I don’t even understand how this could be a debate. It may not be the hardest game, the most challenging, or the most competitive. It’s not the most fun to watch or the most entertaining in short bursts—I can name 20 games that give me more short-term fun than Minecraft. But in the long run, Minecraft is the most entertaining and enjoyable. You can do anything. Even before all the major updates, I remember when I was a kid I would play survival and I was never good; I didn’t build any mega bases or even find lots of diamonds. But just being able to express myself limitlessly was the most freeing thing ever.
I know some people will give their personal favorite game as the "best game ever made," but when you really think about the impact Minecraft has had, it’s clear that it’s the only true contender. Sure, games like Mario, Pac-Man, or Tetris paved the way for how games were made, and for the technology they had back then, those games were great. But Minecraft—even without mods—is just so massive. It has endless possibilities solely in the single-player mode.
And it’s not just nostalgia. This is a very old game now, and even my little brother—who turns 6 in a week—saw Minecraft somehow, I don’t even remember showing him, and he can sink hours into it just exploring how everything works. Honestly, I don’t blame him. This game has more things to do than any other game, and probably even the real world. With everything costing crazy amounts of money nowadays, me asking my mom for the 7 dollars to buy the game when I was a kid was the best purchase I’ve probably ever made in my life.
Now, the gameplay isn’t even the only thing this game has to offer; the soundtrack is the best, most listenable audio to ever be put into a video game. Listening to it now, all I can feel is pure bliss. The calming piano sounds and melodic symphony are something everyone should be able to experience. If I had to play one single game for the rest of eternity, the only game I could even think about choosing is Minecraft. You don’t have to stress yourself if you don’t want to—you can always play in Peaceful. The world is endless, and the things you can do are too. When adding even just one other player to the game, you can 20x the amount of things possible.
I’d love to see what other people think about this topic and hear your thoughts as well, but I think it’s pretty much unanimous to anyone who’s played it before that Minecraft is the greatest game ever made.

Disclaimer I am NOT saying that java is worse than bedrock.

I've been playing on bedrock my whole life and only quite recently have access to java. As someone who plays bedrock i would say that java is for some reason duller and gloomier even on brightest settings. Also the lag is unbearable sometimes. I play on a non gaming laptop that can run bedrock decently so the lag is a bit annoying. I always hear about these optimisation tools such as optifine but idk which one i should right now use since im pretty clueless about java. And any other things that i should expect when switching to java? (Aside from the benefits such as "less buggy, better features, etc")

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Zombie with FULLY ENCHANTED DIAMOND ARMOR with an enchanted iron shovel!!! Apparently this is incredibly rare. He says it's 1/27,000,000 chance of spawning with a 6.38 local difficulty. Is this really a big deal he's very happy about it??