Minecraft/Quotes
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"Let's go to a place where everything is made of blocks, where the only limit is your imagination. Let's go wherever you want to go. Climb the tallest mountains, venture down to the darkest caves. Build anything you want; day or night, rain or shine, 'cause this is the most significant sandbox you'll ever set foot in. Build a majestic castle, invent a new machine, or take a ride on a roller coaster. Play with friends, build your own little community. Protect yourself with the strongest armor that you can craft, and fight off the dangers of the night. No one can tell you what you can or cannot do. With no rules to follow, this adventure is up to you."
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"It's the first "sandbox game" that actually lets you dig up sand at the beach, build a giant sandbox, build a sandcastle in it, smelt the sand into glass with a furnace you built yourself, rebuild it into a giant glass pyramid with a moat of lava, and then blow it all up with TNT while riding a pig."
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"Christ! This is like Zelda meets There Will Be Blood!"
—Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw, after bringing up the numerous times he fell into lava flows
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"You know you fail at Minecraft when you think dirt is useless."
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"I have heard [Gabriel] suggest that the game is crack, but it's more like all of the ingredients and equipment that you need to make crack, which I'd say is worse."
—Tycho, Penny Arcade, describing this game
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"You have to find your own entertainment, whether that be skipping through the wilderness picking flowers or building an eighty-foot golden cock and balls. (...) But then again part of the appeal of Minecraft is the effort involved in gathering the materials. That eighty-foot cock and balls wouldn't be so satisfyingly turgid if it weren't for the entire continent you had to turn over to find the ore. (...) Minecraft is a responsible parent; it knows that you'll swiftly get bored of your golden cock and balls if it just gives you one, so it pays you five dollars a week to wash its car so you can save up and gain an appreciation for value so when you finally have your golden cock and balls, you'll love it all the more. Until Minecraft sends the suicide shrubs to demolish it because you also need to learn that sometimes life will just shit on you. As it will when your boss finds out what you spent your entire workday on."
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"What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway." |
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Guy: Hey! Know how you've been bugging me to play Minecraft for the past year? I'm game. —Xkcd #861: Wisdom Teeth
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- ↑ where common building materials are strictly limited--thus you treasure what you'd once taken for granted