Briareos
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Banjooie wrote here:
Terraria - It's kinda like Minecraft but it's more...Super Metroid, I guess? It's frigging ten dollars, buy it.

Having never played Minecraft nor Super Metroid I can't vouch for the accuracy of the above statement, but since it's 50% off (i.e. 5 USD) on Steam for the next 43 hours or so I'd really recommend checking out Terraria - I know I had a lot of fun in the last few weeks with it, and thanks to a huge patch that landed today it can only get better...

In case you're looking for a video - TotalBiscuit did a first impression on the game in May and did 12 or so more videos since then so I guess he was quite intrigued, which doesn't happen too often...

np: Tied + Tickled Trio + Billy Hart - Violent Collaborations Pt. 1 (La Place Demon)

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Terraria's quite fun, especially if you have someone to do multiplayer with. Steam says I have 150 hours logged on it, certainly a good 6x what I expected to get out of it. I wouldn't compare it to Minecraft, as Terraria is more varied and less grindy, as well as having a more interesting combat system and no monsters that wreck your stuff like a certain hissing annoyance. Minecraft is better for tileart though, if you're one of those weird people who prefer their sprite editors to be unnecessarily cumbersome or double as games.

Edit: I will say that today may not be the best time to start playing, as the patch seems to have... broken... things...
Edit2: There's going to be a hotfix out this week, supposedly.

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I picked up Terraria the last time it was on sale (the same day Portal 2 was on sale for 50% off, and of course now the regular price is almost the same as that sale price) and I had a ton of fun with it for a few weeks. Right now I have run out of things that I want to do in the game, but I'm not that interested in the crafting and home-building stuff (except for everything that made my character more powerful for exploring and killing bosses). The most recent patch (1.0.6) was mostly a balancing patch, without much new content (besides some vanity items to craft), so I'm much more looking forward to the 1.1 patch which I hope will add more reasons to go exploring once you've maxed your character out. If not, then some day I'll probably make a new random world and start a new character from scratch just for the fun of it.

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Banjooie
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Oh my god it's Neil

in other news, I was watching some multiplayer servers where they reset every two weeks, and you're supposed to start new characters--and then they basically try to colonize the world within those two weeks, you keep what you sow, and then it starts all over again.

Kinda like speedrunning.

Having never played Minecraft nor Super Metroid

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I had summed up my Terraria experience with this graph:


This was before the last two or three patches though, and I know they tried to work on difficulty curve. Still, my main character pretty much has all the best gear in the game, and I haven't really felt the need to replay the game at all.

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Jatopian
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Good news, man. You now have a reason to play again. Terraria 1.1 patch is out, with a ton of new content and a greatly extended endgame. Of note are new NPCs, new biomes, a new boss, Corruption that is actually a threat now, and of course a rudimentary mechanics system.

And for those of you who don't have it, go get it. It's $2.50 USD today only. http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/

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Jatopian wrote:
Good news, man. You now have a reason to play again. Terraria 1.1 patch is out, with a ton of new content and a greatly extended endgame. Of note are new NPCs, new biomes, a new boss, Corruption that is actually a threat now, and of course a rudimentary mechanics system.

And for those of you who don't have it, go get it. It's $2.50 USD today only. http://store.steampowered.com/app/105600/

This is an awesome update.

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My thoughts are as follows.

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...and 1.2's out with new stuff. Later, y'alls.

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