Or not. I don't believe there can be one best of anything, but when I start a game of Terraria, I want to play nothing but Terraria. It's like everything we imagined we wanted in a side scroller as kids.
I've played on and off for years, but I never actually cleared it. I'm aiming to do that now.I made a small world and I'm playing on the normal difficulty to expedite the process. It's going smoothly and I'm finding all sorts of good items. I have a gun that shoots bees that act like homing bullets , along with three summoned helpers, and we're burning down bosses like crazy. And I can fly short distances and run very fast. This game has possibly the greatest collection items and equipment ever put in a game. I also have a grappling hook made of rubies, a sword that calls down falling stars on enemies, web shooters, and grenades that unleash bees instead of shrapnel. My last character fought with books of spells, magic wands, and a yo-yo. For the most part I'm playing a "ranger" build though. Guns and bows, the summons are just to make things die a little faster.
Because I want to get the game cleared sooner rather than later, I'm not spending a lot of time on the creative aspect. Just building buildings with whatever I have at hand to house the NPCs, aesthetics secondary. 90% functionality here, no distractions. Last time I got too caught up in making a wizard tower and lost track of where I was in the game
When I'm done I'm either going to go straight into Expert difficulty on a larger world and build a mega base, or I'm considering gitting gud at and clearing Metal Slug 1-3, also games full of personality Or Donkey Kong Countrys, to continue the theme of riding animals.
I purposely stay away from games like Terriaria and Minecraft because I'm afraid I'll get too addicted to them! I'm already bad enough as it is with Animal Crossing!
The amount of content rivals anything out there. The NPC interactions and homesteading aren't nearly as involved as a game like AC, but it's everything else - combat, bosses mining, exploration, crafting- that have can have me playing a single world for 50+ hours. Some people have put in hundreds of hours in the game, if not 1000
I bought this game a while back, but I never played it. It sounds crazy. It's really a great time for games.
When you consider that we can play every game ever made (with mods or rom hacks to enhance them, essentially making a game immortal) along with the current stuff, and now indie games can rival and outdo games that cost dozens of millions to make, I have to agree. Internet changed everything.
I've bounced off Terraria a few different times. Not sure why, but what I didn't get to sounds great like I would love building a Wizard Tower. I'll have to try it again sometime.
The beginning doesn't impress, I admit. You are slow, weak, don't have any good items. It takes at least an hour of underground exploration before you start , unless you get lucky with an early gold chest. I think it pays to watch a video of late game to see the potential that awaits you. All that stuff I said I had came after about the third boss, and there are two more before mid game. Then you go into Hardmide with new enemies, bosses , and a ton more items.
Man, I had no idea it was so deep a game.