03-31-2013, 10:37 AM
(03-31-2013, 09:27 AM)A Zombie Riot Wrote:(03-31-2013, 01:54 AM)Enderwoman Wrote: And finally, what is Minecraft's goal exactly?
There isn't one. You make your own goals. It's kind of the whole point of Minecraft.
Minecraft is basically just legos. When playing with Legos, do they tell you how to build what you want (not one of those dedicated things)? No. You're supposed to just go with it and make what you want.
Minecraft has 2 ways of playing it. Surviving or building.
After a while, that just gets boring, though. If a game has no goal, then there is no reward for your work. There is no feeling of accomplishment when there is no end goal to strive for.
You could argue that building/surviving is the end goal, but that only lasts so long before you wish to do other things, things that actually challenge you. This is the same problem I have with all sandbox games. If you are allowed complete and utter freedom, you get bored over time. You want a challenge from the game, you want the game to tell you to stop dicking around and go do something important, something that actually requires skill and overcoming some sort of challenge.
I'm not saying people who like Minecraft are stupid for liking it, I'm just saying they need a better argument than "you make your own goals," because there are only two goals: building and surviving, as you said before.