Terraria 10/10 a.k.a. 5 stars

Who plays it?
Who has no idea what it is?

This game caught my eye back in the beginning of June when it kept appearing high up in the Steam Top Seller list for several weeks in a row (it's still there). I looked at a few videos and some reviews, and decided to watch for it on the Summer Sale. I got lucky and bought the 4-pack for $7.50 before they "corrected" their mistake.

Terraria is the only game in the past 10 years that has brought back that "excitement" that I had for games in my youth. I have put in 60 hours in the past 2 weeks, and I still want more out of this game (only problem is the game is semi-beta and isn't complete; but the devs are patching regularly with more content).

I cannot recommend this game enough. I told my friend about my intentions to buy this game, and his response was "it looks stupid and I hate retro games". After giving him his copy the other week and forcing him to play, he purchased it for his wife last week, and he has been playing it non-stop for 40+ hours.

If you're an older gamer and desperately seeking to find that "magic" that was video games from your younger days, your search is over and the game is here: Terraria.

 

I cannot agree more with you. I bought it on the summer sale too for 2.5$. Still playing Singleplayer and not too many hours YET (King's Bounty is guilty of that, so addictive!), but is one of the best game I've played. LOVE the retro looks! Too bad there's no Mac version, so I could give my wife a copy too.

 

Amazing game with lots of replay value, Hell is a PITA tho end up dead in their within seconds normally by falling into lava lol.

 

I've gotten everything there is to get in the game and have gotten bored.

 

I've put 30 hours into it but haven't played it in a few weeks. I am waiting for the next update then I am going to start all over.

 

I also bought this game during the Steam sale and I've been having a little trouble getting into it.

What do you suggest for a newb to do first?

 

You can check some videos... I saw some from that author

 

The issue with terraria is that it is an open game with no particular set of goals or anything to achieve, except what you want to achieve. So basically you create large worlds and nothing else.

What can I suggest? Get goals. My first goal was to get a set of armor, so I just started looking for ores around, learning about crafting and getting my armor.

Then set high end goals. For example, i wanted to fight and beat the current bosses. To do that, I had to get weapons and armor plus provisions. After a while, minimg more, exploring more, and beating my first boss, more things uncovered.

Now I have beat up all the bosses, and just focused on gettin the awesome loot and equipments.

 

Tbh the bosses at the mo seem a little od, skeltron is supposed to be the hardest boss but me and my m8 put it down faster then the eater of worlds. Yet you need to kill the eater of the worlds to make any decent armour after gold and a nightmare pickaxe.

 

Played the leaked version then brought it on release, now have just under 50 hours clocked but it's "been on the shelf" for a few weeks now. Great game, just not much to do once you get all the loot and if I want to build I just play Minecraft. Waiting on the next big update (as with MC).

Definatly a game worth buying if only to support smaller devs.

 

Never played it, but my first impression of it: Welcome to 1989.

 

It took me 50 hours to"complete" the game. The past several games I have purchased for much more than the <$2 I spent on this game and only lasted me several hours.

I agree, it is sad when you've "finished" everything and still want more. But after 50 hours on my single player I am now jumping into multiplayer with my wife & friends and am super excited about all of it.

With a few more content patches this game will be unbelievable.

 

I usually play alone, but that a multiplayer game or it meant to be play with other and doesn't look too interesting to me. It definitely is a good game from majority of people I heard.

 

I was tempted to buy it but didn't. Maybe I will during next sale.

 

Yeah its going to be like Minecraft all over again. I'll hesitate to get it. Then get it and be like wow cool! then a month later be bored lol.

Minecraft for sure is the big competitor, we should get more feedback for people that own both on witch they prefer and why.

Minecrafts next big patch 1.8 has a LOT of stuff they are adding to make it a more full featured game.

 

Indeed. Best to buy a game when it is FULLY out of beta, so that you don't have to experience the update-excite-finishedin2days-bored-waitingfornewupdate cycle multiple times.

 

Well for me, I prefer Minecraft if I want to build some awesome structure. Terraria is fun for exploring randomly generated worlds, fighting monsters and collecting loot. People have made awesome buildings in Terraria but my creations are more for function than style. Although, this may change with Minecraft 1.8.

 

Yea when I first saw the game I thought it looked ok. I only bought it because of steam sale and one of my other friend had it. And I became completely hook on the game! Within 2 days of playing I have had 25 hours clocked in! Just love exploring and somehow I am always trying to move massive body of water to the lower level where lava are.

It is definitely a fun game to play with friends rather than by yourself.

 

If it drops in price to $5 I'll get it. Looks like a good game for a netbook.

 

Well i would say that i have gotten more out of minecraft... Though terreria is a great game i found myself to have completed everything in it rather quickly... Right now im not playing either of them because i have been playing minecraft since 2009 when it was in its very early stages. So i cant wait for the new patch Minecraft gets my vote, though these games arent really that comparable! I think you should definitely check both games out!

 

Minecraft > Terraria

This is based on the amount of time i spendt on the games.
But Terraria runs better thanks to not using Java.

 

I think minecraft has more to offer in terms of building due to 3d space. So if you like building go minecraft.

But without playing it my first impression of terraria is it has more of an rpg feel to it with so many items to find that give you new abilities and bosses to fight and stuff like that.

The performance issue with minecraft is a big deal, its hard to run a server for it and some computers dont play it so well.

If we can manage to self host a terraria server for fun that would be great so no need to spend money like we do for minecraft and it should be a lot less maintenance!

I'll try to host it soon as I get the game, but I am not buying it till its on sale

 

I asked Deagle about the possibility of a Terr server tacked onto the Minecraft server already (a few weeks ago), she said it's not possible :/.

 

Deagleson is a guy FYI

 

Minecraft bores me, Terraria you can explore, fight, etc.

 

*cue awkward pause*

Well, it is the internet.

 

Fixed. ;3
I just <3 Rosalina from Super Mario Galaxy 1 so when i found that awesome picture i has to use it as my avatar.

On my current VPS server at Fragnet hosting both Minecraft and Terraria would be near impossible as i do not have any access to the server other than a control panel and FTP.

If i had full access to the server this would be as easy as eating cake.
Im currently toying with the idea to set up a small & inexpensive dedicated server @ home, so i got full access.

 

Am not touching mine craft with a 20 foot pole or any game that is like that for that matter.

I'll stick with racing, fps, mmorpg, rts, stimulation, and adventure, just not puzzle and "creativity" which I lack.

the sim and sim city bore me tremendously.

 

ViciousXUSMC was like that too. ^^
He said the chances where slim that he would enjoy a game like Minecraft.

Once he tried it, all he could do was build awedome buildings on my server.
But like me, Minecraft got boring cause of lack of content.

Notch & Co!, Adventure update please. ;(

 

From all the videos @ youtube I gave in and bought this game. Steam said the game was 200MB. It is only 16MB. I am shocked how small it is. Anyhow, going to play it now. Oh joy

 

Still tons of fun. I am on another play through after the content patches (the one which added snow). Played on a few private servers with my friends but they rushed through and killed everything

This time I am playing solo on a small map.

 

is this game fun solo?

 

Yes. I've only played it solo and clocked 40+ hrs. Make a small world, and go exploring all over the place. Kill the first boss and the learning curve drops

 

Its a really fun game and if u look at it from a size perspective its only 15 mb but iv already seem have like sunk 30 hours into it. Awesome game indeed!

 

I'm sure it's worth 9.99, but I'm going to wait for the price to plummet again.

 

Played it for 2 days now. The game is very fun. Go mining deep to get minerals, make weapons and armor. Cry some because you cannot find the minerals. Kill zombies and flying eyes. Was worth the 12 bucks for shure. I am playing medium sized map in single player. I wonder if that is too much or if it ok? A lot more to adventure. I found some eye that spawns the eye of chtulu. When should I fight it?

 

I have not got into it much. I like the building aspect of Minecraft a bit more than the adventure aspect of Terraria.

Also Deaglesons mutli player server is hack/grieved constantly so I have not found a good online home.

 

Not my fault. D;
The devs refuse to add any kind of cheat protection or even game accounts.
Even less than legit clients have no problems connecting to others.

Only solution would be to keep it private. D;

 

Yeah, not your fault just saying I that the game needs protection so you can put in time without fear of having it undone.

Grieving is a really big deal on Minecraft/Terraria and hard to manage without putting a lot of time/effort into it and lightly monitoring and restricting members.

 

They've finally updated tshock deagle, if you want to give installing that another go

 

tshock would solve a lot of our problems for sure,

but if it doesn't work, I'm sure most people wouldn't mind keeping it as a private server for frequent NBRers and friends.

 

I always prefered TDSM to TShock but il take what i can get.
Il see what i can get working, but like always dont store important items on the multiplayer map if its vanilla.

Edit:

Im starting to move from vanilla to TShock 3.4 but i dont think il keep the old map.
I can upload it to my DropBox account for download but i doubt it would be worth it because the TShock enforces server side inventory now.

Its online at the same ip ort but its not configured yet, but i do recommend a new character to play there.
HARDMODE IS DISABLED!!!

 

Has anyone found that the new "hardmode" gameplay after beating the wall of flesh is purely a truckload of win? I am glad they added that since "beating" the content over and over on different servers. The pre-patch content quickly got old. Now that I've been so busy I spend my time little by little crawling through the brutal beatdown that is hardmode. It's a blast. Really helps me and a few close friends get together on a local server and just sandbox.

 

worth the 2.5dollars lol. only because i didnt have to dig for anything and just helped fight bosses with gears provided to me

 

i played it for exactly 11 minutes and it will never be installed on my computer again, i dont see how anyone could bother with this game

 

As much as I cant claim to be a big fan of Terraria I have to say that playing for 11 minutes and considering yourself to have had any real view of the game is pretty narrow minded.

Its like reading the first page of a book, or watching the first 5 minutes of a movie. Until you put some time into it and see how it unfolds and evolves as you put more time into it you have not started to experience the game at all.

The best movies & books dont show all of their cards up front. Same goes for games.

World of Warcraft for example is dramatically different end game than it is for the first 40+ hours you put into it.

 

I was disappointed on the first minutes too. Then I go search some tutorial videos and that is. My avatar says it all

 

am sure its fun when u get into it, but i just don't have the time for those types of games for the moment. According to my steam account i played 81 hours the last 2 weeks which is already wayyyyy too much LOL.

 

Trying this game out and I have to say in-game tutorial really sucks. Took me a very long time to learn how to figure how to place a workbench on the ground to craft other items. I guess I better find a tutorial for this game too. Anyone got any good tutorial sites?

 

not everyone enjoys digging. a lot of people just simply get bored, i couldnt even stand digging for stuff when its with my rl friends. i only played because they digged for stuff and gave me gear and we fought bosses.