My six year old wanted it, because and older girl my girlfriend babysits told him about it.. Bought it... Best $20.00 I've ever spent. This is the greatest game ever lol.
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Check it out for awesome tutorials and constant content!
before minecraft was released onto the xbox never had a clue really played a little total miner with friends which started my addiction. Got minecraft day one and been playing since and with all the updates im not sure i will every become bored with it.
Them: Grunting while continuing to play. "Ooh... butter!"
Me: You say you want butter on your sandwich.
Them: "No, I want to mine more gold."
LOL
Sounds like someone talking to me.
My daughter keeps asking to play MC with me. . . just soooo difficult on split screen y'know. Plus she doesn't fully understand it yet. . . many more months of her watching me play I think
I grew up with Lego being by far my most favorite toy bar none (I'm 37 now, just for the record). I still remember the joy of spending countless hours building all sorts of stuff. The funny thing is that I hardly ever played with my creations, though. Simply building them (usually as large as possible) was far more fun.
Fast-forward to 2011: I stumbled upon a (far too short) article about Minecraft in a PC gaming magazine, and I was intrigued. Unfortunately my PC at that time was't good enough to play the game with the performance I want, i.e. close to the best performance possible. So I forgot about Minecraft again after some time.
Fast-forward again, this time to early May 2012: I spotted Minecraft as the new weekly XBLA game, and I remembered that article I had read. So I downloaded the trial version and started playing the tutorial - ten minutes later I purchased the game.
My girlfriend still laughs when she sees me playing Minecraft, and she keeps saying, "Lego for grown-ups." And she's right. Minecraft is like Lego, just a thousand times better.
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Is it a chicken or is it a duck? - It's a chuck, because dicken sounds stupid.
I grew up on Legos as well. For a few years, every time I received money, I would ask my dad if we could go to Shopko(before Wal-Mart was huge) to get some new Legos.
I tried Minecraft when the demo first hit, thought it was cool just messing around in the tutorial village, so I bought it. Honestly, I am kind of regretting it now, I haven't played it since August because I got bored. Bought the PC version as well when I loved it, haven't played that in a while either. It was fun when I had friends playing with me, but when they stopped, it got boring for me by myself.
I hadn't heard much about Minecraft in general except from one of my friends, and from what I had heard from him it sounded really nerdy and I didn't find any interest in playing it. Last spring however, another one of my friends came over to my house to stay overnight and he brought a USB drive with Minecraft on it. He showed it to me and I was like "what the heck is this?" and he told me some about it and that at night monsters appeared and I was kinda freaked out but at the same time interested with the fact.
So we started a world together and I kinda figured out what was going on, and later on we went to sleep. The next morning, when I woke up, I had to play some more and I turned on my xbox and started playing (though I could only play the demo I think, I hadn't bought the game) and before he left he said "you're gonna buy that game right away, aren't you?"
I said "Maybe" and bought it a couple of hours later.
I bought it because I can't play in my PC because of my graphics card. I really like the game, I even bought it for PC but I prefer a lag-free experience. Sorry for bad english
I hadn't heard much about Minecraft in general except from one of my friends, and from what I had heard from him it sounded really nerdy and I didn't find any interest in playing it. Last spring however, another one of my friends came over to my house to stay overnight and he brought a USB drive with Minecraft on it. He showed it to me and I was like "what the heck is this?" and he told me some about it and that at night monsters appeared and I was kinda freaked out but at the same time interested with the fact.
So we started a world together and I kinda figured out what was going on, and later on we went to sleep. The next morning, when I woke up, I had to play some more and I turned on my xbox and started playing (though I could only play the demo I think, I hadn't bought the game) and before he left he said "you're gonna buy that game right away, aren't you?"
I said "Maybe" and bought it a couple of hours later.
I bought it because I can't play in my PC because of my graphics card. I really like the game, I even bought it for PC but I prefer a lag-free experience. Sorry for bad english
I always had my friends talking about Minecraft but would be hard for me to get it on PC... The solution was Xbox Edition and when I found the majority of my friends were also purchasing minecraft on Xbox I was over the moon.
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I put my shirt on one leg at a time, just like everybody else.
I always had my friends talking about Minecraft but would be hard for me to get it on PC... The solution was Xbox Edition and when I found the majority of my friends were also purchasing minecraft on Xbox I was over the moon.
Our story is one of progression. A few years ago my son, who was 12 at the time, asked for this game called Minecraft for the computer. I heard a lot of "it's cool" and "Mom, it's just like Legos, not zOMG" and "PLEASE?!". I gave in within a month and let him buy it for an easter present. Honestly, i though that was the end of it. I had been just growing out of gaming at that point. Nothing new interested me so i focused on non-gaming projects. Through the following two years there was a lot of "Dang, Mom, look at this!" and "Mom look!" and "you have to see this youtube video". Ad nauseum. Haha. In there somewhere he also became something of a redstone expert, too. This past summer, we decided our family present for christmas 2012 would be an XBox. My husband found a good buy in July, so we had it by August. We had never had an XBox before. When it comes to gaming i look at the consoles like this: Nintendo=child, Playstation=teen, and XBox=adult. Think about it. Needless to say the XBox did not gather dust until christmas. Hehe. Set it up and we all took turns messing around with it. We had a couple games already and couple more we had bought once we knew we would be getting an XBox. My 14 year-old downloaded the demo for Minecraft and played it non-stop for almost a month. Finally, one night, my husband went and purchased it while she was asleep. She went bonkers and hasn't quit playing it. Lured me in while she was at it. I think i'm an addict. Haha. I've since gotten every single person who has visited us to play, too, and everyone loves it. I play twice a week with my six-year-old niece and have been using it to teach her. Mostly math and problem solving. The XBox version also led me to try the PC version, which i also became hooked on so my son got it for me for yule. I love both versions and each have their good/notsogood points. I will admit i really like holding a controller instead of a keyboard/mouse though. (Nintendo and Playstation have nothing on XBox when it comes to the controllers. )
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~My problem is a simple one: I'm severely allergic to stupid.~
I tell my family that I have contracted a case of ADSD Attention Deficit Spelunking Disorder...(.oooh! Shiny! was that gold down that corridor?)
I believe that this game should come with a warning label!
I read your post to my husband and he said that is the best label ever. So accurate! Haha.
He's still resisting playing Minecraft (he likes FPS games), but I've noticed him sitting a little longer to watch me play lately... Meanwhile, I keep getting opportunities to lure in other noobs in my circle of family and friends.
Sounds like my husband. He still won't admit to liking MC, but has now started to ask us if we need/would like some help while we're playing. Haha.
I don't think there is anyone who doesn't like Minecraft.. Just those that haven't played yet.
True story. My soon-to-be sister-in-law was an anti-gaming lunatic. Always going on about rotting our brains and desensitizing ourselves to violence, etc. Her eight-year-old was playing with one of my other nieces one day when i was watching them. My future sister walks in and about loses it when she sees what her daughter was doing. Kid sees her mum, nonplussed, hands her the controller and tells her "don't let my Steve die, Mom, i have to go to the bathroom". She looked like she wanted to rage or faint, i wasn't sure, but she did sit down to keep Steve alive. Guess who didn't get her controller back when she returned from the loo?
My daughter keeps asking to play MC with me. . . just soooo difficult on split screen y'know. Plus she doesn't fully understand it yet. . . many more months of her watching me play I think
Creative and suck it up. It's so worth it. My six-year-old niece started in creative. She loves survival now, but we still "go build". At first she had a lot of "Auntie, i can't..." and "Auntie, please, help me..". Now? Well, now she tells me to go play in my caves, she's "working" or she'll ask to play on her own. It takes a lot of patience, yet it was one of the best things i've ever done with my niece. Before MC, i had little connection to this kid since they lived so far away when she was born. We talk non-stop while playing and she is the self-proclaimed Queen of the Endermen. Also, vertical split-screen was easier for us. Upside to creative is your daughter can swim in lava and you don't have to save her Steve or items. Give her the basics and enjoy the time with her. It goes by too fast.
Been playing the PC version on and off since pretty early days, across 3 progressively more powerful desktops and 2 laptops and the best FPS I ever saw was in the high 20s. (Granted, none of those machines were built to be game machines. I know you CAN get it running great on PC but it's not and endeavor I've pursued.)
Initially I really missed stuff from the PC version but now that xbox is catching up some and the fact that at the end of the day, I play pretty casually, that silky gameplay is hard to give up.
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LOL
Sounds like someone talking to me.
My daughter keeps asking to play MC with me. . . just soooo difficult on split screen y'know. Plus she doesn't fully understand it yet. . . many more months of her watching me play I think
Keep them coming~
Fast-forward to 2011: I stumbled upon a (far too short) article about Minecraft in a PC gaming magazine, and I was intrigued. Unfortunately my PC at that time was't good enough to play the game with the performance I want, i.e. close to the best performance possible. So I forgot about Minecraft again after some time.
Fast-forward again, this time to early May 2012: I spotted Minecraft as the new weekly XBLA game, and I remembered that article I had read. So I downloaded the trial version and started playing the tutorial - ten minutes later I purchased the game.
My girlfriend still laughs when she sees me playing Minecraft, and she keeps saying, "Lego for grown-ups." And she's right. Minecraft is like Lego, just a thousand times better.
I tried Minecraft when the demo first hit, thought it was cool just messing around in the tutorial village, so I bought it. Honestly, I am kind of regretting it now, I haven't played it since August because I got bored. Bought the PC version as well when I loved it, haven't played that in a while either. It was fun when I had friends playing with me, but when they stopped, it got boring for me by myself.
So we started a world together and I kinda figured out what was going on, and later on we went to sleep. The next morning, when I woke up, I had to play some more and I turned on my xbox and started playing (though I could only play the demo I think, I hadn't bought the game) and before he left he said "you're gonna buy that game right away, aren't you?"
I said "Maybe" and bought it a couple of hours later.
Nah Your English is fine
I dont mind computer controls setout though, you can use a gamepad. Or controller what ever you want to call it.
Sounds like my husband. He still won't admit to liking MC, but has now started to ask us if we need/would like some help while we're playing. Haha.
True story. My soon-to-be sister-in-law was an anti-gaming lunatic. Always going on about rotting our brains and desensitizing ourselves to violence, etc. Her eight-year-old was playing with one of my other nieces one day when i was watching them. My future sister walks in and about loses it when she sees what her daughter was doing. Kid sees her mum, nonplussed, hands her the controller and tells her "don't let my Steve die, Mom, i have to go to the bathroom". She looked like she wanted to rage or faint, i wasn't sure, but she did sit down to keep Steve alive. Guess who didn't get her controller back when she returned from the loo?
Creative and suck it up. It's so worth it. My six-year-old niece started in creative. She loves survival now, but we still "go build". At first she had a lot of "Auntie, i can't..." and "Auntie, please, help me..". Now? Well, now she tells me to go play in my caves, she's "working" or she'll ask to play on her own. It takes a lot of patience, yet it was one of the best things i've ever done with my niece. Before MC, i had little connection to this kid since they lived so far away when she was born. We talk non-stop while playing and she is the self-proclaimed Queen of the Endermen. Also, vertical split-screen was easier for us. Upside to creative is your daughter can swim in lava and you don't have to save her Steve or items. Give her the basics and enjoy the time with her. It goes by too fast.
Been playing the PC version on and off since pretty early days, across 3 progressively more powerful desktops and 2 laptops and the best FPS I ever saw was in the high 20s. (Granted, none of those machines were built to be game machines. I know you CAN get it running great on PC but it's not and endeavor I've pursued.)
Initially I really missed stuff from the PC version but now that xbox is catching up some and the fact that at the end of the day, I play pretty casually, that silky gameplay is hard to give up.