Skycaptin5 – Minecraft PS5 Gameplay Review

This is minecraft we’re on playstation 5 taking a look at this version of the massive and intense never-ending open-world survival crafting experience that is minecraft so i’ve covered it on all the platforms and i finally have the opportunity here to take a look at the game on playstation so that’s actually really

Exciting because the last time i played well basically minecraft on playstation was like the ps3 or something like that i don’t know but i’m kind of excited to be back here taking a look at the game as of the caves and cliffs update on playstation 5. so what are we getting

Here 1080p 60fps and it’s got the full scope and suite of minecraft offerings that you would expect it’s going to continue to get updates and support in order to improve the experience over time and hopefully someday we get a proper next-gen version because we’re still not fully getting

You know the full of what this console can provide which is you know at times disappointing at the other hand of things you know it does run well and it does support full crossplay which is fantastic so you actually can play this with people on other platforms which is great it also

Allows you to basically sign into a microsoft account which in turn will allow you to enjoy the magic of realms the minecraft store and all that cool stuff so we’ll talk about that in a little bit here but let’s talk about what minecraft has to

Offer it is a game that you could play multiple different ways you can do a survival world you can do creative world so in survival you need to eat food you need to survive you can die and everything like that creative is about building it’s like lego blocks building

And creativity adventure is kind of a mix of the two and it’s gonna vary based on what you do there’s different difficulty options there’s a starting chest option there’s membership options for controlling people that join into your match what they do because it has you know like multiplayer so you can

Play with others tons of different world options cheats that you can put on that can help education edition there’s a ton of different like video settings so you can customize the visual experience to be whatever you want it to be you can change the fov there’s split screen

Options too for playing split screen and there’s just tons of different visual options that you can change and it’s got a render distance of 28 chunks so yeah minecraft unlimited building you can jump down here and use a plethora of different blocks and objects and items to build well

Almost anything and they’re constantly adding new blocks and new ways for you to play and there’s different mobs you know we’ve got like some friendly mobs we got bad mobs dark mobs mobs that come out at night that’s what i mean by dark mobs because you know there’s scary

Mobs that are out in the night that are trying to eat you and attack you like zombies and skeletons and there you know there’s like kind of neutral mobs and it’s it’s a continuingly expanding world that you can just absolutely lose countless hours of life into it’s the ultimate sort of survival experience

It’s block building it’s expansive it’s exciting it’s fun there’s so many different biomes and different locations and different settings and they keep updating and changing these worlds too we showed a little bit of the the cliffs you know the caves and cliffs update where the underground has been completely revamped

Completely redone now we’re showing off part of like what was part of the aquatic update where they completely revamped the world under the ocean so that it’s alive and has like coral and there’s hidden surprises and hidden temples and different things for you to see different things for you to discover and

That’s the fun of minecraft as you never know what you’re going to get there’s these different seeds you can input so we can share the same seed this is sky sky and you’ll be able to jump into the same world that i’m jumping into or you can

Create a random world or you can do all kinds of things join other people’s worlds play together play alone it’s really quite exciting because there’s just so many ways to experience well the wonders of minecraft like this game is just like the ultimate sort of experience just because there’s so many

Different things you can do and we’re just kind of quickly zooming around in creative but when you play survival you’ve got to manage your food your resources you gotta sleep at night to skip the night if you’d like to and there’s so many different like elements to what you’re

Doing in this game in regards to like crafting and creation and you’re trying to make better tools and get different swords and get different like fishing options and there’s boats and there’s an underworld you can go to and there’s like an end game world there’s bosses you can summon to fight

And the world geometry is just like so beyond you know what it used to be like just the the changes we have seen over the years to this game are just absolutely monumental and here on ps5 it does seem to run pretty well you know it offers a

Good sense of scope but once again though i do feel that we really should be getting next-gen upgrades that would be fantastic and i think that would you know kind of really take advantage of the consoles a bit more but yeah this is kind of a really great

Offering and a fantastic game that you can just spend i don’t know bazillions of hours playing like i’ve got hundreds of hours into this game across the different platforms from pocket edition to xbox to the switch to pc to you know it’s crazy and you can all play together using the

Magic of cross play which is fantastic i think that’s a really really cool thing so collect resources meet and use the animals around you or befriend them to a degree as well and see what minecraft has to offer for you but let’s switch over and let’s show off

Another aspect of the game because we want to cover the full scope of what minecraft is that is just the core gameplay the world of minecraft is is so much more these days as i kind of wait for that world to load so we’ve got uh different editions so you

Can do launch editions uh which is kind of a classic thing but there’s a full minecraft store filled with content with new content being released every single day there’s always new stuff there’s like thousands of pieces of things here from skin packs to change how your character is to

Huge new worlds that you can explore with missions and stories and quests to texture packs and mashup packs mashup packs completely changed the world there’s like a little big planet pack there’s skyrim there’s you know star wars and i have reviews for those as well on the channel and then textures packs that

Change how the map looks how the world looks you can have your own world that you spent thousands of hours on slap on realistic textures and it looks completely different and then there’s the the new section but you also have your content too so i myself have like 500 pieces of like content

Oh sorry 400 pieces of content that i’ve you know kind of gathered and bought and downloaded and done like maps and videos and stuff on there’s there’s so much you can get and then there’s realms too which we’ll lead into but we want to talk about the characters too so you can

Actually even edit your character now instead of just using skins you can do tweaks and you can get emotes and you know there’s there’s so much more to this than there there ever was in the past which is kind of just fascinating and lots of settings options

Too that you can change mouse and keyboard everything like that is present here and then we’ve got uh realms so we’re going to show off realms in a sec here but this is like an online world that you subscribe to and it’s a place where people can play 24 7. you’ve got your

Friends list you can join other realms there’s finding cross-platform friends they’re servers so these servers are places where you can go and you can compete in different games like the very popular lifeboat server jump in here and you can do well hunger games you can do survival games you can do creative stuff

It’s a very easy way to do multiplayer with others and these are always changing always getting updated cool new places that you can go and you can visit with other people and and enjoy the world of like competitive play like survival games or you know they’ve got

Sky wars and bed wars and you know these are changing things prison capture the flag all kinds of good stuff here and there’s just really easy way to play multiplayer with others if you don’t have specific friends that are available it’s fantastic so now we’re going to

Jump into the world of realms so i have my own realm here it’s a survival world so realms are something that you can either get an option where it’s two people plus you or you can get 10 people plus you those are the two choices currently and realms provide a lot of value

Because they are an always available world that you can join from any device at any time and it’s cosplay enabled and it’s just fantastic like here is i don’t want to do that here’s the realm here’s my character set up and you know i’ve got these great weapons and this great setup because

This is a world that i’ve been working on you know with others for like years and stuff again all survival which is quite impressive and it just it’s another layering to what you can do in this game if you have a project you and others

Want to work on if you have a world that you want to be able to share with like a family or something and just have it so people can play at any time because if you host a local game you always have to be on and stuff and this kind of

Replaces that aspect it allows you to basically offer an environment that you guys can jump into at any time and play and explore and fight in and do whatever you want and then there’s other value added to the realms now you can do things such as like this membership management you can

Change how people are when they join in there’s subscription options and you can do these subscription options on backups too which help a lot in case something gets damaged but the subscription options you know they also come if you have the premium realm option you can basically

Get like some free access to rotating content that comes and goes like a you know subscription setup which is really cool so realms are really neat thing and something that i felt was you know quite important to highlight because it is kind of a key element of the game

That’s now present here it’s a cloud-based offering within the world of minecraft which is really really exciting it’s just something that if you’re not familiar with it’s something i wanted to highlight because i think it is something that offers quite a lot of value for you to enjoy

So now we’re going to save and quit we’re going to show off a little bit of the minecraft store content and we’re going to do that with the vault tech mashup pack traditionally i show off like kind of a shooting game because it changes the the world a

Little bit but let’s just do a mashup pack and i think that’s kind of an easy way to do it we’ll just throw on creative so it’s a little bit easier and this just kind of gives you a little bit of a taste of what like a store minecraft marketplace map can do

To change your experience if you like fallout the future of the series is on xbox but you can enjoy this really cool mashup world in minecraft which is really really cool if you want the nostalgia of the series it’s really really quite neat and you know you can see these like worlds

Kind of being present here that completely altered the landscape i thought we had set it so that i yeah it’s always the personal game mode that kind of changes things but yeah you can see like this world recreated here if you like fallout you’ll be like what look it’s it’s the sanctuary

It’s the first vault you go down into and it changes like the visuals and you know varies map to map but it gives you just kind of a taste of like wow you know this is the kind of thing that people can do in minecraft they can recreate these entire environments and

You can build this stuff yourself where you can buy these maps and some of these maps have actual story content to them that you can work through this is more like a bit of a showcase being like hey here’s the world of fallout 4 fallout 3 vegas everything like recreated

You know within this game here’s the capital area and everything like that and you can be like oh wow look at what minecraft has to offer and and some of the stuff is really really great story structure like narrative structured creations that you can enjoy this is more of just trying to present

You know the world of fallout here but other map pack like there’s one for like skyrim there’s you know there’s a little big planet world there’s there’s all these different options that are present that give you choices oh look that’s a familiar spot isn’t it huh

Yeah they give you all of these these options these choices for you to enjoy the full scope of what you know these worlds are like but in minecraft which is so cool and i hope if you’ve maybe never played minecraft and you’re like a fallout fan you could be

Like wow i know that area i know that setup this is amazing because that’s kind of what this is it’s just like look at the things you can recreate look at the worlds you can make it’s really really cool and just ever so expansive in terms of

You know what this game has to offer it feels almost endless just in terms of new options being added new things for us to explore new worlds for us to visit it’s quite exciting and i know i’m doing a lot of flying but like literally we can go over here to

You know diamond city you go like walk around in there and you can build in here and you can create stuff and you can invite your friends in and you can enjoy that and how you know kind of enjoy the full scope of what minecraft

Has to offer it’s just like it’s such a wonderful game that is perfect for any type of audience you know anyone can come in play minecraft have a good time and see what it has to offer and you’ll probably love it it’s basically like just building with lego which is kind of cool

Doing creative things being like hey you know what this is my house now well that’s that’s a bad passing there but hey you know what i’m gonna block this off and i’m gonna make a shelter and i’m gonna do my thing and you know that’s kind of just how it

Goes and that’s the cool part of my craft is just the sense of being like hey i could do whatever i want and that’s kind of just the craziness of it i don’t want to pop up that menu we can grab like i don’t know let’s do a

Sword which is supposed to be fallout oriented there we don’t want to really set that down but you know you can attack things like this iron golem and cause problems well the iron column’s not going to attack back because you know we’re obviously on creative which is kind of peaceful

But yeah you can go around causing problems and you can just enjoy the scope of what minecraft has to offer so what would we have here a robust survival experience we’ve got an expanding and ever expanding store that you can buy into you can buy credits or

Buy actual like use actual money to buy maps or you can jump into realms and do a subscription type thing you know or you can jump into servers and play with others minecraft is an ultimate experience one that you can have everlasting amounts of fun with you can see

You know just like really cool elements of kind of discovery and advancement biomes different places and different faces like i’ve had so much fun you know playing this not only from a perspective of like creating things but a perspective of having fun and trying to survive and

There’s always a new scenario for you to play in minecraft and there’s always new stuff for you to do there’s always fresh fun to have there’s always hidden challenges to discover you can do anything you kind of set your mind to in the world of minecraft you’re not really limited by any degree

You have complete freedom here it does seem to run and look pretty good on you know the playstation 5 and that was kind of the showcase here was to be like hey here’s how the game’s running here’s what the game has to offer and we’ll wrap up by showing off just some regular

Survival because well what’s minecraft without actually trying to survive a little bit right and just so you get also feel again of how everything kind of runs and all that stuff and maybe get an idea of building a house too and whatnot if you are someone that has for whatever reason never played

Minecraft which is to me a little crazy because this is one of the most incredible games ever created it’s weird the story of this one but it’s kind of exciting to follow the direction and the development of where the series will go because i think that this is something that

Has delighted hundreds of millions and it’s very likely to continue to delight hundreds of millions possibly billions over time as more people play the game there’s new people all the time right so this is something that i’m sure will probably outlive me i don’t think they’ll do like a minecraft 2 ever right

Like this is a game that they just continue to support and upgrade and offer new ways to play so that you can keep coming back without having to you know feel like anything is getting stale there’s always something exciting going on and through the power of this bedrock version the superior version

You get in to enjoy cross play so you can play with others and you don’t have to feel disconnected or anything like that everybody plays together everybody has fun together and to me that’s kind of important that’s a really awesome thing is the fact that we can all connect and

Enjoy the magic of minecraft without everybody feeling you know left out and whatnot and i think that’s really quite interesting and something that is endearing in regards to the experience of minecraft is just the fun that you can have not only alone but with others or local

Whether that’s locally or online or in realms or you know in multiplayer whether you’re doing competitive stuff cooperative things creating your own gaming scenarios exploring what others have made that’s minecraft it’s just it’s something that is so pure and exciting and expansive and never ending like it just keeps

Going on and on and that is quite so the the magic of the minecraft experience is something that will hopefully continue to evolve far into the future oh i i guess i should also mention if you didn’t know dynamic day night there’s weathering that comes in there’s all

Kinds of different effects like a minecraft is uh you know kind of a living breathing world you might encounter snow you might encounter rain you might have good moments or bad moments or shocking times or like you you never really do know what is going to happen next and that’s

What makes minecraft so exciting part of it is that the thrill of hey is everything going to go fine or am i going to go on some kind of wacky adventure where things are gonna totally turn out for the worst and i’m gonna have to try to survive those trials in interesting ways

That’s that’s my craft and i look forward to seeing how it continues to evolve over the years to come