Nostalgic Minecraft: An Eerie Half-Remembered Dream

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Minecraft turns 15 this year, and classic Minecraft, or at least Minecraft from before 2015, is one of the most nostalgic experiences out there. But old Minecraft also had an ethereal, sometimes eerie, or mystical aura to it. What was it that made Minecraft feel both creepy, yet cozy? Why does nostalgic Minecraft's vibe feel like a half-remembered dream?

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0:00 Intro
1:50 Minecraft: Eerie Nostalgia
6:00 Minecraft's Urban Legends
8:30 Unsettling Ambience
9:44 A Legendary Adventure
11:40 The Soundtrack of Nostalgia
14:29 Mountain Island Big
16:20 Outro

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"I've played the game with every friend I've ever known, some I haven't spoken to in years" hit me so hard. great video

Crusty

I guess it’s because old Minecraft felt more empty and lonely. No villagers, not many ruins, no fish, barely any friendly mobs.

Sonof_DRN

This is one of my favorite videos about old Minecraft, because it's not a critique on modern Minecraft, it doesn't put down new Minecraft or people who enjoy it, but it simultaneously makes clear why old Minecraft is so different and good.

RylanGarciaFilms

Its weird to think about, but I think there is gonna be a lot of younger kids that just do not understand how original and impactful Minecraft was when it first came out and was at its peak. It was unheard of for a small indie game like that to be as culturally huge as it was. By now, Minecraft has been owned by one of the biggest companies in the world longer than is hasn't.

ohafomob

Mojang officially lost me when Jeb called Minecraft a "medieval fantasy" game during Minecon Earth 2018. Minecraft was never a "medieval fantasy" game. Minecraft is its own thing. A platform to build to your heart's content and explore the themeless but beautiful block terrain. Modern Minecraft is a wildly different vibe from old Minecraft, and anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves.

darkpandalord

4:00 When you said terrifying, an ambient noise played while I was playing MC. 😅

nonvous

11:48 Droopy Likes Your Face - C418
I got chills when I heard Droopy

DMGSL

I can understand why old Minecraft versions can be eerie but I also find it quite ethereal.

mosshivenetwork

Modern Minecraft should really add a beta world generation option, or even make it a very large biome you can find in your world. The same endless biome with only abstract mountains and floating islands as landmarks is such a different vibe from the dull, realistic modern world gen that somehow feels more repetitive despite having a million more biomes and tree types than beta .

lumbagoboi

We all grew with minecraft and it's simplicity back in time, I miss those times now

sebailgiocatore

This was a flashback episode. So many many many hours spent in some version of 1.6, mining, building, exploring. This was when I got friends into it, and everyone had their own idea of what made a fun game. Your video is a wistful remembrance.

matthewmarek

As far as I'm concerned early Minecraft is a horror game. I started playing in Beta 1.3 and I remember spending the first night blocked in inside the side of a mountain, terrified the mobs were gonna get me. When day broke I dug out, checked the menus and realized I had been on Peaceful Mode the whole time. Even without mobs the game was scary.

The game is not near so scary now, especially when you've got full enchanted armor and tools. I play on Bedrock version now but I want to get Java version and downgrade to these really old Indev and Infdev versions to see what they're like and piss myself when a mob sneaks up behind me.

The soundtrack is basically perfect. The only problem is it barely plays. You can go 20 minutes or more sometimes without hearing any music. It's the reason why, despite me loving the soundtrack, I often had it turned off and had music playing on youtube while playing the game.

I'm so glad you had tons of friends to play this game with. Growing up I only had my brother to play this game with as my friends at the time were those kind of guys that were like "retro graphics = bad" despite them having played retro games as kids. As far as they were concerned when a new game came out with better graphics the games they were playing before were old and thus it was embarrassing to continue playing those games. Because of that since Minecraft had these retro graphics they considered the game not worth their time and refused to even try it out. Oh well their loss.

animeking