Minecraft Dungeons Receiving Free Cross-Play Update This November, New Howling Peaks DLC To Follow

Still pointless multiplayer very gimmick like. I would prefer a random group generator most of the time. May as well be single player with sometimes co-op.

Oooh, cant wait 🤤😍

Really excited to see what new original mobs they come up with for the nether, end, and underwater dlcs. It all looks really good!

Too bad cloud and cross platform saves still aren’t a thing, how are they planning that fallout once people start upgrading their platform and lose their character?

Please stop... its already dead.

There is 2 things I find absolutely fascinating in a weird sense about Minecraft.

1) Even with the massive success of the core game, NOTHING else with Minecraft on it even competes with the worst affairs with Mario. The difference is astounding.

2) Weird to see games in the franchise evolve from the poor textures and still see Steve retain it for Smash, along with the animations. The comparisons make some of the mods look more fluid.

I can finally play with 3 people, all of which is me.

Hahahaha I'm so lonely

@Paraka so for point 1 you’re saying the spinoffs are awful basically? I haven’t played but heard Dungeons is fun?

@Paraka Understandable for Minecraft Earth, perhaps, but Story Mode and Dungeons have done fairly well. It's kind of similar to Pokemon, in a sense, but on a greater scale because way more spinoffs are produced for it. The biggest brand in media and yet the mobile games for it get shut down only a year or two after release (if they rely on the Internet like Duel or Rumble Rush or whatever, and most of the spinoffs sell much worse relative to mainline games.

Minecraft Dungeons is a good game if you can look past the fan base. It's a good looter and dungeon crawler. The items, abilities and enemies are all really neat. I tried to get into Diablo but the gameplay was boring compared to this. No shade, just saying what I feel.

They’ve really done a great job improving this from day one.

@neogyo - Dungeons I heard is very basic, but not enough for people to really enjoy. Stories I heard was pretty cringey in the eyes of everyone who isn't a huge MC fan (which from what I played, I can see that).

This doesn't mean the games are bad, just that the IP isn't as lucrative beyond the biggest selling game, ever, in history. People simply don't want more MC like they do with more Mario.

@Paraka That is more like a Design decision to keep game mechanics more basic within Minecraft Dungeons to appeal to a broader and younger audience.

Nothing is preventing them to make things more complicated as in other ARPG's like Diablo.

They can easily expand and introduce more sophisticated mechanics in future DLC updates. Nothing is stopping them from doing just that.
Time will tell.

@Jeronan - Not for me to decide if their decision for basic was intentionally bad. But you cannot deny, most seasoned may not want to pick it up because of it.

But it does show the youngins are probably the only ones picking it up for now.

Been having a lot of fun with this launch so looking forward to cross-play to make it easier to join people. They really need to add joining random groups though.

@Paraka ah I gotya

This is great of course, but I was playing the game on my Xbox One S, and I was not impressed with the frame rate. It was quite jarring for me at times, considering it is technically a first party game under the wing of Microsoft, just released on other platforms as well. I just kind of expected some better performance considering the game isn't graphically tough on systems.