Minecraft

I have recently acquired Minecraft and have become slightly addicted. I have always liked foraging, collecting, and crafting in games and having a game made for that is good. Having the multiple modes is good so it can become slightly more customised for what you want it to do.

I've been playing on peaceful mode so that I could figure out how to do stuff without also having to fight monsters in the night. Figuring out how to get items and make things is fun except when the formula for making said things is unintuitive (which is were Wikipedia comes in) but it's good when something works. There is the problem of the game not helping you make after you've made it once, having to remember how to place everything to make all the different items is rather annoying. Having a better quality map would be good as well but I do like that you view the map by holding it and looking down at it.

So far I've only built a little cobblestone house, attacked a few animals, and mined for various materials (still haven't found diamonds sadly) and died once by falling down a mine shaft into lava. Having finally obtained some string from some spider webs in a old mine I found, I now have a fishing rod so I can try fishing and (farming at the same time) now once I finish building a dock. I haven't had much luck with boats though, first one shot out to sea when I placed it and the second and third ones both broke out in the ocean, fortunately I managed to swim back out too much trouble.

Minecraft is fun but is not a great game to me. There's too many annoying little things, trees floating when I cut the base, leaves stopping me to jumping up hills easily, not particularly useful map and pointless NPCs. The worst thing about it though it that this is the final product. While it was in Beta and earlier it could be forgiven for things like this because they would likely get fixed later but in a final product it should not be acceptable. I'm fairly sure it stayed as it is mostly because of Notch's (the creator) laziness after become rich from an unfinished product.