The loss of charm in Minecraft: An OG player's perspective 

the charm in old minecraft is heavily reliant on the fact that it gave more room to the imagination because less was fed to the player. new minecraft is not horrible because it still brings success, but it lacks the lure and the special, almost “indie” charm it carried in its earlier and growing years. old minecraft is something we unfortunately will never have back and it will never be replicated because it was of its era. very good video.

I'll always miss the original Cobblestone texture. It was perfectly fine as it was.

Honestly I'm a beta 1.7.3 enjoyer and will continue developing mods to make sure that interest remains in the old version while recapturing the feel of the old modding scene.

The Phantom was a result of poor communication on Jeb's part. He made it sound like the Phantom would be this cool spooky monster in the night which kinda peaked people's interest, but if people had known the upcoming update was for the Ocean, the Deep Dweller mob probably would've been the winner.

My problem is that they added to many features and made it too overwhelming to go to the newest version after playing 1.12.2 for nearly 6 years, the version I usually play

You can really hear, the pain is his voice 🥺😔

I feel the same way. Tbh I can see why people are like “it’s nostalgia your feeling” but really nostalgia is only a little bit of why I think the older Minecraft is better. I just feel like Minecraft was just been declining a lot recently and looking at the new mobs and their corporate over animated feel is just the last straw for me. I don’t think I will ever enjoy the new versions of Minecraft now.

This is why I play Minecraft Beta and Minecraft 1.0- 1.12. I personally grew up on Minecraft xbox 360 and loved the game. I was really sad when I heard that 4J Studios stopped making updates for the legacy editions. The old textures hits me differently than now's textures.

I can definitely see what the other comments mean in regards to you being "too nostalgic", and as you said, as we grow older, we begin to see our pasts through a rose tinted lens. However, even though it was fueled partially by nostalgia, I can see a lot of sense in your words as the video progresses. I too remember the change of the rose to the poppy, and I love your use of it as a symbol of the simpler times, as well as how upset the change made me. Such a minute detail making me upset, I believe was me just not wanting to let go of a small piece that made up those old memories of mine. And as those details slowly add up over time (rose to poppy, voidfog removed, changed recipes, the recipe book added, farlands replaced, ect..), it pushes the idea that we are no longer allowed to play the thing we used to enjoy. It feels as if the game design itself is attempting to rid us of its foundation. Microsoft wants us to forget the past, so without much resistance, they can shape the future. I like your perspective, as it's one I, and many others resonate with. Keep it up mate.

This video is great, but I genuinely laughed when he so dramatically mentioned that he wrote the word balls on a sign.

I came in at 1.16 and you're right, it has lost a lot of charm. It's like people have forgotten why they play, and what actually makes the game fun to play in their attempts to out do every other content creator.

As a Alpha player I miss the simple days of my quite world, playing with redstone or modding the games for machines, I feel like lots of mods does Minecraft better then the devs.

i do think modern minecraft textures look too smooth and muddy

I bet $100 the glow signs and item frames would have happened anyway by using glow berries instead of glow ink sacks, the glow squid is useless, literally

The old ore textures look so iconic and recognizable.

The problem isnt the game, its the popular content creators milking everything dry and the viewers wishing they were in their shoes instead

most of my best memories in game constructing forts and exploring with friends and showing off my minecraft builds

i agree with every single thing youve said, youre pretty much phrasing my thougtht for me, you need more ranges my man, more vievs, recognition

old minecraft had its own charm and new minecraft has its own charm. I was speedrunning the game with a friend recently and I noticed just how much more enjoyable it is now. Ruined portals, updated villages, nether biomes, and the dragon fight is way better than it used to be. If Minecraft stayed where it was, the game would have stagnated and died (like it was during 2017-2019). But as an old player I can recognise that the old versions have their own aesthetic which is cool.

I remember voting for glowsquid wishing for some hostile/neutral mob that isn't a humanoid (Drowned) because I thought they will mesmerize us and makes it harder to see things and get out of the water like the trailer suggest. I'm disappointed that the glowsquid is a just a squid retextured. and it doesn't even had a bioluminescent. I was oblivious to what Dream done where he rigged the vote, and was shocked about the drama about the glowsquid that happened at the time.

He is right with the chat system because even jokes can get you ban. I don't play new servers for that reason.

sometimes less is much

2017 was probably the only time i could actually afford to go to minecon, or at least buy a ticket so i could get a cape they cancelled it, and i never had the opportunity

i agree, i wish that new minecraft had the same charm as old minecraft, good video btw.

I aggree with you man, I started to look at Minecraft thanks to a friend back in 2012 It was a shock i felt in love with minecraft bcs i was 8 and the only time i could play it was in my friend house on his ps3 with Minecraft DEMO, i had to wait december 2014 to have the game on my own computer then i lived the best experience ever on Minecraft coming back school and connect to play with my friend on Skype until the 1.9, after i left Minecraft bcs the pvp was less played and people start to leave the community and go to fortnite, but i came back for the 1.13, from 1.14 to now i really feel that the game loss his charm a lot even more with the new texture. Your video make me feel sad and nostalgic about the good time on Minecraft

Been playing Minecraft for an incredibly long time but not as long as you. I completely agree Microsoft sucks and has been a detriment to Minecraft

imo ever since b1.8, minecraft started to lack focus and identity, it went from a simple survival sandbox to... an rpg, idle, sandbox game with barely anything related to survival other than hardcore mode and as time went on it kept getting worse, mostly recently as they tried to make it more and more into a 'cozy' peaceful-friendly game, which is ironic because minecraft's early years since indef/SURVIVAL_TEST were grounded on an eerie, yet calm vibe, which made minecraft so unique in the first place, so mojang (not microsoft as mojang had been butchering the style since b1.4 now (with the poorly made inclusion of wolves)) by trying to remove that atmosphere to make it more 'friendly' has honestly backfired hard game design-wise minecraft is a nightmare, as said before, the game since b1.8 had no idea what it wanted to be and it just kept getting more and more bloated due to that lack of focus with features that are either useless or completely broken, the game for the longest time had become a jack of all traits yet master of none, from what ive seen and experienced, the reason why so many people like older minecraft versions isnt due to blinded nostalgia, its simply because it had a better atmosphere and game design, something that modern minecraft is too far gone to get it back no matter what mojang tries to do, the only way they can bring minecraft to its golden ages is gonna require a complete overhaul or removal of multiple bloated features, and i doubt they would do such thing, mostly with all the backlash they are getting now, there are SOME good in modern minecraft, the bee in my honest opinion fits right in with alpha animals, as its comically big yet monster-like just like spiders, and has a unique drop just like the alpha animals, squids are in the same boat, mostly recently as their AI isnt terrible and they feel unique, the nether revamp ALMOST feels like an alternative for the overworld with the piglins being a perfect way of doing an NPC that perfectly fits with the game, the enderman is just as iconic as the creeper, and its unique way of attacking is just perfect (even if the end wasnt well made nor needed) and lets not forget the new terrain generation, which is on-par with beta's while having THE BEST officially made cave generation so far, and even the new trail ruins which are exactly what dungeons shouldve been from the start i (and certainly many others here) bash minecraft out of love and passion, we criticize the game due to dubious features or poorly made game designs, we want the best for the game, and its why it is so sad to see the people that make (and created) the game to not understand what made it work in the first place. while they do develop the game, they dont seem to care about it since more than 10 years ago, and that, is truly saddening for us who cared about this franchise for such long time

“The game wouldn’t have been as popular if it started with the new textures” Bruh

Be happy cuz it did happend you can always turn back and play old version to take a breach

It’s all about personal preference; and I personally prefer pre-Microsoft Minecraft, even though they’ve been adding some really cool things. Some people will love all of the cool content and things there are to do in Microsoft’s vision of Minecraft, while a lot of people, such as myself, love the nostalgic feeling of peaceful isolation that Java versions 1.8.9 and older radiate.

Dude I can tell you it’s not really about what you say , but the way you say it. Your voice is so calm , so nostalgic that it made me reminisce about my past and even cry a bit. You got a beautiful way of saying things really keep it up dude!

I played on pocket edition ever since 2013. I enjoy almost all of the updates, though I'm extremely happy that we were spared from the combat changes. I do miss the older days as well but I don't mind the changes as much other than the textures, which I can easily just change.

My problem for Bedrock and Java is, that they kept coming out with updates that had loads of problems and did not want to go back and fix them. Minecraft went down hill and bug as hell in 1.13 and onward. I would be fine with the newer updates if people quit treating mojang like they are still an indi company when they are not. Let's get a major update that just fixes bugs because damn both versions need it.

You described exactly what my thoughts are. I didn't play much after 1.9 came out. I came back to the game in the last few years and tend to play older versions instead of the modern ones. Primarily Beta 1.7.3 and release 1.8.9. It might be my nostalgia speaking, but the game just seemed to have a different atmosphere back then. Great video!

Mojang and Microsoft both need to see this video immediately.

I started in 2017-2018 with the PS4 Edition. God it was awesome.

What is the name of the texture pack you used to make it look like an older version?

Dude, I love some of the new additions to minecraft... and I can forgive the sniffer and phantoms... but the rose? That will consistently bother me. For ever and ever. If I have to choose one tiny-small thing to be able to complain about, it's the rose. It falls in line with all the other random things that happen in the game; roses don't grow alone, we can't add sharks cause ppl with kill them, the warden won't have drops cause we don't want you to kill it, pandas will be useless because China would be mad if there were incentives to kill them, and we can't add vertical slabs because that's not what minecraft is. It's BS, to put it bluntly.

what texture pack are you using? like what specific one?

the glow squid functionality could have been handled by glowstone dust the sniffer could have been handled by some sort of buried treasure chest or fossil the armadillo could have been handled by the turtle the penguin competes for existing functionality, even if it wasnt added in the end the allay was the only mob that had actual unique functionality, but it still had limitations on its use they removed the firefly based on misinformation that it could kill frogs (the post said that they were poisonous, but some species arent, and some frogs arent affected by the poisonous chemicals natural to the firefly) think about that for a second we lost most functionality and mob opportunities because mojang is trying to be PETA they are trying to prevent us from doing things in a game, because some people are stupid and associate anything they see as fact most of the modern updates have been intentionally made bland, shallow, corporate, "safe", and "comfortable for most users"

For some reason me and my girlfriend (we live together) playing Beta 1.7.3 together, not multiplayer but, in one world. She's caving dirt and gravel, you know, in caves, I building stuff, and it is nice experience even though she sometimes looses all the stuff she digged. And this Minecraft Experience is somehow still fun enough. I love to play together with her

Modded minecraft is a good thing, but only temporarly. Yet if they add lots and lots of things to minecraft, it would be weird. The game would have too many things and it would indeed lose its charm. What was only possible years ago only with mods now it is with minecraft vanilla. When you used to play Minecraft on 1.6.4 as an example, there wouldn't be too many blocks, or biomes or anything like that. I don't say that the updates are bad or anything, they are good, but for me it kind of feels as if I was playing a modded minecraft instead of its original form (even more now with that redesigned texture pack). I still love the game, but it certainly doesn't feel the same. I don't know if I could consider myself an OG player, I've been playing since 2012.

While I agree with a lot of your points, I also do think that your later comment about the rose tinted glasses do overshadow some of the good that came out of recent years. I used the old texture pack to see how my new builds stood up to time, and found that it instantly looked far too crowded and hard to look at with the old textures. Some of the colors looked dead and uninspired. However I did find that some textures like the cobblestone was much nicer and more defined. As a bedrock player looking at the Java edition, I can see a lot of the concern especially with how it’s slowly being overtaken with parody. While I personally would like to see my friends on Java finally play on the same version as me, the game should get some polish on old bugs, and really take into consideration the community before doing so

Honestly if there was a version selector as well as a modding API for bedrock edition. Being able to go back to older versions and play mods that make those older versions have something new in it but keep the old feeling of the game.. in the game. Basically i would just like to play mods like BTA on bedrock

When I saw all of my own signs in my own world not even a realm. My own world the signs were censored I was pretty much done at that point. You can't censor my own signs and my own world that nobody else can see but me. That's quite ridiculous that's controlling my mind at that point

7:44 - the moment he realized… 😂 But overall this video is very well made! Well done!

I am happy to see someone play 1.12.2 without it just being a modpack. I love the update but I will say there are some features in newer minecraft that I like the one being mostly the grindstone and some other stuff thats why I use a mod called future mc

Hiii, I see a lot of critique on the Phantom for its own mis-management To play WITHOUT the phantom, you can disable it (without cheats) in the "Game Rules" section of creating a new world. I don't like sleeping in Minecraft, nor do I enjoy Phantoms, this has worked for me in the past and present!!!

What texture pack did you use for 1.12?

This might be unpopular coming from someone who started playing in 2010 or so at the age of 4, but I actually prefer new Minecraft because it has more content. I can sympathize with what this video is talking about, though.

Yo, make more videos like this you will blow up your Chanel

8:40 why exactly did you break that wall just to rebuild it exactly the same

I'm also a nostalgic player from the 360 era, but I can still enjoy modern versions for different reasons. All of the gorgeous new decorations, wide variety of mobs, and greater sense of adventure in a larger, grander world make current versions still compelling to me but for different reasons than previous versions. Yes the old game had a charm to it and that's changed to something else over the years, but I don't think that means we should ask Mojang to try and appeal to that specific angle of Minecraft at the expense of experimenting and evolving the game as they have. I think its best to just accept that the game might change to something not as appealing to you, and stick to the version you like best. This is Minecraft after all and you can play it however you want, which includes playing older versions, a privilege few games give us in the current live service era.

As a new player my self, I think 1.12 is a perfect balance between limits and features.

Almost somewhat OG Minecraft player joined in update 1.7 and I gotta tell you it was way better back then

The thing for me is it definitely lost the survival vibe, the creepy vibe. When hunger was introduced I knew the game had jumped the shark, then you could stack food, then they made it less dark, then beds. Everyone’s first memory is looking for wood, wait the sun down! Dig a hole and hide in the dark. Then leave scared asf about creepers. Now you can completely skip the night and make it so mobs don’t spawn. Now you’re gonna have unlimited food all stacked to 64 from so many sources who cares about health, ores are so easy to get now you’ll never need leather armour. You’ll have full iron everything and diamond with a little extra sweat. So I stopped playing after all that, I come back now and then but after I make my base, I get my tools, I’m like hmm okay what now? Full diamond armour and tools? For what. If I die I’ll spawn right back at my base, I can skip the night cycle, I don’t need to venture into caves to find ores anymore. So I’m just hit in the face with you’re wasting time here

In my opinion I think 1.13 was where Minecraft was going the right way (Excluding phantoms), and 1.14 was Minecraft looking at 1.13 and deciding to ignore what actually made it good- It wasn't redoing content. It wasn't that corporate feel of it. It was the new content that felt like Minecraft but also felt new and exciting.

Here's how to handle bundles work with touch controls: GIVE THEM THEIR OWN BUTTON! hell! Just put it next to the button that opens your inventory... and instead of bringing up the inventory screen with your character, armor and offhand it opens the bundle inventory similar to the saddle menu for horses and this same action could be mapped to down on the DPad for controllers and any random key on keyboard. There! I came up with a solution in 5 seconds! It's kinda pathetic Mojang hasn't come up with one in FOUR YEARS!

as someone who started in 2013, i also prefer 1.12.2 and think its the best version.

For me the problem is the inconsistency the new features just don't fit in the game

Minecraft still has some charm.

> mojang and Microsoft are out of touch with their community > community votes for the phantom > the phantoms are proof that mojang and Microsoft are out of touch with their community Make it make sense???

Im 24 yo and just started playing beta 1.7.3 for the first time and damn I feel like a lil kid when i first played minecraft some 12 years ago 🥲 now i wana play sm but adult life gets in the way 😭

When I first played minecraft. It was a version that was very akin to creative. Pc only. I don't remember flying though. But maybe. It was either alpha, or the tail end of it transitioning to beta. I honestly have no idea at this point. I do agree with many points you make in this video. Phantoms, pillagers, I really hate all that crap. It just forces me to play a specific way and always have milk around me. Idk about the account merge. They did mine very early on. The 2nd cape is kind of fun to swap between. I took a really long break from Minecraft. Lost my ability to build well, had to relearn. Completely lost my ability for interiors. But I've pushed through on a new world. I've got about 170 hours. I've been having fun. Leaving and coming back with a fresh pair of eyes has almost completely recaptured those early days of playing. Maybe it could help you? As for Dream. Yes... Let's talk about Dream. The pedophile. He's fallen off. Don't worry about him anymore. He has made some clever plays and clearly had cheated. Not everyone likes him and he doesn't do much now. But yeah pedophile. Don't mention him at all. I can see you really care man. I hope this helps you in some small manner.

everything was better when i was younger, thats just normal human experience

i didnt start playing minecraft tell on ps3 before the aqautic update i was so excited for the updaet but after a while minecraft felt dry i eventualy started playing old versions of minecraft and played alpha minecraft for a while and then checked out nsss,Bta,NFC and some other "goldenage" minecraft mods

They went after the nostalgia and the community that makes it great. The game was simple enough for new players but now it seems overwhelming. My recommendation to you. Do a how start and enjoy the game as a new player and even build a small discord community of fun players.

True

Hi an OG here that never really moved past minecraft 1.8 that was the time where i stopped playing minecraft with its greatest charms... nowadays im so burned and uninterested with the new stuff in minecraft that. i shit you not my earliest memory of playing minecraft was when i had this shitty notebook with 1 gb of ram and running minecraft in super low render distance, dreading to see herobrine out of no where because of how short my view distance was... it was good and now i just left minecraft as a nostalgic memory of my childhood as now im 23, old minecraft is my childhood and it will be a loving memory for years to come.

Not to "Urmm actually" but, Console edition (Releasing in 2012) Was based off Beta 1.6.6. Beta 1.8 And release 1.0 where already almost a year old by then. Meant that CE was 1 year behind. Thus why hunger didn't exist. (I grew up with console edition too.) Just wanted to state that. #LegacyBetterThanBedrock

the phantom is not nearly as bad as people make it it out to be.

Sometimes I feel like these videos forget that they're talking about two different games. Remember minecraft is what you make it, you can still have that charm, theres mods, datapacks, resourcepacks out there that change the game that gives you that feeling back and if you want, adds in new things that are along the design philosophy of older versions. I think both versions are different yet fun. Hell I still play both versions actively, only truly negative thing I could see is the missed promises, that sucks, I've learned to lower my expectations though. No one can tell you what you can or can not do.

I recently asked myself a question. Why do I play the current versions of Minecraft? And the answer I got, was for the mods. The only reason I play the current version of Minecraft is not for everything the updates brought to the game, but just because the mods I want to play with or tryout are only for specific versions of the game. And I only come to find out that the only thing I really liked from modern minecraft is the ability to switch back-and-forth between survival and creative mode and the keep inventory rule so I don’t have to fear dying and losing my stuff and the no grief mob rule so I don’t have to clean up after creepers. So now just yesterday I decided to start playing the version of Minecraft I first started playing when I first picked up the game back when I was a kid. b1.2_02or1

I don't get how people don't like going to straight to the endgame, getter full netherite armor and an elytra. I like doing that because it lets me focus on building a big base and stuff like that while not worrying about my gear. for me Minecraft is more about building and automation than survival.

i had a unique experience recently which highlighted to me why minecraft has lost its charm, i was playing on the xbox 360 and was absolutely obsessed, i had a world where i build castles and paths throughout. the charm of the textures and limited block options made it so much more fun for reasons i cant explain. one night i connected the xbox up to the wifi and it began updating minecraft, my world was updated, new blocks, new textures, new mob behaviours, the worst thing was the biome blending. this was a completely different game, i lost intrest, it felt like my creativity was overwhelmed, i just wanted the 3 wood types the simplicity of building, idk the game isnt what it was i now i cant touch that world its been tainted

14:27 what song is this ?

Anyone knows the song?

I think a big part of the loss of feel is how the textures have changed. Old textures felt unique, now it’s more detailed and kinda muddled

I say the same thing about monster hunter franchise with world and people don’t listen. It’s very sadge

One thing I think the game still has going for it is that it is exactly what you make of it.

Cool video :)

1.6.4 - last Minecraft version

I agree 100%

Have you tried Better than Adventure?

About the new textures. When they added them into the game they also added the programmer art so whats the problem?

For me it's more like it doesn't have aspects of the game that I like anymore and I know it can do better like I want more weapons more armor more mobs more dimensions and more bosses

Peak Minecraft is 1.8 Change my mind

i much prefer older Minecraft only recently leaned i could go back to older versions on java its nice to have to be able to go back to a version of the game i like plus we will always have the console versions to go back to

I thought hunger was added in 2011, but you said you started in 2012 and hunger wasnt a thing. Maybe not on xbox??

Programmer art exists in the texture pack options. You can disable phantoms. Minecraft is still a game that lets you play how you choose to play. You can still go back and play very old versions. If you want Minecraft to feel like a modern experience without what Microsoft has done, people have even made mods for that like Better Than Adventure, or ReIndev. One of the things that they have changed that I dislike is the chat reporting, which can be abused. Which can still be avoided if the server owner does some work server side. And bedrock marketplace is a mess, filled with scams.

I think that all of the points about Microsoft should not have been included in a video about Minecraft's charm. It feels a bit irrelevant as most of minecrafts charm comes from the actual gameplay. Some of your points about textures are fair but building with just cobble and oak planks has always looked "bad". The only reason it used to look good is because nobody had the knowledge you could make builds much better. The new textures aren't even the only option in the base game, the programer art is still an option. I agree many of your points but alot of what you're describing is missing being a kid. Minecraft has been my favorite game of all time for almost a decade and it's sad to see the community grow to hate Mojang when they're adding more then ever before. Before 1.13 we were happy with relatively small updates where now Mojang can announce and give 2 game changing features over 2 weeks and an update is considered trash to many when it's not exactly what they wanted. I personally think Minecraft is finally feeling like it's self again with 1.20 and 1.21. I can't quite explain it but these 2 updates feel like the next shift like what came after 1.13

But no matter what happens...We always finds a reason to come back...no matter how many times❤

17:08 and why apples can drop from birch and other trees. Yeah I don't like new Minecraft trying to "have sense" while this.

im nostalgic for the wiiu edition, which i got in like 2016 [i played a bit of pocket edition a few years before but my mom deleted it off her phone] but i geniually find the older versions more fun, i play beta 1.7.3 most of the time, once and a while ill dust off my wiiu and play and find it more fun than modern minecraft, console editions just have a vibe java nor bedrock can replicate [probably all the visuals you can change on consoles like gamma but idk] it feels alot more "minecrafty" than modern minecraft to me, maybe its that console edition crafting system which is kinda underrated but idk, good video, i dont really get why chat reporting matters so much, it hasnt done anything, atleast at this moment i dont think its caused anything to terrible, seemed like it was probably mandated to be added

I don't know where this general opinion has been coming from. I've been playing since the tail end of Alpha and I feel the same amount of charm today. Old Minecraft certainly had a different vibe (lonely, slightly eerie and very quiet) but I don't find that the charm has diminished.

I’ll admit the game just doesn’t feel like it used to anymore. In older Minecraft I feel right at home but in newer updates I just feel like a fish out of water. I think a big part of that is that many of us just aren’t kids anymore. People don’t like change and I guess we thought Minecraft would always be the same, and while fundamentally it is, it has changed a lot over the years.

I get some of the point you make but for me personally the game has just been evolving, it was soo soo barren back then, and I started playing when 1.7.10 released, it got to the point that if I want to play an older version because of a modpack or something of sorts I'll be constantly remined of how ugly the old (hot take I know) textures were and I constantly miss the newer features that were added with time, such as the crossbow, the stone cutter, the water mechanics, and the big one the world height change, as for the mob votes I don't think the problem's in the mobs its the fact that the first one was going to be a game changer, unless the "inferno" won (cause that one would be a nether mob), and the newer ones just divide the community further, I personally voted for the phantom, and the glowsquid, and I love those mobs, but I get why people hate them, that guy dream influenced the glowsquid vote quite a bit (to be honest I didn't even know who the guy was until after the vote ended I just voted because I loved the glowsquid and I thought it would have some type of hypnosis added to it), but one thing's true minecraft has become more corporate, not in the sense of the feel I'd say but more in the way features are added, they prioritize messaging, morality and not affecting the game in a bad way for anyone, and in the process they loose out on fun features and just add blander stuff, why couldn't we have sharks cause they're endangered, why can't we have fireflies because some of them are poisonous, in this sense the game was better back then, cause mojang added what they thought was fun, just look at the creeper, it wouldnt be added in an update nowadays it's too impactfull. p.s. if this is hard to read sorry I think I lost the point I was trying to make somewhere along all that

every new version i play i use programmer art and another pack to make the new stuff fit programmer art, i even use packs to get the old fog, and songs only from c418 , but i feel the same. after the migration i knew its just gonna go downhill, i kinda enjoy the new features and stuff but i noticed that i just cant stay on minecraft as long as i could before. i just get bored of it after two weeks if we make a new server and switch back to different games. before i could just play my singleplayer world every day 8 hours straight after coming back from school when i was 7. kinda sad to see minecraft get butchered by microsoft. i play a sp world on 1.2.5 and it just feels so much more peaceful, so calm and just better whenever i play it after playing any of the new versions.

I just considered modern mc and old mc 2 different games. I sometimes go back to beta 1.7.3 and yogbox modpack 1.2.3 and i have a great time

6:02 - If new textures made you feel uncomfortable, they made me super-pissed off once they released them in 1.14, and by super-pissed - I mean it, Ive spent 3-4 years making not just a resourcepack that takes EVERYTHING into account (textures, sounds, texts, you name it), but also whole god damn MODPACKS that are so, SO dedicated to original styles and aspects that you cannot make a step any bigger than in version they're dedicated to, which is 1.12.2. This version, just on itself, is the final border of what Minecraft is before screwing off into RPG shenanigans, but the mods that were made for it - DRASTICALLY reinforces that border, we talking about several mods that only exists for this version that makes seemingly little changes, but changes that impacts strongly. Even though Modern Minecraft still can be modified to be interesting despite being RPG-themed (which is still good considering different styles in different versions), overall - its just sad if not horrible, because knowing what Notch did during late 2010-2011 - It feels like he actually found that medium where the whole meaning of the game is utilized the ways it supposed to: Freedom, strong atmosphere/details, simplicity, sharp yet also simple environment, and nowadays - its super diluted, less rewarding, less impressing game that also takes alot of processing power just to even launch it, some of players even COMPLETELY unable to play latest versions, or seriously relying on performance mods, so if you have a low-end computer and you have no experience with mods - you are doomed unless you switch to older versions (where something like even Beta 1.8 takes less than 500 mb of RAM for everything, FOR EVERYTHING).