FortressCraft

Technology and Gaming
#1

https://www.fortresscraft.com/

For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s essentially a copy of minecraft or as they say “Fortress Craft is an independently developed and produced game about construction, survival and destruction.”

I downloaded a trial of it on Xbox Live, needless to say it was shit. It has better graphics than minecraft (not that hard to do) but I’d prefer looking at the minecraft graphics. Also your “character” is your avatar. For some reason your avatar has a pick axe but then pick axe does nothing. You don’t mine things with the pick axe you just delete and place blocks.

It’s similar to a Minecraft Alpha with some of the Beta blocks and items (such as torchers) added in. Personally I think it’s a load of crap and I can’t understand why you’d pay for this pile of crap instead of minecraft.

Oh and also instead of Updates, Fortresscraft gets “Part 1” and “Part 2” etc
So you have to pay for more updates essentially.

I know minecraft isn’t original in its area either (roblox has been around for a while) but everything in fortresscraft just looks like a better quality version of everything in minecraft.

So Money Making scam or Original Idea?

Opinions away.

#2

It does take the fun away from Minecraft. Lots of people that are new to Minecraft will probably take a look at this, and think “Minecraft is probably shit too.”

#3

Only reason I could see for having it is “My pc won’t run minecraft”
Admittedly my home pc is shit and it’s maximum capability is hogs of war (barely) so minecraft is almost impossible for it.

Having said that my work laptop can still run it and even if it couldn’t, I’m not that desperate to play a minecraft like game.

#4

I can run Minecraft on my PC, and even if i couldn’t, i would never have bought FortressCraft.

#5

They’re just capitalizing on the success of Minecraft.

#6

I’m guessing it’s not written in java, which is a massive plus, but it can still fuck off.

#7

Both are equally shitty.

#8

^ Get out.

#9

:hmph:

But seriously it looks like mincraft but with weird shiny textures and less items

#10

Minecraft on consoles without mods and less content. In other words, terrible.

#11

But at least you’ll get to pay more for it!

#12

This just in.

We are getting word from reporters that the world of gaming at we know it is officially fucked.
Increasing popularity of games like Call of Duty and Minecraft have been consuming the market. All we will have within 20 years is Call of duty and call of duty clones, and minecraft and minecraft clones. There may eventually be a breakaway point where the clones stop and original ideas begin to flow again (as was with WWII fps clones and GTA clones), but this interview with Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford states that the eventuality of this break in monotony will certainly not happen within our lifetime. “s’not gonna happen anytime soon. These days you need either blocks or perks to get anything done.” stated Pitchford. More on this report as events occur.

#13

For what it is, I’ve been enjoying FortressCraft. Right now Minecraft is better, and probably will stay better.

I doubt I’ll buy every chapter of FortressCraft, but I’ll definitely check in and see if they keep trying to copy Minecraft or if they end up differentiating themselves enough to make it worth $3 for the next expansion.

#14

You may be exaggerating how many Minecraft clones there are a touch.

#15

Not at all.

They’re just all indie and overshadowed by the real Minecraft, whereas the COD clones are generally bigger budget games. In that they have budgets.

In fact I’m pretty sure the reason why there are so many minecraft clones out there is because of most of the aspiring programmers out there want to go “hey I figured it out, I can do it too!”

#16

Minecraft itself is not an original idea, in fact it’s a clone from other games itself, specifically, Infiniminer, so all this talk about FortressCraft being a minecraft ripoff is bunk.

But there’s no denying they’re riding on the success of Minecraft.

#17

There are also plenty of games that date all the way back to the 90’s that had things like resource mining and using it to build stuff.

#18

Most RTS games.

#19

People who say this usually have never even fucking played Infiniminer. Yes, the visual style is based upon Infiniminer, but the two games are SOOO FUCKING DIFFERENT… There is way more depth, freedom, and sandbox capabilities in Minecraft than there was in Infiniminer. “Cave Game” wayyy back when, was an Infiniminer clone. Minecraft is a different game.

These clones of Minecraft are just that- they’re not somewhere in between, they’re not as different as MC and Infini, not by a long shot. They’re just cheap ripoffs.

The main place, scratch that, only place they ever even touch the core mechanics is the graphics. But vanilla MC is SUPPOSED to be retro- that’s part of it’s charm. Even then, with smooth lighting (ambient occlusion,) and shadows that don’t suck, it looks better than most of the clones. Not to mention all the mods out there to make it look even better yet. (Wildgrass, texture packs…) Other games just can’t compare dicks to MC.

EDIT: Big argument winner in itself: mods mods mods mods

#20

FortressCraft is just capitalizing on the lack of Minecraft on consoles, its just Mojang’s fault for not making that market sooner.

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