This looks so epic but here in the UK terraria isnt out for PS3 yet so i have to wait for an unknown length of time until i get it , could be weeks, days or months :(
Terraria Review
Terraria is just as magical and content-rich on consoles as it is on the PC, although the controls aren't ideal for every situation.
The Good
- Massive worlds with freedom to explore how you want
- Plenty of items to both craft and discover
- Easy to invite friends along for the journey
- Tutorial and map make the learning curve more manageable.
The Bad
- Console controls take getting used to
- No easy way to create permanent servers.
Many games set out to be a sandbox--an interactive world filled with options and untapped potential--but Terraria embodies this concept in a way few games do. The game drops you into a 2D pixelated world with a handful of tools and tells you to explore, dig, build, and, oh yeah, survive. Now that the adventure is on consoles, there's one more way to lose hours mining for ore, and you can do it with a friend or three on the same screen.
Since its release on the PC in 2011, Terraria has sometimes been referred to as a two-dimensional Minecraft, and though that comparison is somewhat unfair, you'll notice the structural similarities between the two games straight away. Progressing through Terraria means chopping down a lot of trees, digging a lot of dirt, mining a lot of stone, and fighting a lot of monsters. Just about everything you cut through with your pickaxe, axe, sword, or hammer provides a resource with which to build and craft new items. Wood can be fashioned into shelter or platforms. Ore can be used to build armor and tools. Even cobwebs are valuable for making fabric, which in turn can help you craft things like flags or robes. There are a wealth of opportunities in the world, and it all starts with a few tools and some trees. What follows is up to you.
While the PC release dropped you into a randomly generated world with no instructions, the console version of Terraria includes a tutorial that gets you up to speed with gathering resources, changing the environment, and building shelter, all of which are essential skills if you are going to survive your first night. It also gives you a primer on crafting items such as torches and walls, which are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how many things you eventually have the means to create, including impenetrable armor, magic potions, fancy furniture, and boots that let you double-jump.
Even so, Terraria is a game you might want to play with a guide close at hand, whether it's a more experienced friend or a source on the Internet. While the game's crafting system is good at telling you what you can build with what you have in your inventory, it's not always great at telling you what might be crafted if you find additional resources. Also, the game's bosses and non-player characters tend to have very specific summoning criteria, which you're unlikely to stumble into without countless hours of exploration. An in-game guide (the first NPC you encounter in the game) is there to consult for some early help and crafting advice, but his menus can be a bit unwieldy, and his tips cover only so much.
Then again, maybe you don't want the help. There's certainly a lot of joy in the untainted discovery--in choosing a direction, saying "I'm going to go that way," and seeing what happens. Maybe you'll dig deep and find hidden caves and treasure. Maybe you'll journey upward and find a floating island. So what if you don't discover how to get the best armor. So what if you don't fight every type of monster. Maybe that's not what the game is about for you, and that's OK. Terraria lets you play how you want to play.
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hey, dumb question, but what is the saving system like? if i start a new world, will it retain my inventory from the old??
This is such a fun game. It goes to show that you don't need to spend 100 million dollars to entertain people.
While people tend to compare Terraria to Minecraft, my first impression was that it is simmilar to Motherload , old flash game which has stolen dozens of hours of my life. Terraria now continues that, 100h dissapeared like a moment.
Tried Minecraft also, doesn't suck me in. It is more about building, and Terraria is more about exploring. (like dungeon crawler, hack'n shash)
oh my god yeh thats what i thought when i first saw it, i spent hours on mother load but i always went so deep i kept running out of petrol and exploding lol
@Savior4Life 10 bucks. 10 BUCKS. With the amount of content this game has, there's really no reason not to pick it up.
@B_STATS Thinking of the choice in either/or terms is probably not the right way to go. Minecraft is brilliant - it's vast open-world aspect is truly phenomenal. Terraria offers a great deal of opennes but because it has something akin to boss battles and events, the completion of which makes higher tier crafting possible, it feels a bit more like an RPG. That may not appeal or be important to everyone, but it's a real difference in game design that impacts how one experiences the game. For what it's worth, I've put in over 100 hours and could easily double that number.
5 Like @B_STATS Maybe you could try and see for yourself? :) I'm not saying Minecraft is bad, but to me Terraria is like 10x better. Terraria is much more action/adventure oriented.
1 Like Played this on PC for quite a while months ago and it's a very good game. The main reason I stopped was the lack of updated content and the world size being somewhat limited. Once you get a decked out character and your routes down the world starts to feel very small. But it is a great little game and very much worth playing. It's very easy to lose a lot of hours to this.
@kratospete The key (for me, at least) is to get a grasp on two things. First, the tiers of craftable items and the ingredients they require, and 2) the resources and difficulties in exploring both various biomes and depth layers. The thing that helped me focus was setting boss battles as goals which made me focus on the necessary equipment which motivated me to climb the crafting ladder. Once I had that squared away, the game became very easy to manage.
Does this mean that there's new stuff for Terraria now for PC? Because last time I stopped playing it because it had no new updates...Have to see if it's any more updated now
@kalgert123 After the console version got a bunch of new stuff, Re-Logic began working on a new update that's bigger and better for the pc version. That's slated to come out in late May. This review is for the console version.
@nomailx Terraria is a good game. Not overrated. But you sir are cool. Because you bash Gamespot for having their own opinion.
1 Like @nomailx truth be told I enjoy indies on the same level as AAAs, some even on higher level, while of course some on a lower level, if you haven't tried any I advise you to do so
2 Like I'll take innovative, fun indie games like this instead of some of those "big budget" games that you think are so great. This game has made their indie developers millionaires while EA and SE are talking every day about how their hundred million dollar games are all losing them money.
11 Like @nomailx This comment makes me incredibly sad. Why label games like this anyway? The budget, marketing, of whatever else determines an indie vs a blockbuster in you mind doesn't factor in at all to the quality of the experience.
3 Like @nomailx And as someone who actually owns Terraria, I have to say the game wasn't overrated at all in this review: the game is very good. I practically forced three friends of mine and my girlfriend to try it (it may not look very appealing at first to most people) but they all loved the game after trying. You should do the same.
9 Like Or perhaps because it's a good game. Games should be measured by how much fun they provide and to a lesser extent how long they can provide said fun. This game provided a LOT of fun for a LOT of people for a LONG time.
Say the journalists were to pander to the demands of the people on your particular bandwagon, how do you feel the industry would be affected if journalists started to shy away from giving high scores to anything but AAA games?
i remember you saying that in other threads as well, are you in the dev team?
it's looking good, btw.
Some of them are from the Terraria team i believe. Starbound development begin after Terraria demise was announce...but terraria dev went back on their decision and revived Terraria. They announced a new patch and possibly a terraria sequel so shit in the fan.
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@The-Neon-Seal @vv007420 i commented on Microsoft Xbox Article. There seems to be a bug in comments section
Never played Terraria but looked forward to this release and the game is excellent. I'm a big fan of Minecraft too, but MC is easy compared to this. Only just getting set up and I'm mining a streight shaft down to the underworld, but mining there is proving to be a real bitch!
2 Like Man that's refreshing - someone who is actually happy that gamers on other platforms will be allowed to enjoy a great game, rather than starting a PC vs. console debate out of pure bitterness.
I don't wanna be trolling or something, but i'm amazed that any person on earth finds this video game fascinating at 2013. I don't have any problem with this fact the same way I don't mind humans enjoying justin biebers' music, just stating my opinion :)
1 Like Perhaps they realize that graphics mean very little after the first couple of hours, when visual design and gameplay start to matter a whole lot more. Just a thought.
3 Like @Armyboy5You would probably be even more amazed after actually trying the game a noticing that it is, indeed, really good, unlikewise Bieber's music. Looks aren't everything.
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this game is amazing,you always need to get better equipment and the journey to the end is very long and satisfying.....
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