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Title: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play [CLOSED]
Post by: Lord Dakoth on January 06, 2012, 02:29:13 am: Okay guys, if you're here it's pretty much understood that you are a ~~no-life unshaven alcoholic~~ big fan of Dwarf Fortress. So, what we're going to do here is list every reason that Dwarf Fortress is superior to the games that the unenlightened rabble play. No, I don't think we're going to run out of reasons.

1. Magma can cure all problems.
2. MP5Ks are for little girls. Real men use crossbows.
3. Forget the wimpy health bar. If it you ain't bleeding, you ain't hurt.
4. You don't need ammo in Dwarf Fortress because EVERYTHING is a projectile weapon.
5. You say you need a medic? Well, Urist over here is a Dabbling Surgeon in need of practice...
6. Do YOUR weapons menace with spikes?
7. Cacame Awemedinade the Immortal Onslaught. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=39897.120)
8. Dwarves decorate their undergarments with the bones of their enemies.
9. You fight dragons? We capture dragons and convert them into turret defenses (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=96944.0).
10. Dwarves will smash your gates, crush your pitiful defenses, overrun your city, and engrave the whole battle into collectible stone mugs to be sold to your friends and relatives.
11. Welcome to F***ing Boatmurdered (http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/).
12. Your world might rain blood, but our world rains Type AB Ogre blood - and check out that T-cell count!
13. Forget throwing darts, our dwarves are packin' ballista bolts.
14. Your wimpy games have bugs. Dwarf Fortress has "unintentional features."
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Post by: Loud Whispers on January 06, 2012, 02:34:23 am: 15. LETS YOU ORDER MASSIVE FREAKING LISTS OF MANLY AWESOMENESS
16. LETS YOU BUILD MASSIVE FREAKING DEATH TRAPS OF MANLY AWESOMENESS
17. Unbelievably horrific "adventure mode." I have seen things.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on January 06, 2012, 03:13:39 am: 18. Your games have you escape deathtraps. DF lets you make them. And I'm sure you could make a better deathtrap than most games have.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Chilton on January 06, 2012, 03:59:30 am: 20. Most Games have You hear Stories about Prisoners in Dungeons. In Dwarf Fortress, You Trap things in Cages and Torture them in many vicious and cruel ways.

21. In Dwarf Fortress, You can cook Elves in Boiling Water.

22. In DF, You can turn the hides of Your enemies into Clothes.

23. You are the ultimate Antagonist.

24. RIP OUR THEIR ******* EYES!!!
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 06, 2012, 04:10:18 am: 25. Why?

26. Everything is a weapon.

27. EVERYTHING.

28. The only exception to rule #1 is Urist.

29. There are no exceptions to rule #1.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: raptorfangamer on January 06, 2012, 10:22:41 am: poke out the eyes of a sasquatch and strangle them with your turban!

26. giant badgers will destroy embarks

27. you can create supersoldier machines were you force children into 12 years of torture and angry chickens

28. got anything? weaponize it.
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Post by: MasterMorality on January 06, 2012, 10:30:10 am: 29. What most people consider 'hardcore' these days:
"Oh, I take three shots and regenerate, my enemy gets hit once and dies. If I die I will just respawn. I'm so hardcore'.

Dwarf Fortress:
"You get hit where you get hit. This may or may not cripple you for life. It may or may not kill you in one shot. You're dwarf just lost a leg. Suck it up, bitch. No, you're not getting that leg back. In fact, that creature over there is going to pick your leg up and beat you death with it. You won't respawn."
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Oliolli on January 06, 2012, 10:50:31 am: Actually the average "hardcore" game goes as follows:

"I get hit, I die, I respawn/load an earlier save"

Only in "casual" one has time for regenerating health :P
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: magmaholic on January 06, 2012, 10:50:50 am: Quote from: MasterMorality on January 06, 2012, 10:30:10 am
"You get hit where you get hit. This may or may not cripple you for life. It may or may not kill you in one shot. You're dwarf just lost a leg. Suck it up, bitch. No, you're not getting that leg back. In fact, that creature over there is going to pick your leg up and beat you death with it. You won't respawn."
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Post by: Chilton on January 06, 2012, 11:34:18 am: 30. Everything ends up Dead. No matter how Legendary or Mighty. Something will kill it. Even if its Old Age. NOTHING SURVIVES. And if it does somehow? The World being Erased Kills it good.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: MasterMorality on January 06, 2012, 11:42:37 am: Quote from: magmaholic on January 06, 2012, 10:50:50 am
Quote from: MasterMorality on January 06, 2012, 10:30:10 am
"You get hit where you get hit. This may or may not cripple you for life. It may or may not kill you in one shot. You're dwarf just lost a leg. Suck it up, bitch. No, you're not getting that leg back. In fact, that creature over there is going to pick your leg up and beat you death with it. You won't respawn."
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I'm honoured :)
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Ottofar on January 06, 2012, 01:54:59 pm: Quote from: Lord Dakoth on January 06, 2012, 02:29:13 am
6. Does YOUR furniture menace with spikes?

Gotta fix this.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Ogdibus on January 06, 2012, 02:58:10 pm: 31. Socks
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Lord Dakoth on January 06, 2012, 03:32:07 pm: I believe you mean "Sooooooooocks!"
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: kisame12794 on January 06, 2012, 03:44:31 pm: #32 MAGMAAAAAAAAAA.

#33LAVAAAAAAAAAAAA.

#34 Does your game alow you to punt a goblin? No. Not like ours does.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 06, 2012, 04:43:32 pm: 35. DORF DORF DORF DORF DORF

36. Elves suck.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 06, 2012, 06:45:41 pm: 37-50: We had two rows of giant axe blades, seventy-five upright spikes, five sets of high powered steel serrated blade
traps, a storeroom half full of candy, a whole galaxy of multi-colored engravings, berserkers, babblers, tantrums...
Also a barrel of tequila, a barrel of rum, a barrel of beer, a bucket of raw magma and two dozen caged elves.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: bombzero on January 06, 2012, 06:53:40 pm: 51. Because in no other game can you cut off your enemies arm, pick up said arm, beat enemy to death with said arm, pick up said dead enemy, beat dragon to death with said enemy, pick up said dragon, beat another dragon to death with said dragon, wield said dragon in other hand, you are now dual wielding dragons.
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Post by: Devling on January 06, 2012, 07:07:57 pm: 52. In this game you can kill somebody with a pebble A pebble.

53. Dwarves can survive through a dragon attack, the get one shotted by a trebling goblin recruit with a bow.

54. ITS NAME IS AWESOME. Dwarf Fotress. Badass.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Theifofdreams on January 06, 2012, 07:36:08 pm: 55: Armok.

56: No other game requires your characters to drink heavily simply to be productive.

57: !!SCIENCE!!

58: Forgotten beast syndromes. Because to truly be hardcore, one must first experience having one's entire epidermal layer melting off in 10 seconds flat.
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Post by: DrKillPatient on January 06, 2012, 08:14:24 pm: 59. What other game accurately differentiates between lava and magma based on its location?
60. Your big-budget high-graphics game has a health bar that corresponds to some numbers. In our game-- developed by two brothers and their cat, no less-- that cryptic 8-bit smiley face has a realistically simulated nervous and circulatory system, skeletal structure, various internal organs, material properties, and tissue regeneration. Plus, any of those parts can be permanently crippled by even the most innocuous-looking enemy!
61. Almost-realistic geology (native aluminum and adamantine being the exception as far as I know)
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Rinnix on January 06, 2012, 10:09:42 pm: 62. Have you EVER heard of a name like Slaves to Armok: God of Blood, Chapter II Dwarf Fortress? No. You have not.
63. Too many elf corpses littering the lava-singed and blood-stained front lawn of your fortress? IMPOSSIBLE. LEAVE THEM THERE.
64. Feeling the elf corpses are undeserving of staying there? Bridge catapult.
65. Complaining about an arrow to the knee? How about an arrow piercing your heart and left lung, leaving you to die of heavy blood-loss and suffocation at the same time.
66. RIP TEETH OUT AND GOUGE THE EYES OF YOUR FOES WITH THEM.
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Post by: Chilton on January 06, 2012, 10:19:40 pm: 67. Burning People Killing Everyone. EVERYONE. AND THEYRE ON FIRE. And they live in Magma. Because they are Burning.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Urist Imiknorris on January 07, 2012, 01:47:29 am: Quote from: Rinnix on January 06, 2012, 10:09:42 pm
Complaining about an arrow to the knee? How about an arrow piercing your heart and left lung, leaving you to die of heavy blood-loss and suffocation at the same time.

I think that actually might cause you to drown in your own blood if you're (un)lucky.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Theifofdreams on January 07, 2012, 02:36:04 am: 68. Because we get to literally throw away precious metals and ores because they're taking up space. Usually in amounts so large, players of other mining games would sell their grandmother's spleen and heart for a chance at it.
69. Because dwarven naming conventions are pretty goddamned awesome, even if it is just the RNG.
70. Dining in hell isn't just a meme any more.
71. Thermonuclear catsplosions. All you need to say on the subject, really.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Monkeyfacedprickleback on January 07, 2012, 02:46:06 am: 72. Because it's already bettr then most comercially released games, and it's not even half done.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Theifofdreams on January 07, 2012, 02:47:42 am: That would be 72.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: PhantomXD on January 07, 2012, 03:23:25 am: 73. Because all the NPC's of every MMO I have played combined couldn't save me from what lurks outside my walls.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Eric Blank on January 07, 2012, 04:34:18 am: 73. Because I can construct a Strategic Ghost Emission System to torture potential invaders and grave robbers for all eternity.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: antymattar on January 07, 2012, 04:38:10 am: # 74 MASSIVE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE SO INSANE, THEY SHOULD NOT COME IN CONTACT EVER! IF THEY DID, THE WORLD WOULD GO BACK INTO WORLDGEN!!!
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Lord Dakoth on January 07, 2012, 04:47:34 am: 75. My axedwarf just got shot by a single arrow that pierced his arm, lung, pancreas, navel, appendix, and scrotum. He's still fighting, dammit. WHINE SOME MORE ABOUT THAT KNEE, WHY DON'T YOU?
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: bombzero on January 07, 2012, 05:08:38 am: Quote from: Lord Dakoth on January 07, 2012, 04:47:34 am
75. My axedwarf just got shot by a single arrow that pierced his arm, lung, pancreas, navel, appendix, and scrotum. He's still fighting, dammit. WHINE SOME MORE ABOUT THAT KNEE, WHY DON'T YOU?

wait... How??? i cant even picture that.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 07, 2012, 05:30:01 am: Quote from: bombzero on January 07, 2012, 05:08:38 am
Quote from: Lord Dakoth on January 07, 2012, 04:47:34 am
75. My axedwarf just got shot by a single arrow that pierced his arm, lung, pancreas, navel, appendix, and scrotum. He's still fighting, dammit. WHINE SOME MORE ABOUT THAT KNEE, WHY DON'T YOU?

wait... How??? i cant even picture that.

76. Dwarf Fortress accidentally the everything the all the time.
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Post by: orius on January 07, 2012, 05:53:47 am: Quote from: bombzero on January 07, 2012, 05:08:38 am
Quote from: Lord Dakoth on January 07, 2012, 04:47:34 am
75. My axedwarf just got shot by a single arrow that pierced his arm, lung, pancreas, navel, appendix, and scrotum. He's still fighting, dammit. WHINE SOME MORE ABOUT THAT KNEE, WHY DON'T YOU?

wait... How??? i cant even picture that.

Yeah, obviously there was a second shooter somewhere. Who was on the grassy knoll?
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Monkeyfacedprickleback on January 07, 2012, 07:28:27 am: Quote from: bombzero on January 07, 2012, 05:08:38 am
Quote from: Lord Dakoth on January 07, 2012, 04:47:34 am
75. My axedwarf just got shot by a single arrow that pierced his arm, lung, pancreas, navel, appendix, and scrotum. He's still fighting, dammit. WHINE SOME MORE ABOUT THAT KNEE, WHY DON'T YOU?

wait... How??? i cant even picture that.
It must of ricocheted of a bone... Twice.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Kogut on January 07, 2012, 07:55:00 am: Quote from: magmaholic on January 06, 2012, 10:50:50 am
Quote from: MasterMorality on January 06, 2012, 10:30:10 am
"You get hit where you get hit. This may or may not cripple you for life. It may or may not kill you in one shot. You're dwarf just lost a leg. Suck it up, bitch. No, you're not getting that leg back. In fact, that creature over there is going to pick your leg up and beat you death with it. You won't respawn."
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Hypersigged: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Quotes.DwarfFortress and http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page/Quote&diff=159299&oldid=158719
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Post by: Jake on January 07, 2012, 08:09:04 am: 76. Because creating a game mod adding over a thousand new resource subtypes and several hundred new potential enemies, or a suite of new weapons that completely change the way combat is carried out* can be done by one guy who doesn't know the first thing about programming or 3D modelling.

* Well, if I ever get it working right...
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Troopperi on January 07, 2012, 08:19:00 am: #77 You can pick up a bed, a corpse of troll, five sets of armor etc. and put them all in one bag.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: MasterMorality on January 07, 2012, 09:39:15 am: Quote from: Kogut on January 07, 2012, 07:55:00 am
Quote from: magmaholic on January 06, 2012, 10:50:50 am
Quote from: MasterMorality on January 06, 2012, 10:30:10 am
"You get hit where you get hit. This may or may not cripple you for life. It may or may not kill you in one shot. You're dwarf just lost a leg. Suck it up, bitch. No, you're not getting that leg back. In fact, that creature over there is going to pick your leg up and beat you death with it. You won't respawn."
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Hypersigged: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/article_history.php?article=Quotes.DwarfFortress and http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page/Quote&diff=159299&oldid=158719
/Get added to a TV tropes page. Feel like an internet God.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Indricotherium on January 07, 2012, 04:04:23 pm: 78) Puppies taste good. Kittens taste good. Minced puppy brain and kitten tallow roast tastes GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD.
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Post by: Gizogin on January 07, 2012, 04:44:18 pm: 79. FUS RO DAH won't work on these dragons.
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Post by: Theifofdreams on January 07, 2012, 06:02:13 pm: 80. The legions of fans are much cooler. ~~Also morally deficient, sado-masochistic, and evil~~ (I just realized that amounts to the same thing)
81. All the !!Fun!! you will have.
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Post by: Eric Blank on January 07, 2012, 06:06:05 pm: 82. Yelling FUS RO DAH at these dragons is actually a very bad idea. They like to talk back, and will burn you alive.
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Post by: Loud Whispers on January 07, 2012, 06:07:47 pm: 83. Urist McMurphy's law: Everything !FUN! that can happen, will happen, and is attracted to the greatest concentration of booze, beard and blood.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: BigD145 on January 07, 2012, 07:17:55 pm: 84. Did your mother use her own children as shields?
85. Did your children survive being shields only to have their mother killed and then drown themselves in the nearest pond or throw themselves off the nearest cliff because they couldn't live without their loving mom?
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on January 07, 2012, 08:37:05 pm: 86. Can your game let you build a computer?
86a. If 86=true, was it in a cave, with a bunch of rocks?
86b. If 86=true, is it capable of pseudo-intelligent responses, a fully functioning calculator, or Turing-complete?
86c. If 86b=true, are all of those possible?
86d. If 86c=true, can you make it with MAGMA?
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Post by: kisame12794 on January 08, 2012, 02:38:16 am: 87:You loose a roar of laughter, fell and terrible!
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Oliolli on January 08, 2012, 02:58:30 am: 88:kisame's avatar.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on January 08, 2012, 07:45:54 am: In case Kisame changes his avatar, or if it's too small:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
(http://www.nioutaik.fr/images/galerie/Dwarf-fortress.PNG)
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Post by: tHe_silent_H on January 08, 2012, 07:58:16 am: 89: the devlog
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Post by: The Axiom on January 08, 2012, 08:31:22 am: 90. If you get bored, refer to rule #1.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: kisame12794 on January 08, 2012, 01:22:25 pm: 91. Does your game have a 30 foot tall collosus made of solide bronze? Yes? Can you kill it with a rabbit? No. No you cannot.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on January 09, 2012, 05:18:31 pm: You can't in DF, only with creatures even smaller than rabbits. (Rabbits aren't vermin, see.)
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Loud Whispers on January 09, 2012, 09:37:24 pm: Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 09, 2012, 05:18:31 pm
You can't in DF, only with creatures even smaller than rabbits. (Rabbits aren't vermin, see.)

People have killed Colossi with rabbits and kittens.
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Post by: dragginmaster on January 10, 2012, 03:48:53 am: Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 09, 2012, 09:37:24 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 09, 2012, 05:18:31 pm
You can't in DF, only with creatures even smaller than rabbits. (Rabbits aren't vermin, see.)

People have killed Colossi with rabbits and kittens.

~~People~~ Dwarves have killed Colossi with rabbits and kittens.

92. Playing Dwarf Fortress prepares the players for reading the raw displays of The Matrix.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Theifofdreams on January 10, 2012, 03:52:13 am: 93: Does your game have fell moods that guarantee awesome artifacts or insanity?
94: Educational value! Learn the names of, and the subtle coloration and symbol variations, of dozens of types of rock, stone and ore.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: raptorfangamer on January 10, 2012, 09:08:44 am: 95: normal games pit you through a set story, stock enemies, and a set of levels, in dwarf fortress you are pitted through a randomly generated story, randomly generated enemies, and randomly generated worlds, spice with insanity at needed
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Post by: Johuotar on January 10, 2012, 09:17:14 am: 96: Play DF -> Now you will know why you fear the night.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Theifofdreams on January 10, 2012, 03:05:48 pm: Quote from: Johuotar on January 10, 2012, 09:17:14 am
96: Play DF -> Now you will know why you fear the everything.
Fixed that for you.
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Post by: kisame12794 on January 10, 2012, 03:16:06 pm: DF:The only limit is your sanity.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Rex_Nex on January 10, 2012, 03:21:56 pm: 97. Because I think dwarf fortress is a pretty cool guy. eh kills elves and doesnt afraid of anything.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: kisame12794 on January 10, 2012, 03:24:11 pm: DF:You should be scared.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: bombzero on January 10, 2012, 05:19:05 pm: DF: it doesn't have graphics. why? because you don't need to know what a C is, you only need to know it doesn't like you and you should probably kill it.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on January 10, 2012, 06:05:05 pm: Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 09, 2012, 09:37:24 pm
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 09, 2012, 05:18:31 pm
You can't in DF, only with creatures even smaller than rabbits. (Rabbits aren't vermin, see.)

People have killed Colossi with rabbits and kittens.

How? I'm interested to hear. Oddly enough, I find the concept of killing a bronze colossus with a rat more likely than with a cat.

Quote from: raptorfangamer on January 10, 2012, 09:08:44 am
95: normal games pit you through a set story, stock enemies, and a set of levels, in dwarf fortress you are pitted through a randomly generated story, randomly generated enemies, and randomly generated worlds, spice with insanity at needed
How entirely true.

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100. Rats are a more likely device to kill statues with than cats. And that is awesome. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome?from=Main.ptitle8px80d2wm3pd)
101. The only success is an awesome failure, so you don't need to be perfect.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Theifofdreams on January 10, 2012, 10:51:49 pm: 102: In your standard dungeon crawler, you form a group of adventurers to delve into the depths of horrible fortresses, kill everything, and grab everything you can carry. In DF, the inverse is true.
103: Also: In your standard dungeon crawler, you're expected to mop the floor with early enemies on your own. In DF, you need body guards before you even think of doing this.
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Post by: Loud Whispers on January 10, 2012, 10:56:15 pm: 104: Our combat system will make you cry.
105. If you're crying, can I have your eyeballs?

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 10, 2012, 06:05:05 pm
How? I'm interested to hear. Oddly enough, I find the concept of killing a bronze colossus with a rat more likely than with a cat.

Cats and rabbits kickboxing colossi off cliffs :P
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Theifofdreams on January 11, 2012, 12:52:28 am: Makes sense, given how the dodge mechanic is the bane of everything that fights on a cliff.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: bombzero on January 11, 2012, 06:18:06 pm: Quote from: Theifofdreams on January 11, 2012, 12:52:28 am
Makes sense, given how the dodge mechanic is the bane of everything that fights on a cliff.

yeah, hows this for a conflict,

im fighting a dragon at the edge of a cliff, if i dont dodge it, it will eviscerate me. if i do dodge it, 50% chance i take a 12 Z-level freefall.
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Post by: proxn_punkd on January 11, 2012, 07:15:29 pm: Of the two big cripples at Gemsquashed right now, one was surprised and severely injured by goblins during an ambush.

The other was spooked off a cliff by a rabbit.
Title: Re: Why Dwarf Fortress is better than the crap games you wussies play
Post by: Lord Dakoth on January 11, 2012, 08:11:09 pm: I think that we've gotten as much mileage out of this thread as we can, so I'm going to stop it before it becomes a bloated, overfed monstrosity like the Happy thread.