Minecraft: To Buy or not to buy?

tommerbob

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Aloha Helpers, I'm looking for some input on whether I should buy Minecraft. I've heard and read some about it, and with me being an avid lego fan growing up, this game looks really intriguing.

Here's what I know:

- You build.
- At night, you survive.
- You can discover countless different recipes and crafting and all sorts of stuff.
- ???

The game seems really retro, but how are the system requirements? I can run Wow on my laptop with medium settings with 30-50 fps, how would that compare to Minecraft?

The lack of any information in the game itself seems annoying (like not giving any info about crafting), especially to someone like me who would be brand-new to the game. Do you like this or is it a flaw?

I've read about some people can host their own servers with their own code and such? I'm not a tech or web guru, but that sounds interesting, even if just for myself in single-player. Is the game moddable?

I love the entire "openness" idea of the game, and I think that's what draws me to it more than anything else.

Should I buy it or not? Please share your thoughts. :)
 
tommerbob

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I decided to buy it. I've already spent way too many hours having way too much fun with this game. :D

The only thing I don't really like is the lack of in game info. I have to alt-tabbed pretty often just to find out some basic info.
 
tommerbob

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I have't done any enchanting yet, so I'm not sure what you mean. version 1.1 came out about a month ago I think. Maybe they fixed it there?
 
ElderKingpin

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Reading the runes is supposed to be like that, its not a bug or anything, you have to memorize the characters and then take a shot in the dark
 
Vellu

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Nigerianrulz said:
have their patched the enchanting stuff yet? i dont like reading runes...
Click to expand...

It doesn't matter what the runes say, because they're randomized and not connected to the actual enchant in any way.
They're fun to translate tho.
 
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Im not sure if you can do this anymore, but if you log in to a friends account at home.. and then download and patch minecraft you will get the game which will allow you to play in offline mode and not multiplayer. But you will need to log in now and then to update Minecraft.
 
Prometheus

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You can play an account in offline mode after you connect to it once, so that still works. Just using the wrong password will put you into offline mode I believe.
 
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