Charley_Deallus wrote:What kind of awesome are we talking about? I have been on the fence about Terraria for a year.
Hmm, well... I could write a lot about the modest six hours I've put in so far, but perhaps you'll settle few a few snapshots:
"Home base" is relatively mundane. I say relatively, because at night you will be attacked by a menagerie of monsters; floating eyeballs, all sorts of zombies, brains in jars: the nasties in this game are quite creative. This can be easily addressed by building walls on either side of your "base". I did so my first night, then... on the second night, a star fell. It landed on the "roof" of my base, which at the time was little more than a cave, taunting me to come out and collect it. I did so, braving a mild horde of zeds and dodging the floating eyeballs that would careen past.
Once I had the star, a new set of crafting options opened up: I could make "Jester arrows" and more interesting things later on. The crafting is not as in Minecraft, where you have to guess a recipe: all your options are laid out for you based on your inventory and available tools.
As I grew more confident and began several excursions further away from home base, I discovered caves. Some of these caves went deeper than others... some went very, very deep indeed.
Across the surface, different biomes appear; there is desert, there is forest, there is a snow-covered landscape, and at the furthest reaches of the world, a corrupt land where I was attacked by chimera and face monsters. I returned to this land days later, and found that it had grown.
As I continued my exploration of the world, I found stranger things; structures, habitations built by ancient forces, powerful weapons.
And then... I met an old man standing outside an abandoned temple who told me to come back at night so that I could meet his master. I did. His master was really him, as a giant skeleton. Something Peter Jackson might have dreamed up. Needless to say, I died.
"To be what you are not, experience what you are not." -Saint John of the Cross
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