I think its just how we conduct our personal lives, because I barely have time to game anyway (because I code most of the time), so I never really want to play a game with an actual story. Sandboxes and FPS games are my friends because you can play a quick match or build a house or go exploring for half an hour. That’s usually the extent of my gaming time!
Bought it yesterday from the humble store 
Nice game, but not much to do right now.
Feel free to call me off on this, and I’m open to all criticism.
To me, Minecraft ended up becoming this generation’s Doom, but on a smaller scale. I don’t mean this in terms of gameplay, and I’m not trying to compare two different genres.
The modding community of Minecraft was and still is huge, and there are many games coming up based off of its concepts. Some of those games have become quite innovative (Such as Terraria and Starbound IMO). And honestly, I wish for more of these games going in that same sort of world style.
To say that ‘Starbound = Terraria = Minecraft = Infiniminer’ is silly. This is how games are made.
No game is built on top of a 100% original concept.
- Jev
Pong was pretty original…
Those four games are all generally the same. Sure, graphics and some game elements are different, but the underlying concept and how they are built is pretty much similar. Not the same, but similar.
Pong was based on table tennis, which is still a game even though it isn’t a video game.
Good point.
Nothing is absolutely original. Everythingis inspired by something, if not a computer game then by reallife.
It is not important whether something is new or not if it is made good.
It seems like at first our goal of games was to make them very realistic and profitable.
Now that we already have very realistic game engines, we just worry about making a game that’s very similar to or better than [Insert Game Here].
- Jev