Terraria: Sidescrolling Minecraft!

It's actually way better than Minecraft w/ an actual aesthetic vision unlike Dwarf Fortress (which isn't to say the aesthetic vision is excellent, but at least it's not just variable colored blocks). There's also stuff to do and the promise of more game to come. Already it's way more fun than Minecraft. Anyway -- anyone else play it yet? I'm starting to get tired of it, but that's after about 20 hours over the last week of playing.

a couple of friends of mine rave abt this game but i still havent played it

There's another cool-looking 2d minecraft clone called King Arthur's Gold.

$2.49 on steam today

$1.88 if you can 4-pack it

I went to buy it and the UK price is twice as much (£2.99 or $4.80). Weird because the last couple of deals I've seen the US price for on here have actually been at a pretty fair exchange rate. Oh well, guess it's still cheap.

Ohright. They doubled the price for everyone, 4 hours into the daily deal. There are angry people on the forums who put it in their cart at $2.49 and then it was $4.99 when they paid. (shrug)

it's great. i've pretty much beaten it at this point (i have the best sword in the game) but he promises to release a lot of new content for it. even if he doesn't tho -- it's at least 20 or so hours of gameplay.

xp BOOOO

Finally bought this during the steam sale. Quite fun so far; different from Minecraft, of course, but you get a damn hookshot in this, of all things

i should play this, at some point, what with how i have a copy

i can't stop plaaaaaaaaying
it's ruining mah liiiiiiiife

i can't believe how long it takes to progress. i haven't even found the first boss yet, after playing for about 6 hours or so.

This is great... On PS3 it's a wonderful living room game. You can just hold down the trigger and mine blocks while you eat dinner, talk on the phone, have a drink with your significant other, walk around the room. It's great as a sort of ambient living room TV show... "What are you doing now?" "I've mined enough clay and sand to turn it into clay pots and glass to build a rooftop gazebo for my mushroom and flower farms." "Oh!" "Later I might head over and see whether I can beat Skeletron or not."

Anyone playing Starbound? Terraria with sci fi knobs on it appears to be

Personally I'm not sure I can handle yet another resource gathering game but what interested me in the description of this one was the ability to fly in space etc. Although right now it's not enough to get me to buy it.

I'm playing this. It promises procedurally generated worlds, but in reality they're all just vaguely strange and random and some of them are outright eyesores. The planets themselves don't seem to have actual biomes, meaning it can get tedious exploring a given planet... I haven't visited any subsequent planets yet because I'm still trying to gather resources. The underground cavern system is really boring compared to Terraria, but the lighting, water, and sand have more interesting mechanics. A friend of mine said, "but the planets ARE the biomes." I have yet to see jungle, snow, dungeon, or much of anything beyond same-y plains/forest with weird purple grass and poorly formed caverns. The underground strata are not nearly as enjoyable either. In Terraria you can find your way through smaller caverns effectively. In this one, it just seems really, really random and not so exciting. Sometimes the lighting system is cool... you switch on your flashlight... only to highlight A HORRIBLE MONSTER that then attacks you.

Currently, I'd take one Terraria world over X Starbound worlds. I love the feeling of first finding the Jungle and all the other biomes in Terraria ("uh oh! wasps soon") and the events that seem to happen when you progress the game. Meteor landing, for example, gives the world some life.

The music is Starbound is jaw-droppingly beautiful and it promises a great deal as a game. I'd say it's worth it to join now, just to give it a shot.

Terraria is currently free on xbox live gold.

my kids play the ish out of this game

Terraria vs. Crashlands vs. Starbound. What should I get to waste my vacation on?

if you haven't played any of them i think terraria is probably the best. starbound is ok but when i played it it didn't have quite as much in it (tho maybe they've added more since?)

I watched a dude playing Terraria on twitch and he spent a LOT of time managing inventory, that's kind of my only misgiving

iirc starbound will have similar inventory management issues. crashlands has an infinite inventory w/ auto-sorting system but i haven't spent very much time on it so i don't know if it's actually fun.

I got Crashlands. Will report back.

The Terraria: Otherworld sequel looks like it might be amazing?

(Assuming it isn't stillborn - https://twitter.com/tow_game not looking great)

I got this on the iPad, finally. The mobile controls are not as terrible as I had assumed they would be. There is a magnifying glass effect that allows you to be precise with tools and block placing, even though character movement and combat are crazy. I can see why hardcore and expert mode are not an option for mobile. I'm going to have to tank everything.

i can't believe how long it takes to progress. i haven't even found the first boss yet, after playing for about 6 hours or so.

I found the jungle just to the west of my base camp, that's been plenty boss for now.

I desperately want to try out the local mobile multiplayer, but I have no friends and the kid's not old enough. FML

OK, so the kid is old enough for minecraft now (creative mode of course) but maybe not something where the bunnies' heads pop off with a splat noise whenever they wander into range of your flailing pickaxe.

Last night I was just mining the corruption by throwing a half-gross of bombs into a hole, as one does, and accidentally blew up two shadow orbs at once, summoning the Eater of Worlds. Wearing nothing but a suit of armor made from pumpkins and armed with my trusty katana, I wore down the beast and killed it, thanks in no small part to the flying carpet I retrieved from a buried pyramid and the bottled cloud of steam that I wear on my belt. Also, in the middle of the battle, my iPad had to interrupt to inform me that its battery was at 10%, which is an extra shot of adrenaline I don't think you get to experience on PC.

I am almost regretting putting this down for a year so I could get over what a PITA the crafting is and just get on with my life as a warrior-architect

Here's some shit that is likely to happen while you're trying to remodel your apartment building (thank goodness I replaced my pumpkin helmet with one made out of some kind of purple metal referred to as "demonite" - I am sure nothing bad will come of wearing this material on my head at all times):

• The moon will turn red, and the zombies will all of a sudden figure out how to open doors.
• A goblin army will approach from the west. They just take the doors right off the fucking hinges, because goblins have no respect.
• A huge fuckoff disembodied eyeball (which can apparently move through some kind of 3rd dimension, thus ignoring all barriers (including but not limited to doors)) will show up, have a bunch of flying eyeball babies at you, and then turn into a huge fuckoff bloodshot Pac-Man until you stab it to death.
• The goblins will come back again, because you know something about people who have no respect? They don't respect themselves, either.