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like00111

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*^*My first impressions*^*
« on: July 19, 2013, 05:47:52 pm »
Some parting words for the weekend while I go out of town....

... Boy is this game fun! In theory it is a simple concept, but in reality it is a magical and complex concept. It takes everything I want and puts it into a fantasy adventure game. Death, starving, dehydration, monsters, rotten corpse, building, and best of all your OWN imagination.

You don't need graphics to make a game great. Dwarf fortress proves that here for me. The best part is that I hardly have even scratched the surface with what I can do in the game I feel; and that... makes me over joyed about it all.

What lies within my reach? What agony will I go through. How many times will I learn my mistakes and make a better fortress the next time? This is what makes a game, a game. This is what brings me back over and over.

Overall my first impressions of the game are - mind blowing - I can't wait to come back to my fortress and see what stories get made.

***** Have a fun weekend everyone :) *****
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Re: *^*My first impressions*^*
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2013, 09:26:06 pm »
Taking into account that this game is nowhere near completion, it still amazes me to see the level of joy that people get when playing it as soon as they pass the illusory graphical/UI barrier.

Welcome to DF and to Bay12, to that extent. Hope to see your achievements in any form in the near future, be they drawings, long-winded essays about science or plain awesome tales. Ultimately it is a game about stories, or at least it drives you to create them.
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my first quest was to seige a nemacrcors tower i killed 3 nemacrcors the got killed by a zombie fly.
How on earth did you manage to do that twice?

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Re: *^*My first impressions*^*
« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2013, 07:54:04 am »
Welcome! I'm actually quite surprised you overcame the barriers in no less than a weekend, it seems quite the norm to at first get mad and quit :P
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Re: *^*My first impressions*^*
« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2013, 11:02:40 am »
Welcome to the fold friend.  An excellent post as well.

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Re: *^*My first impressions*^*
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2013, 11:18:22 am »
SO MANY TOPICS POSTED BY THE SAME PERSON IN SUCH A SHORT TIME SPAN

seriously bro you can edit topics.
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Re: *^*My first impressions*^*
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2013, 06:31:21 pm »
Hah, yeah, that totally contradicts what was my first impression...

"Huh? Wtf is dis shit? wat do?! Wher da gafiks at?"
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Re: *^*My first impressions*^*
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2013, 01:47:35 pm »
I'm kind of a noob before, i tried playing Df before but i guess it's the first time i really passed the steepest part of the learning curve.

This is a amazing game and i'm completely hooked to it. It's my first post here in the forums but people in #dwarffortress at freenode in the last days can probably recognize me.
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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2013, 11:48:41 pm »
It is a awesome game indeed. I tend to be a quick learner also, took me about 10 or so hours to get into the rhythm of things with the game, but it worked my brain and made me think. I like that.
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« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2013, 02:38:31 pm »
Sounds like the OP "gets it".  Welcome aboard!
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Re: *^*My first impressions*^*
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2013, 09:06:32 pm »
Welcome! It's good to see one more soul who didn't run in terror at the terrifying scope of the game. I tried to start playing three times over the course of a year and finally after spending three days reading guides watching walkthroughs and reading the entire wiki I finally caught the bug. May you die horribly!
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