For me, a point on the slow aspect of the game that i dont see mentioned a lot is that when you walk slowly around the world, you are forced to spend more time looking at the terrain around you, and the longer you look at it, the more time you have to come up with cool and creative building ideas that fit your area. Something i find hard in modern because the game can be fast pace is having those naturally occurring, creative ideas that fit the world. I end up shoe horning a build into places it doesn't fit.
of course! you guys are running a fantastic server (i seriously have no clue how you were able to make it so cross compatible) and i had to mention it. genuinely been a lot fun to play on
The limit in blocks and small world border on certain versions really pushes the player’s creativity :) Old Minecraft was all about creating, not exploring or beating the game- Welcome back, bro, we missed your videos
thanks, it's good to be back. and going forward it shouldn't take me as long between uploads! i can't thank you enough for your support, you've been here since day 1
Yes because new minecraft is about progression......with a whole one boss you have to beat. And of course not crating with hundreds of blocks and tens of biomes nah that would be silly.
Lovely video, it's a breath of fresh air to hear someone appreciate Alpha/Beta while not completely condeming modern Minecraft. Also I did not except to see my video in the intro lmao, thanks :)
Bro inspired me to go back to the version of Minecraft when i remember having the most fun, the one before the ocean update! Ill come back occasionally to check out new features but i play singleplayer anyways so might aswell play what will make me happiest when it doesnt affect anyone else. Great vid, man!
As someone who grown up playing minecraft on the site demo before having enough money to buy it ( aka i annoyed my older brother to help me save money). Theres always that feeling of going back and enjoying sweet nostalgia, it's always a pleasure, but we shouldn't be traped in the past. It's long past us, but we shouldn't forget the good memories we had. After all that's what minecraft meant to me. A select list of good memories
yeah i agree, it's good to look back on the past but not be trapped in it. i enjoy the older versions but not entirely for nostalgia reasons. i just think they're a lot of fun to play
Haven’t played Minecraft since the combat update. Once I heard that new music you played in Minecraft that woke me up and said that is not my Minecraft. Now I am going to hop on and play some Minecraft 1.7.10. I like that version not new or old at same time.
@@jaybends yeah yeah its pretty cool i really want mojang to make the moderen beta mod that you can choose which Minecraft tarain generator to play whit
I started playing Minecraft at 1.6.4 and my favorite version is 1.7.2, the version before they were bought by Microsoft. The only advantage of versions after it imo is that they run much smoother. 1.7.2 was laggy (14 FPS) on my crappy computer but I love it.
Great vid!! Can you talk about old minecraft mods? Stuff like Mo Creatures or More Creeps and Weirdos added so much personality and were so complicated that they made minecraft feel like a whole new game. Also the struggles of each mod getting broken with every update was funny looking back.
thanks! at some point i'll probably make a video on the early modding scene, but i need to do more research since i'm not very knowledgeable on it. i remember how every mod tutorial you had to delete the meta inf file lol, it's so much nicer these days with mod loaders
Playing old mc versions changed how I play newer versions: I've had a 1.21 survival for a year and I'm going at my own phase, I havent killed the ender dragon yet (and Im in no hurry), most of my farms are manual, I have just 3 villagers (mending, food, clay) and I've spent most of my time building. Nowadays players are too centered on what the usual survival progression is like that they rush stuff and cant slow down and discover how they like to play the game
yeah imo it's about the mindset you have going into the game. grinding can be really fun, but i've found that people get bored quick once there's nothing left to grind for. but taking it easy and doing things the long way just because you can makes it so much more enjoyable from my own personal experience. beta pretty much forces you to do this, but there's nothing stopping people from playing this exact same way in modern mc
pointing out the way different palate and terrain generation as upsides is something I totally agree with, but the gameplay of older versions of Minecraft is super different too! (think shearing sheep after death, old redstone mechanics or the lack of sprint or a hunger bar). IMO comparing something like Minecraft Alpha 1.0.5 to Minecraft 1.21 nowadays is more like comparing two entirely different games than it is like comparing two versions of the same game :P
Somebody ought to make a mod which restores the AI behaviors of the mobs around this time, as well as the older armor/combat systems. Would be interesting to play modern-minecraft but with the actual difficultly of how it seemed to be back then.
I already feel nostalgic for 1.14 to 1.17 bedrock versions, i stated playing Minecraft in 2020 and in 2022 I found out about the old console editions, so I bought Xbox 360 and Xbox one editions and they are so good, no matter what update will happen to modern Minecraft I won’t play it because it won’t be as good as the console editions It’s a shame that you need a 3rd party bedrock launcher (which doesn’t work for me) to access the old bedrock versions, but even if It did, I still wouldn’t switch to it
the amount of care and attention to detail that went into the legacy console versions is insane. i have so many good memories playing on the xbox 360 back in the day with my friends. bedrock does have benefits like new updates and cross compatibility, which is fantastic but it comes at a cost of running poorly on older hardware (the switch in specific has been a bad experience for me, legacy is much better suited for it)
@ those benefits are actually downsides to me, I don’t really like the new updates and crossplay ruined pvp multiplayer in my opinion, pc players just have such an advantage over everyone else
it's really nice for survival cross play, but you're right that pvp is impossible on bedrock unless you're using mouse and keyboard, which is a shame for console players since most aren't going out of their way to hook up a mouse and keyboard to their console
I feel like this is why current Minecraft IS more interesting than beta In current Minecraft, you have the choice to do nothing (like in beta), or any of the new features You can build with complex gradients, or just build with only a few blocks, thereby setting your own challenge rather than one forced by the game's lack of development Beta Minecraft doesn't have as many choices for the player, leading to less possibly interesting experiences
totally. beta and alpha versions are interesting because they encourage players to play in ways that they might not have done before, but there's nothing stopping people from playing the same way in modern minecraft. in my own modern survival world i ended up going back to just iron armor, diamond tools, and manual farms. but objectively the newer versions of minecraft are more interesting just due to the sheer amount of stuff in the game. this video was moreso to point out some of the ways the older versions can still be enjoyable and interesting to play, and not to say one era is better than the other
thanks for the correction! you're totally right, that's my mistake. i could've sworn it was added in beta 1.8, but it turns out it was added all the way back in beta 1.2. i'll add a disclaimer as the pinned comment
in the launcher, you have to go to settings then scroll down and check the box for Show historical versions. but there are 3rd party launchers that do a much better job supporting the alpha/beta versions, so i'd recommend checking out Mongster's video How To Properly Install Beta 1.7.3
What happened is that Minecraft lost its identity. The same way games like Halo and Call of Duty lost their identities. Minecraft Beta is a fantasy, somewhat medieval themed survival game, with a heavy emphasis on building. It is a game very focused on its strong, simple, yet at the same time deep mechanics. Building, crafting, mining, and fighting. This is how you progress. The game has a consistent retro art style, very pretty lighting and use of colour. The Modern Minecraft, post Microsoft acquisition, is visually muddy and ugly, the strong medieval fantasy theme of the old game has been mangled and stretched into something unrecognisable. The use of colour is worse, the textures look worse, the lighting is worse. its less focused on a handful of simple yet deep mechanics, and rather there is a jumble of gameplay gimmicks with little to no depth. Beta Minecraft had some level of linear progression. You went from punching trees to get a crafting table and wood tools, to mining coal and stone to make stone tools, getting iron and smelting it in a furnace, to using iron to find diamonds, and using a diamond pickaxe to get to The Nether. The Nether is a new place to build, it gives you access to many new blocks, a new environment to build in, and alternative lighting blocks like glow stone and lit netherack. Most importantly, it gave easy access to food via a variety of mushrooms and cooked porkchops dropped by zombie pigmen After The Nether is unlocked, players can focus less on survival because of their newfound easy access to healing items, and can use the new blocks to focus on building. This is The Endgame of Beta Minecraft. It has some linearity, but much less than Modern Minecraft. Minecraft went from a visually pretty, mechanically strong game, to a terrible, messy pile of trash, with hideous art direction and shallow new mechanics. Bedrock edition has even implemented insidious microtransactions, which are exploitative and have no place in gaming. I don't know who to blame. Jeb, Microsoft, maybe its a combination. But Modern Minecraft is a monolith to everything that happens when the original creator moves away from the project, and corporations who don't understand or care about the original piece of art, swoop in, like vultures, and ruin it for everyone. The same thing happened to Halo, Call of Duty, and even Star Wars.
Also, hot take but Hunger is not inherently a bad mechanic. I prefer Pre-hunger Minecraft, yes, but beta 1.8 is still a good version of the game. Sprint is the problem, which is tied to hunger closely. Sprint messes up the pace of the game.
To me it seems like modern minecraft's Devs have a bit of a chip on their shoulder that a pretty vocal part of the community prefers notch era minecraft so that leads to alot of their changes being trying to erase and 1 up notch rather then making a coherent update to minecraft. Add in a bit of a push push nudge nudge from microsoft corporate to sanitize the game and make it more advertiser and kid friendly rather then minecraft's true nature as a All ages game. It just feels like Mojang is running around like a headless chicken with no strong view of where to take Minecraft.
@@Wileybot2004 I 100% agree. Modern Minecraft is full of virtue signalling, like banning gun mods, parrots eating cookies being removed, and fireflies being a cancelled feature because they're poisonous to toads, among other instances.
@@Wileybot2004 Yes, so much of modern minecraft is about erasing or replacing the better Notch era stuff that was superior to the Microslop substitutes we're getting now. Especially the texture change! And Notch being banned from attending Minecon.
valid take, 1.6 was such a great time for minecraft, singleplayer and multiplayer. last of the old terrain gen, but with the modern features of the time. last update before the sprint button was added, which was a nice skill gap to learn for pvp. also the boom of minigame servers before hackers were an issue. good times
@@gameboyplayer4170 I can only speak about me personally, I tried it and I wasn't fun after a while. My childhood was the console edtion, maybe that's why I'm not into it who knows...
(havent watched the video yet) interestingly enough, i do not feel interested in old minecraft versions at all. i feel them as lacking something very important, which i can get only in more modern versions, especially those with new textures: cohesiveness. old minecraft has its style, but it also is very inconsistent, even though i played for a long-long time now...
yeah that's totally fair. although i do think its art style was pretty cohesive until beta 1.7 with cobble and brick texture updates, i also feel like minecraft was slowly losing that cohesiveness until around 1.12 with the world of color update and then finally fixed with 1.14 and the texture pack update. i love the art style of the modern game, it's cleaner than ever and really needed it. like i can't imagine exploring lush caves, or all those nether biomes, or cherry blossom biomes with the old textures. those are genuinely some of the coolest biomes i've ever seen and look incredible
do u hate MINECRAFT PROGGESING? MInecrafts adding new things becuz their PROGRESSING. do u hate them proggresing? they r trying to make the base more funner 4 players. STOP LIVING IN THE PAST. MOVE 2 THE PRESENT. NO SPRINTING? thats just a leg sore.
ummm how is the old version really better? u said theres more options. NO. theres more things to BUILD MORe things to EXPLORE in new version. ITS BECUZ MINECRAFT IS A GAME ABOUT CRAFTING AND EXPLORING. its a game WITH MORE OPTIONS so u have more FUN! the new things make the game MORE exiting. HOW CAN U BUILD A RAINBOW IN OLD VERSION< THERES NO COOL COLORS? ok, yea. old versions so "simple". YOULL GET BORED EASILY. no options, nothing else to do
What you said about creativity is true. Less options fuel creativity, they don't hinder it. I've never really had a good eye for mixing colors, so, if I try to make something with a lot of nuance, it looks wrong most of the time. That being said, I've been enjoying building stuff A LOT in a game where you only have ONE option for a building block. The game is Winter, on roblox. It's made in the style of old roblox and the whole premise is that you, alongside other players, build stuff out of snow that you collect from the ground. The entire game is a blinding white, but that's what makes it special. You don't have to worry about colors, you're just making stuff out of snow. You focus more on shape, size and even functionality (the snow has physics so you can make catapults, functional doors etc.). I think modern Minecraft is oversaturated with options when it comes to building, which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you're an experienced builder, but, if you're just getting into it, it can be VERY overwhelming.
one small mistake i need to correct at 8:25 - charcoal was added in beta 1.2
For me, a point on the slow aspect of the game that i dont see mentioned a lot is that when you walk slowly around the world, you are forced to spend more time looking at the terrain around you, and the longer you look at it, the more time you have to come up with cool and creative building ideas that fit your area. Something i find hard in modern because the game can be fast pace is having those naturally occurring, creative ideas that fit the world. I end up shoe horning a build into places it doesn't fit.
Thank you for featuring us!
of course! you guys are running a fantastic server (i seriously have no clue how you were able to make it so cross compatible) and i had to mention it. genuinely been a lot fun to play on
The limit in blocks and small world border on certain versions really pushes the player’s creativity :)
Old Minecraft was all about creating, not exploring or beating the game-
Welcome back, bro, we missed your videos
Small world border? You mean for like... The first very early alpha version?
@ That, but also old versions of the pocket edition as well. It was very enjoyable for me. I believe it was the “limited” world type for a long while.
thanks, it's good to be back. and going forward it shouldn't take me as long between uploads! i can't thank you enough for your support, you've been here since day 1
Yes because new minecraft is about progression......with a whole one boss you have to beat.
And of course not crating with hundreds of blocks and tens of biomes nah that would be silly.
Lovely video, it's a breath of fresh air to hear someone appreciate Alpha/Beta while not completely condeming modern Minecraft. Also I did not except to see my video in the intro lmao, thanks :)
holy shit thank you, means a lot! your content is great so i wanted to include it somehow
Bro inspired me to go back to the version of Minecraft when i remember having the most fun, the one before the ocean update! Ill come back occasionally to check out new features but i play singleplayer anyways so might aswell play what will make me happiest when it doesnt affect anyone else. Great vid, man!
glad to hear it! and thank you!
As someone who grown up playing minecraft on the site demo before having enough money to buy it ( aka i annoyed my older brother to help me save money). Theres always that feeling of going back and enjoying sweet nostalgia, it's always a pleasure, but we shouldn't be traped in the past. It's long past us, but we shouldn't forget the good memories we had.
After all that's what minecraft meant to me.
A select list of good memories
yeah i agree, it's good to look back on the past but not be trapped in it. i enjoy the older versions but not entirely for nostalgia reasons. i just think they're a lot of fun to play
Great video, perfect length and you didn’t keep on repeating yourself that much, hard to find on commentary videos nowadays
thank you! glad you enjoyed
Another beutiful minecraft video that deserves many more views than it currently has. Great work my guy!
that really means a lot! thank you and i'm glad you enjoyed!
Haven’t played Minecraft since the combat update. Once I heard that new music you played in Minecraft that woke me up and said that is not my Minecraft. Now I am going to hop on and play some Minecraft 1.7.10. I like that version not new or old at same time.
You're so right...
New under appreciated channel found. Just subscribed, keep going man I love this content!
You share some of my same thoughts dude, good work
Another thing to add, beta minecraft runs pretty decently on low end computers so thats a plus
truee, back in the day i had a low end laptop from like 2009 so the performance boost was a blessing haha
I think that the look of beta Minecraft is just cool
same here, the game art feels like it's more intentionally retro looking
@@jaybends yeah yeah its pretty cool i really want mojang to make the moderen beta mod that you can choose which Minecraft tarain generator to play whit
Great video, hope you continue!
I started playing Minecraft at 1.6.4 and my favorite version is 1.7.2, the version before they were bought by Microsoft. The only advantage of versions after it imo is that they run much smoother. 1.7.2 was laggy (14 FPS) on my crappy computer but I love it.
Great vid!! Can you talk about old minecraft mods? Stuff like Mo Creatures or More Creeps and Weirdos added so much personality and were so complicated that they made minecraft feel like a whole new game. Also the struggles of each mod getting broken with every update was funny looking back.
thanks! at some point i'll probably make a video on the early modding scene, but i need to do more research since i'm not very knowledgeable on it. i remember how every mod tutorial you had to delete the meta inf file lol, it's so much nicer these days with mod loaders
Modern MC isn't difficult anymore, that is the only thing that is missing, and that can be changed very easily.
sat through this entire video and didn't realize u had only 700 views, left me astonished that it didn't have more tbh
thank you that seriously means a lot
Playing old mc versions changed how I play newer versions: I've had a 1.21 survival for a year and I'm going at my own phase, I havent killed the ender dragon yet (and Im in no hurry), most of my farms are manual, I have just 3 villagers (mending, food, clay) and I've spent most of my time building.
Nowadays players are too centered on what the usual survival progression is like that they rush stuff and cant slow down and discover how they like to play the game
yeah imo it's about the mindset you have going into the game. grinding can be really fun, but i've found that people get bored quick once there's nothing left to grind for. but taking it easy and doing things the long way just because you can makes it so much more enjoyable from my own personal experience. beta pretty much forces you to do this, but there's nothing stopping people from playing this exact same way in modern mc
pointing out the way different palate and terrain generation as upsides is something I totally agree with, but the gameplay of older versions of Minecraft is super different too! (think shearing sheep after death, old redstone mechanics or the lack of sprint or a hunger bar). IMO comparing something like Minecraft Alpha 1.0.5 to Minecraft 1.21 nowadays is more like comparing two entirely different games than it is like comparing two versions of the same game :P
"Theres no side quests"- counter point, literally just turn off structure generation in world creation and you can get the same experience
Advancements.
Bedrock Edition:
Somebody ought to make a mod which restores the AI behaviors of the mobs around this time, as well as the older armor/combat systems. Would be interesting to play modern-minecraft but with the actual difficultly of how it seemed to be back then.
Great video! 🙂
I already feel nostalgic for 1.14 to 1.17 bedrock versions, i stated playing Minecraft in 2020 and in 2022 I found out about the old console editions, so I bought Xbox 360 and Xbox one editions and they are so good, no matter what update will happen to modern Minecraft I won’t play it because it won’t be as good as the console editions
It’s a shame that you need a 3rd party bedrock launcher (which doesn’t work for me) to access the old bedrock versions, but even if It did, I still wouldn’t switch to it
the amount of care and attention to detail that went into the legacy console versions is insane. i have so many good memories playing on the xbox 360 back in the day with my friends. bedrock does have benefits like new updates and cross compatibility, which is fantastic but it comes at a cost of running poorly on older hardware (the switch in specific has been a bad experience for me, legacy is much better suited for it)
@ those benefits are actually downsides to me, I don’t really like the new updates and crossplay ruined pvp multiplayer in my opinion, pc players just have such an advantage over everyone else
it's really nice for survival cross play, but you're right that pvp is impossible on bedrock unless you're using mouse and keyboard, which is a shame for console players since most aren't going out of their way to hook up a mouse and keyboard to their console
I feel like this is why current Minecraft IS more interesting than beta
In current Minecraft, you have the choice to do nothing (like in beta), or any of the new features
You can build with complex gradients, or just build with only a few blocks, thereby setting your own challenge rather than one forced by the game's lack of development
Beta Minecraft doesn't have as many choices for the player, leading to less possibly interesting experiences
totally. beta and alpha versions are interesting because they encourage players to play in ways that they might not have done before, but there's nothing stopping people from playing the same way in modern minecraft. in my own modern survival world i ended up going back to just iron armor, diamond tools, and manual farms. but objectively the newer versions of minecraft are more interesting just due to the sheer amount of stuff in the game. this video was moreso to point out some of the ways the older versions can still be enjoyable and interesting to play, and not to say one era is better than the other
love the vid! but quick correction: charcoal does exist in beta Minecraft, for reference you said it didn’t
thanks for the correction! you're totally right, that's my mistake. i could've sworn it was added in beta 1.8, but it turns out it was added all the way back in beta 1.2. i'll add a disclaimer as the pinned comment
Great video, great voice, Love it,
How can i play the beta versions of minecraft, because on the minecraft launcher it only goes to minecraft 1.0
in the launcher, you have to go to settings then scroll down and check the box for Show historical versions. but there are 3rd party launchers that do a much better job supporting the alpha/beta versions, so i'd recommend checking out Mongster's video How To Properly Install Beta 1.7.3
Holy glaze
What happened is that Minecraft lost its identity. The same way games like Halo and Call of Duty lost their identities. Minecraft Beta is a fantasy, somewhat medieval themed survival game, with a heavy emphasis on building. It is a game very focused on its strong, simple, yet at the same time deep mechanics. Building, crafting, mining, and fighting. This is how you progress. The game has a consistent retro art style, very pretty lighting and use of colour.
The Modern Minecraft, post Microsoft acquisition, is visually muddy and ugly, the strong medieval fantasy theme of the old game has been mangled and stretched into something unrecognisable. The use of colour is worse, the textures look worse, the lighting is worse. its less focused on a handful of simple yet deep mechanics, and rather there is a jumble of gameplay gimmicks with little to no depth.
Beta Minecraft had some level of linear progression. You went from punching trees to get a crafting table and wood tools, to mining coal and stone to make stone tools, getting iron and smelting it in a furnace, to using iron to find diamonds, and using a diamond pickaxe to get to The Nether. The Nether is a new place to build, it gives you access to many new blocks, a new environment to build in, and alternative lighting blocks like glow stone and lit netherack. Most importantly, it gave easy access to food via a variety of mushrooms and cooked porkchops dropped by zombie pigmen
After The Nether is unlocked, players can focus less on survival because of their newfound easy access to healing items, and can use the new blocks to focus on building. This is The Endgame of Beta Minecraft. It has some linearity, but much less than Modern Minecraft.
Minecraft went from a visually pretty, mechanically strong game, to a terrible, messy pile of trash, with hideous art direction and shallow new mechanics. Bedrock edition has even implemented insidious microtransactions, which are exploitative and have no place in gaming.
I don't know who to blame. Jeb, Microsoft, maybe its a combination. But Modern Minecraft is a monolith to everything that happens when the original creator moves away from the project, and corporations who don't understand or care about the original piece of art, swoop in, like vultures, and ruin it for everyone. The same thing happened to Halo, Call of Duty, and even Star Wars.
Also, hot take but Hunger is not inherently a bad mechanic. I prefer Pre-hunger Minecraft, yes, but beta 1.8 is still a good version of the game. Sprint is the problem, which is tied to hunger closely. Sprint messes up the pace of the game.
To me it seems like modern minecraft's Devs have a bit of a chip on their shoulder that a pretty vocal part of the community prefers notch era minecraft so that leads to alot of their changes being trying to erase and 1 up notch rather then making a coherent update to minecraft. Add in a bit of a push push nudge nudge from microsoft corporate to sanitize the game and make it more advertiser and kid friendly rather then minecraft's true nature as a All ages game. It just feels like Mojang is running around like a headless chicken with no strong view of where to take Minecraft.
@@Wileybot2004 I 100% agree. Modern Minecraft is full of virtue signalling, like banning gun mods, parrots eating cookies being removed, and fireflies being a cancelled feature because they're poisonous to toads, among other instances.
@@Wileybot2004 Yes, so much of modern minecraft is about erasing or replacing the better Notch era stuff that was superior to the Microslop substitutes we're getting now. Especially the texture change! And Notch being banned from attending Minecon.
ths is only your opinion. I LOVE THE NEW BLOCKS. u can build more BEUTIFUL BUILDS!!
Silver Age Horse Update is better than beta.
valid take, 1.6 was such a great time for minecraft, singleplayer and multiplayer. last of the old terrain gen, but with the modern features of the time. last update before the sprint button was added, which was a nice skill gap to learn for pvp. also the boom of minigame servers before hackers were an issue. good times
really interesting opinion cus for me that is my least favorite period of the game
I'm missing the necessary nostalgia to like Beta Minecraft but it was worth a try.
You don’t need nostalgia to like older Minecraft
@@gameboyplayer4170 I can only speak about me personally, I tried it and I wasn't fun after a while. My childhood was the console edtion, maybe that's why I'm not into it who knows...
(havent watched the video yet)
interestingly enough, i do not feel interested in old minecraft versions at all. i feel them as lacking something very important, which i can get only in more modern versions, especially those with new textures: cohesiveness. old minecraft has its style, but it also is very inconsistent, even though i played for a long-long time now...
yeah that's totally fair. although i do think its art style was pretty cohesive until beta 1.7 with cobble and brick texture updates, i also feel like minecraft was slowly losing that cohesiveness until around 1.12 with the world of color update and then finally fixed with 1.14 and the texture pack update. i love the art style of the modern game, it's cleaner than ever and really needed it. like i can't imagine exploring lush caves, or all those nether biomes, or cherry blossom biomes with the old textures. those are genuinely some of the coolest biomes i've ever seen and look incredible
@@jaybends well the taste is subjective 🍰i guess i just like more professional vibe from stuff... thankies for the reply!
7:58 exactly why it sucks. NO DIFFRENCe. its KINDA TOO SIMPLE
Bro just reiterated Dialkos video lol
you lost me at no sprinting. this fad is a great example of how nostalgia often blinds the player.
do u hate MINECRAFT PROGGESING? MInecrafts adding new things becuz their PROGRESSING. do u hate them proggresing? they r trying to make the base more funner 4 players. STOP LIVING IN THE PAST. MOVE 2 THE PRESENT. NO SPRINTING? thats just a leg sore.
ummm how is the old version really better? u said theres more options. NO. theres more things to BUILD MORe things to EXPLORE in new version. ITS BECUZ MINECRAFT IS A GAME ABOUT CRAFTING AND EXPLORING. its a game WITH MORE OPTIONS so u have more FUN! the new things make the game MORE exiting. HOW CAN U BUILD A RAINBOW IN OLD VERSION< THERES NO COOL COLORS? ok, yea. old versions so "simple". YOULL GET BORED EASILY. no options, nothing else to do
What you said about creativity is true. Less options fuel creativity, they don't hinder it. I've never really had a good eye for mixing colors, so, if I try to make something with a lot of nuance, it looks wrong most of the time. That being said, I've been enjoying building stuff A LOT in a game where you only have ONE option for a building block. The game is Winter, on roblox. It's made in the style of old roblox and the whole premise is that you, alongside other players, build stuff out of snow that you collect from the ground. The entire game is a blinding white, but that's what makes it special. You don't have to worry about colors, you're just making stuff out of snow. You focus more on shape, size and even functionality (the snow has physics so you can make catapults, functional doors etc.).
I think modern Minecraft is oversaturated with options when it comes to building, which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you're an experienced builder, but, if you're just getting into it, it can be VERY overwhelming.
wow that's a cool concept for a building game. i know roblox has also experienced a ton of change since it's been around even longer than mc