I was scrolling through this forum and I found this. I own Minecraft on PS3, but I've been playing Minecraft on Bedrock Edition. (Funny thing is that I actually play on a controller, but that's a discussion for later.) I was wondering why you would play on the legacy console editions instead. Should I play on it? I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Old thread here, but I'm mostly commenting just in case anyone in the future stumbles across this and wonders the same thing.
Content-wise, it's a no brainer. The PS3 edition was left behind at 1.13. At this point, it's missing a gigantic portion of modern Minecraft. There's no real reason to gimp yourself by continuing to play the PS3 version unless you are in some unique circumstances.
I have a survival world on the PS3 edition that was (and still is) by far my most "successful." Unfortunately, due to my own negligence, I missed the cutoff window for transferring PS3 saves to PS4, and then migrating them to Bedrock, so that world is forever stuck in the past. I load up that world every so often and play around on it a bit for nostalgia. That world was generated in either 1.11 or 1.12 too, so it doesn't even have the aquatic stuff to explore, but it did have enough for me to get the game's Platinum trophy.
I also revisit all of my old creative world projects, since, again, transferring saves is no longer possible. The biggest is a world wherein I was trying to create a network of major cities/towns/roads/etc across an entire map (and I covered about 30-40%). This is probably my oldest still-surviving project as it was created when the PS3 edition first released in 2013, and I'll still come around every once in a while to make small additions while listening to a podcast or something.
Those are the only reasons I play on the PS3 edition these days. Gives my console a workout, and I get to re-live the greatness of 4J Studios' vastly superior game interface.
Other than that, unless you have a friend or two who can only play on PS3, I can't see why you should start a new world there, unless you want to experience Minecraft in an older, simpler state (which is not unprecedented as many OG PC players are Minecraft Alpha loyalists).
To me I play the Vita Edition for the trophies and the old player tick box menu of commands and that the game 'actually' pauses unlike Bedrock. It's nice to have a 1.2 (if you don't update the game) and 1.13 aquatic update if you do update it.
It's also just nice to have a legacy version of the game on console really. But of course the multiplayer is just not the way to go compared to Bedrock if online that is (I had to work it out for the Diamonds To You trophy a few months ago and had never done it before but used split-screen on the 360 version a handful of times back in the day). While commands may be in Bedrock I never found them that great to pull off and the legacy version 4J did was really clear on the things you do use/need and the rest is just that, console Minecraft.
I never cared for Alpha/Beta only 1.2.5 to modern versions. Besides if I wanted that I'd get a hunger removal mod to make it like beta 1.7.3 with no hunger or 1.6.4 to cut the 1.7.2+ world gen I never liked. But for legacy console I just have a Vita with no updates to the game on it (offline Vita) just encase for playing the old build
I have the game on 360 and Xbox One (moved 360 saves over to it, then upgraded it to Bedrock)/PS4 (Bedrock with PSVR support) for different purposes/eras just happened to buy them.
I missed the PS3/Vita save update, so it's now gone (I never used the PS3 version voucher that came with my Vita Edition as didn't need another copy of it or don't think it would work anymore (don't remember if a date deadline or not) so I just keep it there). That and Sony blocked Vita and PS3 transfers of anything store related (besides the account device password thing too for PSN, grr. It's why I have an offline Vita/PS3 so I don't have them on the latest update for that nonsense to deal with) so I have to use my PC now to do so to be a middleman now which is annoying.
I was scrolling through this forum and I found this. I own Minecraft on PS3, but I've been playing Minecraft on Bedrock Edition. (Funny thing is that I actually play on a controller, but that's a discussion for later.) I was wondering why you would play on the legacy console editions instead. Should I play on it? I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Old thread here, but I'm mostly commenting just in case anyone in the future stumbles across this and wonders the same thing.
Content-wise, it's a no brainer. The PS3 edition was left behind at 1.13. At this point, it's missing a gigantic portion of modern Minecraft. There's no real reason to gimp yourself by continuing to play the PS3 version unless you are in some unique circumstances.
I have a survival world on the PS3 edition that was (and still is) by far my most "successful." Unfortunately, due to my own negligence, I missed the cutoff window for transferring PS3 saves to PS4, and then migrating them to Bedrock, so that world is forever stuck in the past. I load up that world every so often and play around on it a bit for nostalgia. That world was generated in either 1.11 or 1.12 too, so it doesn't even have the aquatic stuff to explore, but it did have enough for me to get the game's Platinum trophy.
I also revisit all of my old creative world projects, since, again, transferring saves is no longer possible. The biggest is a world wherein I was trying to create a network of major cities/towns/roads/etc across an entire map (and I covered about 30-40%). This is probably my oldest still-surviving project as it was created when the PS3 edition first released in 2013, and I'll still come around every once in a while to make small additions while listening to a podcast or something.
Those are the only reasons I play on the PS3 edition these days. Gives my console a workout, and I get to re-live the greatness of 4J Studios' vastly superior game interface.
Other than that, unless you have a friend or two who can only play on PS3, I can't see why you should start a new world there, unless you want to experience Minecraft in an older, simpler state (which is not unprecedented as many OG PC players are Minecraft Alpha loyalists).
Hey, that makes sense.
Man, I wish that Bedrock was built on the 4J codebase. If only, if only...
To me I play the Vita Edition for the trophies and the old player tick box menu of commands and that the game 'actually' pauses unlike Bedrock. It's nice to have a 1.2 (if you don't update the game) and 1.13 aquatic update if you do update it.
It's also just nice to have a legacy version of the game on console really. But of course the multiplayer is just not the way to go compared to Bedrock if online that is (I had to work it out for the Diamonds To You trophy a few months ago and had never done it before but used split-screen on the 360 version a handful of times back in the day). While commands may be in Bedrock I never found them that great to pull off and the legacy version 4J did was really clear on the things you do use/need and the rest is just that, console Minecraft.
I never cared for Alpha/Beta only 1.2.5 to modern versions. Besides if I wanted that I'd get a hunger removal mod to make it like beta 1.7.3 with no hunger or 1.6.4 to cut the 1.7.2+ world gen I never liked. But for legacy console I just have a Vita with no updates to the game on it (offline Vita) just encase for playing the old build
I have the game on 360 and Xbox One (moved 360 saves over to it, then upgraded it to Bedrock)/PS4 (Bedrock with PSVR support) for different purposes/eras just happened to buy them.
I missed the PS3/Vita save update, so it's now gone (I never used the PS3 version voucher that came with my Vita Edition as didn't need another copy of it or don't think it would work anymore (don't remember if a date deadline or not) so I just keep it there). That and Sony blocked Vita and PS3 transfers of anything store related (besides the account device password thing too for PSN, grr. It's why I have an offline Vita/PS3 so I don't have them on the latest update for that nonsense to deal with) so I have to use my PC now to do so to be a middleman now which is annoying.
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