(video content isn't really the point but some of its good to watch certainly)


http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/26/zero-punctuation-reviews-minecraft/
He ACTUALLY liked Minecraft! :O Love Minecraft, listening to his reviews is great

He's not kidding about giving yourself a project to do, if you like the kind of game that has a specific purpose that you follow along and enjoy the yellow brick road it paves out for you, this game isn't for you, because it doesn't have that, at all, literally. The only reason you even have to do anything whatsoever in the game is because monsters spawn in the darkness and want to kill you, so you need somewhere safe and a means to kill them when necessary. Other than that though, you can do anything you please, build anything you've ever wanted to build.

Personally I find it has a double satisfaction involved in its Sandbox method: Accomplishment and Freedom.

Accomplishment because of the hard work it takes to actually go about gathering materials and actually making stuff.
Freedom because you can do just about anything you want to do, Floating Castle? Underwater Farm? Underground Empire? Go for it!

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2680-Minecraft
A decent Version of phoenix's link.
Hes such a funny bastard.

Also he swear alot.

He is funny yes

btw its exactly the same video, the youtube version is simply so I could put the video here instead of a link, the actual video on the website is what the actual hyperlink is for.

That video by Yahtzee is actually what made me get Minecraft lol.

He also wrote an article on the same website about what else Minecraft needs, seeing as it is still a beta I must say that these are very good suggestions and that it would be wise for the creator to take these on.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8615-Extra-Punctuation-What-Minecraft-Is-Missing

I very much agree with Yahtzee in saying that the game needs bursts of coloured confetti and sounds of fanfares and rounds of applause playing whenever you successfully kill an exploding bush monster before it gets to you.

That would be very nice indeed.

Those **** green penises >.>

An item that helps detect Ore and a Tutorial would be absolutely amazing!

The number of times I have found something so close by but hadn't found simply because I randomly chose to look somewhere else was staggering.

Why have a tutorial when you have a giant encyclopedia (the Wiki)

I think most people have found out about this game by seeing it on YouTube or seeing their friends playing. Those are the ways people have learnt.

Because there is no aim for this game (yet) I really don't think it needs a tutorial (and that is why people love making YouTube videos about them)

Every game requires some form of an in-game tutorial in my opinion. If a game doesn't have a tutorial then that is just lazy. The game doesn't need a strict objective to be able to teach you how to play Emily and actually it could use a tutorial to at least give a newbie some guidance on how to survive the first day. Another thing that I would like to see would be an in-game encyclopaedic reference which contains everything in the game, meaning a simple search in-game could give you the crafting recipe you want etc.

And I must say that I believe some kind of ore detection system is very much needed even if it just means being able to make yourself a metal detector as Yahtzee said.

I think one of the allures of Minecraft is the fact that the game does throw the player in the deep end. You have to learn everything on your own without a tutorial. Learning how to do things through trial and error, ingenuity or from watching friends rewards the player for being creative. And that is the core thing about Minecraft: creativity.

Obviously I don't play (mainly because uni starts next week and honours year is going to be tough work), but I love the concept of this game: that you can do anything and are only limited by monsters and your own imagination.

while it would be nice to have a tutorial, and it would be nice to have an official reference, the internet makes its own, finding it yourself is good enough

the intended player for minecraft is the kind of player who is willing to go through trial and error, spend copious amounts of time trying to get somewhere, enjoying the fact that hard work is involved and the potential is limitless

someone who gives up on something too easily, hates hard work or needs a road to follow, isn't going to enjoy minecraft that much anyway, sure it doesn't make any effort to get the players attention, but to an extent thats one of its best features, its all about you and the effort you want to put in

to that same extent the game works fine as it is, it caters the hard workers and devoted players, they dont need a tutorial or an official anything, they figure it out on their own or go find it on the internet because they want it, thats why they play the game in the first place, and its why they'll keep playing

A cannon!

http://www.ripten.com/2011/01/18/insane-minecraft-canon-launches-animals-into-space-mauler/

So awesome

That cannon is truly awesome indeed

Why wasnt the dynamite blowing up the cobblestone?

i was wondering that as well james

He said it was redstone. Maybe that's impervious to TNT?

I don't think it is

The stuff that is housing the TNT is cobblestone

The thing is, the TNT is falling into water so it stops that damage, but it is following water and there is less where the sheep was, so it can launch the shuttle with enough force without breaking the stone.

Didn't it fall into water?

ok then, i guess that makes sense...

I know the answer to that, water dampens the effects of TNT, don't know the specifics on it to give a more detailed answer, but the water is definitely the reason.