, I look forward to the Xbox version, then I'll never be able to leave my La-Z-Boy downstairs.
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