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Dave Fortress - Part 01

Dave puts pick to earth and kicks off his descent into the dank, dark mines of Dwarf Fortress.

Jun. 29 2012

Cast: Dave, Vinny, Drew

Posted by: Drew

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Dwarf Fortress

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Usually download these in "High" quality but have a feeling this one needs to be HD.
Thanks for getting it up today rather than after the weekend, really appreciate that.

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best new feature or best new feature?

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@mortal_sb said:

best new feature or best new feature?

best new feature of course

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Oh man, what an intense game. I'll be following this as I'm exactly the kind of person Dave was hoping would see these, I've installed it a few times and never got passed the first moment of embarking.

Also thanks for the book recommendation Drew! I downloaded a preview of it and I thought it was neat enough to buy. I've been looking for something good to read and I'm always happy with nice history one.

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@Xtrememuffinman: Everybody is kind of exagerating, but I've definitely seen it pop up on destructoid, RPS and kotaku.

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@Fearbeard said:

This game looks fascinating... can't wait to see more.

this

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Welp, now I want some dave fortress shirts.

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Played it for a week a couple of months ago. I had to watch two two hour videos on youtube as a tutorial. Pretty damn nuts.

I do believe this COULD be an easy game to manage, but the interface is abysmal. Absolutely horrid. In every way possible. I stuck with it because the game is amazing, but yeah, it's idiotic how badly designed the UI is.

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I've been playing Dwarf Fortress for years now and I can't recommend it enough! While initially daunting, once the systems are learned the game becomes relatively simple. Personally, I prefer the ASCII visuals, but I understand if one needs a tile set to enjoy the game.

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This seems super interesting. I think I'll get that book for Kindle and try this out.

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Awww yeah

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why would anyone waste time with this ?

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Watching this live was mind-boggling.

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@Raviyn: Because it's fun and makes astonishing stories?

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Subscription justified!

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Awesome! This is exactly, why i pay for premium membership. Keep these videos coming. :)

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Oh man, that was intense!

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Is it really that mythical? I've been playing for a few years now. I kind of just figured most people who got to the point of downloading it have been playing it all this time. It's that amazing.

You people don't know what you've been missing!

(it's pretty awesome they published a book on it, though!)

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This is slow but very interesting. Good stuff.

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oh lordie, watching vinny piecing this together was priceless. some days it doesnt pay to be color blind

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two hours?! amagad. Think I need to hit the bed for this one...

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So like Settlers but ugly

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I was always curoius about this game (not curious enough to try though). Having Softcore Dave walk me through it is pretty awesome. I'm so happy about my Giant Bomb subscription right now.

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It doesn't get more hardcore than Dorf Fortress. Awesome.

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Edited By MudMan

It's "ad infiniTum", not "ad infinium". Dave does this all the time and it throws me off every time.

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That's it. I'm totally getting into this game. Looks awesome.

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Hopefully foreign threats start popping up and the local expert wrestling dwarf goes crazy and begins gouging out the eyes of his fellow dwarves. Yes, this can really happen.

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I feel like if my mom comes in and sees vinny she's going to think this is some weird auto-erotic asphyxiation shit.

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@TwoLines said:

Played it for a week a couple of months ago. I had to watch two two hour videos on youtube as a tutorial. Pretty damn nuts.

I do believe this COULD be an easy game to manage, but the interface is abysmal. Absolutely horrid. In every way possible. I stuck with it because the game is amazing, but yeah, it's idiotic how badly designed the UI is.

Yeah, it's really a shame. The actual gamey bits are reasonably straight-forward, and if you've played other city builders are what you'd expect. Make homes, provide food, build an army. The only thing making it hard is that they've created a thoroughly unusable UI and intentionally obfuscate gameplay by not telling you anything. It's almost tragic, because the audience for this game could increase substantially if it wasn't so stubbornly clunky.

I appreciate that the game has such unbelievable depth, but man... It's like someone gave you a free car, but instead of a steering wheel it has a guitar controller, and it'll only start if you're wearing a blindfold.

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250 years of history eh? What an epic start to any game. I expect the next Roller Coaster Rampage to do the same.

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"Auqifier"

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Thanks for taking the plunge into Dwarven insanity, Dave!

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So questions from Vinny. Almost none of them were answered.

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@Slyeye said:

I've been playing Dwarf Fortress for years now and I can't recommend it enough! While initially daunting, once the systems are learned the game becomes relatively simple. Personally, I prefer the ASCII visuals, but I understand if one needs a tile set to enjoy the game.

ibid, great game and highly recommended. Never gets old.

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Watched this live-- the part where Dave suddenly announces "the game is now creating the history of the world" was definitely one of those sink-or-swim kind of moments as far as my personal sanity is concerned.

...Also, I saw The Ferocious Oils at Knife Tops last week. They played some deeep metal.

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DF is awesome. Can't wait to see how this goes for Dave

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@NoelVeiga said:

It's "ad infiniTum", not "ad infinium". Dave does this all the time and it throws me off every time.

Noted! It's a term I'm more familiar with reading than hearing and as all avid book readers will acknowledge, sometimes you sound out the words wrong in your head.

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Drew is so intense, just always watching and waiting to find that perfect preview still.

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Looks like I gave up on the Livestream just before they actually got to the main part of the gameplay. :(

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Love this! Can't wait for the FUN to start when goblins start showing up and sieging the fortress. Hopefully they'll have installed some traps/trained some war dogs before that.

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@TwoLines said:

Played it for a week a couple of months ago. I had to watch two two hour videos on youtube as a tutorial. Pretty damn nuts.

I do believe this COULD be an easy game to manage, but the interface is abysmal. Absolutely horrid. In every way possible. I stuck with it because the game is amazing, but yeah, it's idiotic how badly designed the UI is.

Yeah the interface is terrible, but you know, once you learn the keyboard shortcuts you start doing stuff lightning fast, becomes second nature almost.
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Slow yet fascinating. Vinny, Drew & Dave make a brilliant team. Game confused the hell out of me.

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Yes, quality premium content! Best part is that there is going to be part 2 too!

I'll definitely check out the Gnomoria Dave talked about.

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It looks crazy fascinating but man, the interface needs some serious work.

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Dave Drew and vinny is so my fav GB Trio

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@Isomac said:

Yes, quality premium content! Best part is that there is going to be part 2 too!

Can't agree more. I really missed Dave and Vinny play old PC games. This was fantastic.

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Everything about this game bores me.

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I have played a ton of Dwarf fortress through the years so this is fun. I was as clueless back then.

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This seems like a really interesting game, but I just cannot get past the UI. I've watched my co-worker playing this, and it's like she's reading the Matrix.

2 hours of Dave, Vinny, and Drew. Fuck yeah.