What made X's Adventures so compelling was that it's a story of an everyday guy getting dropped into this scary new world, slowly but surely exploring it and taking on its dangers. Since Minecraft really was so new and scary at the time, people who watched the series could learn how to play with X, and apply what they saw to their own playthroughs.

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It's this communal learning experience, in combination with the let's players own personalities, what made these early series so popular—and it's why newer series, although they may be fun in their own right, will perhaps never quite have the same magic the older series had.

X's Adventures in Minecraft eventually ended in 2012, after a run of 69 episodes. Hopefully it, and similar, venerable series, like SeaNanners' Welcome to Minecraft and paulsoaresjr's Minecraft Tutorials, will always be here to show us where the story of Minecraft and its let's play community really got started.

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Update: X uploaded a retrospective video:

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