Minecraft

To start us off, my opponent claimed simply Minecraft is awesome. Thus, these must be the terms:1. It includes ALL Minecraft versions. Including the earliest version.. 2. No servers, since they can change and add things to the game itself. 3. Minecraft with no mods, texture packs, or anything else that adds to the game. Reasons:1. I am not entirely sure which one you are referencing, so I must assume all versions of the game. They are not all identical... 2. Servers can change aspects and parts of the game for the better, or for worse. Thus, we can not include servers into it. 3. Mods and/or texture packs are not Minecraft. This could be like comparing Doom 3 (PC) to its many modded forms, which can make the game better or worse. For example, in Doom 3 (Original Version) you could not hold the flashlight while shooting your gun. However, with a mod, you could have the light be held while you had your gun out. This changed the game, especially when you are getting attacked by monsters and it took time to switch between the flashlight and the gun. Now, you could shoot and see at the same time, which not only made you able to survive without losing a lot of health, but you could now move through the game a lot faster. Minecraft is about the equivalent as Pac-man. Some people remain completely addicted while some find the game as a last option for when they are completely bored out of their skull seeing how playing the game requires minimal skill to accomplish anything... Even graphically wise, its maybe a little better than Pac-Man, but overall, the pixelation of it seems really boring and gives to me a childish feel with them being blocks.. I found the similar playing styles of games with a lot better graphics and a slightly different mob engine, such as 7 Days to Die, be much better than Minecraft itself.. I even appreciated Rust a lot more than Minecraft.. However, since the debate is on whether it is awesome or not, we must define what an awesome game is. A awesome game is one that can continually hold massive amounts of people without boring them... It makes people continuously addicted... Minecraft does do that, but it has trouble sometimes getting an audience.. An awesome game will be graphically superior along with sound at its time, and with Minecraft, this is not true.. It does not graphically dominate any game, and thus, here it has clearly failed. An awesome game is one that will often produce new functions to a game unlike a predecessor or any other game of its kind. With Minecraft this is NOT true.. the functions of placing blocks to build things is not a new function. Minecraft is and was a combination of old functions from other games and put into one. This hasn't always made a game awesome, so the fact that it does this function does not add to its overall awesomeness... Combat... oh, the combat has to be awesome, right? Well, here is where Minecraft also fails. Minecraft's basic combat is with either a bow, or a sword. This is very simple, yet the combat is still somewhat difficult... I find this to be a bad function, especially when the combat is simple. The distance parameters of a zombie are extreme. They can hurt you from an incredible distance, and a zombie usually can not do this in most games.. I have never seen a zombie with Mr. Fantastic arms... The skeleton's archery is beyond incredible. They usually have pinpoint accuracy, unless you are running your tail off, and that function was not part of the earlier versions. Overall, we can see that Minecraft is unique in some forms. But is it awesome? No, it is not awesome. It does not meet the requirements for a game to be awesome. On a more personal note, the music makes me very tired very easily.. and it can get really annoying..