Did the crossover make you interested in playing Terraria?

[SonicDen220]

It sure as hell did for me. 20 hours in, got full platinum armor, killed a few bosses (eye of Cthulu, Deerclops, King Slime) and I really like exploring and finding new items.

[wefoij]

Terraria is incomparably superior to don't starve. In fact it's the best indie game ever made.

I'm glad the crossover happened because getting a summon weapon in the early game is super hard in Terraria, but Abigail made it trivially easy. I might go through another for the worthy master mode run just to have fun with abigail.

[Cheggf]

I got Terraria first!

[Dextops]

theres this limiting factor to playing terraria i like to call
 

being broke as ****

[Terra B Welch]

I started playing Terraria back on version 1.0.2...

I feel old...

[Mike23Ua]

I tried it, it’s not my type of game (probably because I’ve played hundreds of games identical to it) but I tried it.. on multiple occasions to see if I liked it- I didn’t 

However I do have good news for anyone who did like it- the Terraria Devs have confirmed that the DST Crossover content will indeed be coming to the Console & Mobile versions of Terraria “Eventually.”

If any of you Terraria Devs are reading my post- don’t feel too hard on yourself for me not liking the game, I’m just one person and I’ll have you know I also tried Back 4 Blood the over hyped so called sequel to L4D 2, I did not like that game either..

Now a game I DO like that I’ve recently gotten into playing is one on Xbox Gamepass called Man Eater, you play as a shark but with a GTA wanted level system based on how many humans you chomp? Whatttt that’s crazy, and different from all the “Same-ish” feeling games out there.

I enjoyed/ Still deeply enjoy DS/DST BECAUSE it was different- I actively seek out games that aren’t just a reskin of something I’ve already played a hundred times before.

[wefoij]

31 minutes ago, Mike23Ua said:

I tried it, it’s not my type of game (probably because I’ve played hundreds of games identical to it) but I tried it.. on multiple occasions to see if I liked it- I didn’t 

However I do have good news for anyone who did like it- the Terraria Devs have confirmed that the DST Crossover content will indeed be coming to the Console & Mobile versions of Terraria “Eventually.”

If any of you Terraria Devs are reading my post- don’t feel too hard on yourself for me not liking the game, I’m just one person and I’ll have you know I also tried Back 4 Blood the over hyped so called sequel to L4D 2, I did not like that game either..

Now a game I DO like that I’ve recently gotten into playing is one on Xbox Gamepass called Man Eater, you play as a shark but with a GTA wanted level system based on how many humans you chomp? Whatttt that’s crazy, and different from all the “Same-ish” feeling games out there.

I enjoyed/ Still deeply enjoy DS/DST BECAUSE it was different- I actively seek out games that aren’t just a reskin of something I’ve already played a hundred times before.

Terraria is not a reskin of anything. It is the most unique game there is.

The experience is like your own personal mmorpg. An entire world to explore in all directions. Hunting mobs for their loot in the many unique biomes except instead of something ridiculous like 0.001% drop rate, its at most 1-5%.

Sooooo many unique gear. Soooooo many unique playstyles that is derived from the sheer combination of all the gears.

Terraria is one of the exceptionally few games where a summoner is not only viable, but done well as well. I had more fun playing a summoner in Terraria than any game I've played and I've played diablo2, 3, every single isometric rpg out there like nwn, baldur's gate, etc.

The game is a pure game, no roleplay, quests, or other stuff like that. You just summon and kill bosses, get stronger with their loot, summon and kill more bosses, get stronger with their loot, all the way to the end. Each and every boss is completely unique, requires a ton of strategy and preparation beforehand to defeat, and there's many viable strategies.

And the game is also not linear. You choose the order of bosses you kill, and you can even take out harder bosses much earlier with sheer skill and strategy.

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You probably gave it like 10minutes, thought it was a minecraft or starbound clone and called it quits. That's your right but that's your loss. But don't say terraria is a clone or reskin of anything. It's the leader in open world sandbox action games.

I understand people not liking it because it's too deep, it's too hard, it takes too much time to complete, you don't like 2d games, arena construction takes too long, you don't like studying the wiki for hours, you like roleplay not combat, etc. etc. but it is in no way a clone of anything.

[SinancoTheBest]

1 hour ago, wefoij said:

Terraria is incomparably superior to don't starve. In fact it's the best indie game ever made.

Aren't you overrating Terraria a tad bit too much there? It's a great game no doubt but I'd be hesitant to call it the best indie game ever made, or even superior to Don't Starve Together to begin with.

[BezKa]

I'll be honest- yes. I haven't played it yet, because I want to do it with my friends, but I do want to play. I doubt I'll enjoy it as much as Don't Starve, but I've seen people play it and was interested, this crossover giving me the push to get it. 

 

[LinknAllie]

It got me into playing the game again.

[Mike23Ua]

4 minutes ago, SinancoTheBest said:

Aren't you overrating Terraria a tad bit too much there? It's a great game no doubt but I'd be hesitant to call it the best indie game ever made, or even superior to Don't Starve Together to begin with.

Well these are the DST forums, opinions here will be biased towards DST for obvious reasons, but my opinion is my opinion and I’m entitled to it.

Let me put it this way I have an ever expanding catalog of over 450 games I can play (some I’ve bought brand new and hardly touched) But I only keep what actively keeps my interest installed on my console- which is about 45 games give or take, not because I don’t have the Storage for them (I have a 3TB External HD..) but simply just because I DON’T care to play them, some of these games have even been considered really great games such as Witcher 3 and all it’s DLCs critically acclaimed as one of the best games of all time- Didn’t manage to keep my attention over a few hours.

If I say Terraria feels like something I’ve played before, that isn’t an over-exaggeration, it’s an experience I’ve already experienced before- If a game survives my very selective ultra picky Gemini tastes & somehow manages to stay ON my console and OFF the Uninstalled list- then that means there’s something I actively enjoy about returning to that game for.

DS/DST nail that feeling, Spelunky is another equally enjoyable game that survived my selective picky-ness, but it has to actually catch (& more importantly keep) my interest to avoid my natural instinct of if I’m not having fun.. why am I wasting my time with this?

TL:DR WITCHER 3 did not survive my uninstall list, and I bought that game + it’s dlcs but it didn’t keep my attention longer then a few hours.

Terraria didn’t stand a chance.

[minespatch]

I bought terraria but haven't played it yet. currently playing Hades. I want to play my copy of Crypt of the necrodancer and finish wardrobe before I tackle Terraria.

[wefoij]

30 minutes ago, SinancoTheBest said:

Aren't you overrating Terraria a tad bit too much there? It's a great game no doubt but I'd be hesitant to call it the best indie game ever made, or even superior to Don't Starve Together to begin with.

Lets see. I haven't went out of my way to play indie games so there might be one that's better. And everyone's criteria is different. I know some people value story over gameplay and Terraria has no story. But I don't think I'm overrating it because for people like me it's the best indie game ever but for people like you there might be something better.

But I have played DS for 600 hours and terraria for 2200 hours so I think I know enough to make a judgement here. But once again you know, everyone is different, everyone has different tastes, so something I hate might be the very reason you love it and vice versa.

The two problems with DS in my opinion is

1. The stress. First you gotta deal with survival. Then once that's done with you can explore. But for a new player surviving the weather is not fun, especially summer burning everything down or endless rain keeping you at 0 sanity, or a frog rain ending a run because you can't get to your base because its overrun. So spending 50% of your time on food and then 50% of your time dealing with weather leaves 0% time on exploring/base building and that is just absolutely maddening. I rage quit a lot. Dealing with the seasons this much is not fun.

BUT, once you get good, you only spend like 20% of your time on both food and weather and 80% of your time on base building. So yeah, once you get good I'd say the season difficulties are just right. But it took a long while to get to this point. So incredibly stressful to the point I avoided playing it when I was a noob, and perfectly ok as someone more experienced.

2. No depth. Once you conquer the seasons, that's it. That's the end of the game. Bosses are trivially easy. Not much strategy to them, for most anyways. Virtually identical kiting pattern, most can just be fought tanking it with gear.

Like once I build my base in the first season, I'm at a loss at what to do. Bosses don't give permanent gear, doesn't reliably give it, and if I could take em out/survive the other seasons without it, then what's the point of killing the bosses in the first place?

I went ruins rushing because there was nothing else to do and once you get ruin gear, like what next? What's the point?

I mean even though my base is designed to handle all the seasons, the other seasons are still stressful so what's the point of me hanging around and dealing with the stress of the harder seasons when I've got the best gear and can take out all the bosses?

Terraria took me 4 full days of gaming to beat. Don't starve? Ruins rush and you beat the game. What else is there to do other than just wait wait wait for bosses to spawn?

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Now I'm someone who hates minecraft and minecraft lovers say Terraria is incomparably inferior to minecraft, so I understand that mega-base people would definitely prefer don't starve over terraria.

But that's just my opinion. Don't Starve combat is a joke, there's no real progression, there's no point in killing bosses, weather is not noob inviting/friendly,

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So yeah, base builders, stay away from terraria unless you like pixel art because all the mega bases in terraria are basically pixel art of higher res stuff. Terraria is for the combat lovers and who love to build things that help them in combat.

My terraria worlds look like planet mining expeditions because I built things for efficiency so the whole world looks like one giant mining facilitiy which is accurate because I only build to get access to rare resources or to fight a hard boss. nothing looks pretty, only efficient, which is pretty in its own way imo.

[Notecja]

Terraria was just for 3£ or smth like that in store. Guess I will one day give it a try... 

[Yuuko]

I saw Terraria a while ago and had zero impulse to play it.  I've played many 2d roguelike games, so seeing ANOTHER one just doesn't interest me.  Its like b/c I watched all of DBZ as a kid as it was coming out in the USA, from when the first season launched through bu saga...  I have zero impulse to watch naruto, bleach, or any other shonen b/c why?  I've seen it already.  If an anime has more 100 episodes I won't even start it.  I don't care how great the story is, its still just a story lol  Its fiction, its not like its my job or anything.

I'm sure there are some things in Terraria that are good, I just don't have the impulse.

tbh - the *only* reasons I started Don't Starve was:
1) Gothic art style reminiscent of Tim Burton
2) Willow wanted to watch the world burn
3) My friend came over to install and start me playing, knowing both of the above would check boxes for me.

33 minutes ago, wefoij said:

2. No depth. Once you conquer the seasons, that's it. That's the end of the game. Bosses are trivially easy. Not much strategy to them, for most anyways. Virtually identical kiting pattern, most can just be fought tanking it with gear.

Like once I build my base in the first season, I'm at a loss at what to do. Bosses don't give permanent gear, doesn't reliably give it, and if I could take em out/survive the other seasons without it, then what's the point of killing the bosses in the first place?

I mean that's kinda the pattern with any game isn't it?  I can load up Mario 1 and beat it in a few minutes.  That doesn't mean I haven't spent hundreds of hours playing mario 1 lol.  tbh it almost sounds like you're just a paid shill for Terraria lol

[wefoij]

edit: post deleted because I was responding to someone arguing in bad faith.

[astroapyr]

I want to finish one Darkest Dungeon campaign and get some Crypt of the Necrodancer achievements before trying it.

[CameoAppearance]

I own a copy of Terraria, but I hadn't played it since one time in 2014 when a friend tried to get me into it but their idea of 'getting me into it' was shoving some good gear into my hands and then abandoning me to whatever fate befell me, so I just wandered around confused for a while and then got attacked by a monster I didn't know how to fight. Thanks to this crossover I'd consider giving it another go, and lots of my DS-playing friends are also excited to play it now so I wouldn't have to struggle alone.

[Karitha]

I have around extra 500 hours in cracked Terraria, finished billion times, finished once in steam. Bought it to help developers.

Same for Don't Starve btw, played a lot cracked DS and bough DST and DS both.

They both are in my most played games!

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[Yuuko]

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The experience is like your own personal mmorpg. An entire world to explore in all directions. Hunting mobs for their loot in the many unique biomes except instead of something ridiculous like 0.001% drop rate, its at most 1-5%.

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The game is a pure game, no roleplay, quests, or other stuff like that. You just summon and kill bosses, get stronger with their loot, summon and kill more bosses, get stronger with their loot, all the way to the end. Each and every boss is completely unique, requires a ton of strategy and preparation beforehand to defeat, and there's many viable strategies.

None of this is unique, and plenty of it exists in worlds that also have interesting lore.  Probably the most important part of a game is setting its self apart considering we have a literally flooded games market.  Minecraft and Terraria both seem to have caught a generation of people who don't realize everything those games do has been done before.  Just like the kids who are watching whatever hero acedemia don't realize all the tropes are rehashes.  I'm glad they're enjoying it, but I've watched Goku already, I've seen it.

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I understand people not liking it because it's too deep, it's too hard, it takes too much time to complete, you don't like 2d games, arena construction takes too long, you don't like studying the wiki for hours, you like roleplay not combat, etc. etc. but it is in no way a clone of anything.

Ah - yes - those who don't agree with you must be newbs lol  Great line.  I don't care what you think about me, but I guarantee you difficulty and depth are not the problems with me playing Terraria.  I have plenty of games with challenge and depth that also give me interesting characters, worlds, and lore to explore.  Games that tell compelling stories.  Games that allow me a massive amount of room for creativity and expression.  Games with pyromaniac girls who want to watch the world burn.

The reason I haven't played Terraria is because it looks completely bland and uninteresting.  The most interesting thing its done so far is crossover with DST.  I've played 0 hours on Terraria, so I'm sure I'm misjudging it, but I certainly lose nothing for not playing it, and whenever I see it, I just don't feel like playing it.

7 hours ago, wefoij said:

Terraria is incomparably superior to don't starve. In fact it's the best indie game ever made.

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Do I still sound like a paid shill?

You definitely sound like a paid shill lol

[wefoij]

edit: post deleted because I was responding to someone arguing in bad faith.

[Yuuko]

2 minutes ago, wefoij said:

Let me tell you about our lord and savior Terraria

ok XD

[ShadowDuelist]

Way before don’t starve I played one of the first versions of terraria not long after release, for about 2-3 hours, and didn’t like it.
I can’t judge if it’s a great game or not, it probably is, It’s just not my type of game.

[wefoij]

30 minutes ago, ShadowDuelist said:

Way before don’t starve I played one of the first versions of terraria not long after release, for about 2-3 hours, and didn’t like it.
I can’t judge if it’s a great game or not, it probably is, It’s just not my type of game.

That's true. Terraria was not good until the 1.3 patch in 2015. But since you couldn't get past 2-3 hours, I don't think I'd recommend it to you.

I remember playing it before 1.3 and losing interest as well even after researching it in depth. I only got into it because games with decent summoning mechanics are so rare so if a game has summoning mechanics I jumped at it. I got into Don't Starve because of Wendy for that exact same reason. Abigail was a disappointment, Rock Lobsters were half and half. Half good because they could take out bosses, half bad because it's not something you create or summon yourself. Ultimately on the minion side DS is a failure but I found other things I liked about DS so I stuck with the game.

How many hours do you need to play Terraria before you get a good feel of the game and decide whether it's not for you? That's a great question and I don't think I would know. My goal into the game was to fully experience the minion stuff and if it was lackluster I would've ditched it. It was lackluster before 1.3, but after 1.3 I gave it another try because it brought a lot of minion stuff all the way to endgame and it did not disappoint at all. It was fantastic. I also wanted to play something like the starcraft 2 marine, and Terraria had tons and tons of guns so it didn't disappoint there either.

But I had a clear goal, did a ton of research beforehand, and engaged it with a clear plan in my mind (despite my plans failing multiple times) so I don't think my personal experience is a good baseline because I never met anyone who does this.

I'd say looking up the wiki to see what gear is available to you, devising a plan to grab it, and beating the first boss, the Eye of Cthulhu, would give you a good idea what the game is like. If you did not enjoy that or don't think you'll enjoy it, or you're not enjoying yourself while you're doing these things, then I would not recommend Terraria. Looking up the wiki is vital because one thing Terraria is absolutely horrible at is pointing you towards content/telling you what's available/how to progress the game.

[Capybara007]

6 hours ago, wefoij said:

Lets see. I haven't went out of my way to play indie games so there might be one that's better.

 You said that terraria is:

8 hours ago, wefoij said:

In fact it's the best indie game ever made.

You basically played 3 games, one of them was terraria and called it best game known to mankind, sure its just your opinion, but "just my opinion" isnt the accent you had in your first reply

Now

7 hours ago, wefoij said:

1. The stress. First you gotta deal with survival. Then once that's done with you can explore. But for a new player surviving the weather is not fun, especially summer burning everything down or endless rain keeping you at 0 sanity, or a frog rain ending a run because you can't get to your base because its overrun. So spending 50% of your time on food and then 50% of your time dealing with weather leaves 0% time on exploring/base building and that is just absolutely maddening. I rage quit a lot. Dealing with the seasons this much is not fun.

BUT, once you get good, you only spend like 20% of your time on both food and weather and 80% of your time on base building. So yeah, once you get good I'd say the season difficulties are just right. But it took a long while to get to this point. So incredibly stressful to the point I avoided playing it when I was a noob, and perfectly ok as someone more experienced.

The core of dont starve consist on luring the player into this constant fail and repeat cycle where you die in order to learn that darkness kills you, or that the seasons have their danger, you might think this mechanic is **** but there is a great amount of people that love how uncompromising it is, so you cant just claim that "for a new player this is not fun"

7 hours ago, wefoij said:

2. No depth. Once you conquer the seasons, that's it. That's the end of the game. Bosses are trivially easy. Not much strategy to them, for most anyways. Virtually identical kiting pattern, most can just be fought tanking it with gear.

I almost feel like you are a troll and im the clown that is replying

If you are being serious, bosses have numerous mechanics such as minion spawning, aoe fire attacks from df, minion control from bq, sporecaps that buff toadstool, shadow shield, healing and mind control by fw, gestalt cast by cc, geiser cast by ck, deer spells by klaus, and a whole earthquake cooldown on antlion that is measured by how many trinkets it receives

But maybe you just fought a treeguard in your 600 hours and said "yeah i just have to move when it attacks, not deep"

There are numerous strategies to each boss, each one of them requirring different gear, like weather pains for toadstool, explorer for fuelweaver, bhelmet for cc

And about the trivially easy part, maybe you just creates a new world and killed the bosses for the 600th time with spawned items

7 hours ago, wefoij said:

Now I'm someone who hates minecraft and minecraft lovers say Terraria is incomparably inferior to minecraft, so I understand that mega-base people would definitely prefer don't starve over terraria.

You basically gave up on your argument here because you assume that if a game like minecraft (that has nothing to do with this) is objectively superior to terraria you automarically hate it.