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It's more than that; you also get to build scructures with as much flexability as lego, explore a randomly generated world that sometimes produces amazingly beutiful scenery, figure out how to build complicated systems from small trivial components and top it all off with the random-interval reward system of mining.

Minecraft hits so many of my "god I love this game!" features it's easily my favorite game of 2010, even though it was an alpha release.



FPS + Procedural generating soapbox then?

It doesn't sound like Farmville (also seems to have negative connotations here for some reason).


More like FPS meets Lego (building, not the story stuff Lego has tried in the past).


I'd say FPS + Lego + RPG + Diablo.

And the lego includes a few sets of mindstorms for programmable fun.


In other words, trying to boil down Minecraft in this fashion is pointless and silly.




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