It's Not Nostalgia. Old Minecraft WAS Great.

Why are you playing this 13-year-old version of Minecraft? I thought it was an old video. Who the hell plays the old Minecraft Beta? Minecraft was garbage. Very quick disclaimer. I just want to say that this video won't be about how old Minecraft is. Much better and modern Minecraft is just terrible. I actually like a lot of things about modern Minecraft, it's just not the version I've been playing recently, so in this video I'm going to try to break down and lay out everything I've thought about that basically makes these worth playing. old versions and why I like them so much and why so many people like them so much in 2022.

I started this multiplayer server with my friends in beta version 1.7.3 and it was a lot of fun and I continued playing in that world even after my friends stopped coming to the server that eventually became my singleplayer world and I want to say that part of the reason my channel got so big was to do a world tour of that world. I also found myself in the old Minecraft community or sometimes called the Golden Age Minecraft community, people who really enjoy playing Alpha Beta, even early versions of the game, basically anything that is more than 10 years old in this moment, so what is why this huge community?

They exist, we are definitely a minority. I'm sure most people play only modern versions of Minecraft and from an outside perspective I can understand why you would be confused. I mean, some people even get a little aggressive about it. I don't. I know why, but they get a little angry and think: Why are people playing this old version? So I want to try to explain it to you. One conclusion I see a lot of people come to is Nostalgia, right, like, oh, these people are definitely just trying. to relive old memories relive your childhood, you know, relive being a newbie at Minecraft because what else would these versions have to offer if not Nostalgia?

There's really nothing else they have to offer. Good bad Mr. Bad I think

nostalgia

becomes a kind of red herring. people look at it and say oh, it's definitely just

nostalgia

and then they just stop looking at it, you know they're satisfied with that answer, but that can't be the case. I'm convinced that can't be the case, it definitely is. part of it for a lot of people, I mean, there's no denying that, but think about it, if you're just nostalgic for this version and that's it, you're not going to play it for a long time, you're going to log in.

You'll have some fun, but that nostalgia will wear off over time, probably pretty quickly, so why do people play in these worlds for years and why are there people in these old Minecraft communities who never played these old versions? before, why am I still playing this old world for 2 years when I never played this version in the past? I'm nostalgic for a version I never played, no it's not possible, so nostalgia can't be the only reason there has to be more. There are actually quite a few videos that talk about why people like the old Minecraft and you know, everyone has different opinions, but a lot of the points I see come together under the same umbrella, the same kind of dichotomy that I've noticed now when you're first comparing modern

minecraft

and old versions, the kind of consensus at a glance might be that you know the old versions just don't have as much stuff and the modern versions have a lot more stuff, it's kind of like you.

I know a game that is full of content versus a game that simply lacks content, but if you simply flip this idea on its head and change your perspective, you will suddenly start to see things in multiple facets of the game that make it worth playing. the old versions and the form. you turn this around instead of looking at it as content versus lack, you look at it as simplicity versus bloat for people who enjoy these older versions. You have to understand that there is a kind of charm, there is almost a freedom to have less.

There are things in the game and I know they may not make sense at first, but I will try to explain them throughout this video as best I can. Some people may be tempted to look at old versions and say, "Oh, you know, there's really nothing to do." I mean there are no enchantments, there are no potions, there are no dungeons, okay wait, there are dungeons, there are no fortresses, there are not so many things to explore, there are no villagers, there are no bosses, even what do you do in this version, but this is my opinion, those things don't really work.

It doesn't matter much, in the long run, have you ever had a friend that you played Minecraft with or maybe you were the friend that they played together and they had fun? You know they're getting their equipment. They're gathering stuff, they're building a little base, they're having a lot of fun until the Ender Dragon and then once you beat the Ender Dragon, they're like well, I don't know what to do now. bye, I think it's a common experience for a lot of people and let me tell you why I think if you're going to play in a Minecraft world for months for years, you know if you want to have a Minecraft world you keep it for a long, long time and keep going. playing around and adding things that aren't going to make much of a difference, which things are almost more of a distraction, I mean, it's fun, I like a lot of that stuff, but if you want to really get into Minecraft and have a world forever, what you have What to do is set your own goals, invent your own projects and achievements that you want to achieve instead of depending on the things the game offers you to do. and I think that's always been the strength of Minecraft, you know, it's not like the vast majority of other games, this is a game where you can basically do whatever you want and that's where the main fun comes from, but I mean, Who cares if there is more stuff in the game, you can still play it however you want.

I mean, this is something I hear a lot, like just play the game however you want. If you don't like this feature, don't use it. I mean, that's true to some extent, but I never like that argument because it's a bit of an oversimplifier. I mean, imagine if you had a nice, minimalist bedroom with a minimal amount of furniture and it looked

great

and you really liked it. the vibes it has and then someone comes into your bedroom and puts 100 random pieces of furniture around it and then you know when you confront them they just say what I mean: I didn't take anything out, you can still use the bedroom exactly as you had it, I really don't I ruined and it's like no, you ruined it, you've completely ruined everything, that's kind of my position, another thing is that that argument can't even be applied sometimes because a lot of the things we like about these versions just aren't there. in the game today I mean the old terrain generation the old colors the old biomes us players who like to play beta versions and the like We like that simplicity, we like how basic it is because it looks like you can play Minecraft, You don't have what can be seen as sort of distractions.

I think one of the best ways you can illustrate that kind of bloat and distraction is by comparing inventory management between uh, you know, Today and in the older versions, I think that's a common complaint that people have when you know if you're mining or exploring or doing anything like that your inventory fills up too quickly in modern versions there's all these random blocks of andesite, diorite, random stuff that just fills your inventory like that and then every once in a while , you just have to stop and look like okay, I'm going to throw this away.

All this doesn't make sense in older versions, that doesn't happen that often. because there aren't as many blocks and when it happens, when you need to stop and empty your inventory of all the stuff you don't want, it gets a little bit harder because there's less of those kind of random junk blocks, you know, I don't want to get rid of this gravel. , I use it for roads. I don't want to get rid of this cobblestone. I use it for a lot of my buildings and you know, in this version, it takes a while to gather resources, so I need to make some tough decisions about what things I'm going to pull from my inventory now, but that's like a minor point I have right now.

What about building blocks? I mean, people love all the different building blocks. People love all the There are a lot of blocks in the game, I mean, it's really ridiculous, there are so many blogs people like it, but I don't know, to me, it's strange, it's almost disorienting, compared to the enormous creative inventory of the current version. Because of how many blocks there were in the game back then, I almost feel like I'm paralyzed by decision when I look at all this stuff and it doesn't help me build, even in the betas. I already have this kind of phase where I'm trying to build a big project but I just stop and start looking at it because I can't decide on a design and with all the different blocks in modern Minecraft that's exacerbated and that's a lot worse, another reason for this. is that almost everything in the beta version of Minecraft looks pretty decent, no matter your skill as a builder or at least fits the game world, the variety of blocks in the current versions of Mine TR is so huge and so complex that it really changes The way people build, it increases the level of building you can do, but at the same time lowers it for people who are really skilled at building things and making really cool builds in Minecraft.

This is a blessing, I mean, it's amazing. things that people can create in modern versions of the game, but for the rest of us who aren't as good builders for some reason, things just look worse in modern Minecraft and I think part of that is due to the colors, there are so many differences. colors to use and for people who can use them well it looks cool but for people who don't know what they are doing there are so many different colors that don't go well together and if you are just building casually a lot of your builds start to look really weird and ugly for some reason.

I don't think the beta has that problem or at least it doesn't have that problem since the bad block palette is very limited, but a lot of those colors match well. Actually, in my opinion, it's very difficult to make something as ugly as a bad modern version of Minecraft and you can see this effect happening on the servers. Now here is the Beta back, this is a server I play with, other Minecraft youtubers like the beta. In the spawn area, notice how all the buildings, all the structures here, don't really have a unified style, we really all just built whatever we wanted, but even just doing that, even just building random things, somehow everything looks good together. at the spawn location and it looks fun, it looks good, it almost looks like a cool amusement park that you would want to explore and I think that's really due to the simplicity of the block palette, so yeah, there's kind of a roof on how complex and crazy your builds can get in this version, but if you're smart you can still build really cool things and at the same time, if you're not a big builder, whatever you do with basic block builds, you know that will continue to work. to look good and it will still fit into this world because this version is much more simplistic, you can make a huge impressive detailed castle with different gradients and stuff, and you can also make a big blocky classic

minecraft

castle and they both kick ass , whatever your skill is as a builder, you can just build and not have to worry about your thing looking bad and I like that, I think it's more fun, you can build like a cabin like your house and it looks.

Okay it fits with the rest of the game with the rest of the world and I feel like in modern Minecraft if you tried to build that same cabin it would look a lot uglier for some reason it's exactly the same but something about the difference in the world , maybe the difference in the colors of the textures, maybe it's even just the expectation that in modern Minecraft you have to build better things, but it just looks worse, somehow it doesn't fit the game anymore and while I'm talking about the pette block and the colors and stuff.

I'll talk about the world real quick. I like how the world looks in this version. I like that the grass and the leaves and a lot of the different colors are much more vibrant. For some reason they started taking a more realistic direction for the biomes and the world and made the color in a lot of places a little more dull, but I like bright colors, I like green beta trees, some people even like green bright shiny alpha. I admit that it is somewhat iconic. I also like the terrain generation. This version doesn't have really realistic terrain.

It's very video game, but that's cool. I mean, this is a video game and you don't understand it. So much variety in world generation in terms of similar biomes, like everything looks pretty much the same except maybe for the snowy biomes, but you get

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terrain generation in terms of hills and mountains, it's a lot of fun to explore in this. version because you don't haveidea of ​​what terrain you're going to find awesome mountains huge arches floating island honestly it's a blast to just walk around the world and see what you find and I like these big cool fantasy mountains and I feel like almost In a way, these versions have the most generation iconic Minecraft, although it hasn't looked like that for years and years when you think about that iconic Minecraft world, a lot of people are going to think about these types of worlds, the bright colors, the cool, crazy hills, another thing is the textures.

I like old textures, I don't hate new textures, you know they are good, but Here they are going for a different style. I think the older textures with all their crunchiness are more inspired by retro video games. In fact, I really like how hard and crunchy some of them are and combined with the colors. It really makes you think of an old game maybe from SNES or NES sometimes. I mean, when I look at an old Alpha Village I feel like I'm in a Final Fantasy game or something and when you're in an underground tunnel with that beautiful old crunchy Cobblestone or mossy cobblestone, it looks like I'm in Daggerfall or something like that and I really like that again, uh, the different textures, you know, I don't think it's better or worse, it's just different styles and I like them. old style is fine so next point is to take it with a grain of salt because this is largely opinion based.

I mean, technically this is all my opinion, but this particular one is a little subjective, but I feel pretty strongly about this. I noticed this right when I started playing beta and that is that I like how solid the old versions feel and this may seem crazy but let me try to explain this in the old versions, uh, in beta for example, most of the blocks They are complete solid blocks. blocks and I think that makes it look better. I like the look of the blocks. You only have a few blocks that are a bit strangely shaped.

I mean, you have grass, most notably you probably have hatches and doors. You know you have fences, most of them. They are still quite Blocky type and they are not, there are not many of them, you mostly have to work with full blocks, slabs and stairs, and it is strange, but for some reason it is difficult for me to explain it, but I like it. more in blocks, I used to like glass panels, now I actually like full glass blocks. I like how solid they are and in modern Minecraft you have all kinds of these strange non-solid blocks.

I mean, the list keeps growing and this is something I think I like. What I've subconsciously noticed over the years is that I just didn't like the way many of these looked. I didn't think they really fit in with the rest of the game. They sort of clashed with the cute cubicle style of other blocks. just things like item frames or banners, I think they are one of the worst defenders because they are a strange block, like they don't take up a whole block, they are narrow, they like to wave back and forth, okay, the feeling I get of the banners.

I know when you're looking at one of the mods that add new creatures to Minecraft, but they have very strange details and just don't fit the game at all. That's the feeling I get from many of these. not solid blocks but like a softer version which is kind of a weird detail I have I know but it's something I really enjoy about the older versions is how blocky they are, another subtle but I think really important reason why the beta version looks so good it's the fog I'm not necessarily talking about the render distance, I'm talking about the actual fog that appears no matter what the render distance is, it's there at the edge of the render distance and in later versions They made the fog much thinner. um and it just doesn't have the same effect, it's a little thin band of fog that's actually there as a little buffer between what you know and the things that are loading on the edge of the world in the beta.

It's like a really nice thick fog, not thick like it's obscuring your vision, but it extends from the edge of your rendering distance and things that are very, very far away from you become like uh, I don't know the scientific aspect. term, but it gives you that effect of when you look at things far away in real life and they become a little faded, it just makes everything that is far away look grander and just cool, it makes the whole world look cooler in In my opinion, but adding to that, the game also had a totally different atmosphere in the first versions, there was less stuff in it.

I mean, we've already talked about it, but the lack of these structures, the lack of villas, the lack of all of these. different things make the game feel a little lonelier and it's just a different atmosphere, it could be, you know, serene, it could be a little melancholy, a little haunting, but I'm not going to talk, get into that whole atmosphere , you know, creepy. Minecraft I already talked about that in another video, but yeah, it's something I noticed right when I started playing, it's just when you're in a beta world and you feel more alone and then you see the sunset. and the sky starts to change, the lighting in the world starts to change in these waves and it's very strange, it's a very different feeling than the later versions of the game, so that's basically the main point of why I think the versions earlier ones are more attractive, hopefully.

You know, if you never understood it before, if you didn't understand why people would want to play an old version of Minecraft, now maybe you understand it better and maybe you want to try it, you know you don't have to play. forever, but a lot of people say they like to go back to, you know, alpha or beta or even just the early release and just experience it, some people say it can remind them of why they liked Minecraft in the first place. I'm serious. It's just a different perspective when you go back to these versions and it's a totally different way to play, everything is very deliberate in these versions, if you want to play you can always use the official launcher they have like a bunch of old guys.

There are versions there, but it's not really the best way. There are problems with similar sounds. Masks don't work. Some people have graphical glitches. If you want to play Old Minecraft, I would recommend the multi MC launcher or the betacraft launcher. use betacraft it's really nice and simple, it's easy to understand and I just got used to it so that's the one I use. I'll link it in the description. I also use an old Cobblestone texture pack, uh, just because in beta 1.7 they changed the cobblestone. texture so I like the most faded one and I don't really like that one, at least not for the beta, but yeah, other than that, I hope you enjoyed it if you actually watched this far.

Thank you very much, you put up with my ramblings, my crazy ramblings. by the way, no, this is it, you know, all of this is just my opinions, don't read this too seriously, I'm just talking, I didn't do it, I don't even have a script. I have a little piece of paper, I don't know if you can hear that where I wrote bullet points of topics, but other than that, this is all just me talking like I didn't say anything against modern Minecraft, I actually, uh, I did. Just so you know, he knocks a few points about it just to illustrate a few points in this video, but honestly, you know, God knows I could make a three-hour video on everything that modern Minecraft does better than the beta, but yeah, yeah you don't agree with me. about anything you can let me know in the comments, uh I know it sounds cheesy but I really read a lot of comments, maybe not all CU comments.

Sometimes I get a lot of them, but I really read a lot of them, uh, maybe not. Answer, but I also read them. If you think I missed something about why the old versions are great, you can go ahead and say that too. I'm sure I missed things. I mean, people have all kinds of ideas about why. re uh why are they good I think that's it, really okay, I better finish the video for real, see you later this time, bye.