• Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
      32·
      1 year ago

      I never got into terraria, I’ve tried a couple of times but couldn’t grasp the game loop.

      I really liked minecraft when it came out though.

      • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        I’d say Terraria has a lot more… structure in how you upgrade things. Minecraft is a lot more loose and free with how it lets you play, while Terraria expects you explore, collect, create and use the things you discover and create to move the story forward.

        • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
          9·
          1 year ago

          Maybe that was why, not entirely sure.

          I did appreciate the complete freedom of minecraft.

          Should point out I played minecraft during Alpha so it was long before any story was added to the game.

          • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            Even after story was added to the game in Minecraft, it allows you to play at your own pace a lot more.

            Each stage of the game you trigger in Terraria, it gets more difficult, and new threats arise on the map. If you’re not upgrading all your gear in the designed paths, you’ll be suffering and dying a lot.

            Minecraft doesn’t do that so much. It lets you choose which things you want to work on, or if you even want to work on them at all. There’s nothing stopping you from just deciding to build an idyllic cottage and not pursue a path to the Ender Dragon or anything else.

            Terraria kind of pushes you along, Minecraft doesn’t and lets you play at your own pace. Definitely for different types of gamers, in some ways.

            • oyenyaaow@lemmy.zipEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              There’s nothing stopping you from just deciding to build an idyllic cottage and not pursue a path to the Ender Dragon or anything else.

              Spent so long pretending it’s Stardew Valley 3D and now cries in wanting to change from peaceful mode but having so much villagers and building a large enough wall and lighting against zombie siege is taking so long.

            • PwnTra1n@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              It’s got great pacing. The more you cave dive the better ore you mine increasing armor but your find hp increases which bring the bosses and events. One of my favorites.

      • leggettc18@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Terraria is less survival sandbox and more metroidvania. It garnered a lot of surface level comparisons to Minecraft (randomly generated world, building a base, caving required to find ores to smelt into bars to get better tools/armor), but Terraria has all of that as ways to progress and grow stronger instead of just being things you can do in the sandbox for fun/survival. It’s less about survival and more about finding ways to increase your DPS/Mobility/Defense to fight bosses. Although you can still flex your creativity to make visually appealing bases (and you want to have multiple, one in each non-evil biome and one underground, trust me).

    • Custoslibera@lemmy.worldOP
      26·
      1 year ago

      There’s been a lot of content added.

      Patch 1.5 was massive and basically completed the game.

      I thought that was going to be the last patch but now there’s a 1.6 coming and there will probably be more but I have no expectations.

      It’s just a nice surprise when I see new content being developed.

  • Underwaterbob@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been meaning to start it for years now, but I’m actually kind of intimidated by it at this point.

    • RQG@lemmy.world
      16·
      1 year ago

      It’s among the least intimidating games I ever played. You statt super simple and progress at your own pace. At any time you have different things you can do but you’re free to focus on what you enjoy most.

      Now you can optinize and rush certain rewards etc. But for the first playthrough just do whatever looks cool. It’s such a fun game.

      Guess I talked myself into another playthrough.

    • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      10·
      1 year ago

      I played it with my kids in coop mode.
      What’s great is the progression system. You start very poor, having to cut wood, with nowhere to go that far. The areas and what you can do unfold themselves step by step.

      • monomon@programming.dev
        5·
        1 year ago

        I also played with my kids on lan, and they love it. Had to discipline them a bit to water the plants 😀

        • Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          1 year ago

          Up to four in split screen. We played it with my two kids in couch coop. We where three in split screen. Each player has one house. The money is shared, so I was working to get money, while my kids were exploring and having fun.

          I don’t remember exactly but one player is mandatory (the one starting the “save”/“world”), then the three others are optional. However you don’t want to play a lot without the other characters since they will not progress (the more you do something with one character like cutting wood, the easier it is for this character).

    • UntouchedWagons@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      It starts off slow but by the second year you need the wiki open on a second screen, mainly to know when and where certain fish show up.

  • crawley@lemmy.world
    132·
    1 year ago

    Well, not for long. 1.6 is the very last update ever (unless it breaks something and needs a hot fix) and then he’s working on Haunted Chocolatier full time.