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This image is pretty relevant. http://i.imgur.com/omJfhlt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/omJfhlt.jpg If you walked into dwarf fortress fully knowledgeable about the UI
by zalzane 14y ago
This image is pretty relevant. http://i.imgur.com/omJfhlt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/omJfhlt.jpg
If you walked into dwarf fortress fully knowledgeable about the UI and game mechanics, you'd have a relatively dull experience with very few surprises.
Being such an expansive game, you don't need to know every single command or hotkey just to get a fortress started. The fun lies in not knowing what you're doing, encountering something unexpected, then adapting to that unexpected situation, either by learning something else about the game, or applying your previous knowledge in a creative fashion.
Remember that people don't write stories and comics about dwarf fortress because they knew exactly how to handle every hurdle the game threw in their direction.
- petercooper 14y agoThat's what I loved about Minecraft for the first few months too. People keep whining about putting the "recipes" in game and making it easier, but the whole process of researching, looking up YouTube videos, reading the wiki, etc, was what made it fun because it felt like you were learning something useful, despite just being a game.