Like Minecraft this game has blown up and suddenly a lot of people are playing it, does anyone know what caused this? I learnt of this game because of the almighty Total Biscuit, maybe that's how everyone found it?

this post is the first I have heard about it. will research and return

A lot of people have been going on about it for a while, especially Minecraft enthusiasts. Most blogs I have read are either "Holy Crap, this is awesome!" or "This is some stupid Minecraft ripoff."

Looks like a lot of fun and I wish I had $10 to pour into it because I could never get into minecraft, but this looks more inviting for me.

A lot of people have been going on about it for a while, especially Minecraft enthusiasts. Most blogs I have read are either "Holy Crap, this is awesome!" or "This is some stupid Minecraft ripoff."Looks like a lot of fun and I wish I had $10 to pour into it because I could never get into minecraft, but this looks more inviting for me.

Aww, man, I thought the thing literally blew up. I was going to suggest it was crafted from unstable chemicals, but the whole thing is ruined now.

Like Minecraft this game has blown up and suddenly a lot of people are playing it, does anyone know what caused this? I learnt of this game because of the almighty Total Biscuit, maybe that's how everyone found it?

Minecraft has had a big lull in updates in the last 3 weeks, since its in Beta, Notch has actually started releasing updates that don't completely break things, but they take longer to put out. 

I blame /v/.

/v/ griefs internet.  Internet blows up.

The gf talked me into playing it.  Kinda fun I guess.

@NekuSakuraba said:

Like Minecraft this game has blown up and suddenly a lot of people are playing it, does anyone know what caused this? I learnt of this game because of the almighty Total Biscuit, maybe that's how everyone found it?

Minecraft has been pretty stagnant for a while now and looks to remain that way for the indefinite future, with bug fixes taking precedent over new feature (not that bugs don't need to be fixed). People are also starting to fully burn out on Minecraft.

Terreria looks to be similar enough to appeal to the same market, but different enough to provide a new experience. 

@Three0neFive: @SeriouslyNow: What?

The game got noticed when Notch tweeted the trailer about 2 weeks ago.

@NekuSakuraba said:

@Three0neFive: @SeriouslyNow: What?

Nobody would pay a second glance toward Terraria if they weren't introduced to the "build your own stuff in a randomly-generated block world" concept through Minecraft, and one of the main reasons Minecraft is so popular is because of the word of mouth it got from /v/.

Its cuz the Yogscast played it.

@Three0neFive said:

@NekuSakuraba said:

@Three0neFive: @SeriouslyNow: What?

Nobody would pay a second glance toward Terraria if they weren't introduced to the "build your own stuff in a randomly-generated block world" concept through Minecraft, and one of the main reasons Minecraft is so popular is because of the word of mouth it got from /v/.

What do you mean the word of mouth from /v/? You think everyone who plays it have visited /v/?

@Three0neFive said:

@NekuSakuraba said:

@Three0neFive:  @SeriouslyNow: What?

Nobody would pay a second glance toward Terraria if they weren't introduced to the "build your own stuff in a randomly-generated block world" concept through Minecraft, and one of the main reasons Minecraft is so popular is because of the word of mouth it got from /v/.

What do you mean the word of mouth from /v/? You think everyone who plays it have visited /v/?

I've known about minecraft, and I also know about terraria and whereas minecraft looked dumb and pointless to me, I'm going to buy terraria once i finish the witcher 2, mainly because terraria isn't just pointless building/mining in order to build/mine more efficiently.

@Three0neFive said:

@NekuSakuraba said:

@Three0neFive: @SeriouslyNow: What?

Nobody would pay a second glance toward Terraria if they weren't introduced to the "build your own stuff in a randomly-generated block world" concept through Minecraft, and one of the main reasons Minecraft is so popular is because of the word of mouth it got from /v/.

What do you mean the word of mouth from /v/? You think everyone who plays it have visited /v/?

@SoldierG654342 said:

@NekuSakuraba said:

Like Minecraft this game has blown up and suddenly a lot of people are playing it, does anyone know what caused this? I learnt of this game because of the almighty Total Biscuit, maybe that's how everyone found it?

Minecraft has been pretty stagnant for a while now and looks to remain that way for the indefinite future, with bug fixes taking precedent over new feature (not that bugs don't need to be fixed). People are also starting to fully burn out on Minecraft.

Terreria looks to be similar enough to appeal to the same market, but different enough to provide a new experience. 

Im sort of getting tired of waiting for new updates. Yes there is mods but it kidna seems at times Notch is just dragging his heels .

@NekuSakuraba said:

@Three0neFive said:

@NekuSakuraba said:

@Three0neFive: @SeriouslyNow: What?

Nobody would pay a second glance toward Terraria if they weren't introduced to the "build your own stuff in a randomly-generated block world" concept through Minecraft, and one of the main reasons Minecraft is so popular is because of the word of mouth it got from /v/.

What do you mean the word of mouth from /v/? You think everyone who plays it have visited /v/?

I'm not even sure what /v/ is and I play Minecraft, so I don't think that's the answer.

@The_Laughing_Man said:

@SoldierG654342 said:

@NekuSakuraba said:

Like Minecraft this game has blown up and suddenly a lot of people are playing it, does anyone know what caused this? I learnt of this game because of the almighty Total Biscuit, maybe that's how everyone found it?

Minecraft has been pretty stagnant for a while now and looks to remain that way for the indefinite future, with bug fixes taking precedent over new feature (not that bugs don't need to be fixed). People are also starting to fully burn out on Minecraft.

Terreria looks to be similar enough to appeal to the same market, but different enough to provide a new experience. 

Im sort of getting tired of waiting for new updates. Yes there is mods but it kidna seems at times Notch is just dragging his heels .

I feel you. The updates are getting farther apart and including less and less. I've really don't play Minecraft anymore because I don't have much of a reason to. I've done all I care to do with what's available to me. 

I'll probably grab Terraria either when it's on sale or I have more funds available to me. 

PBat, The Yogscast and a tweet from notch was what got the word out. The fact that it looked promising is what got everyone interested. The game seems to have sold pretty well so far, and without spending a dime on marketing by the looks.

Hmm...I have never heard of this game before...I am a regular player of Minecraft (over 90 hours on it so far over the past 4 months). Is it any good?

Who cares what made it popular, its good and that means it deserves to sell well. Better then minecraft imo. 

I vaguely skimmed a post on RPS about it sometime in April. Then promptly forgot about it. PCGamer gave it a quick nod the day it came out, though. It looked really cool and the price was right so I picked it up out of curiosity. After watching the Dev team's Let's Play series on YouTube, I was hooked.

It'd be too easy to dismiss this as just some awful Minecraft clone. I'd almost go so far as to say that it suggests the person saying that never actually played the game. There's an astonishing amount of depth here for a game that was started in January.

Personally, I like it. I feel like there's a little more direction in Terraria than Minecraft. I don't care about building a particularly sexy or clever house. I do like that there's loot, coupled with merchants AND resource mining, as well as a comprehensive crafting system. And boss fights. How fucking cool is that?

Anyways, I like Minecraft, I do. It just never grasped me fully by the testicles and refused to let go. Terraria has enough "game" there that I can see it completely eating my brain.

PBat, The Yogscast and a tweet from notch was what got the word out. The fact that it looked promising is what got everyone interested. The game seems to have sold pretty well so far, and without spending a dime on marketing by the looks.

my minecraft fanboy 12 year old brother has been playing it nonstop.  i said that it looks pretty much like minecraft, but 2d and he was like NOOOO ITS NOT THE SAME, YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING SHUT UP!

my minecraft fanboy 12 year old brother has been playing it nonstop.  i said that it looks pretty much like minecraft, but 2d and he was like NOOOO ITS NOT THE SAME, YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING SHUT UP!

ugh.

So basically minecraft is more sandboxish and buildish due to being three dimensional but Terraria has more gameplay and bosses with a ok building aspect being two dimensional. Still there's no rush like finally killing skeletron with a flamerang and exploring the underground jungle.

So basically minecraft is more sandboxish and buildish due to being three dimensional but Terraria has more gameplay and bosses with a ok building aspect being two dimensional. Still there's no rush like finally killing skeletron with a flamerang and exploring the underground jungle.

guys who is /v/ ? Satan?

my minecraft fanboy 12 year old brother has been playing it nonstop.  i said that it looks pretty much like minecraft, but 2d and he was like NOOOO ITS NOT THE SAME, YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING SHUT UP!

ugh.

I first heard about it from /r/gaming on Reddit. From there I started to follow it and watch all the LPs that were on youtube.

I saw some videos on Yogscast. Looks bad.

Like Minecraft this game has blown up and suddenly a lot of people are playing it, does anyone know what caused this? I learnt of this game because of the almighty Total Biscuit, maybe that's how everyone found it?

I saw some videos on Yogscast. Looks bad.
And why is OP watching TotalBiscuit? Unfunny, uninformative videos from someone who complains about a game when he's too stupid or blind to know the incredibly obvious solution to whatever he's fucked up on today. He's awful.

@captain_clayman said:

my minecraft fanboy 12 year old brother has been playing it nonstop.  i said that it looks pretty much like minecraft, but 2d and he was like NOOOO ITS NOT THE SAME, YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING SHUT UP!

ugh.

It's not the same.

^^^^

No.

It is not the same.

I am of the opinion that one does not know anything about this game until they play it.

I would appreciate it if you gave the game a shot because it may perhaps change your pre-formed opinion.

The reason it has gotten big is because Youtube.
The Yogscast have gotten almost 750.000 views on one of their Terraria videos, 300.000+ on their other videos.

i like how everyone tries to credit it's success to one place or another when it's probably a combination and all boils down to "cheap good game on steam, people buy and tell friends"

its all because of the server im hosting for funz

Well, it is like Minecraft.

Gonna give it a try, I liked Minecraft. Guess it would work in 2D...

just bought it. time to see what the fuss is about.

i like how everyone tries to credit it's success to one place or another when it's probably a combination and all boils down to "cheap good game on steam, people buy and tell friends"

I've already put 12 hours into this game and I've been balancing it between starcraft 2 xD It's amazing.

Is there a Giantbomb server?

@NekuSakuraba said:

@Three0neFive said:

@NekuSakuraba said:

@Three0neFive:  @SeriouslyNow: What?

Nobody would pay a second glance toward Terraria if they weren't introduced to the "build your own stuff in a randomly-generated block world" concept through Minecraft, and one of the main reasons Minecraft is so popular is because of the word of mouth it got from /v/.

What do you mean the word of mouth from /v/? You think everyone who plays it have visited /v/?

Random, non-consequential person finds random indie game, posts it on /v/, more people play it, in usual fashion /v/ circlejerk over it until their shittery causes the game to gain more media attention, /v/ abandons game because they consider it too mainstreamAs much as I advocate not thinking of 4chan as some dark, scary shithole to be avoided, sometimes it really can be full of douchebags.