It looks like a dumbed-down Dwarf Fortress ripoff.
good, as sad as it is to rip on dwarf fortress it needs to be updated, i never played it back in the day, so attempting to stare at 8's, and 0's and shit blinking around my screen like its the matrix is hard to put up with. I'm normally not one for gfx being great, but its really hard to want to play it if your new to it and it looks like it will require work to play, rather then look fun.
The problem with DF was/is not so much the graphics as the UI and the UX. It was just impossible to get into the game without reading lots and lots of documentation. The learning curve is steep, and not steep as in fun, but steep as in studying. That has nothing to do with the graphics.Took me 1 max 2 days to learn the basics, eventuelly you just get immersed in the world and learn as you go. Totally worth it imo.
Same thing with Dark Souls. Everyone seems to be like "Wow... So difficult and hardcore." without realizing that it's difficult cuz the controls are huge mess.
To say graphics isn't part of a problem nowadays is kinda naive.
I mean, seriously, who is willing to pay for an ascii game with the current possibilities of modern chips?
Pay maybe not, but play yes. Lots of ascii or ascii-like game have some really good features and unique gameplay.I won't deny that. I played this Candy game and the other one with the dark room too (stroke that fire like a pro whore). And enjoyed it for a while. Though you can't compare any of those games with people on Kickstarter, right?
Well, I got a bit of a nerdrage there but what annoyed me about Okin's comment is the comparison between DwarfCorp and DwarfFortress when there isn't even much of a similarity between them except the theme of Dwarves...
You're basicly asking which key concepts has Minecraft in comparison to DungeonKeeper since you dig holes into a mountain in both games... that's the same level of comparability.
It looks like a dumbed-down Dwarf Fortress ripoff.Yea, guess that is a proper way to start a discussion, with a well articulated and founded opinion, huh?
It looks like a dumbed-down Dwarf Fortress ripoff.
Yea, guess that is a proper way to start a discussion, with a well articulated and founded opinion, huh?
Nice.
It was a perfectly simple observation, and instead of actually addressing it in any way you started making crazy assertions about my reasons for drawing that conclusion as well as misrepresenting what I meant by it, all the while trying pointlessly to deny something anyone with two eyes and a brain can instantly see. Come on, now.Calling something a "dumbed-down ripoff" is the same as saying it's shit. One really has to wonder why you even invested in M:BG since it's obviously a M&B ripoff.
It DOES look like a DF ripoff. It DOES look dumbed-down. That's all there is to it. If you don't mind that, that's fine, but there's no reason to act like I just kicked your dog because I pointed it out.