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Author Topic: How did you learn about DF?  (Read 8349 times)

Sonlirain

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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #30 on: January 07, 2011, 08:40:16 am »
Dunno where i heard about it the first time but for a loooong time i was pretty darn sure the whole game is a hoax and any eventual "download" is the new windows optimizer (the absolute lack of graphics sure helped me believe in this).

And just a few months ago i stumbled into an article about the game in my favourite periodical about games and decided to download it.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #31 on: January 07, 2011, 10:38:06 am »
Quote from: Sonlirain on January 07, 2011, 08:40:16 am
Dunno where i heard about it the first time but for a loooong time i was pretty darn sure the whole game is a hoax and any eventual "download" is the new windows optimizer (the absolute lack of graphics sure helped me believe in this).

And just a few months ago i stumbled into an article about the game in my favourite periodical about games and decided to download it.
Wait, Dwarf Fortress isn't a hoax? It actually exists?!

*downloads from home page*

Oh my god, all this time I thought this was an RP forum where people acted like there was this crazy super-detailed game about Dwarves... I need to go lay down...
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #32 on: January 07, 2011, 10:49:20 am »
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #33 on: January 07, 2011, 11:39:47 am »
 Oooh, let's see.  That was a long time ago ( I'm a legendary lurker... errr...was...).  I was sick of all the superficial crap being put out on the games market and was searching for anything with the depth I wanted.  With little success, I started to reminisce about that very specific feeling I got from playing rogue-like games.  So I started googling ascii games and up popped DF.  I tried it out and have played very few other games since.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #34 on: January 07, 2011, 11:47:18 am »
Somebody told me about it on AIM back in the 2D days, so I downloaded it, took one look at the interface, and decided I'd try to tackle it later.  A looooooooooooong time after that, I was reading through 1d4chan and found an entry on Dwarf Fortress, which linked me to the story of Boatmurdered.  After reading through it, I decided to give the game another chance and I've been playing since.  The identity of the original person who told me about it is still a mystery, though. o_O
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #35 on: January 07, 2011, 11:53:01 am »
I believe someone mentioned it on the ToME forum (Rogue => Moria => Angband => ZAngband, PernBand => ToME)
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #36 on: January 07, 2011, 12:18:14 pm »
I had stumbled into numerous DF threads on a bunch of forums, and the randomness of it all seemed hilarious, but not yet interesting enough. Then someone posted a link to -- you guessed it -- Boatmurdered. 'Nuff said.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #37 on: January 07, 2011, 12:21:57 pm »
I think reading boatmurdered was what brought me to DF.  Not sure where I found out about boatmurdered though...
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #38 on: January 07, 2011, 02:39:53 pm »
i was on a search for management games, googled and then i found about DF
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #39 on: January 07, 2011, 02:51:44 pm »
I think I was doing a search for freeware games on tigsource.com and came across DF and figured it looked interesting enough to try.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #40 on: January 07, 2011, 04:45:44 pm »
Got a copy of DF from this freeware cd that came with a gaming magazine. Version was out of date so I downloaded the new one.... took 5-6 attempts before I had any idea what I was doing.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #41 on: January 07, 2011, 04:57:08 pm »
Kingdom of Loathing's /hardcore chat channel.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #42 on: January 07, 2011, 09:01:55 pm »
Something Awful DF threads back before Boatmurdered. They got me into it pretty early.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #43 on: January 07, 2011, 09:04:45 pm »
Stumbled upon a comic comparing the difficulty curve of Dwarf Fortress to other games, and the satisfaction that mastering the game gave. Asked a few people in Kingdom of Loathing's /newbie, heard bad things, and checked it out.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #44 on: January 07, 2011, 10:30:10 pm »
One of the webcomics that isn't on my regular reading list.  I think it was three panel soul, somebody's avatar is a picture from it.  I think it was the first time I'd seen that webcomic and I was reading through the archive.  There were two or three comics about DF that I thought were pretty funny, so I clicked the link and downloaded it.

I quit when I couldn't figure out how to build a farm or cut down trees.

At some point, people on WoW's OT forum were talking about it, probably comparing different games and it came up.  I mentioned that I'd played it before but just couldn't get into it, and they told me to try again and read the wiki.  So I tried again and read the wiki.  I still don't play it all that much(I'm boring and don't like fun) but now I know how, and I probably do play it more than any other games, since it's so easy to just open up, build a little, and have my creative fix satisfied.
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