Minecraft is amazing.

When I first played it, I wasn't impressed. But then, I had no idea what I was doing. Once I started exploring the world it had created for me, I found there was so much to do! Explore vast (sometimes epic) cave systems, mine for diamonds, build anything I could think of, try to survive, look for treasure, fight monsters... The beauty of the game is that there IS no goal. You make your own goals. For example on one of my save slots I am building a recreation of Zelda: A link to the Past's overworld. To do this I must gather the raw materials. To do that I first have to find the materials I need. To do that, I must survive at night, so I had to build a shelter (as well as plenty of storage space for the needed materials. One I get the materials, I gotta craft them into useful items, then go out and place them.

The resource collection aspect of it is wonderful in that just about everything you see is collectible, and there's a ton that you can only find in certain ways (try getting a skeleton archer to shoot another monster between you and it, and you'll see). Then you can use those collected items to build virtually anything. There are tons of videos on youtube showing off various Minecraft inventions, and there's even a system in place where you can build 'electric' circuits. Because of those a clever player can build any kind of (actually working) machine that they can design.

I recommend Minecraft heartily, but only the 'real' version. The free one is junk since you have infinite of everything and that takes away from the accomplishment that you feel when you finally complete that castle or whatever it is you're building, since you had to mine and fight and work for it rather than just choosing the block type you want.

Then, there's the endless customizations that can be made to the graphics. I've even seen a Lego skin that makes every block type a different Lego piece! I find that one appropriate since the game kinda feels like a giant randomized Lego world. Even if you leave the graphics alone, you may find (as I did) that once you got past the pixels you could find a ton of beauty in the world, the vast vistas you can see when you climb a mountain, or the awesomeness of a massive cavern full of lava, water, and obsidian.

Go buy it. I'm serious. The few dollars the creator is asking for more than makes up for the hundreds of hours of entertainment that this game has to offer.

Whatever happened to this thread page eh?

Ive seen video's about this, and I asked my mom to get it for me next month ^-^