*Note to self: Don't buy Minecraft on the PS4*

Seriously, I was thinking about trying it but after reading that, I'll pass. 

Sorry the game kinda sucks

On the other hand, you saved me money. Thanks

You're an odd duck Fire, but that's ok

I'll be honest, I didn't bother to read your 25 page essay because it wasn't directed at me. If it was, I'd read the entire thing and wouldn't ignore you. Since it wasn't...well...yeah, I skipped over it after the first 2 paragraphs.

I skimmed it and it made sense, but can I ask where that discussion came from? Were you just making a list or was there some reasoning for it?

Indeed, so many possibilities, yet everything feels half assed and scatterbrained. Grinding for enchantments ugh. When I glicthed throught the floor in the lava I lost my diamond armor and fortune 3 pick axe ofcourse.

Mechanism puzzles would be fun but since you can simply mine through everything it's ultimately pointless. I had already dug halfway through the jungle temple by accident when I found the switches and simple hidden chest puzzle. That water hehe, one bucket of re-usable magic water to douse all the lava in the world. Back in the bucket water genie. From dust did that part right, also felt like wasted potential though. Pixeljunk shooter did have great mechanics and good bosses, no building however.

I do wonder what is seen in this game to teach kids? Isn't it used in schools? Maybe planning ahead if you want to build something since you can't move things. (Ok, you could build a huge wall of pistons to push a wall 1 block to the side, then break down the pistons again...) Yet structural integrity certainly isn't any part of it, something basic lego does teach you. Maybe it teaches patience :)

Oh well, it shows how much further gaming can still go or has to go before we have fully dynamic living worlds to play in.

Hm, I dunno. Seems like any strategy game or any puzzle game would be better learning tools. Maybe they are using some sort of mod...

Why, thank you!

Then consider it directed at you!

Actually, now I feel kind of bad.  I'm not sure if you mean that you skipped it because you didn't think it concerned you, or you skipped it because you didn't want to read it.

Umm...

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Awkward!

Well, I'm not going to order you to read it.  But I would like to get some sense of whether or not the actual breakdown is understandable.  There's not much point if it just confuses everyone.  To be clear, I'm talking about the longest bolded section that runs to the end of the post.

The thing is, I don't know if it will make a lot of sense without some explanation, which is basically what I do in that post.  I'm tempted to try and summarize it here but, honestly, I'd just end up retyping the whole thing.

Did you follow the breakdown at the end?  That's the unbroken set of bold text that goes from about half-way through the post to the end.  That's the main part that needs to make sense.

If you mean my reason for doing it, it started out as a personal project just out of curiosity.  There's been a lot of talk lately about what qualifies as an "exclusive" and I basically decided to see if I could map out the distribution of content between Sony and Microsoft and see how much overlap there is, how much truly exclusive content there is, what "kinds" of exclusives there are, etc.  That kind of thing.

If you mean my reason for posting it here... yeah, that probably seemed like it came out of nowhere.  That's because it was partly from a PM chat.  I had mentioned my "exclusives data" to AZWification earlier in the thread.  Later, I noticed on his wall that he said he was a little bored with VGChartz lately, so I said to him (via PM) that I could post the data I mentioned earlier if he'd like to see it, and he said I could if I wanted to.

That's why it probably seemed like I just abruptly posted a huge list for no apparent reason.

Oh, and to be clear, what you see in that post is just the template for the breakdown.  I have an absolute crapload of games that I'm organizing into those categories.  That's actually one of the reasons I'm trying to find out if people can follow the way it's laid out.  I'd like to be sure that the breakdown can be understood before I post it with a couple of hundred titles.

It makes sense, but may I ask what the purpose is? Are you just making a list for fun or are you trying to prove some point?

It does?  So, you follow the way I've broken down the "degrees" of exclusivity, if you want to call it that?

Nope.  It's pure curiosity.  There's been a lot of talk recently about what's "really" exclusive and what's not, and it just made me wonder how the data could be arranged into some kind of an organized list.  As I said in that post, all that this is meant to be is a presentation of the raw data, not an argument as to what "counts" as exclusive and what doesn't.

I don't know how well that explains things, but... yeah.  I guess it must seem strange for someone to do something like this just... because.

To be honest, this started out as a purely personal project - I didn't even intend to post it originally.  I actually do lots of stuff like this that I never put online.  I just find it interesting.  Or perhaps I simply have too much time on my hands.

Anyway, I don't have any kind of end goal in mind, if that's what you're asking; I just thought it would be interesting to map out the full spectrum of content.

I normally read every post by everyone just to get everybody's views. With that said, if the post is on the long-side, I'll generally skip over it. (Unless it's specifically for me) I did glance at it and it looked as if it said the same thing over and over. I was waiting for the games to pop up but they never did. (I know it's just a draft now) It would be interesting once completed though. 

I'll read it (probably tomorrow, bed time soon) and get back to you