NotSoSlimJim
Terrarian
@ClearConscious
This isn't towards you, but more so 505. Your team was hired to essentially rebuild from scratch Terraria 1.3 onto consoles, which is a tall order. I respect your openness and attempt to make it work, but you failed horrible, not to say that you were entirely at fault. 505 expected consoles to fall in line with the PC platform. To better "Streamline" the games when updates come out. That's not what you're supposed to do 505. I hate to point at it, but Minecraft on console has you beat, of course, yes they have a bigger team, and a bigger budget. But they kept one thing in mind, it's on consoles. The original UI for terraria on consoles was for most parts console friendly. Same as Minecrafts. Terraria's current UI is horrendous to use on consoles have to hit the trigger to switch, not jusy left and right, but; left, right, up, and down not knowing where the highlighter was going to land. Yes, Minecraft did include handcrafting, but that was optional and could be turned off. Save feature. Only 2 options; "Save&Quit" or "Auto Save". No choosing when to save in the middle of the game. Minecraft gave you all 3 options, even simultaneously if you wanted to. Having the option to save mid game is a life saver. Even in 1.2 when you could only save mid game if auto save was disabled was a better choice than not having that option available at all.
I'm not saying 1.3 on console shouldn't or can't happen or that it's stupid. I'm saying trying to make a console into a PC shouldn't happen because it's stupid.
Look at Minecraft on consoles, it's a console game.
Look at 1.2 Terraria, that's a console game
Look at 1.3 Terraria, it's a sad attempt to force your entire community play on PC.
Terraria on consoles can still be great, just treat it as if it's meant for consoles, instead of just another port from PC.
P.S. If anyone tries to reply to this, I most likely won't answer back. I only came back to the fourms because things were so bad. I couldn't stand and watch it. I just had to say something. Even though I know no one cares. Terraria's a great game, I love it. But in its current state. I can't help be see it's destruction on consoles come to fruition.
This isn't towards you, but more so 505. Your team was hired to essentially rebuild from scratch Terraria 1.3 onto consoles, which is a tall order. I respect your openness and attempt to make it work, but you failed horrible, not to say that you were entirely at fault. 505 expected consoles to fall in line with the PC platform. To better "Streamline" the games when updates come out. That's not what you're supposed to do 505. I hate to point at it, but Minecraft on console has you beat, of course, yes they have a bigger team, and a bigger budget. But they kept one thing in mind, it's on consoles. The original UI for terraria on consoles was for most parts console friendly. Same as Minecrafts. Terraria's current UI is horrendous to use on consoles have to hit the trigger to switch, not jusy left and right, but; left, right, up, and down not knowing where the highlighter was going to land. Yes, Minecraft did include handcrafting, but that was optional and could be turned off. Save feature. Only 2 options; "Save&Quit" or "Auto Save". No choosing when to save in the middle of the game. Minecraft gave you all 3 options, even simultaneously if you wanted to. Having the option to save mid game is a life saver. Even in 1.2 when you could only save mid game if auto save was disabled was a better choice than not having that option available at all.
I'm not saying 1.3 on console shouldn't or can't happen or that it's stupid. I'm saying trying to make a console into a PC shouldn't happen because it's stupid.
Look at Minecraft on consoles, it's a console game.
Look at 1.2 Terraria, that's a console game
Look at 1.3 Terraria, it's a sad attempt to force your entire community play on PC.
Terraria on consoles can still be great, just treat it as if it's meant for consoles, instead of just another port from PC.
P.S. If anyone tries to reply to this, I most likely won't answer back. I only came back to the fourms because things were so bad. I couldn't stand and watch it. I just had to say something. Even though I know no one cares. Terraria's a great game, I love it. But in its current state. I can't help be see it's destruction on consoles come to fruition.