Maybe just a shot little video of how to play or while ingame someone says things as you go about, hell a tutorial world like the xbox even!
Nvm it would be cool if you on a quest to figure out who you are and how you got there. The enderdragon tells you how you got there before he dies and then it continues.
I personally think it would be quite nice to have a little cutscene at the beginning showing the camera facing upwards, then slowly pan downwards to reveal the top of the player's head. Then, the screen could zoom in to the player's point of view, and the game begins. A nice aesthitic, and it doesn't really seem like the game would lag too much with it.
The End not only lets you finish MC, it was added specifically so that people could feel they had "beaten" the game. Whether or not you can choose to go on playing afterwards is completely irrelevant.
As for the OP's suggestion, I prefer to use my imagination and make my own backstory. The mystery of whatever the heck has happened to the MC world is one of the things that makes it creepy and cool .
Likewise if you think at any point you are expected to have reached an end.
Nvm it would be cool if you on a quest to figure out who you are and how you got there. The enderdragon tells you how you got there before he dies and then it continues.
Bad idea anyway.
As for the OP's suggestion, I prefer to use my imagination and make my own backstory. The mystery of whatever the heck has happened to the MC world is one of the things that makes it creepy and cool .
I support gas pockets in MC (see thread in Suggestions)!
The end is simple as well. You died and ragequit.