This video explains my love for the game, as well as how I believe you’re gatekeeping your own enjoyment.
As well as how I think you can circumvent that!
This video sounds so weird to me because I never even considered playing the game for completion, I never even tried to kill the Ender Dragon (ok, I wanted to kill it with a fishing rod when they added the dragon to the game just because I thought it would be funny, but I never got to the End on that save file).
Modding is where it's at. I could never in a million years play vanilla. There is nothing to do. I'd bored in 1.3 seconds flat. But I use FTB infinity and add in a few mods of my own taste like reactorcraft, rotarycraft, gregtech 4 and others. Then I have literally no end of content to explore and things to build for all time. Like one time I built a full scale fully working starship enterprise-A in orbit that could go warpspeed and have working transporters, turbolifts, phasers and photons and shields.
I have grinded for full netherite once when it first came out, and I will never do it again. Diamond has never let me down in over a decade, armor quality is never more to blame than poor decision making.
Sustainability and efficiency are the main things that plague my playthroughs. I can't do as much "creative" stuff if I have to worry about survival, food, and mobs. Better tools mean being able to do "creative" stuff faster and more often, and they also give you more options as far as where to go and what blocks to use.
Minecraft, geometry dash, and terraria are quite possibly some of the most impactful games of my childhood. What connects them all? Well they are all sandbox games when you think about it. Even geometry dash, that editor is basically a game engine at this point. Sometimes more recently I would find myself more bored when playing them because I would be trying to beat that level, beat that boss, get that gear. But I think if I just try to you know, enjoy the game I would actually have fun. Crazy.
I mostly stopped with minecraft because I'm tired of the social suicide actions of playing the game alone. Me against lots of AI where it's either murderous hard or stupidly easy.
Anytime I try to play the game, I end up having a house and a farm where I get so much stuff that I could feed a literal city for a month that doesn't exist, enough weapons to fight an army that doesn't exist, and it starts to feel depressing when the only friends I can make in the game are the animals that I can tame.
This guy talks about "just making friends" when years of issues as a kid made it hard for me to connect to anyone. Everyone I met online was either a casual person to encounter or a potential hostile.
You think "Trying to beat Minecraft" to the end and kill the enderdragon was a bad view of the game? Worse is people trying to "Beat minecraft" by beating everyone else and act like the only way to win is to become better than everyone. That kind of toxic gameplay is the reason why I don't tend to play some games the way people acted like it should, like DayZ or Rust. I just try and play it like a learning experience, to many my own place and just relax.
Now these days, I can't imagine myself playing this game without like 200 mods to make me feel like I'm doing something new, even if I've done a lot before.
Wow this video is very true, I remember making giant towns full of cool decorations and buildings with my friends (we were kinda inspired by Stampy). It made the game a whole lot fun and it felt like you were building an empire!
I personally find the most fun beating the game and challenging myself to get better and to have something I really feel like I'm good at, so I have a completely different view on this topic, but this video was beautiful. The best thing about Minecraft is that everyone can play it differently. Keep up the good work, loved hearing about your childhood!
I remember first time I got this game in my hand was on PS3, I played a lot of it, like 5h a day for 1 year, just to build and explore, it took 2 years to figure out there was other dimensions, and needed one more year to go to the end, sinc eI tought it was gonna be the most hard thing of my life, in total 3 years of preparation to get to it, now when I have java and when I play the game I "beat" it in 2-3 hours maximum and after that I don't do anything and restart once again from scratch, I don't know where all of it was lost, but I miss it
This is a very good summary. Now that i think about it personally i think i lost that ability to just use my imagination when i got to the point in school that they started graded us. Suddenly i went from a little kid who was a little above average good at multiplication tables to someone who was expected to achieve things at every corner and be judged by a letter that will supposedly define your entire future. I think the pressure really shifted my entire mindset, i suddenly had to be good at things instead of just having fun, i needed to complete everything i did, and complete it efficiently and well. Nowadays i feel guilty playing games if i don't somehow "make progress", which is stupid since i'm supposed to be relaxing. Society and school in particular has somehow drilled this idea of needing to be productive and achieving something constantly so deep into my mind i cant escape it anymore. I wish i could play Minecraft again like i used to, playing pretend with my friends, not worrying about finishing a build or getting an item fast enough that i have time to sleep 6 hours before school and work the day after.
Its weird for me. Ive playes this game for…I want to say 5 yeara. Never once beaten the Ender Dragon, and I even play with mods. It really is just a great do-whatever-you-want game.
Thank you for making this video. For weeks before something happened today, I’ve been playing in a friend’s bedrock realm and haven’t had a single Diamond sword at all but, I was happy regardless with everything else I’ve been doing. Definitely don’t feel bad for enjoying Minecraft a different way than most people. A game should make you happy and not to just follow other people.
whenever another minecraft server pops up in my friendgroup, I always have the urge to quickly become as powerful as I can before others outrun me. But I realise now that I don't even think that's fun anymore, I just wanna play the game, explore, find a cool looking rock formation and start building a cool base that I'll never finish, while in the meantime finding funny cool pets to adopt and put in my unfinished cool base. But I now realise we used to do so much more than these simple things, I used to be scared and hide at night, waiting for the sun to come up. Fighting for my base to not get destroyed by creepers and whatnot. I can't even remember the last time I dyed my armor or anything for that matter. The small things in minecraft, those are what makes the game what it is, and what it was meant to be: a sandbox where you can do whatever you want, no rules, just play. And I love that, thank you for reminding me
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This video sounds so weird to me because I never even considered playing the game for completion, I never even tried to kill the Ender Dragon (ok, I wanted to kill it with a fishing rod when they added the dragon to the game just because I thought it would be funny, but I never got to the End on that save file).
Modding is where it's at. I could never in a million years play vanilla. There is nothing to do. I'd bored in 1.3 seconds flat.
But I use FTB infinity and add in a few mods of my own taste like reactorcraft, rotarycraft, gregtech 4 and others. Then I have literally no end of content to explore and things to build for all time.
Like one time I built a full scale fully working starship enterprise-A in orbit that could go warpspeed and have working transporters, turbolifts, phasers and photons and shields.
This is a video EVERYONE needs to see!!
Thank you so much! You have opened my eyes to a whole new way of playing minecraft!
I have grinded for full netherite once when it first came out, and I will never do it again. Diamond has never let me down in over a decade, armor quality is never more to blame than poor decision making.
Sustainability and efficiency are the main things that plague my playthroughs. I can't do as much "creative" stuff if I have to worry about survival, food, and mobs. Better tools mean being able to do "creative" stuff faster and more often, and they also give you more options as far as where to go and what blocks to use.
That kid inside of me waked up I just thought that i should quit there's nothing int his game but there's so much
2:07 hit like a truck I wasn't ready
Minecraft, geometry dash, and terraria are quite possibly some of the most impactful games of my childhood. What connects them all? Well they are all sandbox games when you think about it. Even geometry dash, that editor is basically a game engine at this point. Sometimes more recently I would find myself more bored when playing them because I would be trying to beat that level, beat that boss, get that gear. But I think if I just try to you know, enjoy the game I would actually have fun. Crazy.
I mostly stopped with minecraft because I'm tired of the social suicide actions of playing the game alone. Me against lots of AI where it's either murderous hard or stupidly easy.
Anytime I try to play the game, I end up having a house and a farm where I get so much stuff that I could feed a literal city for a month that doesn't exist, enough weapons to fight an army that doesn't exist, and it starts to feel depressing when the only friends I can make in the game are the animals that I can tame.
This guy talks about "just making friends" when years of issues as a kid made it hard for me to connect to anyone. Everyone I met online was either a casual person to encounter or a potential hostile.
You think "Trying to beat Minecraft" to the end and kill the enderdragon was a bad view of the game? Worse is people trying to "Beat minecraft" by beating everyone else and act like the only way to win is to become better than everyone. That kind of toxic gameplay is the reason why I don't tend to play some games the way people acted like it should, like DayZ or Rust. I just try and play it like a learning experience, to many my own place and just relax.
Now these days, I can't imagine myself playing this game without like 200 mods to make me feel like I'm doing something new, even if I've done a lot before.
Wow this video is very true, I remember making giant towns full of cool decorations and buildings with my friends (we were kinda inspired by Stampy). It made the game a whole lot fun and it felt like you were building an empire!
I personally find the most fun beating the game and challenging myself to get better and to have something I really feel like I'm good at, so I have a completely different view on this topic, but this video was beautiful. The best thing about Minecraft is that everyone can play it differently. Keep up the good work, loved hearing about your childhood!
I remember first time I got this game in my hand was on PS3, I played a lot of it, like 5h a day for 1 year, just to build and explore, it took 2 years to figure out there was other dimensions, and needed one more year to go to the end, sinc eI tought it was gonna be the most hard thing of my life, in total 3 years of preparation to get to it, now when I have java and when I play the game I "beat" it in 2-3 hours maximum and after that I don't do anything and restart once again from scratch, I don't know where all of it was lost, but I miss it
"Go out there …and find a biom"
Yeah this is life
This is a very good summary. Now that i think about it personally i think i lost that ability to just use my imagination when i got to the point in school that they started graded us. Suddenly i went from a little kid who was a little above average good at multiplication tables to someone who was expected to achieve things at every corner and be judged by a letter that will supposedly define your entire future. I think the pressure really shifted my entire mindset, i suddenly had to be good at things instead of just having fun, i needed to complete everything i did, and complete it efficiently and well. Nowadays i feel guilty playing games if i don't somehow "make progress", which is stupid since i'm supposed to be relaxing. Society and school in particular has somehow drilled this idea of needing to be productive and achieving something constantly so deep into my mind i cant escape it anymore. I wish i could play Minecraft again like i used to, playing pretend with my friends, not worrying about finishing a build or getting an item fast enough that i have time to sleep 6 hours before school and work the day after.
Fun fact I never finished the game :v
I’m such a girlboss I gatekeep myself without knowing it
Its weird for me. Ive playes this game for…I want to say 5 yeara. Never once beaten the Ender Dragon, and I even play with mods. It really is just a great do-whatever-you-want game.
Thank you for making this video. For weeks before something happened today, I’ve been playing in a friend’s bedrock realm and haven’t had a single Diamond sword at all but, I was happy regardless with everything else I’ve been doing. Definitely don’t feel bad for enjoying Minecraft a different way than most people. A game should make you happy and not to just follow other people.
whenever another minecraft server pops up in my friendgroup, I always have the urge to quickly become as powerful as I can before others outrun me. But I realise now that I don't even think that's fun anymore, I just wanna play the game, explore, find a cool looking rock formation and start building a cool base that I'll never finish, while in the meantime finding funny cool pets to adopt and put in my unfinished cool base. But I now realise we used to do so much more than these simple things, I used to be scared and hide at night, waiting for the sun to come up. Fighting for my base to not get destroyed by creepers and whatnot. I can't even remember the last time I dyed my armor or anything for that matter. The small things in minecraft, those are what makes the game what it is, and what it was meant to be: a sandbox where you can do whatever you want, no rules, just play. And I love that, thank you for reminding me