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I thought I'd check back in with how my adventures in Terraria are going so far. After 6 hours of playing I've had the chance to explore quite a bit of the world and I've found several deep caves with lots of ore and pots and monsters. 
Unfortunately I did not know that you needed a hammer to break the heart containers so I've ran by quite a few of them before making myself a hammer. 
What I've been focusing on mostly is collecting stone and making grey bricks so that I have lots of material to build a big house/castle. I also today learned that you need to build houses for merchants so that they will move in and you can buy stuff from them (this was mentioned in the Quick Look but I forgot). 
 

I bought it after watching the Quick Look too.  I've only played a little, but I couldn't figure out how to place the doors.  Then, I mistakenly tossed my pick outside the walls I made and was trapped inside with no way to make another.  Had to scrap that world.  HA! Yeah, frustrating beginning, but I'll probably give it another try.  The zombies aren't actually that tough, btw.  You can probably venture out at night if you want.

After hearing a bit about this game and watching the Quick Look earlier today I decided to give this game a try. I had heard that it was similar to Minecraft and I have not played that game since it seemed so crazy and expansive, but a 2D version of a similar concept was much more appealing to me. 
 
So after creating my guy I was dropped into an open empty world with a guide there to greet me. What he had to say wasn't very helpful at all and was stuff that I more or less already knew from watching the Quick Look. 
So I start chopping down some trees and I make a workbench. Since I need to build a house I go through the crafting menu and find wooden wall or whatever it was called. I though great, walls are what I need to make a house with. So I create a ton of those and make two walls with a bit of space in between. I then make a door since I would need a way to get into my house. I quickly realize that the monsters go right through my walls and I can't place the door on the edge of the wall no matter how hard I try. 
 
After dying numerous times I realize that what they call wall in the game isn't a wall at all, it's the indoors background tile, and that I need to place the actual raw blocks of whatever material I have to make walls. Gee how about mentioning that Mr. guide person? So after having placed background tiles all over the place in feeble attempts to make walls I decide to scrap this world and start a new one. I quickly mine some stone and make a proper house with a door on each side and a roof and bench and furnace. It is now night time and flying eyeballs and zombies start gathering outside my house. 
Since I can't chop my way through all these zombies I realize that I pretty much have to just sit there doing nothing until morning comes, which isn't exactly fun or exciting in any way. 
 
I don't have time to play any more of it right now and I'll come back to it when I get home after the weekend, but the first impression of it wasn't exactly stellar. I know that these types of games likely require a significant investment of time in order for you to get anything out of it and I certainly haven't written it off yet.

You should definitely get a PC, macs are for hipster douche bags and fashion conscious people who have no problem paying ludicrous amounts of money for a well designed shell containing crap.
 
I am extremely biased when it comes to this though since I have hated Apple ever since the 90s and I refuse to even physically touch any of their products.

I spent 100+ hours on this game just playing single player and there is still tons of post game stuff and grotto maps to collect. I don't think I'll go back, but I do want to try either DQ 5 or 8 next because I did miss having a story with actual characters.

I don't really understand how a Pokemon MMO would do that well. Considering the average age of people that play WoW and MMOs in general I would think that most of them would be a generation or two too old to have any sort of relation to, or nostalgia for Pokemon. 
 
You would most likely have to draw in a lot of people who have not played MMOs before to a Pokemon MMO and there is no way to be certain that that player base is a lasting one.

After a long hiatus I am going back into Dragon Quest IX and the game is still as fun as it was last time I played it. 
 

I'm always interested in new MMOs, even though I might not be very interested in playing them.