So we have this game with outdated pixelated graphics, that's apparently all the rage. It's on Xbox Live, and I got no plans today. Let's see what the hubbub is all about. I hope I get a few hours enjoyment out of it.
That was me just a month ago.
Now, it's like I come home dead tired, and have a whole agenda of stuff I need to do with the evening. Housework, social obligations, gym, projects, etc.
But no, it's gonna be another evening of playing Minecraft until 3am.
This game has no real goal, so why is it so bloody addicting? I guess because there's always something to do. You can always add a new wing to the castle. You can always build a train network. You can always go hunting for materials.
I figured out how to get rid of the minecraft addiction.
First of all, play 16 hours a day for the first 3 weeks after the game is released.
That's step one - burnout.
Then, join a persistent multiplayer world, spend a week adding value to the community, building a house in the town and adding all sorts of helpful things to the world.
Finally, wait for a squeaky-voiced punk griefer to come in a destroy all your week's worth of work in 2 minutes with some TNT. Maybe the owner of the world has a backup, maybe they don't. If they don't have a backup... your addiction will fade very fast. Trust me on this one.
HAHA I was just thinking this yesterday. I was just gonna lay down the final pieces for the On A Rail achievement. Then looking at a strait line was boring.... Had to add some cool factor ex.... Fire/ water/lava. Anyway, 8 hours later I still had not rode the line for the achievement. My car is still dirty, and the yard still needs to be mowed. But I do have a cool strait line of rail
I had an addiction on computer. The computer broke. Then... I got the Xbox edition and I got addicted again. I guess i got bored after digging my diamonds. I'm just waiting for this to be updated for mods to be added, and the recent versions to be added also.
I had an addiction on computer. The computer broke. Then... I got the Xbox edition and I got addicted again. I guess i got bored after digging my diamonds. I'm just waiting for this to be updated for mods to be added, and the recent versions to be added also.
I had an addiction on computer. The computer broke. Then... I got the Xbox edition and I got addicted again. I guess i got bored after digging my diamonds. I'm just waiting for this to be updated for mods to be added, and the recent versions to be added also.
Mods will not be added to the game.
Either way, it sounds like new players to minecraft take it very seriously. after you have a giant castle, a railway system, and everything you can think of after you found enough diamonds to have a full set of armor and tools, the game will lose intrest. But thats when everything goes down hill, because you start a new world to "relive" your old adventures.I have no idea what happend on my last post?
I have to agree here. This game is definitely pure evil. I bought it for my kids because they had been playing the demo over and over for about a week. Once it downloaded on the 360, I started playing it just to tease them. That was three weeks ago. I am exhausted, but even now.... I am at work logged into a forum to discuss a game I plan on playing as soon as I get home even though I know I need to pull weeds in my garden, do the laundry and take a test for my online accounting class.
Minecraft is seriously the video game version of crack.
Same story....Whats minecraft? let me buy it on xbox live to see what the masses are talking about....after playing for a couple of hours it became something i have to play all the time no matter what lol...all my call of duty games are on shelf and i am in my world of HeroineCraft as i call it keeping a step ahead of creepers zombies and planning my next project every day soon i will be buying the PC Version i say best 53 dollars spent keeps my mind Stimulated but my OCD Kicks in when i am organizing stuff in my virtual home village.....
But something that some folks are posting is very true. It's very, very unpleasant when someone starts griefing. Because you can easily destroy in seconds what someone has spent weeks building.
Finally, wait for a squeaky-voiced punk griefer to come in a destroy all your week's worth of work in 2 minutes with some TNT. Maybe the owner of the world has a backup, maybe they don't. If they don't have a backup... your addiction will fade very fast. Trust me on this one.
Yeeeeah. As I posted last week, a bunch of guys came and had a big ol ruckus party in my castle.
Took me over a week to fix what they messed up in just one night.
The xbox 360 version of this game saved my gaming life. as evil as it is it has took me in and cared for my gaming life ever sence my xbox stoped reading disks. now all i can play is dead space and minecraft (Can't wait to play dead space three). as long as i have my minecraft, my turtle beaches, and my diamond pickaxe i am good to go.
Either way, it sounds like new players to minecraft take it very seriously. after you have a giant castle, a railway system, and everything you can think of after you found enough diamonds to have a full set of armor and tools, the game will lose intrest. But thats when everything goes down hill, because you start a new world to "relive" your old adventures.
My wife hates when I start a new world. We get going on a world, she gets her happy farm (WAY bigger than two people will ever need) and she starts cave diving... the next day I check out a seed I see posted here before she gets on to play with me.... and then she realizes its not the same world and starts hitting me with her stone pickaxe.
This has happened three times.
I've been banned from creating a new world, unless one of our nephews wants to play.
But I have to delete it after they go back home.
She's looking at me right now, wondering if I'm going to try something "absurd" I watched on youtube or saw on the forums.
I figured out how to get rid of the minecraft addiction.
First of all, play 16 hours a day for the first 3 weeks after the game is released.
That's step one - burnout.
Then, join a persistent multiplayer world, spend a week adding value to the community, building a house in the town and adding all sorts of helpful things to the world.
Finally, wait for a squeaky-voiced punk griefer to come in a destroy all your week's worth of work in 2 minutes with some TNT. Maybe the owner of the world has a backup, maybe they don't. If they don't have a backup... your addiction will fade very fast. Trust me on this one.
yes but it may replace that addiction with red hot rage
People say the graphics are terrible. I don't get why, but they AREN'T.
They ARE horrible, but in my eyes, they simply are not... Not sure why...
For me, the graphics are pleasing because they make me feel nostalgic. It reminds me of a simpler time, when all games were that pixelated. Yet, even though the look is so simplistic, the gameplay is boundlessly deep.
Yes, this game is simple yet addicting. I wonder when i ever will get off this computer...
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"Just remember that when you are falling, turn it into a dive." ~Wookiefoot
"Why isn’t my life like a situation comedy? Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well-being when I have problems?… I gotta get my life some writers." ~Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
That was me just a month ago.
Now, it's like I come home dead tired, and have a whole agenda of stuff I need to do with the evening. Housework, social obligations, gym, projects, etc.
But no, it's gonna be another evening of playing Minecraft until 3am.
This game has no real goal, so why is it so bloody addicting? I guess because there's always something to do. You can always add a new wing to the castle. You can always build a train network. You can always go hunting for materials.
"Hmmm, how about..." turns into 4 hours.
This game is brilliant, but evil.
First of all, play 16 hours a day for the first 3 weeks after the game is released.
That's step one - burnout.
Then, join a persistent multiplayer world, spend a week adding value to the community, building a house in the town and adding all sorts of helpful things to the world.
Finally, wait for a squeaky-voiced punk griefer to come in a destroy all your week's worth of work in 2 minutes with some TNT. Maybe the owner of the world has a backup, maybe they don't. If they don't have a backup... your addiction will fade very fast. Trust me on this one.
Then again, I've been distracted by Dawnguard the last 2 days so I haven't been on Minecraft in that short amount of time.
Mods will not be added to the game.
Either way, it sounds like new players to minecraft take it very seriously. after you have a giant castle, a railway system, and everything you can think of after you found enough diamonds to have a full set of armor and tools, the game will lose intrest. But thats when everything goes down hill, because you start a new world to "relive" your old adventures.I have no idea what happend on my last post?
Minecraft is seriously the video game version of crack.
But something that some folks are posting is very true. It's very, very unpleasant when someone starts griefing. Because you can easily destroy in seconds what someone has spent weeks building.
Yeeeeah. As I posted last week, a bunch of guys came and had a big ol ruckus party in my castle.
Took me over a week to fix what they messed up in just one night.
The first ever thread where I've read every single post and havent had a disagreement in the bunch...
My wife hates when I start a new world. We get going on a world, she gets her happy farm (WAY bigger than two people will ever need) and she starts cave diving... the next day I check out a seed I see posted here before she gets on to play with me.... and then she realizes its not the same world and starts hitting me with her stone pickaxe.
This has happened three times.
I've been banned from creating a new world, unless one of our nephews wants to play.
But I have to delete it after they go back home.
She's looking at me right now, wondering if I'm going to try something "absurd" I watched on youtube or saw on the forums.
I'm going to get hit with a pickaxe.
Again.
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He's the biggest drug dealer on the planet.
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Retired StaffHa! I was just thinking the conversation in this thread sounds almost exactly like group treatment.
For me, the graphics are pleasing because they make me feel nostalgic. It reminds me of a simpler time, when all games were that pixelated. Yet, even though the look is so simplistic, the gameplay is boundlessly deep.
Set auto save to 15 min, and sleep timer on TV to 65 min.
Right after the 4th autosave, <blink> off goes the TV.
That is until I turn it back on again.... damn!
"Just remember that when you are falling, turn it into a dive." ~Wookiefoot
"Why isn’t my life like a situation comedy? Why don’t I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren’t my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don’t my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well-being when I have problems?… I gotta get my life some writers." ~Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
I can quit any time I want.
Just one more block...