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Title: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Untrustedlife on February 17, 2016, 08:56:34 am
Some people in gen discussion are trying to argue that df is less violent then binding of Isaac which I find ridiculous which do you think is more violent in general.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: NJW2000 on February 17, 2016, 09:01:47 am
Depends what you do, really. Not sure about binding of Isaac, but in DF you can do some pretty nasty things, though you don't have to.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on February 17, 2016, 09:24:42 am
I haven't played Binding of Isaac, but the other game I'm playing most lately is a beta codenamed "Yandere Simulator", so I may be a little more desensitized to the violence. Like NJW2000 said, you don't have to, but some nasty stuff can still be done unto you.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Fruitsbrain Weapon-tosser on February 17, 2016, 10:08:57 am
BoI has squick and gore aplenty, but you can't lop of all of a town's limbs, drink the blood of your enemies, pinch off every feature on a person's face, sell somebody the body parts of their own wife, lace alcohol with dubious substances and give them to people, disembowel somebody and then rip out their Guts and then beat them to death with them, etc, etc. You may not be able to see it visually, but DF is the more violent, no contest.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on February 17, 2016, 10:34:17 am
Now that you mention Guts, Berserk! is a better comparison to this game. BoI just isn't that gory, there are too many mainstream games that have historically exceeded it. That's not to mention indies that Steam wouldn't dare touch, like Demonophobia.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: vjmdhzgr on February 17, 2016, 12:47:35 pm
BoI has squick and gore aplenty, but you can't lop of all of a town's limbs, drink the blood of your enemies, pinch off every feature on a person's face, sell somebody the body parts of their own wife, lace alcohol with dubious substances and give them to people, disembowel somebody and then rip out their Guts and then beat them to death with them, etc, etc. You may not be able to see it visually, but DF is the more violent, no contest.
Yeah, you don't really see what you do with much detail, and you don't have to do it nearly as much as in Binding of Isaac where it's kind of the whole game, but there is far, far worse stuff in Dwarf Fortress.

I once sliced off both of a person's arms then travelled away so they could recover enough blood to survive both legs being cut off then travelled away again so they'd have enough blood for me to cut off their nose, ears, and lips. Then travelled away again to stab their lower body a few times until their guts popped out then cut those off too. I was just never able to get their eyelids, something about how small they are I think makes them basically invincible.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on February 17, 2016, 01:12:10 pm
I don't see what you guys are talking about with BoI, but maybe I'm looking at the wrong trailers and Let's Plays. What gore is that game supposed to have? Are you guys just trying to promote the game by bringing it up at all?
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: ZM5 on February 17, 2016, 04:08:07 pm
Binding of Isaac? How is that gory in any way, really? Disturbing maybe, since a lot of the bosses and enemies are based on actual medical conditions, but I wouldn't call that gory.

DF requires you to use imagination more, but it has:
-syndromes that potentially cause all of your body parts to rot, blister and/or swell with blood before bursting, either that or just cause you to bleed from everywhere
-the ability to disembowel a person, bite their guts, then shake them around until you tear out the guts with your own teeth
-being able to partially bisect a person around the waist (sometimes when you kill someone with a slashing attack to the lower body it says that its "partially severed from the torso")
-being able to simply explode body parts by hitting them hard enough (I can understand how it works with hands or feet but how it would look like with an entire arm or leg I don't really know)
-gouging or otherwise cutting off all of a persons facial features, cutting off their limbs, disemboweling them and using fast travel to keep them alive
-people literally melting from being fire or magma
-cleaving open heads or crushing them

Etc. I'd argue DF would be the goriest game in existence if it was 3D with high-def graphics.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Redman the Communist on February 17, 2016, 04:20:42 pm
I own The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth, and while it may be more visually gory (Though you can argue that if you look at all the blood in Dwarf Fortress,) it does not compare to the absolute madness, fun, bloodshed, and violence in Dwarf Fortress. Dwarf Fortress is a much more gory game.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Fruitsbrain Weapon-tosser on February 17, 2016, 04:21:11 pm
I don't see what you guys are talking about with BoI, but maybe I'm looking at the wrong trailers and Let's Plays. What gore is that game supposed to have? Are you guys just trying to promote the game by bringing it up at all?
The original not much, but Rebirth/Afterbirth has enemies explode and into organs and an gibblets. It's not much, but it's still gore. Even then, it's so cartoonish, you barely notice it.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Elfhater69 on February 17, 2016, 04:22:31 pm
Binding of Isaac? How is that gory in any way, really? Disturbing maybe, since a lot of the bosses and enemies are based on actual medical conditions, but I wouldn't call that gory.

DF requires you to use imagination more, but it has:
-syndromes that potentially cause all of your body parts to rot, blister and/or swell with blood before bursting, either that or just cause you to bleed from everywhere
-the ability to disembowel a person, bite their guts, then shake them around until you tear out the guts with your own teeth
-being able to partially bisect a person around the waist (sometimes when you kill someone with a slashing attack to the lower body it says that its "partially severed from the torso")
-being able to simply explode body parts by hitting them hard enough (I can understand how it works with hands or feet but how it would look like with an entire arm or leg I don't really know)
-gouging or otherwise cutting off all of a persons facial features, cutting off their limbs, disemboweling them and using fast travel to keep them alive
-people literally melting from being fire or magma
-cleaving open heads or crushing them

Etc. I'd argue DF would be the goriest game in existence if it was 3D with high-def graphics.
Im sure that if it was 3D with highdef graphics it would be banned in europe and at least 2 of the states.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: ZM5 on February 17, 2016, 05:41:12 pm
Im sure that if it was 3D with highdef graphics it would be banned in europe and at least 2 of the states.
Just the fact that you can kick babies until they explode in gore would get the game banned - should have mentioned that.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Elfhater69 on February 17, 2016, 05:48:55 pm
Im sure that if it was 3D with highdef graphics it would be banned in europe and at least 2 of the states.
Just the fact that you can kick babies until they explode in gore would get the game banned - should have mentioned that.
Never tried this. I know what im doing for the next couple of hours. Im gunna clean this world of babies.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: quekwoambojish on February 17, 2016, 06:11:56 pm
I don't see what you guys are talking about with BoI, but maybe I'm looking at the wrong trailers and Let's Plays. What gore is that game supposed to have? Are you guys just trying to promote the game by bringing it up at all?

This poll was brought up due to the argument of steam Greenlight in general discussion.

Just to throw my two cents in as I did before...

In dwarf fortress, you can geld children.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Elfhater69 on February 17, 2016, 06:25:08 pm
I don't see what you guys are talking about with BoI, but maybe I'm looking at the wrong trailers and Let's Plays. What gore is that game supposed to have? Are you guys just trying to promote the game by bringing it up at all?

This poll was brought up due to the argument of steam Greenlight in general discussion.

Just to throw my two cents in as I did before...

In dwarf fortress, you can geld children.
Hi meatgod. Long time no see. XD
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on February 17, 2016, 08:14:36 pm
I should capture a Let's Play of Yandere Simulator but it may have already been done. My favorite method of eliminating the rival is to hack her up with her entire club, except for her best friend, who gets framed for the massacre.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Max™ on February 17, 2016, 09:37:24 pm
-the ability to disembowel a person, bite their guts, then shake them around until you tear out the guts with your own teeth
Don't forget doing this, but before the actual shake-around you also ready an attack with a blunt and edge weapon such that you bash their skull in, knock them through the air, and then while they're dead in mid-air cut their head off to let the body skid and tumble across the ground or slam into their friends.
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-being able to partially bisect a person around the waist (sometimes when you kill someone with a slashing attack to the lower body it says that its "partially severed from the torso")
I've completely bisected people, getting the "completely severed from the torso" messages, even gelded during this... somehow.

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-being able to simply explode body parts by hitting them hard enough (I can understand how it works with hands or feet but how it would look like with an entire arm or leg I don't really know)
Ever seen the DBZ episode with Vegeta and the androids when he's first gone SSJ and is cocky, then 18 just kicks him in the arm and smashes it the wrong way, breaking some of his ribs too?
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-gouging or otherwise cutting off all of a persons facial features, cutting off their limbs, disemboweling them and using fast travel to keep them alive
Somehow you can grab someone by the head with one hand and systematically remove their teeth, nose, tongue, ears, and gouge their eyes until they're pulp. You can pinch arms and hands and legs and snip them off, and of course travel away so they live.
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-people literally melting from being fire or magma
I've got a dragon/dwarf hybrid I made which is when I learned that the last part of the dragon entry which sets the tissue temperatures also sets sweat and tears, which I fixed to stop burning my clothes off, but I left the spit in. I've been assassinating occupation administrators by spitting on them and watching them burn to death as they try to climb up the walls to get away from their own melting flesh, the whole time talking about "this isn't happening, help, save me!" and so forth.
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-cleaving open heads or crushing them
Gotta love when you tackle someone and end up standing over them, so you stop and look at everyone else in the room, then matter-of-factly stomp their buddies head into gore.

Find a room full of goblins connected to the sewer, start jumping in and tackling them, punching them across the room (the 9.9 speed is just part of the full mod buffs in place at this point, I'm as strong as I can get without rolling over to 0.099 speed):
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Course, it isn't always others experiencing the horror.
(http://i.imgur.com/o6okzUI.png)

Sometimes it is even my own fault (knocked a goblin into magma, got caught in mist, tried to put myself out with booze... don't ask).
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Later I got the dragondorf template working so I was swimming in the magma pool at a temple and my minecart was full when I noticed I could just pick up the magma.

After bashing a few dozen goblin skulls in with it, apparently it got so bloody that it cooled into obsidian.
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The kills on it there are post-cooling.

I don't even know how I was carrying around a minecart full of magma one-handed, much less how it stayed together as I crushed enough skulls for it to become so bloodsoaked it solidified, but hey... there's violence, and then there's df violence.

Before I was just using the cart full of bodies (that weighed 8500 urists) to knock people across the screen.
(http://i.imgur.com/V4Lz5kQ.png)

This isn't even trying to be violent, this is just playing around taking out bandits and criminals.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: NorkasAradel on February 17, 2016, 11:00:25 pm
Dorf Fort by a long shot. See; that one story where the guy did the thing that people really didn't like.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Elfhater69 on February 17, 2016, 11:05:04 pm
Dorf Fort by a long shot. See; that one story where the guy did the thing that people really didn't like.
Ah yes meatgod..
 He really used his meat, eh? ;)
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Droggarth on February 18, 2016, 07:58:10 am
If DF was in 3D (low poly models are good enough for me) it be considered the most goriest/violent game ever and would make games like Party Hard and Manhunt look like a stroll in the park.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: NJW2000 on February 18, 2016, 08:01:27 am
Especially with sniper-elite style graphics. I mean, we already get those in the descriptions.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: George_Chickens on February 20, 2016, 02:30:27 am
The sheer amount of brutal things you can do in DF makes it more violent than BoI by far. There may be no graphics, but that doesn't mean it's not brutal when you sit in a field of severed heads and melt all your fat off with fire.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Droggarth on February 20, 2016, 06:16:40 am
The sheer amount of brutal things you can do in DF makes it more violent than BoI by far. There may be no graphics, but that doesn't mean it's not brutal when you sit in a field of severed heads and melt all your fat off with fire.

Not just severed heads, severed everything. I for example grabbed a frail dwarf by the head with my demon character and threw him/her then continued my onslaught with a greataxe and a greatsword, I hacked/struck a dwarven child in the head with the massive axe and took limbs off from adults with the greatsword while everyone around me screaming bloody murder while panicking and either attacking or shitting pants and running/crawling away with missing body parts.

To summarize this horrible/glorious gory massacre.. cue the theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am6An691_iA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am6An691_iA)

"MAIM! KILL! BURN!!!", "BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!!!", "TURN THEM INSIDE OUT!!!", "I WILL MASSACRE ALL I FIND!!!", "YOU WILL ALL SUFFER!!!", "KNOW THIS PAIN, KNOW IT!"
..and my favorite line from a chaos dreadnought: "TEAR THEM APART!!!", "I GO WHERE I PLEASE!!", "DO NOT QUIVER WITH ME!!!", "IT IS A GORE! NOTHING REMAINS!!!" and something I find more than satisfying: "I AM THE GOD KILLER!!!"

I do apologize greatly for the examples of the shouts the chaos dreadnoughts tend to have but.. there's just no word to summarize/describe the horrors of Chaos and it's pretty much what I experience in real life whenever my adrenaline and rage dysfunction goes over 9000 and I feel a very strong urge to just break everything around me and roar at others. In terms of violence Dwarf Fortress is the perfect harmless therapy for my mental disorder.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Vuohijumala on February 20, 2016, 06:09:22 pm
I watched my friend play Binding of Isaac once. All I saw was poo. A bit of blood here and there, but mostly poo.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on February 20, 2016, 07:49:31 pm
I have dual-wielded elf corpses. I uses these corpses to bludgeon the entire rest of the elven village to death.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Max™ on February 20, 2016, 11:07:34 pm
I gave someone the corpse of their queen and got them to attack me with it.

Also given people the burning corpse of their bandit leader and so forth.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: pikachu17 on March 02, 2016, 01:01:58 pm
I don't know what the other option is ,but in df you can BITE off someone's arm then spit at them and kill them by crushing their skull with their own arm. you could also animate the arm so it independently fights them, but that works less after the zombie nerf
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Saiko Kila on March 04, 2016, 01:49:02 pm
If you are a vampire (*) then you can easily and quickly (in terms of game time) kill off entire cities, with thousands of kills. My dwarf is specializing in killing gobbo children, which are often unguarded and alone deep in dark fortresses. But the most disturbing were cleaning of troll grounds, in the same fortresses. One cave with trolls (which are normal gob-citizens, clothed, with professions) contains often about 150 trolls. The disturbing thing is they often do not immediately react to killing, as if paralysed by fear (they have fear icons displayed). You can just kill them methodically like some Nazi bastard. From time to time one awakens from lethargy and tries to run, but you can just throw an arrow in his back, incapacitate him, and slowly come to finish off. It's evil.


*)because: infravision, no pain, and no tiredness
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: LlamaLlord on March 05, 2016, 07:33:07 pm
In my opinion dwarf fortress can be more violent, first of all you can bite off peoples toes, fingers, tongue. You can rip their throat out, you can gouge out their eyes, you can strangle them with a thong, punch someone so hard or so many times their body parts explode into gore, a ton of disturbing stuff.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: ZM5 on March 06, 2016, 01:55:05 am
In my opinion dwarf fortress can be more violent, first of all you can bite off peoples toes, fingers, tongue. You can rip their throat out, you can gouge out their eyes, you can strangle them with a thong, punch someone so hard or so many times their body parts explode into gore, a ton of disturbing stuff.

You misspelled "absolutely hilarious".
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: BlackBronze on March 06, 2016, 01:39:00 pm
....Let me put it this way. If you wanted to, you could cut someone's tongue out. In fact, you can stab someone's eyes out so they can't see. You can break each of their limbs, cut off all their fingers, punch out their teeth, slice their nerves, and bash their skull. Really, you can bash, cut, slice, stab, and shred practically anything, as long as they don't die first. The only gore you can do to a corpse is butcher it.

But that's the beauty of Dwarf Fortress. You can be as merciful or as cruel as you want to, with the only consequences being your conscience.

I myself prefer a swift kill, since I find it slightly uncomfortable when seeing over four pages of gruesome wounds, knowing full well that I was responsible for them. It's why I don't like using messy weapons like hammers.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 06, 2016, 01:50:41 pm
If I have an enemy that feels no pain and a weapon I need to develop skill in, then conscience doesn't enter into it. I don't mind taking my time to target every appendage. It's not sadism, as the subject feels no pain and the exercise serves a practical purpose. With any other opponents, I can always shut down pain receptors by severing the spinal column, but I still don't feel right about continuing to batter them. Just let 'em die with as much dignity as could be granted to a persistently jaw-gnashing head.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: BlackBronze on March 06, 2016, 01:56:11 pm
Of course not every Dwarf Fortress player is a mass murderer  ;D !
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: mirrizin on March 06, 2016, 09:05:26 pm
Of course not every Dwarf Fortress player is a mass murderer  ;D !
It's kind of hard not to be on adventure mode, since most of the challenges are met by killing people.

But I always feel weird when it comes to those bandit camps...tents full of perpetually sleeping brigands, many civilians by trade, and the only reasonable thing to do is walk in and paint the walls with their blood. And they don't even wake up! I almost wish that they would so at least it'd be something vaguely resembling a fair fight.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Untrustedlife on March 06, 2016, 09:09:15 pm
I have never seen sleeping bandits in adventure mode when its not night time, was it night time?
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 07, 2016, 03:22:02 pm
I've seen them sleeping in broad daylight. They usually wake up after half of them are dead.

I recall severing the head of one and bludgeoning some others with it.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Rumrusher on March 07, 2016, 03:52:40 pm
Of course not every Dwarf Fortress player is a mass murderer  ;D !
It's kind of hard not to be on adventure mode, since most of the challenges are met by killing people.

But I always feel weird when it comes to those bandit camps...tents full of perpetually sleeping brigands, many civilians by trade, and the only reasonable thing to do is walk in and paint the walls with their blood. And they don't even wake up! I almost wish that they would so at least it'd be something vaguely resembling a fair fight.
considering I spent most of my adventuring Pacifist* because being able to tell stories to night troll kids was a highlight, also loads of funny scenarios pop up when you let the game throw a hard ball.
THEN again this is the game that basically Text based Mortal kombat game soo...

*my character doesn't kill or try to avoid getting any kills added to their name which is why I hire musical companions to perform on tour.
some times my bard has to outrun a lion that finish feasting on my drummer but hey good cardio.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 07, 2016, 04:35:18 pm
I think he meant 'not everyone is a singleminded indiscriminate death machine'. Categorial murders are avoidable, but that's more difficult than you'd think. If you have over 100 kills, chances are good there are a few murders in there.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: mirrizin on March 07, 2016, 05:03:03 pm
I have never seen sleeping bandits in adventure mode when its not night time, was it night time?
Practically every time I walk by a wandering bandit camp,* day or night, they're all inside the tent sleeping.

* Meaning the little *'s that appear on the map screen, that if you walk up close you see a campfire and 1-3 squarish white "tents," usually containing 0-5 random individuals and 1 "leader." I at least assume these are bandits or invaders of some sort since they tend to appear surrounding a hamlet.

[Yeah, just realized I'm probably creating confusion between bandit camps and invader camps]
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Rumrusher on March 07, 2016, 05:55:28 pm
I have never seen sleeping bandits in adventure mode when its not night time, was it night time?
Practically every time I walk by a wandering bandit camp,* day or night, they're all inside the tent sleeping.

* Meaning the little *'s that appear on the map screen, that if you walk up close you see a campfire and 1-3 squarish white "tents," usually containing 0-5 random individuals and 1 "leader." I at least assume these are bandits or invaders of some sort since they tend to appear surrounding a hamlet.

[Yeah, just realized I'm probably creating confusion between bandit camps and invader camps]
considering some 'invader' camps might be refugees from ruin towns escaping to better land which could happen if you have an invading party that seems to like wrecking sites than claiming them.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 07, 2016, 06:51:54 pm
I have never seen sleeping bandits in adventure mode when its not night time, was it night time?
Practically every time I walk by a wandering bandit camp,* day or night, they're all inside the tent sleeping.

* Meaning the little *'s that appear on the map screen, that if you walk up close you see a campfire and 1-3 squarish white "tents," usually containing 0-5 random individuals and 1 "leader." I at least assume these are bandits or invaders of some sort since they tend to appear surrounding a hamlet.

[Yeah, just realized I'm probably creating confusion between bandit camps and invader camps]
considering some 'invader' camps might be refugees from ruin towns escaping to better land which could happen if you have an invading party that seems to like wrecking sites than claiming them.
The ones you see sleeping in tents, with lots of civilians among them, and no camp symbol on the map are positively not bandits. They may be invaders or refugees. That bug has been around a long time.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: mirrizin on March 07, 2016, 07:57:02 pm
I have never seen sleeping bandits in adventure mode when its not night time, was it night time?
Practically every time I walk by a wandering bandit camp,* day or night, they're all inside the tent sleeping.

* Meaning the little *'s that appear on the map screen, that if you walk up close you see a campfire and 1-3 squarish white "tents," usually containing 0-5 random individuals and 1 "leader." I at least assume these are bandits or invaders of some sort since they tend to appear surrounding a hamlet.

[Yeah, just realized I'm probably creating confusion between bandit camps and invader camps]
considering some 'invader' camps might be refugees from ruin towns escaping to better land which could happen if you have an invading party that seems to like wrecking sites than claiming them.
The ones you see sleeping in tents, with lots of civilians among them, and no camp symbol on the map are positively not bandits. They may be invaders or refugees. That bug has been around a long time.
Ach.  Any way to tell the difference?
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 07, 2016, 08:30:45 pm
Stab one, then run back to the village and report your deed. If they hate you, it wasn't a bandit.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Untrustedlife on March 07, 2016, 08:33:53 pm
Just ask them about themselves before stabbing if they say they are a lieutenant, they are bandits, if they say they are a soldier they are not bandits, especially if your character asks them not to cause trouble when you introduce yourself.  I believe., toady needs to make it easier to tell the difference.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: mirrizin on March 07, 2016, 08:46:58 pm
Just ask them about themselves before stabbing if they say they are a lieutenant, they are bandits, if they say they are a soldier they are not bandits, especially if your character asks them not to cause trouble when you introduce yourself.  I believe., toady needs to make it easier to tell the difference.
Trouble is they don't wake up when I talk to them, or at least that's what I observed when I tried it before.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 07, 2016, 08:54:56 pm
The ones you see sleeping in tents, with lots of civilians among them, and no camp symbol on the map are positively not bandits. They may be invaders or refugees. That bug has been around a long time.
Ach.  Any way to tell the difference?
The best way to be certain is to ask the locals of the nearest settlement about trouble, and if they tell you about an invasion, make a note of the names. One of them will be in that camp, even if they're the only military among them. You may also get the option to ask whether anyone fled, and you can get the name of one leading them.

If the invasion is already over, they may or may not mention the invaders as troubles. You can still bring up the rumor to find out who attacked and who fled.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 07, 2016, 09:01:36 pm
That involves a lot of work. I still recommend stabbing the potential bandit, and then asking the villagers if the person you stabbed was in fact a bandit. It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, after all.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 07, 2016, 09:11:29 pm
That involves a lot of work. I still recommend stabbing the potential bandit, and then asking the villagers if the person you stabbed was in fact a bandit. It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, after all.
Ah bullshit, just admit you like any excuse to kill them.

We're all sociopaths here, just some of us are more bloodthirsty than others.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: ZM5 on March 08, 2016, 03:25:12 pm
Of course not every Dwarf Fortress player is a mass murderer  ;D !

Sorry, but when I saw your post I just had to make this (can't draw so Garrys Mod instead)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 08, 2016, 04:12:15 pm
That involves a lot of work. I still recommend stabbing the potential bandit, and then asking the villagers if the person you stabbed was in fact a bandit. It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission, after all.
Ah bullshit, just admit you like any excuse to kill them.

We're all sociopaths here, just some of us are more bloodthirsty than others.

Sometimes I suspect individual villagers of banditry, and apply the Stab of Truth. It's really is infallible.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: BlackBronze on March 08, 2016, 05:05:26 pm
Of course not every Dwarf Fortress player is a mass murderer  ;D !

Sorry, but when I saw your post I just had to make this (can't draw so Garrys Mod instead)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ha, it's perfect.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Max™ on March 08, 2016, 05:20:17 pm
Uh, even if they are sleeping when you introduce yourself you still say the "I have nothing for you" line, don't you?
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 08, 2016, 06:33:31 pm
To find bandits in a camp with tents in a tile adjacent to a settlement is such a rare exception. In the highly unlikely event that you do, you will see the camp symbol on fast travel, and you'll have to walk through it on local tiles -- it's a dead giveaway. Also, you will find at least one awake to ask them their job and find out who sent them there.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Urist McVoyager on March 09, 2016, 10:21:19 am
I'll admit I have slaughtered entire villages before. Being a game, it's kind of easy to do. Seeing as DF is a world simulator first and foremost, it would be ridiculously STUPID for it not to have the potential to be the most gruesome and gory game ever made. Humans have free will and if the game strips away your ability to completely cut apart a person piece by piece, it's just neutered from what it could be.

That still leaves it on us horrible, horrible people to decide whether we engage in that or not.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: pikachu17 on March 09, 2016, 02:25:16 pm
I haven't done it, but you can kill a someone, chop them up into little pieces,put the pieces in mugs, then feed the victim's wife the remains. I do not even know what binding of isacc is, but is it that violent?
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: BlackBronze on March 10, 2016, 05:00:12 pm
I'm going out in a limb here, but I'm pretty sure Nothing is THAT violent.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 10, 2016, 05:29:20 pm
I'm racking my brain to remember what I've played recently that is THAT violent. I don't find anything on my HD right now. Maybe it was something on Newgrounds. In fact there's quite a lot on Newgrounds that beats Binding of Isaac; they can get away with a lot more by being Patron-supported.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: ZM5 on March 10, 2016, 06:38:40 pm
I'm racking my brain to remember what I've played recently that is THAT violent. I don't find anything on my HD right now. Maybe it was something on Newgrounds. In fact there's quite a lot on Newgrounds that beats Binding of Isaac; they can get away with a lot more by being Patron-supported.

I can think of a few games that are similarly violent although I highly doubt most of them come even close to the level of detail DF has - as well as audacity in terms of what you can do. Very few games, in fact aside from DF I can't think of any, would allow you to sever someones guts after you spilled them, and then beat them over the head with it until their head explodes or collapses into mush. 3D DF with HD graphics and great sound design I could potentially see being one of the most bloody hilarious and also disturbing games ever.

In terms of games that are really gory I can think of 3 very prominent games - Turok 2, Mortal Kombat X and Left 4 Dead 2. The former two especially since on top of having good gore effects they also have excellent sound design. Makes a lot of the gory moments rather disturbing - hell, even the ones that aren't VERY gory still are due to the sound.

Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 10, 2016, 07:18:48 pm
BoI just tries to hard and falls short. It just dresses up in entrails and bodily fluids yet it still isn't as horrifying as Naughty Bear.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: mirrizin on March 11, 2016, 10:25:54 am
I'm going out in a limb here, but I'm pretty sure Nothing is THAT violent.
Titus Andronicus?

Granted, it's a play, not a video game...
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 11, 2016, 12:21:44 pm
I'm going out in a limb here, but I'm pretty sure Nothing is THAT violent.
Titus Andronicus?

Granted, it's a play, not a video game...
Well if we're getting away from games, there's Ichi the Killer.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: ZM5 on March 11, 2016, 12:53:12 pm
There's no super-graphic depictions of violence (even though there is violence in general) there but some moments in the Bible are quite dorfy. Samson killing a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey, anyone?
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Urist McVoyager on March 11, 2016, 07:18:56 pm
Backing up off the violence itself for a second, I doubt anything is as detailed as dwarf fortress is in any way. 3D or not. Give the violence the same treatment, and . . .

Let's face it, a 3D detailed Dwarf Fortress would be the first game to earn an Adults Only rating for the sake of violence rather than sex.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 12, 2016, 11:35:44 am
Backing up off the violence itself for a second, I doubt anything is as detailed as dwarf fortress is in any way. 3D or not. Give the violence the same treatment, and . . .

Let's face it, a 3D detailed Dwarf Fortress would be the first game to earn an Adults Only rating for the sake of violence rather than sex.

(http://i.imgur.com/4NkKGnm.png)

Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: NJW2000 on March 12, 2016, 11:38:31 am
You forgot deforestation and dubious medical practice.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Untrustedlife on March 12, 2016, 11:48:37 am
You forgot deforestation and dubious medical practice.

That is probabbly covered  by the "special violence" bit.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Uzu Bash on March 12, 2016, 12:47:24 pm
Backing up off the violence itself for a second, I doubt anything is as detailed as dwarf fortress is in any way. 3D or not. Give the violence the same treatment, and . . .

Let's face it, a 3D detailed Dwarf Fortress would be the first game to earn an Adults Only rating for the sake of violence rather than sex.

(http://i.imgur.com/4NkKGnm.png)


Whose is that? I want to sig it.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: ZM5 on March 12, 2016, 02:05:44 pm
You forgot deforestation and dubious medical practice.

That is probabbly covered  by the "special violence" bit.

Also forgot "modding atrocities". You can probably guess whose story I'm hinting at here.
Title: Re: How violent is df adventure mode?
Post by: Dunamisdeos on March 12, 2016, 05:20:21 pm
Backing up off the violence itself for a second, I doubt anything is as detailed as dwarf fortress is in any way. 3D or not. Give the violence the same treatment, and . . .

Let's face it, a 3D detailed Dwarf Fortress would be the first game to earn an Adults Only rating for the sake of violence rather than sex.

(http://i.imgur.com/4NkKGnm.png)


Whose is that? I want to sig it.

I cannot tell a lie. I made the rating.