Hi guys!
Minecraft was part of my childhood and i grew up with it and I am pretty sure many of you did aswell. About me: I first played Minecraft when it was in it´s Beta 1.2 and i remember how excited I was for beds, to be released. I was like 13 or 14 at the time and i loved Minecraft and the freedom it gave me. The possibilities were endless. So yesterday I decided to load an old Version from Minecraft and start playing. It was strangely familiar and when the music started playing softly in the background I felt this really nostalgic feeling of back when times where simple and all you had to do was getting back from school and playing some Minecraft. It feels so strange and also familiar at the same time. I even made a simple video about this old Minecraft Nostalgia.
I tried to recreate some of the memories and maybe you get them too when you are watching this video. Or simply log into your first Minecraft world and wander around with some of this Minecraft alpha music playing in the background. I want to know how you guys connect to this old Version of Minecraft and which Memories you have, when you kinda relive those old memories. And also I want to know if I am the only one who is kinda afraid, that I will never have these feelings, which I had when I first loaded the game, again. Please let me know how you feel about the first versions of the game and your memories connected with it.
Have a nice day!
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Minecraft when I first started
I first started on the Minecraft Lite version. It was very simple, you started a survival or creative world and played. Only downside if is you closed the game the world would not save and I used to keep my tablet on for the night just so I could keep building. The world was very limited but I had so much fun on it. I remember building a school out of dirt, a McDonald's with a rollercoaster and whatnot. It looked so different from what it looked now and browsing through my foggy memory I can say that it looked simplistic, didn't have many features and the textures looked bland but yet it was perfect.
My brother and I got an Xbox 360 and we played the demo a whole lot. It was this small area that had the minecraft logo floating in the air and a castle. Few months later we brought Minecraft and played it. I remember my first world like it was yesterday. I started in survival and got scared so I turned it to creative and explored the snowy biome. A few worlds later and I find the most amazing thing, a superflat world. Oh the things I did in my superflat worlds. My brother and I built an entire city with a huge mall, sewer system, a plane, a ghast locked in a cage, cable tv wars, oh what nice memories. Some years later our Xbox decided to delete the hard drive's memory so we lost all the worlds we made and everything we did. We were pretty sad but at the same time not because we had the PC version. My brother got an account of his own and I played the hell out of multiplayer (I joined in version 1.6.4 btw). After school I would hop on his account and play on draw and guess in Mineplex, plotme or creative in Minetime and Edawg787. I loved roleplaying for some reason, it made me feel like I was acting in a movie. Then, I got my own account and played for hours and hours, building in creative and playing minigames. I had this phase where I wanted to be a staff member so bad but I was around 11 at the time so nobody would take me seriously and I did get staff in a few servers but most of them are shut down or I got demoted.
I never really liked singleplayer, especially survival and I really don't know why. Maybe is because I felt alone and playing online was the only way to strike up a conversation and make new friends.
Minecraft now:
Right now I can't play Minecraft without getting bored of it, maybe I overplayed too much or my taste changed. I tried playing with my only 3 friends but it doesn't seem to help either. I can make a new survival world, punch a tree, make a temporary house and suddenly I get bored. I go play on a creative world but it feels like I built everything already. I place a few blocks with a huge image in my mind but then I don't have the energy to keep going anymore. I've stepped away from Minecraft for quite a while playing games like Roblox, Team Fortress 2, GTA V, and NBA 2k. I don't know why I feel like this when I open up Minecraft, it just happens.
Perspective as a newbie:
If I was a newbie I would be very very confused at first. So many things have been added to Minecraft and let's pretend I heard so many good things about this game so I am eager to learn about everything this game has to offer. Trying to gather materials, expanding my house, mining and finding ores, new enemies and discovering cave sounds, building a farm for my animals, gathering enough resources to explore the nether and the end. Opening up the minecraft wiki to discover recipes (even though now you don't have to look them up online). I'd probaby go online and play in some popular servers and meet new people. That's all I got to say.
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1.6.4 and 1.7.10 were my personal favorites. Playing creative with tons of mods like Pokemon, dirtbikes, Minecraft comes alive and many other mods just made me want to play more. The servers were full of nice people and they were very active. I don't really know why but nowadays Minecraft has changed a lot and I really don't feel like playing it. Maybe it's because of all the features they added and I can't keep up with them.