this game is awful singleplayer and worse than any other sandbox game multiplayer. grinding as the 'when all else fails' way of scaling sucks, i do not want to spend 2 hours figuring out im not cut out for a boss just to spend 2 hours in the snow for a slightly better yo-yo. but i understand why people like it. its addicting, like gambling. You could say this about the whole game really. seeing all the flashy 20 minute youtube videos outside the casino can suck you in when they dont remind you that its a 20 hour slog. The direct start and then start of hardmode are the worst. base movement is clumsy and awful and then at hardmode everything takes you to half health in one hit and you have to somehow beat one of three extremely tanky bosses to get gear good enough to actually be able to do the other two. master mode is utter bullshit, expert is not much better, but they lock actual interesting boss patterns behind these so fuck you. I'm still mad at my friends for making me play this and mad at myself for continuing
also wiki games are bad. end of story. just let the guide show you crafting trees and have the bestiary show drops without having to farm the enemy first. actually just make it so that stuff is readily available at crafting stations so the wiki middle man isnt needed at all
Hard not to agree with your criticisms even though I still think this is a great game. The game asks a lot of you and there's no guarantee that you will be rewarded for your time. All the variety in playstyles begs for repeat playthroughs, but it's such a grind-heavy game that replaying through certain sections can get extremely tiresome. After playing through 5-10 times, it feels like a balancing act between some of the most fun I've ever had playing video games and a boring, frustrating grind. It's why I don't plan to come back to it for a good while (watch my friends and I inevitably simp for the next big update).
And yeah, if you're not even having fun with the actual fun parts (which is understandable if your friends started you out in expert/master mode with no prior experience), I can understand hating this game. I have nothing but respect for Re-Logic, they really do try to listen to the fans, but I think some of the game's issues might run too deep for them to fix at this point. Terraria has become such a massive game and it's all built on that RNG philosophy. But who knows, they've surprised me before.
I found this basically unplayably awkward to control on console, I can see the appeal on PC but it's just such a pain to hit the block I'm wanting to hit with a controller.
After that though, insane game
And yeah, if you're not even having fun with the actual fun parts (which is understandable if your friends started you out in expert/master mode with no prior experience), I can understand hating this game. I have nothing but respect for Re-Logic, they really do try to listen to the fans, but I think some of the game's issues might run too deep for them to fix at this point. Terraria has become such a massive game and it's all built on that RNG philosophy. But who knows, they've surprised me before.
if you put it like that, it becomes pretty easy to comprehend how this is the greatest game of all time