• aeronmelon
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    3 days ago

    These sandbox games sure have a way of attracting a certain kind of delightfully-deranged people who defy the laws of physics to make these things possible.

    Start the countdown timers for things like Doom, GameBoy emulator, microprocessor, etc…

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      3 days ago

      I love how crazy people get with building computers in side games. It’s impressive stuff.

      I wonder if the game itself is good though

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        General consensus I’ve seen is that it’s fun but you can tell it’s early alpha. It’s also not different enough from Minecraft if you’re bored of Minecraft.

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          Just my opinion, but I could only see this being true for people who play modded Minecraft. The combat is very different, farming and food is very different, the enemies are different, there’s a bunch of furniture in the game. There’s a very good, built-in character customization system. It visually looks very different.

          I’d need, like, 4 mods and a shader in Minecraft to get a similar experience.

          Not saying Hytale is better or worse. But, I think it’s done well to separate itself in the survival genre so far and it only just released in early access. If the voxel-type game isn’t something a person generally likes, it’s easy to look at it and think, “Block game is similar to block game.”

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          that’s why this article is NOT surprising at all. people essentially just ported the machines/PCs they made in MC to this game, since this is literally a reskinned Minecraft, or a standalone mod for Minecraft.