Why is Minecraft Hard to Play Now?

I got my first Minecraft account back in January of 2013 I was surprisingly early to the party compared to how late I've arrived to every single game I play I'm just now getting to God of War 2018 and I played halflife 2 in like 2020 it's easily the earliest I've been to a mainstream games release and there's no competition for it being my most played game either which is saying something considering my ever growing catalog of wasted time and despite the fact that I've done nearly everything more than once I still come back to the game from time to time and play Survival with my friends or family just to have a small one- month phase and those phases get so entertaining that they birth group wide inside jokes or I get inspired to make videos based on what's happened in them but even though I love the game dearly and it has given me countless Unforgettable memories like those I cannot for the life of me play it on my own [Music] an important note before we begin I can still play Minecraft just only with others I want to find out why it isn't engaging in single player anymore there are a lot of explanations as to why Minecraft hits differently now an important one being I have grown up though childish I am not a kid anymore and I don't get satisfied by poorly made games another good point I hear a lot is the disease we call Nostalgia it's entirely possible that my mind plays up the memories of Minecraft because I was simply happy it is completely viable that my idea of Minecraft was never what the game actually was but rather just how I felt playing it but with all of these explanations and how genuinely stupid I am I figured there's only really one way to see if it was me or the game I've decided to load up the last version of Minecraft I remember having zero commitment issues with [Music] 1.8.9 to conduct my my research I would need a new Minecraft world like any old playthrough you'd think I'd name it something informative or helpful like video essay World um surely I changed that oh this place looks so [Music] nice yo is the Notch Apple in this version why is that a direct offshoot of getting an upgrade I should Village you know I probably shouldn't have given up 22 coal for an emerald that was um that was unintelligent of me what you just watched was my first four in-game days of footage I only really explored and looked for a place to live and get better gear sacrificing my keyboard in the process got myself some trousers some pantaloons why am I jumping stop jumping I think I'm at my keyboard fixed it I also built a farm which I didn't even really finish cuz I never built the fence for it I had a lot of plans and a general idea of what I wanted my house to look like too I was actually pretty excited to keep working on the world and I did not touch it for an entire [Music] month okay we obviously have a problem here I played on this world once and I already don't want to play on it anymore so I should obviously know what the problem is right what is it that makes Minecraft so hard to play okay but really what could I have possibly gained from that hour of gameplay there was nothing I I learned nothing I just got I kid I just wanted to edit more than I wanted to record like I stated before 1.8.9 is the last version of Minecraft I remember having commitment issues with the real truth is I've never actually committed to a single player world in all 11 of my years on Minecraft sure I've made it to full netherite full Beacon endgame Minecraft dozens of times on Realms and servers but the only thing that makes every grind to get there bearable are the shenanigans that other players cause and there are no Shenanigans in a single player world unless you start them and that highlights Point number one Minecraft is lonely Minecraft is quite literally a Sandbox dedicated to the player it's an empty world made for you meant for you and you're the one that's supposed to fill it to the brim and the soundtrack highlights it I've been using more upbeat tracks but just listen to my on Venus or wet hands it's an extremely empty world with no goals or guides besides achievements you're the one that chooses what's different each time you play and when you've played thousands of times choosing your variations becomes extremely tedious and the linear path to accomplish your differences becomes irritating when I played stardew Valley I got sick of the game by the time it was Winter far F this grow that maintain this and flirt with the oddly beautiful man living in a Hut on the beach so I should probably end it here Yap a little bit more clean up the video and post it title this [ __ ] show I have commitment issues and put I'm not creative in the description and call it a de but the truth is the gameplay I've had in the background has been from my second session where I did nothing but the exact grinds I seed the spies I didn't I didn't make a pickaxe I didn't mind the I didn't mind the iron um oh my God so what makes it different why can I at the very least come back to a 1.8.9 world but would have quit a new one well obviously because I W more screen time for my video but also because of something that I believe separates Minecraft into two separate categories and nearly two separate [Music] games [Music] Minecraft has always felt very different since Mojang was bought out obviously because of the combat changes duh but to me it was worse when they changed the textures before Microsoft's acquisition and adjustments Minecraft had an extremely grainy look things were pixelated dirty almost sharp now things look smooth Brown they added an abundant arsenal of blocks which gives you probably hundreds of choices when building so why do I think that's bad I think that it kills creativity whenever I built or played Minecraft in older versions the question I always asked myself was what can I make with these blocks the more that was added the more my question became what blocks will I use to build this the question changed from what to how on top of that everything they added to make the world feel more Lush geod shrex ruins it takes the loneliness Minecraft had and tries very hard to remove that new Minecraft has a feeling of glutton it feels very bloated with content where old Minecraft isn't it's not exactly a comparison of lacking and having just that the two different versions have a lot the other doesn't like new versus old terrain generation I do think that what Microsoft has done is extremely impressive and they definitely saved the game when they bought it but current Minecraft and pre Microsoft Minecraft are two different games to me it's the same fundamentals with different feelings old Minecraft to me is very colorful it's empty and wild where I feel new m inecraft is more dull but the world has more to offer these differences force a different aesthetic on the player and that restricts the freedom that the game used to have and I was actually quite enjoying playing in the old Grinny look that the game had it was a solid Nostalgia trip however I hit a Crossroads in my world I needed to build my house and I needed the materials for it as well as better tools for basic progression that's right I finally made myself strip mine [Music] n [Music] strip mining is Gen genuinely my least favorite activity in Minecraft I hate it in every version of the game and it always kind of ends up being the filter between whether or not I make it past Diamond gear in a world this time though I did push through it I tossed on a TV show in the background and just got to work my haul was actually perfectly enough to get diamond gear and a jukebox but it was exactly too short of an enchanting table but you know now that I had a chest full of stone I figured it was kind of time for me to start working on my house considering I was like 10 hours into the world [Music] [Music] I had actually been you know playing for a fair amount of time so it was getting really late so I just kind of paused where I was and went to sleep and for the first time in probably over like 7 years when I woke up the first thing I thought about was how much I really wanted to keep playing you know keep building keep mining how much I wanted to just play on my world and do something who wouldn't ride that [Music] train [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] [Music] [Music] I had an insane amount of fun building my house the color palette is a little bit strange but that's just kind of how it is sometimes I like how it looks anyway now I have a home a mine a garden general knowledge of my surroundings might I add I haven't died once in my world which I think is fairly impressive but that was scared me a little bit because I knew the nether was next and I didn't want to lose all 42 of my levels in lava regardless I gathered the obsidian to go when I was strip Ming so I was going to do it [Music] anyway [Music] [Music] [Music] h w [Music] here [Music] going back to the nether was weird I mean really weird it's only been 4 years since the nether update and yet I it felt Indescribable seeing the nether again though my short Montage pretty accurately put it together I actually really liked the nether update I think the changes made to the nether in 1.16 was one of the best updates Microsoft actually made but the old nether just has this feeling to it that the new one doesn't there's no trees there's no grass alternative most of your dangers are actually hazards like Soul Sand lava gravel or fire and the only sign of civilization is filled with your most dangerous threats and the erratic terrain and red fog makes it feels like you're scaling someone's insides it's exactly what it acts like hell despite my observations I still got exactly what I needed and I wouldn't be going back now I just needed ender pearls one more diamond and I'd be ready to chase down the dragon when I started this world I did so with the goal of beating the game and doing little tasks along the way for footage when I built the portal it really started to sink in that once I make the ender eyes and go fight the Ender Dragon that's it no elytra no n cities the credits and nothing more and that scared me cuz in all truth I didn't want the video to be over I didn't want the world to be over I got attached to something I said I'd abandon when I was done because for all the reasons I can give and all the excuses I can make I was having fun I was having fun on a game that I loved that I hadn't had fun on in a long long time I was afraid to finish the game but I still pursued the [Music] [Music] end when I realized that there wasn't any mending in the game I decided that when I Enchanted my gear I wouldn't put much thought into it I just kind of take what I could you know but my 45 saved levels came in clutch and it made me want better enchantments than level twos so I spent like 2 hours mining quartz enchanting an item then going back and I burned through four diamond swords to get a decent one my gear did kind of end up being crazy though especially the helmet which was nuts on one enchant I built up everything to this point to this moment and it was weird knowing that once I killed the Ender Dragon I'd be done finished but I was not going to let that stop me [Music] oh a [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] and there I was sitting at my desk staring at my screen seeing something I had seen over and over but it meant something this time and I read every word because I wanted to the credits told me I was alive that the Universe says I'm strong that I'm my enemy and my Ally that I am alone and that I am not that I am bright and that I am dim and that I love and that I am loved because I am love and those words mean something because I want them to even if they may just be credits it's a love letter to the player and I'm the player I've been the player for 11 years of my life and the past 15 hours of gameplay were just that my memories old textures old music old desires over and over and it was just over like that and I was sad sad that I'd Leave the World Behind and the version sad that at some point I left myself behind in the caves the forest or the cow pens and wheat farms and the dirt homes and stone tools I was distraught to let it all go but I was happy to have opened my eyes to it I was happy that I'd have the chance to come back at any time maybe not to the laughter or the stupid fights or waking up early just to play but I could at least come back as a visitor to say hello and check in on something that built me as a person and eventually to say goodbye and thanks thanks for absolutely [Music] [Music] everything [Music] this video ended up going a bit off the rail so I'll try to be a little bit cohesive here I think the initial question began to matter a lot less the more I played of course it would be extremely disappointing if I didn't decide on an answer so I will like I said there's been changes texture music generated structures there's been hundreds everything about the game very slowly or rapidly changed over time recognizable or not something's different no matter where you look so why do we ignore that the same is true for ourselves like I said at the start of the video I got this game in 2013 I I was six and I'm not six anymore the game isn't new both I and the game have grown into different things and I think that's a good thing the fact that Minecraft has made it this far and has had such drastic changes is incred in the fact that we as people have made it this far is incredible growing is incredible it is a great outstanding undeniably amazing thing that we grow and we change and we never stop doing that and the sad truth is that in growing I outgrew this game it isn't that it's a kids game it really is for anybody it's just that it stopped being for me and I'll always play with friends or family when the time comes I'm mentally preparing for the next realm as we speak but all all by myself the game just isn't right anymore it hit this time but it won't the next with that being said I think that wraps up anything I had left to say if youve made it this far thanks if you skipped to the end [ __ ] you but you should also subscribe I'll probably upload another video in like a year and that way you'll catch my next low quality production but filming this video was extremely fun and editing it was even more so I didn't think I would even make this video as long as it is but it's getting a little bit too long so I should probably just roll the credits I'll uh see you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] around [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 28min 32sec (1712 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 03 2024