A game Dominion players(and modders) might enjoy

[Cor2]

I love DF. great game now but i think it will be much better when its done. right now some of the bugs break the game, sad.

Mount and blade still has no roleplaying to it, it bothers me. So I am a 45th level badmother, what is my reward? Just stomping more bad guys. Lame. One last thing, as of the latest version I played the war could not be won. I took every city and castle that was possible to take and nobody seemed to notice.

I do need to check out LSN and liberal crime thingy.

[Agrajag]

I'd say that despite the added complexity in the latest version of DF, it is actually easier to get into, since the basics of the game have become much easier.
If you are having problems with DF, the best place to go to is www.dwarffortresswiki.net (I bet you can guess what sort of website that is by yourself ). For a beginner, just checking out the "getting started" content should probably be enough, but even experienced players probably consult the wiki all the time, it's an incredibly valuable resource in playing DF.

[Stryke11]

I tried DF awhile back and quit in disgust, getting nowhere.

Then, recently, something caused me to give it another try (I think it was Mike Mayday's graphics pack, give it a search, it changes most of the ASCII to graphical tiles, which made everything better for me). I now cannot stop playing it. It's like a drug addiction. I look at the future features planned and I am amazed.

I don't get it, either, someone needs to explain to me why I am so amazed by those crappy graphics and buggy dwarves. What is it about DF that makes it so addictive? Right now I'm running a huge strip mining operation and smelting ore. Good times!

[Omnirizon]

the answer, my friend, is in what it is not.

That is, more pablum processed out by the corporate machine that took over gaming.

It is fun and addictive because it is built from passion, and not purely greed inspired rationalization.

[otthegreat]

X-Com was before me but I enjoyed LSN for a while, don't really know why I stopped playing. I never thought I would run into so many people who had even heard of DF(apart from on the wiki) what a game! I guess its because people my age seem to eat up the crap made by the "corporate machine".

I'd like to add Civ Alpha Centauri to the great games of old.

[Saulot]

I have to say I was in the same boat as Stryke11, I've tried DF but couldn't get into the fortress mode. After dying 5 or 6 times on adventure mode to harmless sounding creatures, I figured this was just a game for masochists.

Last night, I tried the graphics pack that was mentioned, and it really improves the situation and turns down the learning curve for the fortress mode. (Though I do have a nagging suspicion that if one plays the game long enough in any mode, you no longer see the sprites/ascii... kind of like how if you play a text mud for years, you no longer see lines of text, but blonde, brunette, etc...)

[Dedas]

@otthegreat
Alpha Centauri, how could I miss that one!?

@Saulot
Exactly