I actually really enjoyed my first playthrough even when I didn't have a guide and ran in headfirst. I had a lot of Minecraft experience prior which also basically requires the wiki, and I had no problem with that. In fact, I really enjoyed discovering something new, looking it up on the wiki, then discovering something new from that, and diving deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole that is Terraria. It was almost an extra puzzle game outside of the actual game, and I enjoyed both greatly. I was either playing Terraria, or scavenging about the wiki discovering new things. I understand that new players may think it's too complex, but at least for me unravelling the complexity was part of the game itself, and I will forever cherish the adventure full of mystery and wonder that is my first ever playthrough.
So Brody said minecraft is similar not considering the fact that terraria takes a more pve stance, where minecraft is more about storybuilding and creating your own adventure, so terraria is more fighting oriented, with 20x the bosses
save file corruption is a thing and i think in my 1500 hrs i have seen it once it was claimed to be fixed from memory but it still happens it seems, very rare
3:25 abour the guy who commented this, uh..about sex/gender, you checked the menu properly bro? there're like,2 buttons having the male and female gender signs at the bottom of the character customization menu lol
just dropped the game imo it does too much to inconvenience the player for me to enjoy it. Like theres too many rare spawning things that are tied to progression . That plus being unable to skip day night cycles left me standing around waiting for nightfalll to fight a boss and the most annoying part was constant events like blood moons
2:42 yes thats true. i have something around ~700h playtime and that happened twice to me. thats not a big deal since terraria is not a very long game, but if you don't want to lose your worlds its better to copy and paste your save file somewhere after each game session so you always have a backup.
i remember beginning terraria on mobile and eventualy i beat the moon lord and got the zenith and i actualy liked to go to the wiki to research and now i have it on pc and have beaten the game multiple times got the difficult accesories a couple of times and always had the zenith (cant live without it) and then i started playing mods and now id prefer to play with friends altho i cant realy so i stopped playing altho i still like the game
I have ~500 hours in Terraria and I have to agree with the review about the crafting menu; as much as I love the game, I despise the crafting menu. I often use the guide for crafting and it can be such a mess trying to find a recipe for an item when I use a material that has a ton of recipes. I also often craft directly from chests so even then it can be a mess to find the recipe you want to craft.
i’ll never understand when people complain about a game having too much content, like how are you upset that there is a lot to do?. if it’s a paid game, do you seriously want less content for your hard earned money? and if it’s free you’re only losing a little bit of extra time(which is arguably more valuable, but let’s not get existential). in fomo heavy games like gachas or the fomo final boss that is destiny 2, i get it. there is a real point to be made in how those games use their massive amount of content (well maybe not in d2’s case lol), that regularly goes away, to make you feel like you gotta “do everything now”. but, in terraria’s case, it’s basically a finished product. you can take it at your own pace. if you don’t like a game that is ok but actually figure out why before making a half-assed statement like “too much content”. more content in games is something people should be excited about and pushing for, even more so in a time where everything is trying to nickel and dime you.
Probably my largest criticism: Hard mode evil/hallow spread is extremely obnoxious and is downright HORRIBLE game design. There's a reason why Begone Evil is one of the most downloaded mods in TMod which are: – Spreads extremely fast considering there's 5 different sources now. – You can't destroy it pre-hardmode because 2 new evil AND hallow biomes pop up (overworld AND underground) – You don't have access to the Clentaminator, so that gives each biome a good 1 or 2 hour headstart before you can START getting rid of it (provided you have over 2 plantinum for it + ammunition) – It's unfun and unrewarding to remove, and even then, it only delays it
Wanted to take the game slow or build some stuff as you play the game? Well too bad cause as soon as hard mode kicks in it's just a race to beat the game. Really wished they'd address this more instead of just adding the evil biome potion (not even an accessory. Just a temporary potion.)
I have played this game on and off for like a decade, and i always struggle with the progression. The game feels like a string of cool ideas tied together but it struggles to tell you when and how you should go to the next part. (It’s been a while since i last played so i might be outdated)
hah, joke on 1st review, my 1st time playing, small world, I dont know, random and get corruption, almost 2 months+ went here and there just to watch the map opened 😂, and still collecting shit for my building, and didn't even beat wof 😂
A FCKING. SMALL. WORLD!!!
-don't ask how much I'm death(period) -I think I'm just enjoying the game, I guess…
People who claim that Terraria is just "flat Minecraft" almost certainly fall into two groups, from my experience. Group A are people who haven't played the game in 10 years (if at all) and parrot what they've heard off of the Internet/their experience all those years ago, and Group B who played the game for about 20 minutes. They chopped some trees, probably incorrectly built a house, died to zombies on the first night, went caving, mined stone and basic ores, crafted basic tools, weapons, and armor, and quit at around that point.
They're not wrong, in a sense. Survival games like Minecraft and Terraria both appear very similar on the surface (dimensions aside) up until Terraria reaches about middle pre-hardmode or Queen Bee/Skeletron level, in my opinion. Once you get past the dungeon, the Wall of Flesh, and into Hard Mode, the game of course gets zany. Until then, Terraria might seem fairly unremarkable, and even a "boring Minecraft ripoff" to many folks. Just my two cents on that topic!
The not enough info and what to do as a newbie is amazing for this type of game. A lot of people forget not that long ago many games did not hold your hand and have yellow everywhere to tell you where to go. Terraria leaves you to your own devices on how you progress and what to do. One of my favorite things is choosing what class I'll play or weapon I want to goal to and do everything for that.
2:50 hahaha holy shit thats me. I completely forgot I made that review because I actually deleted it a while back its still a very real issue but despite that, all it takes is just turning off cloud save and backing up the world and player
Terraria and Minecraft are completely different. Of course, people have opinions. But Terraria isn't 2D Minecraft and Minecraft isn't 3D Terraria, and anyone who says they're the same has barely played one of the two or both.
Minecraft is an adventure based open world with unlimited exploration, decent weapons and many building options. Terraria is a player-progression based open world with very limited exploration, AMAZING weapons and less but also good building options. I think the games flaws make it even better to play (Example: Minecraft has less items and bosses which means you can focus on exploring, mining and building more) I'm a huge fan of both games (Having played minecraft for 8 years and terraria for around 1.5 years. I dont understand the hatred of the fandoms bcs both are amazing games)
"Adding crossplay in like 3 days" Maybe in 3 final updates. It's only once they've gotten everything developed as far as they can that they're gon' consider working on it.
The game is very intuitive. I started a few weeks ago and the best hours were learning the game. I promised myself to never visit the wiki and the game couldn't be any more fun.
No, I 100% agree with the boss fights complaint. A big reason I dropped the game in Hard Mode is because the game just turned into a string a boss fights without giving me a particular reason to want to kill them besides unlocking the next boss fight. I did enjoy the jungle temple, though.
Also I got tired of pirate invasions, goblin armies, solar eclipses, blood moons, and other stupid nonsense deciding to happen every time I wanted to take a break from fighting stuff and work on my base or fish. They weren't even hard at that point, just kind of annoying.
I don't get why people feel this way with the wiki. I would say a new player on classic mode doesn't need the wiki, because the game is really easy on classic. Any half decent weapon will be able to kill the next boss at any point with half decent accessories. If someone follows ingame guidence and is willing to explore will be able to find all the main bosses and will be able to beat them without much trouble.
Of course I might be wrong in this one, I never got to experience the game myself and just followed instructions given by my friend on my first playtrough without having a clue on whats actually happening.
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I actually really enjoyed my first playthrough even when I didn't have a guide and ran in headfirst. I had a lot of Minecraft experience prior which also basically requires the wiki, and I had no problem with that. In fact, I really enjoyed discovering something new, looking it up on the wiki, then discovering something new from that, and diving deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole that is Terraria. It was almost an extra puzzle game outside of the actual game, and I enjoyed both greatly. I was either playing Terraria, or scavenging about the wiki discovering new things. I understand that new players may think it's too complex, but at least for me unravelling the complexity was part of the game itself, and I will forever cherish the adventure full of mystery and wonder that is my first ever playthrough.
My first time playing I went in blind and I honestly loved the sense of discovery that I had without a guide
rolling cactus 👎
this was so enjoyable, the way you explained was good too. Is there more of this stuff?
So Brody said minecraft is similar not considering the fact that terraria takes a more pve stance, where minecraft is more about storybuilding and creating your own adventure, so terraria is more fighting oriented, with 20x the bosses
ok some of these guy need to get good some haven't even got 40 hours and some are adults like how can you not understand a game made for 14 year olds
1:56 Hey, I know this is off topic but what is that Providence pet you are using? Is it from another Mod? If so, where can I download it?
save file corruption is a thing and i think in my 1500 hrs i have seen it once
it was claimed to be fixed from memory but it still happens it seems, very rare
not crossplay? first im hearing about this. i was playing a server with someone pc and mobile mix last year. since when isnt it crossplay?
have to say it would be nice if the crafting menu had categorys for different types of items
3:47 cause some people cannot play without enemy lock, they dont wanna get good, if I say for myself, its total skill issue.
3:25 abour the guy who commented this,
uh..about sex/gender, you checked the menu properly bro?
there're like,2 buttons having the male and female gender signs at the bottom of the character customization menu lol
just dropped the game imo it does too much to inconvenience the player for me to enjoy it. Like theres too many rare spawning things that are tied to progression . That plus being unable to skip day night cycles left me standing around waiting for nightfalll to fight a boss and the most annoying part was constant events like blood moons
2:42 yes thats true. i have something around ~700h playtime and that happened twice to me. thats not a big deal since terraria is not a very long game, but if you don't want to lose your worlds its better to copy and paste your save file somewhere after each game session so you always have a backup.
i remember beginning terraria on mobile and eventualy i beat the moon lord and got the zenith and i actualy liked to go to the wiki to research and now i have it on pc and have beaten the game multiple times got the difficult accesories a couple of times and always had the zenith (cant live without it) and then i started playing mods and now id prefer to play with friends altho i cant realy so i stopped playing altho i still like the game
God I love whenever terraria gets a review like “They’re removing gender!!!” When they’re just, like, not doing that at all
I have ~500 hours in Terraria and I have to agree with the review about the crafting menu; as much as I love the game, I despise the crafting menu. I often use the guide for crafting and it can be such a mess trying to find a recipe for an item when I use a material that has a ton of recipes. I also often craft directly from chests so even then it can be a mess to find the recipe you want to craft.
i’ll never understand when people complain about a game having too much content, like how are you upset that there is a lot to do?. if it’s a paid game, do you seriously want less content for your hard earned money? and if it’s free you’re only losing a little bit of extra time(which is arguably more valuable, but let’s not get existential). in fomo heavy games like gachas or the fomo final boss that is destiny 2, i get it. there is a real point to be made in how those games use their massive amount of content (well maybe not in d2’s case lol), that regularly goes away, to make you feel like you gotta “do everything now”. but, in terraria’s case, it’s basically a finished product. you can take it at your own pace. if you don’t like a game that is ok but actually figure out why before making a half-assed statement like “too much content”. more content in games is something people should be excited about and pushing for, even more so in a time where everything is trying to nickel and dime you.
cant s3x the wall of flash
Probably my largest criticism: Hard mode evil/hallow spread is extremely obnoxious and is downright HORRIBLE game design. There's a reason why Begone Evil is one of the most downloaded mods in TMod which are:
– Spreads extremely fast considering there's 5 different sources now.
– You can't destroy it pre-hardmode because 2 new evil AND hallow biomes pop up (overworld AND underground)
– You don't have access to the Clentaminator, so that gives each biome a good 1 or 2 hour headstart before you can START getting rid of it (provided you have over 2 plantinum for it + ammunition)
– It's unfun and unrewarding to remove, and even then, it only delays it
Wanted to take the game slow or build some stuff as you play the game? Well too bad cause as soon as hard mode kicks in it's just a race to beat the game. Really wished they'd address this more instead of just adding the evil biome potion (not even an accessory. Just a temporary potion.)
I would love to erase my memories and knowledge of terraria just so I could experience it for the first time again. Same with minecraft
I have played this game on and off for like a decade, and i always struggle with the progression. The game feels like a string of cool ideas tied together but it struggles to tell you when and how you should go to the next part. (It’s been a while since i last played so i might be outdated)
hah, joke on 1st review, my 1st time playing, small world, I dont know, random and get corruption, almost 2 months+ went here and there just to watch the map opened 😂, and still collecting shit for my building, and didn't even beat wof 😂
A FCKING. SMALL. WORLD!!!
-don't ask how much I'm death(period)
-I think I'm just enjoying the game, I guess…
3:14 grr the game is too woke!!!!
People who claim that Terraria is just "flat Minecraft" almost certainly fall into two groups, from my experience. Group A are people who haven't played the game in 10 years (if at all) and parrot what they've heard off of the Internet/their experience all those years ago, and Group B who played the game for about 20 minutes. They chopped some trees, probably incorrectly built a house, died to zombies on the first night, went caving, mined stone and basic ores, crafted basic tools, weapons, and armor, and quit at around that point.
They're not wrong, in a sense. Survival games like Minecraft and Terraria both appear very similar on the surface (dimensions aside) up until Terraria reaches about middle pre-hardmode or Queen Bee/Skeletron level, in my opinion. Once you get past the dungeon, the Wall of Flesh, and into Hard Mode, the game of course gets zany. Until then, Terraria might seem fairly unremarkable, and even a "boring Minecraft ripoff" to many folks. Just my two cents on that topic!
New players don't use guide thats why.
I have never had a save file or character corrupted. I still have my first world from release back in 2011
bats and giant turtles 😥
3:42 i agree with this review too much lol
The not enough info and what to do as a newbie is amazing for this type of game. A lot of people forget not that long ago many games did not hold your hand and have yellow everywhere to tell you where to go. Terraria leaves you to your own devices on how you progress and what to do. One of my favorite things is choosing what class I'll play or weapon I want to goal to and do everything for that.
2:50 hahaha holy shit thats me. I completely forgot I made that review because I actually deleted it a while back
its still a very real issue but despite that, all it takes is just turning off cloud save and backing up the world and player
0:42 bro i am doing it just fine, sure i have some previous experience from when i was younger but i was like 400x dumber back then
The save file issues might be pressing f2 or f3
Terraria and Minecraft are completely different. Of course, people have opinions. But Terraria isn't 2D Minecraft and Minecraft isn't 3D Terraria, and anyone who says they're the same has barely played one of the two or both.
Funny, i finished Terraria highest difficulty world seeds on a potato phone that overheating, 25fps average, and crashed often, these kids are weak
Minecraft is an adventure based open world with unlimited exploration, decent weapons and many building options.
Terraria is a player-progression based open world with very limited exploration, AMAZING weapons and less but also good building options.
I think the games flaws make it even better to play (Example: Minecraft has less items and bosses which means you can focus on exploring, mining and building more)
I'm a huge fan of both games (Having played minecraft for 8 years and terraria for around 1.5 years. I dont understand the hatred of the fandoms bcs both are amazing games)
"Adding crossplay in like 3 days"
Maybe in 3 final updates. It's only once they've gotten everything developed as far as they can that they're gon' consider working on it.
That is the realist thumbnail I’ve ever seen
The game is very intuitive. I started a few weeks ago and the best hours were learning the game.
I promised myself to never visit the wiki and the game couldn't be any more fun.
No, I 100% agree with the boss fights complaint. A big reason I dropped the game in Hard Mode is because the game just turned into a string a boss fights without giving me a particular reason to want to kill them besides unlocking the next boss fight. I did enjoy the jungle temple, though.
Also I got tired of pirate invasions, goblin armies, solar eclipses, blood moons, and other stupid nonsense deciding to happen every time I wanted to take a break from fighting stuff and work on my base or fish. They weren't even hard at that point, just kind of annoying.
I don't get why people feel this way with the wiki. I would say a new player on classic mode doesn't need the wiki, because the game is really easy on classic. Any half decent weapon will be able to kill the next boss at any point with half decent accessories. If someone follows ingame guidence and is willing to explore will be able to find all the main bosses and will be able to beat them without much trouble.
Of course I might be wrong in this one, I never got to experience the game myself and just followed instructions given by my friend on my first playtrough without having a clue on whats actually happening.
You WILL like Terraria
You WILL play Terraria
You WILL finish a game with a mod that isn't Calamity
Ive been able to play mobile and pc with people on local servers just sayin