[Game] Terrania

Argh, spelling mistakes in the title :|

I've got 150 hours in Terraria so far. So obviously I like it.

But yeah, like Minecraft, it's a game for a specific kind of gamer. (Some would say autistics, I prefer 'highly creative.') It's a sandbox and a lot of it has to do with exploring the world and collecting ever-higher levels of gear, killing rare enemies, and just making neat, thematic stuff.

I've spent close to 40 hours just building stuff alone. For example, this is my 1.1 world:



So. That's where my main interest lies. That said, with a few friends playing on medium or even hardcore, the game can be pretty fun and really unforgiving. So all the building, gearing up, ect.... actually has a point. On easier modes, you're really just experiencing the content and doing it at your pace.

Re: clicking. I got an autoclicker the day or two after Terraria came out. I've never looked back. It may invalidate some of the "benefits" of higher end weapons, but that's a small price to pay to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome. It actually ends up being MORE effective than holding click down for a lot of weapons (the drills and guns in particular. 1 click every .1 seconds is far faster than a human can maintain.)

TBH, I'm actually a little disappointed in the update. It didn't give me as much end game PUNCH as I thought it would. I basically did everything but start farming the new bosses in about 3 hours. So I already got 60% of the new gear in one sitting. The OMG hard enemies are fun, the statues are another decent reason to explore after the mid game....

But the one thing Terraria still hasn't pulled off is an interesting and meaningful underground. There needs to be more purpose in what gets put down there. The traps, for example, were a good start. As are the little houses with statues and chests. But there needs to be more of that. Way more of that.

I never build sky bridges either. Super highways are more fun and more resource efficient. Plus, in hard mode, aerial super highways tend to get plagued by Wyverns.

To me Terraria is one of the biggest indie success stories of 2011, and it's one of those games that gives budding programmers hope that they can create something cool and interesting that people like (and will pay for.)

Well Minecraft does have a whole extra plane to work with.

Terraria's end goals just aren't as interesting to tackle as Minecraft's, they always feel like an anti-climax. (Even the WoF felt that way.) I'd substitute that for really interesting world gen though. If Terraria gave me a reason to explore 90% of a world without using a world viewer, it would get even more play time from me that it has. Unfortunately it hasn't reached that point yet, but I hope it will.

Also kind of hoping for sub-realms in each world. That'd open up a lot of possibilities and make the world feel like more than a 2d plane.

Yeah I'm totally ready for this.

And every time I look at the title it's like sticking my own thumb in my eye.

That's what they put the guide in for. You can hand him any item and he'll show you what all the recipes for it are.

Frankly though, I think Terraria is best played WITHOUT knowing the xyz to get to hard mode, make meteors drop, and all that noise. It allows the game to be much more of an adventure, about exploration and discovery, than what it eventually turns into: people powering through the first half of the game, getting to the new content and burning out immediately afterward.