by cloakblade » Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:26 pm MagicManICT wrote:Hardly... I've played Minecraft and Terraria. Grindy as hell. I've not done Garry's Mod, so can't really comment on it, but from what I've seen, it's still has it's grinds. (Besides, isn't it more of a Lego set than a game?)
I disagree. I also think that grind is the appropriate word for this game. I define a grind as doing something over and over again in order to get an increasingly better result. So you plant wheat to grow better wheat to get better wheat. This happens in the majority of MMOs. You run a dungeon to get better gear to run better dungeons to get better gear. Minecraft has no increasing value. You build a house to have a house. Terrarira has some of this but after you get to the end game equipment the grind stops and it becomes more like minecraft where you do something just to do it.
The current system allows you to not have to grind, compared to the old system, but the grind isn't gone. You can build a road, build a house, kill a bear or pick flowers while your curios are finishing but in the end you have to get more curios. That in and of itself isn't a grind. Its simply something you have to do to keep up. The grind comes with the quality system. Even with dimishing returns a 100q grape < 110q grape and it will always be a race to keep going up on that. Though its kind of disjointed so its slightly better, this assumes you are part of a village.
