man, minecraft USED to be a great game in my opinion but mojang have really, really soured the experience in my opinion.
i still play both modern and older versions of minecraft, and i tend to play modern versions more just because it's most convenient usually (to find mods for, servers for, friends play it, etc.), but man, modern minecraft and what came before just aren't the same games. somewhere along the line their vision changed and the additions they added aren't as great or impactful as they once were. i can understand since adding features to the world's biggest game must be quite a daunting task. but they just don't do it like they used to.
the game's entire atmosphere has shifted too, with it being less focused on surviving and mining than it is just finding some generated structures and making farms to recover all of your shit once you die (although this could just be due to me knowing more about the inner workings of the game's mechanics now).
i much prefer the older more lonely feeling minecraft where there weren't much goals besides just building whatever the fuck you wanted and not everything needed a purpose, of course i'm aware you can still do that in modern versions it just seems a lot less efficient when there are a bunch of other micro things i could be working on like automating stuff.
the slow, subtle erasure of C418's great soundtrack is also quite depressing but hey ho what can you do? overall i'd give the newer versions 3.5 stars and probably give the older versions a very high 4.5 teetering on 5 stars, it's for this reason i gave the game 4 stars, just in the middle; again i visit both versions fairly frequently and love both, i just think the direction the game has been headed in for a while now isn't great - but at it's core, minecraft is still there, and that's what matters.
i still play both modern and older versions of minecraft, and i tend to play modern versions more just because it's most convenient usually (to find mods for, servers for, friends play it, etc.), but man, modern minecraft and what came before just aren't the same games. somewhere along the line their vision changed and the additions they added aren't as great or impactful as they once were. i can understand since adding features to the world's biggest game must be quite a daunting task. but they just don't do it like they used to.
the game's entire atmosphere has shifted too, with it being less focused on surviving and mining than it is just finding some generated structures and making farms to recover all of your shit once you die (although this could just be due to me knowing more about the inner workings of the game's mechanics now).
i much prefer the older more lonely feeling minecraft where there weren't much goals besides just building whatever the fuck you wanted and not everything needed a purpose, of course i'm aware you can still do that in modern versions it just seems a lot less efficient when there are a bunch of other micro things i could be working on like automating stuff.
the slow, subtle erasure of C418's great soundtrack is also quite depressing but hey ho what can you do? overall i'd give the newer versions 3.5 stars and probably give the older versions a very high 4.5 teetering on 5 stars, it's for this reason i gave the game 4 stars, just in the middle; again i visit both versions fairly frequently and love both, i just think the direction the game has been headed in for a while now isn't great - but at it's core, minecraft is still there, and that's what matters.