Game studies to the rescuuuuueeeeeeee (Gaming)

by electricpirate , Wednesday, April 06, 2016, 01:16 (3157 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Minecraft is bested by any 3D modeling / CAD app ever.

Well, pssh... Destiny can't hold a candle to Microsoft Word when composing sonnets, either.

The purpose of playing Destiny is not to write. The purpose of playing Minecraft is to build stuff out of blocks. Minecraft is a building game. But other software, such as Maya or Cinema4D or AutoCAD, lets you build things more easily, and with much greater control. Making the enterprise in Minecraft is just hopelessly silly when you could have done it better and more easily in a 3D program.

But... that's like all games! I think Bernard Suits put this really well

"To play a game is to engage in activity directed towards bringing about a specific state of affairs, using only means permitted by rules, where the rules prohibit more efficient in favor of less efficient means, and where such rules are accepted just because they make possible such activity…playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.”