I got Minecraft Story Mode on X Box 360 but I deleted that crap because it was garbage and it actually didn't work. On release it was one of the free games for the month and it was busted. It was trash. There wasn't anything in the game and yet the coding was so bad that you couldn't play it and there were too many things wrong. The game would full on crash if you made certain choices and then some things would cause you to get stuck in choices and then there were glitches that causes the same exact choices to pop up in an infinite loop not allowing you to move to the next part of the story forcing you to restart the entire game. As someone who played it I can tell you for 100% fact that the game was a pile of shit. To why anyone thinks its good I have no idea. The few times you could move you often would fall threw the map because the game was horrible coded. Hell there was an item I needed but the item spawned inside of a building so I couldn't get the item and after a few guys that hung out wanted to try we all gave up. To the fact it died yea that is not surprising. The game released in a busted state and it took them years to fix shit. No fucking wonder the game is dead.
It feels weird to hear that people didn't like the animation style. I thought it was incredible as a kid, since I couldn't imagine how minecraft faces and bodies would move convincingly, considering the base game has it all stiff. Story Mode felt like a breakthrough. I understand the idea of watching it once and not buying, that's what i ended up having to do with S2, but I still have good memeories with the game, and I can't wait for the "remake" movie.
It was a great little gem in its own moment of time. The more episodes I played the more I loved it. The theme of the characters growing stronger as strong, experienced "minecrafters" that was clearly displayed in some of those intro sequences that were quicktime combat scenes. From first to last, you see them growing by starting out as ignorant and weak, but altogether curious and moral enough to continue to be stronger and smarter. It makes them more confident and their teamwork solidifies and by the end they are together a formidable force. Also Ivor, or Ivan or whatshisface ending up being much more of a child than I expected was hilariously great
@@gabetmf fr, we would have been much more receptive to the story mode character style in the minecraft movie rather than random ass actual people which don't fit in the environment at all
Like or hate Story Mode, it did what the movie should've done. It told stories within the world of Minecraft, already knowing the player knew what Minecraft is and using in game items/lore but with a creative spin. Aka what players do when playing Minecraft, we make our own stories. Also Lucas was the best character in the series, actually having his own agency without the player but still being supportive of them. You could actually annoy him enough that he'd call you out on it. XD
not only that, but if you were mean to him the entire game, if you choose ”I had my friends” in the final speech he’d get angry when you mention him and he walks away and he, nor The Ocelots appear during the final encounter with the Wither Storm
@@Star.6739and the interesting thing about the wither storm encounter that’s dragging Jesse away is that without the ocelots there, the event is much harder and you have to click a lot faster to escape.
Amen. Legacy Console Edition especially. It was pretty much Java with Bedrock's best exclusives near the end and with polished official Mini Games (I still miss Glide).
Minecraft story mode was the most polished Minecraft spin-off. They had some corny moments and it wasn't always the best but it always was polished. edit:why is there a war in the comments, this is just my opinion
@@Maxippo the scale of the budget doesn't detract from the quality of the product. A sword forged by a talented blacksmith with funding for the highest grade steels will produce a better blade than an equally talented blacksmith supplied with ... for the sake of comparison, Ea-nāṣir's copper. (The metals in this metaphor standing in for funding, time given to work, freedom given to create, workplace conditions, etc.)
There's a lot of things I find crazy about Minecraft Story Mode. I find it crazy that a game getting discontinued isn't the worst fate a Minecraft spinoff can have (as evidenced by Story Mode and Earth). I also find it crazy that Minecraft Story Mode wasn't received very well by people on launch. I've always remembered the game rather fondly and I never really understood the hate surrounding it. And I find it crazy that the thing that got people to respect Minecraft Story Mode was the trailer for the Minecraft Movie.
When story mode launched, it was during the time where it was cool to hate on Minecraft. We're talking about the times where Pewdiepie hasn't even replayed Minecraft since the start of the channel
Im so confused whenever people talk about not liking Minecraft story mode because I remember it coming out as a kid and loving it. Even looking back now I have nothing but good memories of it
i didnt like minecraft story mode because they called it minecraft story mode. as in, creative mode, survival mode, adventure mode, story mode. and then it came out and i found out it literally wasnt minecraft.
Yeah, Story Mode got discontinued because Telltale shutdown. Its very tragic, at least we got Minecraft Dungeons & Minecraft Legends to fill the holes that Both seasons of story mode left behind.
@@kolkagaming1234 telltale is back and all there games are back/still up and they released a game last year that was original called the expanse so its weird story mode 1 and 2 hasnt come back since the batman games which are also licensed and the walking dead is back especially since Microsoft has nothing to gain by keeping it down but everything to gain by letting it back up
I remember telling my dad that I wanted Minecraft in 2015, and he buys me story mode instead of the actual game 😭 I enjoyed the first part so much though, and I'm pretty sure I cried when Ruben died
i wonder if Telltale would've been significantly more successful if they just became an animation/film studio - a lot of the reason why the writing sucked was because they had to account for the many different choices across the games, and a lot of the reason why telltale's games werent profitable was because they were games - but people enjoyed the stories, and i feel Telltale wouldve made a much, much, better Minecraft movie than what we're getting now.
I mean. Telltale was founded by ex-employees of LucasArts who desired to keep making adventure games, so. Their post-Walking Dead output was very different to that before.
It's still so weird to me that Telltale was just early to the scene, with Until Dawn getting so praised for effectively the same concept, but with a horror spin.
@@Whatismusic123 Yeah, that was the biggest grudge I had with the game, it didn't actually feel like a choose your own adventure game since no matter what you did, the choices all led back to the same plot point :P
5:35 This is the reason why the studio died in general. I have pretty much enjoyed both Minecraft: Story Mode, as well as their other games like The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among us, yet I bought none of these games. Since there were kind of like video series, you could watch a non-commentary youtuber and get pretty much the same experience. This is why no other studio makes such games either. They are just not profitable.
The reason nobody played telltale games is because your choices never mattered. The Walking Dead was the worst, as it would literally spoil who will die later by giving you a "choice" to save 1 of 2 characters, where either both are saved every time, sometimes you never had a choice to begin with and one is always scripted to die, or you really do have a choice, at which point you know that the one you saved will DEFINITELY die later, since they had to account for that being a possibility during your "choice". If playing the game actually provided a different narrative experienced compared to everyone else's play through, then it would be worth playing, but it's basically a point and click walking simulator because of how linear the "choice rich story" is.
The character writing for the first half of season 1 is definitely weak and the story is excessively stretched to make it last for four seasons. But the second half of Season 1, where the gang is blindly jumping through the portal hallway and going on concise, self-contained adventures is Story Mode at its best. Jumping through those various "servers" allowed the studio to throw the player into all kinds of interesting concepts, narratives, and environments without having to keep characters safe for later use or keep the player railroaded through a longer overarching plot. Containing these things to one episode means they can destroy as much of the world as they want and kill as many characters as they want, in every episode. One of the things I admire most about the game is that it doesn't just feel like it's a bunch of characters in a Minecraft themed setting, it feels like I'm experiencing what every player at least once dreamed a Minecraft server could be. Spleef, speed-bridging, admin abuse, operator powers, the whole command block disaster in the first four episodes, world-eating redstone machines, mob grinders, etc.... The setting is the full-bore, unadulterated, entirety of the Minecraft experience. Story Mode's writers and devs, for all the game's faults, had a shockingly thorough understanding and respect for Minecraft's game mechanics and the state of its community at the time.
I agree with you except that I found season 2 to be a huge step up from season 1. In terms of the plot, the characters, the gameplay, and the visuals. THAT was peak story mode!
Minecraft Story Mode had something I found that made me love it. It had heart. Minecraft Story Mode had no obligation to include things the community liked. The far lands as a place had been removed by that time, but they still included it because of the community fanfare around it. The latter half of season one being completely dedicated to community made things, skyblock, story custom maps, massive redstone inventions, and then minigame servers. Season 2 has less of that because they can't re-tread the same ground, but the fact that the main antagonist is a God named "The Admin" and the story is essentially that of a minecraft servers admins fighting but taken up to 11 is very charming to me. Plus there's still some nice "if you know, you know" things. My favorite example is that the Warden of the sunshine institute is implied to be a sort of "reformed" criminal in a way, and is very clearly modeled after Pyrobyte's skin, who was a huge name in the history of 2B2T, the classic "oldest anarchy server in minecraft".
I didn't know they referenced 2b2t lol, that's amazing. If we ever get a third season, official or not, that should be where one of the episodes take place. (Or at least something similar)
Regardless of the large consensus, I loved this game when it came out and played it on my mom's old iPad so many times. It had great storytelling, the music was unironically really good, and you could tell that the artists who made it really cared. I was crushed when as an adult I learned that this game is no longer possible to play, as it was a large part of my childhood, and will always be highly nostalgic towards it.
I think going in with the expectation of watching a movie makes it a lot more enjoyable I was sick a few years back and hadn’t played the game in a while, but I knew it was quite passive and honestly for a situation like that, there wasn’t a better choice of game to play! If I was expecting some massive open world game with hundreds of side quests or actually half decent combat (it was pretty bad in season 1 ngl), then yeah, I’d be super disappointed, but me with no energy to really do anything beyond a super lenient quick time event? Great experience
@ I mean, it is being sold as a game so I get where they’re coming from I got it as a gift on physical disk when I was way more young and naive so I enjoyed anything that was given to me Knowing it as basically a movie with some choice makes it a lot more enjoyable, but yeah, it still is something I really only come back to once every few years
I can see a kid having a good time with it. I'd guess the issues came from Telltale normally making games targeting late teens to adults. I really didn't enjoy it as someone who was quite a bit older when it was released and a big fan of both Telltale and MC. They didn't make it clear what their target audience was and it would've probably helped them a lot.
As a kid, I wanted nothing more than to purchase minecraft story mode, I loved the series and I loved minecraft. However I was a child, and my parents were very strict on buying anything for me since we had to live off of a tight budget, so I could never buy storymode or even minecraft for the longest time, I had to watch it on my dad's laptop while he was home, or at friends houses. Once I grew grew up and was able to afford the game on my own, I wanted to support it and buy it with my own money, but by that point telltale had already gone bankrupt and the game was taken off steam and consoles, so I never got to give them the money I always wanted to give them.
Its honestly sad that it was heavily criticized during the time, truly think it's amazing from then until now. Could understand why people think the characters are dull, but the concepts and worldbuilding it does is honestly just creatively great. Reminds me so much of back in the day when my friends and I would think of all sorts of scenario for roleplaying so many stuff. Its so cringe thinking back on it, but it was honestly the most fun I had as a kid
Cringe is really quite an subjective feeling, but if you feel that way genuinely, it is respectable. Otherwise however, the most cringe thing on the entire planet is probably the cringe culture itself.
As someone who has bought both seasons digitally, I think the main problem I noticed was that it didn't feel like a true "Choose your own adventure" type of game. Like you said, the game focused more on the story than the gameplay, but even then whatever choices you made didn't feel like they impacted the story. Sure, there were some choices that changed what characters you saw at what parts, but that was IT, it was basically just a reskin of what happens. It's like your walking on a trail, and you get to choose whether you go left or right, but both trails connect again a mile later, the story always led back to the same points no matter what you did. Even with that tho, I still LOVE the game, as glitchy as the animations get and even though all the voice lines get cut off right before they finish, I've still played the game every year since 2017 as a sort of tradition haha, and also, Petra was NOT a boring character, her character development in season 2 actually almost made me cry, it was so sad ;-;
I remember when I first saw Minecraft story mode on Netflix and absolutely lost my mind into joy. I never played anything after episodes 1 and 2 so being able to play up to 5 was exciting for me. Story mode is still the only game to make me cry because of (spoilers) Rubens death. The thing that pushed me over was that at the top of the screen a message came down saying “Ruben will be remembered” which was really emotional for me since I’ve never seen another game do something like that. This wasn’t a spin-off game, it was a masterpiece.
I don't think it was a failure, the community likes it, despite some few others disliking it for some reason, still it's been very well known on the community, it made to different places like Netflix, back then when it released I was baffled by the gameplay involving the choices and would watch all the different outcomes the choices would lead to, it truly was a game. Thanks telltale for this masterpiece, I expected the Minecraft movie to follow something along those lines, but it is what it is
A lot of people said that it was cringe… But I dunno, the game honestly had really good moments (I nearly cried on Rueben’s death even though I had already played the game before, lol)
And still to this day, the Wither-Storm remains a legend in Minecraft. Back in the day, I watched VintageBeef play Story Mode and decided to buy it myself afterwards and play on my own. I wanted to be snarky as heck in my replies. And I would not know that a bunch of enderman is officially called a haunting. I like the "stuff" ton variant most and use that to this day.
I was like ten around the time MCSM came out, I would always play the episode for myself and then watch all of my favorite TH-camrs play it and see what options they picked so I didn’t have to go back and choose different options
I am one of those children who grew up with story mode. I played it for the first time around 8 years old i think? I enjoyed it a lot, but since i didnt speak english at the time, i could not understand what was being said completely, and even though the game was very fun, i do agree that it did feel underwhelming at times. I still enjoy it though. Over the 7 years since, i have played it again multiple times, never completing it to the end, but instead giving up near it, and then watching videos on it and all the dlcs it had to offer since i didnt have the time or patiance to play it myself. I wish i can still go back and replay it, but i am holding out my hopes for the fan rework, to expirience this wonderful world again. I loved it as a child, and it still bring me a smile to my face when i see it. Didn't know it was taken down such a long time ago. I miss it, and this video reminded me of my childhood, Thank you!
M:SM is still the best spin-off we had. The first one was trying find its fitting in what a Minecraft a spin-off can be while the 2nd started to explored more concepts and game mechanics from the real game. I feel like if M:ST did had a season 3 or more it probably could've explore so much with the minecraf title
The first four episodes are a nice perfectly original story set in the Minecraft world. The writing from episode five through the end of season 2 was just blatant Minecraft server storyline and they didn't try to hide it.
@@4ndr3w That much I can agree with. Regarding the episodes that is. Also, I never really got the Witherstorm's hype either. To me, to this very day, it's just another one of those overcomplicated villains/monsters in fiction that would have had been much better off not existing - And I wouldn't be surprised if it was based off of your typical, modded boss, which also suck for what Minecraft is.
@@ChocoRainbowCorn I think it’s just the idea of this giant creature slowly eating the entire world is cool… and the Wither Storm’s themes are honestly amazing, Antimo and Welles really did a good job
"removed from the internet" is a harsh statement, just because you may not get your hands on a copy the legit way it does not make it disappear from the internet, quite the contrary this is what piracy is for :D
Minecraft: Story Mode is what I wish the new minecraft movie would have been. Feels so much more faithful to the minecraft world than what the movie trailers have shown.
Story mode released when i was a kid, so my parents bought me two episodes, and I played it. One day i realized that paying for each episode is stupid and a lot of money, so I didn’t asked my parents about other episodes
Yep. If anything, this is one of the bigger/more legitimate criticisms for this. As is, Season 3 would be better off not being made, much less an animated series or a movie that people are somehow so excited for. Even the storyline feels like it's all mods on drugs put on your typical server for kids. If they want to make a new game, Seasons 1 and 2 should be wiped off of the face of this game's history as massive failures and rewritten, to make for something with real quality to it.
@@kon-chama Well, even a personal opinion can count towards an criticism of something, even if it is subjective. But just because you fail to see or acknowledge a criticism doesn't mean it's not there. Thankfully though, it's easy enough to tell people who have any semblance of intelligence in them apart from those that do not, so I'm not going to bother for much longer.
@@ChocoRainbowCorn yes yes i bend the knee to such overpowering intelligence as i see i am clearly no match for the magnificent chococorn, the gap in iq is simply far too wide to surmount
it‘s interesting how your poll is what made me redownload the game and now I‘m getting to watch a video about it while on my second playthrough of the game 🤯
I feel like the time of release was also critical. Story mode dropped when it started being unpopular to like Minecraft, as it was a "kid's game". If it was released after 2018 or 2019, it would have been a different story.
One thing that goes absolutely hard is the music. Honorable mentions (that I sometimes listen to): 101 Credits, Main Menu Music, 203 Credits, Ivor's Theme, Wither Storm Music.
I remember my dad got me the season pass disk for my birthday only a couple months after it came out. I think at that point i had only watched playthroughs of episode 1 so the rest of the game was not only new to me but really fun. 9 year old me was so hyped lol
There’s also a fan made season 3 GAME that’s coming. It’s called tales of the order of the stone and the playable demo is coming soon. If you want to know more ask me :)
I'm not sure why that should be a thing. Storyline sucked all the way through. Basically modded server on drugs and steroids and basically no choices for a game meant to have choices. So yeah. No thanks. If you do that, please rewrite Seasons 1 and 2 to have some actual quality to them.
Got the game with my brother's for the PS4 and loved the story as we were keeping up along with the content creators who played it around the time. Only thing we regret was not getting the second season to have the complete story since the actual physical copies are rare nowadays since they aren't selling anymore, especially if it's the season pass version of the game.
I completely forgot this game existed one time, I watched youtubers play it and even seen all the episodes but overtime I didn't keep up with it and just forgot it was a thing until I saw a video about season 3 never happening
i forget who's playthrough i originally watched but the reason i never got to play it was just not having a job and always having to ask my parents to buy the game
Well I did end up getting the game for my PS4 (as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure I still have the original CD) and I look back at it with a lot of fondness and nostalgia. It was a part of my childhood, after all :)
I really liked story mode even now. While it did have its problems I thought it had a decent story that I was invested in.the only thing that I remember not liking at the time was that the characters arms and legs bend but I don’t mind it that much now. I don’t think it was a failure the fact that the Witherstorm something introduced in story mode is still talked about today. Really shows how much of an impact it had. Heck I got a brand new sealed copy (until I opened it) of the physical PC version of season one just so I could play it again.
My main issue with Telltale Games was that it always felt like you had the illusion of choice but your choices didn't actually matter. I think this was especially true for minecraft story mode, i'm not entirely sure tbh because it feels like forever ago but aside from a few tweaks to the story there just wasn't much of a difference, which kind of makes you feel done with the game once you watched it. On the contrast is the the walking dead game where it felt like you saw someone's playthrough and you were curious as to where you would end up if you made your choices. I think black mirror's bandersnatch explained this pretty well and is like a perfect example for this.
This is completely accurate to my list lol. Java is the best, Story mode is also the best, Dungeons was really fun and the dlc even expanded the lore but eventually it got tiring. Bedrock edition is a complete piece of shit Education edition has the hour of code which has ACTUAL LORE THAT EXPANDS THROUGH A FEW LESSONS So that slightly interested me more Legends was a bigger piece of shit then bedrock. I got the game on launch date played it once then never again because I hated how it worked. Minecraft earth was fun at the time, but in reality it was a giant cashgrab and that’s why it shut down, which led me to hating it. (The only good thing about it was I was one of the very first people to get the chickenshroom mob)
@@megaman37456 I've never had anything to do with console editions, but the way I see it, it would be this: 1. Minecraft: Java Edition 2. Minecraft: Story Mode 3. Minecraft Dungeons 4. Minecraft: Pocket Edition 5. Minecraft: Legacy Console Edition 6. Minecraft: Education Edition 7. Minecraft: Bedrock Edition 8. Minecraft Legends 9. Minecraft Earth
Ironically with so many people re-evaluating Minecraft Story Mode in light of whatever the heck the Minecraft movie teaser was; if these games were still available or re-released now, they could have seen a small resurgence in player count and maybe sales too. Both from previous players nostalgic to revisit them, as well as from newcomers curious to check out the source of all the "we may have treated you too harshly" comments.
2024 news: Apparently mojang bought the game back from telltale games and theyre gonna update it,its releasing January 5,2025 it will only be for consoles and PC. They say itll be called "Minecrafy Story Mode Deluxe" or "Amulet" instead of deluxe. It might get delayed due to them doing season 3. Note: i saw this on some random website,it might be false. And yes,the website told me they bought it from telltale games even though they shut down.
It’s still the best Minecraft spinoff! Also Telltale did say this when someone asked if they’ll ever bring back the game: “Never say never, however our focus bow is TWAU2.” so this is petty exciting!
I can actually still play Minecraft Story Mode, both S1 and 2. How, you ask? Well, my Xbox saved the other 4 chapters of S2, which you had to download on the store, which is no longer possible. It makes me feel special that I can still play a game from my younger years 💚
Yes i was just thinking this lol, my sister got it from the Minecraft store or website or whatever. It was deffo available somewhere else and most people deffo bought it from there, not steam, especially if many were kids getting it through the parents. So steam statics probably aren’t worth much
Speaking of Minecraft stuff disappearing from stores, I've notices 4 of the free maps on the Windows 10 version have been removed, locking you out if you already had a world generated from them.
technoblade streamed back in the days all his gameplay on minecraft story mode, and it has +150k viewers at the time. I remember watching him playing this game.. Rest in peace Techno.
I did my own video essays on both the original game (specifically the Wither Storm Arc) and analyzing WazzyWorks’s new trailer for his upcoming remake. Yours is well done, and VERY well edited. Thanks for shouting it out
My biggest issue with Story Mode was mostly how inconsistent it felt in its writing and treating of the setting. For example, people in-universe talk about admins and the like, making it feel like the game is just part of a random multiplayer server. Yet when they find a way to join other servers at the end of Season 1, they act like they have *no* idea what this is. Or the whole death thing: Not how some are serious or some are jokes, but how it works "mechanically", as most cases, nothing drops on death - yet sometimes it does. Worst case is the death of the pig, which is treated as slow and serious - and then it just poofs into a raw porkchop, ruining the moment and it feels like they did that for sake of 'consistency' (which they ignored so far), regardless how it affects the tone (making it accidentally peak comedy). And the DLC Episode with the TH-camrs they also messed up in that way (once again, talking about TH-cam like this is a game, then acting like the entire thing is real), by creating two fake TH-camrs, one who gets killed off right away, making it blatantly obvious who the bad guy is. There is also a bit more of that here and there, but overall, it really feels like they didn't try to tell a Minecraft Story, but a random story that they just happen to slap a Minecraft skin on, and then threw darts to decide where they could reference the Minecraft Gameplay.
I like how the pig scene was done, it show's how the beloved friend became just a small pice of dead meat just like that. The one who gets killed by the wither storm should drop items tho.
The netflix version was there for years after shutdown of the original story mode. But recently got taken off. Probably aince they were making a shoe so they noticed they still had it.
I remember watching DanTDM play both seasons of Minecraft Story Mode and I fell in love with the game as a kid. I got the whole first season for my iPad and I would play and watch the first season over and over and over again, until I got bored of it and deleted if off of my iPad, which I regret doing now. When I found out that Telltale got shut down, I was devastated that I couldn’t redownload it. It stuck in the back of my head for years and the memories never left me. Now, I have hard copies of both seasons for my Xbox One, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. I also have the first season hard copies for my Wii U and PC. I personally never had an issue with the writing or the characters. Minecraft Story Mode is just so nostalgic for me, I love both seasons so much. And the soundtrack of both seasons are my favorite soundtracks of any video game for me.
To be fair, that was the smoothest subscribe thing that I've ever seen. It actually is a decent point in a decent transition. Because like you're interested in the content, but you're not buying or subscribing to it in this case but you're still seeing it on purchased or unsubscribed I guess.
I have a lot of nostalgia for Minecraft Story Mode because I remember 9 year old me watching Stampy play the game and seeing himself in Episode 6 😂. I did revisit the game not long ago, and tbh the weakest part of story mode was the first 4 iconic episodes from season 1. The characters are especially cringe at times. The second half of the season got a lot better, but SEASON 2 does NOT get the credit it deserves. Everything was a big step up in that season, and I still really enjoyed it. The plot was more interesting, the characters were more entertaining, the villain was awesome, the choices could actually affect the story big time, the gameplay itself was better, and the visuals were much better.
Before I even have context from this video, I'm gonna say no. It was a good hit among TH-camrs, especially those that played guest roles in episode 6, and while the writing for characters was hit or miss, and the nature of the game made it mostly watched online rather than actually played for ones' self, the game made its mark culturally. "Nothing built can last forever", and sadly for the game, its message is all the more truthful.
The point of “knowing the story from TH-camrs” makes me wonder if this guy wouldn’t watch a horror movie, just because he could watch the dead meat kill count.
@@Megajaybreaker4 No, dead meat kill counts (while narrated by a very entertaining guy) summarize the film and barely share any of the actual story, and he can't by nature because of copyright. MCSM can be fully watched, as can FNAF, just ask how many FNAF fans actually have the games. Much of the community rose out of the lore at this point as it's a chance for active participation, and much of the success also comes from merch, MCSM did not have much merch.
People give it the 'game' treatment, but it's not a game. It's an interactive movie where you pick the dialogue. You're not going to the cinema, watch a movie and then say "yeah I'm gonna watch this movie every day for the next 10 years". Movies die out after a hype, and so do singleplayer games that are not live service.
I sadly don’t think Minecraft Story mode season 3 will come out. The whiplash of the Minecraft movie is going to kill intrest for storymode. I am 99% sure that the coming of the movie will be horrible. It’s going to be one of those so bad it’s not even good when it’s bad movies just bad. We will watch it or have someone else watch it just for the memes of jack black and the kids yearning for the mines. But that is it the movie itself will flop. Then in response to this Microsoft will shut down Minecraft story mode if there is one in production to avoid loosing any more money and just keep pumping updates out of regular Minecraft
Me! Really liked at first and was excited when I learned I was one of the very first people to get the chicken shroom. Then it shut down and I realized it was a giant cash grab. I’m glad I didn’t spend money on the game. Came in Liking it, left hating it.
Saying Minecraft Story Mode is "Completely" different to Minecraft is entirely false. The whole story of the game is the experience of Minecraft. The Order of the stone is the player you choose to become in minecraft. A builder, a redstoner, a pvp player, a griefer. The villain from episode 1-4 was the wither storm. Wither + Command block, both well-known in minecraft. You speak as if the game is just a story that was put in a minecraft setting but it's not. It's a story made to be Minecraft and therefore fits perfectly in a Minecraft setting.
Bro barely even paid attention. It got a ton of attention at first. A ton of people played it. It just faded away due to people not buying enough. Don’t call them (dlc episodes). In today’s terms, “dlc” mainly means “bonus” even if it means downloadable content. They were there for the people to buy and continue the story. Season 2 wasn’t about the money at that point. Telltale games was already failing, and they made season 2 out of love for the fans of story mode. Most copies of season 2 actually had either a free season pass to download all the episodes, or all episodes already there, ready to be played. Season 2 was more of a “goodbye” than a complete new game.
Even if they shutdown, what they should've done was hand off the game for mojang's developers to handle, or just leave it on stores, but give a warning that it won't be getting updates. Minecraft: Story Mode was one of the 17 apps and games on my Xbox, about 10 of them being already included.
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we can't forget that the ones who made the 3 sam and max games that were 3D at that current time (save the world, beyond time and space, and devil's playhouse, named "the telltale trilogy") are *telltale games* as well
Just a quick misunderstanding you may of not known. There were plenty of kids (including myself) who played the demo version season 1 on our tablets back in the day. I'd say over 50 percent comes from there.
Found this interesting. At the time I was quite young but I remember my dad purchasing me and my brother the game and we had an absoulte blast. Didn't know it had mixed reception on release but nor would I have cared becuase to 8 year old me, it was just a Minecraft game and I enjoyed the heck out of it
i mean the reason it failed is a bit more obvious than all of this deep dive it’s because it was a linear story game released during the peek of minecraft youtubers. more specifically a game for children. unlike detroit become human, where the community would still buy the game as a “donation” after watching gameplays, we were just too young and didn’t see the point in buying the game if youtubers were releasing gameplay videos two ours after the next episode came out. games like these especially when marketed to a younger audience are not financially appreciated and therefore not sustainable profit of income. as you can see from the comment section once we grew up we began to appreciate the game
Hot take, telltale should’ve treated their game like a movie, instead of allowing people to upload the entire game to TH-cam. They should’ve only allowed them to upload an episode or two to still keep the incentive to actually play the game.
I still fondly enjoy Story mode, as literally last year I bought both full story discs for my xbox one and played through both seasons. I'll never regret being able to play a game series I fondly remembered for years
Ay, the wither storm's entire fight and theme was phenominal and the youtuber collab with the White Pumpkin was the best thing you vould experience as a kid
I own the original box cd version of the game and i'm a huge fan, Getting a third part of the game would be a dream come true, I never understood the hate towards it tho
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You can actually play it on Netflix, or least you used to be able to
I found the poll under the video, lol.
humanperson6675 That ain't the same as actually playing the game
I got Minecraft Story Mode on X Box 360 but I deleted that crap because it was garbage and it actually didn't work. On release it was one of the free games for the month and it was busted. It was trash. There wasn't anything in the game and yet the coding was so bad that you couldn't play it and there were too many things wrong. The game would full on crash if you made certain choices and then some things would cause you to get stuck in choices and then there were glitches that causes the same exact choices to pop up in an infinite loop not allowing you to move to the next part of the story forcing you to restart the entire game. As someone who played it I can tell you for 100% fact that the game was a pile of shit. To why anyone thinks its good I have no idea. The few times you could move you often would fall threw the map because the game was horrible coded. Hell there was an item I needed but the item spawned inside of a building so I couldn't get the item and after a few guys that hung out wanted to try we all gave up. To the fact it died yea that is not surprising. The game released in a busted state and it took them years to fix shit. No fucking wonder the game is dead.
@@humanperson6675 I was thinking the same thing
It feels weird to hear that people didn't like the animation style.
I thought it was incredible as a kid, since I couldn't imagine how minecraft faces and bodies would move convincingly, considering the base game has it all stiff.
Story Mode felt like a breakthrough.
I understand the idea of watching it once and not buying, that's what i ended up having to do with S2, but I still have good memeories with the game, and I can't wait for the "remake" movie.
It was a great little gem in its own moment of time.
The more episodes I played the more I loved it.
The theme of the characters growing stronger as strong, experienced "minecrafters" that was clearly displayed in some of those intro sequences that were quicktime combat scenes. From first to last, you see them growing by starting out as ignorant and weak, but altogether curious and moral enough to continue to be stronger and smarter. It makes them more confident and their teamwork solidifies and by the end they are together a formidable force.
Also Ivor, or Ivan or whatshisface ending up being much more of a child than I expected was hilariously great
imagine they made the minecraft movie live action cause people complained about the animations of story mode
@@gabetmf fr, we would have been much more receptive to the story mode character style in the minecraft movie rather than random ass actual people which don't fit in the environment at all
@@gabetmfjust another proof that one of Minecraft's biggest enemies is it's own audience who don't know a shit and be complaining
It's wrost then element animation when it first came out, imo
Like or hate Story Mode, it did what the movie should've done. It told stories within the world of Minecraft, already knowing the player knew what Minecraft is and using in game items/lore but with a creative spin. Aka what players do when playing Minecraft, we make our own stories.
Also Lucas was the best character in the series, actually having his own agency without the player but still being supportive of them. You could actually annoy him enough that he'd call you out on it. XD
not only that, but if you were mean to him the entire game, if you choose ”I had my friends” in the final speech he’d get angry when you mention him and he walks away and he, nor The Ocelots appear during the final encounter with the Wither Storm
@@Star.6739and the interesting thing about the wither storm encounter that’s dragging Jesse away is that without the ocelots there, the event is much harder and you have to click a lot faster to escape.
I remember playing it on netflix
and ANIMATION! ANIMATION! NOT LIVE ACTION AND WEIRD CGI!!!
Also it had Pama, so it's objectively better. X)
It was more popular than dungeons and legends combined
I still play Minecraft dungeons sometimes
@@louiee4597 Yeah Dungeons is very good, super underrated tbh
i ADORE minecraft dungeons, i started re-playing it with one of my friends often very recently
Story and Dungeons good, legends bad, original GOATED.
Amen. Legacy Console Edition especially. It was pretty much Java with Bedrock's best exclusives near the end and with polished official Mini Games (I still miss Glide).
Minecraft story mode was the most polished Minecraft spin-off. They had some corny moments and it wasn't always the best but it always was polished.
edit:why is there a war in the comments, this is just my opinion
the art direction of dungeons alone mogs MC:SM when it comes to polish
@@deusphage9149yeah but they had a massive budget
@@Maxippo the scale of the budget doesn't detract from the quality of the product. A sword forged by a talented blacksmith with funding for the highest grade steels will produce a better blade than an equally talented blacksmith supplied with ... for the sake of comparison, Ea-nāṣir's copper.
(The metals in this metaphor standing in for funding, time given to work, freedom given to create, workplace conditions, etc.)
@@deusphage9149 I will admit that story mode is beat in visuals by dungeons, that game has really good visuals
@@deusphage9149 having a bigger budget makes something better, exactly. Unless dungeons actually had a lower budget but idk
There's a lot of things I find crazy about Minecraft Story Mode.
I find it crazy that a game getting discontinued isn't the worst fate a Minecraft spinoff can have (as evidenced by Story Mode and Earth).
I also find it crazy that Minecraft Story Mode wasn't received very well by people on launch. I've always remembered the game rather fondly and I never really understood the hate surrounding it.
And I find it crazy that the thing that got people to respect Minecraft Story Mode was the trailer for the Minecraft Movie.
Everybody to Story Mode right now after seeing the godawful movie trailer:
“Perhaps we treated you harshly.”
maybe because of that asshole protagonist?
When story mode launched, it was during the time where it was cool to hate on Minecraft. We're talking about the times where Pewdiepie hasn't even replayed Minecraft since the start of the channel
yeah, it does appear that you find a lot of things crazy xD
listen we waited a DECADE for the minecraft movie. Minecraft story mode is the closest we ever got
Im so confused whenever people talk about not liking Minecraft story mode because I remember it coming out as a kid and loving it. Even looking back now I have nothing but good memories of it
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i didnt like minecraft story mode because they called it minecraft story mode.
as in, creative mode, survival mode, adventure mode, story mode. and then it came out and i found out it literally wasnt minecraft.
Yeah. It was really cool to finally have a story and it kept really faithfully to the minecraft possibilitys and rules. I loved it too.
Yeah, Story Mode got discontinued because Telltale shutdown. Its very tragic, at least we got Minecraft Dungeons & Minecraft Legends to fill
the holes that Both seasons of story mode left behind.
@@kolkagaming1234 telltale is back and all there games are back/still up and they released a game last year that was original called the expanse so its weird story mode 1 and 2 hasnt come back since the batman games which are also licensed and the walking dead is back especially since Microsoft has nothing to gain by keeping it down but everything to gain by letting it back up
I remember telling my dad that I wanted Minecraft in 2015, and he buys me story mode instead of the actual game 😭
I enjoyed the first part so much though, and I'm pretty sure I cried when Ruben died
i think everyone did
Lmao
Best mistake your dad ever did.
well you did get a form of minecraft, you can't deny that
i wonder if Telltale would've been significantly more successful if they just became an animation/film studio - a lot of the reason why the writing sucked was because they had to account for the many different choices across the games, and a lot of the reason why telltale's games werent profitable was because they were games - but people enjoyed the stories, and i feel Telltale wouldve made a much, much, better Minecraft movie than what we're getting now.
I mean. Telltale was founded by ex-employees of LucasArts who desired to keep making adventure games, so. Their post-Walking Dead output was very different to that before.
What choices? The biggest issue with telltale games was that there was almost zero actual choice in how the stories progressed.
I'm not so sure about that. @Whatismusic123's comment makes much more sense than this.
It's still so weird to me that Telltale was just early to the scene, with Until Dawn getting so praised for effectively the same concept, but with a horror spin.
@@Whatismusic123 Yeah, that was the biggest grudge I had with the game, it didn't actually feel like a choose your own adventure game since no matter what you did, the choices all led back to the same plot point :P
5:35 This is the reason why the studio died in general. I have pretty much enjoyed both Minecraft: Story Mode, as well as their other games like The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among us, yet I bought none of these games. Since there were kind of like video series, you could watch a non-commentary youtuber and get pretty much the same experience.
This is why no other studio makes such games either. They are just not profitable.
The reason nobody played telltale games is because your choices never mattered. The Walking Dead was the worst, as it would literally spoil who will die later by giving you a "choice" to save 1 of 2 characters, where either both are saved every time, sometimes you never had a choice to begin with and one is always scripted to die, or you really do have a choice, at which point you know that the one you saved will DEFINITELY die later, since they had to account for that being a possibility during your "choice". If playing the game actually provided a different narrative experienced compared to everyone else's play through, then it would be worth playing, but it's basically a point and click walking simulator because of how linear the "choice rich story" is.
The character writing for the first half of season 1 is definitely weak and the story is excessively stretched to make it last for four seasons. But the second half of Season 1, where the gang is blindly jumping through the portal hallway and going on concise, self-contained adventures is Story Mode at its best. Jumping through those various "servers" allowed the studio to throw the player into all kinds of interesting concepts, narratives, and environments without having to keep characters safe for later use or keep the player railroaded through a longer overarching plot. Containing these things to one episode means they can destroy as much of the world as they want and kill as many characters as they want, in every episode.
One of the things I admire most about the game is that it doesn't just feel like it's a bunch of characters in a Minecraft themed setting, it feels like I'm experiencing what every player at least once dreamed a Minecraft server could be. Spleef, speed-bridging, admin abuse, operator powers, the whole command block disaster in the first four episodes, world-eating redstone machines, mob grinders, etc.... The setting is the full-bore, unadulterated, entirety of the Minecraft experience.
Story Mode's writers and devs, for all the game's faults, had a shockingly thorough understanding and respect for Minecraft's game mechanics and the state of its community at the time.
I agree with you except that I found season 2 to be a huge step up from season 1. In terms of the plot, the characters, the gameplay, and the visuals. THAT was peak story mode!
And now look at the movie we boutta have today...
Minecraft Story Mode had something I found that made me love it. It had heart. Minecraft Story Mode had no obligation to include things the community liked. The far lands as a place had been removed by that time, but they still included it because of the community fanfare around it. The latter half of season one being completely dedicated to community made things, skyblock, story custom maps, massive redstone inventions, and then minigame servers.
Season 2 has less of that because they can't re-tread the same ground, but the fact that the main antagonist is a God named "The Admin" and the story is essentially that of a minecraft servers admins fighting but taken up to 11 is very charming to me. Plus there's still some nice "if you know, you know" things. My favorite example is that the Warden of the sunshine institute is implied to be a sort of "reformed" criminal in a way, and is very clearly modeled after Pyrobyte's skin, who was a huge name in the history of 2B2T, the classic "oldest anarchy server in minecraft".
I didn't know they referenced 2b2t lol, that's amazing.
If we ever get a third season, official or not, that should be where one of the episodes take place. (Or at least something similar)
Regardless of the large consensus, I loved this game when it came out and played it on my mom's old iPad so many times. It had great storytelling, the music was unironically really good, and you could tell that the artists who made it really cared. I was crushed when as an adult I learned that this game is no longer possible to play, as it was a large part of my childhood, and will always be highly nostalgic towards it.
I think going in with the expectation of watching a movie makes it a lot more enjoyable
I was sick a few years back and hadn’t played the game in a while, but I knew it was quite passive and honestly for a situation like that, there wasn’t a better choice of game to play! If I was expecting some massive open world game with hundreds of side quests or actually half decent combat (it was pretty bad in season 1 ngl), then yeah, I’d be super disappointed, but me with no energy to really do anything beyond a super lenient quick time event? Great experience
@@Cr_nch yeah, that’s probably why most people hated it, not thinking about it like a movie.
I enjoyed it quite a bit
@ I mean, it is being sold as a game so I get where they’re coming from
I got it as a gift on physical disk when I was way more young and naive so I enjoyed anything that was given to me
Knowing it as basically a movie with some choice makes it a lot more enjoyable, but yeah, it still is something I really only come back to once every few years
@@Cr_nch same bro
I can see a kid having a good time with it. I'd guess the issues came from Telltale normally making games targeting late teens to adults.
I really didn't enjoy it as someone who was quite a bit older when it was released and a big fan of both Telltale and MC. They didn't make it clear what their target audience was and it would've probably helped them a lot.
As a kid, I wanted nothing more than to purchase minecraft story mode, I loved the series and I loved minecraft. However I was a child, and my parents were very strict on buying anything for me since we had to live off of a tight budget, so I could never buy storymode or even minecraft for the longest time, I had to watch it on my dad's laptop while he was home, or at friends houses. Once I grew grew up and was able to afford the game on my own, I wanted to support it and buy it with my own money, but by that point telltale had already gone bankrupt and the game was taken off steam and consoles, so I never got to give them the money I always wanted to give them.
thats exactly what happened with me lol I don't even know most of the story cuz I didn't wanna ruin it for myself
We treated storymode too harshly
I did not, loved the game
@CommanderFoxclone1010 Me too but many people here criticized it
Nope, still deserves the hate
@@Manelneedsaname I would like to understand why you have this view point and what you dislike about it
@@bananawarmaster5988 Because it was bad
I miss Reuben :(
Me too, bud.
We all do.
best comment possible
"Reuben will be remembered"
Fun fact: I build a place in my old minecraft world with reuben statue and a grave infront of it for reuben
im sorry but i thought about the clip
Its honestly sad that it was heavily criticized during the time, truly think it's amazing from then until now. Could understand why people think the characters are dull, but the concepts and worldbuilding it does is honestly just creatively great. Reminds me so much of back in the day when my friends and I would think of all sorts of scenario for roleplaying so many stuff. Its so cringe thinking back on it, but it was honestly the most fun I had as a kid
Cringe is really quite an subjective feeling, but if you feel that way genuinely, it is respectable. Otherwise however, the most cringe thing on the entire planet is probably the cringe culture itself.
@@ChocoRainbowCorn bro is spitting facts
it was a sloppy cash grab
@@veuder7701 nah u r just hater
@@cossack8601 yes and?
Minecraft Story Mode even has netflix, it made such a good movie. It's an iconic symbol of the classic minecraft
As someone who has bought both seasons digitally, I think the main problem I noticed was that it didn't feel like a true "Choose your own adventure" type of game. Like you said, the game focused more on the story than the gameplay, but even then whatever choices you made didn't feel like they impacted the story. Sure, there were some choices that changed what characters you saw at what parts, but that was IT, it was basically just a reskin of what happens. It's like your walking on a trail, and you get to choose whether you go left or right, but both trails connect again a mile later, the story always led back to the same points no matter what you did.
Even with that tho, I still LOVE the game, as glitchy as the animations get and even though all the voice lines get cut off right before they finish, I've still played the game every year since 2017 as a sort of tradition haha, and also, Petra was NOT a boring character, her character development in season 2 actually almost made me cry, it was so sad ;-;
I remember when I first saw Minecraft story mode on Netflix and absolutely lost my mind into joy.
I never played anything after episodes 1 and 2 so being able to play up to 5 was exciting for me.
Story mode is still the only game to make me cry because of (spoilers)
Rubens death. The thing that pushed me over was that at the top of the screen a message came down saying “Ruben will be remembered” which was really emotional for me since I’ve never seen another game do something like that.
This wasn’t a spin-off game, it was a masterpiece.
I don't think it was a failure, the community likes it, despite some few others disliking it for some reason, still it's been very well known on the community, it made to different places like Netflix, back then when it released I was baffled by the gameplay involving the choices and would watch all the different outcomes the choices would lead to, it truly was a game. Thanks telltale for this masterpiece, I expected the Minecraft movie to follow something along those lines, but it is what it is
A lot of people said that it was cringe… But I dunno, the game honestly had really good moments (I nearly cried on Rueben’s death even though I had already played the game before, lol)
@@Star.6739as a kid being like 9 I thought it was amazing
And still to this day, the Wither-Storm remains a legend in Minecraft.
Back in the day, I watched VintageBeef play Story Mode and decided to buy it myself afterwards and play on my own.
I wanted to be snarky as heck in my replies.
And I would not know that a bunch of enderman is officially called a haunting. I like the "stuff" ton variant most and use that to this day.
I was like ten around the time MCSM came out, I would always play the episode for myself and then watch all of my favorite TH-camrs play it and see what options they picked so I didn’t have to go back and choose different options
I am one of those children who grew up with story mode. I played it for the first time around 8 years old i think? I enjoyed it a lot, but since i didnt speak english at the time, i could not understand what was being said completely, and even though the game was very fun, i do agree that it did feel underwhelming at times. I still enjoy it though. Over the 7 years since, i have played it again multiple times, never completing it to the end, but instead giving up near it, and then watching videos on it and all the dlcs it had to offer since i didnt have the time or patiance to play it myself. I wish i can still go back and replay it, but i am holding out my hopes for the fan rework, to expirience this wonderful world again. I loved it as a child, and it still bring me a smile to my face when i see it. Didn't know it was taken down such a long time ago. I miss it, and this video reminded me of my childhood, Thank you!
i rembember my parents making me watch minecraft story mode on netflix when i was very young. what a nostalgic video
M:SM is still the best spin-off we had. The first one was trying find its fitting in what a Minecraft a spin-off can be while the 2nd started to explored more concepts and game mechanics from the real game. I feel like if M:ST did had a season 3 or more it probably could've explore so much with the minecraf title
The first four episodes are a nice perfectly original story set in the Minecraft world. The writing from episode five through the end of season 2 was just blatant Minecraft server storyline and they didn't try to hide it.
@@4ndr3w That much I can agree with. Regarding the episodes that is. Also, I never really got the Witherstorm's hype either. To me, to this very day, it's just another one of those overcomplicated villains/monsters in fiction that would have had been much better off not existing - And I wouldn't be surprised if it was based off of your typical, modded boss, which also suck for what Minecraft is.
@@ChocoRainbowCorn I think it’s just the idea of this giant creature slowly eating the entire world is cool… and the Wither Storm’s themes are honestly amazing, Antimo and Welles really did a good job
Episode 7 of Season 1 was the best. Episode 6 and 5 also bangers.
"removed from the internet" is a harsh statement, just because you may not get your hands on a copy the legit way it does not make it disappear from the internet, quite the contrary this is what piracy is for :D
Minecraft: Story Mode is what I wish the new minecraft movie would have been. Feels so much more faithful to the minecraft world than what the movie trailers have shown.
MINECRAFT STORY MODE GOATED
I have a CD of this game.
Thats pretty rare now
same have both seasons on my 360
@ yea I also got both CDs also.
@@TheMisterEpicI bought a copy of this game for Xbox one because I could play it on Xbox series
my copy is jammed in a 360 i have
Story mode released when i was a kid, so my parents bought me two episodes, and I played it. One day i realized that paying for each episode is stupid and a lot of money, so I didn’t asked my parents about other episodes
I find it odd that you didn't mention that there was almost no choice in a game that was supposed to have choice.
Yep. If anything, this is one of the bigger/more legitimate criticisms for this. As is, Season 3 would be better off not being made, much less an animated series or a movie that people are somehow so excited for. Even the storyline feels like it's all mods on drugs put on your typical server for kids. If they want to make a new game, Seasons 1 and 2 should be wiped off of the face of this game's history as massive failures and rewritten, to make for something with real quality to it.
@@ChocoRainbowCorn i like how you mention a legitimate criticism then spout off whatever the rest of that is lmao
@@kon-chama Well, even a personal opinion can count towards an criticism of something, even if it is subjective. But just because you fail to see or acknowledge a criticism doesn't mean it's not there. Thankfully though, it's easy enough to tell people who have any semblance of intelligence in them apart from those that do not, so I'm not going to bother for much longer.
@@ChocoRainbowCorn yes yes i bend the knee to such overpowering intelligence as i see i am clearly no match for the magnificent chococorn, the gap in iq is simply far too wide to surmount
thats basically every tell tale and similar games
it‘s interesting how your poll is what made me redownload the game and now I‘m getting to watch a video about it while on my second playthrough of the game 🤯
I feel like the time of release was also critical. Story mode dropped when it started being unpopular to like Minecraft, as it was a "kid's game". If it was released after 2018 or 2019, it would have been a different story.
One thing that goes absolutely hard is the music. Honorable mentions (that I sometimes listen to): 101 Credits, Main Menu Music, 203 Credits, Ivor's Theme, Wither Storm Music.
I remember my dad got me the season pass disk for my birthday only a couple months after it came out. I think at that point i had only watched playthroughs of episode 1 so the rest of the game was not only new to me but really fun. 9 year old me was so hyped lol
I'm glad I grew up with Story Mode. I wish it gets re-released or, even better, Remastered.
There’s also a fan made season 3 GAME that’s coming. It’s called tales of the order of the stone and the playable demo is coming soon. If you want to know more ask me :)
I'm not sure why that should be a thing. Storyline sucked all the way through. Basically modded server on drugs and steroids and basically no choices for a game meant to have choices. So yeah. No thanks. If you do that, please rewrite Seasons 1 and 2 to have some actual quality to them.
@@ChocoRainbowCorn why won't you rewrite it then, do better
@@sweetgotika1 I could ask you to do the same thing :p
@@ChocoRainbowCornwell you are the one complaining
@@ZamaPG I wouldn't say so, but alright :P
I'm lucky enough to have a hard copy of both seasons.
story mode was such an important part of so many people’s childhoods, i miss it
Got the game with my brother's for the PS4 and loved the story as we were keeping up along with the content creators who played it around the time.
Only thing we regret was not getting the second season to have the complete story since the actual physical copies are rare nowadays since they aren't selling anymore, especially if it's the season pass version of the game.
Tbh, I asked my parents to buy Minecraft, not mine craft story mode, but I'm glad they got me that because I enjoyed it when I was younger
I completely forgot this game existed one time, I watched youtubers play it and even seen all the episodes but overtime I didn't keep up with it and just forgot it was a thing until I saw a video about season 3 never happening
If Story Mode Was Possibly Removed From The Internet Then how Is The Minecraft movie still is in production
i forget who's playthrough i originally watched but the reason i never got to play it was just not having a job and always having to ask my parents to buy the game
People who say Story Mode failed clearly don’t remember its level of popularity
wtf is your pfp
@@default4741 You can ask me the same thing if you want :p
@@ChocoRainbowCornFat Toriel?
@@NotAdachiPeople It is a hybrid of Lugia and a traditional dragon, about 50/50 of both, and they are fat. But close enough :)
Well I did end up getting the game for my PS4 (as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure I still have the original CD) and I look back at it with a lot of fondness and nostalgia. It was a part of my childhood, after all :)
I really liked story mode even now. While it did have its problems I thought it had a decent story that I was invested in.the only thing that I remember not liking at the time was that the characters arms and legs bend but I don’t mind it that much now. I don’t think it was a failure the fact that the Witherstorm something introduced in story mode is still talked about today. Really shows how much of an impact it had. Heck I got a brand new sealed copy (until I opened it) of the physical PC version of season one just so I could play it again.
I feel like i had story mode but i don’t remember, but even watching gameplays i loved it
I loved this game so much and nobody can take that from me
My main issue with Telltale Games was that it always felt like you had the illusion of choice but your choices didn't actually matter. I think this was especially true for minecraft story mode, i'm not entirely sure tbh because it feels like forever ago but aside from a few tweaks to the story there just wasn't much of a difference, which kind of makes you feel done with the game once you watched it. On the contrast is the the walking dead game where it felt like you saw someone's playthrough and you were curious as to where you would end up if you made your choices.
I think black mirror's bandersnatch explained this pretty well and is like a perfect example for this.
My subjective list:
1. Minecraft: Java Edition
2. Minecraft: Story Mode
3. Minecraft Dungeons
5. Minecraft: Education Edition
4. Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
5. Minecraft Legends
6. Minecraft Earth
This is completely accurate to my list lol.
Java is the best,
Story mode is also the best,
Dungeons was really fun and the dlc even expanded the lore but eventually it got tiring.
Bedrock edition is a complete piece of shit
Education edition has the hour of code which has ACTUAL LORE THAT EXPANDS THROUGH A FEW LESSONS
So that slightly interested me more
Legends was a bigger piece of shit then bedrock. I got the game on launch date played it once then never again because I hated how it worked.
Minecraft earth was fun at the time, but in reality it was a giant cashgrab and that’s why it shut down, which led me to hating it. (The only good thing about it was I was one of the very first people to get the chickenshroom mob)
So where does legacy console edition land?
@@megaman37456 I've never had anything to do with console editions, but the way I see it, it would be this:
1. Minecraft: Java Edition
2. Minecraft: Story Mode
3. Minecraft Dungeons
4. Minecraft: Pocket Edition
5. Minecraft: Legacy Console Edition
6. Minecraft: Education Edition
7. Minecraft: Bedrock Edition
8. Minecraft Legends
9. Minecraft Earth
Ironically with so many people re-evaluating Minecraft Story Mode in light of whatever the heck the Minecraft movie teaser was; if these games were still available or re-released now, they could have seen a small resurgence in player count and maybe sales too.
Both from previous players nostalgic to revisit them, as well as from newcomers curious to check out the source of all the "we may have treated you too harshly" comments.
2024 news:
Apparently mojang bought the
game back from telltale games and theyre gonna update it,its releasing January 5,2025 it will only be for consoles and PC.
They say itll be called "Minecrafy Story Mode Deluxe" or "Amulet" instead of deluxe. It might get delayed due to them doing season 3.
Note: i saw this on some random website,it might be false. And yes,the website told me they bought it from telltale games even though they shut down.
you know more people played minecraft story mode on consoles than steam
THANK YOU. I HAVE BEEN WAITIJG FOR THIS VIDEO FOR YEARS
It’s still the best Minecraft spinoff! Also Telltale did say this when someone asked if they’ll ever bring back the game: “Never say never, however our focus bow is TWAU2.” so this is petty exciting!
I can actually still play Minecraft Story Mode, both S1 and 2. How, you ask? Well, my Xbox saved the other 4 chapters of S2, which you had to download on the store, which is no longer possible.
It makes me feel special that I can still play a game from my younger years 💚
3:16 wrong the game could be purchased in the Microsoft store
Yes i was just thinking this lol, my sister got it from the Minecraft store or website or whatever. It was deffo available somewhere else and most people deffo bought it from there, not steam, especially if many were kids getting it through the parents. So steam statics probably aren’t worth much
Speaking of Minecraft stuff disappearing from stores, I've notices 4 of the free maps on the Windows 10 version have been removed, locking you out if you already had a world generated from them.
Story mode got flipped off by the community then it was wiped off the face of the planet and everyone wants it back, including me
technoblade streamed back in the days all his gameplay on minecraft story mode, and it has +150k viewers at the time. I remember watching him playing this game.. Rest in peace Techno.
I did my own video essays on both the original game (specifically the Wither Storm Arc) and analyzing WazzyWorks’s new trailer for his upcoming remake. Yours is well done, and VERY well edited. Thanks for shouting it out
My biggest issue with Story Mode was mostly how inconsistent it felt in its writing and treating of the setting.
For example, people in-universe talk about admins and the like, making it feel like the game is just part of a random multiplayer server. Yet when they find a way to join other servers at the end of Season 1, they act like they have *no* idea what this is.
Or the whole death thing: Not how some are serious or some are jokes, but how it works "mechanically", as most cases, nothing drops on death - yet sometimes it does. Worst case is the death of the pig, which is treated as slow and serious - and then it just poofs into a raw porkchop, ruining the moment and it feels like they did that for sake of 'consistency' (which they ignored so far), regardless how it affects the tone (making it accidentally peak comedy).
And the DLC Episode with the TH-camrs they also messed up in that way (once again, talking about TH-cam like this is a game, then acting like the entire thing is real), by creating two fake TH-camrs, one who gets killed off right away, making it blatantly obvious who the bad guy is.
There is also a bit more of that here and there, but overall, it really feels like they didn't try to tell a Minecraft Story, but a random story that they just happen to slap a Minecraft skin on, and then threw darts to decide where they could reference the Minecraft Gameplay.
They had no idea about any admins until season 2. Those portals were led to other dimensions, not servers
@@Lakyrien As much as they want to claim "dimensions", let's be frank: They're other servers, basically.
@@gimok2k5 ok, the nether is also another server then
I like how the pig scene was done, it show's how the beloved friend became just a small pice of dead meat just like that.
The one who gets killed by the wither storm should drop items tho.
"Nothing lasts forever" and "when one story ends, another one begins"
The death of reuben was the equivalent of iron man's death in endgame
The game files got leaked on reddit and youtube, so now people can play both Seasons on their PC
The netflix version was there for years after shutdown of the original story mode. But recently got taken off. Probably aince they were making a shoe so they noticed they still had it.
The worst part by far was simply the fact most of your choices had the same outcomes, making wanting to re-try new choices a waste of time
That did change in season 2 though.
I remember buying and playing it when it released, i wouldve been like 7 back then
it just wasn't steam, it was also consoles, microsoft store, apple and android (i think)
I remember watching DanTDM play both seasons of Minecraft Story Mode and I fell in love with the game as a kid. I got the whole first season for my iPad and I would play and watch the first season over and over and over again, until I got bored of it and deleted if off of my iPad, which I regret doing now. When I found out that Telltale got shut down, I was devastated that I couldn’t redownload it. It stuck in the back of my head for years and the memories never left me. Now, I have hard copies of both seasons for my Xbox One, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch. I also have the first season hard copies for my Wii U and PC. I personally never had an issue with the writing or the characters. Minecraft Story Mode is just so nostalgic for me, I love both seasons so much. And the soundtrack of both seasons are my favorite soundtracks of any video game for me.
Wow I got this video 7 seconds after it was posted.
As someone thst watched playthoughs of the game it didn't stop me from playing it about 6-7 times (completely)
6:16 no pressure without of course
Noo
To be fair, that was the smoothest subscribe thing that I've ever seen. It actually is a decent point in a decent transition. Because like you're interested in the content, but you're not buying or subscribing to it in this case but you're still seeing it on purchased or unsubscribed I guess.
I have a lot of nostalgia for Minecraft Story Mode because I remember 9 year old me watching Stampy play the game and seeing himself in Episode 6 😂. I did revisit the game not long ago, and tbh the weakest part of story mode was the first 4 iconic episodes from season 1. The characters are especially cringe at times. The second half of the season got a lot better, but SEASON 2 does NOT get the credit it deserves. Everything was a big step up in that season, and I still really enjoyed it. The plot was more interesting, the characters were more entertaining, the villain was awesome, the choices could actually affect the story big time, the gameplay itself was better, and the visuals were much better.
Before I even have context from this video, I'm gonna say no. It was a good hit among TH-camrs, especially those that played guest roles in episode 6, and while the writing for characters was hit or miss, and the nature of the game made it mostly watched online rather than actually played for ones' self, the game made its mark culturally. "Nothing built can last forever", and sadly for the game, its message is all the more truthful.
I don't know why, but I keep reading the last word being pronounced as 'Truff full' because of the tone I read it in aufhabdjs
The point of “knowing the story from TH-camrs” makes me wonder if this guy wouldn’t watch a horror movie, just because he could watch the dead meat kill count.
@@Megajaybreaker4 No, dead meat kill counts (while narrated by a very entertaining guy) summarize the film and barely share any of the actual story, and he can't by nature because of copyright. MCSM can be fully watched, as can FNAF, just ask how many FNAF fans actually have the games. Much of the community rose out of the lore at this point as it's a chance for active participation, and much of the success also comes from merch, MCSM did not have much merch.
I’m almost 100 percent sure story mode made most of its sales on console since a lot more people played on console than PC back then.
People give it the 'game' treatment, but it's not a game. It's an interactive movie where you pick the dialogue. You're not going to the cinema, watch a movie and then say "yeah I'm gonna watch this movie every day for the next 10 years".
Movies die out after a hype, and so do singleplayer games that are not live service.
I sadly don’t think Minecraft Story mode season 3 will come out.
The whiplash of the Minecraft movie is going to kill intrest for storymode. I am 99% sure that the coming of the movie will be horrible. It’s going to be one of those so bad it’s not even good when it’s bad movies just bad. We will watch it or have someone else watch it just for the memes of jack black and the kids yearning for the mines. But that is it the movie itself will flop. Then in response to this Microsoft will shut down Minecraft story mode if there is one in production to avoid loosing any more money and just keep pumping updates out of regular Minecraft
Who remembers Minecraft earth though
Me! Really liked at first and was excited when I learned I was one of the very first people to get the chicken shroom. Then it shut down and I realized it was a giant cash grab. I’m glad I didn’t spend money on the game. Came in Liking it, left hating it.
they shouldve used a simular story for the movie as they did for storymode instead of jack black running around saying i am steve
Saying Minecraft Story Mode is "Completely" different to Minecraft is entirely false. The whole story of the game is the experience of Minecraft. The Order of the stone is the player you choose to become in minecraft. A builder, a redstoner, a pvp player, a griefer. The villain from episode 1-4 was the wither storm. Wither + Command block, both well-known in minecraft. You speak as if the game is just a story that was put in a minecraft setting but it's not. It's a story made to be Minecraft and therefore fits perfectly in a Minecraft setting.
I was 12 when minecraft story mode came out so its a huge part of my childhood.
If it was doomed since day 1 why did they make several dlc episodes and a 2nd season?
Bro barely even paid attention. It got a ton of attention at first. A ton of people played it. It just faded away due to people not buying enough. Don’t call them (dlc episodes). In today’s terms, “dlc” mainly means “bonus” even if it means downloadable content. They were there for the people to buy and continue the story. Season 2 wasn’t about the money at that point. Telltale games was already failing, and they made season 2 out of love for the fans of story mode. Most copies of season 2 actually had either a free season pass to download all the episodes, or all episodes already there, ready to be played. Season 2 was more of a “goodbye” than a complete new game.
Even if they shutdown, what they should've done was hand off the game for mojang's developers to handle, or just leave it on stores, but give a warning that it won't be getting updates. Minecraft: Story Mode was one of the 17 apps and games on my Xbox, about 10 of them being already included.
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we can't forget that the ones who made the 3 sam and max games that were 3D at that current time (save the world, beyond time and space, and devil's playhouse, named "the telltale trilogy") are *telltale games* as well
Just a quick misunderstanding you may of not known. There were plenty of kids (including myself) who played the demo version season 1 on our tablets back in the day. I'd say over 50 percent comes from there.
Found this interesting. At the time I was quite young but I remember my dad purchasing me and my brother the game and we had an absoulte blast. Didn't know it had mixed reception on release but nor would I have cared becuase to 8 year old me, it was just a Minecraft game and I enjoyed the heck out of it
I always personally liked Minecraft story mode
i mean the reason it failed is a bit more obvious than all of this deep dive
it’s because it was a linear story game released during the peek of minecraft youtubers. more specifically a game for children. unlike detroit become human, where the community would still buy the game as a “donation” after watching gameplays, we were just too young and didn’t see the point in buying the game if youtubers were releasing gameplay videos two ours after the next episode came out.
games like these especially when marketed to a younger audience are not financially appreciated and therefore not sustainable profit of income.
as you can see from the comment section once we grew up we began to appreciate the game
Hot take, telltale should’ve treated their game like a movie, instead of allowing people to upload the entire game to TH-cam. They should’ve only allowed them to upload an episode or two to still keep the incentive to actually play the game.
Yup, I watched all of Telltale's games on YT as Let's Plays... Definitely a big impact on sales.
delusional
I still fondly enjoy Story mode, as literally last year I bought both full story discs for my xbox one and played through both seasons. I'll never regret being able to play a game series I fondly remembered for years
The main problem seems to be grown ass adults taking a kids game too seriously
Its not a failure if people liked it...
except for the shareholders.
Ay, the wither storm's entire fight and theme was phenominal and the youtuber collab with the White Pumpkin was the best thing you vould experience as a kid
I will not EVER forgive people who treated this game as bad
I own the original box cd version of the game and i'm a huge fan, Getting a third part of the game would be a dream come true, I never understood the hate towards it tho
Going off of playercounts for single player games 💀
Yeah, and steam too only, the stories weren't even that long
@LordAlgumaCoisa also just straight up steam would probably be the games least pouplar platform because minecraft itself isn't on it