Minecraft

[A Black Falcon]

You really didn't play Minecraft much at all, did you?

Considering that you need to pay to play the main game and there's no way I'd pay for it from what I've seen of it, what do you think? All you can do for free is the "build infinitely" mode, but I just don't find this kind of thing very interesting.

Also this.

Of course, but when you bought a Lego set you got all the needed pieces right in the box. As for building our own stuff, my buildings rarely got beyond just a single brick high foundation outline of the house, or store, or whatever, with contents inside; I never built full-sized buildings, it'd take too long and require far too many bricks. With the castle legos (always my favorite!) it is a little easier to build something higher because of the larger wall and tower pieces, but still, while I did build some of my own castles at some points, I later on took apart most of that in favor of trying to rebuild most of the original sets, which is how they've been for a good ten years now. I could never come up with anything anywhere near as good as the real sets anyway.

Building stuff can be fun, but I wanted to do more than just that with my legos...

I mean, we built the town, sure, of buildings one brick high (only much higher if they were prebuilt sets, or one building which we made two story via some pillars supporting a second level), but then you play with it, have the people in the town have adventures, make stuff happen, etc...

Oh yeah...

You never had to search through a pile of hundreds of Legos to find the perfect piece for what you're building?

We had one store in the mall building where I put a bunch of small parts that you often need but can be a pain to find in a giant bucket, seemed like a handy way to keep track of them and was consistent with the idea of it being a town, too. :)

Oh, and another thing I always liked doing with the castle legos was having battles with them, I had all the different factions allied into different alliances, the different types of troops ranked by how good I thought that kind of unit was (weapons, armor, etc.), and more. That kind of thing is some of the most fun I had with Legos, I think, aside from building the sets. I've still got pages of paper I drew maps of the Lego kingdoms' territories on, or prospective ways to turn it into a game (Cohort/Fighting For Rome inspired combat), stuff like that...

Minecraft doesn't do these things. Different genre.