Terraria

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2012 17:07

Anyone else play this? I've started again after six months or so off and the updates make it so much better. The boss battles in particular have been made fairer and less of a tooth-grinding slog of attrition to kill them. The brick dungeon guarded by Skeletron is easier and has keys to collect to get the loot now. Much better. I've yet to re-mine down to the hell levels to see if they're a less hostile place to be.

Loads of nice new crafting recipes too.

Here's my current castle.

Attachment:

terraria-dimcastle1.jpg

Bloody Dryad decided not to live in the nice grassy room I made for her. Cow. Still need to add a ktichen and bathroom. I'm also considering a throne room too.

devilman · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2012 19:50

I tried to get into this earlier in the year, but after googling and watching youtube videos just to build a basic little house, I left it at that. I notice it's £1.49 again today on Steam, for those looking at getting into it.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2012 20:16

There is the potential to play this on a big daft server like Minecraft, btw. If anyone has a big daft server spare, that is.

metalangel · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2012 23:01

I can't help but see it as a big step backwards from Minecraft. Yes, there's a lot more detail to the items and the NPCs, but it's sidescrolling!

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2012 23:10

Graphics whore.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38659

Not enough D's for me

metalangel · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2012 23:30

Dimrill wrote:

Graphics whore.

It's not the graphics, I just don't see nearly as much potential for building wonderful things in a 2D world compared to a 3D one.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Sun Jan 01, 2012 23:39

It's a different game. Try playing it like Minecraft and it'll punish you harshly. Shares more in common with Miner Dig Deep.

metalangel · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:55

It strikes me heavily as being Minecraft for people who threw their lives away to Maple Story (yes, then, with a hint of hup! HUP! hup! Hup! Miner Dig Deep) and I stand by my further reasoning.

On the one hand I loved stuff like Metroid and Todd's Adventures In Slime World, but having a customizable house that NPCs could live in too only goes so far towards extending my enjoyment thereof, even if Minecraft didn't exist.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:59

Have you played it or are you basing this on screenshots?

metalangel · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:59

Screenshots and strategy guides explaining what's involved.

MrPSB · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:40

Dimrill wrote:

Anyone else play this? I've started again after six months or so off and the updates make it so much better. The boss battles in particular have been made fairer and less of a tooth-grinding slog of attrition to kill them. The brick dungeon guarded by Skeletron is easier and has keys to collect to get the loot now. Much better. I've yet to re-mine down to the hell levels to see if they're a less hostile place to be.

Loads of nice new crafting recipes too.

Here's my current castle.

Attachment:

terraria-dimcastle1.jpg

Bloody Dryad decided not to live in the nice grassy room I made for her. Cow. Still need to add a ktichen and bathroom. I'm also considering a throne room too.

You can move her, if you press ESC, click the house icon above your equipment, click her face and click the grassy room it'll reassign her to live there (or say OMG THAT ISN'T A VALID HOUSE IDIOT).

MrPSB · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:45

Dimrill wrote:

Anyone else play this? I've started again after six months or so off and the updates make it so much better. The boss battles in particular have been made fairer and less of a tooth-grinding slog of attrition to kill them. The brick dungeon guarded by Skeletron is easier and has keys to collect to get the loot now. Much better. I've yet to re-mine down to the hell levels to see if they're a less hostile place to be..

I had a few goes when it first came out but considering it took half an hour of trawling the wiki just to build a house I got fed up. Went back to it some point last month. I find the singleplayer to be much better than Minecraft's, but the urge to build massive things (or the attraction of communal building in multiplayer) to be less.

Slackened off playing it recently because I've killed the wall of flesh in hell and hardmode keeps killing me because I'm still in the mindframe of nothing really being able to do me serious damage, which isn't true any more.

MrPSB · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:47

Also, I HAVE NOW OFFICIALLY WRITTEN FOR EUROGAMER!!!!!1111111 (reader top50 comment for terraria

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metalangel · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 13:37

MrPSB wrote:

Also, I HAVE NOW OFFICIALLY WRITTEN FOR EUROGAMER!!!!!1111111 (reader top50 comment for terraria

)

Did you give it 8/10? Did you tell us we should all support DLC or else we're entitled white cunts?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 14:08

MrPSB wrote:

You can move her, if you press ESC, click the house icon above your equipment, click her face and click the grassy room it'll reassign her to live there (or say OMG THAT ISN'T A VALID HOUSE IDIOT).

Excellent tippage!

MrPSB · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 22:45

metalangel wrote:

MrPSB wrote:

Also, I HAVE NOW OFFICIALLY WRITTEN FOR EUROGAMER!!!!!1111111 (reader top50 comment for terraria

)

Did you give it 8/10? Did you tell us we should all support DLC or else we're entitled white cunts?

Er... what?

metalangel · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:16

That's what Eurogamer is all about, man. That and having the most awful webdesign in a very long while.

MrPSB · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 8:31

Maybe I just mentally filter those bits out along with the mentally challenged comments on every article.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 11:47

MrPSB wrote:

Maybe I just mentally filter those bits out along with the mentally challenged comments on every article.

You mean "the comments", then?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:14

Pont fiddy in Steam Sale loike.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

I bagged a four pack earlier for less than a fiver. Dished them out to my chums. Hopefully get a game in the next few days!

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:15

WTB wrote:

I bagged a four pack earlier for less than a fiver. Dished them out to my chums. Hopefully get a game in the next few days!

I don't think I got mine.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:34

Not me

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:46

Kuvacks yowm xbox bin on allll night. Aw yeah. Still ornnnn.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:07

Yes I was Skyrimming... new DLC and stuff.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:07

Dimrill wrote:

Kuvacks yowm xbox bin on allll night. Aw yeah. Still ornnnn.

Bugger have I left my xbox on?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:08

Must shorten the life of the console leaving it on for hours while you're asleep and at work. Odd.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:09

I thought I had turned it off... oops

myp · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:11

Dimrill wrote:

Must shorten the life of the console playing it for 16 hours a day.

Fimrilled.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:12

Yes. My life is sad and empty and I try to avoid suicide with flashing light distraction.

metalangel · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:27

Hang on, Terraria is £1.49 in the sale?

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

metalangel · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:58

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Well, you can get four for less than a fiver! Eight would take you into £9 territory...

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 15:16

For the one or two people who still like games: Terraria coming to XBLA

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

myp · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 15:17

Dimrill wrote:

For the one or two people who still like games: Terraria coming to XBLA

That link is for the one or two people who still like Facebook.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Nobody likes Facebook. We "suffer" Facebook.

MrPSB · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 15:30

Never mind that, what about this:

http://playstarbound.com/

It's like ELITE, TERRARIA, POKEMONS AND PROBABLY SOME RPG THINGS ALL IN ONE GAME.

It better not be shit.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 15:46

WTB wrote:

Nobody likes Facebook. We "suffer" Facebook.

trendy

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 17:25

MrPSB wrote:

Never mind that, what about this:

http://playstarbound.com/

It's like ELITE, TERRARIA, POKEMONS AND PROBABLY SOME RPG THINGS ALL IN ONE GAME.

It better not be shit.

That looks relevant to my interests. games.

metalangel · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 17:44

That picture of them getting into the dropship makes me want that.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Tue Sep 11, 2012 18:51

I'm not certain about this.

Does it involve bins?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Wed Mar 27, 2013 17:26

ERMEGHERD YERPGHERNKS have given the 'spox versh 9/10.

Four_Candles · **Joined:** 27th Sep, 2009 **Posts:** 876

Xbox version doing well on MC so far:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/terraria

Four_Candles · **Joined:** 27th Sep, 2009 **Posts:** 876

Not only is it now out on PS3 and Xbox, but it's also coming to the PSVita this summer:

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/03/ ... o-ps-vita/

Plus more updates to the PC version are in progress.

Four_Candles · **Joined:** 27th Sep, 2009 **Posts:** 876

The forthcoming PC update (version 1.2) sounds good from all that I've read (due out towards the end of May).

I also see that Starbound is available to pre-order:

http://www.playstarbound.com/store/

(Starbound is a separate project - kind of a sci-fi themed Terraria. The original Terraria artist is the guy behind Starbound).

MrPSB · **Posted:** Wed Dec 11, 2013 23:14

MrPSB wrote:

Never mind that, what about this:

http://playstarbound.com/

It's like ELITE, TERRARIA, POKEMONS AND PROBABLY SOME RPG THINGS ALL IN ONE GAME.

It better not be shit.

Update on this: it's not shit.

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