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[Remuthra]

Someone should write a campaign centered around getting rid of a giant sponge.

[Broseph Stalin]

Someone should write a campaign centered around getting rid of a giant sponge.

The giant sponge is functionally immortal. Without a brain to destroy, a body to bisect, or blood to spill it's only susceptible to air drowning cave ins and obsidian encasing. Nothing particularly exciting.

[Remuthra]

Someone should write a campaign centered around getting rid of a giant sponge.

The giant sponge is functionally immortal. Without a brain to destroy, a body to bisect, or blood to spill it's only susceptible to air drowning cave ins and obsidian encasing. Nothing particularly exciting.

But can we jettison it out the airlock?

[Mrnocamera]

Someone should write a campaign centered around getting rid of a giant sponge.

The giant sponge is functionally immortal. Without a brain to destroy, a body to bisect, or blood to spill it's only susceptible to air drowning cave ins and obsidian encasing. Nothing particularly exciting.

But can we jettison it out the airlock?

"What are you doing, recruit?"
"Getting this stupid giant sponge off the damn ship, what does it look like?"

[Snateraar]

Someone should write a campaign centered around getting rid of a giant sponge.

The giant sponge is functionally immortal. Without a brain to destroy, a body to bisect, or blood to spill it's only susceptible to air drowning cave ins and obsidian encasing. Nothing particularly exciting.

But can we jettison it out the airlock?

"What are you doing, recruit?"
"Getting this stupid giant sponge off the damn ship, what does it look like?"

I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHFUNKIN SPONGES ON THIS MOTHFUNKIN SHIP
Is the F-word allowed here? :C

[Mesa]

Someone should write a campaign centered around getting rid of a giant sponge.

The giant sponge is functionally immortal. Without a brain to destroy, a body to bisect, or blood to spill it's only susceptible to air drowning cave ins and obsidian encasing. Nothing particularly exciting.

But can we jettison it out the airlock?

"What are you doing, recruit?"
"Getting this stupid giant sponge off the damn ship, what does it look like?"

I'M TIRED OF THESE MOTHFUNKIN SPONGES ON THIS MOTHFUNKIN SHIP
Is the F-word allowed here? :C

Yeah.

[WillowLuman]

Minecraft: Survive, if you can. Just keep your wits about you,

DF Adventure: Yeah, "survive," sure. Hehehehe...

[Mesa]

Mainstream - 14.99$ DLC
DF - free mods that you yourself can make.

Mainstream - you get a flying spell.
DF - you mod the races and give them vomit wings on their ears.

[Yerv]

Mainsteam:
Mass murder weapons include: Nukes, nukes, nukes, nukes and the obvious your mother joke.

Killed half the worlds population in terrorists? No problem! They respawn!

Every kill you get rewards you with experience points!

You can purchase new guns with points you get for winning a match.

Dwarf Fortress:
Mass murder weapons include: Pressure lava cannons, Forgotten Beasts, and tactical catsplosions

Killed half the worlds elf population? Why not all of them!

Every kill you get rewards you with the satisfaction of chopping someone's head off and shoving it in their chest cavity. Every hit you get in rewards you with the experience

You can purchase new swords and axes by killing the shopkeeper, stealing the weapons and slaying the rest of the village, leaving not a single person behind.

[WillowLuman]

You don't even have to hit: just swing.

[evanderep]

Yay! list got bigger!

[reded88]

Mainstream:
-100 HP
Parried
-200 HP Critical Headshot
-2 HP Falling
You have died

Dwarf Fortress:
there is too much

[itisnotlogical]

Mainstream: A glitch instantly halts the game and might ask you to clean the disk, and barring extensive research that's all you need to know about glitches.

DF: A glitch might mean that you get to start playing as elves.

[WillowLuman]

All games: Glitches lead to both the most annoying and most awesome things ever

DF: Ditto.

[UberNube]

Mainstream games:
Often intentionally engineered to be addictive, even at the expense of gameplay or complexity.
Graphics are of utmost importance - we need it to look pretty for trailers and screenshots.
Learning curve is kept shallow to maximise the number of potential customers.
Every effort is made to maximise profits, usually leading to underpaid developers and shafted players (DLC, DRM, anti-piracy, etc).
Windows only - Linux/Mac aren't a big enough market share to justify development time.

Dwarf Fortress:
Toady and Three-toe only care about making a unique, fun, and interesting game.
Fuck graphics. Good gameplay is everything!
They aren't afraid of giving gamers an intellectual challenge. If you can't understand what the ASCII symbols mean or how to build a pump stack, read the wiki.
They are doing it out of passion rather than desire for profit. The players get the game for free, and the developers still manage to earn a decent amount of profit purely through donations.
Versions are available for a range of different OS's.