Mmmm ... Minecraft

There is this game that you can buy (or steal off the web, but i occasionally do encourage people to buy games) for maybe ten pounds, thats called Minecraft and its been coded by a single man.

That was the thing that got my attention, and i wanted to check it out, so off to YouTube i went, and i saw this video called Surviving the First night  - intriguing to say the least.

So, that was the beginning, and now i' playing Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmminecraft at least an hour a day.

I have also just uninstalled Fallout new Vegas which turned out to be crap.

Now, either i'm an idiot when it comes to games, or i got it right and everybody else has got it wrong.

(you can't see it, but there is a large chunk of post missing :/ i deleted it, it was pointless)

In short, Minecraft is awesome. The environment is more than huge.. it's limitless, and although there is limited scope within the game (it's easy to survive, and once you get past the point of abundance all there is left to do is build stuff, which makes it a sort of 3d Sims/SimCity), its just nice to walk around and do whatever takes your fancy and that, is something FNV doesn't have.

My point is, the resources that make up FNV have just been spent unwisely. That many people could have created a much larger, much better game just by letting go of some old (1990's) idea that just don't work.

For someone of my age its easy to see, but for the younger, i will explain.

Around the years of Diablo, C&C, and all that stuff, games drifted into the oblivion of Cool Graphics.
Back then (we had a number of independent publications, a large userbase, and all the games movement was less commercialized) there were still people who claimed that bling graphics were the death of games, not their salvation; Today, it seems our prophecy has come true just as the last of the prophets has disappeared.

Games today suck. Not all, GoW was cool, but many do suck. Gameplay is limited, content is little, and all of this because of the massive requirements of great graphics. Have a pixel sticking out, and everyone shouts blasphemy; Meh. I played games that *were* pixels, and i had lots and lots of fun.

Wasteland (horrid 2d graphics, no animation) - still unbeaten, though the Pool of Radiance and Champions of Krinn series comes close. Neverwinter Nights (part one, not part two) was awesome as well, nice graphics too.
Wipeout2097 - still the best racing game ever, on PlayStation (not PSOne, or PSP, or PSX, or PS2, or PS3.  Just *PlayStation*)
Tekken 3 - still the best fighting game, on PlayStation.
C&C - awesome, and although SUPCOM is just as good, it was ten years earlier.
DAOC - gaaaahhh, best MMORPG still, after 10 years.

and so on.
Would i spend ten euros on Minecraft? I did. buys me the alpha of the game, plus free access to every patch and eventually a copy of the retail game, though i doubt there will ever be one.
(shit i cant seem to be able to keep my posts short)
There was a great game once - a game that wasn't afraid - and it was called Mount&Blade.
In development it was great, then they fucked it up just before release, and it sucked. Also, since it took maybe five years to release, it was kind of passe' by the time it came out. I hate to say this but fear Minecraft will go down the same route.
But i do hope it makes a pretty penny for the guy (Mr.Notch) who designed it, hopefully he'll make enough to set up his own studio and make great games.