Game: Terraria
Aug. 6th, 2012 02:41 pmVerdict: Terraria hits a lot of buttons for what I want from a computer game.
Reasons for playing it:![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
syllopsium rec'd it originally, I think, and I played with it a couple of times but didn't get into it at all. Then there was a Making Light thread about Minecraft, which sort of encouraged me to give Terraria another go (Terraria being, essentially, Minecraft for casual gamers).
How it came into my hands: Steam sale. I am finding Steam a very good way of buying computer games. I don't really mind DRM for games, because with most, I just want to play them for a few months until I get bored, I don't feel the need to own them outright, so DRM seems a reasonably fair way of protecting the game makers' revenue. And Steam gives value added in exchange for having to put up with DRM, it provides a reasonably pleasant framework in which to play games, with some achievements and a little bit of social, and is better at making stuff just work than trying to install things directly onto my computer. The other thing it does is sell retro games; I've been wanting for a long time to be able to pay money to get hold of 80s and 90s classics, rather than having to mess around with emulators or dodgy "abandonware" sites, not to mention that plenty of games companies were aggressive about policing pirated versions but not actually making the original versions available for sale. And sometimes they sell recent games for pocket money; I've spent a good couple of hundred quid on random things because each individual one was cheap enough for me to give it a go, whereas I just can't see myself spending tens of pounds on a computer game. Especially since the things that make computer games expensive are not really things I want, I don't want hundreds of hours of gameplay or a complex plot or skills which are difficult to master, and I'm neutral about pretty graphics, I want a game I can play as a timewaster to clear my brain for ten minutes.
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Reasons for playing it:
syllopsium rec'd it originally, I think, and I played with it a couple of times but didn't get into it at all. Then there was a Making Light thread about Minecraft, which sort of encouraged me to give Terraria another go (Terraria being, essentially, Minecraft for casual gamers). How it came into my hands: Steam sale. I am finding Steam a very good way of buying computer games. I don't really mind DRM for games, because with most, I just want to play them for a few months until I get bored, I don't feel the need to own them outright, so DRM seems a reasonably fair way of protecting the game makers' revenue. And Steam gives value added in exchange for having to put up with DRM, it provides a reasonably pleasant framework in which to play games, with some achievements and a little bit of social, and is better at making stuff just work than trying to install things directly onto my computer. The other thing it does is sell retro games; I've been wanting for a long time to be able to pay money to get hold of 80s and 90s classics, rather than having to mess around with emulators or dodgy "abandonware" sites, not to mention that plenty of games companies were aggressive about policing pirated versions but not actually making the original versions available for sale. And sometimes they sell recent games for pocket money; I've spent a good couple of hundred quid on random things because each individual one was cheap enough for me to give it a go, whereas I just can't see myself spending tens of pounds on a computer game. Especially since the things that make computer games expensive are not really things I want, I don't want hundreds of hours of gameplay or a complex plot or skills which are difficult to master, and I'm neutral about pretty graphics, I want a game I can play as a timewaster to clear my brain for ten minutes.
( detailed review )
