Back when Garry's mod came out as a mod for free, it was a great neat little server theme park. We even ran a zombie invasion survival game, created with Garry's mod. I made Airplanes, Roller Coasters, Cars, anything I could think of, even a cannon! When it went from free to pay I never played again. This seems like a from scratch attempt at this type of game play experience I once loved. Is it in any ways similar?

They aren't similar at all.

They aren't similar at all.

@SeriouslyNow said:

@CL60 said:

They aren't similar at all.

That's not true. They are both sandboxes. Minecraft differs quite a lot beyond that similarity but they definitely are both sandboxes.

Just because they're both sandboxes doesn't mean they're similar at all. They are entirely different.

@SeriouslyNow said:

@CL60 said:

They aren't similar at all.

That's not true. They are both sandboxes. Minecraft differs quite a lot beyond that similarity but they definitely are both sandboxes.

Just because they're both sandboxes doesn't mean they're similar at all. They are entirely different.

@CL60 said:

@SeriouslyNow said:

@CL60 said:

They aren't similar at all.

That's not true. They are both sandboxes. Minecraft differs quite a lot beyond that similarity but they definitely are both sandboxes.

Just because they're both sandboxes doesn't mean they're similar at all. They are entirely different.

Actually, the fact that they are both sandboxes means that they're similar on some level. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to make the damn comparison.

you need to be right so badly you replied twice to the same quote...pretty desperate

There's been more "game" to Minecraft for a while. Even when it didn't really have anything in it, you still had to survive and literally craft items, whereas in Garry's Mod it's just spawn what you want when you want it. Sure Minecraft has it's creative mode now, but it's still not the same. Minecraft creations tend to be competely stationary, and the complex ones tend to be fixed objects still. The fun in Garry's Mod's creativitiy is making really stupid mechanical moving objects. I went into a server and saw an AT-AT made out of storage crates. They were moving. That's nothing like anything in Minecraft.

@Sitoxity: Creative mode isn't new, when Minecraft first came out there was only creative mode, survival mode which is now the main game mode of Minecraft is the new mode.

The scale and way you interact with the world is obviously much different between the two games.

You build things with blocks in Minecraft. You don't animate things, mess with models, etc. I don't know how you can equate that to Garry's Mod. The sandbox argument is the most obtuse comparison. I'm not going to be one to deceive you and tell you that you can expect a similar experience. The best thing you can do is watch videos since they should be able to give a good idea of what to expect.

@Subjugation said:

You build things with blocks in Minecraft. You don't animate things, mess with models, etc. I don't know how you can equate that to Garry's Mod. The sandbox argument is the most obtuse comparison. I'm not going to be one to deceive you and tell you that you can expect a similar experience. The best thing you can do is watch videos since they should be able to give a good idea of what to expect.

This. It's like the difference between Lego and papercraft.

You build things with blocks in Minecraft. You don't animate things, mess with models, etc. I don't know how you can equate that to Garry's Mod. The sandbox argument is the most obtuse comparison. I'm not going to be one to deceive you and tell you that you can expect a similar experience. The best thing you can do is watch videos since they should be able to give a good idea of what to expect.

3D Movie Maker is the original Garry's Mod.

They are similar, yes, but it's like saying every human on the planet looks the same because they have a mouth, ears, eyes, a nose etc. (some may not, but hey, this is an example).

They are very different in their approaches to allowing the user to create whatever they want.

With Garry's mod (and Wiremod + E2) you could create any object in the world/known universe, if you had the skill of course. But with Minecraft, you can create whatever you want with the restrictions of your materials being blocks, but it doesn't require much skill really, or at least not much in comparison to a wired E2 mech in Gmod.

They are not similar in any practical way. There is nothing you'd do in minecraft that would make you go "Oh man this is just like when I did X-Y-Z in Garry's Mod." Half of the comparisons in here so far sound like well both games have an M in their names! They're totally the same on that level!

They are not similar in any practical way. There is nothing you'd do in minecraft that would make you go "Oh man this is just like when I did X-Y-Z in Garry's Mod." Half of the comparisons in here so far sound like well both games have an M in their names! They're totally the same on that level!

• They are both sandbox games.
•  The both allow and encourage crafting.
•  The both have physics based damage models.

So what you're saying is that if I went out of my way to find the right mods for Garry's mod I could find one that is similar to minecraft? Well in that case, if you're playing some mod of Garry's mod, and for some reason they require you to craft items and build inside of your environment to survive things happening, I guess the two games have plenty in common.

@SonicBoyster said:

So what you're saying is that if I went out of my way to find the right mods for Garry's mod I could find one that is similar to minecraft? Well in that case, if you're playing some mod of Garry's mod, and for some reason they require you to craft items and build inside of your environment to survive things happening, I guess the two games have plenty in common.

There are a ton of gamemodes that are basically exactly this, if I recall correctly. I last played two years ago or so, but gamemodes like Survival were basically Minecraft (foraging resources with which to build bases with which to defend against other players/enemies); Garry's Mod certainly has more depth than Minecraft at any rate, due to the superior physics engine and sheer quantity of mods.