Realism in video games is not welcome when it means tedium.



First, bow charging. Makes sense. Can't machinegun arrows at enemies anymore. Not that it really worked anyway, there's a delay when hitting an enemy before you can hit it again, so machinegunning just wasted a lot of arrows.



Hunger. The start of the descent to hell. We had a perfectly good health system where eating shit healed you and that was all. But now, you have to constantly maintain yourself, just like in real life. Remember to eat or die.

Since you start the game with basically nothing, and wheat & co. take ages to grow, it means you spend your first few days constantly starving to death. Or you can kill mobs, but then since mob spawning is also 'realistic' (requiring you to breed them), you end up having to travel miles to find new mobs.

It's highly inconvenient, but it's realistic. It's a good thing, right?



The attack meter. So since we applied realism to bows, why not do the same to swords? It can only be a good idea!

The basic idea is that when you use your sword, you have to wait till the attack meter recharges before using it again. The strength of the hit depends on the charge.

So now, if you mash the attack button, you're basically fighting with bare hands, no matter what you're holding. Good luck fighting creepers.

A good side, though, is that tools are also usable as weapons (without crappy characteristics). Axes for example are powerful but slow.



Boat rowing. Oh god. Moving your boat by keeping W pressed isn't realistic enough, you have to press A and D alternately to simulate rowing (with a totally not realistic animation). And if you don't press your keys at the right pace, you go as fast as a snail.

So what's next? Walking by pressing A and D to move your legs, and if you do it wrong, you fall and get hurt? Constantly pressing keys to breathe?




Minecraft is another of those games that have been ruined by 'realism'.

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Alteast they let you choose which version you want. Shame they don't provide Indev tho, when they provide even the earliest versions.


I played on the last Alpha version. It's good except for missing weather and no leaf decay.

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There wasn't anything wrong with the old health system either. Eat shit to heal yourself, pretty standard in the videogame world.


Why make Minecraft realistic, anyway? As if creepers and giant spiders were realistic by any means.


Because in the meantime:
* spiders still climb walls by merely levitating against the wall
* rollercoasters are still crap because minecarts don't rotate you when they take turns (and the crappy collision detection makes you suffocate in places where you shouldn't)



If anyone knows where to get Alpha/Beta SMP server software, though, I'd be interested. Maybe we can try the whole 'Kuribo64 Minecraft server' adventure again with something better than a hacked Cuberite.

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NSMBHD - Kafuka - Jul
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Which versions are those from?

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NSMBHD - Kafuka - Jul
melonDS the most fruity DS emulator there is

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indeed


as for rollercoasters I consider it an issue, yes

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NSMBHD - Kafuka - Jul
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