just a quick clarification, i do still like and enjoy minecraft, just not in the same way i used to when i was a kid, i can’t just throw it on and aimlessly play for hours, but i still enjoy it with friends and whatnot
I never was able to experience playing Minecraft with friends when I was young and I feel like I missed out entirely. I can still play with friends as an adult but it doesn't hit the same. I feel like saying goodbye to Minecraft at some point is ok, I've gotten what I can out of Minecraft while I still enjoyed it. It is an endless game after all, at some point you will play Minecraft for the last time
You dont have to say goodbye to your childhood. You can just say, "See ya later." However, it is healthy not to live your life in the past. Visit your old worlds, play with new friends for a few weeks, and move on once again. It's like an old family photo. You can't really go back, but you can always remember.
As someone who played minecraft straight through from 2012 to now, but almost exclusively on multiplayer, this just doesn't speak to me. i'm really sorry you lost that single-player spark though
I think the reason multiplayer has stayed the same for me is because it’s more about the interactions with my friends than it is about the gameplay itself
The old friend part really got me, cuz that's what's started happening to me and my best friend as well. Great video, wishing you best of luck in future ones
I know right? I've been playing Medieval Minecraft and I turned an abandoned castle I found in the starting area into my home base. Sure I died a lot to the basement mob spawners, but man it was fun! Now I just need to figure out how to fight a stage 3 dragon early game without having to resort to cheating.
You can't ever have the same experience twice, I think that's important to remember. That's what nostalgia is great for, a small cheat of getting some of that experience back, but it's never the same Building new relationships with things in the moment is honestly way more important, so that they can be looked back upon the same way we look at our childhoods around this ~20yo age group. It's a pretty obvious wisdom for life, but I think people forget that it applies to games, too. MC and Halo are the two games that made me realize this the most I'm enjoying Minecraft in a different way than I have before, which was mostly solo/multiplayer creative worlds I'm playing on a survival server with some vanilla-ish mods, but relatively estranged from the other players besides my gf. I'm using acacia wood basically for the first time ever and building a hanging house in the new caves rather than a regular one. It's been fun, it's not the same experience as before but it's still a fun one It's also nice having less time to play in a backwards way because the moments played are far more appreciated now lol
I hear so many people who are feeling like you are about minecraft but I've been playing the game for over 10 years and I don't think I want to stop for a long time, and I can't think of why I'm still having fun when everyone else who has been playing as long as me just isn't
Yeah, same boat for me It was a different game in the past both mechanically and emotionally, but I enjoy how my experience evolves as does the game and my personality, I'll still enjoy what it was and what it becomes
*ngl, watching this video in background while i was trying to redownload minecraft, and then i've listened to the ending. and i've finally realized that all this stuff (not only minecraft, but most of stuff of my childhood) doesn't need me anymore, and to finally start for real what i've always achieved of, getting rid of what always blocked me from making my true dreams come true. from now on i will finally stop and completely destroy this block and finally put my effort in what i've always wanted to achieve*
i feel like Minecraft is dead to me yet I keep coming back to it, heck I'm animating a video for it as I write this but I just don't feel that much of a reason to go back and play it. i love the idea of Minecraft but I'm pretty sure I've grown bast it and just like you said there's nothing new to explore.
criminally underrated video and channel. i remember having my friends over to play MC a lot back in 2019, but over time i kinda just stopped caring about the game and its updates
I honestly didn’t even know that Minecraft got a texture change or updated music; all the more reason for me to not go back and play it. I was someone who played Minecraft from beta-around the time the combat update came out. I did come back to the game during the pandemic and I found myself not enjoying it at all. Everything was so foreign and complex, it didn’t feel like Minecraft. Personally, I preferred when Minecraft was simpler. I love how the PC version lets you play the older versions (not sure if it still does) but if I ever come back, that’s how I’ll play.
@@DermotBrophy That's Runescape 3 you are talking about, but Old School Runescape is alive and well without any microtransactions to speak off. It's doing better than ever in fact.
i Started to Play Minecraft in 2014 and the game Changed my Life Especially Like to Play with Mods because my Favorite TH-camr PopularAmoos used to Play with Mods Especially his Mob battles Mod Showcases and Mod Survivals where one of my favorite things. but overtime i grew Older and become more interested in other games, but it doesn't mean that Love Minecraft is gone. Just that i found other games to Play with. you may don't have the Same feeling as Adult or paly the game Like you used too, but Still you Sometimes return to the game just because you feeling it. for me the Game would be timeless Sure Some Lose interest but others Would Probably not. and there going to be new people kids and even Adults that would enjoy this game Like we used to back in the Day.
i think you talking about goals and how as a kid you didn't have any when playing is exactly the problem with minecraft for me these days; there's so much to do but it feels like everyone plays by the same meta now - set up a villager trading farm, go to the nether, defeat the ender dragon, get elytra - all of which are incredibly unfun to me and don't give me any sense of satisfaction when playing my singleplayer worlds (or even multiplayer) there's a reason why recently i've been playing versions of minecraft i didn't even grow up with, such as beta 1.7.3 (old joke i know, everyone's talking about it these days) with mods such as better than adventure, since they don't have any real goals apart from survive, explore and create whatever structures you want that to me is so much more fun than the modern meta of leveling up to get netherite, flying around with elytra, and setting up a horribly annoying villager trading farm for mending books
I know what you mean. I personally still enjoy Minecraft and love building and creating within it. But there is an element of adventure that was there with Minecraft in my childhood which I don't feel as much anymore.
You never truely quit Minecraft. Just take extended breaks. It calls to us now and then, I've even been pulled back after over 3 years because a friend opened a modded server in their Discord and hanging out and play8ng was great. But only for a while. Real life is the natural graduation from Minecraft. Make friends, discover the world, and make great things together. Excellent video and best wishes ❤
*i agree with the texture update thing. maybe it would have been better if the colors remained the same or the shading was more cell shaded instead of smooth*
Something about minecraft's new textures that some of them were accessibility stuff. Mainly for colorblind people since a lot of blocks were the same but with differwnt colors. I think that's why you gave em a pass, but i also wanna mention gold blocks. Because that was also a thing to diferenciate from diamond blocks.
One word - mods. Never liked magic mods as a kid, so I didn't spoiled how twilight forest looks. It was good. It wasn't same excitement as kid, but close enough. And 2 more words - different versions. Even in childhood I already knew how boring world generations was after beta 1.7.2, but I didn't appreciated other little things, like very dark nights, or the fact that after 1.2.5 there wasn't true singleplayer, only local server, where all actions works in unstable 20 fps(because tickrate) no matter what fps does your client have. Oh, and in modern minecraft dragon sucks, it's so easy to defeat him, don't know why they nerfed him. I played with my friend, and after dragon from 1.15.2 I immediately asked him to download 1.3.2, where dragon almost kicked our asses
Same happened to me, I still play Minecraft with my dad on versions like 1.7.10 and Better Than Adventure mod for b1.7.3. I do agree it felt different and that's why I still play those. It's not called "nostalgia".. many, specially nowadays, don't know and even deny that art has a soul, and to me, a Catholic and cinematography student, the new Minecraft has a VERY different feeling, not just because of the things that actually changed, but because, at least in my opinion, it has lost that humility, simplicity, liberty and love the game had, while it's more corporate and commercial nowadays, and it even got political related stuff... Minecraft has something precious, everyone, MILLIONS of persons have put tons of love into the game, and the game gave them liberty to do so. You can find tons of stories and memories of persons who would get together to play, persons who built many things, etc. That is something that I realized, I grew up to be very traditionalistic and loyal, to keep my friends together. You may diverge, but it many times depends on one person to keep a friendship. Now what I recommend YOU, focus on what Minecraft was and will continue being in all our hearts because thankfullyit still exists, we can always rediscover the game in the versions that we actually liked and people we used to play with if possible, never let yourself drive to wherever the river of life may take you, you gotta build what you want, even if it's hard, keep one's relations and unity all together and well. Also, listen to its music, all C418 music, it captivated the love of many while modern composers lack that, not saying they bad, but just listen to them... Which tells you more...?
dude I think the same way about all this. The game isn't indie anymore, so naturally it's going to feel less personal. There are obvious tonal and art style differences compared to the old versions because Notch left the team and there's tons of design decisions that are completely against the original spirit of the game (I despise mending for how easy and also utterly boring it is to obtain). Every change in every update is being made just to keep the game selling and keep Mojang's and Microsoft's profits consistent, which is fair as Mojang employs hundreds of people now and their wellbeing is far more important than the artistic integrity of a game, especially when that game keeps selling anyways despite its flaws.
@@thebluehero7319 Yeah, but in my opinion, they are destroying the original sense of the game, they didn't even grasp to the good things Notch left, they are changing, removing anything related to him to put all materialistic-like bloat. You know how it feels like nowadays? Like those bad cliché movies that you can guess and imagine the director saying "Oo, let's add this, the spectators will be stunnedd", and they do it so much and in so many other games and stuff that it ends boring, for example, the mega huge woah caves from 1.17+, they all big, they all super impressive but they are so easy to find... and let's not talk about how they boosted the diamond rates generation, that along with the new caves, you can easily find 3 veins of diamonds in less than a 50 block radius or at minimum, in the whole cave "hall"... it's absurd. That's also why I involve Satan, it's utter destruction to add ALL the DAMN things you wouldn't want to add to a game, and destroy anything that had to do with the original creator. They involved politics, control of players with telemetry and reporting, getting to the point where you can be forbidden from playing the game you paid for, which should be illegal, etc., etc., etc....
6:46 WHHAAATTTT!!? a game that get's major updates twice a year isn't the same game as the game i played 5 years ago!? WHO WOULD HAVE F***ING GUESSED?!!!?!??!
I mean if you really play it every year before that one update, no wonder you lost interest, I play since beta 1.6 but like whenever just feel like it, for example I played it this year for first time ever since like 2021 and it's still blast, I love new textures and like of course I didn't even finished and kill enderdragon but that doesn't matter to me, those two weeks I played it this year was blast
i think it’s still a fun game for sure, but this was more about how I couldn’t enjoy it in the same way that I used to, it’s definitely still fun with friends though
Minecraft in it core is a good game but dear god, the support Mojang and Microsoft provide is just embarrassing compare to the modding community. Instead of making a simple and adventurous survival mode, they made it unhinged and stranded. Biomes used to be diverse and distinct, not just plain with new trees and call it a day. Mining then really feels like treasure hunt, now it's just headache. Game mechanic back then is simple but have depth, now we have goddam sculk shrieker and ominous chest with a thousand rulesets, good luck learning that. Instead of making creative mode has more advance building options, they just never update it.
Minecraft to me is a game that relys on nostalgia and friendship in the modern days to be fun. Unless you're too young to have played it back in the day, Minecraft just isn't fun. There's nothing new with the game, the story is non-existent. No matter what they add or change, minecraft will at it's core be a boring singleplayer game. It's always far too easy to do the same exact thing each playthrough because there's no real other options. Minecraft needs a massive overhaul to be truly fun again but they'll never do that cause it'll scare the die hard fans away.
just a quick clarification, i do still like and enjoy minecraft, just not in the same way i used to when i was a kid, i can’t just throw it on and aimlessly play for hours, but i still enjoy it with friends and whatnot
Me too, I really wish I could experience it like I did when I was younger
I never was able to experience playing Minecraft with friends when I was young and I feel like I missed out entirely. I can still play with friends as an adult but it doesn't hit the same. I feel like saying goodbye to Minecraft at some point is ok, I've gotten what I can out of Minecraft while I still enjoyed it. It is an endless game after all, at some point you will play Minecraft for the last time
You dont have to say goodbye to your childhood. You can just say, "See ya later." However, it is healthy not to live your life in the past. Visit your old worlds, play with new friends for a few weeks, and move on once again. It's like an old family photo. You can't really go back, but you can always remember.
Well put :)
As someone who played minecraft straight through from 2012 to now, but almost exclusively on multiplayer, this just doesn't speak to me. i'm really sorry you lost that single-player spark though
I think the reason multiplayer has stayed the same for me is because it’s more about the interactions with my friends than it is about the gameplay itself
Y’all gotta stop making me emotional over silly block game
The old friend part really got me, cuz that's what's started happening to me and my best friend as well.
Great video, wishing you best of luck in future ones
felt that too
I think this is why I get hyped whenever i play minecraft with mods cause there is still a sense of discovery in finding new things in those mods
I know right? I've been playing Medieval Minecraft and I turned an abandoned castle I found in the starting area into my home base. Sure I died a lot to the basement mob spawners, but man it was fun!
Now I just need to figure out how to fight a stage 3 dragon early game without having to resort to cheating.
@@tempestvenator9809 Sounds really cool, which mod is that?
@@someonesilence3731 Ice and Fire for the dragons.
@@tempestvenator9809 Cool, which modpack though?
@@someonesilence3731 It's called Medieval Minecraft if I remember correctly, you can find it on Curseforge.
You can't ever have the same experience twice, I think that's important to remember. That's what nostalgia is great for, a small cheat of getting some of that experience back, but it's never the same
Building new relationships with things in the moment is honestly way more important, so that they can be looked back upon the same way we look at our childhoods around this ~20yo age group. It's a pretty obvious wisdom for life, but I think people forget that it applies to games, too. MC and Halo are the two games that made me realize this the most
I'm enjoying Minecraft in a different way than I have before, which was mostly solo/multiplayer creative worlds
I'm playing on a survival server with some vanilla-ish mods, but relatively estranged from the other players besides my gf. I'm using acacia wood basically for the first time ever and building a hanging house in the new caves rather than a regular one. It's been fun, it's not the same experience as before but it's still a fun one
It's also nice having less time to play in a backwards way because the moments played are far more appreciated now lol
I hear so many people who are feeling like you are about minecraft but I've been playing the game for over 10 years and I don't think I want to stop for a long time, and I can't think of why I'm still having fun when everyone else who has been playing as long as me just isn't
I feel the same way tbh
Yeah, same boat for me
It was a different game in the past both mechanically and emotionally, but I enjoy how my experience evolves as does the game and my personality, I'll still enjoy what it was and what it becomes
*ngl, watching this video in background while i was trying to redownload minecraft, and then i've listened to the ending. and i've finally realized that all this stuff (not only minecraft, but most of stuff of my childhood) doesn't need me anymore, and to finally start for real what i've always achieved of, getting rid of what always blocked me from making my true dreams come true. from now on i will finally stop and completely destroy this block and finally put my effort in what i've always wanted to achieve*
i feel like Minecraft is dead to me yet I keep coming back to it, heck I'm animating a video for it as I write this but I just don't feel that much of a reason to go back and play it. i love the idea of Minecraft but I'm pretty sure I've grown bast it and just like you said there's nothing new to explore.
criminally underrated video and channel. i remember having my friends over to play MC a lot back in 2019, but over time i kinda just stopped caring about the game and its updates
I honestly didn’t even know that Minecraft got a texture change or updated music; all the more reason for me to not go back and play it. I was someone who played Minecraft from beta-around the time the combat update came out. I did come back to the game during the pandemic and I found myself not enjoying it at all. Everything was so foreign and complex, it didn’t feel like Minecraft. Personally, I preferred when Minecraft was simpler. I love how the PC version lets you play the older versions (not sure if it still does) but if I ever come back, that’s how I’ll play.
Similar to Runescape, you never quit Minecraft, you only take breaks.
Runescape killed itself with micro transitions
@@DermotBrophy That's Runescape 3 you are talking about, but Old School Runescape is alive and well without any microtransactions to speak off. It's doing better than ever in fact.
i Started to Play Minecraft in 2014 and the game Changed my Life Especially Like to Play with Mods because my Favorite TH-camr PopularAmoos used to Play with Mods Especially his Mob battles Mod Showcases and Mod Survivals where one of my favorite things. but overtime i grew Older and become more interested in other games, but it doesn't mean that Love Minecraft is gone. Just that i found other games to Play with.
you may don't have the Same feeling as Adult or paly the game Like you used too, but Still you Sometimes return to the game just because you feeling it.
for me the Game would be timeless Sure Some Lose interest but others Would Probably not. and there going to be new people kids and even Adults that would enjoy this game Like we used to back in the Day.
Despite playing since beta 1.8.1, I like the new textures and sounds that were introduced since 1.14
i think you talking about goals and how as a kid you didn't have any when playing is exactly the problem with minecraft for me these days; there's so much to do but it feels like everyone plays by the same meta now - set up a villager trading farm, go to the nether, defeat the ender dragon, get elytra - all of which are incredibly unfun to me and don't give me any sense of satisfaction when playing my singleplayer worlds (or even multiplayer)
there's a reason why recently i've been playing versions of minecraft i didn't even grow up with, such as beta 1.7.3 (old joke i know, everyone's talking about it these days) with mods such as better than adventure, since they don't have any real goals apart from survive, explore and create whatever structures you want
that to me is so much more fun than the modern meta of leveling up to get netherite, flying around with elytra, and setting up a horribly annoying villager trading farm for mending books
I know what you mean. I personally still enjoy Minecraft and love building and creating within it. But there is an element of adventure that was there with Minecraft in my childhood which I don't feel as much anymore.
This channel is amazing to put on in the background ❤️
wonderful and touching video, this diserves more views
Amazing editing!
I can't believe you only have about 200 subscribers, but I'm one of them now!
You never truely quit Minecraft.
Just take extended breaks.
It calls to us now and then, I've even been pulled back after over 3 years because a friend opened a modded server in their Discord and hanging out and play8ng was great.
But only for a while.
Real life is the natural graduation from Minecraft.
Make friends, discover the world, and make great things together.
Excellent video and best wishes ❤
Man I miss playing the 360 version. If only I could just go back and look at all my old worlds.
Its odd how everyone agrees the game started getting more smelly when Microsoft took over after the aquatic updata
Really relatable and great video. Keep it up
I cried. Thank you.
*i agree with the texture update thing. maybe it would have been better if the colors remained the same or the shading was more cell shaded instead of smooth*
Something about minecraft's new textures that some of them were accessibility stuff. Mainly for colorblind people since a lot of blocks were the same but with differwnt colors. I think that's why you gave em a pass, but i also wanna mention gold blocks. Because that was also a thing to diferenciate from diamond blocks.
I'm nearly 40, been playing Minecraft since early alpha days, still have a world from beta 1.8 going. :)
One word - mods. Never liked magic mods as a kid, so I didn't spoiled how twilight forest looks. It was good. It wasn't same excitement as kid, but close enough.
And 2 more words - different versions. Even in childhood I already knew how boring world generations was after beta 1.7.2, but I didn't appreciated other little things, like very dark nights, or the fact that after 1.2.5 there wasn't true singleplayer, only local server, where all actions works in unstable 20 fps(because tickrate) no matter what fps does your client have. Oh, and in modern minecraft dragon sucks, it's so easy to defeat him, don't know why they nerfed him. I played with my friend, and after dragon from 1.15.2 I immediately asked him to download 1.3.2, where dragon almost kicked our asses
Same happened to me, I still play Minecraft with my dad on versions like 1.7.10 and Better Than Adventure mod for b1.7.3. I do agree it felt different and that's why I still play those. It's not called "nostalgia".. many, specially nowadays, don't know and even deny that art has a soul, and to me, a Catholic and cinematography student, the new Minecraft has a VERY different feeling, not just because of the things that actually changed, but because, at least in my opinion, it has lost that humility, simplicity, liberty and love the game had, while it's more corporate and commercial nowadays, and it even got political related stuff...
Minecraft has something precious, everyone, MILLIONS of persons have put tons of love into the game, and the game gave them liberty to do so. You can find tons of stories and memories of persons who would get together to play, persons who built many things, etc.
That is something that I realized, I grew up to be very traditionalistic and loyal, to keep my friends together. You may diverge, but it many times depends on one person to keep a friendship.
Now what I recommend YOU, focus on what Minecraft was and will continue being in all our hearts because thankfullyit still exists, we can always rediscover the game in the versions that we actually liked and people we used to play with if possible, never let yourself drive to wherever the river of life may take you, you gotta build what you want, even if it's hard, keep one's relations and unity all together and well.
Also, listen to its music, all C418 music, it captivated the love of many while modern composers lack that, not saying they bad, but just listen to them... Which tells you more...?
dude I think the same way about all this. The game isn't indie anymore, so naturally it's going to feel less personal. There are obvious tonal and art style differences compared to the old versions because Notch left the team and there's tons of design decisions that are completely against the original spirit of the game (I despise mending for how easy and also utterly boring it is to obtain). Every change in every update is being made just to keep the game selling and keep Mojang's and Microsoft's profits consistent, which is fair as Mojang employs hundreds of people now and their wellbeing is far more important than the artistic integrity of a game, especially when that game keeps selling anyways despite its flaws.
@@thebluehero7319 Yeah, but in my opinion, they are destroying the original sense of the game, they didn't even grasp to the good things Notch left, they are changing, removing anything related to him to put all materialistic-like bloat. You know how it feels like nowadays? Like those bad cliché movies that you can guess and imagine the director saying "Oo, let's add this, the spectators will be stunnedd", and they do it so much and in so many other games and stuff that it ends boring, for example, the mega huge woah caves from 1.17+, they all big, they all super impressive but they are so easy to find... and let's not talk about how they boosted the diamond rates generation, that along with the new caves, you can easily find 3 veins of diamonds in less than a 50 block radius or at minimum, in the whole cave "hall"... it's absurd. That's also why I involve Satan, it's utter destruction to add ALL the DAMN things you wouldn't want to add to a game, and destroy anything that had to do with the original creator. They involved politics, control of players with telemetry and reporting, getting to the point where you can be forbidden from playing the game you paid for, which should be illegal, etc., etc., etc....
6:45 so is 1.8 combat for me but i still gotta play bedwars with is
Damn this is so accurate
6:46 WHHAAATTTT!!? a game that get's major updates twice a year isn't the same game as the game i played 5 years ago!?
WHO WOULD HAVE F***ING GUESSED?!!!?!??!
I mean if you really play it every year before that one update, no wonder you lost interest, I play since beta 1.6 but like whenever just feel like it, for example I played it this year for first time ever since like 2021 and it's still blast, I love new textures and like of course I didn't even finished and kill enderdragon but that doesn't matter to me, those two weeks I played it this year was blast
i think it’s still a fun game for sure, but this was more about how I couldn’t enjoy it in the same way that I used to, it’s definitely still fun with friends though
I just play older versions lol
Minecraft in it core is a good game but dear god, the support Mojang and Microsoft provide is just embarrassing compare to the modding community.
Instead of making a simple and adventurous survival mode, they made it unhinged and stranded. Biomes used to be diverse and distinct, not just plain with new trees and call it a day. Mining then really feels like treasure hunt, now it's just headache. Game mechanic back then is simple but have depth, now we have goddam sculk shrieker and ominous chest with a thousand rulesets, good luck learning that.
Instead of making creative mode has more advance building options, they just never update it.
Bro it’s just a game
Minecraft to me is a game that relys on nostalgia and friendship in the modern days to be fun. Unless you're too young to have played it back in the day, Minecraft just isn't fun. There's nothing new with the game, the story is non-existent. No matter what they add or change, minecraft will at it's core be a boring singleplayer game. It's always far too easy to do the same exact thing each playthrough because there's no real other options. Minecraft needs a massive overhaul to be truly fun again but they'll never do that cause it'll scare the die hard fans away.
1.9 pvp update just killed it for the OG pvp community everyone started to lose interest since then, the new pvp system was a downgrade
Have you played modded
1:35 because your idea of minecraft is stuck on the ps3 you need to adapt to what is new or you will never grow.
You issue
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