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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 9:05PM Shadowbender said

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Impossible!

...No, seriously. How are they managing to pull this off? Pretty remarkable.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 9:59PM Pikachief said

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@Shadowbender

Inconceivable!
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 10:29PM omicron1 said

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@Pikachief You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 10:31PM Shadow Hog said

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@Shadowbender
Lots and lots and lots and lots of man hours, I suppose. Hey, a guy's gotta have a hobby.

@Pikachief
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 10:54PM Roto13 said

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@Shadowbender There are ways to cheat and model things on a large scale easier than placing them brick by brick. But even if that's what they did (which is likely, since otherwise this would have taken way more time than it's worth), it's still pretty impressive.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 9:14PM eat it said

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I'm confused about minecraft. I've only ever played the ripoff games on XBLA. What is the point of them. It seemed like all you do is float around and pick at blocks and build blocks up.

Are there characters or enemies or a story? Or is it just building empty environments?
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 9:31PM Ad134 said

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@eat it

At night, the monsters come out. Zombies. Skeletons. Creepers. Endermen. Spiders.

There's also the exploration aspect. Dig down and find massive randomly generated underground caves, with treasure and numerous monsters.

Once you've amassed enough wealth to be able to craft a diamond pickaxe, you can build a frame out of obsidian and build a portal to the nether. This hellish world is step two on the path to "completion". Defeat powerful enemies to get interesting ingredients. Retreat to the surface world and begin your search for The End.

Level up by killing monsters, and use your levels to enchant your weapons and armour. Use rare materials to make potions as well. When you feel you have gathered enough, set out to find a stronghold. These dangerous underground dungeons can be seeked out by combining items that are hard to get.

Get to the end of a stronghold and you will find a damaged End portal. Use Eyes of the Ender to repair it (these are exceptionally hard to make) and step through the portal into the final area...
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 11:24PM ejg said

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@Ad134 Wait....so its not a nerdy, block building game?!?!?
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 2:16PM ComedyInK said

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@Ad134

Mid way through that, I was like wait, is he trolling and talking about Skyrim :|
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 2:46PM Design by Adrian said

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@Ad134

Problem is, nowhere does it say that you can build a portal, or how. You have to look on the mine craft wikipedia, which is a deal breaker for me, as it ruins the immersive game experience...
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 9:06PM VolcomStone32x said

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@eat it It's really not for everyone.

Although, some people catch onto it differently. I fell in love with it the second I saw a Let's Play on YouTube a year and a half ago. One of my buds fell in love with it after playing the alpha version on my computer. If you haven't likened to it by watching videos of it or actually playing the paid version of minecraft, chances are you won't like it.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 9:20PM CaptainProtonX said

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Nintendo may have a few hesitations about the grand vision that is being built on their most beloved IP.

But the dedication to the source material is very impressive.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 9:37PM F1shBone said

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It's like creativity for people with no creativity.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 9:47PM GeraltRivia said

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Nice Austin Powers reference bro.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 10:11PM Viiral said

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ehh.. pretty lame seeing as iv seen much better zeldaish minecraft projects.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 10:33PM jchan said

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You could tell what everything was, but it really loses that special nostalgia with the bland lighting. See: volcano area, Zora's Domain, Kokiri Forest.

Neat, but didn't make me say "wow' like other Minecraft creations I've seen.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 10:34PM BLipp18 said

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woah, no way! you can RECREATE things in minecraft?! would that be because its a glorified map editor?
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 4:10PM Milak said

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@BLipp18 yeah, you know, one of those map editors that has combat, exploration, resource collection and objectives... oh wait, that's a game that lets you build things, my bad.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 4:11PM Hank Hill said

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@BLipp18 You heard him, stop enjoying minecraft guys. It's just a glorified map editor which means it can't be any fun.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 10:49PM Schlecht said

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I demand a mod that causes the chickens to flip out. They killed me more than anything else in my original playthrough.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 5:46PM (Unverified) said

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Ways to "cheat" such as SPCommands or MCEdit
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 11:16PM geoff0011 said

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Very cool! Surprised they didn't show off Hyrule Lake or Gerudo Valley. And being a huge OoT fan, I couldn't help notice one small oversight; the archery game house in Kakiriko Village shouldn't have been fully constructed with the current time era they had going on. But I suppose that's being rather picky.
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Posted: Jan 21st 2012 11:39PM pluupy said

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Thisssss looksss like a nice place to sssssssssssssettle down.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 12:12AM MuneBeam said

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ick
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 12:13AM Gooblechev said

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Dungeons too, or was that just a bit of the inside of the Deku Tree?

Looks amazing. When it's out of alpha, I'll have to download it. (Too lazy now.)
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 8:32AM The Boss said

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I wonder what would happen if someone minecrafted WoW.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 9:45AM Miles Prower said

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For some reason, reproducing Nintendo games in Minecraft seems quite easy to do. Now try to recreate Shenmue in Minecraft.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 10:53AM FunkMasterRitter said

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@Miles Prower
if someone did metroid prime I might actually play minecraft
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 9:47AM jackattack92 said

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Best part was the Great Deku Tree!..he also spent way too much time on this I'm sure.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 11:23AM Zenaltra said

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Looks like blocky garbage, just like everything else I've seen from Minecraft. New and exciting! Congrats on wasting 9 months making an ugly copy of Hyrule, nerds.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 11:45AM Tarvus Domicus said

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@Zenaltra

I totally agree. If you were to play through these levels you would get a serious headache. I much prefer anything officially from Nintendo.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 12:10PM (Unverified) said

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@Zenaltra

I'd personally rather play the 2d OOT remake that stopped production years back, along with that 2d Metroid Prime. The concept of Minecraft is neat, but replecating games and often making them looking worse is not my cup of tea.
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2012 4:13PM Hank Hill said

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@Zenaltra Calling people nerds on a gaming blog... that's a new one.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 9:44PM Zenaltra said

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@Hank Hill Being a nerd myself, I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2012 10:26AM (Unverified) said

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Maybe they could do a weird Zelda universe merge, where the Hyrule fields of OoT and TP are different parts of the same plain.

The fanboys would shit bricks
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