Why Minecraft Story Mode was REMOVED from the Internet...

Minecraft Story Mode was the first minecraft spinoff, and today it is remember very fondly. However, what's often forgotten is its controversial release with mixed reception, and the fact that it is no longer purchasable anywhere online.

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0:00 – Intro
1:00 – A Brief History of Story Mode
2:12 – An Underwhelming Performance?
6:17 – A Mixed Reception
10:35 – Could Story Mode Ever Come Back?

Music Used:
1. Scott Buckley - Horizons
2. Feels - Patrick Patrikios
4. Lena Raine - Rubedo
5. C418 - Dreiton

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[TheMisterEpic]

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[Jansenbaker]

It feels weird to hear that people didn't like the animation style.
I thought it was incredible as a kid, since I couldn't imagine how minecraft faces and bodies would move convincingly, considering the base game has it all stiff.
Story Mode felt like a breakthrough.
I understand the idea of watching it once and not buying, that's what i ended up having to do with S2, but I still have good memeories with the game, and I can't wait for the "remake" movie.

[ArtzyZero]

Like or hate Story Mode, it did what the movie should've done. It told stories within the world of Minecraft, already knowing the player knew what Minecraft is and using in game items/lore but with a creative spin. Aka what players do when playing Minecraft, we make our own stories.

Also Lucas was the best character in the series, actually having his own agency without the player but still being supportive of them. You could actually annoy him enough that he'd call you out on it. XD

[bhaskarvemulapalli]

It was more popular than dungeons and legends combined

[GordonFreekman]

Minecraft story mode was the most polished Minecraft spin-off. They had some corny moments and it wasn't always the best but it always was polished.
edit:why is there a war in the comments, this is just my opinion

[clothieredward]

There's a lot of things I find crazy about Minecraft Story Mode.
I find it crazy that a game getting discontinued isn't the worst fate a Minecraft spinoff can have (as evidenced by Story Mode and Earth).
I also find it crazy that Minecraft Story Mode wasn't received very well by people on launch. I've always remembered the game rather fondly and I never really understood the hate surrounding it.
And I find it crazy that the thing that got people to respect Minecraft Story Mode was the trailer for the Minecraft Movie.

[dronix]

Im so confused whenever people talk about not liking Minecraft story mode because I remember it coming out as a kid and loving it. Even looking back now I have nothing but good memories of it

[tsoewoe]

i wonder if Telltale would've been significantly more successful if they just became an animation/film studio - a lot of the reason why the writing sucked was because they had to account for the many different choices across the games, and a lot of the reason why telltale's games werent profitable was because they were games - but people enjoyed the stories, and i feel Telltale wouldve made a much, much, better Minecraft movie than what we're getting now.

[ChortleChortle]

The character writing for the first half of season 1 is definitely weak and the story is excessively stretched to make it last for four seasons. But the second half of Season 1, where the gang is blindly jumping through the portal hallway and going on concise, self-contained adventures is Story Mode at its best. Jumping through those various "servers" allowed the studio to throw the player into all kinds of interesting concepts, narratives, and environments without having to keep characters safe for later use or keep the player railroaded through a longer overarching plot. Containing these things to one episode means they can destroy as much of the world as they want and kill as many characters as they want, in every episode.

One of the things I admire most about the game is that it doesn't just feel like it's a bunch of characters in a Minecraft themed setting, it feels like I'm experiencing what every player at least once dreamed a Minecraft server could be. Spleef, speed-bridging, admin abuse, operator powers, the whole command block disaster in the first four episodes, world-eating redstone machines, mob grinders, etc.... The setting is the full-bore, unadulterated, entirety of the Minecraft experience.

Story Mode's writers and devs, for all the game's faults, had a shockingly thorough understanding and respect for Minecraft's game mechanics and the state of its community at the time.

[UltimteFuson]

I remember telling my dad that I wanted Minecraft in 2015, and he buys me story mode instead of the actual game 😭

I enjoyed the first part so much though, and I'm pretty sure I cried when Ruben died

[jug-eun]

5:35 This is the reason why the studio died in general. I have pretty much enjoyed both Minecraft: Story Mode, as well as their other games like The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among us, yet I bought none of these games. Since there were kind of like video series, you could watch a non-commentary youtuber and get pretty much the same experience.
This is why no other studio makes such games either. They are just not profitable.

[TheVardener]

Minecraft Story Mode had something I found that made me love it. It had heart. Minecraft Story Mode had no obligation to include things the community liked. The far lands as a place had been removed by that time, but they still included it because of the community fanfare around it. The latter half of season one being completely dedicated to community made things, skyblock, story custom maps, massive redstone inventions, and then minigame servers.

Season 2 has less of that because they can't re-tread the same ground, but the fact that the main antagonist is a God named "The Admin" and the story is essentially that of a minecraft servers admins fighting but taken up to 11 is very charming to me. Plus there's still some nice "if you know, you know" things. My favorite example is that the Warden of the sunshine institute is implied to be a sort of "reformed" criminal in a way, and is very clearly modeled after Pyrobyte's skin, who was a huge name in the history of 2B2T, the classic "oldest anarchy server in minecraft".

[BrBlBa]

Regardless of the large consensus, I loved this game when it came out and played it on my mom's old iPad so many times. It had great storytelling, the music was unironically really good, and you could tell that the artists who made it really cared. I was crushed when as an adult I learned that this game is no longer possible to play, as it was a large part of my childhood, and will always be highly nostalgic towards it.

[rotomnation]

As a kid, I wanted nothing more than to purchase minecraft story mode, I loved the series and I loved minecraft. However I was a child, and my parents were very strict on buying anything for me since we had to live off of a tight budget, so I could never buy storymode or even minecraft for the longest time, I had to watch it on my dad's laptop while he was home, or at friends houses. Once I grew grew up and was able to afford the game on my own, I wanted to support it and buy it with my own money, but by that point telltale had already gone bankrupt and the game was taken off steam and consoles, so I never got to give them the money I always wanted to give them.

[Emerald]

Its honestly sad that it was heavily criticized during the time, truly think it's amazing from then until now. Could understand why people think the characters are dull, but the concepts and worldbuilding it does is honestly just creatively great. Reminds me so much of back in the day when my friends and I would think of all sorts of scenario for roleplaying so many stuff. Its so cringe thinking back on it, but it was honestly the most fun I had as a kid

[LordAlgumaCoisa]

I don't think it was a failure, the community likes it, despite some few others disliking it for some reason, still it's been very well known on the community, it made to different places like Netflix, back then when it released I was baffled by the gameplay involving the choices and would watch all the different outcomes the choices would lead to, it truly was a game. Thanks telltale for this masterpiece, I expected the Minecraft movie to follow something along those lines, but it is what it is

[MastifyMC]

Minecraft Story Mode even has netflix, it made such a good movie. It's an iconic symbol of the classic minecraft

[Im_ARock]

As someone who has bought both seasons digitally, I think the main problem I noticed was that it didn't feel like a true "Choose your own adventure" type of game. Like you said, the game focused more on the story than the gameplay, but even then whatever choices you made didn't feel like they impacted the story. Sure, there were some choices that changed what characters you saw at what parts, but that was IT, it was basically just a reskin of what happens. It's like your walking on a trail, and you get to choose whether you go left or right, but both trails connect again a mile later, the story always led back to the same points no matter what you did.

Even with that tho, I still LOVE the game, as glitchy as the animations get and even though all the voice lines get cut off right before they finish, I've still played the game every year since 2017 as a sort of tradition haha, and also, Petra was NOT a boring character, her character development in season 2 actually almost made me cry, it was so sad ;-;

[DeterminedBlade]

I remember when I first saw Minecraft story mode on Netflix and absolutely lost my mind into joy.
I never played anything after episodes 1 and 2 so being able to play up to 5 was exciting for me.
Story mode is still the only game to make me cry because of (spoilers)










Rubens death. The thing that pushed me over was that at the top of the screen a message came down saying “Ruben will be remembered” which was really emotional for me since I’ve never seen another game do something like that.
This wasn’t a spin-off game, it was a masterpiece.

[owenhacking]

I find it odd that you didn't mention that there was almost no choice in a game that was supposed to have choice.