I tried. I played this game three times now, the latest time with my daughter for three hours. Not once did I feel even the slightest inkling of joy or excitement. Without a doubt, bar none, this is the single more boring game I have ever had the displeasure to be forced to play to spend time with my kids. I'm having difficulty grasping what qualities it has that adults enjoy? I tried creation the first time, but I was moved to tears with my boredom at making 3D objects... if I'm going to be creative making artistic objects on a canvas, I'd rather be drawing on paper, and I really don't like drawing. I tried survival today hoping it'd give me something to do in this otherwise pointless sandbox of a game (my opinion), but again, gathering supplies to make "x", when I couldn't even remotely care about building anything at all makes the game oh so much harder to bear, basically three hours of my life I will never get back, despite the time I had with my daughter - not worth the trade-off of almost total loss of sanity on my part. This game needs something to do other than pointlessly creating stuff and running from zombies in the night. To be sure, the most fun I had in this game was killing my daughter when her inventory was full and pretending I didn't realize what would happen.
So I ask you lurkers who enjoy this game, I beg you, what about this game entices you? I don't ask to lambaste you or anything so droll. I ask because I like spending time with my kids, and if Minecraft is something my kids all enjoy so immensely, I'm hoping to find something about it that appeals to me, so that I may enjoy spending time with them instead of dreading it. So what about this game appeals to you? Why do you play this game? And yes, I used to play with lego's as a kid, but always had more fun making solid bricks out of them and throwing them at my friends.
So I ask you lurkers who enjoy this game, I beg you, what about this game entices you? I don't ask to lambaste you or anything so droll. I ask because I like spending time with my kids, and if Minecraft is something my kids all enjoy so immensely, I'm hoping to find something about it that appeals to me, so that I may enjoy spending time with them instead of dreading it. So what about this game appeals to you? Why do you play this game? And yes, I used to play with lego's as a kid, but always had more fun making solid bricks out of them and throwing them at my friends.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin