Dwarf Fortress

[sbr]

I am new around here ( I lurked for about a year and joined around the time of the "upgrade") but don't remember seeing a thread about Dwarf Fortress.  Are there any fans of this game around here?

For the uninformed DF is an incredibly deep and complex city/fortress/civ building game buried under ASCII "graphics" and an excruciatingly bad keyboard-only UI. 

Many people's introduction to Dwarf Fortress revolves around Boatmurdered, a succession game that took place on the Something Awful forums.

If this game had been discussed and dismissed I apologize.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

it pops up occassionally. It's been a while since last release though

[jimmy olsen]

Didn't someone make a mod with tolerable graphics?

[garbon]

Well you don't remember much then.

[Maximus]

The graphics are fine. The UI needs some work though. Optimization is also urgently needed.

Fortunately it's a work in progress.

[Josquius]

Didn't someone make a mod with tolerable graphics?

That would be good....
Its the UI that does it for me though, renders it utterly unplayable.

[fhdz]

If this game had been discussed and dismissed I apologize.

On the contrary, on the old forum there were a handful of rather long threads on Dwarf Fortress.  For a game as complex as it is, it's fairly popular on Languish.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Didn't someone make a mod with tolerable graphics?

That would be good....
Its the UI that does it for me though, renders it utterly unplayable.

True dat yo.

[jimmy olsen]

Didn't someone make a mod with tolerable graphics?

That would be good....
Its the UI that does it for me though, renders it utterly unplayable.

Here you go
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Object_Tilesets

[HisMajestyBOB]

I haven't played in quite a while. I really should go back to my fort, it's got nearly 80 dwarves so it's almost past the siege + economy threshold.

The upcoming update looks like it'll be pretty killer. It doesn't just have changes to the military/squad system (sorely needed!), but many additions to health and healing, the underground, and more. Of course, I may wait a month or two for the more obnoxious/CTD'y bugs to be ironed out.

[fhdz]

Thanks to this thread, I've decided to brush up on DF in anticipation of the new update.

[Norgy]

It's a hilariously frustrating game. It did make even failure fun, though.

[lustindarkness]

Man, and you guys criticize me all these years for playing nukezone. I may look into it just for the hell of it.

[DontSayBanana]

Roguelikes FTW. Personally, my favorite of them is ZAngbandTK (Angband and ZAngband have the same ASCII "tilesets," so TK just modified it to give it a GUI and a couple of switchable tilesets).

[MadImmortalMan]

I hate it when a Forgotten Beast shows up ten minutes into the game. Bleh. Last time I had a minotaur pop up, but I caught it in a cage trap. I never figured out any cool stuff to do with it besides maybe throw it in some lava. Most of the cool prisoner gigs (target practice, pits) would not work on a minotaur due to the building destroyage I think. Not sure though.