Was it the simplicity? nights used to be so scary

was it the simplicity? nights used to be so scary...

The game didn't change, we did. People who play the game for the first time right now still get to experience "the first night".

minecraft alpha is so heckin liminal

can we stop labeling everything as uncanny

FUCK ZOOMER CANCER
RETARDS

Block game…broke me…

why are zoomies so scared of empty spaces?

Before the bed was added you had to actually hide from mobs at night. Go mine stuff and wait for daytime. Now you just carry a bed on you all the time.

nNOOO NOT THE HECKIN ZOMERINOS IF THEY HIT ME 49 TIMES I'M DEAD! THIS IS SO STRESSFUL!

we're not
you boomers believe anything

The game literally changed though, you fucking faggot.

no bed

no brightness slider

then why do you make so many youtube videos about it with 40M views(all zoomers)?

In the old days you didn't have unstoppable enchanted gear. You mostly used iron gear because there was no mending or villager trading yet.
And you couldn't do anything at night without the fear that a creeper would sneak up on you and blow you up.

I hate the zoomer/reddit overuse of the word 'liminal' now. Cause it is a real feeling, one of my favorite kinds of aesthetics, but it's not what they say it is. a 'liminal space' has a sort of otherness, a dreamlike sensation, a strangeness that you cannot quite place a feeling on. Something akin to the forest temple in ocarina of time is a good example.

to zoomers, it's any kind of silence or emptiness, because they need constant stimulation and noise or else they freak out.
They mistake this feeling for being in a 'liminal space', when in reality they are just being forced to be alone with their thoughts, and it's an unsettling and alien feeling to them.

Because you were 10 when you first played it

Just to troll you

Because they can't imagine being somewhere without constant dopamine from technology. There's no wifi in the backrooms. I'll say it is mostly autistic people who are genuinly frightened and enamored with liminal spaces, same with those fake mario 64 prototype footage videos and fake piracy screens. It doesn't make sense to regular people but something about that stuff really appeals to retards.

I read this in Joe's voice.

In the old days, you just plopped a million torches around and partied with all the spawned in animals all night long

you should really stop making bait like this. the true shitposter states their actual beliefs in an inflammatory way designed to piss everyone off

Torches weren't as effective back then. Mobs could spawn in higher light levels so you needed a ton of torches. Charcoal didn't exist yet so you had to mine actual coal. And there was no Fortune yet so it was 1 coal per ore.

Beds ruined storms and nights in minecraft. Then hunger came in and ruined the rest of it.

They're scared of not feeling anything, because it leaves them alone with their thoughts for a second or two.

minecraft is more fear of the unknown, every event is unique, forest temple is scripted and will always play the same, they can also play around with the music to enhance this, minecraft does this to some extent so when it "aligns" it can feel organic when its all scripted essentially and a new day of course resets this. A lot of people experienced the same stuff though because it kind of lends itself to doing so, so basically minecraft feels more unique when in reality its really not and everyone experienced the same shit so forest temple being actually scripted and intended to feel a deliberate way makes it superior unless you just get some crazy event in minecraft so that possibility could become a drug i assume

can't sleep through the night

health doesn't regen

can't sprint away from danger

can't hide behind a shield

Early Minecraft put genuine effort into killing the player where modern Minecraft decided to be a themepark ride. A skeleton emerging from the darkness on the other side of a gap used to be a real threat instead of a minor nuisance.

I know, I used to still spam torches and it was cool having all the cows and pigs spawn at night

The first night is still scary. I remember I played Valheim a couple years ago and during the first night I hid in one of the wooden shacks aroudn the world with my back to the wall and a torch up the whole time. Not know anything about the game made it scary.

It's the way monsters would randomly make noises out of nowhere while you were underground. Particularly when you're by yourself so you're not expecting to hear anything.
By the time minecraft existed I was already in my 20s.

I'm a zoomer and I would honestly live somewhere in the woods with nothing around me in kilometers distance, I'd only need a road I can use to go buy groceries and an internet connection.
I'm so fucking fed up with having to put up with literal subhumans I just can't even, a fucking whole month every single year where they close the road in front of my home and spend all fucking day throwing fireworks, a FUCKING MONTH, it's a fucking mafia by this point.

Minecraft used to have a more abstract and dream-like quality in earlier builds. Over time as more detail was added to the world it became more explained and left less to the imagination. The best example I can give is the creeper. It explodes, a very simple, versatile, function that can lead to infinite possibile gameplay interactions. It also has a level of ambiguity in its design. For example, what does a creeper feel like? Like, if you were to reach out and touch a creeper how would it feel? Scaly? Furry? Something similar to dried leaves? Less of the game was explained and you were more limited with your options of blocks forcing you to use your own creativity. Meanwhile, with a new mob, like the sniffer, you can look at it and tell what it's all about. It has a very specific, niche use with few gameplay possibilities, and zero ambiguity in its design, you can look at it's high definition textures and expressively animated model and know everything about it. There's plenty of other examples too.

The multiple choices of colored blocks besides wool like dyed concrete

The over-cpmplication of villagers

Replacing zombie pigmen with pigeons

Trying to make the End an actual "dimension" with structured instead of justa mysterious space rock

This loss of dream-like ambiguity and over-abundance of options is what killed Minecraft.

it doesnt have to do with the game mechanics, even if you played with out enemies it was creepy because you the player felt threatened. why is there this vast nothingness here, where things should be there is just more nothing. the more it gets gamified the less it directly attacks you, it just becomes a game
its like that guy who enjoyed exploring out of bounds in that polish cyberpunk waifu game

It's not "uncanny" it's just genuinely scary when it's you by yourself in a huge unknown world that you have to figure out step by step with monsters crawling out of dark spaces and at night.

zoomers never got to experience calling Notch a faggot on Anon Babble and demand he get rid of the blocky placeholder assets

The fact that I said this to a now-billionaire and he actually responded will never not be hilarious to me. Also haven't played since Alpha and will never go back.

I hate it because I have a degree in anthropology and wish they'd just made up a term instead of misusing one of mine.

Wasn't food an instant heal before the hunger bar?

Bad lighting

Fog

Darkness

Very little sound except for your characters and other mobs

Fear of losing items on death

It doesn't really take a genius to figure this shit out. The first time I played Minecraft (2011 or whatever) going spelunking was a creepy experience

you were a little kid
that's why

yes but it didn't stack, more than half of my toolbar used to be just food.

Yes but it didn't stack. I want to say cooked meat was 4 full hearts of healing but I could be wrong.