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valcon

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This game needs a tag line
« on: March 12, 2010, 12:08:46 am »
Yeah, "losing is fun" is the MOTTO, but, when telling someone about DF ... you need something that snaps.  Has a pop to it.  A nice ring and gets the point across.

I submit the following

"The most awesome mod for notepad EVER!"

or

"If Tolkien threw up alphabet soup."

maybe

"What you would get if a ninja, a dinosaur, a pirate, a shark with lasers and Chuck Norris sat down and made a video game out of refrigerator magnets."

The last one isn't exactly snappy or concise, but, I think it gets the point across!  Thoughts?
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2010, 12:33:48 am »
"Magma, losing, horrible hidden fun stuff, gruesome schools of carp, dwarves, stuff-you-can't-read (ASCII) all rolled up in one game that doesn't take one friggin' GB!"

This.
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2010, 01:05:29 am »
If only it was that easy.

-- Wouldn't calling it a mod to notepad be misleading?
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2010, 01:08:45 am »
'You slaughter kittens for resources.'
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2010, 01:11:54 am »
Quote from: ungulateman on March 12, 2010, 01:08:45 am
'You mass slaughter kittens for resources.'
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2010, 01:12:23 am »
Dwarf Fortress - She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.
Dwarf Fortress - Redefining "Fun" since 2006!
Dwarf Fortress - You will never look at fish the same way again.
Dwarf Fortress - Head-crushing depth?  Yeah, we've got that.
Dwarf Fortress - Life wishes it could be this interesting.
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2010, 01:17:23 am »
Dwarf Fortress: TVtropes - The Game™
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2010, 01:20:05 am »
Quote from: SkyRender on March 12, 2010, 01:12:23 am

Dwarf Fortress - Life wishes it could be this interesting.

That one has some snap to it!  We'd need to get the guy from the Allstate commercials to read it though ...
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2010, 01:23:20 am »
Found this image on the "Dwarf Fortress Addicts" Facebook page. I think that it pretty much sums it all up.

Also, who could forget: "WELCOME TO FUCKING BOATMURDERED! Hope you like miasma!"

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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2010, 01:23:48 am »
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2010, 01:25:22 am »
I thought "Losing is Fun" was a good a tag line as any.
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2010, 01:51:53 am »
How about "History of X and Y," where X and Y are both nouns that are randomly chosen from a list. So you could have "Histories of Avarice and Industry," or "Histories of Gluttony and Perseverance," or "Histories of Avarice and Perseverance."

(On a side note: started up the game three times, and those were the things I got. Is the list small, or is the combination of the first two titles to create the third the result of Armok Herself--u c wat i did thar?--guiding them to give us a TRUE tagline?)

Speaking of which...


BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD has always had a certain ring to it.
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2010, 03:05:05 am »
Losing is not only fun, it's an artform.
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Re: This game needs a tag line
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2010, 05:40:44 am »
Quote from: valcon on March 12, 2010, 12:08:46 am
... you need something that snaps.  Has a pop to it.  A nice ring and gets the point across.

Totally reminds me of that otter lawyer guy on Animal Crossing, Lyle.
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Re: This game needs a tag line
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