First of all, everything below is just in my own opinion. Pls no hate. Second of all, I'm not saying that I hate Minecraft, it's just that I don't really like the new versions. Okay, let's get started.
Ever since 1.6 came out, I haven't been enjoying Minecraft as much. The new features kind of bug me, and Minecraft doesn't feel like Minecraft anymore. Some people who have been playing since the early stages of the game might understand. The amount of new features bother me, especially Guardians. I like the idea of underwater dungeons, but Guardians are very weird. They shoot strange-looking lasers, and they look different to different mobs. I feel as if the new features being added, including the new biomes, mobs and blocks all add an unreal feeling to Minecraft. I've been playing older versions, especially Beta 1.7. However, there are still some additions to the game that I love, including the new world generation and barriers. However, banners and skin customisation I don't like. The game still feels very mod-ish, and I've been starting to veer away from Minecraft towards other games. I'm still playing, but usually I do things like create an Civ V or kill Marauders in Borderlands. However, Minecraft will still hold a special place in my heart (and computer).
Thanks you for reading all the way, and I hope some of you will understand how I'm feeling. And again, please don't leave any hate, and try to leave constructive comments. Thanks.
People change and games and players move on. I only have three games that I still play from their inception, and that's RTCW:Enemy Territory, Counterstrike Source and Minecraft. Everything else has been uninstalled, deleted etc.
There are lots of things I don't really like about 1.8.*, not least the extraordinary lag which makes the game uncomfortable for me to play on an older system, but as with most things in Minecraft, if you don't like them, they are easily avoided. For example; who makes fireworks? All that effort into coding all of that stuff and I bet a very small percentage of people actually bother to make and use fireworks. The new blocks like Andesite, Granite etc, I'd never really use them for building, so they would just go the same way as dirt and gravel.
I think with the advent of things like build teams on Youtube, groups of friends who put huge amounts of effort into Minecraft, normal players think they too should be investing heavily into the game and they really don't have to. I have lost count of the amount of servers I have joined, thinking this is it, I am going to put everything into this, this is the one, then I build a house, get bored, delete server and repeat, ad nauseam.
Pick a version you're happy with and play it until you're bored. Then have a rest, play something else and come back. Everything will all still be there.
Though this is very much a subjective thing from person to person, so reasons vary, I have a thought that there's perhaps often two major contributors to this sort of feeling arising regarding Minecraft.
The first is that Minecraft was never intended to be as big as it was. It was started as a small project, and never had clear goals of what, exactly, it wanted to be (even when Notch was in charge of it all), so as it grew, Notch stepped back and here was a directionless game taking off that they didn't know exactly what to do with, so they just kept with it. All of these gradual additions of features atop Minecraft, and later by a separate coder, over time add to making it feel like the same base game weighed down by these piled on features rather than a further evolving game. I would like to mention that I feel Minecraft, and Jeb, are doing fine with it in my opinion. I think it did okay.
The second is nostalgia, perhaps combined with the novelty of this unique game known as Minecraft wearing off, more or less. In other words, maybe you're getting bored of it as much as you are not as thrilled with the changes?
This, of course, is all my subjective opinion. There's nothing wrong with novelty wearing thin, not liking recent changes, or simply getting less interested in the game over time. I've just seem this same sort of thread so many times and it usually feels like nostalgia and waning novelty speaking most of the time. Personally, I think the game is still all it ever was more or less, only (mostly) better and with more. Yes, there were somewhat radical changes at some points, but I think it was mostly for the better.
One word. Nostalgia. You only remember the best part. Remember how enchanting use to take 50 levels which made enchanting completely useless since it would take forever? Or how you couldn't even sprint? Or how armor was basically worthless since it broke so fast? Or how they was so few blocks and most building where cobblestone and wood planks? Or how tedious digging large section was because the best thing was unenchanted diamond pickaxe? I could keep going. Basically the game was better for you because you only think of the best part and ignore all the drawback. Now I'm not saying the game was terrible before, but it wasn't as good as it is now.
For the current version feeling like mods, it's because there's so many mods made and their quality is so high that they are almost not different. Before, big and good mods where far and few in between, Hell Tekkit in 1.2.5 use to be huge and had only 30 ish mods. Now an average modpack has around 100 mods that are the same quality. So in other words, new stuff feels like mods because mods quality are at par with the game,
Some people who have been playing since the early stages of the game might understand.
Keyword is likely 'Some'. I've been playing since Alpha 1.2.5 and I still play it more regularly than any other game.
I've even been playing on the same Single Player world since the "1.9 Prerelease 6" that added enchanting. It's been long enough that while exploring "new areas" I have come upon long-forgotten bases. Also there was a lot of explored terrain that i hadn't changed. In one of my old bases I remember that I had a water-path to a stronghold- follow a river and then go into the ocean at a specific angle and I have a small base on a jungle island above the stronghold. That ocean now has a few ocean monuments which I discovered a few days ago. "Skin customization" has been in the game since pretty much InfDev, so I don't know how we can consider that a recent change.
It's interesting because that world is the only thing that has remained constant, in a way. I'm living somewhere else now, I have a completely different PC, I have a different Job- literally the only thing similar between now and two years ago for me is the fact that my Minecraft world still exists. find messages to myself from years ago written on signs in filled in areas rhetorically asking why I'm tearing out the ground here.
Ever since 1.6 came out, I haven't been enjoying Minecraft as much. The new features kind of bug me, and Minecraft doesn't feel like Minecraft anymore. Some people who have been playing since the early stages of the game might understand. The amount of new features bother me, especially Guardians. I like the idea of underwater dungeons, but Guardians are very weird. They shoot strange-looking lasers, and they look different to different mobs. I feel as if the new features being added, including the new biomes, mobs and blocks all add an unreal feeling to Minecraft. I've been playing older versions, especially Beta 1.7. However, there are still some additions to the game that I love, including the new world generation and barriers. However, banners and skin customisation I don't like. The game still feels very mod-ish, and I've been starting to veer away from Minecraft towards other games. I'm still playing, but usually I do things like create an Civ V or kill Marauders in Borderlands. However, Minecraft will still hold a special place in my heart (and computer).
Thanks you for reading all the way, and I hope some of you will understand how I'm feeling. And again, please don't leave any hate, and try to leave constructive comments. Thanks.
i quit
There are lots of things I don't really like about 1.8.*, not least the extraordinary lag which makes the game uncomfortable for me to play on an older system, but as with most things in Minecraft, if you don't like them, they are easily avoided. For example; who makes fireworks? All that effort into coding all of that stuff and I bet a very small percentage of people actually bother to make and use fireworks. The new blocks like Andesite, Granite etc, I'd never really use them for building, so they would just go the same way as dirt and gravel.
I think with the advent of things like build teams on Youtube, groups of friends who put huge amounts of effort into Minecraft, normal players think they too should be investing heavily into the game and they really don't have to. I have lost count of the amount of servers I have joined, thinking this is it, I am going to put everything into this, this is the one, then I build a house, get bored, delete server and repeat, ad nauseam.
Pick a version you're happy with and play it until you're bored. Then have a rest, play something else and come back. Everything will all still be there.
(Including 1.8's lag!)
The first is that Minecraft was never intended to be as big as it was. It was started as a small project, and never had clear goals of what, exactly, it wanted to be (even when Notch was in charge of it all), so as it grew, Notch stepped back and here was a directionless game taking off that they didn't know exactly what to do with, so they just kept with it. All of these gradual additions of features atop Minecraft, and later by a separate coder, over time add to making it feel like the same base game weighed down by these piled on features rather than a further evolving game. I would like to mention that I feel Minecraft, and Jeb, are doing fine with it in my opinion. I think it did okay.
The second is nostalgia, perhaps combined with the novelty of this unique game known as Minecraft wearing off, more or less. In other words, maybe you're getting bored of it as much as you are not as thrilled with the changes?
This, of course, is all my subjective opinion. There's nothing wrong with novelty wearing thin, not liking recent changes, or simply getting less interested in the game over time. I've just seem this same sort of thread so many times and it usually feels like nostalgia and waning novelty speaking most of the time. Personally, I think the game is still all it ever was more or less, only (mostly) better and with more. Yes, there were somewhat radical changes at some points, but I think it was mostly for the better.
For the current version feeling like mods, it's because there's so many mods made and their quality is so high that they are almost not different. Before, big and good mods where far and few in between, Hell Tekkit in 1.2.5 use to be huge and had only 30 ish mods. Now an average modpack has around 100 mods that are the same quality. So in other words, new stuff feels like mods because mods quality are at par with the game,
Keyword is likely 'Some'. I've been playing since Alpha 1.2.5 and I still play it more regularly than any other game.
I've even been playing on the same Single Player world since the "1.9 Prerelease 6" that added enchanting. It's been long enough that while exploring "new areas" I have come upon long-forgotten bases. Also there was a lot of explored terrain that i hadn't changed. In one of my old bases I remember that I had a water-path to a stronghold- follow a river and then go into the ocean at a specific angle and I have a small base on a jungle island above the stronghold. That ocean now has a few ocean monuments which I discovered a few days ago. "Skin customization" has been in the game since pretty much InfDev, so I don't know how we can consider that a recent change.
It's interesting because that world is the only thing that has remained constant, in a way. I'm living somewhere else now, I have a completely different PC, I have a different Job- literally the only thing similar between now and two years ago for me is the fact that my Minecraft world still exists. find messages to myself from years ago written on signs in filled in areas rhetorically asking why I'm tearing out the ground here.