minecraft

[phata$$]

if you like survival horror you owe it to yourself to play amnesia - the dark descent.

I just looked up some YouTube videos on that game. Holy shit does that look amazing.

[Jason]

i'm a terribly wonderful person irl

true story

[PH]

it's no coincidence that everyone i know who is a fan of this shit is a terrible person irl

[Jason]

i finally beat plants vs zombies as much as i'm willing to beat it. screw all those steam achievements.

gonna get minecraft this weekend. probably won't log into ss for a month!

[Galleleo]

it's not about the shit you build looking good

it's the fact that you can build alllllll kinds of shit

you're only limited by your imagination (which, hopefully, isn't shitty!)

It probably has to do with that I tend to be more of a fan of rounder shapes than very sharp shapes. Also I have an awesome imagination, I'm just terrible in actually transforming that into anything on paper or computer, so I would probably just be frustrated most of the time because things aren't looking how I head them in my head.

galleleo: haha ok point taken, but ONLY because assassin's creed and the sequel are two of the tightest games i've played recently.

I pre-ordered brotherhood the moment I finished Assassin's Creed II. I tend to get bored with games fast and I never really finish them, but this series is fantastic.

Minecraft is a glorious game and testament to the creative asperations of young and old.

Guys, look who said this, save yourselves!

[Jason]

if you like survival horror you owe it to yourself to play amnesia - the dark descent.

[phata$$]

It depends. Minecraft is basically an outlet for my OCD. If I see someone place a torch in a wrong spot or alter the dimensions of a perfect 12x12 corridor, it would feel like torture to me. However, watching someone fight through a cave with just a few torches and a puny wooden sword would be hilarious.

I would also like to mention that this game is one of the scariest games I've ever played. And I've played most, if not all of the survival-horror games. Nothing is scarier than working on a mine and accidentally falling through a hole. You begin to hear zombie noises from who knows where. You desperately pull out a sword and swing at everything around you. When you finally calm down and set torches, you realize that there was nothing at all to be afraid of. Until you turn around and immediately see a silent green blob that explodes in your face. It's great.

[Jerome Scuggs]

man it's actually a pretty awesome party game as well. my buddy connected his computer to his big screen and was playing minecraft during a small get together tonight and at any given time, there were 3-4 people on the couch all tossing out ideas on what to build, which just led to awesomely hilarious buildings.

[phata$$]

The real fun starts when you start to harvest diamonds. From that point, everything is so easy to do.

[TagMor]

Minecraft is a glorious game and testament to the creative asperations of young and old.

[Squeezer]

my roommates are both addicted to this game but they're losers.

I play FIFA 11 instead $

[Jerome Scuggs]

start your tunnel from the island. much less guesswork?

wait... does it flood in this game? if the lake decided to rise would your whole tunnel system flood?

well since the game itself is basically a giant grid of cubes (air cubes, earth cubes, etc), i can't precisely pick a direction... it's like trying to draw a diagonal line with pixels. instead of doing that, i just dig east in a straight line and then turn and dig north. the trick is figuring out how far east and north you have to dig, and then making sure it's on the same elevation.

the lake doesnt flood, but if i am in a tunnel under it, and i dig up, water will flow into the tunnel. as it turns out it doesnt flood everything, just a decent area around where the water is coming in. still very annoying.

so far i have attempted two under-lake tunnels, but it is alot of effort. you don't just dig - you have to plan it out. gotta get alot of wood and coal and iron ore, turn some of the wood into sticks, and then use sticks+coal to make torches (so you can keep adding light sources as your tunnel expands), sticks+iron to make iron shovels and pickaxes, and then some wood to make a few doors.

i don't feel like completing those tunnels, so i just crafted a storage box outside the entrance and threw all the materials in there, and then i headed back to my original hut, which is on the shore. i destroyed it (except for the entrance to my tunnel system) and now i am working on building a castle which will probably also function as a lighthouse. for the most part i have just been digging into the world, which got kind of boring, but this is the first time i'm actually building something. i guess i can explore later, it is time to build CASTLE JEROME

[Zeebu]

the problem now is, since i am going under a lake, i wont be able to poke out and check my progress without flooding the tunnel. gonna have to make some hella good guesses to get this one connected!

start your tunnel from the island. much less guesswork?

wait... does it flood in this game? if the lake decided to rise would your whole tunnel system flood?

[PH]

quickly losing faith in humanity

[Zeebu]

ok i think i am going to try this when i get home from work argh