Videogames you love, videogames you hate thread

[Sol]

In my experience, Minecraft is very fun when you're first starting out and still have yet to discover everything. Unfortunately that phase ends kind of quickly because there isn't actually much that you can discover on your own; at a certain point the only way to figure out what else there is to do is to look online at a wiki or guide, which completely destroys any sense of discovery or accomplishment. Not to mention that aside from a shelter to use at night, the building aspect of the game is completely unnecessary. Even in the (tacked on and irrelevant) final boss fight, what is arguably the main appeal of the game, building, is completely unhelpful and mostly impossible, because the boss destroys almost every type of block it touches instantly. It's not "repair the ancient redstone circuitry to power a seal that banishes the monster!" It's not "build a series of obelisks with connecting spires that box the monster into a certain area!" Or "create a giant powered cage and lure the monster into it so you can deal damage before it breaks free!"

It's "beat it until it's dead." Sort of like the game itself.

Is the building aspect fun? Sure, it can be. I like making really nice houses and bases and secret lairs as much as the next guy, and while they look nice, and feel fun, in the end they're all really just the same thing. A box for your items and tools. You can't actually do anything with your creations except stand in them.

To be fair pretty much every enjoyable part of the game can have its life extended and fun increased when you have friends to play with, and I even still play by myself sometimes, in an Animal Crossing sort of way, to make a farm or harvest potions. (kind of cementing what Tyvon said about the game being a chore simulator) The potion update was probably my favorite update in a long, long time, it was really fun to play apothecary, but even that aspect of the game is hard to breach without a guide, and all potions do in the long run is just make it easier and quicker to do what you were already doing.

If you consistently find Minecraft a lot of fun, great, I'm not going to judge you for enjoying yourself. These are just my personal experiences. But just because the game is supposed to be about unlimited creative potential doesn't mean the developers should be allowed to leave it as a hollow shell.