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Terraria’s Progression is Awful. Here’s Why.



“Terraria’s Progression is Awful. Here’s Why.”

Today, we discuss Terraria and the many arguments made against the game’s progression and why I believe they are false!

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  3. @crunchylettuce5446 on

    Yeah, I agree with all of your points here. I played Terraria PS3 edition as my first experience of the game and got really frustrated trying to progress because I was a dumb teen. I was stubbornly trying to kill Skeletron over and over again with mixed platinum/tungsten gear after killing the eye with a plat bow. A friend at the time told me to 'build an arena' and so I built an incredibly simple 7-platform line with a campfire and heart lantern nearby (with 240 max health) and fought Skeletron around 15 times just with a plat broadsword and managed to kill him eventually. I became one of those "terraria sucks without a wiki" people because you need to create arenas to fight bosses (at least as a newbie) and the Guide never said anything about that. I don't know if that was just a common sense thing I missed out on, but it's about the only valid critique I've ever held on to about the game. That, and the rules for good fishing also sort of require you to peruse the Wiki. I would have never known about the Gummy Worm, or Minimim Volume, or Luck if it hadn't been for a frustrated high school me failing fishing quests and looking up how it all worked online.

  5. @witherschat on

    Okay, so I watched it all now and while I overall agree with the general takes, I do have a couple things to add.

    Part 1:
    I don't think Terraria is a sandbox game the same way Minecraft is, for one simple reason. In Terraria, the sandbox elements work to support the progression, while in Minecraft it's the opposite. While you can play both in a pure sandbox oriented playstyle and in a pure progression oriented playstyle, the former is more refined in Minecraft and the latter in Terraria.
    Chances are, you'll run out of things to do quickly in Minecraft if you can't make your own experiences. And in Terraria, the progression systems restrict your ability to interact with the sandbox elements quite a lot.
    With that being said, I don't think it's a bad thing. Terraria's sandbox elements support its combat and progression amazingly, from offering a teleportation hub to building your own boss arenas.
    In the end, whether you still call Terraria a sandbox game, or call it an action-adventure/bullet-hell combat+exploration focused game with sandbox elements is just terminology, and while I prefer the latter I don't think one can objectively claim Terraria not to be a sandbox game.

    Part 2:
    Flawless. I just agree with that. Terraria progression is just great.

    Part 3:
    While I mostly agree with your points, there's a caveats I want to add to this.
    I honestly disagree with the premise that a game needing a wiki to understand is a bad thing? Especially with such a deep progression and crafting system like Terraria, I think it's worth it.

  6. @GeneralDMadness on

    My experience with terraria is my friend doing the progression while I messed around with hoiks until hardmode and then we went straight to a calamity modpack where he did the progression while I strip mined the world. It was fine

  8. @lukusblack6442 on

    I need to get into Terraria again… I have a love/hate relationship with it. None of those issues are mine, and can't for the life of me figure out why it wouldn't be considered sandbox.

    I find the crafting GUI (not the system, at all) absolutely obnoxious. But mostly, it's the circular tool swing. It annoys me every time I play to the point that I eventually quit. I barely get anywhere.

    Keep in mind it's not the general graphics. If you only count Steam, I've played Starbound more than any other game I own, just upwards of 2,000 hours. It doesn't beat Minecraft, Two Worlds or Moria, mind you, but it's up there.

  17. @norman6524 on

    I played Terraria when I was younger but I was given everything so I could focus on just building and exploring, when it came to actually doing the progression system I just felt like everything took too long and I've tried like 3 times to get back into the game. Probably just not the game for me but I'm sure I'll try again in the future.