The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (2011)

Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (2011) by intended on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:37PM (#13755590)

Most games have a smaller learning curve than dwarf fortress.

That's also the point.

Dwarf fortress is actually a good study on community structuring via challenge based gating. Before the many tutorials, if you could hack df or aurora, you were a particular type of gamer, and the challenge itself was the fun.

I really wish people could know themselves through the game the way I got to.

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Re:The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress (2011) by LoSboccacc on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:11PM (#13756051)

I play both, and the communities are wonderful places to have mainstream-unbiased discussion about games and game mechanic.

I'm not playing that much these days but I still frequent bay12 other games section, it's the best source for opinionated discussions about games

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