Sooo... what you're saying is... it's ok that I sit around in spandex with my underwear on the outside?

Totally

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Yeah, let's just go with that.

Awesome! Spandex bodysuits ftw

OT: Why don't you put Superman as your avatar, then?

Can I rant about Minecraft here? I'll do it anyway, game pissed me off completely today.

I'm playing the ps4 version, initially it all ran butter smooth, long draw distance, 60 fps. Well draw distance cuts in half in splitscreen, understandable I guess. Then I started building some complex redstone mechanisms. Interesting but definitely made by hackers, weirdest rule set for passage of current I have ever seen. A lot of features are not in the ps4 version. Plus the horribly unoptimized glitchy engine can't keep up, I'm glad when the framerate stays in the double digits in splitscreen. And don't wander too far apart, at some point placing anything had almost a full second delay.

Then there's the horrible path finding, creatures that sort of float through walls to upto 30 yards outside their pens and magically warp back when you hit them. The engine doesn't seem capable of rendering more then 15 of the block creatures at a time and keeps telling me I can't breed any more chickens. I only have 4 chickens... And there's spiders with Parkinson's disease that get sucked up in the air constantly and glitch through walls. Who thought it was a good idea to have a suicide mob that runs at you silently and blows up, leaving a big crater, in a game about building stuff.

And the worst today. I got hit by gravel while digging, instead of simply backing up it glitched me through the floor into a lava pool somewhere underneath with an obsidian roof, no way out, lost everything. 2.5 billion for that, jeez this game needs some work. With MS just having bought the thing, I doubt the ps4 version will get any updates soon.

Building and exploring is fun, but after finally experiencing Minecraft for over a week, I would say, scrap the lot and rewrite the whole engine in a proper programming language.

Yes, you can ^.^

I always say that Minecraft is a great tool but a terrible game. It does so many things wrong that other games do right: the bosses are terrible, the combat is terrible, the enemies are terrible, the exploration is terrible, the UI is terrible and the game is full of glitches etc... Its design is sloppy and scattershot and unfocused (as shown by the snapshots and updates (lets include banners but not improve things that actually matter)).

Sounds like the PS4 version is even worse...my condolences.

*sighs heavily*

Because I...

*hangs head*

*mumbles*  I don't really look like Christopher Reeve.

It's fun as a toy but indeed horrible as a game. At least they seem to know it themselves and you can turn off hostile mobs, tnt explosions and fire spreading.  The problem is that you can only get certain building materials from enemies. I was expecting a 3D Terraria, but it doesn't come anywhere near close that experience. The addition of being able to build fun mechanisms, albeit in a weird convoluted way, saves it for me. Too bad signal locking repeaters aren't even in the ps4 version, nor hoppers or comparators. Seeking for advice on the wiki doesn't help much when half the tools are missing.

I guess I can switch to creative mode, cuts out resource hunting? It might lose its appeal altogether when it's nothing more than an editor. My 5 year old wants to see the end, and the ender dragon. I think I'll pass... Making a portal to the Nether world and immediately being blasted off into a huge lava lake, twice, in different locations, that was enough fun.

And what if I said that I also tuck my shirt into my underpants?

Wait... did I say that out loud?

*cough*  To bring this back to gaming (seriously, how did we get onto this topic? )...

I hope my post didn't scare you guys off.  I realize it's quite a wall of text but it's hard to explain without going into some detail.  Hopefully all the explanation wasn't too long to be bothered reading.  But even if it was, I'd be interested to know if the breakdown itself (when I finally got around to it) was at least understandable.  I really did try to avoid making it confusing, but if anything was unclear, please feel free to ask.

Hehe, as much as I'd love to chat about spandex bodysuits, I know this isn't the thread for it. Still, try to look for a SFW pic of someone you resemble the most. Heck, your avatar doesn't have to resemble how you look.

OT: I have the tendency to choose games that features a main protagonist in a bodysuit of some sort, even if the game is pretty bad. X-Men Destiny is one. Sure, the game is barebones, but I still chose it because of the reason above. Besides, I'm a X-Men fan.

The Ender Dragon (and the wither) are some of the worst designed bosses I have ever seen, in an area with tons of Endermen (which encourages players to wear a pumpkin over their head, which makes the first person view shit). I don't understand why, in a game about Mining and Crafting, they decided to make a boss like that. If I was in charge of boss design, I would make large SotC-like bosses that you had to climb on and destroy blocks of and use your minecraft knowledge (moving water + still lava = obsidian where moving lava + still water = cobblestone for one boss, shooting arrows through lava = fire arrows for another...) to take them down. So many interesting things could be done, but instead they decide to highlight how junk the combat is with a junk boss...

Also, the mobs should work like monsters in Monster Hunter, where you use their gear to make your armor to enhance the crafting system (as is, you reach a point where you have full diamond armor in like, 45 minutes and then there is nothing to do but grind for enchantments).

Maybe the fact that Minecraft makes my imagination run wild with all the possibilities is an indicator of how much potential it has, but still...everything feels like a letdown :(