Videogames you love, videogames you hate thread

[Vipershark]

quick, someone criticize other popular games

Terraria. It's popular only because it ripped a dimension off of Minecraft and fixed a few things, which balances out and makes it equally bad.

When Terraria first came out I was completely on the hatetrain for it for being a bad minecraft clone and for the spritework, but then I actually played it and it's actually really fun. Not to mention that it has a ton more content now than it did then, which makes it even better.

I like Minecraft a lot and I'm not sure if I'd be willing to call it a bad game, but I'm really pissed off at what it's become (as in, they tried to take a game with a simple concept and went in 20 different directions with it, all of which went pretty much nowhere resulting in a final product which was a pretty sloppy mess and then calling it an official release) but honestly Terraria is pretty much the definition of what Minecraft could have (should have?) logically progressed to, except in 2D.

One of the biggest problems I have with minecraft is there's just so little actual stuff to get, as far as base materials go which really limits your options. Once you know how to play, you can go from brand new world to diamond tools in an hour or less, and while you may not have a complete set of diamond tools, you're definitely left with the feeling of "what now?" because that's it, you just got the best items in the game and can pretty easily get more.

In Terraria, I can't speak the same for everyone since I'm relatively new to the game, but I've played 22 or so hours, all of them in multiplayer, (therefore making it EASIER to gather materials) and I'm still only in the first armor tier and JUST got a higher-level sword. There are -at least- six more tiers ahead of me. I'm only playing on a medium sized map and I still haven't gotten close to reaching the map limits. There's just that much stuff packed in.

Another problem with Minecraft is that once you know how to play, the challenge of survivng the first night (which admittedly, used to be REALLY HARD until you could bake wood into coal because you either had to find a coal patch immediately or you couldn't see anything meaning you were locking yourself in a dirt hole for the night) is completely gone. I can have a functional base complete with torches and a full set of tools up in under 10 minutes. Considering the fact that I only play the game on hard mode, it's kind of bad that there's no real challenge anymore. I mean, there might be a creeper or spider that kills you sometimes but it's never actually a challenge to do much of anything anymore. Just kind of tedious, I suppose.

i'm kind of rambling here, but it was more "defend terraria" than "attack minecraft"