Soon the G+ Post will hit here edit: (didn't worked)
I made a G+ post here, so I am going to add the related link list in this post.
G+ Post:
After seeing another new early access game (Beasts of Prey) I have to say.
Oh! Minecraft, what have you done?
I might be one of the first that admits that Minecraft created a new genre of its own. The mining and creating one.
Minecraft created huge impacts of game landscape.
1st was that many retro games came out. And people had to admit that a good game will still be a good game even with 8bit graphics. Sometimes not concentration on graphics made better game play happen. And state of the art graphics does not mean that the game is good.
2nd all those minecrafty games that came out. Like Space Engineers, 7Days2Die, Beasts of Prey, Planet Explorers and many many more. If you like not only crating things but also to work for your resources... than you have to check out those games.
Many of them are not only available on steam!
3rd Early Access games. I mean it was one of first games that said: Look we have something here you can already play around with but its nowhere near finished. But if you are willing to support us with your money we might create something really great. And so it happened and still happens for (Minecraft*) Kerbal Space Program, Planetary Annihilation, Viscera Cleanup Detail, Kenshi, Starpoint Gemini 2, Dex, and again many many maaaaaany more.
And it is honest. And to be honest many of those games have less bugs in each version than many games,I played, which claimed to be final. Those "final" games where indeed often final, means that those game breaking bugs never got fixed. And I was left on with a game (I often cry when I think about them) I can say about "This would be a great game if it not were for bug XYZ which totally ruins it".
The other great thing about early access games is you buy one game ** and a few month later it has so much new content its like a total new even better game (except for 7Days2Die ... which lately got worse with each version)
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Footnotes:
*= Yeah that's right, aside of that Minecraft long reached version 1.0 it is still in development as it was before 1.0... Nothing has changed. It still adds tons of content. And each new version is still buggy as hell. They put a lot of wasted effort in to prevent that.. testing tons of build on the way ... testing the final version a few times ... just to realize that released version has some major bugs and a fix soon follows after...
And its still slow as ever and needs the still needs Optifine mod to run well.
**=And I can't remember one game of them which wasn't above average. While many "final" games I bought was like "Meh! no fun all." (Total different from what the ads promised me) which shows up in my statistics as only a few minutes of total play time.
I probably have to edit this text a few times since G+ still didn't managed to include a decent text formatting. Which already was, like more than 10 years ago, available for any dumb forum software.
List of games mentioned:
Google them ... I made a link list here, but G+ seems to have a stick in the lower south half and blocked it ... "against community guide lines" but didn't told why or what specific. Its like being called to court and the judge slams the law code on your desk and says: "You are sued cause you have violated against something in here"
Kerbal Space Program: Google da link ... but I still recommend it
(Check that one out. I mean for real. What better recommendation is there for a game that I for myself have already played more that 1100 hours that game alone. And I am not the only one. Many fans have played even more and I wouldn't wonder if someone soon hits the 10k hour mark. Outside of steam it also DRM-Free available.)
Edit: Since deleting the link list hadn't any effect on the post, I had to re-post it without. And it worked .. probably I could now add it in without any negative impact.
Oh! Minecraft, what have you done?
I might be one of the first that admits that Minecraft created a new genre of its own. The mining and creating one.
Minecraft created huge impacts of game landscape.
1st was that many retro games came out. And people had to admit that a good game will still be a good game even with 8bit graphics. Sometimes not concentration on graphics made better game play happen. And state of the art graphics does not mean that the game is good.
2nd all those minecrafty games that came out. Like Space Engineers, 7Days2Die, Beasts of Prey, Planet Explorers and many many more. If you like not only crating things but also to work for your resources... than you have to check out those games.
Many of them are not only available on steam!
3rd Early Access games. I mean it was one of first games that said: Look we have something here you can already play around with but its nowhere near finished. But if you are willing to support us with your money we might create something really great. And so it happened and still happens for (Minecraft*) Kerbal Space Program, Planetary Annihilation, Viscera Cleanup Detail, Kenshi, Starpoint Gemini 2, Dex, and again many many maaaaaany more.
And it is honest. And to be honest many of those games have less bugs in each version than many games,I played, which claimed to be final. Those "final" games where indeed often final, means that those game breaking bugs never got fixed. And I was left on with a game (I often cry when I think about them) I can say about "This would be a great game if it not were for bug XYZ which totally ruins it".
The other great thing about early access games is you buy one game ** and a few month later it has so much new content its like a total new even better game (except for 7Days2Die ... which lately got worse with each version)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Footnotes:
*= Yeah that's right, aside of that Minecraft long reached version 1.0 it is still in development as it was before 1.0... Nothing has changed. It still adds tons of content. And each new version is still buggy as hell. They put a lot of wasted effort in to prevent that.. testing tons of build on the way ... testing the final version a few times ... just to realize that released version has some major bugs and a fix soon follows after...
And its still slow as ever and needs the still needs Optifine mod to run well.
**=And I can't remember one game of them which wasn't above average. While many "final" games I bought was like "Meh! no fun all." (Total different from what the ads promised me) which shows up in my statistics as only a few minutes of total play time.
I probably have to edit this text a few times since G+ still didn't managed to include a decent text formatting. Which already was, like more than 10 years ago, available for any dumb forum software.
List of games mentioned:
Google them ... I made a link list here, but G+ seems to have a stick in the lower south half and blocked it ... "against community guide lines" but didn't told why or what specific. Its like being called to court and the judge slams the law code on your desk and says: "You are sued cause you have violated against something in here"
Kerbal Space Program: Google da link ... but I still recommend it
(Check that one out. I mean for real. What better recommendation is there for a game that I for myself have already played more that 1100 hours that game alone. And I am not the only one. Many fans have played even more and I wouldn't wonder if someone soon hits the 10k hour mark. Outside of steam it also DRM-Free available.)
Edit: Since deleting the link list hadn't any effect on the post, I had to re-post it without. And it worked .. probably I could now add it in without any negative impact.
List of games mentioned:
- Minecraft: https://minecraft.net
- Beasts of Prey http://store.steampowered.com/app/299860/
- Planetary Annihilation: http://store.steampowered.com/app/233250
- Planet Explorers: http://store.steampowered.com/app/237870
- Starpoint Gemini 2: http://store.steampowered.com/app/236150
- 7 Days to Die: http://store.steampowered.com/app/251570
- Kerbal Space Program: http://store.steampowered.com/app/220200
- (Check that one out. I mean for real. What better recommendation is there for a game that I for myself have already played more that 1100 hours that game alone. And I am not the only one. Many fans have played even more and I wouldn't wonder if someone soon hits the 10k hour mark. Outside of steam it also DRM-Free available.)
- Space Engineers: http://store.steampowered.com/app/244850
- Kenshi: http://store.steampowered.com/app/233860
- Dex: http://dex-rpg.com/index_en.php
