Terraria vs. Starbound vs. Terraria 2

I reckon starbound has the potential to be better, definitely needs to work out some issues though. The devs are super responsive and are are already dropping patches.

I was actually expecting graphically something better. And terraria is better in my opinion, they didn't even bother to blend pixels on starbound. Also game looks complicated and from what i saw in trailer, motions of characters aren't smooth. Though it's in beta atm, but these are my opinions. And i followed a bit progress of the game from their website, i thought they would improve pixels but nope they didn't. Shapes of items are better than terraria but blending is better in Terraria.

Really depends on what you like i think...Haven't played starbound yet but from what i've seen starbound is a little more complex and it has more exploration

Terraria packs a huge punch for such a tiny price. It will indubitably be discounted in the upcoming Winter Sale. Starbound has a lot of potential, and probably more replayability than Terraria, but it's hard to say since the beta only just launched. Terraria 2 is in a very early stage and I wouldn't expect anything from that any time soon.

They are pretty much same thing. Terraria is not exactly a demanding game, just about anything should run it, even through emulation. Terraria 2 is just being worked on, no details. And they are good games in what they do, some sandbox adventuring. There's over a hundred hours of content even before the latest update, just depends on how much you want to get out of it.

Now people, please stop making the same thread

Your threads are worse than onevoltz's

I have sunk a massive amount of tine into Terraria on multiple steam accounts. It is easily one of the best purchases I have ever made on steam. THAT SAID, and I don't say this lightly, but as far as actual gameplay goes (art style opinions aside, although even then I prefer Starbound) Starbound does everything Terraria does, but better. The depth of Starbound is staggering. Once this game hits full release, frankly, in my opinion, Terraria is obsolete.

Terraria was a fantastic game, and Starbound could not exist without it, but Terraria was just a stepping stone to reach a game like Starbound. I sincerely hope that Terraria 2 attempts to tackle even a portion of what Starbound has to offer.

terraria

starbound sucks(now)

Starbound seems just a Terraria 1.5 to me. I hope Terraria 2 will be more than starbound, meanwhile I'll buy Starbound and play it as soon it will be on sale.

"are they even good games?" is the question you should concern yourself with. Personally, I'm not a fan. I really thought I would be, I wanted to be. But I hated the controls and am not a fan of crafting or open ended sandbox games that give you no direction and you need a wiki to learn. That's just me though.

I think Terraia 2 is much better than Terraria or Starbound, the gameplay footage in the video they released is just amazing, and all the things they talked about that would be in the games is just fantastic . . . oh wait.

After months of trying I've finally won Terraria on SG, and the next day I discovered Starbound. Fell in love instantly, but haven't played it yet. To buy, or not to buy, that is the question.

Starbound is my choice.

Right now, Terraria is a better game than Starbound, but Starbound has the potential to become much, much better than Terraria.

EDIT: typo

There is a wrapper for playing Terraria on Mac.

As far as I have seen Starbound (which IS probably the Terraria 2, not sure here, mentlgen) has the potential to become a really good game. You can go to space in it too and discover new planets, sounds fun right? Not everyone is a fan of such a genre with this kind of atmosphere though...
Now... Terraria must be pretty amazing, wish there were more giveaways with this game in private groups and such.

Wait.. Terraria 2? I thought Starbound was Terraria 2.

Edge Of Space... no? ... oh

I also have the same questions with you all, so I googled a bit and found out things that is pretty definitive. I shortened all the stuffs up. it's pretty much this :

1. Terraria was lead developed by Andrew Spinks,his id "redigit" Wiki
2. Finn Brice, or his id "Tiy" was a sprite artist on Terraria. Wiki
3. at one point, redigit stopped developing Terraria to be with his family more (before update 1.2). Tiy left Re-logic (terraria dev) and act as the lead developer on Starbound through Chucklefish. (hence some similarities between the games)
4. redigit got back into developing updates for terraria for 7 months (the 1.2 update) and also said there's still more to come (1.2.1 and so on). He also said that he wants to develop Terraria 2 because of the limitations of Terraria 1.
5. more games, more fun !

none is the better game because one is in beta and the other isn't.

I played Terraria for a bit and just shook my head. I guess the game's not for me. Not to mention the clumsy coop function - major drawback for me.

As for Starbound, I can't comment since I haven't touched it. Maybe I'll buy arrrrr it if I have time. Too many Steam games.

Both are great, but currently terraria is better since Starbound has little quest and lots of bugs (but that will chance over time, Starbound has enormous potential and a good dev team)

Terraria is an amazing game to play with friends or at lan partys, highly recommend it.
Almost nothing is known about Terraria 2, we don't know what it will look like, what it will run on and how the game will work. We have not release date.
I have not played Starbound, but I REALLY want to, it looks AMAZING.

I don't get why one has to be better and i also don't get the butthurt i'm seeing from some of the terraria fanbase all over the internet. Honestly it's as pathetic as the minecraft fanboy butthurt back when terraria came out. I've played terraria a lot, 269h on my steam account and probably another 300 or more back when it was in beta, i have done, insane building projects aside since i'v never been into that kind of stuff, everything there is to do in the game both alone and with a friend. From everything i'v seen about starbound it looks like it's taken the terraria formula and vastly improved it so i don't see anything not to like. Moving on to Starbound from Terraria just seems like a natural transition to me. Work has not even started on Terraria 2 so there's not even an estimate on when it might be out, RED's not even done with the patching for Terraria yet.

If you're interested in this type of game get Terraria, it will probably be like 2$ on the winter sale, and play it until Starbound reaches the second stage of beta,that's when i plan on buying it aswell, by then it should be stable enough to have a very enjoyable experience and you should be done with most of the stuff you can do in Terraria. Not that you can't enjoy it now mind you, i'v seen nothing but praise from all the youtubers who're playing it now, but there will be some inevitable character wipes in this stage of beta and i'd rather wait.